Annabeth

I kept replaying that scene over and over again, while sitting in Percy's car that he got for his seventeenth birthday. The monsters always exploded to dust, this one just faded away, like it was dissolving or melting back to Tartarus. I couldn't wrap my mind around it. I could usually find reasoning behind everything, it just didn't make sense.

Percy looked over at me from the drivers seat with a confused look plastered on his face. "What are you thinking about so hard, wise girl?" "Just the hellhound pup attack yesterday, it seemed as if it was trying to run away, not fight." I answered. "Oh. I was thinking about that last night. I have no idea why, it just, I don't know, confused me." "Let's just not think about it too hard. It could just be nothing." "I know, but it was so young, I've never killed one so little before."

"It's okay, Percy. It's our job to kill them."

The rest of the car ride was silent as we made our way to school.

"So what are you doing later today?" a girl with a big forehead and short brown hair asked.

"Mira, I told you. I'm not into you like that and I never will be."

"Oh, come on, it's not like this Annabeth chick is real."

How could she say this? I'm literally standing right here. she's here asking out my boyfriend right in front of me.

"I'm standing right here incase you didn't notice." I blurted out without thinking. "Percy and I have been together for almost three years, it seems pretty real to me."

"Oh, um...." She started, "well call me when you break up!" she said enthusiastically as she handed Percy a torn piece of paper with scribbles on it.

Percy looked at me with a sly grin as he ripped up the paper.

"what are you looking at?"I said with a slight laugh.

"nothing." he said as he looked away pretending to be serious. We both laughed as he took my hand and made our way to first hour.

"so who is she anyway?"I wandered. "some bully that moved here from Oklahoma right after seventh grade. she thinks she can get whatever she wants, but in reality, the only guys that even look at her are extremely desperate.

the teacher began to teach about parts of poems and how to pick them out of literature and blah blah blah. I didn't even care, it's not like I'd ever read anything in English unless I'm forced to plus I'm dyslexic so first hour is just torture. I could tell Percy was dozing off behind me, so when the teacher passed out the worksheet's I thought I'd be nice to him because it's even harder for him, so I did both of our work and just let him daydream without even noticing.

the bell rang a while later as I was finishing our work and I turned it in. As we were walking out Percy pulled me off to the and kissed me.

"what was that for?" I laughed.

"for doing my work, you know that stuff is three times as hard

for me as it is for a normal person or even you."

"don't worry about it, I knew you wouldn't have done it anyway."

"you know me so well."

the rest of the day went by pretty smoothly except for a few bumps in the road when Mira saw her number in two pieces on the floor next to Percy's locker when she came to see if he and I were still together. At the end of the school day, we went back to Percy's place and finished our homework.