Double Back - Mistwater Chronicles #1

Chapter Twenty-Five

Hey y'all! Hope you enjoy this chapter, because after this and next chapter, it's all going to go downhill :D I'm super excited for that!! Hehehe.

Anyways, hope you've been having a good week! I'm super excited because Blood of Olympus came out, and my mom pre-ordered it for me, and I read it, and HOLY CRAP THE FEELS AHHHHHHHHHHHH. It's so so so so good and I'm so sad PJO and HoO is over :(

Walking Dead comes on tonight too! Yay!

I totally reccommend watching the show Red Band Society, and also Gotham. Both are very good! I'm also watching How to Get Away With Murder, which is a show about law students! Super interesting stuff :D

Teresa's dress that she wears for Thanksgiving is above / to the right, depending on if you're on the app or using the computer :)

Enjoy!

xoxo,

Morgan

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The weeks after Annabeth's waking up fly by quickly, marked by how relieved I feel that she's okay. I don't know what I would have done if she hadn't woken up, even though she'd told me multiple times that she didn't hold anything against me. Neither did her family, either, which surprised me.

Zack's birthday and Thanksgiving are here, leaving me feeling as though they snuck up on me. The plan is to celebrate Thanksgiving with his parents, although he apparently has some sort of "special surprise" for me, which I don't get since it's his birthday right now. We're also formally celebrating his birthday at Thanksgiving, but Zack and I are staying in to celebrate his birthday.

I, feeling kind of bad as I did it, pretty much forced everyone out of the pack house for the night and told anyone that if they bothered him for any reason other than an emergency that I would not be happy with them. I don't want him distracted by work, or his friends, or his parents - I just want to spend time with him.

I can't lie to myself, though. I'm nervous at being alone with him, scared that he'll do something to hurt me like he did all that time ago at the hospital. He's been so nice to me though that it's been easy to forgive him for it, but I haven't forgotten. I haven't forgotten about the fact that he almost punched the wall near my head in the bathroom, either, even though it's been filled in and painted over. As if it didn't happen at all.

At the moment, I'm putting his ice cream cake in the freezer. I can't bake for my life beside basic things like cupcakes and muffins, and I know he really likes ice cream, so I made my life easy and got an Oreo one from Baskin Robbins on my way home.

Amber helped me pick out a gift for him two days ago, though. It was quite awkward, and somewhat embarrassing, but I think he'll like it...

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Amber comes and picks me up around four o'clock, not telling me where we're going. She has some Wonderful Idea - yes, with a capital W and I - that will prove to be the Best Gift Ever, according to her.

"Can you please tell me where we're going?" I ask for the millionth time. We've been on the highway for about fifteen minutes, and she finally flicks her blinker on to take an exit.

"We'll be there soon, I swear," she insists. "But you have to tell me what you said to Adrian. Please."

I sigh. "I don't think you're going to like what he had to say to me, Amber."

"I wanna hear it anyways," she protests. "I have a right to know."

I shake my head ruefully, launching into an extensively detailed recap of Adrian and I's conversation earlier that day. "I basically told him that he needed to stop seeing my sister, and that I was going to have the same conversation with her. I also told him I knew everything that was happening between the two of you, and he wasn't happy about that. He's such a dick, Amber. I don't know how I didn't see it before."