Hey guys! It's Abigail here, again. I just felt inspired to write this, so this plot is still fresh in my mind. So, I have to jot down all my ideas on a paper before they vanish like water vapor. I'm actually hoping that you guys will like this, my FF's in the past have not been so realistic than I've hoped, so I tried to make this one as realistic as possible.

I have had major writer's block for the past few months, and I am starting to doubt my ability. Hopefully, I will probably finish this fanfiction. I read my stories after a while, and I was dissatisfied with how unrealistic it was compared to my life. My writing has improved, and sometimes, at least, a week after updating, I will reread my fanfiction and see if there were any mistakes that I didn't see.

Might find some songs that relate to this chapter, if not, I'll just continue on with my story and update regularly. And just a side note: I WON MY VOLLEYBALL GAME! WE WON! WE WON! WE WON!

I do not own PJO/HOO or anything else you may recognize! (Its fanfiction, so of course I wouldn't own it).

Chapter One: "I choose dare."

ANNABETH CHASE

"Truth or dare, Annabeth?" Drew Tanaka had spoken my name with so much venom I gaped at her. I was sitting next to Thalia and I glared at her for even making me play this game, nevertheless forcing me to come with her to this back-to-school bonfire, which was near a campsite.

Had I really sneaked out of the house, and go on a thirty-five-minute drive just to get dared by Drew Tanaka?

I knew that Drew hated me, and she had to pick me. I stared at Drew my eyes leveling with hers, everyone knew that Annabeth Chase never backed down from a dare. It was night, and, at least, nine o'clock, which made me scared on the inside.

"I choose, dare." Drew looked at me and smirked slyly at me. I suddenly felt self – conscious. This was Drew, the girl who had managed to chop off half of my luscious hair that everyone adored in sixth grade, the girl who spilled hot meatballs over my head on the first day of freshman year, the snobby brat who had tried to ruin every single day of my waking life. I looked around the area I was in – realizing that I was in a circle, outside with at least twenty-five people.

I looked back at Drew and raised my eyebrows, "What's the dare Tanaka?" I could see through the corner of my eye that Thalia looked worried and was probably piecing the puzzle pieces through Drew and I's feud.

I felt goosebumps on my arms because I had left my jacket in Thalia's blue truck, but I knew that I was nervous, I was scared of what her answer would be. Drew lifted her head up, turning it to the side, and tapped her left finger on her temple, pretending to think.

Drew's dare for me would probably be planned out, like she was waiting to ask me the dare since I got there.

"I dare you to make Percy Jackson fall in love with you by the end of junior year, and then break his heart." My eyes widened to the size of an elephant's behind, and I wished that I could bail.

Before we started, the rule was if you were going to bail at a dare, you had to jump in the lake naked.

Jump in the lake naked or make Percy Jackson fall in love with me and then break his heart?

He had already dated, Rachel Elizabeth Dare who he was still obviously, head – over – heels – for her. It was an on and off thing that they had. I wouldn't do that. I couldn't do that. It was kind of like, breaking the biggest rule ever. Rachel, Thalia, and I were best friends during third and seventh grade, but then a fallout happened. We made up in ninth grade, but we aren't as close as we were back then, than we are now. It took us a long time to gain each other's trust again, I couldn't just have it break down like a wrecking ball. I couldn't just break her trust, I couldn't break Thalia's trust either.

"No," I answered. A collective gasp went throughout the bonfire. "I'd rather jump in the lake naked."

"Too chicken to break them up?" Drew teased.

My cheeks flamed up in embarrassment and I heard laughs go around the circle. Drew stared at me and pointed to the lake. "Go on, jump in."

"Jump in! Jump in!" voices joined in with the chant, and everyone was chanting now except for certain people in the room: Thalia and Piper.

I stood up and Thalia grabbed my wrist. "Annabeth, you're sure you want to do this?" she questioned.

"Yeah," I answered. "I can't do that to Rachel. Never." Thalia nodded in understanding and an emotion flashed behind her eyes, but it was gone before I could decipher it. She let go of my hand and looked around to see people taking videos of me with their phones. A shiver ran down my spine and I looked at Drew. Her eyes were a dangerous dark brown and I could almost swear I saw a red gleam in her eyes. Her smirk widened when I blushed even more and crossed my arms. I searched Drew's eyes, searching for some kind of weakness, a reason why she was doing this to me. I could hear Drew snickering and then laughing. She mouthed to me, Sorry, before laughing at me.

That's when I realized that Drew did not just dislike me, she had felt true hatred for me, but what had brought her to hate me?

"Are there any more options besides, this?" Drew's left eyebrow arched and she stood up. Everyone was suddenly silent.

"No."

My breath quickened, I felt light-headed, and I wanted to vomit. "You can give up now," she started and I had hope that she wouldn't make me do it. "But you have to make him fall in love with you. And if you don't, I'll tell everyone about your friend Piper's little incidents."

Eyes fell on Piper and she glared at me. I was so stupid, of course, Drew would threaten me with Piper's arrest records. My mouth parted open, and I shut my eyes tight.

How did Drew know?

Nobody knew about Piper's arrest records except for who she told, which was Thalia and me.

Stop being such a chicken.

"I'll jump in the lake naked then."

In the corner of my eye, I saw Piper let out a breath of relief. I stood there silently, watching the reactions of the school crowd. I turned around slowly and held my breath. I shouldn't have over thought my decision. Was stealing my friends' boyfriend really worth it? I felt my eyes water and I looked at Drew. Why did she hate me so much?

Drew smirked and took out her phone. "I'll be watching!" She yelled as I was thinking of running towards the lake.

"No, I'm sorry, I'm not doing this," I said abruptly.

I watched Drew's reaction. Her face turned a bright red, and the eyelash curler she was holding snapped.

"Excuse me?" Drew questioned.

"I said, that I'm not doing this stupid dare, nor am I going to make Percy Jackson fall in love with me and then break his heart."

Drew got up silently and walked over to me. She was, at least, five foot six, without the heels. When walking towards me, she was about my height, five foot eight.

"Sorry, hon. Do you want me to tell everybody about your little incidents?" Drew whispered in my ear so silently I couldn't almost hear what she said.

Fear rose up in my gut so fast, I had to hold my breath.

Drew couldn't, she wouldn't actually tell everyone, would she?

That was personal, it was a secret that I had told no one, but how could she know? I stared at her wide-eyed, and she wore a satisfied smirk on her face. I was frozen in place, and I knew that I had to accept the fact that I had to break Percy Jackson's heart. It was my turn to ask someone truth or dare now, but I didn't have the heart to. So instead, I got up, and ran towards Thalia's blue truck as fast as I could.

I had to do this for Piper, so her secrets were kept safe, for Thalia, even if Drew didn't say anything about threatening her, she would. Most of all, I was doing this for me, so my secrets were kept safe. I didn't know what Drew's plan would be, but all I knew was that she'd try destroy my relationships with people, break me brick by brick.

The guilt was slowly eating me up inside.

I already had so many problems to deal with, why be given something else to worry about? There were only so many questions racing through my head at the moment I couldn't even comprehend them. In the distance, I could hear Drew ask Thalia the same question:

"Truth or dare, Thalia?"

"What am I going to do?" I asked Thalia, distress laced in the tone of my voice.

Thalia sighed and stared ahead at the road. The game had ended shortly after Thalia picked truth, and a few others went. I stayed in her blue truck for the rest of the time, then she came back. Drew had apparently paid everybody there fifty bucks so they could just keep their mouths shut about the dare she gave me. Drew, obviously didn't want people knowing.

"I don't know, Annabeth," Thalia answered, exasperated.

"Are you scared?" I asked Thalia, my voice fragile and rigid.

Thalia didn't answer me back, and I gave up on getting her answer. I groaned out loud and looked at her.

"Would it have been better if I just jumped in the lake naked?" I asked Thalia.

"Probably, but maybe we can just ignore Drew and let this situation play out by itself," she answered back.

"You're right," I told her.

On the car ride back to my house, I hid my emotions like a mask. I didn't know how uncomfortable I was with the words she just told me.

"Probably, but maybe we can just ignore Drew and let this situation play out by itself."

Her words were the only thing I could hear.

I felt like I should have curled my hands into a fist, and see my knuckles go white and bite on to my lower lip, until my lip bled. I felt the tears started to pool in my eyes, I shouldn't cry, Drew wasn't worth my emotions.

"Annabeth, stop it!" Thalia yelled. I had never heard her raise her voice at me.

When she yelled at me, I didn't realize that I was digging my nails into the palms of my hands.

"Gods, Annabeth, what has gotten into you? A month ago, you wouldn't even care if Drew did that! I'm here for you! Everything is going to be alright, forget Drew. Drew is not worth your emotions, no matter how much she angers you." My anger subsided a few minutes after she told me that. My sniffles were the only thing that was heard in the blue truck. I tried to calm myself down, but it wasn't working.

"You want to know what's gotten into me," I told her.

I wish I had learned to control my stupid tongue.

"This is all your fault! If you hadn't dragged me there in the first place, we wouldn't even be having this stupid problem right now! And how would Rachel feel when she hears about this?" I screamed at Thalia.

Rachel wouldn't even hear of the dare because Drew had paid everyone to keep their mouths shut.

"Rachel will be heartbroken, and I'll lose her trust, we both will. If our friendship falls apart, what will be left of it? It took us three years to gain her trust again! It took her three years to gain our trust again! Do you expect me to just let our friendship wither away like that, again? If you haven't noticed Thalia, I am the one who had to regain her trust, if she trusted me, she'd trust you," I snapped, but I was cut off by Thalia's abrupt choice of words, "You think I'm to blame? Annabeth, look at yourself."

I interrupted Thalia, again, "If you weren't so selfish, then we wouldn't even be having this conversation! This is all your freaking fault, if our friendship falls apart, you're to blame!" I yelled back at her, the shame that I had for her in that moment, intertwined into the tone of my voice.

When I looked at Thalia, her facial expression showed guiltiness and hurt. Tears were starting to pool in her eyes and her grip on the steering wheel had tightened. I felt bad instantly when I saw her expression. We both felt guilty, we were both to blame.

"Get out," Thalia snapped.

"What?" I asked in surprise. Thalia had to be kidding, she'd never do that. Thalia pulled her blue truck to the side of the road and she stopped abruptly. It was then I realized, I was at my house. She was looking at me with disgust, like how she looked at Drew.

Thalia snapped at me again, "Didn't you hear me? I said, get the hell out!"

"Gladly," I replied coldly.

I don't need anybody, I don't need Thalia either.

I slammed her blue truck's door shut, and was brought to the sight of my two-story house, that had palm trees lining up next to the sides of my house. The driveway was made out of light red bricks which went slightly uphill, and the sidewalk cut between the driveways, a pearly white. The garage was painted grey, so in the dark it looked almost black. My dad's car was already parked in the driveway and Susan's car parked next to my dad's car. A large tree covered the window to the right, my bedroom. The lights in the house were all turned off, except the window on the left was covered by blinds, but you could tell that there was a light on, which meant Bobby and Matthew had left the light on.

I stormed into my house, glad that the door was left unlocked. When I looked back, Thalia was gone, she had already sped away in anger. In that moment, I realized how stupid I was. How blind I was.

Didn't I see that it hurt her, too?

That it would hurt her, too, if we lost our friendship with Rachel.

I locked my house door and breathed in and out heavily. My hands were shaking, and that's when I realized I was acting like Drew. Thalia was looking at me like I was Drew. Thalia recognized that hatred in my gray eyes that Drew had, the cunning look that I had given Drew when I told her no, I was utterly and completely unrecognizable in that moment.

What would happen when I went to school tomorrow, the first day of school?

I was glad that my family was sleeping, I didn't want them to hear my sobs. I slid down against the house door, curling up into a ball. The guilt was killing me slowly, I didn't expect for Thalia to be so harsh, then. If I had said something different, would she still feel hurt? I was the one who had caused her to feel guilty, we both felt guilty. The only other option was to blame each other, to surrender. What would happen if we don't forgive each other?

What if Thalia won't ever forgive me?

I didn't get that much sleep that night.

I kept on tossing and turning, thinking about Thalia and I's fight, the dare I was given, and the first day of school. It took me about until eleven o'clock to go to bed, the last day of summer wasn't all that I had planned. I looked at the digital clock on my nightstand, to check what time it was.

The digital clock read that it was six o'clock AM, and I got out of bed, because it was the first day of school. I didn't even try to wake up my twin brothers, or half-brothers, that it was time to get up because their school started at eight thirty. Classes started at seven forty-five when the late bell rang, the warning bell was at seven thirty-five, which was the time that you should be at school. If you came when the late bell rang, you get a tardy. If you're late four times, you get a detention. If a teacher gives you a detention during class, you're not so lucky.

I looked outside of my window, it was still dark outside, which I was grateful for. Waking up to the morning sun wasn't always so great, especially when the sun manages to burn your eyes. The sunrises were beautiful, but I prefer sunsets.

I walked towards my bathroom turning the light on, and opened the cabinets under the sink. I grabbed a white towel and put it on the toilet seat. I grabbed my toothbrush, and put toothpaste on my toothbrush. While I was showering, there were reoccurring thoughts about the dare, and the fight. The dare, in which, I, Annabeth Chase, had to break Percy Jackson's heart. It was nerve wracking, stress weighing my shoulders the day I walked in my bedroom door, yesterday.

I'm not a person who tends to get into drama, nor ever get into drama at all. For once, I didn't know what to do. When I had gotten out of the shower and dressed, I was surprised to see my dad in the kitchen, talking on the phone. Typical. I didn't even bother to say hello. The last time I had tried to talk to my dad while he was on the phone, it ended up with him grounding me for at least three months. His strict rules made me really anti-social, so the only friends I'd really ever had were Thalia, Piper, and Rachel. I had a lot of problems going on when I was a kid, I didn't need another reason to explain why my life was so depressing.

I don't bother to look at my dad again, but grab an apple from the counter. I usually ride my bike to school because of the short distance in a car, last school year I did that, but riding my bike there was at least thirty minutes. I checked the clock that was in the oven: it was six-thirty, the usual time that I leave my house.

I walked out of my door with my backpack, and I saw my bike waiting for me.

While I was riding my bike, I let my mind wander. Questions filled up mind like a tidal wave, memories tried to take over my mind, and worry replaced my fear. I honestly didn't need all of this drama in my life right now, I didn't need to be so, occupied with people. I was a junior today, I was in eleventh grade now, and I couldn't have all of this drama. My mind wandered to Drew, she liked Percy, a lot. I was pretty sure that Drew fell in love with him in ninth grade, and she had spent most of her time to get his attention. It never worked.

What bothered me the most was that she told me to break his heart. If I broke Percy's heart, Drew wanted to be the person to pick up all the pieces at his most vulnerable time. That was Drew's plan, she wasn't just wasn't planning on making me break Percy's heart, she was planning on making me fall in love with him, and I'd be heartbroken, too. What did she hate about me so much?

I'd never talked to Percy, but I had a few of my classes with him, last year. Percy was popular, the most popular person in the entire school. People talked about him most of the time, sometimes when I walked past people, they'd be talking about how hot he was. I'd seen him before, and I'm going to admit that he was attractive. It wasn't like Percy would walk down the hallway, and everyone would stop and stare at him like they did in the movies. The whole school isn't suddenly aware of his presence, but everyone knew who he was, and knew not to mess with him.

The thing I was nervous about was if I'd fall in love with him, instead of him falling in love with me, and Drew winning.

As cheesy as it sounds, I know for sure that I will not let Drew win, no matter what.

When I walked into school, I did not expect to see Rachel be at school earlier than me.

"Annabeth!" A voice I knew too well yelled behind me.

My head whipped around to see her and I smiled looking at the red haired, green eyed girl in front of me, who was my best friend. Rachel Elizabeth Dare had definitely changed over the summer. She had at least grown about two inches, making her five foot seven. Her wild, fiery, red hair, had gotten even redder than it was, and more freckles dotted her face than before because of the summer's heat. The solid colored green shirt she was wearing made her eyes stand out, and random colors of paint dotted her jeans.

"Oh, my gods! Annabeth, I missed you so much!" Rachel squealed.

I was surprised when she gave me a bone crushing hug, but I returned the gesture. There were questions surrounding my mind, I was trying to figure out a way to tell her about the truth or dare game that we played at the bonfire, yesterday.

"I missed you," I told her.

"I missed you, too. Where's Thalia and Piper?" Rachel asked, her green eyes still shining bright with curiosity.

I had no idea where Piper went after the bonfire, so she could have been just running late.

It was killing me not to tell Rachel about what happened, we had told each other, everything. I had kept quiet when she asked where Thalia was, and I had mumbled an answer telling her I didn't know where. We continued to talk for a few more minutes about our summer, and the people we met. While we were talking, in the corner of my eye, could see spiky black hair with a blue streak.

Thalia.

Rachel gasped in surprise, a smile brightening her features.

"Thalia!" Rachel exclaimed.

Rachel opened her arms, a gesture clearly stating that she wanted a hug from Thalia. They hugged for a few seconds before separating, and I was faced to look at Thalia's electrifying blue eyes. I took in a sharp breath, and smiled at her, so Rachel didn't know about our fight.

"Hey, Rachel, I have something to tell you. Yesterday night," Thalia started.

Thalia didn't have time to finish her sentence because I interrupted her, "Rachel, is it okay if Thalia and I talk for a moment, alone?" I asked.

I saw the sudden hurt in Rachel's eyes, which made me feel guilty.

"Uh, sure, you guys go, I'll see you later," Rachel said, before smiling weakly.

I grabbed Thalia's arm and pulled her away to a faraway distance where Rachel couldn't hear us. My backpack weighed me down as I walked, but I still tried to stand tall, prideful. I stared at her with an angry look on my face as I crossed my arms. Thalia stared at me innocently like she wasn't about to say anything. I glared at her, and Thalia stiffened.

"What do you think you're doing?" I hissed at her.

"What do you mean? I wasn't doing anything," Thalia replied, but the glint in her eyes said otherwise.

"Yes you were, you were about to tell her about," I couldn't finish my sentence because Thalia cut me off.

"About what? About that you plan to break her boyfriend's heart?" Thalia snapped. I stayed quiet and Thalia gave me a glare.

"Thalia you don't understand, Drew just wants to," I started.

"Drew just wanted to what? Annabeth, I'm not stupid, why'd you choose dare anyway?" Thalia asked me. I was speechless, I didn't have an answer for her, and Thalia just snarled and left me standing there in shock of her words.

I stood there for a few minutes trying to comprehend her words.

"Why'd you choose dare anyway?"

Thalia's words wrung in my head like a loud bell trying to get me to wake up. It was like she had shocked my insides with her words. It wasn't true, I didn't like what was happening as much as she did. She knew that I didn't like it, she had to. If Thalia didn't know that, something must have been wrong. If she didn't know that I didn't like it as much as she did, somebody was probably pretending to be her because my best friend knew everything about me.

I knew I was standing there for a few minutes before the bell rang, shocking me out of my reverie.

What's wrong with me?

And, that's about it! I felt like I should have split this into two chapters. I did at first, but then I couldn't help myself and give you guys a little more.

I know the characters were really OOC in this chapter. If you have a tip that can help me not make my characters so OOC, just leave a review. Please, leave a review if you'd like, and I accept constructive criticism. I take it as a chance to make my work better and more interesting. If you thought my story was bad and have something that might make it better, leave a review, it'd really help.

If there is something that you think you can change about my story, I'd be glad to change it for you. I will answer to your reviews, and you are probably thinking, "ANOTHER STORY?"

I promise you that this isn't just one of those, "it all started with a dare," stories. Usually, every person who has ever said I promise you it won't be that cliché, will probably make it as cliché as possible. Just joking about the last sentence, some cliché stories can be really interesting. I have a plot twist waiting for you guys, but you'll have to wait at least wait more than a lot of chapters first. Yep, I have a bunch of ideas for the story written down and I plan to make this as interesting as it can get.

Have a great day, my darlings!