Chp 1
Percy's POV

I sighed as I tried to walk to my class. "Hey, you have a good weekend?" Leo asked, joining me as we walked towards home room. "Great." I said. "Well mine was amazing. I rigged this engine up and I got it to work!" He said, jumping excitedly. Despite us both having ADHD, his was much worse.

We finally got to home room early and took our usual seat in the back, Frank and I sitting in two seats next to each other in the back row and Leo and Jason in the two seats in the row in front of ours. Jason and Leo turned in their seats to face us. "So did you hear, there's a new girl." Leo said, grinning. "Heard she's hot." He said, winking.

We all chuckled. "You think everyone's hot." Frank muttered, getting his books out. "I'm sorry, I never knew you and Hazel were dating so I never would have said it in front of you." Leo said, a cheeky grin in his face.

The first few periods went by quickly. "Percy." Paul, my step dad and my English teacher, called me to the front of class. I got up and went to him. "Can you maybe drop this off at the principals office and then you can go to lunch early as there is only a few minutes left." He whispered.

I nodded and grabbed my bags. He gave me a file and I left the class. I went to the principals office, but the secretary wasn't there. So I just knocked on his door and waited till he said I could come in. "Ah, what did you do now Mr Jackson?" He asked. I chuckled. "I'm dropping something off for Mr Blowfis." I said, handing him the file. He excused me and I went to my locker. It was on the corner of a hallway.

I was opening it when I hit someone. I closed it and said, "I'm so sorry." She looked up at me and I was blown away. She had blonde princess curls, flawless skin, a pretty face and stunning grey eyes. "It's my fault, I guess I should watch where I'm going." She said. I chuckled. "You okay?" I asked, I moved her hand away with mine. I checked the side of her face. It was fine, just a little red from where it had been hit.

I moved my eyes to hers, finding she had been watching my face. "I'm Percy Jackson." I said. She shook my hand. "Annabeth Chase." She said. "Are you new? I haven't seen you around before." I said. She smiled. "Yeah, I'm the new girl." She said. I looked back to the side of her face. "Again, I'm sorry. We can go to the nurse if you want." I said. She just chuckled. "I'm fine, plus it might look like you hit a girl." She said.

I chuckled. "Well let me make it up to you by taking you to Starbucks. We can get some coffee and chat." I suggested. She smiled. "Thanks but I've been invited to have lunch with a few girls I met. They want to get to know me as they just had time to show me to my locker and my homeroom before they had to get to their homeroom." She said. I chuckled and nodded. "Well maybe another time." I said. She smiled and said, "Maybe. It was lovely to meet you." She said, then walked passed me and down the hall to the outside seating area.

The bell rang for lunch and I continued to get my books and stuff for my classes after lunch. I got stuck in hallway traffic but quickly made it out. I went to my usual table where all my friends and I usually sit and saw they were all there. I stopped when I saw Annabeth sitting there too. "Hi, again." I said, chuckling and sitting down in the middle of the bench (My normal spot) across from Annabeth.

"You two know each other?" Hazel asked, smiling. "Briefly." Annabeth said, sending me a smile and looking down at her lunch and deciding what to eat. "I might have possibly slammed my locker door into the side of her face." I said, answering my friends questioning smirks. "Percy! That isn't a very nice 'welcome to Goode' welcome." Piper said, turning to Annabeth and examining the side of her face.

"I'm fine Piper, he just exaggerates. Makes it sound like he intended to hit me." She said, chuckling. "Anyway, so back to questioning you. So you moved from San Francisco, why?" Hazel asked. She hesitated a bit. "I don't have the best relationship with my dad and his new wife seems to be trying so hard to make me like her, I just had to get away from all that." She said, shrugging.

Piper sighed. "Family problems, I got them too. My dad is always busy and my mom is always away." She said. Leo laughed. "You make it sound like a tragedy, Beauty queen. I'm an orphan and I'm freaking happy." Leo said, grinning his mad man smile. "Oh gosh, now you made me feel insensitive. I'm sorry." Annabeth said, biting her lip. For some reason, it made my stomach twist in knots.

Leo waved it off. "It's cool." He said. "So, back to questions. You have a special someone back home?" Piper asked. "Pipes." Jason said, as Piper was getting into the personal stuff now. Annabeth laughed. "It's fine. And no, I don't." She said. "Surely the beautiful Annabeth Chase has some guy wanting her back home." Hazel said, nudging her.

She chuckled. "No. I broke up with a guy a few months ago though. Otherwise, nothing." She said. My phone beeped and I checked it. The message was from one of the guys from my swim team. He said we were having practice after school. "Sorry guys, I can't come to lunch. Swimming." I said, putting my phone down. They sighed. "You and water." Leo muttered, making me smile.

"You swim?" Annabeth asked. "Yeah, he's the captain of the guys first team. You should see all his trophies!" Leo said, excitedly. We all laughed. "What sports do you do?" I asked. She shrugged. "A bit of volleyball, and running." She said. We all chatted a bit then the bell rang for classes to start again. I gave them a wave before running off to Marine biology.