Annabeth's pov:

Drew Tanaka, you sly girl.

"An all girls group!" Drew burst out, putting her hand over her mouth and laughing.

"So ... Annabeth, I see your new group of friends have left you. This is what, the fifth time?" She asked me, scratching her perfectly manicured nails.

I ignored her. "Ok then, what should our little scene be?" I asked Calypso and Clarisse, who actually seemed intent on listening.

"How about I be the main character, and you guys are just there?" Drew asked me.

I shook my head, then Drew leaned closer so she could whisper something to me. "I know what you did, so please don't make me angry."

I nodded so much that my head started to ache, and Clarisse and Calypso looked at me confused.

"Drew is going to play a, um, a girl who is the best at everything, and we are going to be playing her maids." If this didn't make her happy, I don't know what would've.

She nodded, whilst I turned around to the other group. Every single one of my friends seemed to be laughing and forgetting the fact that I was not there. They seemed to be forgetting that I was paired up with my enemy.

Some friends I have.

After around 30 minutes of rehearsing, our drama teacher made all of us show it to our class.

I watched Rachel and her group, about some homeless guy. The other half of my friends were doing some action thing, and both of theirs were really good.

"Ok then, may Drew, Annabeth, Clarisse and Calypso come up?" She pointed to us, and I gulped nervously.

Clarisse was the narrator because she said, and I quote: 'I'll break your arms off if you make me act.'

I got up to the stage, Drew already there, smiling, and Calypso following behind me.

The play

Clarisse: There once was a beautiful girl called Drew, who had two maids who hated her, the ugly one was called Annabell.

Drew: Hey, Annabell, may you please get me my clothes?

Annabell: Oh shut up, you hag. You make me do everything.

Drew: That IS the reason as to why you were hired, fine I'll call Calypso.

Calypso: Oh wonderful mistress what do you need?

Drew: First of all, fire the one called Annabell and second of all, go get my dress.

Annabell: Now that is the moral of the story, don't be ugly in the inside, or else you'll be ugly on the outside.

Drew: Yes that is the moral of the story, but we didn't have to change much of Annabeth to have the role of Annabell.

End

The whole class clapped nervously, some of them snickering at the last comment.

"Ok then, that was, um, that was nice." The teacher seemed lost for words, and not in a good way.

I quickly went off the stage and went back to my friends, who all looked at me concerned.

"You okay?" Leo asked me, for once there was no humour in his voice.

I shook my head. "No, I'm going to fail drama, and then that'll look bad on my report." I told everyone.

They shared sideways glances. "Um, is that it?" Percy asked me, trying not to laugh.

It was the end of the lesson, and we were all getting our stuff ready to go to our second lesson.

"Yeah, why are you laughing?" I asked, clearly annoyed that they found this funny.

Now it was Hazel's turn to laugh. "We thought it was something serious. You know there'll be other projects to do?"

Ok, NOW I was mad, I already had my stuff ready so I was ready to leave.

"Oh, and also because of the fact that my friends left me to go off into two groups, so I could be paired with Drew, for goodness sake, Drew!" I shouted out her name.

"Hey, hey we're sorry okay?" Thalia patted my shoulder gently, trying to calm me down.

I nodded, and headed off. It would be awkward if I stood there, AND my second lesson was on the other side of the school.

~~~

It was the end of the school day, but me and my group of friends had to stay back to do track team.

"Ok then, cupcakes! Hope you had a great holiday ... I'm joking I don't care. But anyways, you're going to do a run!" He shouted, throwing his hands up.

I rolled my eyes, and got ready to start, with Thalia, Piper, Rachel, and Hazel by my side.

"Um sir, but don't we do this every day?" Nico asked, I haven't seen that boy in a long time!

I walked off to Nico, very curious as to why he wasn't in for most of school. "Hey Nico, where were you?!" I asked him, giving him a hug.

"Had to attend to some family business." He replied to me in a monotone voice.

I laughed, and went back to the track with the girls.

"What was that all about?" Piper asked me.

"Oh, just checking on Nico." I replied, shrugging my shoulders.

Coach blew the horn and we all ran, I ran at a normal pace, knowing that if I went faster, I wouldn't be able to walk home.

"Let's talk." Rachel bursted out, looking around to check if the boys were anywhere.

"About what?"

"About you." Rachel pointed at me, with a smirk on her lips.

"What about me?" I slowed down a bit.

"Well, for one, you're always distant, and you don't talk that much." Piper asked me, turning around so she could face me as well.

I couldn't hold it back from my friends any longer. "Well, do you want me to tell you the truth."

They all nodded their heads. "My step mom got taken away, and my brothers are seriously scared." I told them really quick for my voice was starting to crack a little.

"Why?" Hazel whispered.

"She abused me, and know she started to abuse the brothers. My dad found out, and now she's in a prison, and about to go to a mental hospital." I had stopped running.

Before I could wipe away the tears, all of the girls gave me a bone crushing hug. I didn't even realise I was crying until the salty tears met my lips.

"What's wrong with Annabeth?" Nico asked, now all the boys were there, wanting to know what made me upset

Piper looked at me, and I nodded. She told the boys what I had told the girls, nothing less, nothing more.

Once they realised this, they all gave me a hug too, and whispered things as well. When we were done with our little get together, Coach hedge shouted at us to get our butts to the gym to do some exercise.

"Hey, Annabeth, we're sorry we didn't know sooner." Jason told me, putting his hand on my shoulder as a friendly gesture.

"Hey, it's okay, she's gone now, no point of being all sad now." I told them, not even bothering to meet their eyes.

I heard Percy mutter something to himself. "Yeah, but there'll still be scars."

I know Percy, I know.