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The Forest Behind the House

Annabeth ran to the second floor of her house, and she found Phyllis reading a chemistry book there with her eyeballs rolling, and Annabeth walked up to her.

"Phyllis, me and Peter are going to go to the back of what do you want to join?" ask Annabeth who didn't make Phyllis move one bit.

"I'll stay" said Phyllis, who read the book seriously.

"Alright, just call us if aunt Natalie comes." Annabeth got out of there and waited for Peter in front of the yard.

Peter soon left the house and walked up to Annabeth, waiting for him alone.

"Did he not want to join?" ask Peter, who is possessed by Annabeth.

"It doesn't matter, let's go!" Peter took his youngest brother's hand and they walked together into the forest.

From a distance Stave heard Annabeth's voice approaching him and Stave stood up from there and looked around and it was true that Annabeth and Peter were walking to him.

"Have you come?" Stave looked at his brother from the top of his tree house.

"Not yet, Phyllis will call us if aunt has come" Annabeth explained, looking up.

"Then what are you doing here, do you want to bother me?" Stave frowned.

"We'll go to the river, just calm down we're not bothering you" Peter looked down at his brother.

"Come on Anna." pull Peter, who is taken in by Annabeth.

Peter and Annabeth left Stave alone there, not far from the Stave treehouse they came to the river, the river with very clear water even they can see small fish swimming in it.

"Peter, is Stave angry that you always don't come home important?" annabeth asked, they were watching the river.

"Perhaps, we never know what Stave has in mind" Peter smiled as he looked at his brother.

"Don't worry Anna, when she grows up Stave will understand even you, too" he continued, walking with the flow.

"I'll understand when the time comes" said Annabeth, who made Peter smile.

"Peter see what a rope is hanging on a tree, can we ride it and hang on it!" show Annabeth with great zeal.

"Annabeth be careful you will fall." cried Peter softly as Annabeth ran towards the rope between the rivers.

Annabeth looked for a long branch and took the rope with Peter's help, after the rope was in Peter's hand, Annabeth returned the branch to the river bank.

"It looks like this rope is strong, can I swing to cross?" asked Annabeth who made Peter raise his eyebrows for a moment.

"Before that I'll try it first, if it's safe then you can try it," explained Peter, who was signed by Annabeth.

"All right, I'm gonna swing." Peter took a step to swing across.

After swinging and arriving across Annabeth smiled widely even she was very happy when she saw Peter was fine even she was getting to try it.

"Give it to me, I want to try it!" yelled Annabeth who was taken by Peter.

"Be careful and hold the rope firmly!" Peter pushed the rope towards Annabeth.

On the other hand Phyllis had just arrived at Stave's tree house and she saw Stave busy with his paintings.

"Auntie has come you should immediately return home," Phyllis pinta on his sister but it does not make Stave stop his activities.

"Stave did you hear me?" phyllis asked as she climbed up the tree house to confirm it.

"I'll be back with Peter and Annabeth" Stave replied casually as he continued his painting.

"They are in the river, come back I will call them," now Stave looked at Phyllis with a face as flat and cold as ever.

"Alright I'll wait for you guys at home, don't take too long Stave we can't keep aunt Natalie waiting." Phyllis immediately got down from there and she decided to leave the forest and return home.

Phyllis' voice continued to disturb Stave's mind and Stave quickly finished his painting and came down from there to catch up with Peter and Annabeth in the river.

"Peter, Anna?" stave's voice made Annabeth wave her hand.

"What you're doing there, quickly return aunt Natalie has come," explained Stave, who was embraced by them.

"I didn't expect auntie to come that fast" Annabeth scolded as she swung towards Stave who was waiting for her.

"You can fall Anna if you swing like this" Stave scolded as he passed the rope to Peter.

"Don't worry Stave, he's with me." Peter interrupted, leaving Stave's annoyed expression unchanged.

When it would swing suddenly Peter could not move from there even he could only stare at Stave and Anna who were waiting for him across there.

"Peter do you like it so much that you don't want to swing here?" teased Annabeth when she saw Peter who was still there.

"What a shit is that!" stave's small voice made Peter and Annabeth look at him.

"Peter get here!!" stave shouted with a bit of panic.

"What's Stave?" annabeth asked with a puzzled face as she looked at the panicked Stave.

"Peter do you hear me!" shouts Stave who doesn't change Peter.

Suddenly Annabeth stood beside him holding Stave's hand to resuscitate him.

"Why are you yelling Stave?" annabeth asked with a confused look on her face.

"What?" Stave asked Annabeth even when he saw Peter standing next to his sister.

"Ah I seem to have seen it wrong," continued Stave who made the two of them confused.

"What do you see Stave?" peter asked as he held Stave's shoulder to calm him down.

"No, let's go home." Stave walked ahead of the two of them.

They immediately came out of the forest and returned home, sure enough that Natalie's aunt had been waiting for them since a few minutes ago, even the boring book was already in Phyllis' hands.

"You're back" said Natalie's aunt, whom the three of them were holding.

"Auntie can't stay here for long because aunty has a job to do, '" he explained, which doesn't change the Jouvalines brothers' expression.

"Auntie don't worry" Phyllis said as she closed her book and stood up.

"I'll take care of them" she continued, which made her aunt Natalie smile.

"Auntie will be back tomorrow morning, thank you Phyllis," aunt Natalie stroked Phyllis' face with a smile.

"Well auntie go now, you're all right at home." aunt Natalie left the house immediately.

After his old car left the yard, the Jouvalines just stared at each other because they were a little upset.

"It seems like auntie knows if you're upset with her" Annabeth looked at Phyllis who was standing not far from her.

"It's good if he finds out about Anna." Phyllis returned to her seat while reopening her book.