A/N: I own nothing…

Chapter 1

Piper M.

I stepped out of my chrome convertible and dropped the keys in my bag; I smiled at my friends Annabeth, Thalia, Juniper, and Kate as they jumped out of the car. It was Tuesday which meant that it was my turn for carpool. Mondays: Annabeth, Tuesday: Me, Wednesday: Kate, Thursday: Thalia and Friday: Juniper.

"I am so not ready for our huge biology test," Thaila groaned and grabbed her backpack from the trunk.

"I know, it counts for like half our grade," Kate said then tilted her head thoughtfully, "I wonder if saying that I had band practice every day for four hours would do anything." I scoff.

"Kate, we practice every other day, for like 2 hours." I say, she rolls her eyes.

"Did you guys even study?" Annabeth asks attempting to pull her hair back in a ponytail.

"No," we all chorus at the same time and crack up. Annabeth sighs and attempts to put on a serious face, which fails just as bad as she tried to tie her hair back. Thalia had slapped her hand and attempted to punch her in the stomach. That failed to.

"Come on guys," I say and tug my guitar case out. "Let's go, if we don't hurry they're going to run out of coffee at the Café," The Café was a new improvement to our school thanks to big multimillionaire dad, it's pretty much Starbucks but at school. The mention of coffee was all it took and soon we were all hurrying down the parking lot.

The Café was well out of coffee when we got there and we groaned and looked at the menu for something with caffeine.

"Hey, Piper!" I hear someone call; I turn around and see my boyfriend Jason and his friends Percy, Grover, Nico, and Travis waving us over. I grin at them and nudge Annabeth. She looks over and smiles. I grab Juniper and Thalia's and Annabeth grabs Kate's and we pull them over.

"Hello, ladies," Jason says then grabs my hand and tugs me down to sit next to him.

"Hey," I say kiss his cheek.

"-what is it?" Kate says whines turning around, "I was next in line- oh" In the middle of the table are ten steaming cups of coffee.

"Yeah, I was pretty sure we were going to be late when Annabeth accidently spilled her 500, color coded, flashcards all over her front door sooo I called ahead."
I say waving my phone and nudge Jason with my foot. He nudges back. Everyone turns to look at Annabeth who blushes.

"What, they were very expensive and I worked an hour on them."

"Subject?" Percy asked taking a sip of his coffee and leaning back on his chair.

"Biology," we groan at the same time.

"I am so going to fail," Travis says and grins at Kate when she plops down on his lap. I see Thalia roll her eyes and I smile. Ever since the school Christmas Dance Kate and Travis have been inseparable. Now if only I could say the same thing about Thalia and Nico who sit far apart from each other ever since the Rachel incident.

"Dude, I know," Jason says and slides and arm around my waist.

"Maybe I should just skip," I say thoughtfully and Thalia agrees.

"Great idea," she says and I hear a sharp intake of breath from Annabeth.

"You can't do that- skipping leads to bad grades and bad grades leads to depression and depression leads to dropping out and the next thing you know you're counting out change at the 90 cents store," she says and gives us a look. We all crack up.

"Relax princess," I say smiling, "Just a suggestion."

"Yeah, Percy, how do you cope with her?" Travis says who is currently playing with Kate's hair. She slaps his hand away and rolls her eyes. "Boys," she mumbles and I laugh.

"How come you don't do that," I mutter at Jason under my breath while Percy says something about how Annabeth better be glad she's cute. Jason smirks at me.

"What, pull at your hair?" he asks sarcastically, "I have a feeling you wouldn't like that."

"No, you nimrod; show endless affection," I say dramatically flicking his cheek. He smirk grew into a slow, mysterious smile. Then he pressed his mouth against mine. He drew back looking around casually.

"Enough affection you're Excellency?" he asked haughtily. I rolled my eyes at his overconfidence. The bell rang making Juniper jump and spill a little coffee on the table, she mops it up with a napkin while Annabeth says a very unladylike word.

"We're going to be late for class," she says standing up and stretching.

"You say that like it's a bad thing," Percy grumbled standing up next to her and pulling on his backpack.

"It's time," I say gravely, and stand up. "For the worst test ever to be failed by man- er women." Everyone laughs the mood lightening and Jason laces his finger through mine.

"Will you give me the pleasure of walking you down the hall?" he asks in a fake British accent.

"No, not really," I say and detach myself from him teasingly. I hook my arm through Thalia's and start walking down the cafeteria while Jason mutters something about me being high maintenance.

"I heard that, blondie," I say and roll my eyes at Thalia. "Boys." I say.

"I know," she sighs at me and starts going off about Nico.

~oOo~

Once Mr. Dionysus, our biology teacher, room was filled he started rambling. Imagine one old greasy man unimaginably drunk who couldn't care less about biology and didn't care at all about his students.

Well then multiply him by 50 and you're almost halfway to imagining Mr. Dionysus. He clothes are always mismatched like he got dressed blindfolded and he always has this glazed look in his eyes, which is probably from the little flask he always likes to tip down his throat every time he turns his back to the class. He's rude and disgusting and has always gives everyone F's.

"Good evening, what grade are you in, remind me… 8th?" he asks shutting his eyes halfway and rubs his temples.

"Sophomore," we all chorus at the same time.

"Whatever," Mr. D says and leans heavily on his desk. "Anyways the thing is that we will not be having a test today." The whole class erupts into cheers and Mr. D clutches his head.

"Not so loud you imbeciles," Mr. D roars, "I am suffering from a major hangover!"

"When are you not?" I hear Jason call out from behind me and we all laugh.

"Pipe down!" Mr. Dionysus screeches teetering a little. "Instead of a test the school board has instructed me to do a 2 week field trip." He continues.

"Two weeks?" Annabeth says leaning close to whisper "That's an awfully long time."

I lean back and take a gulp of water from my plastic water bottle.

"At the Deukmejuan Wilderness Park in California," Mr. D says rolling his eyes back, turning dramatically and taking a sip from his flask. The class cracked up and I nearly spit my water out. I start choking, half laughing and forced myself to swallow the water.

"What? Sorry I couldn't hear you," I say loudly over the laughter.

"Deukmejuan…" he says again, his Irish lilt making the word sound like something that came out of your nose. Another round of uncontrollable laughter started up. I wiped tears from my eyes and clutched my stomach from laughing. Thalia was on the floor rolling around, laughing and Annabeth was trying very hard not to giggle.

"What-what is so funny?" Mr. D asks opening his eyes wider than usual.

"No-nothing," Percy manages to get out in between fits of laughter. Mr. D shook head dismissively then seemed to remember his hangover and clutched his head painfully.

"Well I want everyone here 6:30 Saturday morning for the buses to drive us to the planes. Unless you have some sort of other transportation to Deukmej- California. Everyone must be at the park by 8:30 p.m. Sunday or they will not be able to come with us." Mr. D says, "Class dismissed." He turns around and slumps on his desk. We all get up excitedly not only because Mr. D dismissed is 45 minutes before the bell ring but the news of the field trip buzzed in the air. I smiled, gathering my stuff, an idea forming in my head. If I remembered correctly; Deukmejuan Wilderness Park was close to Los Angeles…

There it is! First chapter :) Hope you y'all liked it!

~LivGirl16