Believe Me~ A Percy Jackson FanFic

Chapter 7

~Percy~

As soon as I saw Artemis's chariot, I felt my world crumble. I would expect this if we were gone for 2 or more days.

"We have to find out what freaking time it is," Annabeth said very panicked. 

I nodded and pulled her into the MacDonald's, we burst through the door. There was two other people in the store except the employee. She stared at us.

I walked up to her, the place smelled like weed and pee. I scrunched up my nose, holding Annabeth close to me.

"What time is it?" I asked the teenager at the counter.

She had blonde hair and blue eyes, she looked me up and down. I suddenly felt like I was talking to a monster, "It's, hum. . . almost 4 am."

I chuckled and looked at Annabeth with a nervous look welling in my eyes, "Do you have a public phone or something I could use?"

She nodded, and pointed to a phone in the back.

"Can we have some large fries too?" Annabeth asked.

The girl smiled at her, "Sure, that will be $3.99. sweetness."

I gave her 4 dollars, and started to walk to the phone with Annabeth in tow. I suddenly remembered, "Do you know any taxi numbers?"

"Yeah, 4673," she called back.

"Thanks," I replied to her, and made the call.

Once I had made the call and got the fries, I went to sit outside with Annabeth. The taxi pulled up and we hoped in, "Can you take us to 172 Queens street? Actually, how much would that be to get from here to there?"

"Yeah, we need to know if we have enough," Annabeth asked.

"That would be, probably $17.85," he answered.

I sighed, relived that I had enough. When we got there, I ran up the steps as quick as I could. Artemis had her chariot disguised as a silver car, as I entered I had our apartment key in hand. The person at the front desk was sleeping.

"Oh my gods, we need to hurry," Annabeth said, pointing too the clock. 

At this time, it was almost 5:30 Am. School was in 2 hours, we had been missing forever. 

"How did we even sleep that long?" Annabeth asked. 

I shrugged, "I have no idea."

I unlocked the apartment door and pushed into the house. Nobody was there, I pulled out the other keys and entered Annabeth, Clarisse, Pipers and Katie's apartment. I found that they were all there.

"Percy!" Clarisse yelled at me.

"I am so-" I began before I got tackled by Leo and Piper. 

I almost fell to the ground, I caught my balance before I did. I gazed around the room, seeing everyone looking relived. My eyes landed on Artemis who had an unreadable look on her face.

Jason started with the onslaught, "Where have you been? Are you hurt?"

"Why didn't you answer our Iris messages?" Nico shouted at me, Katie nodded along with him.

"You have been gone forever!" Travis shouted in a frenzied voice.

"So, why is Lady Artemis here?" I asked slowly.

Will huffed angrily while he examined Annabeth, then went to examine me. "Well," he exasperated, "you, Percy, should not be asking questions! Where the hell were you!"