Oh my gosh! I fell in love with writing this so I hope you guys enjoy!
PERCY POV:
Today was a normal day. I was lying on the couch channel surfing while Nico was playing ping pong with Thalia. The three of us had barely any time like this at the tour. Luckily we finished the tour, and we had a month to relax before any more complications. In the background were Nico shouting at Thalia for shouting and her just denying even though she had a evil grin on her face. We were all relaxing until we heard a door bell ring. We lived alone, only the three of us. Our dad's as our managers/ record label. And our other parents re-mairied. My mum always kept in touch with me but the other two… well they weren't that nice.
"NICO GET IT" Me and Thalia chorused. He let out a huge moan because he was a big lazy butt.
He stood there in shock and didn't say a word. Me and Thalia looked at each other and had a look on our eyes that asked 'what?' The answer we were looking for quickly came when we heard a booming voice
"Morning Son."
"Dad." Nico said in a mocking tone. We weren't fans of our parents. The only reason we started this was to get their attention, until it went to far and now all they care about is fame and fortune. Me and Thalia came running to the door only too see our parents. Zues- Thalia's parent was the head. Poseidon - My dad focused on more about where we would perform. Hades - Nico's dad was more about fortune.
"Dad." I replied with bitterness in my voice
"Dad." Thalia said with even more bitterness and hatred in her voice. She was the one who truly hated her father. Me and Nico were 'okay' per say, with them.
"Look, Im going to make this fast-" Zues started
"Because he is scared of his own daughter." Hades finished of making Zues give him a cold glare. But not as cold as Thalia's if looks could kill, Zues would have dropped down dead 10 seconds ago.
"Anyways, You are going to attend 'Goode High' A Performing Arts School. Kids that are talented like you guys would be there." Poseidon said.
"Why?" We all said in unison with our face shocked. We couldn't say much, we were to shocked.
"Law," Zues took a deep breath after staring into Thalia's eyes for too long "Anyone below 20 have to attend school"
"What happened to ?" She was owr tutor who followed us on the road.
"She quit. After all the pranks you have pulled-" Hades said
"Oh yeah? Say 1"
"Okay, When you locked her in the buss for a week. While we were all at the hotel."
"So? Name another" I dared them
"When you publicly had a water gun and you guys," Poseidon said pointing towards us "Decided to make her target." He was right. We loved pranking her, she just to gullible.
"So when will we go to the hell hole?" Thalia asked with anger in her voice.
"Tomorrow."
"WHAT!?" We screamed. They were still outside, we didn't want them to come in and place their germs everywhere.
"Yes. Law. Thalia, you have a friend there, an old friend, Annabeth"
Thalia suddenly lightened up but not completely, so she was still scaring all of us.
"Thalia I suspect you to behave" Zues said making it sound like Thalia was a dog. All of a sudden, Thalia's anger cam flooding back but this time with more.
"Don't make that face with me. You will not glare at your father."
"Yes, father." She said glaring even more sending daggers at him. She growled like a cat the made sounds come out of her throught.
"Before I forget, you will open up with a performance, Like every new kid/band. So don't you go thinking that you will be the only popular ones" That was a relief, If i were to go to school, I don't want all the attention on me.
"Well, I think you have done enough. Goodbye." Nico said instantly shutting the door.
"That was a nightmare." I said.
Thalia didn't look away from the door and punched a whole in a wall leaving her hand spotless.
"Uh… Thals?" Nico said and she shot a glare at him. He slowly backed away going to me.
"What happened to her?"
"Honestly, Its your problem now."
Thalia glared at the both of us with her hand still in the wall. Me and Nico took a run for it and ran with Thalia on our trail. Oh damn, Thalia was scary alright. We were fast runners, because of the fans chasing us but I guess that will all change as we go to this so called 'Goode, Performing Arts School' I rolled my eyes at that.
"AND PLEASE GIVE APPLAUSE FOR THE NEWEST BAND TO BE JOINING THIS SCHOOL: THE GOLDEN 3!" When the curtains opened I guess our fathers lied, They were more crazy then an actual concert. I had been looking at videos of people performing at the school on youtube, and none of them had people standing clapping and jumping. I ignored that fact and started to play the base and took the mic. Thalia was the singer, dancer. Nico the drummer boy and sometimes singer but since we didn't really need a drummer he used a launch pad. (A/N you might want to search it up if you don't know it, its pretty cool). it does the high pitched ringing on this song) Depends on his mood really, never understood that boy.
"GOOD MORNING! SO GLAD WE COULD LEARN HERE! THIS IS ONE OF OUR NEW SONGS: ONCE IN A WHILE! HOPE YOU GUYS ENJOY!" Thalia said.
ONCE IN A WHILE - TIME FLIES
NICO - BOLD ITALICS
THALIA - BOLD
PERCY - ITALICS
ALL - UNDERLINE
The start was Nico using the launchpad that slowly faded into me with him still there but with a different octive.
I started strumming the chords then Thalia walked up onto the mic and started singing
I thought I would know better
That's wishful thinking
Thought there'd be no pressure
Thalia placed her hands on the mic stand drumming her fingers onto the mic stand
That's wishful drinking
Is anything forever, or just a feeling?
What have I been so afraid of?
I don't know
I went up to the second mic with my guitar and started the mini-rap still strumming tilting my head as I sang
From Brooklyn to New York, then off to the West
In Cali, no Khaled, but hey, we the best
My stripes, stay American, let me express
And I keep it as live as a Total Request
And they ask me these questions
Like, "How do you do it?
Press and the road and the music"
Truth is, I'm always up, I'm always down
Worry 'bout everyone else
But once in a while, I catch myself,
Thalia stopped mid position with her head tilted high with her mic at the very edge of the stage.
Once in a while, I ask myself,
What am I doing?
Thalia went back to her mic and took the mic of the stand while Nico was at the the side doing some sick beats
Once in a while, I need your help
But once in a while I feel like
I just wanna dance
Nico started the launchpad again and hopped around the table while Thalia did a black flip onto a long table behind us, so she was taller than me and Nico. Everyone payed attention to her as she was singing while I just strummed next to Nico.
I feel good,
everytime Thalia said that it was an echo so she stomp her feet with her pitch black boots on the floor matching the rhythm while her other hand had the mic.
I feel good
I feel good,
I feel good
Nico faded out as he took the mic this time.
I live life like my blood type, B positive
These days, something got me feeling quite the opposite
Music like my heroin, but I all I hear is poppy shit
Time to get up off of it and watch somebody copy it
I'm West bound down and out
Feeling fake now like somebody found me out
Need to slow down, I'm browning out
So many thoughts, let me drown 'em out
Yeah, I thought I would know better
That's wishful thinking
Thought there'd be no pressure
Thalia jumped off the table and went back to the crowd clapping their hands.
That's wishful drinking
Is anything forever,
Thalia started to dance with her hands up and tapping her feet to the beat causing her to smile with Nico
or just a feeling?
What have I been so afraid of?
I don't know
Thalia stopped and brought her hand with her mic close to her, she stared at the crowd with seriousness
But once in a while, I catch myself
Once in a while, I ask myself
She said walking towards the front
What am I doing?
Once in a while, I need your help
Nico got back to the launchpad by sliding across the room with his left hand out like he was doing the slide.
But once in a while I feel like
I just wanna dance
I feel good,
Nico started the launchpad again jumping overtime he hit the button. I was walking around the stage and I could hear 'I love you Percy!' 'Percy your so hot!' 'Percy Date me?' or 'Nico you rock!' or 'Thalia you go girl! Show 'em!' Apparently I was the hot dude out of the group. Nico was the chill and Thalia was the rocker. But I never liked to put us in catagories, it didn't seem right, we were all equals. Thalia then started jumping around with her tippy toes crossing her legs and arching her back down wherever she sang to give it a more dramatic effect.
I feel good
I feel good,
I feel good
I've been looking at where we're going
There's no slowing down to go back
And thinking of where we've been
No one's ever been given a road map
Say, "slow down, turn here, graduate and work here
Come and get a raise when you finish up your first year"
I quickly took the mic of the stand and threw it over at Nico who caught it mid no-hand cartwheel which made the crowd go even more crazy
No, if you're doing it, you're doing it right
Keep it moving, now, tell me what you're doing tonight
Cause sometimes we're up, sometimes we're down
Don't worry about anyone else
All:
I stopped playing the guitar, slung it on my back, and Nico stopped the launchpad. It was just the audience clapping that kept our rhythm,
But once in a while, I catch myself
Once in a while, I ask myself
What am I doing?
Once in a while, I need your help
But once in a while I feel like
I just wanna dance
I feel good,
That is when the beat dropped and we started playing again and Nico was busting out some moves doing back flips and dancing with Thalia while I was playing. Nico stopped dancing with Thalia and walked over to me and leaned his back towards mine as I played the guitar. Thalia continued to sing while me and Nico were just leaning against each other.
I feel good
I feel good, I feel good
We faded out and the crowd went wild! The curtains closed again as we set everything up back to their places.
"WOO!" Nico shouted getting hyped
"Calm down, now we have school!" Thalia groaned at this.
"I don't get it, didn't they say we weren't popular compared to other people?" I asked
"What a shocker, our parents lied" Thalia grumbled we all laughed and got out and bowed to everyone.
"THANK YOU, NOW PLEASE HEAD OUT CALMLY TO PERIOD ONE." The teacher screamed into the mic.
"Take the shades" Thalia threw me and Nico a pair and we just shrugged and wore them. Never mess with Thalia, so we just kept quite.
We walked out of the stage and once the door opened the halls were filled with kids. At first I thought they were running to their classes, until, they came running straight to us, with posters.
"RUN!" We all said in unison. We ran as fast as we could. Thalia grabbed me and Nico by the wrist and pulled us into an empty classroom that had nothing in. Just looked like a Drama classroom filled with props and what-nots.
"I hate school" I said panting. I really do.
"We haven't even started!" Thalia shouted
"What do we have?"
"First period, we all have together, Music." We all sighed, because this was a Performing Arts school we had english, maths and science then with all these arts things.
"So… Im going to get some hotties-" Nico started walking out.
"Nu-uh" Thalia pulled him by the sleeve lightly punching him on the arm
"Why?" He whined like a little baby. I laughed and Thalia shot a glare at me. I seriously had to control.
"People are out there, wait until the crown dies down then, we will leave, Got it emo?" Thalia said
"I AM NOT EMO!"
I patted his back "sure buddy"
"Just because I wear all black, barely have any emotions-"
"Point proven" I said shaking my head.
"C'mon guys were cousins, we can go through this! If we survived our parents and our step's we can do it" We all agreed
"At three.." We all put our hands in the middle and counted down "One.."
"Two.." Thalia said
"THREE!" Nico shouted
"The Golder 3!" We screamed at the top of our lungs pulling our hands up.
"Great. Now to face the wrath of high school"
"I heard this place is tartarus" Nico said
"Really? I heard the teachers were monsters in disguise" I said not judging him. I really hope they are wong. I mean can you believe if a giant eagle came flying at us? Creepy. Nico is weird. Thats what makes us family. I am really scared now, what if everyone hates me? Just have to keep calm. Breathe in breathe out.
"You guys are unbelievable." Thalia face palmed herself because of our childish ways. CANT BLAME US!
We walked into the classroom that had all eyes on us as we walked in. The girls druled over me, which I find disturbing, I don't really like attention that much, especially by girls who think I am famous just because I'm good looking and not because of talent. I looked over at this one girl who had her earphones on and reading a book. She seemed like she didn't care that much so I sat next to her. Thalia sat behind me next to Clairesse La Rue and Piper McLean who were total opposites. On my right was Jason Grace, But not related to Thalia. And Nico, bring emo, sat in the corner with this person called Leo next to him who kept on talking about pranks.
She looked up at me maybe because she felt something blocking the light or something, i dunno I'm not smart okay?
"Hey" She said smiling at me. Huh she has a different reaction to everyone else. Usually they would shout OMG but apparently not.
"Hey." I said smiling back
"Percy Jackson right?"
"Yea, You?"
"Annabeth Chase" As she tucked a piece of her blonde princes curls I could see her stormy grey eyes that held so much emotion. She looked back down concentrating more on her book.
"Hello class, I will be your teacher for this year." Some guy who looked like he was in his 30's said. "I am Apollo." He said smiling at everyone. "Now, let me just read the names and I want you to sing back here.
"Percy Jackson?"
"Annabeth Chase?"
"Thalia Grace?"
For some reason Annabeth and Thalia snapped looks at each other like they were long lost friends
"Focus girls."
"Sorry" They said laughing. I haven't seen Thalia smile this much since she broke her dad's leg!
"Clairies La' Rue?"
"Chris Rodriguez?"
"Piper McLean?"
"Jason Grace?"
"Leo Valdez?"
"Nico Di' Angelo?"
"Allison Ruque?"
"Connor Stoll?"
"Travis Stoll?"
"Katie Gardener?"
"Great that is everyone, Welcome to advanced Music!" We all clapped and cheered.
"Now, as you may all know, 2 weeks from now will be the opening show for our school," He went to the board and wrote down key words he say saying "Each music class would be against each other to perform. As with the Drama, Arts and so on, but that we don't need to worry about. Every start of the year we start with a big BANG! So as a team, everyone will have to figure out Lighting, Singing, Musical Instruments, The Song, Dancers and all. As long as one of you does something, I will have to approve, sadly, I can't help as it is against the rules. But as we have professionals 'The Golden 3' here," We waved at them and they all smiled back "We might have a chance of winning! Now, Start!"
Everyone started speaking at the same time i swear I heard our teacher face palm from across the room. Me Thalia and Nico and looked at each other because actually knew how to work as a team. So Thalia did a huge whistle to shut everyone up.
"Great!" She smiled happily
"I want the song to be from Imagine Dragons-"
"Ew no! That was so last year!" And it started to become a mess again. Thalia rolled her eyes and stood up on the chair.
"EVERYONE SHUT UP!" She shouted. The teacher mouthed a 'thank you' towards us and we just nodded.
"RIGHT! HANDS UP IF YOU WANT LIGHTING AND GADGET STUFF WITH ALL THE BACKGROUND?" Thalia shouted.
Instantly the 2 Stolls lifted their hands up along with Leo, Chris and Jason
"THANK YOU! NOW, WHO WANTS TO DANCE?" I shouted standing on a table
Annabeth (god she's pretty), Katie and Clairise raised their hands
"WELL DONE, YOU ALL KNOW HOW TO RAISE YOUR HANDS, NOW WHO WANTS TO THE COSTUMES AND WHAT NOT?" Nico shouted.
Piper and Allison's hand shot up
"GREAT THAT LEAVES THE THREE OF US TO SING, THANK YOU FOR YOUR GODDAMN CO-OPERATION! THAT WASN'T THAT HARD WAS IT NOW?" Me and Thalia shouted
All of the sudden the bell rang.
The whole music class came up to us and we started talking about plans when to meet. We came to an agreement "Me, Thals and Nico's house today at 5 sleepover. Final" Everyone agreed and as Me Thalia and Nico walked out the clasroom we were greeted by fan girls and Thalia took our wrists again and dropped us off ant English. Great. This will be an amazing first day of school, hopefully the fan girls would get tired of chasing us this year. At least I got Annabeth Chase partnered up with me so I had.. Someone.
While we were at English we came to an agreement that she would ride with me in black-jack because no one could send her to the house while her car was at the shops. Thals and Nico have thier own car so I agreed, wanting to know about her a bit more.
