"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

"Annabeth could you be quieter, Mathew and Bobby are asleep and I don't want you to wake them up!" My stepmother 's Susan for you. I wouldn't have minded if my dad married anyone in the world, but Susan was the worst person ever. She automatically didn't like me, just because a when I was protecting her from a monster I accidentally knocked over her great-grandmothers vase. Mathew and Bobby probably would have broke it eventually, but I got the long boring speech about it being a family heirloom. My stepmom just got on my nerves.

At least tomorrow I would finally be able to leave and go back to camp,I thought. I hadn't been there since last year, when all the events had occurred, and wanted to see my friends and Chiron. My Dad had insisted I spend the 1st week of summer break with 'my family' in San Francisco. I had moved a boarding school in New York to be nearer Mt. Olympus, and Camp Half-Blood. I barely had any time to do anything. Re-building Olympus was time consuming, and with school work I hadn't had time to visit camp. Unlike I had hoped I also hadn't seen Percy and was desperate to find out how he felt about me. I thought last year that we would get together, but Rachel had stopped that and I didn't want to ruin our friendship.

I had been thinking about the above when I saw a spider on my bedroom ceiling. Spiders hate children of Athena, because she turned Arachne into the 1st spider. My most deadly fear are spiders so of course I automatically reacted by screaming. I hadn't seen a spider in ages, but now I had no one to help me kill it. In my mind I made a battle strategy, and prepared to put my plan into action. I ran into the bathroom and grabbed some toilet paper, a cup, and a rubber band.

I positioned the cup under the spider, and put the tp next to it. I was going to hit the spider with the rubber band, and aim so it would fall into the cup, then I would place the tp over it and flush it down the toilet. I pulled back the rubber band and aimed at my target. It was in a perfect position, so now all I had to to was... Susan entered the room and I lost my focus, accidentally hitting her in the eye with the rubber band.

"Frederick, Annabeth was messing around in her room and hit me in the eye with a rubber band." Susan screeched. Only a few more hours and the you can leave, I calmly thought to myself. I reached to the ground for the rubber band only to see that the spider had ran away from the noise. I climbed back into bed and tried to get to sleep, but I always imagined the spider crawling all over me while I was asleep. After trying for an hour I looked at the clock, it was 4am. I got up and began to pack my bags, I would need one for camp and then one more to bring back to school with me.

I woke with a start, where was I? I observed my surroundings and saw shoes and coats around me. Susan must of locked me in the shoe closet when I had finished packing and fallen asleep. I banged on the door, but I don't think anyone heard me. I reached in my pocket for my phone, but it was in my room. I rummaged through my dad's jacket pockets until I found his phone. It was 7:30am, I was leaving at 8:30am so instill had time to have a quick shower and grab breakfast.

Furiously I called the home phone, and waited for someone to pick up. I heard deep groans and noisy footsteps coming down the stairs. My dad was moving towards the 2nd floor phone.

"This is an inconvenient time to call..."

I interrupted my dad." Don't hang up I need your help!"

"Annabeth?"

"I'm in the shoe closet, just unlock the door."

"Why are you in their, Annabeth..."

"Just hurry up!" I snapped, I wanted to leave as soon as possible. My dad put down the phone and unlocked the door, and before he had a chance to say anything I ran to my room, and slammed the door shut locking him out. I turned on the shower and got undressed, urging for the water to heat quicker. I took a quick 20 minute shower and braided my hair. I gave it a quick blast of hot-air with my dryer, for a few minutes, so I wouldn't catch a cold.

Grabbing my bags I hurried down stairs painfully standing on a Lego brick. The pain shot up my leg. I had fought hundreds of monsters, but found pain standing on a Lego. I moved with the pain taking longer to bring down my cases. Putting a waffle in the toaster I ran back upstairs making sure I wasn't missing anything and brought out my phone.

I checked the slip of paper making sure it was the right number. Eating my waffle I dialed the number and waited for the cab to arrive. When the cab arrived I quickly shoved in my stuff and gave the Gray Sisters the right address. I looked out the window watching the world in a blur. I shut out the sisters bickering over who got the eye sitting quietly in my seat. I though of Percy he would obviously ask why they weren't driving a chariot. Sometimes he forgot about how mythical stuff adapted to fit in with the modern world. In was concentrating on not being sick as I watched the speed reach 306 mph.

Within a few minutes I arrived at Camp Half-Blood and hastily payed 3 golden drachma to the sisters. I grabbed my bags and walked over to Thalia's tree. My instincts told me there was something behind me, but I kept walking. Until I was tackled from behind.