Guess what? TWO CHAPTERS IN A ROW! Mostly because I can and I wanted to, so... Enjoy!

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Percy POV:

When we got back to the cafeteria, everyone was laughing and the girls were nowhere to be seen. Oh no. I rushed over to our table to see it covered in pizza and lunch trays. This wouldn't be the first time they have left lunch early. Nothing's wrong. I told myself. My phone went off. It was a chain linked video from the whole school. I downloaded it and sat down, the guys doing the same thing. Pressing play, I immediately wished I hadn't.

The girls were laughing and picking at their food. The camera zoomed in on Drew, Reyna, Khione, and Rachel, holding their lunch trays. All of a sudden, Rachel's tray is on Annabeth, Khione got Thalia, Drew on Piper, and Reyna's on Hazel. Annabeth's fists clenched, and you could hear Drew's voice speak up.

"Awe honey, I'm so sorry! I guess we didn't see the nobodies sitting here," she clasped her hands together. Annabeth stood, facing Drew and you could see the redness of her face.

"You know, it's no wonder why you sluts don't have boyfriends. You may be pretty on the outside, but on the inside you stink more than a dump site." She had growled. Drew looked sincerely hurt for a second before she smiled. Ouch. Drew got burned.

"And what about you guys?" she grinned wickedly. "Still chasing after the popular boys even though they would never go out with nerds like you?" You could hear the whole crowd laughing in amusement. Annabeth's eyes were watering, and the other girls were crying too.

"Ooh, I struck a nerve didn't I?" Drew mockingly put her hand on her chest. "Why don't you geeks run along before you humiliate yourselves even more, huh?" Hazel and Piper grabbed Annabeth's hand and motioned for them to leave. They did, heading out the exit door right near our table.

I found myself crying in anger. We had been called to the office about being late yesterday. If we had been a few minutes earlier, we could have stopped this. I stood up and stomped over to where Drew was sitting.

"What did you do?" I growled showing her my phone.

"Oh that?" She pointed her finger at my screen with a smirk. "Just taking care of some girls who don't know their boundaries. It's all set now." She smiled sweetly. I shook my head at her and turned away from her.

"Percy!" Rachel called as I started walking away. "Would you guys like to sit with us?" She fiddled with her hands nervously.

"Absolutely not." I seethed. I took out my phone and tried to call Annabeth. Once. Twice. Three times. She answered on my fourth try.

"Hello?" She sniffed.

"Annabeth?! Where are you? I'm coming to get you. The guys are coming too, just tell me where you are." I begged.

"No, Percy, I'm fine. Don't worry about it. I'll see you tomorrow, okay?" And then she hung up, not even giving me a chance to say anything. I slammed my phone onto the lunch table and threw my head into my hands.

"They need space right now." Nico said looking at his phone. He had a frown covering his lips, and you could tell he wasn't very happy.

"She doesn't need space, she needs me to be there. If we had been two minutes earlier from the office we could have stopped this." I whispered.


Annabeth POV:

Skipping school was a lot harder than I thought it would be. Even though we didn't get harassed every day, I missed the homework and learning parts. I was weird like that, I absolutely loved school. It's been two weeks since we left that day, and I could say we've never been happier. We accepted Piper's Dad's record deal last week, after posting another song on YouTube. Today would most likely be our last video before complete stardom, and we were all pretty excited. Thalia was setting up her drums station, Hazel was getting coordinated on the piano, and Piper was tuning her guitar. Meanwhile, I was doing breathing exercises to calm my nerves.

"You guys ready?" Thalia asked.

"Yeah," Piper sighed. Just then our phones started to ring. I looked down at mine and saw a picture of me and Percy at the beach. I was blocking the splashes he threw at me, a huge smile on both of our faces. This would be the third call from him today, along with the overbearing amounts of unread texts he's sent. I quickly pressed 'Deny.' I felt bad for ignoring all of his calls and texts, but he doesn't need to get dragged into the press if we get famous. That's a lie. It's easier to cut all of our ties now. You're totally lying to yourself! My inner conscience was screaming.

"Jason," Piper whispered, throwing her phone to the other side of the couch.

"Nico texted," Thalia sighed. "'I miss you. When are you guys coming back to school?' Frowny face."

"Just remember, this won't be our last song together. All of this is for a reason," Hazel painfully smiled, placing her phone on the table as it kept ringing.

"3..2..1.. Go," I turned on the camera. "Hey guys! I'm so excited about today's song! It will be our last one for YouTube for quite a while. But, don't worry, if you love our music, you'll be hearing it a lot more later," I winked. "Today, we are singing our new song, Miss Moving On, I hope you guys like it." I motioned for the girls to get ready as I gripped the microphone.

(Annabeth, Piper, Thalia, Hazel, All)

Miss Moving On -Fifth Harmony

I'm breaking down, gonna start from scratch
Shake it off like an Etch-A-Sketch
My lips are saying goodbye
My eyes are finally dry

I'm not the way that I used to be
I took the record off repeat
You killed me, but I survived
And now I'm coming alive

I'll never be that girl again, no oh oh
I'll never be that girl again, no oh oh
My innocence is wearing thin
But my heart is growing strong
So call me, call me, call me
Miss movin' on, oh oh oh
Miss movin' on, oh oh oh, yeah

I broke the glass that surrounded me (Surrounded me)
I ain't the way you remember me (Remember me)
I was such a good girl
So fragile, but no more.
I jumped the fence to the other side (The other side)
My whole world was electrified (Electrified)
Now I'm no longer afraid
It's Independence Day
(Independence Day)
I'll never be that girl again, no oh oh
I'll never be that girl again, no oh oh
My innocence is wearing thin
But my heart is growing strong
So call me, call me, call me
Miss movin' on

Everything is changing and I never wanna go back to the way it was
(The way it was)

I'm finding who I am and who I am from here on out is gonna be enough

(Gonna be enough) It's gonna be enough
I'll never be that girl again, no oh oh
I'll never be that girl again, oh oh oh
My innocence is wearing thin
But my heart is growing strong
So call me, call me, call me

Miss movin' on (on) oh oh oh
Miss movin' on (
On and on and on and on and on)oh oh oh
Miss movin' on (
on and on and on and on) oh oh oh
(
On and on and on and on)Miss movin' on, oh oh oh (Hey yeah)
I'm movin' on


Percy POV:

"Guys, we have an issue!" I called from the living room. We were all at Jason's house for today, being Saturday. The guys and I had just finished a song, and then my computer went off for an alert. An alert I had stopped seeing maybe about a week and a half ago, which was weird because they posted every week. Right before practice, as usual, we had tried getting in contact with said people but got no response. The sound made me run to the computer.

"What's wrong?" Jason plopped down next to me.

"Look," I pointed. "The girls posted a new song, but there's some extra clip at the end." At the end of the song, all of the girls had tears in their eyes, and I did too. They were officially saying goodbye. After all of the texts we've sent them, and how many times we've had to watch that awful video of them getting bullied by the Populars their last day. Annabeth finished the song and one tear fell down her cheek. I'm moving on.

"Thank you guys so much for following us from the beginning, it seriously means a lot to us," Piper smiled. Jason's eyes were locked with the screen, staring intensely at Piper.

"You guys have been the inspiration and drive to keep us going, we love all of you," Hazel continued. Frank was shaking his head, but I haven't figured out why yet.

"But, like most stars found on YouTube, we've decided to move forward and find a record label. Which, we have." Thalia explained. "No, no, no," I heard Nico plead. Oh no.

"We will be performing all over the United States, starting here in New York, under Aphrodite Records. We hope you guys can make it," Annabeth smiled. "What?! No! They- they can't leave," I shouted.

"Peace out from The Sirens!" They all finished.

"You guys know what this means right?" Jason choked. "They won't be coming back to school. After two weeks of ignoring us and blowing us off, they're leaving." He left and slammed the door to his bedroom. In all honesty, we never admitted it, but we were all crushing pretty hard on our best friends. I sat there with the computer in my lap, tears on the brims of my eyes, trying not to freak out. I took out my phone and called Annabeth again. Hey, this is Annabeth, leave a message! End. I tried again. And again. But she never answered. It was about 10 o'clock now, I shouldn't go over there. But I have to. If they're seriously leaving, I can't not say goodbye. Especially to my Wise Girl. I walked down the street in the dark, trying to get back to my house. I got there, and luckily, Paul was still awake.

"Paul, I need a huge favor." I pleaded.

"Yeah, sure kid, what's up?" he turned to me.

"Can you drive me to Annabeth's? It's an emergency."

"You guys finally dating yet?" he smirked, grabbing his keys.

"Wha- No!" I sputtered. "She's just a friend." I defended myself.

"Uh-huh," he mocked me. "Let's go," he shut the door. When we finally got to Annabeth's house, I saw that her bedroom light was on. I hopped out of the car and picked up some pebbles on the way. Throwing one by one, I got no answer. So I threw one a little harder. The window flew up, and that was my cue to climb up. I used the oak tree like I always did and threw myself through the window. Landing with a hard thud on the floor, I looked up and saw Annabeth sitting on her bed. Her eyes were puffy and she was staring at her phone. The phone I had just called 20 minutes ago.

"What do you want?" she sniffed.

"I wanted to see you," I admitted. "School's not the same without you guys." I looked at the floor.

"What because the Populars don't have anyone to torment? Seriously, Percy?"

"You know that's not-"

"I've had the best two weeks of my life not going back to school," she laughed. "And to top it all off, at 15 years old I'm going on tour with some of my best friends." She threw her arms around her knees and continued staring straight ahead.

"You guys are serious about leaving?" I choked out.

"As serious as we can be," she looked away.

"Is it selfish of me to not want you to go?" I asked.

"Yeah, that'd be pretty conceited." she nodded. She wet her lips and then sunk her teeth into them. "Can I ask why you don't want us to go?" She had a hopeful look in her eyes that were mixed with another emotion I couldn't figure out. I can't tell her I like her. But, as usual, I said the wrong thing.

"Uhm, because.. You're my best friend. I don't want you to leave. But I had to see if it was true so I could say goodbye. You never answer me." I rubbed the back of my neck.

"Oh," is all she said. "Well, if that's all you came here for then you better leave." she said.

"Annabeth-"

"No," she interjected. "Just go," she pointed to the window. I looked at her dumbfounded. She returned my confused look with a glare. "Goodbye." I stepped towards the window and she got under her blankets, turning away from me. I climbed down, and as soon as my feet hit the ground, I started crying. She couldn't leave. But I guess I was just going to have to live with it. They say if you love something, then let it go. And even though I didn't want to, I tried to let her go.