Hey guys! Quick note: I will not continue Girl With the Purple Heart anymore, I am saving that for later. I decided to devote my time on this new story line. I hope you enjoy it
Annabeth P.O.V
FINALLY! I will now be able to go to band!
Band, is my home place, where I usually find my peace at ease. Every time I hear the sound of a saxophone, I want to cry.
Don't ask why, that's just how weird and obsessed I am about saxophones and other instruments. Just walking to band gets me all excited, I get to see my friends, who enjoy the same things as me. And if you didn't already know yet, I play the saxophone, tenor sax. Top best player in band.
I don't know why, but for some reason I am so happy! I'm like literally smiling at anybody I see. Oh well, that is the weird life of Annabeth Chase. Jackman High is filled-
"Oof!" I bump into this guy causing me to drop my music.
I seriously need to watch where I'm going and not get lost in my thoughts!
"Sorry, I should be more careful," I said giving him a weak smile. As he was rubbing his hurt arm, I got down and grabbed my music and so does he, or he tries to.
He was bending down and I was getting up.
"Ow!" He reacted.
Really? I cannot believe I just collided with his head while trying to get up from the floor!
I look at his sea green eyes and apologize once more while rubbing my head as well.
"It's alright, I've gone through worse," He gave me an uncertain smile, "You like Star Wars, I'm assuming."
I gave a confused look and then looked down at my music, Star Wars: Across the Stars, it read at the top.
"Oh, right," I gave a soft smile, "look I'm sorry, I didn't mean to!"
"It's alright, but I think you should be heading to band, you're almost late and so am I."
"Kriff! Thanks for the suggestion!" I run off to the band room trying not run into anybody, again.
I push open the door and see about 55 students all ready to play their instruments.
Dang it!
I go to the storage room, where all the instruments are stored, and grab my instrument and settle down next to my friend, Thalia.
"What took you so long?" Thalia questioned, "you're usually the one that gets here first!"
"Don't ask," I look at her and can't help but smile, because I already know what she is going to retort.
"Too late, I already did."
I knew she was going to say that!
"I ran into this boy because I was being stupid and not paying any attention to where I was going. And when I bumped into him I-"
Suddenly our band director, Mr. Cason, yells for us to all be quiet. Like that is going to work!
Almost all the students in band do not give a poop about Mr. Cason and his rules. You can threaten them to go to the principal's office, they won't care!
After a few minutes of him demanding us to be quiet, we started playing multiple songs. We mostly did warm ups and practiced playing other things. Which I don't understand why sometimes we spent much more time on warm ups than the music! Our concert is in about a week and a half! And the way we sound, there has to be a miracle to at least sound half decent!
After band, on our way to class, I finished explaining, to Thalia, what had ensued before band.
"Dang dude! You should watch out where you're going!" she exclaimed.
"Yeah, yeah. So are you busy today?" I asked trying not to hit the door that lead us to the next hall.
"No, why?" she had a questioning look on her face.
"You want to hang out?"
"Okay, but what hour, minute and second?" Thalia and her sarcasm. She knows whenever we hang out, I give her a specific time.
I rolled my eyes, "At six-thirty," I smiled with pride.
"And I'm assuming at Blu's Food?"
"Yup, you got it!" I gave a slight chuckle and we walked into Economics to pick our stuff and go to Spanish class; I met up with some of the members of the gang, which include Piper, Jason, Hazel, and Leo. We have two more members to the gang, but they don't take Spanish, instead they chose to take French.
"Niños y Niñas!" Mrs. Juan-Lupe yelled. She was trying to get our attention, but in Spanish.
Spanish class is not that hard, it's pretty easy. You can say I'm pretty good with Spanish, I'm still learning.
"Hoy les voy a dar hojas de ejercicios en Español," Mrs. Juan-Lupe looked at our blank faces, "Who can translate that?" She looked around and nobody raised their hands, "Piper! Translate what I just said." Piper's eyes widened so big, I swear they could have fallen out.
Poor Pipes, she had no clue what Mrs. Juan-Lupe had said in Spanish.
"Uh, um, something day?" She questioned herself and the teacher. I quickly wrote down the translation on a piece of paper, handed it to her, and she read it, "today I am going to give you practice worksheets in Spanish." The class groaned at the thought of having to work on worksheets and Mrs. Juan-Lupe passed them out.
"Thanks," Piper smiled at me and I smiled back.
I love being around my friends, it's a nice warm feeling.
After Spanish class was over, the school dismissed us.
A plethora of teens went on the buses, others rode in their car and I of course am one those teens that rode the bus.
I've always tended to ride on the bus alone. I don't mind if somebody sat next to me, not that they do, I just preferred to sit alone.
I looked at all the trees that we were passing and got thinking of how incredibly dumb I am! Why? Because I was being so careless and I hit a really, really, really- well you get the point. He was really cute.
Dang it! I should have asked the rest of the gang if they wanted to come eat with Thalia and I!
Thank the Gods I had my phone with me!
I took it out and texted the rest of the gang if they wanted to come, they agreed.
As I was putting my phone away, some dumb kid that was sitting on the seat behind me, reached over my seat and snatched my phone away before I could.
"Hey, give it back!" I turned around.
"Why should I?" Stupid boy, he has no idea who he's messing with.
"Because it's mine! Unless you wanted it so you can download a diet app that will help you lose all the fat that surrounds that brain of yours," my face got red with heat. I have never really liked insulting people like that, but today was not the day.
After I had said that, all the kids started yelling that I just owned him, which I basically did, but it only made the situation worse.
And when I mean worse, I mean worse. He punched me in the face and threw my phone back at me. I immediately sat back down on my seat, not wanting to look back at him again, nor did the other kids.
I felt something trickling down my cheek, I thought it was water until I realized I was bleeding. I wanted to cry, but I didn't. I had nothing to clean the blood with, so I was stuck with blood the rest of the bus ride.
When I arrived, my mom was so worried about me. I told her I was fine. Then, I went to my room, cleaned myself up and finished my homework early. It was too easy. So I decided to lay on my bed for a few minutes. The minutes turned to hours.
"Annabeth! Are you going to join us for dinner?" my mom yelled from downstairs.
I quickly woke, sat up on my bed and looked at the time it was three minutes and fifty-two,fifty-three, fifty-four… seconds left for me to be ready for the outing.
I got up from my bed and ran downstairs to tell her I wasn't, not if he was their. She wasn't too happy about that, but I didn't care. I was going out tonight and that is it!
I went back to my room and got ready, for it was about to be six-thirty. I didn't care how I looked, my hair was up and I was wearing a shirt with skinny jeans. Oh, and my swollen eye.
Thalia and Piper came and picked me up from my house.
"Hey, Annabeth!" Greeted piper as she motioned me to sit in the passenger seat. I got in the car and buckled my seat-belt.
"Hey!" I smiled.
The whole car ride was pretty quiet. I was glad it was dark outside, because I didn't want them to see my eye, nor explain what had happened with my eye. But I knew once we got to the restaurant, the beans would be spilled.
When we arrived I tried to cover my eye with hand, but everyone got suspicious.
We sat in a booth, at the restaurant. I was surprised we all fit, considering how many people were there.
"Quit it, Annie, we all know you're not going to be able to hide that bruise any longer." I looked up right away and saw Thalia wasn't even looking at me.
I gave in and let my hand fall to my side.
"Oh my Gods! Annabeth! What happened?" everyone's faces filled with horror and wordiness, except for Thalia. It's not that she didn't care, it's just that she was already expecting the worse.
I sighed, I explained to them what had happened and they all felt bad. Apparently it was funny as well because Thalia was laughing at what I had said to that kid, Brandon, the guy who punched me.
"Thalia! That's not funny!" Piper exclaimed.
"What? I'm not laughing at her! I was laughing at what she had said."
"Was it really that funny?" Frank asked.
"Repeat it again." Hazel demanded.
"'Unless you wanted it so you can download a diet app that will help you lose all the fat that surrounds that brain of yours,'"
The guys laughed and Thalia laughed even harder. I did as well.
"What are you guys laughing about?" A familiar voice spoke and I immediately knew who it was.
"Hey Perce!" Frank got up, shook his hand, as well as motioned him to sit down, "Hey, guys, this is Percy Jackson," Frank introduced him like if he were a talk show host and Percy was the prize, a great prize, I must say.
"Woah! What happened to you? Did somebody hit you?" he questioned me.
"No, she did her makeup so she could look emo and cut herself," Thalia's words dripped with sarcasm.
"Thalia!" Piper glared at her.
"It's not my fault it's not obvious enough to know she got hit!"
"Sorry about that, I got punched in the face by this boy-"
"Boy?" he looked very surprised, "did you tell somebody?"
"She certainly told you." Thalia looked at him from across the table. And tried to hide her laugh, so did he, which did not make Thalia so happy.
"No, I didn't." I answered his question.
"Well, why not?"
"Look I don't want to talk about it." I avoided making eye contact with him.
After a few moments, the silence broke with Piper's words, "Well, why don't we introduce ourselves to Pearcy?" Piper suggested.
"It's Percy."
"Right," Piper smiled innocently and felt a little embarrassed.
We all said hello and introduced ourselves. I was the second to introduce myself, but it was bad.
I was so lost in my thoughts that I forgot that we were even at a restaurant.
"Annabeth!" Piper tried to get my attention.
"What?"
"Aren't you going to tell him who you are?" Piper nudged me on my arm with her elbow.
"Oh right! Um, my name's Annabeth Chase and I am eighteen years old and like to read books and play instruments."
"Okay," he smiled at me oddly and looked at Piper who was next.
"Why did you introduce yourself like that?" Hazel whispered.
"Because I have psychological problems, that's why."
Everyone had heard what I said and the worst part is, even Percy did. My face turned red with heat.
The last person to introduce herself was Thalia; what she had to say was pretty funny.
"Hi Pearce! My name is Becky and I like wearing thick layers of makeup!" she smiled at him and looked back down at her phone.
I felt bad for Percy considering he was being so nice to everyone.
Everyone was confused.
After that really awkward situation, we played games and ate burgers with fries. We made a huge mess. Leo spilt his coke on the ground, Thalia "accidentally" squirted ketchup on this snobby girl, and Frank dropped his food on the floor. The employees were not happy.
After a while of playing, I sat back down at the table and read a little.
Good thing I brought my book.
"So Annabeth," Percy began, "What do you do besides band and books?"
"Geez! You scared me!" My heart was beating fast and I was getting hot from such a fright.
He chuckled slightly, "Sorry,"
"You're okay, but what did you ask?"
"I asked if you do anything else besides reading and band."
"Well, I draw a little, I like to create things and... I eat." I looked at him with pride and laughed. So did he.
I cannot believe I said that!
"Okay then, what about hobbies, do you like dancing, swimming, you know that type of stuff."
"I don't know how to swim, dance, play baseball, or basketball, they always end up hitting me, except for football. I'm pretty good at football."
"You don't know how to swim?" He was surprised.
"Yeah," I reached over for a fry, "why? Do you?"
"Of course I do! Who doesn't?"
I glared at him.
"You don't. Well, I can show you."
I swear my heart skipped a beat, "I guess, but I don't-"
"It'll be fun!" he smiled and made a face that made me laugh.
"No, I'm okay."
"How about we strike a deal?"
I thought for a moment, "Depends, what type of deal?" I looked straight into his eyes while he thought.
"You, me, on the field playing a game of football. I lose, you get to-"
"You have to help me build a whole model of the school."
"What? Why? And why does it have to be our school?"
"Because they asked me to build a model for senior graduation."
"Well, whatever, and if I win I get to teach you how to swim!" he stuck out his hand to shake on the deal.
"Five-thirty tomorrow at Catherine Park."
"Which field?"
"Seven B."
"Fine by me," he smirked while shaking my hand.
He is so going down!
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