Annabeth P.O.V.

"Cough, Hottie staring at you 12:00, cough." Piper said, putting her hand in front of her mouth to make it look more convincing. It didn't work. I rolled my eyes.

"If it's you know who, I will punch you." I said glaring at Piper.

"Okayyyy." She said awkwardly. "Then you'd better not look." I rolled my eyes but let a small smile peek through.

"You know he's not even that hot." I said. Piper raised an eyebrow.

"Are you blind?" she asked dramatically. "I mean I know you guys hate each others guts, but come on." She sighed dreamily as she looked over my shoulder at the named boy.
"I mean… he's no Jason Grace but damn." She bit her lip before turning back to me. "He is a fine male specimen." I laughed at her ridiculousness. "And he is coming this way!" she added quickly.
I gasped as I felt his arm around my waist.

"Talking about me, are we Chase?" he leaned close to me. I scoffed and shoved him away.

"You wish, Jackson." I said condescendingly. He grinned at me before turning to Piper and nodding.

"Piper." He said.

"Hi Percy." She greeted.

"Jason says hello."

"He does?" Piper asked twirling some hair around her finger, something she did when she was nervous or flustered. Percy nodded before once again turning to me. I had my back against my locker but that didn't stop me from pressing farther against it when he put one of his hands by my head and leaned so far forward that I could feel his breath on my cheek. He look at me with his green eyes and I felt like I was drowning.

"Annabeth…" he whispered and for just a second I believed him. Then he dropped the act and smirked at my expression. "See you in Chemistry." I shook my head and shoved at his chest until he finally retreated. I turned back to Piper, knowing my cheeks were tinted pink because of the close proximity.

"Not a word." I pointed a figure at her. She just grinned and stuck her tongue out before following me as I walked to class.
"So Jason…" I started after awhile. Piper immediately blushed.

"We're just friends." I raised an eyebrow. She scoffed. "Oh please, you and Percy are practically married already." My eyes widened as I looked at her. "It's true."

"That is so not true." I said.

"That is so true." Thalia said as she caught up to us and started walking next to Piper.

"Right?" Piper said. "At their wedding the colors should be like a sea green and grey to match their eyes."

"OMG yes and Percy's tie would be green and Annabeth would have a green sash." Thalia said.

"Oh! Annabeth would have a, not exactly princess dress but it would be pretty and flowy and her train would be long and-"

"Lace!" Thalia yelled.

"Lace!" Piper agreed.

"Stop!" I put my hands on my ears. "What the hades, you guys!"

"Hey, don't hate the player hate the game, honey." Thalia said.

"The Love Game!" Piper added.

"Why am I even friends with you people?"

"Beats me." Piper shrugged and Thalia laughed.

"You guys are crazy." I said as we walked into our first class.

"Psychotic." Piper corrected.

"Agreed." I sat down. The class, which was Math, dragged on as we reviewed things and did a few simple problems. The rest of the classes dragged on as well until it was time for the class I'd been dreading the most.

Chemistry.

Ugh. Chemistry.
Not that Chemistry was so bad, I actually had a great teacher. It was just in this particular class, not only did I have it with the devil's spawn , I sat next to him.

Mrs. Jones thought he could learn from me since I was a straight A student and he got mostly C's and D's. Unfortunately Mrs. Jones was not aware of the ongoing feud between Percy and I. Thus she thought it was a good solution and it would've been with anyone else.

Literally anyone.

Hell I would've taken Leo Valdez or one of the Stolls over him. And dare I say it I would even take the queen B herself, Rachel Elizabeth Dare (No pun intended) But as luck would have it… I got Percy.

Which sucked if you couldn't tell.

I hesitantly made my way to my seat, letting out a sigh of relief when I saw the stool next to it was still empty. I sat down and opened my books to the right page and started on the homework when I heard the stool next to me screech against the floor as it was pulled out from under the table.

Percy grunted as he plopped down on the chair.

"Hi." He said.

I ignored him.

"Okay." He said. "Nice talking to you." I took a deep breath before scribbling some more answers in my notebook. I was about to move on to the next question when my notebook was ripped out from under me.

"Jackson!" I said. "Give it back!"

"It's alive!" he yelled and the rest of the class laughed as he imitated Dr. Frankenstein. I stood up impatiently. Percy stood as well. I tried reaching for it but Percy was easily a head taller than me and he laughed as I tried jumping. Finally I jumped high enough and grabbed it but Percy's grip was like iron. He pulled on the notebook slightly causing me to stumble forward and crash into his chest. He had been leaning down slightly so now our noses were brushing. Percy's smile faded slightly and he swallowed. I took this distraction to stomp on his foot and rip the notebook out of his grasp. There were snickers coming from the class as Percy rubbed his neck and blushed slightly. I smirked as I turned to sit back down. Just before I touched the stool though, it was push out from under me. The desks in this particular classroom were close together and that's what the idiot didn't think of when he brutally pushed my stool away. As I was falling I saw Jackson's smirk before the back of my head hit the desk behind me and his smirk disappeared. He cursed and quickly caught me before I hit the ground too.

"Annabeth!" he said frantically. I blinked a few times, trying to stay awake but my head hurt and all I really wanted to do was sleep. Slowly the edges around my vision darkened and the last thing I saw was Percy yelling something over his shoulder and looking back down at me with a scared look in his eyes.

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