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11: I Make A Difficult Promise

"Amanda?" I hear Grover knock. He walks in to my room. "What's wrong?"

"You've been dating me since the second week of school." I told him still pacing.

"Uh... Are you okay? I think you're a little delusional. Do you need some am-"

"Dr. Thorn has orders not to kill me. He knows what I am. Not you, luckily. He said we were close, so I said your my boyfriend. He thinks I'm here for recruitment. We need a plan to convince him I'm here for school. That's it." I ramble.

"Hmm... I got it! Distress call!" Grover yelled.

"A what?"

"When saytrs need help with recruitment, we send a distress call to camp, and they send campers! We could get Percy, Annabeth, and Thalia!" Grover explains.

Percy... I haven't spoken to him since our fight. I don't know if he hates me or not. Me lying about being kidnapped and now this must have really hurt him. After saving the Di Angelos, I'm going to move to Percy's school, and not with Annabeth and Thalia. I need to make it up to him.

"Yeah, okay." I mutter. Grover grabs my hand and leads me to his room to call camp.

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Wearing my dress was annoyingly itchy, but my nerves were about five times worse. I sat glumly on the bleachers. I wanted to keep an eye on the Di Angelos, as Dr. Thorn suspects them to be demigods, but I can't because it will blow our cover.

"Come on, Amanda. We have to be coupley." Grover said.

"Ew. Why did I say that?" I ask him. He shrugs and pulls me to my feet.

"I'm going to request a song. Is there anything you want to listen to?"

"Green Day. Or wait, Panic! At The Disco!" I squeal. Thalia got me in love with the two bands over the summer.

"I'll see." He sighed and slumped off.

I looked over to my right to see the Di Angelo siblings. Bianca was scolding Nico about MythoMagic. Bianca was wearing a green beanie and Nico was clutching his cards like rare jewels. I smiled soundly at the pair.

The oceany feeling, that I have only felt two times before, washed over me. I stood up and quickly grabbed Grover.

"He's here." I gasped when I found him. He jumped and grabbed my hand, and pulled me out of the gym.

We ran down the hallways until we got to the main hall.

"You made it." Grover said relived. Thalia, Annabeth, and Percy all looked at us. "You-" he then saw Mrs. Gottschalk and Dr. Thorn. "Oh, Mrs. Gottschalk! Dr. Thorn! I, uh-" he stuttered.

"What is it, Mr. Underwood? What do you mean, they made it? These students live here." Dr. Thorn said.

"Yes, sir. Of course, Dr. Thorn. I just meant, I'm so glad they made..." Grover trails.

"The punch!" I yell. "For the dance. The punch is really good, and they made it!" I say much more quietly.

Dr. Thorn glared at my brother and friends. He looked like he wanted to kill them, but Mrs. Gottschalk had a different look on her face. She looked like she was in a trance. Thalia must have used that Mist trick Chiron taught us.

"Yes, the punch is excellent. Now run along, all of you. You're not allowed to leave the gymnasium." Mrs. Gottschalk ordered.

We all answered with "yes ma'am" and "yes sir" and salutes. Then we walked out of the main hall.

"How did you do that finger snap thing?" Percy asked Thalia.

"You mean the Mist trick?" I asked him. He nodded.