[Her return grin is almost a smile and entirely genuine. This started out incredibly awkward on Annabeth's end, but now she's just... kind of happy.] I wouldn't trade my normal. Most of it, anyway. [Not with the people she's come to know through it. She could do with a little less high risk of death, though.]

[She frowns a little, sympathetically.] Keeping up a lie like that for a long time can definitely be harder than just, you know, leaving the school and never coming back. Though coming up with lies for the holes in your academic records is a pain, too. [Wait, did Vanessa say boyfriend?? She'll come back to that.] You build up a lie enough and it becomes true, to the person, at least.