This story will take place in Percy's Sophomore year. For this particular story I'm going to disregard the story in the Heroes of Olympus series. I might bring in a character or 2, like Leo and Piper, but I don't think I'll bring back anything about the Giants or Gaea. This idea has toyed around in my head quite a bit and I finally decided to make something happen.

Percy was feeling a bit mixed up. A month and a half ago he had turned 16, if you didn't know, there was a big prophecy that said the end of the world could happen on his 16th birthday... but it didn't. Actually the world was saved thanks to Luke Castellan.

Now here he was, at the end of September and he was sitting in boring old math class.

The teacher was fairly energetic, not a complete bore, but it wasn't easy to stay awake when someone starts talking about the functions of a polynomial.

He realized he had almost fallen asleep so he had to wake up. Not that he wanted to, but what if he had a nightmare in the middle of class? Plus, he drools in his sleep... at least according to his girlfriend, he does.

His girlfriend, she always managed to wake him up. So he went into his binder and found his strip of photos from their time at the mall last week. It was one of those cheesy mall strip photos, but he loved them. One of the pictures was him with his arm around her, the other had them making silly faces, one had Percy kissing her cheek, and the last was them kissing.

He smiled at his photos. He wanted more photos... he wanted more than photos, he wanted her here, with him...sitting through boring math class.. But Annabeth was at a boarding school. Not that the school was that far from Goode, it was 5 minutes by foot... but he couldn't just go get her in the middle of class. Besides, with his luck he'd interrupt one of her classes on architecture...and she'd never let him hear the end of that.

So he sat and waited for science class to end.

The final bell rang, and Thursday was over.

But that just made Percy more nervous. Friday was tomorrow, and Saturday the day after that... one problem with this particular Saturday. It was Homecoming at his school, and Annabeth demanded that they go. So, instead of enjoying himself back at camp... or in his apartment... or even Olympus... he had to go to a dance.

And Percy had bad experience with dances, considering the last one he'd been to ended up getting Annabeth kidnapped.

Percy walked out the door to his classroom and made his way to the English wing. His stepfather, Paul, taught here at Goode, and Percy was going to meet up with Annabeth at Camp Half Blood, since all classes for tomorrow at her school were cancelled due to a pipeline rupture (oops...)

Here's what happened: Percy, Annabeth, and Clarisse were scouting around Manhattan, just to try and find any monsters that weren't killed during the Battle for Olympus. Long story short, they found one, and Percy kind of made the pipeline break... But he used as much of his powers as he could to keep it under control until after the school day... It had been on the news in Percy's class. It lasted until 2:45. But Percy doesnt get out of class until 3:15. But luckily the last class ends at 2:30 at Annabeth's school.

So until that's settled they had to cancel classes for the next day.

Percy wished he had blown his own pipeline but no such luck.

He walked into the room of Mr. Blofis, but there was someone already in there. And he recognized her. Her name was Andy Tanner. She had a slim figure, shoulder length blond hair, and wore plain clothes. She was the kind of girl, who got along with everybody, and typically stayed with the same guy for months at a time. She almost never chose the jerk kind of guys. Well at least that's what Rachel told him. She said that she wasn't one of those types of girls that has a boyfriend at all times, and 50 of them every month. She had the same one, always trying to make it work.

As far as he knew she was single, but that didn't matter to Percy... But every other guy at Goode wanted a chance with her. Not that she wasn't good enough for Percy... Hades, he probably wasn't good enough for her, but he was more than happy to be with Annabeth. He didn't have the slightest desire to be with Andy.

But you ever hear about high school drama? No? Cut and dry, whenever someone(guy) finds a girlfriend certain people(Jealous ex/gossip girl/jealous girl/drama queen) like to cause problems. So this mystery person started a rumor that Andy was crushing on the Son of Poseidon. For her sake(and his), Percy hoped it was a rumor.

Percy had seen what his girlfriend was like when she was jealous. An extra long quest, and a drama filled Battle of Olympus. (and that was BEFORE they were dating)

If Andy actually did like him...and Annabeth found out, she would literally (no joke) kill her, him, and probably him again.

He nervously walked in to the classroom.

"Oh, hello Percy." Paul, (Mr. Blofis aka Percy's stepdad)

"Hey.. Mr. Blofis."

"What brings you here?"

"I just needed to ask you something... but it can wait."

"Are you sure?" Paul asked.

"Yeah its nothing major." Percy assured him.

Paul studied him for a moment then accepted it.

"Very well, Miss Tanner? You said you have a problem with your script partner?"

Ugh. Script partners... Basically we're supposed to work with a partner on a script for a love/war story from the ancient times. My script partner was Adam Daniels, and he doesn't do anything. ( I'm not the best worker myself but at least I try...)

"Yeah... um..." Andy looked at me nervously and looked back to Paul. "But Nancy... doesn't do anything! She just tells me..." She looked at me nervously again. "to throw things at people when I work..." She just stopped there, and looked at her shoes.

"Andy. I'm sorry, but unless there is someone who is willing to trade... I can't do anything. I can't force someone to work with Nancy Bobofit just because she doesn't work... Maybe you should find someone who also has a less than capable partner... Maybe they would be willing for a trade." Paul recommended.

"Can...you tell me, maybe, who is partners with...I don't know.." She started thinking for a minute... Probably on Adam Daniels since he and Nancy (yes the same Nancy that teased Percy way back when)were pretty much the only slackers in the class "Adam? He doesn't even care..."

Paul thought for a moment.

"I suppose I could look it up, one moment..." He opened up a couple files on his computer and started scrolling to 5th period which was Percy's class.

Percy wanted out... fast... he had spent enough time with Annabeth to recognize this as a plan...a strategy... She wanted to be Percy's partner.

He was a dead man walking (standing). If he wasn't her partner her feelings would probably be hurt... plus his and her grades would probably be F's... If he was her partner...they may get a C... but Annabeth would kill her... then him... then him again... then probably whoever walked in the door next.

"Percy is." Paul said.

"Really?" She pretended to be completely flabbergasted... 'Did I just use the word flabbergasted?' Percy asked himself.

"Percy, would you mind trading partners with Miss Bobofit?"

"Erm..."

"You don't have to Percy..." She said his name softly... of crap... sympathy...

"Its.. its just..." Percy sighed... how was he gonna pull this one off? "Yeah I'll trade."

Andy hid her excitement.

"Cool." She said, in a forced, mellow tone.

"Very well. Inform your respective partners of the switch immediately... and good luck."

Andy walked out of the classroom.

"What can I do for you Percy?" Paul asked, when he noticed Percy was still in the room.

"Do you know how to escape a jealous girlfriend?" Percy asked, without thinking.

"Come again?" Paul asked, looking up from his notes.

"Never mind." Percy said. "I need permission for something."

"Why not call your mother? Not that I'm disapproving of you coming to me.."

"No its not like that... I just figured since you were here... and you know...the phone problem.." Percy sensed that Andy was listening in on their conversation.

"Phone problem?" Paul asked.

"You know... I don't have a phone..." He said.

"Oh right..." Paul picked up on the hint.

"Well. I want to go see Annabeth... and I wondered if that was okay?" Percy had to choose his words carefully. Not that Andy could have figured out what it meant if he had used words like Camp and demigod... but monsters hid in schools... Its been proven true...just look at...well, every year of his demigod life on...

"Of course. But don't be out too late..."

"Sure...thanks Paul."

"Your welcome." Paul said, casually returning to the homework he was grading.

Percy thought back to the time when he had used a gesture to ward off evil...

'Wonder if it works on girlfriends...' He thought to himself.

On dumb hope, he tried it.

He walked out into the hall... Andy was gone.

"That's as weird as it gets." He muttered under his breath.

I'm gonna make it first person for the next chapter. This 3rd person isn't as fun as 1st person.