Half-Blood High Performing Arts School
Ch. 1: New School, New People
Percy POV
Beep beep beep beep
Ugh. Stupid alarm clock always interrupting my precious sleep.
BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP
Nope. There's no way I'm getting up. I don't care it's my first day at a new school. I'm just gonna ignore the world today. Nothing will get me out of bed today.
"Percy! Your breakfast is ready.
Breakfast? My stomach growled in response. No. Stay focused Percy. There's no breakfast good enough to interrupt sleep.
"I made you waffles!"
Except that.
I jumped out of bed and looked at my alarm clock; 7:24. School starts at 8:15 so I have a little while. I ran out of my room and ran down the stairs, jumping the last seven or so, nearly knocking my stepdad Paul over.
"I swear," he said smiling. "The only thing that could stop Mother Nature is your love for those waffles.
I wolfed down three stacks of my mom's blue waffles in about ten minutes, then grabbed a quick shower, and drove to school early since I promised Nico I'd meet him there. Ok, let me back up for a moment. My name is Percy Jackson, the new school I mentioned is Half-Blood High Performing Arts School, where a bunch of talented musicians, artists, geniuses, dancers, etc. go to to focus on their skills. It's only the second week of school, but I want to learn my way quick so I don't get lost. That's why I'm meeting my cousin, Nico Di Angelo, early, so he can show me around. I'll be a junior, just like him, and in case you're wondering why I'm coming to this school in the middle of the year, it's because 1.) I'm a pretty decent singer and guitarist, and 2.) apparently some schools, like my old one, don't appreciate my awesomeness. Either that, or I just caused too much trouble for them over the last two years and clogging the toilets with toilet paper was the last straw.
I pulled up to the front of the school and got out of my car. Nico should be here by now, but I don't see him. There is a pretty big tree with a nice, dark shadow. I wonder... I picked up a small rock from the parking lot and hurled it at the shadow. I saw it travel towards it, then randomly bounce in mid-air like it hit something.
I called out, "Hey Nico!" I saw him come out of the shadow and walk towards me. He didn't look very happy. "Really Percy? First time I see you in a year and THAT'S how you say hello?"
I grinned. "Good to see you to cuz." We went inside and he gave me a tour, man that place is HUGE! They have an Olympic size swimming pool, which Nico said was weird since the swim team was garbage, a huge library that I sadly will probably be spending a lot of time in, and the cafeteria had a stage for performances at lunch. We went down to the office to get my schedule.
"Excuse me." I said to the lady behind the desk. "I'm here to pick up my schedule. My name is Percy Jackson."
The lady smiled. "Of course Mr. Jackson." She handed me a piece of paper. "Welcome to Half-Blood High!"
After we left I turned to Nico. "Why it this place called Half-Blood High?" I asked. "Because one of the requirements to get into this place is one of your birth parents has to be an "Olympian"." He replied. "You know the Olympians. That group of the richest most powerful people on Earth that never get involved in their kids' lives unless they make it big in their field of talent."
I nodded. "So Poseidon and Hades won't acknowledge us unless we become huge music stars?"
He shrugged. "Pretty much." He took out his schedule. "What's your schedule?" I took opened up the sheet of paper and compared it with his.
Percy's Schedule
1. Music
2. Math
3. Biology
Lunch
4. Swimming
5. Recording Studio
6. Study Hall
Nico's Schedule
1. Music
2. Math
3. Physics
Lunch
4. Piano A
5. Recording Studio
6. Study Hall
"Piano?" I asked. "What are you doing on the piano?" He shrugged. "I figured it couldn't hurt to know how to play. Come on, let's go find your locker." We searched for about five minutes, which was annoying with students now showing up. Until finally we found my locker. Nico smirked and I could tell he was trying not to laugh. "What?" I asked.
"That locker next to you happens to belong to the hottest girl in school."
"Who?" I asked, not really caring. She'd probably be some slut who wore way too much makeup and only wore half of an outfit.
"Annabeth Chase." He said. "She's not the typical girl you'd expect her to be. She's actually really smart, nice, and not a slut. We're friends so I'll introduce you. Just try not to stare too much."
I rolled my eyes and threw my stuff into my locker. "C'mon, let's go." We walked to our first hour, Music. I walked in with about ten minutes left before the bell rang, so there was no one but the teacher there. I walked up behind him. " Excuse me, but I'm new here so I kinda need a seat."
He turned around. "Oh so you're the new student. Cool, I'm Apollo, not need for Mr. Apollo, my students just call me Apollo." He looked at his seating chart. " There's an empty chair next to Nico in the back if that's ok with you."
I grinned. "Sure that's good." I put my stuff by my chair and turned to Nico. "So what now." He looked at the clock. "Well we have time, let's go to the library. That's where we all hang out."
I frowned. "Who's we?"
"The group of friends I have." He replied. "Me, Annabeth, and some other people you don't know."
I shrugged. "Alright let's go." We went to the library and walked in. In was mainly empty except for a few kids getting books and group of kids sitting a big round table. We walked up and one of the guys turned to Nico. "Hey Nico where you been?" Nico waved. "Sorry guys I was showing my cousin around the school. By the way, this..." He jerked his head at me. "Is my cousin Percy." I waved and they all said hello.
Nico introduced me to everyone. The guy who said hello was Jason, he had short blonde hair and electric blue eyes. There was his sister, Thalia, who had the exact same eyes, but that was as far as the resemblance went. She had short, black hair with a blue streak in the front. She had kinda that punk rocker look. There was Jason's girlfriend, Piper, who had really tan skin, choppy brown hair, and eyes that I swear changed like three times as I said hello. There was Silena, who had black hair and had kinda that Barbie doll look, and her boyfriend Charlie, who said to just call him Beck, who was a really muscular, dark-skinned guy. There was Leo, a Latino boy who looked like an elf that you wanted to be careful around. There was Hazel, a dark-skinned girl with curly black hair, and Frank, who it was obvious she liked, who was a muscular Asian guy with a baby face. Finally Nico turned to this REALLY good looking blonde with striking grey eyes and said, "And this is Annabeth. Percy's locker is right next to yours so I already told him about you." Annabeth smiled. "Cool, nice to meet you Percy." I smiled back.
Nico was right, I had to make sure I didn't state at her for too long, which was really hard because of her eyes. There was just one problem. She was sitting on some guy's lap. I turned to Nico. "Hey you left someone out." Nico looked back and started laughing. "Geez Alex I didn't even see you there. Percy, as you can probably tell, that's Annabeth's boyfriend, Alex Mason." (Totally made up that name if you're reading this and that's your name, sorry about that I seriously thought of it in about three minutes.) Alex grinned. "Hey man, nice to meet you." Alex had a ball cap on and had a deep voice with a little bit of a southern accent. I don't know why, but I felt kinda sad that Annabeth had a boyfriend. I shouldn't since I just met her, but I did.
Just then the bell rang, signaling that we had five minutes to get to class. We all got up and started walking out. When Nico and I turned to go towards the music room, Annabeth and Alex came with us. Guess they have music too. As we talked with them I felt that sadness grow; not only did Annabeth already have a boyfriend, but it was impossible to not like the guy.
A/N: Alright first chapter done! Next chapter is music class, with a little surprise for Percy in it. R/R and I'll be back soon!