AN: Hello fellow fanfictioners! It's good to be back in the Percy Jackson fandom; I have not written a good Percabeth story in almost a year! This story does not relate to any of the other stories that I have written in the past, so don't expect to hear from Harper of Eric or any of my other OCs. If you have time though you should check out my stories My Crazy Best Friend and What Just Happened because they are similar in the way that they are observations from outside points of view. So if you like this story go and read my other ones.

Disclaimer: Rick Riordan owns everything... he refuses to share with me :(

Part One

Tessa P.o.V.

Starting at a new high school in sophomore year was defiantly not what I wanted to do, especially not when the school I am now at is so different from the one I left back home. My dad works for this company... I'm not really sure what it is he does, but I know he is trying to work on ways to conserve energy or something like that.

Anyways, he was offered this great promotion where he would make a lot more money than he had been previously making and have his own office along with a prestigious title. The only stipulation was that we would have to move to New York. After many fights I was finally faced with the facts that I was going to be leaving my home, my extended family, and my friends, and be moving fifteen hours away, according to Google Maps.

It wasn't that I hated the idea of living in New York- in fact I was actually pretty excited about living in the "Big Apple." It was just that I was leaving behind everyone I care about, and would be leaving the house that I have lived in since I was born. Plus New York City is enormous, Madison is a pretty big city, but compared to New York it's practically the size of a pea.

So now here I am, standing in front of Goode High while everyone around me seems to be catching up with their friends and talking about their summers, I am left to awkwardly ask directions to the office from some random girl. She looks at me funny for a moment before telling me that its down the hall to the left of the library in a very clear Bronx accent. I realize as I find the office that she must have thought I sounded as weird as I thought she did. Great, just another thing to alienate me from everyone else here.

The two desks in the office are empty so I am left to stare awkwardly at the walls pretending to read all of the memos posted on there until someone finally comes in from the teachers lounge. The person is a woman probably mid-fifties, she looks kind of crabby.

"What do you need?" She asks looking me over. I am taken aback by the difference between her and the receptionist at my old school, Mrs. Nardi, she was always so polite. This woman reminds me once again that I am not in the cheese state any longer.

"I'm new here- can I get my schedule?"I ask.

"Name and year," she says curtly taking a seat at the computer at the foremost desk.

"Tessa Reed, and I'm a sophomore."

"Okay, this will just take a minute to load." Miss Dolon said, at least I think that was her name. It was the name one the name plate that was on the desk. The minute turned into five when the computer crashed and she had to go over to the other computer, log in, and put all of my information in again all the while grumbling about the blasted budget not being put towards better computers. Finally my schedule was printed just as the bell rang.

This day just keeps getting worse for me...

"Do you have a map so I can find my way around?" I asked.

"Right there," she pointed to a whole stack of maps that were sitting on a small circular table. I thanked her awkwardly and then got the hell out of there as quickly as I could. My homeroom was also my English classroom so I quickly found my locker and through all of my stuff into it and grabbed my English book as well as my other materials. The room was on the second floor so I hurried up to Mr. Blofis' room and let out a small scream as I noticed the door was closed and locked so there was no way I could just sneak in. Reluctantly I knocked on the door and was let in by a man who I presumed was Mr. Blofis.

"Why are you late?" He asked bluntly.

"I'm new here, I had to go to the office and get my schedule, but the computer crashed and it took forever and then I had a little trouble finding the class," I explained as quickly as I could.

"In that case welcome to my class, I'm Mr. Blofis. And you are..." He said and stuck out his hand for me to shake.

"Tessa Reed." I shook his hand awkwardly. I have always thought it was weird to shake adults hands.

"Okay then." He said to me and then turned to the rest of the class, about twenty or so kids who had been whispering to each other while the two of us were talking, "this is Tessa Reed. I hope you will always be very welcoming to her on her first day." I blushed as all of the stares of my classmates focused on me. Some were malicious, some calculating, but most were uninterested.

"You can take a seat by Percy." Mr. Blofis told me.

"Percy raise your hand." He ordered and a guy in the back row put his hand up. I practically raced to the back, but hopefully I managed to look casual about it. I dumped my stuff on the desk and sat down and started to listen to the usual beginning of the year expectations that all home room teachers babble on about. About five minutes later I was brought out of my inner boredom by a male voice.

"Your eye is twitching," The guy in the desk next to mine informed me, Percy I think his name was.

"What?" I asked confused.

"Your eye." He said pointing at my eye. "It's twitching."

"Oh," I replied awkwardly not sure how to respond to that.

"Don't worry first days are bad for everyone, you will be fine," Percy assured me kindly. It was then that I noticed just how cute my desk neighbor was. He had jet black hair that was very messy and a very toned body, well at least his arms and legs were, I would guess that the rest of him was as well. He was wearing a plain green shirt with a pair of long jean shorts. Percy just had seemed to have something about him that told me he was a pretty nice guy.

"Thanks." I said honestly. My mother had told me the same thing this morning, but it was nice to be assured by someone who was not the woman who gave birth to me.

"What is your next class?" He asked.

"English," I answered.

"Cool, me too." I didn't let it show, but I was happy to know I would have at least one more class with this hunk who actually talked to me.

"Percy, Tessa is there something that you would like to share with all of us?" Mr. Blofis asked and the rest of the class turned to look at us which made my whole face seem to feel like it was on fire. Percy though just chucked.

"Nope I was just telling Tessa here that she was lucky to have you as a teacher," Percy replied easily. Mr. Blofis just shook his head at him.

"I'm sure." He replied. "Knock it off Percy, don't think that just because you are my step-son that I will be cutting you any slack this year."

"I'm hurt that you would accuse me of lying, I was just telling Tessa here how understanding you are. You're making me look like a liar." Percy exclaimed dramatically putting his hand over his chest. "You've hurt me right here." He tapped his chest again.

"Perce your heart is on the other side of your body." Mr. Blofis said seriously, but he had a smile on his face. "Don't make me tell your mother about this."

"That was a low blow Paul." Percy said.

"I know- now pay attention." Mr. Blofis ordered before getting back into his talk. I was surprised that Percy was the teacher's step-son. He seemed like he was a class clown type. When homeroom and English classe were over Percy agreed to show me around for the rest of the day. We only had one other class together other than English and homeroom, but we did have lunch together.

At lunch I was surprised when Percy grabbed us a table at the very edge of the lunch room. I guess I had figured by all of the lustful looks that the girls in the halls all days had been shooting him that he was pretty popular. I was even more surprised that when I asked about it the cheerful attitude that Percy had had all morning seemed to fade.

"I was kind of a loner last year. My only friend last year, Rachel, went off to this private school this year." He replied tonelessly.

"She ditched you?" I asked

"She didn't want to, but her dad made her go." Percy explained.

"Well it stills sucks for you," I said.

"I guess, but I don't really care if the people at this stupid school like me or not, I have plenty of friends." He said seriously.

"Really?" I asked.

"Try not to sound so surprised Tessa. I have a group of friends that I go to a summer camp with every year." He informed me.

"I didn't mean to-" I started, but Percy cut me off.

"Don't worry I was just kidding around with you. I know that I do a pretty good job of pulling off the whole happy to be left alone thing, but that is just because last year all of these people had no problem picking on me because I was small and different."

"What do you mean?" I asked thinking back to the tons of people who had said hi to Percy all day.

"I grew like a foot over summer, and I actually gained some muscle, but last year I was just this skinny little freshman who had dyslexia and ADHD." He said, "people are much more accepting of people's flaws when they come in an attractive package."

"Yeah, I guess." I said awkwardly.

"So what are you going to do about all of these people who are hoping to become your new BFF?" I asked.

"Not sure, so far they have pretty much left me alone while you are around." Percy shrugged.

"Well at least I am good for something." I joked.

"Yup, I guess I have a good reason to keep you around." He joked back.

"Hey." I exclaimed mock outraged.

"Haha. So tell me about your old school?" He asked and effectively changed the subject.

I told him about my old school for the rest of lunch while we both ate our pizza. The rest of the day was pretty easy, even though Percy wasn't in any of my afternoon classes he still made sure that I knew how to get to the right rooms. By the end of the day I was ready to go home and explore New York before starting my homework. Percy was walking me to the parking lot when I asked him if he would like to join me.

"Thanks for the offer, but this is my girlfriend's last night in town. She's going back to San Francisco to visit her family for a week, so we are hanging out all night."

"Your girlfriend?" I asked surprised and kind of hurt. Even though I had only known him a day I was starting to form a very big crush on the guy. He hadn't mentioned a girlfriend all day either.

"Yes, Annabeth. That's her right there." He said pointing to a girl that was leaning against a motorcycle in the parking lot. The first thing I noticed about her was that she was very pretty, I also noticed that most of the boys around the parking lot had realized the same thing. Annabeth had curly blond hair that looked like it could easily belong to a princess and stormy gray eyes, she also looked very athletic. She ignored all of the stares she was receiving as she made her way over to us.

"Hey Perce, who's your friend?" She asked looking me over calculatingly.

"Annabeth this is Tessa, Tessa this is my girlfriend Annabeth. Tessa is new to Goode this year so I have been showing her around today."

"That's so sweet of you. Oh and it's really nice to meet you- I was really worried that Seaweed brain here was going to turn into an anti-social hermit without Rachel here."

"Thanks for the confidence booster, Wise Girl, I thought you loved me." Percy said mock hurt, this time holding his hand to the right side of his chest.

"I thought we discussed your horrible nickname."

"Oh just drop it Annabeth, you know you love it."He teased.

"Just give me a kiss you dork." Annabeth ordered and Percy seemed all to happy to follow her orders. The kiss was short, but obviously passionate, and I felt all of the hopes that I had been forming all day crash and burn. Suddenly wanting to be away from their gooey couplyness I cleared my throat and they broke apart to look at me.

"Thanks so much for showing me around today Percy, I really appreciated it, but I have to go my mom is here to pick me up. It was nice to meet you Annabeth." I said before hurrying off towards the other side of the school. Once I was behind a wall and out of view from the couple I texted my mom to have her come and get me.

I looked back towards them to see them climbing onto the bike that Annabeth had originally been leaning against, Annabeth wrapped her arms tight around Percy's waist and her face was snuggled into the small of her back. I don't know what I was expecting to see, but I knew as I turned back that I had only been torturing myself further. I guess I would just have to face the fact that Percy would never be more than a friend to me, and I guess I could handle that because he seems like a pretty awesome friend to have.

Well at least this was not my worst first day of school, I thought as I climbed into my mom's car and watched Goode High disappear behind us. Only three years left though, I thought wistfully.

So please leave me a review with your thoughts, and I will update the next time inspiration for a good one-shot hits me (reviews always seem to give me inspiration *hint hint nudge nudge*). All of the chapters in this story are one-shots, but some of my OCs might get another chapter down the line. Please tell me what you think, I love getting your input! Review! Review! Review!