Creative Writing: Annabeth's Sacrifice

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"Percy?" Annabeth's fragile, but almost angry voice spoke through their phone call.

The tone of voice made Percy immediately start worrying. The last time he heard her voice fragile but angry, was during her parent's divorce, when she found out that her father had cheated on her mother. "Annabeth, what's wrong?"

She sniffed. "Luke broke up with me."

Percy turned rigid and growled. He knew that Luke was bad for her. "He what?" It sounded more like a demand rather than a question.

"He- wait a second-" There was a crash, like glass breaking, and then someone yelled, "That's it! Freakin' break everything!"

Annabeth returned to the conversation huffing. "I'm guessing that you're with Thalia."

"Yes. Anyways, Luke broke up with me because he 'didn't need a relationship'" Percy could almost see her steaming.
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"You could come over if you'd like. I've got strawberry ice cream."

"I'll be over in an hour. I need to finish breaking things." There was another crash and Thalia screamed, "Yeah girl! Show it who's the boss!"

The line went dead and Percy sighed. He told her that Luke wasn't for her, but no, her pride just had to kick in. They hadn't been speaking for over three days because of that, and both were too stubborn to apologize to one another.

He knew that he shouldn't dare to rub it in her face, saying 'I told you so' because frankly, he knows that she doesn't like it. Especially when Leo, one of their friends said that to her she judo-flipped him and didn't speak to him for a month.

He started to take out all of the movies she liked, turned off the air conditioner, and closed the blinds. He knew that Annabeth wouldn't arrive a second early or a second late- she would arrive on time, like every other time they met. She was conscientious like