Chapter 1

Annabeth

I woke up to the sound of the alarm blaring. Turning it off, I climbed out of bed, yawning. Through my half-shut eyes, I looked at the alarm clock.

God, I'm late!

I threw the blanket off, rushed to the bathroom, put on my clothes and ran downstairs to find my mom making breakfast, and my dad sitting on the dining table, newspaper in his hand.

"Morning sweetie", my mom said, looking up from the kitchen table.

"Why didn't you wake me up? I'm late", I exclaimed, straightening my muffled hair.

"Oh, look at the time, I didn't even notice."

"Ugh"

I angrily banged the door open and hopped on my bicycle, leaving for school.

Just in time.

The warning bell rang.

I threw my bag inside my locker and took out my Mythology book. I banged the locker door shut only to find Luke, my childhood friend, standing with that huge smile that lit up his whole face.

And here's the story behind him, you know how some of us have a friend, who sadly, only thinks of you as his friend, but you're hopelessly in love with him. Well, I've been friend-zoned the same way. I've even tried to give him clues about my feelings toward him. But, you should always have hope right. Maybe he likes me too, but is shy to show it.

Yeah right, never gonna happen. Luke and shy? Ha

"Hey, whats wrong?" asked Luke, bringing me back to the real world.

"Hm? No, It's nothing"

"You sure, You looked kinda….lost"

"Yes, I'm sure"

TRIIIIIING, TRIIIIIIING

"Oh, sorry, gotta go", I exclaimed.

"No prob"

I found my seat, just next to my friend, Thalia.

"Hey", she greeted.

"Hi, Mr. Chiron is'nt here?", I asked for the Mythology Teacher.

"Nope, not yet", Thalia replied.

Percy

"Sup, Percy, How've ya been?"

I saw my friends Grover and Nico running towards me, it had been long since I saw them, it feels good to be back here.

I was sitting in my favourite café, Café Half-Blood, I know, weird name for a café.

"Where've been? it's been so long", Grover asked.

"Hmm? Yeah it sure has, by the way I missed you guys too, in case you wondered", I replied.

" Haha, we were getting at that", Nico said, " By the way, I heard you're transferring to our school, that's great news."

"Yeah, I-", I started, "Woah"

I saw three girls walking down to the table right opposite to ours. They were all awfully pretty, but the one that caught my eye was average height, with flowing blond hair and grey eyes. She was beautiful. The way she laughed, everything, everything about her was-

"Yo, Perce? Hello? Earth to Percy, you can snap out of La La Land now", Grover interrupted, snapping his fingers in front of my eyes.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I got a bit distracted", I replied, slurping on my soda.

"Yeah, we can see that-" Nico turned to my line of vision "Woah, no way, Annabeth Chase, seriously dude? She is in no way easy to get, and she already likes a dude."

"So that's her name", I said, ignoring the other half of Nico's statement.

"I told you, she's impossible-"

"Look who you're talking to, ladies swoon over me"

"Yeah well trust me, this one won't"

"We'll just have to see about that", I challenged him.

I was gonna get her, hell, I was gonna get her heart pumping at the mere sight of me.

"Well, aren't we conceited", Grover said, giving a grin.

"More than you think."

I like a good challenge now and then. While I was engulfed in all these thoughts, I barely noticed her looking straight at me.

Annabeth

Oh my God,

The guy was staring at me, even though I like looking straight into his intense sea-green eyes, HE WAS FRIGGING STARING AT ME!

He was a fairly tall guy, with dark hair and sea-green eyes, just like the sea, eyes worth getting lost into .

In all the staring he suddenly shook out of his thoughts and gave me a grin, winking at me causing me to quickly turn my face away, which was now a light shade of red. He was handsome, the kinda guy girls kill over.

Hey snap out of it, Luke is the only one you should like and will like

Wait how? When he doesn't even like me back.

"THIS IS SO….UGH!", I shouted, slamming my fist against the table almost dropping my milkshake, not realizing, until…well, late, that I had said it out loud.

I swore under my breath, my face now the deepest shade of red. All eyes were on me now, as well as the blue-eyed guy, Thalia, Piper and the café owner, Zeus. Thalia and Piper were staring at me wide-eyed, as if I were possessed.

"I'm sorry, continue your….whatever you were doing, I'm a bit cuckoo around here, and yeah", I said ponting to my head, feeling stupidly embarrassed now that I had opened my mouth and said something weirder. In all of the embarrassment, I peeked at the blue-eyed guy, and he was laughing, while wiping his eyes, clearly Exaggerating, it wasn't that funny, was it?

I quietly asked Thalia and Piper if I could leave. After both of them replied, by saying "sure in unison, I got up and reached the door where I accidently pushed the door, which had pulled written on it.

Today's an awfully unlucky day.