Sooooo… hi.

It's me.

I haven't used this fanfiction account in over 2 years, but recently I fell down a deep hole when I read a solangelo fanfiction. And another. And another. And then I was reading percabeth and some with the whole crew. I'm obsessed. So this is happening! If you are interested, a few of the amazing fanfictions that stopped me from doing any schoolwork were: "You Know Me?" [TheGoldenSnitch1228]; "Wrong Number" [EffervescentGrace]; "I Got a Boy [flying crowbar]; and "Sixth Period Study Hall" [BookEnthusiast2.0]. They are amazing stories, read them all!

I have left the single chapter of an old fanfiction from when I was… like… 12 up. Read and cringe at how freaking awful it is.

Also, a heads up, I'm English. So if any words are different to the "standard" American English, sorry!

Rated T for swearing.

Also, I don't know if this is necessary but it may help somebody. Trigger Warning: There are mentions of abuse at the end. Sorry. I won't go in to detail until later chapters.

Seven teenagers are all given detention for very different reasons. What happens next brings them closer until they become a kind of unlikely group of friends.

PERCY

Percy was having a bad day. It wasn't the first time bad things had happened to him, but there weren't usually so many. First, it was the gum that he managed to get stuck in his hair. Where did it come from? Percy sure didn't know, and he didn't really want to find out. Then, it was dropping his notebook on his foot, AND getting a paper cut as it slipped quickly out of his fingers. Also, all of his loose papers fell out of the notebook, and he had to kneel on the floor like an idiot picking them all up.

Oh, and there was the time when he saw Leo Valdez, of all people, kissing his ex-girlfriend. And Percy punching him. And the head teacher giving them both detention that day.

That sucked too.

Now, don't get the wrong idea. Percy wasn't a bad person. He also wasn't a jealous person. But there was something about seeing the girl who he had loved, and I mean loved, kissing someone else, that made Percy get really angry. Even if it was Percy who dumped Calypso, not the other way round. Maybe it was really stupid. Hell, he KNEW it was really stupid. Yeah… he wasn't looking forward to this detention.

Percy struggled through his last lesson, the words swimming even more on the page before him than usual, as he sulked unapologetically. He just wanted to go home, have a blue cookie (family tradition, don't ask) and train all night. Percy was a swimmer, and as he shuffled about school that day, all he wanted was to swim, and let the water wash his problems away. But he couldn't. He would have to be late to training, because of a stupid detention. It was like the universe had shit on him.

So when he trudged into the detention classroom, he was expecting some sympathy. He definitely didn't expect to be giving any.

"Jackson, sit. You're the last one here." The teacher barked at him.

He slumped into a desk at the front, and turned around to look at everyone else in the room. The first surprise was his best friend, Jason Grace, who surely would have mentioned his detention. The next was Piper, sitting directly behind him. Although Piper McLean had a pretty hot badass side, she seemed way too nice to be in detention. At the back were Frank and Hazel, two of the kindest people he knew, the only people in here that he properly trusted. Except for one...

The last person in the room was the most surprising. Hunched over, her eyes wet with tears and her face red, was Annabeth. Freaking. Chase.

As in, his crush throughout the whole of his childhood.

As in, the girl who tutored him for two years when she was only 13.

As in, the girl who was practically tortured by her demon of a boyfriend when she was 16.

As in, the girl who went through that abuse alone.

As in, the girl who never cried.

Percy had an immediate reaction. He wanted to scream, or explode, or cry. This girl was like a sister to him! Surely he knew why she was crying? But of course, Percy didn't know why. Because he hadn't spoken to her in months.

It all happened when Percy joined the football team at their school. He didn't even like football that much, but he was fit and fast and listened to the coach enough to become good; at Maple Park Academy becoming good at football meant that you became popular, and hung out with the team, and even got a seat on their famous table in the lunch hall. While Percy stepped out of the shadows, Annabeth shrank into them, destroying their flimsy friendship based on a childhood crush.

Eventually Percy dropped out of the team to focus on swimming, but by this point he had a permanent spot on the team table. Jason on his right. As always. He never even looked at Annabeth during lunch, sitting on a quiet table with her head in a book, or occasionally sitting with this gloomy boy and some dude in his maths class called Will.

"Right Cupcakes! You sit, and you sit quiet, for an hour. You are allowed to do homework or-"

The teacher stopped abruptly as the lights went out and the room went silent.

I hope that didn't suck. I'm not sure about the ending. Please review and follow to find out more…