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Who Knew by P!nk
"Are you sure you're okay? It's Luke, isn't it? I shouldn't have told you."
"I'm fine," Thalia mumbled distractedly. She moved her hand through her cropped black hair and marveled at the way it rustled under her fingers. It was just one of all the little things that she hadn't even realized she missed about being human.
In an attempt to make Annabeth smile, she added, "Or as fine as it's possible to be after wearing the same outfit for seven years."
Annabeth jumped up. "I'll go get you a change of clothes."
Thalia shook her head violently. "No, don't. I'll be okay."
"All right... but yell if you need anything." With one last doubtful glance, Annabeth shut the door of the infirmary behind her.
As soon as the door clicked shut, Thalia threw her pillow across the room. Her arms were still shaky from being in her poisoned tree, and she missed the opposite wall by a yard.
Stifling the urge to cry and scream and kick something, Thalia pressed her cheek against the cold sheet of her bed.
Cold.
She was still getting used to the feeling of it. When her arm brushed a metal doorknob. When the breeze caressed her cheeks.
And her heart. Cold with anger.
How could he?
She hadn't believed it at first. She thought he had been the last person on earth who would try to hurt her.
After all, hadn't he been the one that made her laugh? The one that held her when she cried?
"I loved you," Thalia whispered, the tears falling faster and faster, seeping into the mattress.
But now he had become a liar. A backstabbing, two-faced jerk. The Fields of Punishment were too good for him.
Who knew?