Annabeth marched up the stairs of Percy's school…Goode high. She walked up and patted the boy nearest to her on his shoulder forcing him to turn around along with a pretty brunette; both were smiling at her; which he looked at pointedly indicating Annabeth liked he had won a prize.
"Hey" She said
"Hi" He grinned back
"I'm new and I was-"
"That would explain why I haven't seen you around before" he smiled winking at her
The girl next to him laughed then noticed Annabeth looked uncomfortable and turned to the boy "Stop flirting. I'm Jenny and that's Matt. " She said pointing to herself and the boy as she introduced them.
Annabeth smiled at her gratefully "I was wondering if you've seen my boyfriend…he goes to school here."
Matt frowned "Oh! Who? Maybe I know him"
"Yeah…..that's what I wanted to ask you"
For some reason Matt turned scarlet while Jenny burst out laughing.
Jenny regained control after a while "Well…who is he?" she asked like nothing unusual had happened
"Percy Jackson."
Their smiles disappeared as soon as l said that while I just looked at them confused.
Matt should've known better.
"Listen here…I don't know what it is with all you girls pretending to be Percy's girl but-" Jenny said angrily
"How many exactly?" She interrupted looking absolutely furious even more furious than Jenny who we all knew liked Percy (which was explainable since she'd been Percy's first friend at Goode.)...well everyone but Percy, who claimed to have a girlfriend that lives in San Francisco, who was blonde and a beautiful goddess…kind of like...the girl standing in front of him.
But Matt knew she wasn't plainly because they never were…I mean Percy didn't have a girlfriend even though he claimed to have given his football jersey to her the day before during the break, which looked exactly liked the one the girl was wearing….but before he could say anything, he saw Sam and Rose, Danny and Scarlett coming towards them.
"Hi! Guys" Danny said "Who is this?" he asked indicating…what did she say her name was again?
Again before he could say anything , Jenny replied "Some brat pretending to be Percy's girlfriend"
The moment she said that they all looked at the girl with disgust but if she noticed she didn't back down instead she crossed her arms across her chest and glared at Jenny
"Pretending?"
"Yeah...it's really sad that girls throw themselves at him like that" The girl's eyes widened at Danny's words.
"He doesn't notice though, doesn't even know why he's Mr. popular which makes no sense since he's captain of football and swimming and all" Matt said quickly not even sure why but he had a feeling that he didn't want to anger the blond….why?
"She already knows that, that's why she's claiming to be his girlfriend" Rose snapped but he ignored her.
"What did you say you're name was again?" he asked
"What does it matter?" Scarlett snapped while the others looked at him shocked. Okay, he knew he hit on a lot of girls but did they really think he'd hit on her? Not that there was anything wrong with her; quite the opposite, she was beautiful after all…Okay, he was going off point. She was Percy's girlfriend…Right?
While he has having his mental dilemma, Rose had turned to the girl with a glare "Drop the act" she said icily but the girl just looked at her and scoffed
"Act?" That was the girl's simple reply
"Back off guys" Matt said
"Back off? Why are you defending her?" Jenny snapped
"Because I think….she might be telling the truth" He rushed out, if they had looked shocked before they now looked bewildered.
"You want me to believe that you believe that this blond who just showed up here at Goode High this morning claiming to be Percy's girlfriend when she doesn't even know him and heard about him from Lexi by the looks of it is Percy's girlfriend" Jenny said angrily.
When she put it that way…but then he glanced at Annabeth again and saw well Percy's Jersey which she was wearing over her shorts.
"Guys" he started, talking mostly to Danny and Sam "Look at her shirt"
They looked at him like he was crazy "Why would w-?"
"Just do it " Matt muttured
Reluctantly they did as he asked and he was about to laugh as their eyes widened and looked from the jersey to the blond and back again but he saw the girls looking at him weirdly.
"Not to mention the fact that she isn't supposed to be real" Matt added for the guys benefit
"You don't think?" Sam muttered then shook his head "She's finer than he blabbed on about"
"Yeah and I was pretty sure that wasn't possible" Danny chimed in causing them to laugh until they saw the girls including the blond staring at them.
"She's hot" he defended "Well isnt she?" Jenny scoffed and stared at him like she'd never seen him before and decided to ignore his comment
"What are you guys talking about?" Jenny asked bitterly but before he could explain they all saw Percy walking towards them except the blond who had her back to him.
"Hey guys! Who you talking to?" He asked cheerfully
"Your girlfriend" Danny teased ignoring the glare Jenny sent him
"Just some girl" Rose said ignoring both of them.
The blond took this as a signal to turn around.
Jenny chose this moment to speak "Some pathetic girl claiming you're her-" She was got off by Percy's shout causing the students who hadn't already been staring at Mr. Popular to look his way, he looked so excited…for the first time Matt had seen when Percy was in school.
All he said was one word.
Just a word.
But that was all it took for Matt to know he had been right.
For the girl to smile at Percy.
For Dan and Sam to grin for an unknown reason.
For Rose and Scarlett to smile but it was obvious they were shocked.
For more than half of Goode high population to stare at him and the girl (It was better than the blond!)
But the worst reaction was from Jenny, who staggered backwards liked she'd been slap and stared at Percy in shock and…well it wasn't exactly joy.
She looked so hurt and like she didn't believe she'd heard him correctly, but he knew she had; there wasn't a single person within a mile of Goode High that hadn't heard Percy.
"ANNABETH!"
