you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well

I was just trying to figure that out! Yeah, the timing doesn't really make any sense--if Percy has been missing for eight months, and it's June, then that would be October/Novemberish which would also fit in with the two months of dating timeline. But I'm rereading TLH, and Annabeth definitely says they were on Winter break for three weeks--which, sorry RR, doesn't happen in October OR November. And also, there's snow, which isn't something that happens in Long Island in October. Finally, Annabeth says she spent all semester at Olympus, then adds that it has been closed for the last MONTH. So if it's October, that would mean she spent...a couple of weeks at Olympus? Which is hardly a semester, and also would not have allowed her to get much done, and Rachel seems to imply that she's almost finished when she says "Annabeth was redesigning Olympus...you should see the salad bar."

So, in conclusion, this timeline is not well thought out and I am once again wondering why the editors didn't catch it.