Silent Walls

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Annabeth Chase, 16 year old freshman, sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose in frustration. She was currently hunched over her World History book during lunch, trying to study, but the constant chitter-chatter of the cafeteria got on her nerves. On any other day, Annabeth could study through an earthquake if she wanted to, but today she was extra agitated. The most popular and the most annoying junior in the school, Percy Jackson, had stepped over his boundaries.

Everyone at Goode High knew the frustration and tension between the two of them. The start of their problems were rooted in their childhood, third grade to be specific. Anyway, he was being snarky with her in Algebra and being the short tempered she was, Annabeth sort of snapped. She had been trying to work on the warm-up and Percy was pestering her. He liked to use his dyslexia and ADHD as an excuse to get other people to do his work. Most of the time, Annabeth was the target for his hopes of getting a nerd to complete all of his work.

Annabeth just about had enough of that brat, Percy Jackson. He was spoiled in Annabeth's opinion and stupid enough to get trapped in a paper bag. Annabeth scolded herself for letting an idiot like Jackson for getting in the way of hr studies. She wasn't a total nerd, in fact, she was practically popular, but just on the opposite side of popularity from Percy Jackson. Annabeth liked to think that she was the nicer side of popularity.

Back in the cafeteria, Annabeth twirled her ballpoint pen in her hand. When she tried to focus of The Cold War, all she could think about was stabbing Percy Jackson in the neck with her ballpoint pen. She swallowed a lump in her throat, hastily taking a swig of her water bottle. She was glad no one was disturbing her. They must've known she was mad. Rule Number One: Never mess with Annabeth when she's mad.

"Hey Owl-Head," said a sickeningly familiar voice to her right. She just grunted, not looking up from her textbook. "You can't let a stupid jock like Jackson make you angry."

"Oh yeah, Thalia?" Annabeth challenged. Her fist clenched around her ballpoint pen so hard that her knuckles turned white. "He's such an idiot! He thinks he's all that. I mean, yeah, he's the captain of the swimming team, but that doesn't give him the right to be flat out rude to his innocent classmates.

Thalia chuckled. "See what I mean? You're letting this jerk get in your head. Just be the more mature person, and walk away from him and his bad boy nonsense."

"Mature?" asked Annabeth, her mouth agape. She turned to her best friend and scoffed. "What do you know about being mature? You're the one who dumped hamburger grease on Jason for throwing up."

"Hey!" shouted Thalia in protest. "It almost ruined my favorite Green Day shirt. He had it coming to him."

Annabeth scoffed again and rolled her stormy gray eyes. "Whatever." puffed Annabeth grumpily. Thalia chuckled lightly and took a large bite from her delicious red apple.

The blond girl rested her chin on her hand and looked down glumly at her textbook. Her heart sank slightly and she slammed the book shut. In an act of haste, she pushed the book away from her while pouting.

"Don't pout," Jason said teasingly, just appearing and sitting across from Annabeth and Thalia. "It'll give you wrinkles."

Annabeth rolled her eyes at him. Jason was Thalia's younger brother. He was a Freshman, but unlike Jackson and his gang, we didn't mind being seen hanging with freshmen. He had golden blond hair, opposite of his sister's jet black hair. But they shared the same sky blue eyes which shared the same happy twinkle. The little scar above Jason's upper lip twitched whenever he smiled or laughed. Annabeth could vaguely remember Thalia telling her that he had tried eating a stapler when he was a toddler.

"Bugger off, Grace," Annabeth muttered.

Jason's face contorted into confusion. "She's grumpy because of Percy Jackson," Thalia advised. She placed her hand on her brother's back and smirked. "I think she's in love."

"I am NOT in love!" snapped Annabeth, standing up in fury. The ballpoint pen was practically cracking in her hand. "The day I fall in love with Percy Jackson is the day it rains giraffes in a desert."

Thalia raised her hands in surrender. "It was just a suggestion," said Thalia innocently. "But seriously, you let him get on your nerves too much. You both hate each other so you stay out of each other's way. What more can you want?"

Annabeth shrugged slightly. "I guess you're right, but… I mean, when he doesn't avoid me, he is the nuisance of my life. Like a parasite that never goes away. I don't know how anyone can be that rude and idiotic."

Thalia shrugged. "The Gods only know," Thalia muttered. "You never know what's going on in the kelp infested head of his."

Annabeth agreed silently, nodding lightly. She didn't take much note of Thalia using the term 'gods' instead of 'god' because it was kind of their thing. They're clique had been obsessed with Ancient Greek and the Greek Gods. After a while, they just got used to using the term gods instead of god.

The bell rang and shook Annabeth out of her thoughts. She packed up her lunch box and grabbed her book. "See you later, guys," said Annabeth, waving to them as they walked out of the entrance to the cafeteria. Annabeth exited through the far door so she could get to her next class, Biology, faster.

She hurried through the halls, stopping occasionally to say hello to some of her friends. Calypso had tried stopping her to talk, but Annabeth had to sprint away to get away from her. It wasn't that she didn't like Calypso. She was nice and everything, but she never shut up.

Happy to successfully evade Calypso's attack on words, she hurried into her Honors Biology class. She walked in and waved to Mrs. Dabbs.

"Good afternoon, Mrs. Dabbs," said Annabeth warmly.

"Good afternoon," responded Mrs. Dabbs with a warm smile on her face.

Annabeth took her usual seat in the front row of the class. The usually empty seat next to her was empty as usual. She got settled in her seat and pulled out her pen and a black notebook. She waited as more students piled into the classroom. Annabeth let her mind wander, staring blankly at the teacher's desk. She hadn't noticed the bell ringing and Mrs. Dabbs calling attention to the class.

Annabeth could rant day and night about Percy Jackson. The brainless jock only cared about swimming and himself. Nothing about him was pleasing and sensitive in any way. At first, she had a hard time seeing how he got to date Drew. Drew was easily the most popular girl in the entire school. She was absolutely stunning and everyone in the school bowed down to her power. Annabeth had even heard rumors that Percy followed her around like a puppy dog, living in her shadow. But now, she could see why they were meant for each other. Drew was in many ways, out of Percy's leauge, but her poor attitude and her…amazing…ability to overreact gave Percy and her the proper jerk connection. They were both idiots and way in over their big fat heads.

The blond was snapped out of her thoughts when the door swung open and Mrs. Dabbs's lesson was interrupted. An infamous teen stepped in the door, his mischievous green eyes sparkling in satisfaction. He held a purple slip in his hand and Annabeth's stomach knotted up. Percy Jackson had a class change into her class. Anger rolled off of her like a storm, making the entire room humid. Percy handed Mrs. Dabbs the note and she nodded.

"Welcome to my class, Mr. Jackson," said Mrs. Dabbs. "But please do try to show up on time from now on. You can take a seat in any empty seat.

Annabeth's eyes darted to the empty desk next to her. The room's temperature seemed to plummet thirty degrees. Percy nodded and smirked, slowly sauntering to the empty seat next to Annabeth. He sat down and slid his torn, worn-out backpack onto the floor.

They made eye contact for a split second before starting to grumble under their breath. This was going to be a long class.

A/N: Thanks for reading! I was thinking of continuing it, but I didn't have much time. The upcoming chapters with the actual action will be longer, I promise. I'll have the next chapter up by tomorrow most likely, or the day after. But the next chapter will have the actual abduction scene!

Feel free to review and give me any thoughts on this story! I take suggestions for where you want to the story to go or if you want to point something out for me to fix! Thanks again! :)