Chapter 6

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When I arrived at camp, it was noon and everyone was at lunch. Even from far away, I could point out a few individuals. I saw Thalia sitting alone, just like Percy, I saw Malcolm, and a few others. Instead of going to get something to eat, which would be the smart thing to do, I went to my cabin.

I went to my bottom bunk and laid down. I opened my laptop to get my mind off things. I plugged in my headphones and opened up Pandora. Bunch of random songs played as I looked through old photos I had on there. There were all ones I downloaded from my phone and camera. There were hundreds of picutures that I could use as blackmail against Thalia and Piper. And few weird ones that Hazel got of me. There were around two hundred picutures of Percy and I, happy as could be. The rest were just of buildings and things like that.

I didn't realize that so much time passed until Malcolm came into the cabin. "Oh, hey Annabeth," He had said. 

I pulled out my headphones and said, "Hey." I exited out of the photos and Pandora. I shut down the computer and turned my attention to him. 

"You okay? Looks like you've been crying," Malcolm said. 

I tried to wipe the dry tears but none came off. "Uh, yeah. I'm fine."

Malcolm sat on my bed and said, "Seriously, tell me."

"I was keeping a secret from Percy. After the car accident, he found out, but not from me. So he got mad, and we had a pretty big fight. So, yeah," I said. 

"You got into a car accident?"

"Yeah. But I'm perfectly fine."

"I'm guessing you aren't gonna tell me what you were hiding, are you?"

"That's is correct." And before my brother could say anything else, some camper came in and told him he was needed. "Can you not tell?" I asked before he was out of the cabin.

"Swear I won't." And with that, Malcolm left. I laid back down on my bed. All I could think of was Percy. So to get him off my mind, I got up to find Thalia or Piper. One of them should be able to help me. I walked out of my cabin and started towards the Aphrodite cabin. 

I knocked on the door and some random answered it. "Where's Piper?" The little girl turned around and yelled for Piper. A moment later, there she was. "Can we walk and talk?" Piper just nodded. We walked away from the cabins and headed into the woods.

We found a log in the middle of the woods. I made sure no one was around and then started talking. "Percy knows."

"How'd he find out?"

"You know we got in a car accident, right?" I paused while Piper nodded. "Well, so I was out for three days. And the nurse told him, I guess. I don't know what happened, I just know that someone there told him. Oh, and the baby's perfectly fine," I finished.

"Oh my gods. I'm so happy the baby's okay, but Percy was probably so mad. Was he?"

"Oh my gods. You should have heard us. He was getting mad at me, so I left the hospital. He came to my house, walked in, and we started fighting again. The last thing I said was to get the fuck out of my house. I want my kid to know he or she has a dad, but I don't want to fight with him like this everyday. What should I do?"

"I don't know, Annabeth."

"No one knows. I don't know. What's going to happen?"

"I really wish I knew what was going to happen," Piper said.

"Yeah, me too." I check my phone to see I have two missed calls from my dad. "Oh, I have to call my dad back. See ya later," I said to Piper.

I walked to the beach and made sure no one was there incase I had to say anything about the baby. I pressed call and waited for the line to be picked up. Once it did, I said, "Dad?" And with that one word, there was a lot of yelling. I pulled the phone away from the ear so it wouldn't burst my eardrum. He kept yelling and screaming about the baby. 

"That thing is going right to the adaptation center once it comes!" My father screamed. 

As soon as I heard that, I said, "Hell no. It's mine and you have no right into saying whether or not I'm going to keep it!" He screamed some more before I said in a low voice, "This is my kid. Not yours. You can keep screaming but I have more important things to worry about. Like if Athena is going to blow Percy to pieces. Or whether or not Percy and I broke up. And whether or not I'm ever coming back to California. And right now, it's a big no. So, keep yelling, I don't care. I'd rather live on the streets than listen to you." 

And with that, I hung up. I turned off my phone and threw it as far as I could, hoping never to find it again. "Even I could hear the yelling from here."

I turned around and saw Percy standing a few feet from me. "One more person down."

"You think Athena will blow me to pieces?" He asked.

"Maybe. If I tell her."

 "Annabeth, I hate fighting with you."

"Me too," I said in a low voice. 

"Can we please forget it?"

"No. Because we can't just forget that I'm pregnant, or forget that this is really happening. We can't forget that in a year, we are going to be juggling school and an infant.  We can't," I said. As much as I wanted to forget the worst fight of my life, or that my whole world is changing, I can't. No one can. It is impossible. 

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