"Somebody once told me the world…"
I groaned as I turned off my alarm clock. Today is my first day in Goode! As an Athena child, I'm always excited about going to school, but this time I'm mostly excited because I'm going to the same school as my boyfriend. Percy Jackson. Whenever I hear his name my stomach starts to have this indescribable feeling. My heart starts racing faster. He doesn't know that I transferred to Goode, he also doesn't know that I'm going to be staying with him for the rest of the school year. This is going to be good.
After I finished getting ready I started walking to school. My hotel was only about 10 minutes away from the high school. As I was walking, I felt someone following me. I was watching my surroundings carefully, 'don't be a monster' I thought to myself, 'I don't have time to deal with them'. Suddenly someone jumped on my back and I automatically grabbed them and flipped them over.
"OW. Is this how you greet your best friend?!"
"oh my gods, I thought you were an attacker! THALIA GRACE. What in the Hades are you doing here?"
"well!" Thalia said as she was getting up, "Artemis wanted me to spend some times with you and everyone else before you guys get old…and you know". I do know. Thalia was immortal. While we're aging and soon will die, Thalia would still be the same 15 year old girl she was 2 years ago. The thought of not being able to grow up with her made me sad. I hugged her and asked "are you attending Goode?"
"sadly yes" she sighed "the things I do for you Annie"
"don't call me Annie!"
Thalia just smiled at me and dragged me to the school. We went to the attendance office and got our schedule and locker number. Surprisingly our lockers were near each other and we had all classes but one together. We had about 10 minutes to spare so we decided to go to our lockers then look around. In the hallways a lot of people were staring at us and whispering. 'Great' I thought 'mortals these days'. A red-headed girl was walking our way, she reminded me a little bit of Rahcel. Rachel was our oracle and a very good friend, although I hated her in the beginning because I was jealous… she's pretty okay once you get to know her.
"Hi! My name is Abigail, but my friends call me Abby" said the red head girls
"oh hi, I'm Annabeth and this is Thalia" I said gesturing to Thalia, she simply just stared at Abby.
"you guys are new right? Do you want me to show you around?"
"umm sure" I said.
Abby took our schedules and looked at it for a bit and smile "strange, you have all, but one class with one of my friend and Thalia has all of her classes with him. We all have 3 classes together". I was wondering who her friend was, but I didn't want to ask.
"come on, class is about to start. I'll introduce you to my friends" Abby said.
We made our way to our first period which was English. 'Joy. I start off the day with my least favorite subject'. It turns out Percy's step-dad was our English teacher. I've only met him once, but he seemed pretty nice. As we walked in, he looked at us as if we looked familiar.
"Mr. Blofis, these two girls are new" Abby said
"oh right, I heard we were getting new students. Hi I'm Mr. Blofis, I'll be your English teacher this year" he said. He seemed really nice, I can see why Sally loved him.
"hi Mr. Blofis, I'm Annabeth Chase and this is Thalia Grace" I said
"do I know you from somewhere? You both seem very familiar"
"we're friends of Percy, well Thlia is technically his cousin" I said
"oh! I understand. Alright, well take your seats in the back next to Abby" he smiled
"you guys know Percy Jackson?" Abby asked
"yup" I said popping the 'p'
Speak of the devil and he shall appear. Percy walked in with one of his friends. They were smiling and talking. My heart started beating faster, I felt like it was going to come out. I pressed my finger to my lip gesturing Abby to not say anything as Thalia and I put our heads down to hide ourselves. Percy made his way to the seat in front of me and sat down. He didn't notice me.
"Hey Abby!" he said. His voice. Oh how I missed his voice.
"hey Perce! Hey Eric" Abby greeted and although I couldn't see her face, I had a feeling she was blushing when she said Eric's name.
"hey..Abby!" Eric stutters.
I took a peek to see if Percy was still turned around. Now he was facing the board talking to Eric who sat in front of him. I raised my head and then raised my hands and covered his eyes. I leaned in and whisper "guess who, Seaweed Brain"
Percy turned around so fast that it surprised me. The look on his face made my heart melt. He looked as if he was in a dream. "W…Wise G…Girl?!" he jumped up and picked me up and hugged me. He leaned in and kissed me. The world could end and I couldn't have cared. Just then, Mr. Blofis cleared his throat giving us a look, but it was an amused look. Abby and Eric stared at us with a confused expression. Class started, but Percy kept whispering to me.
"what are you doing here, Wise Girl?"
"what? I can't transfer to my boyfriend's school?"
"of course you can! But why didn't you tell me?!"
"then it wouldn't have been a surprise, Seaweed Brain" I teased, "oh there's also someone here that I bet you'd love to see"
Percy looked confused, "who?"
As if on cue Thalia raised and said "what's up Kelp Head? Missed me?!"
"oh my gods! THALIA!" Percy's sudden outburst caused Mr. Blofis to stop his lecture and the whole class was staring at us.
"sorry" Percy said, smiling sheepishly
"Mr. Jackson. Since you are clearly paying attention, would you like to tell us the story of Odysseus? Since that's going to be the first story we're covering" Mr. Blofis said, although I can see in his eyes that he was just teasing Percy. Percy already knew everything there is to know about Greek mythologies, we even lived some ourselves. Percy just smiled and started talking about it. I started tuning out because I've read the story many times before. When Percy was done, he smiled with pride and sat down. Then the bell rang and we all walked out together.
"can someone please explain to me what is going on?" Eric asked
"oh sorry! This is my cousin, Thalia and this is my girlfriend, Annabeth" Percy said. I couldn't help, but smile when he said 'girlfriend'
"you're Annabeth?! As in the Annabeth Chase? The Annabeth that has the very same beauty as Aphrodite herself? The Annabeth is looks like a Goddess?" Eric looked in disbelief
"uh…what?" I stared at Percy
He gave me one of his famous smile. That trouble maker smile that I fell in love with.
"so you're the Annabeth Percy goes on and on about everyday. We were starting to think you weren't real" Abby said.
I just laughed and playfully punch Percy, "you talk about me?"
"of course, Wise Girl!"
"I'm starting to feel ignored here, so I'm going to go class without you guys" Thalia said and started walking off.
"wait Thals!" I said and ran after her. Percy and Abby caught up with us, Eric had a different class. The rest of the classes went by pretty fast. The math teacher was young and pretty, the guys couldn't keep their eyes off of her or their mouth open. "Boys" Thalia would grumble from time to time. Science was boring, our teacher lectured about how water boil throughout the whole period. Then we had Greek, it was no surprise that that was my favorite class. We made our way to the cafeteria and Percy told us to follow him to their table. There were about 4 people sitting there already, they all greeted Percy, Abby, and Eric. Then they looked at us.
" Annabeth, Thalia, these are my friends. This is Alex" Alex had blond hair and blue eyes. He was very well built, he looked like a swimmer or a football player. "this is Kevin" Kevin had black hair and had glasses. I'm not very well at describing guys because they don't really catch my eyes. Percy is the only one I can describe all day long. "this is Stacey, and next to her is Lily, Alex's girlfriend". Both girls are really pretty, I felt a little jealous that Percy hangs around them. I pushed those thoughts out 'Percy wouldn't leave me'.
"guys, this is my cousin, Thlia, and this is my girlfriend, Annabeth" Percy said
I don't know if it was my imagination, but I could have sworn I saw a flash of shock and sadness in Stacey's eyes, but they quickly went away. We said hi and sat down and started eating lunch.
"so Annabeth, how did you and Percy meet?" asked Lily
"We met when we were 12 at this summer camp we go to" I answered
"When did you guys get together?" Stacey said. I felt a little uncomfortable at how Stacey asked that.
" they got together almost a year. Although they have been in love with each other for about 5 years now" Thalia said smirking
"do you always have to add the last part?" Percy groaned. I just laughed, but I can feel myself turning red.
"five years?!" Alex said
"they were very oblivious. The whole camp knew that they were going to end up together, but we never expected them to take 5 years" Thalia said smirking and shooting us a glare.
"Thaliaaaaaaaaaa" Percy groaned again. This time the whole table laughs.
"what's so funny?" a voice asked. Everyone, but Thalia and I, groaned.
"what do you want Christina?" Percy asked
"simple. I want you." Christina said
"excuse me?" I said glaring at her
"do I know you? why are you talking to me?" she looked at me with disgust
"I'm-" I started
"she's my girlfriend, Christina" Percy said, putting his arms around me
"what?!" she screeched, "this thing is your girlfriend? Why? Why her, when you can have me! She's nothing, but a blond bimbo"
That does it. I stood up and slapped her. "don't you dare insult me. Have you looked at yourself lately?!" I looked at her with disgust. She raised her hand ready to slap me, but someone grabbed her hand.
"don't you dare touch her." Said a familiar voice.
