Chapter 1, Amanda's POV, The New kid.

I was just sitting in the French classroom, waiting for class to start; passing the time by reading one of my favourite book series, again. It was the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series; my sister and I were big fans. We read all the books, owned all the books, and we were waiting for the next one to come out. "Just a few more weeks." I thought hopefully, just then the bell rang that meant class was about to start. As people started to file in for class I put my book away, disappointed for the lack of reading time. As the teacher entered the class today, a guy followed her into class. He had black hair and crutches; he also was wearing a black leather jacket, baggy dark wash jeans, and a grey beanie hat that covered his hair; I couldn't tell what shoes he was wearing, for some reason. I didn't recognize him so that must of meant he was new; and all the seats were full except the one next to me so that meant he would be sitting there, yay *sarcasm*. I half expected him to take his chair and go sit somewhere else, but there were 2 reasons why that idea was totally ludicrous. 1, He was new, so he didn't know anybody. 2, He had crutches, so he couldn't move around that easily. So that left him no choice but to sit next to me. Then the teacher said "Bonjour, tout le monde."

"Bonjour" we mumbled back.

"Today I'd like to introduce a new student to our class..." she continued, murmurs went up through the crowd. "Let me introduce, Greg Westover." She finished. The murmurs continued as the teacher said quietly to Greg "Please Greg, go take a seat over there next to Ms. Amanda Thomas." That would be me, oh joy *sarcasm*. It's not that I don't like boys, which in most cases I normally do; but sitting next to them felt weird, like being on an alien planet. He came over to sit next to me; I moved my stuff so he would have more room. When he sat down I tried not to stare, but that is harder than it looks. It was hard not to stare at him, it felt like he was something I wanted but didn't have.

"Don't stare" I ordered myself, than I tried to stay focused on the lesson. After the work was assigned to us, I did something so out of character for me. I stopped working to introduce myself.

"Hi Greg, I'm Amanda Thomas." I said as friendly as possible.

"I knew that!" Greg snapped, trying to figure out what the worksheet said. "Why I don't talk to people." I thought and tried again.

"So Greg, where are you from?" I asked casually.

"Why do you want to know?!" he snapped again, I swear if he snaps at me again I'm going to give up!

"Because you stink at French." I answered, trying to turn my growl into a laugh, which is pretty hard to do by the way.

"Oh," His voice softened, "I'm from New York." He answered softly. Well that would explain it; French wasn't part of the curriculum in New York.

"So why did you leave the big apple?" I asked innocently, hoping he wouldn't snap at me again.

"My parents thought it would be better if I got closer to nature." He answered shrugging his shoulders, my voice went blank

"So you come to Canada." I say blankly, I didn't know how to react to what he just said about my home country. I understood why he would want to get away from New York; all the crime, pollution, and yet it's still highly populated. I spent the rest of the class helping Greg with the French work. When we were all done I asked him

"What's New York like?" He's startled by my question, so he responds with

"Why do you want to know?" he asks softly.

"Well... it's just... it's just I don't know much about it now and I want to know more." I said shyly, why was I saying this to an American?! I was raised to hate Americans. (No offence Americans, I'm sure a lot of you are very nice and good people.) He chuckles and asks "What do you know already?" I take a deep breath, and say

"I know it's already home to many fictional characters as well as real ones, and..." I started

"Fictional characters, like who?" he asked casually. I sighed; I really didn't want to say this.

"Well, there's the Penguins of Madagascar, then there's Jessie, Jake Long, oh and of course Percy Jackson..." then Greg's face went white as a ghost's.

"W-What did you say?" he asked under shaky breath. I pulled the book I was reading (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, the lightning thief) out of my desk and showed it to him.

"Percy Jackson." I answered softly. He reached out to examine the book with a shaky hand, but then the bell rang and he left the classroom as fast as his crutches could carry him. As I left the classroom I thought "That was weird. I'm going to have to tell my twin sister Rose about this."

I almost made it to the cafeteria for lunch, but I was ambushed by a guy trying to make fun of me. They would walk up to me, hit on me, and then leave me with my day ruined. I could avoid him by the use of ignoring him and walking away, and then I skidded over to where my sister was sitting. "Hi." She said casually, I decided to jump right to the point.

"Hey, I got a new kid in my class today." I said abruptly, my sister didn't seem to take the news lightly. She shot straight up and asked "What's she like?" I was confused by her comment. I stared blankly at her and answered "She's a he."

"Oh," She said softly before adding "I didn't know that." She seemed embarrassed by my comment. I groaned "Of course you didn't. You have got to stop jumping to conclusions, it's unhealthy!" I complained, Rose rolled her eyes and said

"You say everything is unhealthy!" I was shocked by her response and retorted with

"I do not!"

"Do too!" she retorted back, and we kept going back and forth

"Do not!"

"Do too!"

"Do not!"

"Do too!" Until I finally said

"You know what, whatever!" after that there was a short silence until rose said

"So..." leaning towards me

"So What?!" I snapped back (Oh no, I was turning into Greg!)

"So what about this new guy, do you like him?" she asked eagerly, that question surprised me to no end. "Like him? Heck No! For one thing he freaks out at the very mention of Percy Jackson."

"Really?" Rose asked astonished

"Actually no not really," I had to be honest "it's not so much freak out, more like goes into shock." I answer, Rose shrugs her shoulders

"Huh, guess he's never heard of it before." She says returning to her lunch

"Guess so." I say retuning to mine. Although my answer was very half hearted, I wasn't sure if that was the case so I wasn't quite ready to agree with Rose just yet. After five minutes of not saying or eating anything, I shoot up from the table and say to Rose "I'm going to go see if Greg's okay." I then expected her to roll her eyes, shrug her shoulders and let me leave, but just then she did something so unexpected "Wait a minute, his name's Greg?" she asked anxiously

"Yeah..." I answer slowly, I didn't see the importance of this; but just then she started laughing out loud. I rolled my eyes, typical. "Bye Rose." I said leaving the table

"Bye" she managed to get out in between laughs and breaths of air.

Afterwards I searched all over the school for Greg, circling it about 5 times and getting harassed by boys about 2 of those times. I was about to give up when I saw him standing outside. Weird, what would he be doing out there? I walk outside to go talk to him and I feel a warm summer breeze brush across my face, no wonder why he would want to be out here. His back was turned so he didn't notice me, and he appeared to be talking to someone so I snuck up closer behind him to hear what he was saying. When I got close enough to hear my heart nearly stopped. I heard him say

"Chiron I'm serious! They sell books up here about Percy's adventures! There's this one called the lightning thief and... Amanda Thomas." I flinched at the sound of my name. Greg was telling Chiron about me, and I had a pretty good idea who Chiron was. There was a long silence before Greg said "Sure I can do that." And hung up the phone. Odd, I thought they weren't allowed phones. Greg went back inside, but I couldn't follow him. I couldn't move from shock, I couldn't believe this! The Percy Jackson stories are real and I'm standing right in the middle of one!

OMG! Who saw that coming? Raise your hand. "In recent news, the entire world's internet users seem to be raising their hands." As in to say, that was obviously going to happen. Hello, PJO Fan fiction! Anyways, you can probably guess what is going to happen next, but I still want to know what your predictions are. SO tell me in the review section below. Also, tell me, who do you think Greg really is? Stay tuned.