A/N: In case you were in doubt, I own nothing. If I did, I wouldn't be writing fan fiction. Well, I might be.

Will swung into class cheerily, Lou Ellen right behind him.

"I don't understand how you can be so happy on the Monday after winter break. It's 7:40, and you're already wide awake!"

"What? We have a new student, and I always try to make a good first impression. You know how important they are," Will replied indignantly.

Lou Ellen ran her hand through her green hair and groaned. "Hush up, sunshine."

Will smirked and sat down. Hazel, one of the freshmen, walked in with the cutest boy Will had ever seen next to her. He had messy black hair that covered his nearly-black eyes, intensely pale skin, and an aviator's jacket. He was just over five foot. Hazel was whispering in his ear, and he looked nervous. Will was in love. His life was amazing.

Mrs. Dodds called the class to order before asking Hazel to introduce the new kid.

"Hey everybody," Hazel called, "This is my new brother Nico di Angelo. He's 15 and from Italy." Nico smiled weakly.

"It's nice to have you in my class, Nico," Mrs. Dodds said. "You can sit in the empty desk over there next to Will."

His life wasn't just amazing, he realized. It was perfect!

Nico walked over and sat down next to Will, staring at the floor the whole time. Gosh, the kid was shy.

"Will Solace," he said, extending his hand. Nico just looked at him. Will lowered his hand. Okay. This was going to be interesting, all right.

Class started and Will re-entered the world of school. But he couldn't stop himself from glancing over at the boy next to him occasionally.

Nico looked around the cafeteria. He didn't see Hazel's bouncing curls, and she was the only person he knew apart from Frank, her kinda nerdy boyfriend who he also didn't see.

"Hey," a voice called from behind him. He jumped, almost spilling his food everywhere. An older girl with short black hair and blue highlights caught his tray, startling him even more. Lightning-fast reflexes, that girl.

"You're the new kid, right? Nico?" The girl queried.

He nodded as the girl beckoned over someone else.

"The name's Thalia," she said, "And this is Reyna, my girlfriend." Reyna was about the same age as Thalia, with long brown hair and matching eyes. "Anyway," Thalia continued, "Seeing as you don't have anyone to sit with, you're sitting with us." And she dragged Nico over to a table in the corner, where a blonde girl was sitting engrossed in a book.

"So, how do you like Olympus High? Kind of a stuck up name in my opinion, but, nobody asked me, per usual. Oh, this is Annabeth, who is just going to sit there and read about architecture or something the whole time. Annabeth!"

The girl's head jerked up. "Oh, hi. You're Hazel's brother, right? Annabeth Chase." She waved a little before returning to her book.

Nico watched as Thalia stole Reyna's apple and took a big bite out of it. "Um, school's pretty good so far, I guess." He really wasn't sure what reply Thalia wanted. But since she nodded, he continued. "The kids here are kind of, um,"

"Crazy?" Thalia interjected. Nico nodded. He was doing that a lot today.

"Do you know where Hazel is?"

Thalia shook her head. "Probably off snogging Frank in the library again."

Reyna rolled her eyes, but everyone laughed. Nico even chuckled a little.

Thalia threw her arm around Reyna's shoulders and started pointing people out to Nico. "Those are the Stoll brothers, right pair of troublemakers, but kind of fun." This was said of two sandy-haired boys with identical grins. They were surrounded by a small group of people that Thalia completely ignored. She then pointed to a table with an uncanny amount of pink. "Then there's Airhead Central. Only a few people there with a brain in their pretty little heads. The one with the blond hair and the purple shirt, that's my brother, Jason, and Reyna's current vice president and ex-crush. Ow! That hurt, Reyna! Percy, the dark-haired one next to him, is Annabeth's boyfriend. She wuvs him. Piper, the crazy-pretty brunette, that's Jason's girlfriend. Reyna's finally stopped hating her. Took her long enough. Over there's the jocks and the metal shop kids." She was now pointing to a different table with a short, impish looking boy standing on it. "The kid standing on the table is Leo. Mental, that one. Clarisse, the buff, mean-looking one, she's captain of wrestling, hockey, basically anything that you can give someone a black eye in. Then there's the artsy people. Lou Ellen, the green hair, Rachel, Percy's old crush-y thing, Cecil, Will,"

"I sit next to him in math," Nico interjected, happy to finally recognize someone. As Thalia pointed towards the blond, he looked towards the two. Will then blushed and looked away. Nico shrugged and turned back to Thalia.

"Yeah, he's nice enough. Junior, I think. Don't know him well. Anyway, over there in the corner by himself is Octavian. I'd suggest staying away from him, he's creepy. And, that's about it. You now know everyone important. You're a sophomore, right?"

"Yeah."

"Cool. I'm a senior, and Reyna and Annie over here are juniors."
"Don't call me Annie," the blonde said, not raising her eyes from her book. Thalia ignored her.

Reyna, finally able to get a word in edgewise, asked, "What class do you have next, Nico?"

"Um, World History with Brunner."

"You're lucky. He's the only teacher who can control this group. Not sure who thought it would be a good idea to put all the ADD, ADHD, and dyslexic kids in the same school- Anyway, have fun. I think Jason's in that class."

"You'd know!" Thalia interrupted.

"Shut up, Thals. Annabeth, we need to go to class!"

Annabeth, Thalia, and Reyna left. Nico followed Jason to Brunner's class. When they entered the classroom, he was amazed at the decor. He was pretty sure that was a real sword hanging on the wall. Cool.

However, when he looked around at the students' he didn't see anyone that he'd actually met. Then the impish boy (Lee?) ran up and threw his arm around Nico. Gosh, these people were touchy.

"Nick, my man! How's it going?"

Nico stared dumbstruck for a minute before stuttering, "It's N-Nico."

"Yeah, yeah. Anyway, welcome to Olympus High School for the Crazy, Mental, and Utterly Delirious! I'm Leo Valdez, and this is the room of history obsessing by Mr. Brunner."

"Leo," a girl called, "Quit creeping him out! Sorry, Nico. Don't worry, we aren't all this psychotic. It's just Leo. I'm Piper by the way."

Nico raised his hand in greeting. Jason's girlfriend. Piper gestured to the seat next to her, and Nico took it, after shrugging out of Leo's grasp.