Pernico, Pipabeth, OctaLuke, Jeyna, Frazel (one sided), Freo, Gruniper, Clarisse/Chris, Silena/Charles, Bianca/Thalia

All rights reserved to Rick Riordan

This is the sequel to my story Here for Good! Read that before this! Or don't and be really confused! Your choice!

Octavian didn't really like waking up in horrible pain, but it seemed like it was happening every day.

The first few times he had cried, and that seemed to only encourage them to hit harder. So he stopped, thinking they would get bored if he didn't show emotion. But they didn't.

They kept going until he was numb with pain. Every single inch of his body screamed in pain, and it was too much for him to handle.

Yet, every morning he would wake, eyes fluttering open and then squinting closed, dragging himself into an almost sitting position, before falling back onto the bed, crying out in pain.

If his parents were ever actually home, they would have heard him and burst through the door. But of course they were not there, and even if they were, they would have headsets on so they wouldn't hear a thing. If they did, they would ignore it, and Octavian knew this.

Slowly he would dress, pulling on a blazer and buttoning up his long sleeved dress shirt. Thank goodness it was winter and wearing long sleeves wasn't questioned, because the purplish bruises were very obvious and everywhere.

He had gotten a few strange looks whenever he got pushed in the hallway and cringed, sometimes accidentally letting out a swear or gasping, but no one had come up and actually asked him about it.

Another one of the benefits of being the quarterbacks gay lover, nobody could mess with you, at school at least.

After school was a completely different story.

Sitting at a table by himself wasn't how Frank had originally planned to spend his lunch, but with his boyfriend missing somewhere and all of his friends talking to other tables, that was how he ended up.

Not only had Leo been missing for lunch every day, even at their house he locked himself in the garage most days, toying with the car and anything he brought home from school. Sure, he wasn't supposed to bring things home from school, but he did anyway. Frank had yelled at him the first few times, but then dropped it when he saw how happy Leo was tinkering away.

Nowadays just seeing Leo besides the drive to school was surprising. They didn't have any classes together due to being in different grades, and even though they shared a lunch period, Leo stayed in the woodshop room for the entirety of it.

The only thing calming him was that Leo was eating. He knew that for sure, because he asked the woodshop teacher to make sure he actually ate. Maybe it was a little embarrassing, but Frank didn't really care. As long as Leo was healthy everything was fine.

Maybe not great, but fine.

Percy banged his head against the lunch table. He was such a horrible boyfriend. What kind of guy doesn't want their partner to go out and make friends? An asshole, that's who. And that was exactly what Percy was.

The wonderful di Angelo decided it was about time for him to try new things, and make new friends, be a little more social. Percy's immediate reaction was positive, Nico being happy was great, but after a week of serious thought, he had plenty of doubts.

Most of them were pure jealousy, other guys spending time with HIS boyfriend, but some were serious concerns. He could get hurt, or get attacked by stupid homophobes again, and this time Percy wouldn't be able to swoop in out of the blue.

Of course, it wasn't like he could forbid Nico from doing it. That would add a thousand more asshole points, and probably add single to his Facebook status. Nico would do whatever the hell he wanted, and that was part of the reason that Percy loved him. No no no, liked him a lot. He wasn't at that point yet, or was he? Ugh, he was starting to sound like a middle school girl.

He eventually did approach Bianca about the topic, and she had her doubts too.

"I don't want to see him get hurt again, but he does need to get out more and experiment. He's a teenage boy, they're weird. You understand them better than me," she tried to reason, but ended up making Percy even more confused.

So, in the end, Percy ended up with a bruise on his forehead for the rest of the day and a killer headache.

Piper was fuming. It was Tuesday, and Tuesday's were movie day. Well, more like cuddle and make out while a movie plays in the background day. And what did Annabeth do? Rain check it. Why? Quiz bowl.

That stupid team of elite nerds was ruining her life. Whenever Piper didn't have choir, Annie had Quiz Bowl. And the one day they both have off their friends decided to have a huge get together so there was no private time.

Seeing each other in the hallways really didn't count, and it certainly wasn't enough. FaceTiming while doing homework was a mess because they had different classes and Piper constantly pestered her girlfriend for answers because she was too lazy to look them up. Calling in the middle of the night was no good because Annabeth had younger siblings that would sometimes wake up and snitch on her. Her father could care less but her step-mother got angry.

Piper was for once glad her father was out of the house all the time. Annabeth could drop by anytime and they didn't have to worry about getting caught doing anything. Not that they did anything bad, it was just reassuring that her dad wouldn't walk in on them making out. Her dad was fine with her relationship but still, nobody wants to experience that level of awkwardness. It's like getting walked in on when taking a shower. Gross.

But that didn't even matter anymore, since the only person she wanted to invite over was always busy with her stupid nerd game. Okay, maybe that was a bit harsh. But there were no other girls on the team and all of the boys were drooling over her, not that they had a chance. Annabeth being a lesbian, and the fact that they could recite pi to the fiftieth digit, but couldn't tie their own shoes.

So Piper laid her head down on her desk and frowned, not able to do anything about her dilemma.

Jason had no idea what he was doing in all honesty.

Since the stupid dance he hadn't seen anyone, which wasn't all that surprising. What was surprising was that no girls had even presented themselves to him. None. It was infuriating.

Usually a few girls a month would ask him out on a date, and depending on what they were like, he would decline or agree. Most likely decline because the only girls that asked him out were the snooty ones that only talked about themselves.

It was nice that the girls had the confidence to ask him out rather than he ask them, but in all honesty, he would never have asked out any of the girls he ended up actually going on dates with. They were all nice, but none really stood out.

How he ended up liking a girl completely unlike the perfect girl he had always envisioned mystified him completely.

But it wasn't like he had a choice. His heart didn't really listen to advice or reason. Not even when his brain told it "She's so much better than you, you don't stand a chance! Give up!"

Hazel had no idea what her heart was doing.

Sure, Frank was really cute, she always knew that, but liking him was completely different. He was sweet and nice and awkward to a point of adorableness and he was so muscular and perfect in every way.

Shit, she was in love.

Burying her face in a pillow and screaming was the obvious solution to her problem. Hopefully Nico nor Bianca heard it.

For anyone that actually read this, thank you. I wrote HFG a while ago but I kinda had the urge to tie up loose ends. I have no idea how long this will be but it will be much more organized than my other fic, I swear. But anways, thanks for reading!