"Bᴏʙ sᴀʏs ʜᴇʟʟᴏ"

N͎o͎ o͎n͎e͎ P͎O͎V͎

The morning started out just fine. Everybody doing their own things and waiting for the breakfast horn. But breakfast wasn't until the next 45 minutes.

A daughter of Athena was laying on the grass, reading a book. She had blonde curly hair tied in a pony tail, some of it falling on her face on princess curls, with the smell of lemons (totally not for spiders). She had stormy gray eyes. Not the peircing and scary ones but the wistful, holding all the knowledge in the world, always calculating ones.

As her eyes met the end of a chapter with, thankfully, no cliffhangers she closed the book and stared at the sky.

Several thoughts errupted in her head causing her eyes to water. Silent tears fell on her cheeks. She gathered all her courage and stood up, grabbing her book.

She walked away, towards the cabin 3 with only one thought "I have to do this."

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The daughter of Athena walked up to the son of Posiedon.

"Hey, Annabeth! G'mornin."

"Percy... I have something to tell you."

The sea green eyed boy frowned. He knew this was something serious or Annabeth would have called him 'seaweed brain'.

"Percy, I love you. I always will. I'd be lying if I say I don't love you as much as you do. But I can't continue this relationship. People think I'm dating you just because you're thrice saviour of Olympus. They have started to call me names behind my back. 'Whore' 'Man-eater' 'selfish'. It hurts my pride. And you know my fatal flaw is hubris. I'm sorry, Percy. I love you but I can't stand those things. I'm really sorry."

The girl expected the boy to maybe break down. Or slap her. Or run away. Anything but not this.

The boy just smiled sadly with understanding in his eyes and said "It's OK. We can be friends. I just want you to know that I'll love you forever. My love is permanent for you now."

"Th-That's it? I expected a little more..."

"Annabeth, we still love each other. It's just that we won't be going on romantic dates anymore. Everything else is the same."

She just stood there, not understanding. Even she wanted to break down. How could he not? Especially with his fatal flaw being loyalty?

She hugged him tightly, one last time before being startled by the conch horn and heading towards the dining pavilion.

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I watched as Annabeth headed towards breakfast. I know it was selfish of her to do that. But I mean, Hubris is her fatal flaw. Now that I think about it, her pride should really swell up now. "Annabeth broke up with the Percy Jackson. Can you believe it?"

I love her. I really do. But I'm used to this now. My first love left me. Then now, it's her. They all go away, eventually.

Like mom....

No no no no no. Another flashback.

Fʟᴀsʜʙᴀᴄᴋ~

I sat there, gasping.

My hands wrapped around a kitchen knife that was half inside a man's chest. Blood soaked on the man's shirt.

Gabe still blackmailed me. Now that he couldn't do that with mom, he did it with some toddlers.

My twenty-sixth kill since then.

By now, I'd lost my sanity. I was insane. I didn't fear blood. I found blood beautiful. Especially on pale skin.

As I sat there thinking about what life the man probably would have if I didn't kill him, I realized something.

Since I found out my mom died, I had always waited for the police. To hear the victim's screams and come arrest Gabe. To save me. And those toddlers. And the future men and women I was probably going to kill.

But at that moment it dawned upon me: I can't count on the police. I have to take actions on my own.

And so I did.

That night, when Gabe went to dispose the body, I ran away. I ran and ran and ran. I didn't see where I went. Just away. Away from Gabe. Away from it all.

I took a rest on an alley. It was dark. No moonlight. Faint scratches of racoons digging on trash. I was out of breath. Soaked in blood. My skin pale from the lack of sunshine I saw.

It was all too much. Too much. Too much for an eleven year old. Too much for anyone. And so, I collapsed as my vision turned black.

I woke up on a shore. The tide was high. Waves gently lapping my toes. For the first time in my life, I felt safe. Wholesome. Relaxed.

A voice spoke in my head. I don't exactly remember what it said. But it was something about not worrying and going to school.

Next morning onward I started attending school. There, I met Grover.

Fʟᴀsʜʙᴀᴄᴋ ᴇɴᴅ~

That.... wasn't so bad.

Then I went to eat breakfast. Everyone stared at me like they expected me to stab myself or something.

I took my food and sat at my table, still eyeing the others.

"Percy, are you okay? Do you want to talk?" Hazel approached me cautiously.

"Yeah, I'm totally fine. Why do you ask?"

She seemed surprised. Then Jason came and questioned.

"You okay, bro? It must have been hard."

"I'm OK. What's up with the sudden con- ohhhh. Oooooohhhh. Annabeth told you. Yeah, it broke my heart but I'm fine, I promise."

Piper started storming towards me so before she could reach me, I gobbled down a bite of blue pancake and ran to help the nymphs do the dishes.

It was painful to do the dishes alone 'cause I used to do it with Silena everyday.

We would help the nymphs. They would thank us. We helped each other in relationship advices.

All the memories hurt. To think everything will continue just without the other one. Life won't even acknowledge her absence. Life will just go on, with or without her.

I finished the dishes and went to archery classes. Welp, not a good start.

Everyone was practising archery but then I came. I came and grabbed a bow and a quiver. Just as my finger touched the bow, everyone ran away. Except for Chiron. He just hid behind a table and spewed some encouragements.

"Percy, focus on the target. You can do it. Confidence is the key, but don't over do it."

I notched the arrow and pointed it towards the target. Michael's words echoed on my mind. "While concentrating, you should pay attention to the eye of the target. Forget the world. The target is all that matters. You can't see anything alse but the target."

The target. The target. Target.

I released the arrow and......

It hit the side of the target! Not the middle but still! Chiron's butt is safe!

I turned to thank Micheal but he wasn't there. Harsh reality slapped me on the face.

He wasn't there. He will never be. He has turned into just a pile of safe-kept memories. I was the one responsible for it all. He fell on my father's domain. But I still couldn't save him? Shame on me. He is gone. Because of me.

I was pulled back into reality with Chiron pulling me into a hug. With a start I realized how rarely Chiron hugged me. The last time he hugged me.... it was my first day at camp.

I hugged him back, treasuring this memory forever. I felt safe on his embrace.

"You did it, my son! You did it. I knew you could if only you focused!Congratulations, boy. Now your ban is removed. You are allowed to touch a bow and arrow without my supervision. Though I still do not recommend depending on it." Chiron cheered.

"Thanks, Chiron. Now, I'm officially better than Apollo at everything."

With that, I headed to my next class. Greek history. But this time, I had to teach it.

Here goes nothing.

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