Annabeth Chase,

Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women is pleased to say that you have been accepted to spend the rest of your school experiences here at the Academy. As you know we are famous for our curriculum, you may need some catching up to do in the beginning of the first semester. We have high hopes for you here. A limo will come and pick you up from the airport the starting day of school.

Sincerely,

Gallagher Trusties.

"Whoa!" I said to myself after getting the letter. I had applied to this school a year ago and they only took me because of my excellent grades.

I called my dad and stepmom from upstairs to tell them the good news. I was visiting them for a week until I went back to New York to attend school there. I had just got back from camp when I got the letter. Well I was going to school in New York to be close to Olympus again, but now with the acceptance to go to the best school in the country, possibly the world, Olympus's renovations would have to go through via Iris Message and weekend visits.

"Dad!" I called, bursting at the seems with excitement.

"Yes dear?" He said coming down the stairs quickly.

"I got into Gallagher!" I jumped into his arms.

"I knew you'd get in!" He said happy for me!

"Wait!" I said things rushing into my head at once. "I need to tell Thalia, and Percy, and we need to stop all the transfers. I need to go to Olympus! I'm sorry dad but I can't stay here. I need to pack and move my stuff. I, jeez, I only have a week to get ready!"

My dad looked hurt at the thought of our week being cut down to only a day and a night. "Well Annabeth, I only want the best for you... I'll book the plane tickets to you after dinner for you to go to New York, and for your tickets to go to school."

"Really?" I said in shock. "Thanks dad!"

I ran up to my room and repacked the suitcase I had spent an hour unpacking. I also gathered other crap I would need until winter. I now had two suitcases full of stuff.

I remembered that I needed to call Percy and Thalia. I dialed Percy first.

"Hello?" He answered.

"Hey Percy!"

"Annabeth! What's up? How's Fresco?

"It's good, but listen, I need to tell you something big ok?" I said taking deep breaths.

"Yeah tell away!" He sounded nervous not knowing what to expect, but I don't blame him because I didn't either.

"Well I got excepted into the country's best school... in Virginia."

"Virginia... that's, that's a long way from New York. What about Olympus?" Percy scratched his head.

"I got a lot done, I have most of the blueprints and all that stuff, all we need to do is construct it."

"Isn't this a little fast? The school year starts next week and your in San Francisco until then."

"I'm coming to New York tomorrow, to finish up on Olympus and say good bye to you and Thalia." I found my self holding my breath hoping he'd be okay with me moving away.

"It's a lot to take in Annabeth. But I'm happy for you, you deserve this more than anyone in the world." I breathed again.

When I called Thalia we pretty much had the same discussion as the one I had with Percy but she sounded almost fearful about being alone without my Seaweed Brain for a year of school. She hoped I didn't get kicked out, and I laughed when I herd that. I'd miss Thalia and Percy after all we went through over the summers.

One Week Later

I stepped out of the limo completely amazed, this had to be the most beautiful school ever created. It had vines twirling up the stone walls, it looked like a castle. The front gates stood tall as it opened up to ten more limo's in front of me and the ones passing by me that had already gone around the stone circle. In the middle of the circle was a cute little pond with blooming lily pads. The stone road lead to stairs that was flooded with girls hugging other girls.

I wouldn't know a soul. I was a nervous wreck. My limo got to those perfect stairs and a doorman came and opened the door for me. I thanked him and looked at my new school with awe. I got my bags and headed into the school.

It was chilly and the hallways were packed with parents and squealing girls. I went over to the sheet that told me where I was staying. It said I was sharing a room with a girl named Rebecca Baxter, Cammie Morgan, Liz Sutton, and Macey McHenry. Great I said to myself, it's going to be packed in our room.

The map of the school's dorm told me where to go to get there. Yeah I'd go that way if I wanted to rip my arms off by all these bags. I took a second look at the sheet and saw a way shorter way to get there.

I knocked on the door even though I had a key. "Come in!" I herd someone shout. I opened the door. The room was humongous, but I could already tell that five girls would be tricky to fit in it still. All the beds had already been claimed, and one was empty and so way the very small space around it.

"I'm Annabeth Chase, your new room mate." I said smiling.

All four of the girls had their eyes on me, analyzing me.

"I'm Cammie," A brown haired girl stuck out her hand for me to shake, I shook it firmly. Cammie looked as normal as a teenage girl could get. Someone that you would pass by and not even notice.

"Liz," Said the small stick figure like one. She had a southern accent. Liz didn't look like she could hold up in fight for very long, more like the run away type.

"The sheet says Rebecca but everyone calls me Bex." Bex had a thick British accent and strong hands, her arms looked tight with muscle. She's the kind that would stay by my side and fight.

"Hi, I'm Macey McHenry." O gods, Macey McHenry, as in the daughter of the senator James McHenry?

"Um, hi."

"I like her," Bex whispered to Cammie. "She looks like she's looking for a way to take us down. It's like I can see the gears turning in her mind." I giggled.

I started to set up my bed by putting on the bed sheets. The other girls just whispered on one of their beds. When I got to my prized laptop I hugged it and looked for a place to plug in the charger.

"Nice laptop." Liz said.

"Thanks, it was a gift I got a couple years ago." I told her.

"Really who?"

"Um, someone really important." I was trying not to be very strait forward because it's not easy to explain that the person who gave it to you was Daedalus, as in the ancient one.

Liz gave up and returned to her whispers. I found a plug and made sure it would charge the laptop because it was super low from me fiddling with it on the plane. I brought out the picture of Percy and I hugging at camp, and the one with Thalia, Nico, Grover, Percy and I all at the sing-a-long on the last night of camp. I loved that one because it's all the people I'm closest to. Plus the bonfire that night was about 20 ft high and was in the background so it looked amazing.

I opened the closet to find it already overflowing with clothes, but I was fine with the floor as one. That's how we did it at camp.

When I was done I laid down on my bed and closed my eyes.

"Hey Annabeth time for dinner!" Cammie, I think, called out. I moaned. "It's okay we'll show you how to get there."

I walked with them down the series of stairs and hallways. It was a really big school. When we got to the dining hall there was a sign over it saying English American. I was confused, yeah American we speak English, what's the point?

We sat down on at a table, I sat next to Cammie and Bex.

"So Annabeth, tell us a little about yourself. How'd you get into this school?" Bex asked.

"I don't really know, I applied not thinking I'd get in. But I guess I did really good in school so..." Good in school, yeah right, I'd been kicked out of almost all of the ones I had attended! I knew my mother, Athena, probably helped me get into this school but it's not like I could tell them that.

"Tell us about that guy you hugging in that picture on your nightstand." Macey asked with an eyebrow raised.

"Oh," I blushed. "That's Percy Jackson, my boyfriend."

"Percy Jackson? As in the boy who was wanted like five years ago only to be found running away from that physco?" Bex asked. I wanted to laugh because somewhere Ares had herd that and wanted to kill her for saying that.

"Yeah him, it's kind of a long story. Not one I really want to repeat." They all looked at each other amused.

"And what about those other people in the other picture." I smiled.

"Those are my best friends in the world. Percy in the one right next to me. Thalia is the one in the silver jacket and head band looking thing. Grover is the one that has a little bit of a go-tee going on. And Nico, he's the one who isn't smiling and has the skull and cross bone t- shirt."

"Interesting group of friends." Liz said.

"You have no idea." I said under my breath.

"So, what about your family?" Liz asked, but Macey elbowed her in the ribs and Bex put her face in her hands shacking her head back and forth.

"My family... um, it's large. My dad lives in California with my step mom and two kids. My mom... she's a very important woman, very wise and smart." I said choosing my words carefully.

"Who's your mom?" Macey asked in interest.

"Um..." I took an interest in my nails and shaking my head about what I was going to say next. "Many people have herd of her, knowing on how smart you have to be to get in this school, you probably use her as an example for some things or a role model. But no one really notices what's in front of their eyes."

They all looked at each other. "But what if we have really good eyes?" Macey said.

"Trust me, you'd never, ever figure out who she is. I would have to tell you, and when and if I did you'd laugh." They wouldn't not unless one of them was a half-blood that had been to camp,but I would know if they were. All four of them still looked at each other like they would find out. They would try and try, but the mist would stop them every time, not they would get close in the first place.

The headmistress made her welcoming speech and we all recited a pledge. I already knew it, I had to even though it was my first day here. I kept to myself the rest of dinner. Cammie told me that her mom wanted to see me in her office. I asked her who her mom was and she looked at me like I was crazy. Apparently her mom was the headmistress.

Cammie led me into her office, which was huge and rounded. It was filled with books and had a TV. When I stepped in I was surprised that Cammie didn't leave me. She stayed with me and sat down on the couch next to me. Her mom came in and smiled. Cammie and I stood up, I shook her hand.

"Hello Annabeth." Mrs. Morgan said. I noticed another man walk in after her. "This is one of our teachers Joe Solomon."

I shook his hand, it was pretty rough and muscular. But I looked at him and felt like I had seen him somewhere.

Mrs. Morgan went over to her desk and pushed a button on her desk. The room started to transform. Drawers slid down and disappeared only to be replaced with other ones that had different labels. The books on the selfs started to be traded into others in different languages, and weird names.

"Here at Gallagher Academy we take secrets very seriously." Mrs. Morgan said in a tone I swear I have herd from my mother when she's talking to Percy about never hurting me or she would kill him slowly and painfully.

A hand landed on my shoulder, it was stiff and I knew it was an attacker. I took the hand making sure it didn't go anywhere. The other hand tried to punch my face but I dodged it. I twisted the hand that I had in my grasp and swiped my right foot into the attackers legs making her on the couch. I took my dagger that I today hid on my leg (I was wearing jeans) and put it to her throat.

I was barley fazed by my attacker, Cammie. I put the knife away. "Yeah, well good for you I have a whole lot of secrets that I take very seriously too."

Mrs. Morgan smiled. "Gallagher isn't just a prestigious school Annabeth. We train year round for the future. Here you will find the next generation of spy's, CSI, FBI, NFA agents, other's become very successful in other ways." I felt like I had stepped into camp's rated R introduction movie that Mr. D made a few years ago so it wouldn't be so long of a processes to explain everything.

"You don't look very surprised." Cammie said. "Most people freak when they hear they're going to a school for spy's."

"Well since I turned seven, not much has been able to jump out and surprise me." I told her.

"What goes on in this school is beyond top secret. Most FBI agents, even the Secret Service, don't know what Gallagher Academy really is. You are part of the Sisterhood now Annabeth. Since you are currently living with my daughter Cammie, I trust she will tell you more about what it means to be a Gallagher Girl." Mrs. Morgan said.

"I understand 'mam." I was told I could leave then.