This was for Jayne Mays writing contest thingy
Oh and Annabeth's boyfriend Peter, well he's in my story Fighting For Him. Please check that out too. And his looks. I know this guy a year younger than me and he looks and acts like him. And by the way he's CUTE. For real.
(Percy's POV)
I've been crushing on her for years. I mean who wouldn't be?
She's beautiful. Long curly blonde hair, that went a little past her shoulders. Slim athletic figure. Perfect face features. And to top it off… amazing, startling grey eyes.
And if it weren't for Peter Collom she'd be mine.
Of course she would like him; every girl here at Goode does with his messy black hair and blue-green eyes. And according to my friend Rachel, he's totally ripped. He's the star baseball player, but he isn't even good. I mean, he does alright with pitching and hitting, but otherwise he can't start a game to save his life. And catching a ball? Ha. Yeah right!
Luke Castellan, one of my best friends, and I are stuck cleaning up his messes when his pitching goes bad.
Regardless, he's the reason she isn't mine.
Maybe I should tell you who she is. Annabeth Chase. Captain of the Volleyball and Softball team, track star, and the head cheerleader. Everyone loves her. She's nice, beautiful, funny, smart, and athletic.
And she's Peter's girlfriend.
I probably shouldn't be thinking about her. Sometimes, I get so wrapped up in my thoughts, I trip over my own feet and face-plant on the dirty hallway floor.
"Hey Perce, what's up?" a voice I recognized as Luke's asks. I turn around and see Luke, Grover Underwood, Nico Di Angelo, Charlie Beckendorf and a few other guys from the baseball team.
Luke and I both pitch, but I play first base, while he plays third. Nico plays shortstop, while Beckendorf (he doesn't like us calling him Charlie) plays center field. Travis plays right field, while his twin, Conner plays left field and Jake Mason plays second base. Then of course, Michael Yew is our catcher.
Grover switches out at second and right whenever someone needs a break. As you know Peter pitches and whenever he doesn't do that he sits out. These are our normal positions but most of us can play each position.
Whoa, I am getting way off topic here! Anyways the team was walking towards me as I put my math book away and grab my Mythology book from my locker and shut the door. By this time the guys are at my locker and Jake says," Hey man you ready for the game tonight?"
"Yeah," I say back as we all walk down the hall. Tonight we have a game against the Outlaws. The first time we played them we lost 14-3, but we only lost because the coaches had Peter pitch the first 4 innings and of course, he sucked before they put him on in my spot, put Grover on third, and had Luke pitch. Which he did really good at, but every time a really good throw went to Peter he missed it and the coaches would tell him that he needed to try to catch it. Then his loudmouth mother would say that the ball wasn't near him… wait I'm off topic again. Why didn't you tell me I was getting off topic? Wait who are you? Are you like my conscience or something? I swear I've lost my mind!
So anyway, the guys are talking about the game when we get to my final class of the day. Also my favorite.
Nico and Luke also have this class so we exchange goodbyes, promising to meet the rest of the team on the quad and then, walk through the door and take our usual seat by the windows on the middle row.
I begin daydreaming, as I turn to look out one of the windows. Eventually I feel someone thump me on the back and I turn around to see my friend R.E.D. or Rachel Elizabeth Dare. Her nickname is Red because it's her initials are and she is known for her fiery red hair. Rachel is also known for her bright green eyes, and the fact that she plays volleyball, softball, and is a cheerleader.
"Hey Percy you ready for the game?" she asks.
"Yeah, are you coming?"
"'Course."
"Awesome."
Just then Annabeth and Peter walk in, hand-in-hand. Annabeth sits in the desk in front of me and Peter sits in front of Nico, who is to my right.
Peter turns away from Annabeth and starts talking to one of his friends. Annabeth sighs and turns to Nico, Luke, Red, and I and says, "Hey guys what's up?"
"Nothing much." Is the first answer, from yours truly, while Nico and Luke mumble their responses.
"Absolutely nothing," Rachel sighs.
"Oh, cool. You all ready for the game tonight?"
"Yep!" Nico, Luke, and I reply.
"Hey Annabeth do we still have softball practice tomorrow morning?" Rachel asks.
"Yeah," She replies, as our teacher Mr. Brunner, closes the classroom door.
Maybe I should tell you about him and why this is my favorite class.
Mr. Brunner is a middle aged man with brown hair and a light brown beard. He's legs are both paralyzed, so he's confined to a wheelchair. He's a really cool teacher though.
Since this is Mythology, we mostly study Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Japanese, and Chinese mythology.
We only do Japanese and Chinese for two weeks, before moving on to Egyptian, then Greek and Roman.
We spend most of the time Greek and Roman, but it is fun to do projects on sumo wrestlers, dragons, sushi and the Pyramids. Normally, Grover, Rachel and I do our Egyptian projects together, which I find awesome because you can take the top off our pyramid and see the little Egyptian people inside! We do this every year, and end up selling the pyramid for a good 20-30 bucks. A B+ and some extra cash? Yes, please!
I have to say, my favorite part is learning about the Romans and Greeks! Every year, I do the best on these two things.
Usually, my project has something to do with Poseidon or Neptune. I love the water and swimming so, he is my favorite Greek and Roman God.
Greek is normally the favorite subject of most of the class. Nico usually does his project on Hades; Rachel does hers on Apollo and his Oracle. Luke's favorite god is Hermes, so he does his project on him. Annabeth, the genius she is, usually does something on Athena.
Since its, May we're studying Greek Mythology. We just finished Roman Mythology, so we don't know whether this was a single, double or a group. After we know what we're doing, we pair up and start working on our project using the Guideline and Info sheet Mr. Brunner usually gives us.
So Mr. Brunner wheels in to his desk and quickly takes roll by looking to see if anyone wasn't here. He doesn't even have to call out names. He just knows. I've always thought it was strange when he did that, but I guess you get used to it.
After that, he wheeled himself in front of his desk and said, "For the rest of the year, you will be doing a double project." Immediately, everyone starts picking their partner but Mr. Brunner lets out a loud whistle and everyone quickly shuts up and looks at him. "I have already picked your partners." Every one groans as he reaches behind him to grab a sheet of paper of his desk. I can feel the anticipation build as he begins to read a list of names
"Thalia Grace and Luke Castellan." Luke seems pretty happy about being put with his girlfriend of one year, Thalia Grace, a girl with spiky black hair, electric blue eyes and a punk wardrobe. Thalia has also been Annabeth's best friend for a while.
"Peter Collom and Erica Force." Erica is this hot cheerleader chick. Both Peter and Erica seem happy about this but, Annabeth looks ready to kill.
"Rachel Dare and Nico Di Angelo." They both seem okay with this.
"Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase." Wait, what?
Ok there's the first chapter! Please review it would really help! Oh and heres a shout out to this storys beta (I have two betas)Thank you soooo much GreekandBeutiful!
