Sweet, my first Percy Jackson Fic. FYI I'm still reading The Lost Hero (Finally) so I don't have all the secrets yet and Jason, Piper, and Leo wont be in it for a while.

Disclaimer: Rick Riordan's, not mine.

"Laurel! Come on! We're hungry!" Lisa yelled from the shore.

"Laurel! We're gonna meet up with Brad and the guys soon, we gotta GO!" this time it was Kayla who yelled.

I sighed and paddled my surfboard to the shore. Lisa, Kayla, Jackie, and Kelly all stood there in the tiny bit of material they call bikinis and scowled at me. "What?" I wrung out my hair and started to gather my stuff.

"Nothing." Kelly said brusquely, flipping her dry (dyed) blonde hair over her shoulder. I gave Jackie a look and she just shrugged and gave me a sympathetic smile as she turned and made her way to my Jeep. I pulled my pink tank top on and stuffed my rash guard in my bag. I grabbed my board and bag after I pulled my board shorts on. The girls got in the back of the Jeep while I strapped my 6'4" Surf Betty to the racks on the roof. I didn't like Kelly really. She was Lisa's friend and I only tolerate her because Lisa and I are such good friends.

"You okay?" Jackie asked as I hopped down.

"Yeah. Why?"

She frowned. "Cause your eyes are like extra blue and they only get like that when you're miffed about something." She pulled her dark brown, almost black, hair out of its pony and stared at me, concern in her eyes.

I threw my bag in the back after wiping the sand off of my feet and grabbing my flip-flops. "Really? I couldn't tell." It was sarcastic and Jackie knew it. I regretted it once her stormy gray eyes lit up. "Sorry." She ignored me and shut the trunk door and silenced the talkative girls in the back.

"Look. I know you don't like Kelly. Trust me, I don't like her any more than you do, so let's just put up with her for the last two weeks of school, then we're free." She held out her pinky. "Promise not to rip her to bits just yet." The old grin was back on her face. Ever since her dad made her go to summer camp she's been less and less happy and it was rare to see her smile like she did when we were in middle school.

I cracked a smile and wrapped my pinky around hers. "Promise." We both climbed into the front seats and made our way to Simply Delicious, this beach shack kinda place here in Cocoa Beach. It was small and bustling. We parked in the back and made our way to the front. "Guys!" Kayla squealed as she ran over to the guys' table out on the porch area. There was only one other family there. A large one at that.

"Sup chicas?" Mark asked as we all sat around the table. I squeezed myself to the end by the far wall while Jackie took the seat on my right, her back to the family.

"Nuttin' much. Just hangin'." Kelly batted her eyes at Mark and Brad. I resisted the urge to roll my eyes at her.

"Skank." I muttered under my breath.

Kelly whipped her head in my direction. "What was that, Laurel?" she asked in her sweetest voice, her face stretching almost painfully in a forced smile.

Now I was trying not to smile. "Nothing. Kelly you must be hearing things." I shot back at her with my own sarcastically sweet tone. I held on to my Miss America smile until she went back to trying to get in Mark's pants. "Hoe bag." I felt someone give me a swift kick in the shin. Jackie gave me a glare that read, "Behave."

"Sooo. What's everyone getting?" Dylan asked, as we sat around after eating.

Kayla grabbed her phone and started typing something before standing. "Sorry, but my ride is here." She got up and left. Kelly followed but not before slipping me a glare. She also ended up "tripping" and falling into the lap of the blonde seventeen-year-old with the other family. "Sorry. I'm a little clumsy." She giggled and "discreetly" slipped him her number before walking to the car where Kayla and her mom were waiting.

"Bye guys. I'll see ya at school." Lisa waved as she left with Kayla and Kelly, her natural blonde hair glowing in the sunlight.

"Man I'm not getting any dessert, but I gotta take a piss." Brad declared as he got up and left for the restroom.

A collective amount of disapproving statements left my and Jackie's mouths. Mark stood up too. "Man, now I have to go." He whined and followed Brad.

"Thank God." Dylan said.

I leaned back in my chair. "So what are you guys doing this summer?"

Jackie shrugged and copied me. "Summer camp. Again." I grimaced.

"I'm going up North again to spend the summer with my dad." Dylan shrugged nonchalantly.

"Does he know?" I asked.

"That I'm going up there? Yeah, I'm pretty sure he knows." He replied sarcastically.

I glowered at him. "That's not what I meant."

"What, that I'm playing for the other team?" he smirked.

Jackie rolled her eyes. "Yes, sweets. That."

He snorted. "Please, he's way too busy tearing down land and building useless buildings before he realizes that his oldest son is gay… my sister on the other hand saw right through me when I saw her a while ago." He frowned. He glanced at his phone before smiling and standing. "Anyway, I gotta go and finish packing. I'm leaving the day after exams end, so…"

Jackie and I stood up too. "Yeah. We gotta head back too." Jackie and I both hugged him before going inside to pay. "So are you going to tell him when you get up there?"

Dylan shrugged as he paid for his meal, along with Brad and Mark's. "I don't know. Maybe. It's hard enough with my fire breathing step-mom."

"I wish I could tell you how it feels, but my dad has claimed to be a perpetual bachelor." Jackie said with a rueful smile on her face. She paid and we both said goodbye to Dylan as he dragged Mark and Brad out. "What are we going to do with them?"

I shrugged and grabbed my wallet from my bag. "Hell if I know." I took the cash I had out of my wallet but all I could find were the four singles I had in there. "What the-" I looked in the other pockets for my twenty. "Where the hell is my twenty?"

Jackie's brow furrowed. "You didn't bring enough money?"

I shook my head in disbelief. "I did. Until Kelly took it!" I was seriously pissed by this point.

"What do you mean she took it?"

I threw my arms down to my sides, my shoulders slumped. "She had to have taken it when we were talking outside the Jeep… I mean, who does that?" I tried looking for it in my bag, with no luck. I had no choice now. "Jacks, can I borrow ten bucks?" I was pissed but getting mad wouldn't do me any good.

Jackie shook her head. "Sorry, I only brought enough for me."

"Fuck my life." I groaned, squeezing my eyes shut.

"Here. I'll pay." I opened my eyes, seeing the friendly face of the blonde that Kelly had "tripped" into.

"Uhhh,"

He held up a hand. "No, it's fine. You were nicer than your blonde friend."

I pursed my lips. "She's not my friend." I said bitterly. "But thank you anyway." I turned my attention to Jackie, who was almost standing awkwardly next to the blonde's siblings. "This is the reason I didn't want her in my car!"

"Alex! Just pay and let's go." His brother said, frowning at Alex.

Alex gave him a lazy smile. "Calm down, Aaron." He paid for his family and we walked out together. He had handed the cashier some strange money, like golden coins or something, but she just took them with a smile. Probably Canadians. "Sorry. My brother is impatient."

"Nah. It's fine." I brushed it off. "So which one's yours?" I asked, pointing to the cars.

"The red one." I almost stopped when he pointed to the red BMW convertible right next to my Jeep. "You?"

"Umm," I rubbed the back of my head. "The, uh, Jeep." I tried to hide my face because it was a new Wrangler that my dad had gotten me when I got my license. It was fresh off the showroom floor six months ago. He nodded his head in approval. "Hey, Jacks, help me get the back off." She hopped up on the side after I unlocked the doors, ready to get my board off so we could take the back off and make it a convertible.

"Here, we'll help." Alex hopped on the other side of the Jeep. "Hey, Uncle Pete! Come grab this girl's board."

His uncle came over and took my board after Alex and I got it unstrapped, his other brother taking Jackie's place. "This is a good board. Sturdy." His uncle commented as he turned it on his foot, making sure it didn't touch the ground.

"Thanks. NSP makes great boards." Alex and his brother, Hunter, helped me get the back off and folded up. When Jackie put it away we strapped my surfboard back on the top. "Thanks, really."

Alex shrugged. "It's no problem."

"No. Really. And I'm doing you a favor by telling you to burn that number you got from that girl." I pointed to his pocket. "Cause trust me, she's been with more guys than you have bones in your body."

"Oh. This." He laughed and crumpled it. "I was planning on burning it anyway. She's not really my type."

"Hold on." I grabbed my camera from under the seat. "Do you mind if I take a picture of you and your family? I have this thing with interesting people."

He grinned. "No problem." He talked to his mom, who excitedly agreed.

They all posed for a group photo and let me take a couple with just the kids and then the adults. The whole time Jackie was behind me, practically biting her nails.

We both said our goodbyes and got in our respected cars, one of his sisters (Amanda, I think), Aaron and Hunter got in his car. When I turned on my Jeep, Jackie started my CD player and "Blah, Blah, Blah" blared through my speakers. I looked over at her and started laughing. She shrugged and started singing along. "Coming out your mouth with your blah, blah, blah, just zip you lips like a padlock and meet me in the back with the Jack and the jukebox!" I turned on the radio before we could get too into it. "Hey!"

I laughed and tuned into another Ke$ha song. "Take It Off" started to blare through my speakers instead. "Better." I pulled out and waved to Alex and his family before heading back home.

"So are you sure you have to go to summer camp?" I yelled over the music.

I saw Jackie nod out of the corner of my eye. "Yeah. No way out of it." She gave off the body language that she didn't want to talk about it. She never did anymore. It's like I didn't even know my best friend anymore.

I stopped at the red light and looked over at her, keeping my eyes on the light. "Jacks, I-" she furrowed her brow and looked past me.

Turning around, I saw the red BMW again, honking at me. "Surfer-girl. We meet again." Alex grinned from behind his Ray Ban's.

I waved at him. "Laurel, please do not get involved with those people." I heard Jackie whisper from the passenger seat.

I turned back to her. "Jacks, they're just nice people." Jackie just shook her head and tried to hide her face from Amanda, who for some reason was watching her intently.

I glanced at the still red light and looked back at Alex. "Surfer-girl, I never got your name."

I glanced at the light as it changed to green then glanced at Alex. "Laurel." I called and drove away, his car turning.

Jackie sighed.

Yay! That's chapter one. We'll see more of the demigodness in the next few chapters.

Love ya,

Katelyn Goode