A Frozen Heart - Leo Valdez

16- Guilt

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But everything was not fine.

Several hours later,  I am still thinking of Alex White, who is probably just waking up from being unconscious. Will she die? There is no way for her to get food, or even stand up due to the several frozen layers of duct tape. However, the number one thought on my mind not whether she will live, it’s will I get caught.

This brings a sickening feeling to my stomach. Is this what my Lucid meant? How I have no ounce of sympathy left in me, it burnt my soul?

It makes me hate myself. Gods, I hate myself so much.

Repeating my actions in the past weeks in my head, makes me want to cry. What have I done? I’ve split best friends apart, I’ve turned sibling on sibling… I’m a terrible person. As much as I want to tell the seven, I know I can’t. They will never trust me again.

I come to the realization that I love Leo too much to continue my mother’s plans.

I care too much about Annabeth to watch her die in a hospital bed.

I sit up, my elbow plunged into the mattress, supporting my weight. The fresh cut on my side burns, and I’m lucky Hazel did not notice. After she left, I changed my bloody gown and wrapped my stomach up in gauze.

Leo hasn’t came back to check on me since he went to see Annabeth, which frightens me. Is Annabeth so far off, he has to stay with her rather than me? This can’t be good…

Which is why I have to check on her even though the Apollo kids won’t let me leave the damn room. Standing up, I push the curtain back slightly. A few kids are walking around, but they all seem busy, defiantly not like the last time.

A couple of hours ago, I also tried to go see Annabeth, just to be shoved back into my room by a freaking Apollo kid. They lectured me for minutes about how “unsafe” it is to be walking around after I was just in a coma.

They even threatened  by saying the will go get a Hypnos camper to put me asleep if they have too…

As sneakily as I can, push myself out of the room and close the curtain behind me. Walking down the hallway to the right, I go over the information I heard from ease dropping.

Apparently Annabeth is in the ISU part of the infirmary, a place not much kids end up in due to not being that serious. Which I guess that means Annabeth is very, very, seriously ill.

I make another right, ending up in a wide white room. Empty beds lay in a row, each one unoccupied except one. A blue curtain is bubbled around a certain bed, and quite whisperings float from it. Walking towards it, I hear Percy talking from inside.

“-‘lease wake up… Annabeth, please,” His soft crying is enough to make my own tears swirl in my eyes. “I miss you, I need you… We need you.” He starts mumbling more things which I can’t understand due to his weeping.

I open the curtain and my mouth drops open. There, laying on a hospital bed with a oxygen mask and cords hook up to her, is an unrecognizable Annabeth Chase. Her face has a ting of green and her lips are chapped and blue. Every time the machine pumps oxygen into her lungs, she lets out a muffled groan from the back of her throat, as if every breath hurts.

“Chase?” Percy is sitting in a chair, holding her hand. His eyes are red, he looks a wreck. My guess is that he hasn’t slept in days.

I give him a sad smile. “Hey.”