"Percy Jackson! Have you suddenly gained the ability to learn when you sleep?!"■ A loud, obnoxious voice interrupted the wonderful nap I'd been having. I groaned, sleepily rubbing my sea-green eyes. I looked up to see the teacher glaring at me, and I smiled weakly.
"yes". I said automatically, and the class roared with laughter. The teacher turned in interesting prune color, in my opinion, and stormed off, muttering about insolent boys.
I shrugged, not really phased, school was no big deal anyways, get my drift? Not when you've got big plans like me. I adjusted my blue headphones and almost immediately went back too sleep.
Yeah, I'm Percy Jackson. You've probably heard of me. You haven't? Well, that's beside the point. I'm pretty much your everyday, average fifteen-year-old half-blood. My friends are grover, Nico, and Thalia. I really like green day, and think the person who invented school should be given a slow death.
I'm normally a nice guy, but school? Come on, all it is a big torture chamber. I've got a twin brother, Odis, although technically he must be older then me, because he's the one inheriting our fathers huge estate.
I know this is the part were I'm supposed to admit I have evil thoughts of trying to murder Odis and take over and all that crap, but seriously, I'm cool with everything. Well, almost everything, but that's a different story.
Frankly, I'm rather glad Odis's getting the estate. This way, I can just freeload off my brother and not have to do any work. I'm a big fan of not doing any work.
By now you've probably realized I'm a dork and an idiot, and are planning to go to some other crappy fanfic that has me portrayed as a superhero or whatever. But I have my flaws, and I'm not afraid to admit it.
Like maybe the fact that Annabeth Chase is gorgeous and I've been crushing on her forever. Since third grade if my calculations are correct.
Well, I've said it. Happy now? I like Annabeth, the most popular and cute girl in tenth grade. No, not cute, bea-U-tiful. Ok, that was gay, but whatever. You may think I'm crazy; for one thing, she most likely doesn't even now my name, for another, Annabeth can be dangerous.
But I know, somewhere very, very deep, deep down inside that cold heart, Annabeth finds it in her to cuddle fuzzy animals and care about slackers like myself. Very deep. Of course, also the fact that my brother just happens to be dating her right now doesn't help, but I'm sure it'll all work out, eventually.
"BRRRRRRRING!" The bell's strident cry jerked me from my sleep, and I slowly forced myself up, not even I could avoid the call of lunch.
"Hey there little brother,(Came a cheerful voice) How's it going?" I looked up to see my brother Odis grinning at me, dark eyes full of good humor. I slowly swallowed my noodles, and glanced at him.
"I'm not younger then you," I finally spoke up. "We're twins". Odis shrugged carelessly, looking slightly annoyed.
"Whatever". He said distantly, already beginning to move away.
"Odis! Will you hurry up?!" A harsh voice demanded, and I choked on my food. There stood Annabeth, in all her terrifying glory, glaring at Odis with narrowed, pale grey eyes. Did I ever mention that Annabeth's gorgeous?
Grover gave me a sympathetic look, while Thalia seemed slightly sad for some reason.
"Tough luck mate, chances are the likes of us will never get to hear someone like her talk to us. Unless it's to give her a tissue." Grover told me, and I couldn't help but grin at him. Nico shrugged in my direction.
"Look on the bright side, Percy. At least you don't have the education of a 6th grader, who's only in this school because He hacked the school's central network." Nico pointed out, and I conceded to this point. Thalia spoke hesitantly.
"Maybe...maybe Annabeth's not the right person. Maybe you really like some one else." She suggested, and I cocked my head at her. Thalia and I had grown up together, but lately she'd been acting funny, and it made me nervous for some reason.
"Mmmhmmm, maybe". I told her, unconvinced, and Thalia looked slightly crestfallen. Grover grinned at me.
"Come on Percy, let's go get seconds". He said, standing up. I followed obediently and while we walked, Grover gave me a serious look.
"Be careful around Thalia man, I think she's in one of those weird, delicate stages women go through." Grover told me, and I winced.
"We're not having another sex talk, right?" I asked, and someone made a gagging noise behind me. We both turned to see Luke Castellan, who'd, in his surprise, spilled milk all over his shirt (note: Luke is the same age as percy in this). he glared at Grover.
"What's your problem!? You should be a bit more careful!" Luke demanded, and Grover smirked.
"What's wrong, you mad that Percy said-"He faltered, then blushed. I gave them both a weird look. Luke smirked, looking pleased.
"What's wrong? Cat got your tongue?" Luke said bitingly, and I felt a flicker of annoyance. Last year, the two had been enemies, and had what could only be described as a war. Grover and all us geeks against Luke and all the rest, while Odis and Annabeth watched and laughed.
I really didn't want to be dragged into Grover's little vendetta, and decided to put a stop before it all started.
"You two Ok? If you're going to flirt, I want no part of it." I said impatiently, and Luke spilled more milk, while Grover looked dumbstruck.
"Hahaha, my little brothers all grown up," Came a voice, and I saw my brother, grinning broadly. "Come on Luke, let's go." Odis said, and Luke shot us both vehement looks. Grover punched the air, looking mutinous.
"I'm not taking any crap from that bastard this year," He snarled. "And I mean it, Luke's going down."
"He's not that bad, Guy, in fact, he can be quite caring once you get to know him." The voice was of a higher register, and we both saw Grover's ex, Juniper. She was actually two years younger then our lot, but was smart enough to skip ahead. Popular and pretty, it was hard to think the two were dating.
Grover scowled at Juniper, looking annoyed.
"How can you back him up?!" He exclaimed. "He's a spoiled rich brat!" Grover caught my expression and hurriedly revised what he'd said.
"Not that there's anything wrong with spoiled rich brats." He told me, and I smiled wryly.
"Thanks man." I said dryly, and Grover, not catching the sarcasm, waved his hand.
"Not a problem." He said airily, but Juniper gave me a strange look.
"Is something wrong?" I asked, and she shook her head.
"No, just a dumb thought." She said, then began to talk very fast and heatedly with her brother in this made up dialect.
I wasn't very good at their language, so I didn't bother listening, and went back before realizing I'd forgotten my second helping.
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I jumped off the bus and raced down the street to our mansion of a house. I breathed in a lungful of freedom.
"Ahhhh, such a nice day!" I exclaimed happily.
"You're so carefree, Percy. Part of me wants to cry, while the other feels rather jealous." he addmited, and I blinked, touched.
"Finally!" I said as we arrived to my favorite spot, a little hill with one large shady tree, perfect for cloud gazing, napping, and listening to music.
I flopped down majestically, while I pushed on my headphones. I stared at the clouds for awhile, then dozed off.
I didn't realized it'd be awhile before I could sleep peacefully like this again.