Six years. Six years had passed since she left you, practically disappearing off the face of the earth.

You knew she was a demigod, that wasn’t the part that hurt. The part that hurt was that she never told you when she was leaving. She just… left.

And now there you stood, in the cold, harsh rain on top of your apartment’s building. The same building Annabeth needed to get to in order to fulfill her quest.

You wanted to pretend like you forgot about her, but you couldn’t. All you could do was ask her why she left. Why she abandoned you.

When she did respond, her voice broke, and it almost made your heart do the same. “I was too afraid to face you!”