Percy Jackson And Sadie Kane: A Forbidden Love

Chapter 7: Sense I make

Sadie pov

I could not concentrate in classes all day. First at school, and then at the Brooklyn house. I was teaching the initiates the power and importance of the Ma'at spell, but my mind was still focused on Percy.

His eyes full of pain, his troubled face and his screams. Those horrifying screams which I kept on hearing over and over in my head. His face circulated around my eyes. I could not think of anything else at all.

Finally Carter took over the classes and I got my break. I sat on the terrace, repeating today's events in my head. I was so lost in though that I didn't notice Carter sit down next to me.

"Hi." He said, making me jump.

"Thinking about Percy, aren't you?" He asked. Ugh. Carter knew me too well.

"It must be so hard for him. To find his perfect love and then lose her to the hands of fate." I said.

"Yeah. I can't imagine what I would do if the same happened to Zia." Carter shuddered at the thought.

"His cousin was a little creepy though." I said.

"Yeah well, you shouldn't judge by looks. He seemed fine to me." Carter said.

"Percy seemed fine too." I said a little dreamily.

"Sadie!" Carter scolded me.

"What? Just saying." I said, trying to act innocent and failing.

"You like him, don't you?" Carter asked.

"No! I mean yes...I mean who wouldn't like him? He seems like a nice guy." I said.

"Sadie, you barely know him." Carter argued.

"Anyone who is so loyal to his girlfriend is fine by me." I said.

"Can't argue there." Carter shrugged. But he was still eyeing me suspiciously. Oh bother!

"Any idea how he knew Drew?" I asked, trying to change the subject.

"Well, she can be a far related cousin or something. They are definitely not friends." Carter said.

"Wow. Percy must have weird cousins. First goth kid, then extremely dumb blonde..." I started.

"Blonde." Carter cut me off.

"What?" I asked.

"Sadie, Drew is blonde." Carter said.

"Of course she is, Captain Obvious." I said.

"Don't you see? Percy had a fit when we talked about blond hair. But he didn't get a fit when he saw Drew." Carter said. Hmmm. I thought about this.

"Maybe because when we talked about it, Percy started to imagine Annabeth. But on the other hand, Drew must not remind him of Annabeth, so he didn't have any fits. I mean, obviously he wasn't quite fond of her, so he couldn't relate her to his girlfriend. But when we talk about somethinglike blond hair, he must have related it to Annabeth because she must be the first thing to enter his mind when we talk about it. Am I making any sense?" I said.

Carter stared at me. "Carter, why are you staring like that?" I asked.

"Sadie, I can't believe it! For once you actually made sense!" Carter said, feigning surprise.

I blinked and he broke out laughing. I punched him in the stomach.

"Ow!" Carter said.

"Seriously, brother dear." I shook my head.

"No, I mean it. That made total sense. Now that you know you have a brain, you should use it more often." Carter chuckled at his own joke. I rolled my eyes.

"I wonder what she was like. Annabeth I mean. High school relationships don't last that long, but they seem like a strong couple." I said sadly.

"Remember what Taco...I mean Nico said? They would take a knife for each other. It's just so sad that they had to be separated like this. Forever." Carter sighed. I stared at him. He never got all cheesy like this. Carter noticed me staring.

"What? I find it sad, okay." He said. I grinned. I knew his secret name. I knew every embarrassing secret he had. And now I had one more to add to the list.

"I think we should make friends with him. He'll get lonely with only his cousin for company." I said. Carter nodded. Then I remembered something.

"Hey, did you accidentally call Nico Taco?" I asked him. Carter grinned sheepishly.

"It sounds a bit like that." He said.

Then Carter went off to teach, leaving me with my thoughts. Ok. I thought to myself.

Let's make a friend.