i know if i go, i'll die happy tonight

Annabeth returns to California before the Second Titan War, and discovers something about herself along the way.

She goes to school and ignores how she doesn’t feel like a girl (Annabeth never did, but suddenly it hurts to have breasts, sharp and piercing all the time, when before it was just only a day or two at a time, every once in a while). She ignores the whispers and the stares – if Percy is going to die at sixteen, she will die with him, and she wants to make the most of her life while she can (even if it means going to mortal school and to a place where she never belonged).