A Loophole (Percabeth Selection)

13- "I Wouldn't Be Anywhere Else"

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I don't own Ricks characters or Kiera's plot

Song is at the end on the chapter, but can be played whilst reading from the start

You know that feeling where you remember something great, but that something great leads to something bad?

Imagine waking up, yesterday you went on a date with your 5 year crush and had the best time ever. Then that memory brings back the worse one. The one where you found out that your family was in a car accident and your little brother's in a coma

I wasn't dreaming about it, it actually happened

I woke with a face full of Hazel's bushy hair and the smell of fresh dirt and grass. I never knew why Hazel always smelt like the earth, I guess it the same as Percy always smelling like the sea

I gently removed my face from Hazel's hair and rubbed the top of her hair

"Annie stop it" She mumbled and turned around, face stuffed in the pillow

I chuckled quietly to myself and yawned, stretching my arms and back

Noticing that neither Justine or Alicia were here I quietly got up, not wanting to wake Hazel and moved over to my walk in robe

I held back a scream and nearly jumped 6 feet

"I'm so sorry my lady" Justine rushed over to check on me

She must have been really quiet picking a dress, I didn't notice her till I was in there

"I'm all good Justine, you just scared me!" I put a hand on my heart, hoping to slow it down

"Alicia's setting up a shower for you today miss"

A gave her a small smile and went into the bathroom. As I walked passed the mirror, I had to stop

Looking back at me was a messed up girl. Her grey eyes were clouded, despair swirling around them. Her eyes were puffy and red, tear streak marks down her cheeks. Her lips were in desperate need of lip balm and her hair for a brush.

I stared at myself, reality crashing back to me

Matthew, my little brother Matthew, in another Provence, in a hospital, with the rest of my family, unconscious; in a coma

Tears started to prickle my eyes and I imagined Matthew lying in bed, monitors and staff surrounding him, my dad and step mum holding hands and crying. Bobby, his twin brother silently crying as he looked at his other half, completely in another world

"Miss?" Alicia's voice was quiet as she gently tapped my shoulder

"Mmm?"

"Showers ready"

I nodded my head and started to take my clothes of absent-minded

The cold of the morning stung my bare skin as I slid open the glass shower door

Alicia had set up a shampoo and conditioner bottle for me, I noticed as I turned on the shower

I jumped a little as freezing water splashed towards me, but I relaxed as it got hotter

Breathing out a breath I stood under the water, letting the warm, soothing liquid flow down my naked body, flowing down the drain into the gutters, finding itself in the ocean