Authors Note:

Hey everyone! This is my first fanfiction ever. It took a long time for me to decide what I was going to write and I would be happy for anyone's criticism, comments, questions, or suggestions because I have no idea of where I am going to be taking this story. Please tell me if you liked it or if I should just stop writing. I am in school and I will most likely post a chapter every 2-4 weeks if I continue writing.

Chapter 1: Welcome to Goode

ANNABETH'S POV:

This is the first day of the end of my life. My whole life I grew up in San Francisco. That is sixteen years in one place! I know everyone, i have friends, i am probably the smartest person in my class, i am the all star female athlete, and captain of the softball team. You could only imagine how my world got completely crushed when my dad and step-mother told me about moving to New York. it was like taking a mechanically thrown softball to the chest over and over. You have never experienced pain until you go to the batting cages and have ten softballs fly right at you and there is nothing you can do but brace yourself. I begged my parents to let me stay to finish high school in San Francisco, but of course they said no. So I was moving all the way across the country with no say in the matter. Yay, just what I wanted! I hope you detected my sarcasm because so far that day was the worst day of my entire life.

"BEEP-BEEP-BEEP!" I groaned as my alarm clock blasted its annoying tune. I opened my eyes to the streaming light coming through my window. I peered at my alarm clock and saw it read 7:00. I slowly rolled out of my nice warm bed and as soon as my feet touched the floor a shiver was sent through my spine and I got goose bumps. I was not used to the New York whether. I walked to my bathroom and turned the shower on full blast. As I waited for the water to warm up I glanced at the mirror. I saw my reflection and my eyes rested upon the two stormy grey clouds that were staring back. They seemed so out of place, they didn't go with my athletic figure that was covered with California tanned skin, nor did they look appealing with my long blonde curly hair. I had a mini stare down with myself and sighed as the mirror fogged up. I undressed and hopped in the steamy hot shower. After I rinsed all the soap off I closed my eye and stood under the shower head letting it pour down on my hair and drip down. I opened my eyes and my hand rested on the knob and relentlessly turned the shower off. I grabbed my towel and wrapped it around me and walked to my closet. After ten minutes of debating on what to wear I stood in front of my door length mirror and I was wearing a pair of dark denim skinny jeans, my favorite Three Days Grace t-shirt, red converse, and my leather jacket. I brushed my teeth and for two minutes.
I faked a smile, "Ah, minty fresh."
I quickly brushed my hair letting it fall freely on my shoulders and applied light makeup. I was ready so I grabbed my bag and headed downstairs. When I reached the last steps two little figures wrapped their arms around me screaming, "ANNIE!" I hugged them back screaming, "BOBBY! MATTHEW!" We walked to the kitchen where my dad sat at the island drinking coffee and reading the newspaper while my step-mom prepared pancakes, but it looks like she only made enough for two or three people. She put three pancakes on each of the three plates and handed one to Bobby and the second one to Matthew. She took the third one and brought it over to my dad and kissed him on the cheek.
"Ah-hem," I said while she went back to clean some dishes. She looked at me like I was an old dirty pair of socks and asked, "what?"
I stared back at her and said, "what about me? Where's my breakfast?"
She simply said, "There's cereal in the pantry. Help yourself," and went back to the dishes.
I stormed out of the kitchen slamming the door as I left. There were a few shouts but I ignored them and kept walking.

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I pulled my phone out to check the time, it was 8:05. School starts at 8:30 so i had twenty-five minutes to get my schedule, find my locker, and explore a little bit. I walked up the front steps of Goode High School, school started two weeks ago, I was a little nervous I've never been a new kid before. It was a huge campus but with only one building in the center. I opened one of the double doors and entered the hallway of lockers with a group of kids here and there I got a few stares, mostly from guys, but otherwise people they just ignored me. I started looking around for any signs that would point me in the direction of the office, but was so focused on looking for signs I ran into something by that I mean
"Oh my god I am so sorry! I wasn't watching where I was going." I said frantically. I was face to face with a girl with uneven spiky black hair and shockingly electric blue eyes with black eyeliner that made her eyes pop out even more. She was about the same hight as me, but she had pale skin with very light freckles, and she wore all black; ripped black jeans, black Green Day T-shirt, black leather jacket, black combat boots. She was beautiful, no doubt, but scary. I started freaking out, first day and I'm gonna get into a fight with a goth princess. Great, just great! I was pulled out of my thoughts when I heard a girls voice.
"It's okay, calm down! I'm not gonna punch you if that's what your thinking. I haven't seen you before, you new?" She said as if reading my mind.
"Yeah, I'm new. I'm Annabeth Chase."
"I'm Thalia Grace. You look lost. What are you looking for?"
"The office."
"C'mon I'll take you there."

We talked the whole way to the office. She was so easy to talk to, it felt like I had known her my whole life. By the time we reached the office I knew that she had a brother, she lived here in New York all her life, she had dyslexia and ADHD (like me) she wasn't the best student, she loved rock music and the color black. As we walked she asked me a few questions like where you from, what grade are you, do you have a boyfriend etc. When we reached the office there was an old lady sitting at the front desk. Her name plate read Mrs. Perkins, she was pale with grayish black hair, thick layers of makeup that made her look like a clown, and dark beady eyes. She wore an ugly floral dress that made her look like a garden vomited all their dead yellow flowers and weeds on her. She looked up at us and glared at Thalia and a small smirk fell across her lips.
"Well, well, well, look who it is! You here to collect another detention slip deary?"
"No, sorry to disappoint but I'm just showing our Annabeth, our new student, around like the good role model citizen I am," Thalia said with a playful smile and winked at me like we were sharing an inside joke.
"Oh well, what was your name again? Annabelle? Anniebelle? Annie?"
I gritted my teeth. And I held back a whitty comment that might get me in trouble on my first day. I said, "Annabeth Chase," emphasizing on the 'Beth' part of my name.
"Okay dear, just a moment."
I looked at Thalia who shared a look of disgust of this office clerk, and we simultainusly rolled our eyes.
"Here is your schedule, locker number, combination code, list of the textbooks you need, and the school handbook. Please read it and follow the rules. Have a nice day hun!"
Then she turned back to what she was doing completely ignoring us. Thalia tool that as a sign to get the hell out of there. She took the slip of paper that had the list of books I need and my locker number on it and dragged me all the way to the library. When we got there she handed the slip to the ninety year old librarian and waited for her to give me all the books I needed. When we finished getting all my books she showed me where my locker was. I neatly organized my books and shut my locker. Thalia grabbed my schedule and smiled.
"We have almost all our classes together except art and calculus."
I grabbed the slip and it read:

8:30-8:50 English- P. Blifis Room 23
9:00-9:50 Calculus- G. Webster Room 106
10:00-10:50 Marine Biology- B. Fisher Room 54
11:00-11:50 Greek- C. Brunner Room 148
12:00-12:50 Lunch
1:00-1:50 Team Sports- J. Wagner Gym
2:00-2:50 Art- A. Malone Room 317

"Wait, calculus? Isn't that for all the really smart people? Are you a nerd?"
"I wouldn't really call myself a nerd, more like an intellectual badass."
Just then a loud bell rang through the hall and Thalia grabbed my hand and started pulling me.
"C'mon! Wouldn't want my little nerd to be late on her first day!"
Cue eye roll. We raced through the hallway and finally made it to our class. Luckily we walked in right as the bell rang. The teacher looked at us and his eyes focused on me.
"You must be our new student! Welcome to Goode! I'm Mr. Blofis your English teacher and you are?"
"Annabeth Chase."
"Please take a seat next to Mr. Jackson."

That's when I saw him. He was the cutest guy I have ever seen. Im talking extremely cute. His untamed jet black hair that looked like it hasn't seen a brush since dinosaurs roamed the earth. It was extremely attractive. Then there were his beautiful emerald green eyes that i could have gotten lost in. His perfect olive tanned skin that looked like he spent most of his time at the beach. Oh, and his muscles that were outlined perfectly with his plain blue t-shirt. I cautiously walked to my seat and slightly smiled at him as I sat down and took my notebook out.
"Hey, I'm Percy Jackson."