Hello everyone! I can't believe that I am doing what I said I wouldn't do, which is to write another story for Doubt! But, I wanted to write from Percy's POV and have more character development for him and have a bit more Percabeth! I definitely would read Doubt before reading this to have it make a bit more sense. Also, a reminder that it says OOC inthe summary, but it's not Percy who is OOC, it's Annabeth. Anyway, on with the story! I hope you enjoy, and please review!

Disclaimer: I do not own the PJO series.

To be honest, I actually like school. I don't have a problem with any of the teachers at my school, and only a few kids in my grade can really get on my nerves. So when summer break ended, I started getting excited for the first day of school. Even though it meant going back to homework, classwork, and waking up early, I was glad to get back to Goode Elementary School. This year, I had been put in Mr. Brunner's fifth grade class. He seemed like a great teacher, and my two best friends also have him, so I have a feeling that I'll enjoy this year. Of course, that could change, but for now, on the first day of school, I'm curious about what will come my way this year.

I looked at my reflection up and down in my mirror, nodding to myself that I had a good outfit on to kick start this school year. The weather surprisingly hadn't been cold recently, so I was wearing a gray and navy blue t-shirt, faded jean shorts, and sneakers. I grabbed my black backpack from its spot on my bed, and headed downstairs.

In the kitchen, my mom was waiting for me with a warm plate layered with blue chocolate chip pancakes. She had been making those pancakes for years, ever since I had become obsessed with the colour blue as a child, and it was a tradition for her to make them on my first day of school. When I get home today, she'll have a plate of blue chocolate chip cookies waiting for me, another tradition.

I gobbled them up in minutes, chugged down a glass of juice, and ran back upstairs to comb my hair and brush my teeth. When I returned to my mom by the front door, she wished me luck on my first day, and reminded me that my step-dad also wanted me to have a great day. Paul, my step-dad, is a teacher at Goode High School, and had already left for his first day before I woke up. He had married my mom a few years ago, and is an amazing dad to me.

I headed out the door of our skinny house, and started walking. I only live a few blocks from Goode Elementary, so I get to walk to and from school. After I walked a block, I heard someone calling my name.

"Percy!"

I turned around, and saw a girl in my grade that I was friends with. I waved to her, and Annabeth jogged over to catch up with me. We fell in step together, and started talking. She had gotten Brunner as her teacher too, which means that this would be the fourth year we shared a class. We had been friends for a while, and were pretty close. She and her friends weren't snobs, and were smart and very nice, which is why I had enjoyed hanging out with them in the past. In my opinion, Annabeth was also cute, and I had had a crush on her previously, so when I talked to her I had to deal with my best friends giving me weird looks. But hearing her amazing smart opinions on topics was worth the strange faces. She was definitely the smartest kid in our grade and school, but she never believed anyone when they told her that.

As Annabeth and I turned the next corner, Goode Elementary School came into view before us. The huge brick building consisted of thirty classrooms, two play structures for the younger grades, three lunch courts, and a whole bunch of kids standing with and greeting their friends. Goode was quite a progressive elementary school, so most of the kids were extremely smart and mature. I think every girl in the entire school loved that they didn't have to deal with "immature boys", and I liked that nobody really acted like a complete idiot.

My best friends Grover and Nico called me over to a table they were sitting at, and I reluctantly said bye to Annabeth. She simply nodded to me, and I noticed that she was staring at Luke Castellan and Rachel Dare. I shrugged off the possibility that she might like Luke, and happily greeted Grover and Nico.

Grover had been my friend since first grade, when I decided to share a cookie with him. Grover is actually crippled, and uses crutches all day. Kids in our grade seem to enjoy tormenting him about it, but he'll just make a witty comeback to them and then they'll leave him alone. He has a great sense of humor, and I love how he stands up for himself. He became my best friend last year when he ditched his other friends, who he said were jerks to him, and started hanging out with Nico and I a lot more. The three of us had hung out almost every day this last summer break, and had gone to some camps together, which we all loved.

Nico had also been my best friend since first grade, and had gladly accepted Grover into our two-person group in fourth grade. Nico wears a lot of black, which some kids find creepy, but I like. He has an older sister, Bianca, who is really awesome and is a senior in high school. Their mom died when they were little, so their dad has been taking care of them for years, and has done a good job doing it. Nico is smarter than Grover and I, but isn't as friendly as us. He's not mean; he just doesn't trust a lot of people.

The three of us talked about Mr. Brunner and what we hoped to do in class this year until the bell rang and we headed through a hallway to his classroom, passing some bathrooms and a storage closet on the way there. I started to get more excited as we neared the classroom and hung up our backpacks outside the classroom. Other kids who had had Mr. Brunner in the past said that fifth grade was a breeze, everyone was calm, and you never had to worry about anything. Those kids have got to be the dumbest people ever, or were just extremely lucky.

Alright! So that was the first chapter, and I hope you enjoyed it! If you did, review, follow, and favorite please! I can't believe I am writing this story, but I am excited to try to write from Percy's POV and add more character development to him! Thank you for reading!

-lunasammygrimm *I changed my penname!*