A/N: this is purely fiction and not in anyway affiliated with the original book series by Rick Riordan.
What a fantastic day. Percy reluctantly walked into his last class for the day, Chemistry. Sitting down somewhere at the back, he started doodling in his book. Not really, paying attention, he had not noticed his teacher walk into the room or someone sit next to him.
"Jackson, would you like to repeat to me what I just said or do you want to get your ass and go not pay attention in someone else's class?" the teacher, known as Mr. D, yelled.
The silent class had now erupted into fits of laughter at Percy's humiliation.
"Quiet down!" the teacher tried to yell over the laughter and chatter.
Giving up, he turned back to the white board and started writing down student's names before mumbling something about ungrateful kids and coca cola.
"Okay brats, the delinquent who's sitting next to you is your chemistry partner for the semester," the teacher said, quickly adding on more names to the board.
Percy really did not mind as his partner had always been Annabeth, but seeing as he and his girlfriend had gotten into a big fight today, he was stuck with Nico. The Nico Di Angelo, or commonly known as the scariest person in school. They had been kind of friends before; they had gone to the same summer camp. That's where they all met. However, that was in middle school and this was high school, the two barely even looked at each other. However, they were Chemistry partners.
"I don't care what you come up with, it's got to reach my standards not yours, Valdez," Mr. D said, interrupting the class as they spoke about their social lives rather than their actual schoolwork.
"So uhm, you want to you, know uhm, do something like…" Nico rambled on.
"It's fine, just come to my house after school," Percy spoke calmly.
"But don't you have swim practice? You know, with that big tournament coming on in a few weeks…" Nico's voice was soft, as if he really did not want to talk.
"I'm skipping it," Percy said flatly, staring at the front.
Not saying another word, the two boys sat and watched as their classmate, Leo Valdez, spat spitballs at their teacher and then got sent to the principal's office. The bell rang, signaling the end of the day. Kids rushed towards the door as they tried to escape from school, having much better things to do. Percy hung his head low as he exited the class, noticing that Nico had already gone without him, though he would probably be at his house in an hour or two.
"Hey, Jackson, wait up," a voice called up behind him.
Turning around, he watched as his best friend, Jason Grace, ran towards him.
"Man where have you been? You haven't been texting me back or answering my calls…Is it Annabeth again?" Jason asked worried.
"I don't want to talk about it," Percy said, pushing his hands into his jeans pockets.
Walking out of the school's entrance doors, Percy saw a black car pull up. He saw Nico climbing into the car. He could see the outline of a girl, probably his sister, as she tried to open the door for him.
"How was your day?" She asked him, "Okay, well, are you at least going to tell me what happened this time? Okay, no, fine"
He slammed his door shut as his sister started the car, ranting about how he never opens up to anyone and how we will not get any better if he doesn't.
"Weird, I mean Nico not Bianca. He's a good kid, he's just weird, don't you think?" Jason said as they watched the car drive out of sight from the school.
"Kid's just got some problems, Jason, give him a break. I mean after his dad leaving them after he was born, his mom died and his sister just recovering from a failed suicide attempt" Percy spoke, walking towards his car, "Well, are you coming or not?"
Jason looked dazed, but he snapped out of it as he climbed into Percy's car.
Dropping Jason off, he parked his car in his driveway. Seeing that the house lights were on, he got out of the car only to hear yelling and a loud crash.
"So this is what I get? Disrespect after I take in your filthy son and you?" A slurred yell came from somewhere in the house.
"G-Gabe please, don't do this," A woman cried out.
His eyes widening in shock, he ran towards the sound of the voices. He saw his mother on one side of the island in his kitchen and Gabe, his mother's ass of a boyfriend, on the other.
"Sally, you said you'd put him, that free loading bastard in military school. What happened to that?" he yelled a bottle of alcohol in his right hand and his left hand balled into a fist.
Gabe went to the side of the island, trying to get closer to Sally.
"Don't you dare go anywhere closer to my mom, Gabe," Percy yelled, approaching Gabe.
"You know what? I'm leaving, to hell with both of you!" he yelled, stumbling out of the kitchen.
Hearing a slam coming from the front door, Percy rushed towards his mom, cradling her in his arms.
"Why do you even stay with him, mom, what good has he ever done?" Percy whispered.
Hearing the door open again, Percy got up, grabbing the baseball bat in the closet, he cautiously walked towards the front door. Seeing spiked, tousled black hair he lowered the bat, sighing in relief.
"Oh, it's just you" Percy said.
"Yeah, who else is it supposed to be?" Nico replied, quite confused, "Oh and sorry, the door was kinda open"
"No one, so let's get started aye?" Percy spoke quickly, shutting the door behind Nico.