Ok, so I got a lot of reviews for Chapter One. Great job; keep that up.
This is Chapter 2. It's a really short chapter, but it's important with what it contains to the overall story.
The three other members get their own POV in this chapter (Thalia, Abby and Nico).
Well, enough of me telling you about it, go read Chapter 2.
Here's Chapter Two of The Big Three.
Disclaimer: Riordan has to be at least twice as old as I am.
Chapter Two:
Thalia POV
End of August, Goode High School, 7:30 am
The four of us walked through the front doors of Goode High School on the first day of our junior year together, like we always do. We had a very successful tour of Italy two weeks ago and we were stoked about our new album. It was racking in tons of money and our popularity grew further. It was actually just yesterday that we announced our small tour of the southeast over Thanksgiving break, for which we had a week off.
We were going to start in Miami, then onto Orlando, Jacksonville, Atlanta and then end in Charleston, South Carolina. 5 shows in 7 days. It was going to be pretty sweet. We actually learned this morning that our Miami show was already sold out.
But for now we had to deal with the first day of school. We walked through the front doors and made our way to the Junior wing, where we split up to go to our different homerooms. There were four different homerooms and around a hundred total people in our grade. Nico and I were in room 121 and Percy and Abby were in room 122. We talked for around fifteen minutes, but eventually the bell rang and we went our separate ways.
The room Nico and I were in was clearly an English room. There were stacks of books on the counter and a bulletin board covered the entire far wall. The word at the top read Vocab. Underneath were around a thousand words. Great, I would be looking forward to English this year. Another wall read Shakespeare. Another fun thing I would be looking forward to.
Nico and I sat down next to each other in the middle of the classroom. We weren't bad kids, but we didn't want to be in the front row.
Eventually, the other kids drifted in and almost every seat was filled. The teacher introduced himself as Mr. Blofis and he began to take roll.
He was on the third name when the door flew open. A blonde girl came flying into the room panting hard. It looked like she had just run a mile. She had on jeans and a simple grey t-shirt, but I couldn't read what was on it because she was bent over.
"Sorry-sorry I'm late," the girl said between breaths.
"That's ok," Mr. Blofis said. "What's your name? I want to make sure I haven't missed you."
"Annabeth," the girl said. "Annabeth Chase."
"Ok, thank you Ms. Chase. You may take the open seat over there." He pointed to a seat on the left side of the room.
The girl stood up and walked over to the open seat. I caught my breath and grabbed Nico's arm. We shared a nervous glance. A very nervous glance.
Why, you ask? Well, when the girl stood up straight, I was able to read her shirt easily.
On her shirt were the words, 'The Big Three: West Coast Tour.'
Abby POV
End of August, Goode High room 124, 11:37 am
I sat quietly in my fourth period class, waiting for my brother to show up for math. We had gotten our schedules in homeroom and we both had math together as well as a couple of other subjects.
A minute later he showed up, looking frantic. He sat in the open seat to my right.
"We've got a problem," he said. I gave him an inquisitive look. "There's this new girl, she's from California."
"What about her?" I said. "Someone have a crush already?"
He blushed slightly, but shrugged it off.
"Worse," he said. "She's wearing a TB3 West Coast t-shirt. She went to our concert in San Fran. I overheard that she was in the tenth row."
"Oh, that's bad," I said. "You think she might recognize you?"
"I don't know."
A blonde girl walked into our room.
"That the girl?"
Percy nodded. "That's her alright."
"She's pretty cute."
"Yeah I kn-wait, what?"
"Nothing. Have you talked to her?"
"No. Her name's Annabeth. She was in my second period English class. As soon as I noticed the shirt I got as far away as I could."
"Oh, well it looks like she's coming our way." Percy's head jerked over. Sure enough, she came over and sat to my left. Percy gave me a look that clearly said, 'You talk with her.' I rolled my eyes at him and turned to face the girl.
"Hey," I said to the girl. "Are you new around here? I haven't seen you before."
"Yeah," the girl replied timidly. "I just moved here from California two weeks ago."
"Oh, that's cool. I'm Abby and this is my brother Percy. If you have any questions feel free to ask either of us. Well, mostly me. Percy's not really that much help." I extended my hand.
She laughed. "I'll remember that. I'm Annabeth by the way." She shook my hand gratefully.
"Nice to meet you Annabeth," I said. "Where in Cali are you from?"
"San Francisco. I've lived there all my life."
"Clearly," I said. "There's no way you could have that tan if you only lived there for a little while." I paused. "You won't keep that for long here in New York though."
"Why is that?" She asked sincerely.
"It gets freaking cold here, that's why," Percy said. "I hope you brought your winter coat."
Annabeth was about to reply when the teacher spoke up.
"Ok, welcome to eleventh grade math. My name is Mr. Caglistino and I will be your teacher for this year."
I noticed that Annabeth had turned back to the teacher, but she said a quick, "Nice talking with you two."
"Same," I replied.
"Ok, let me call roll and we can get you started on your first worksheet," Mr. Caglistino said.
Once he got through roll call, he set down his clipboard and grabbed a stack of papers.
"Ok, I want each of you to get into a group of three. I'll then hand you a review worksheet with ten problems on it. Work together in your group to answer the problems. Once you're done, write your names on it and turn it in. Now find a group."
I immediately turned towards my brother. We were almost always partners when it came to a group activity. We were looking around for a third member when Annabeth spoke up.
"Hey, do you mind if I join you guys?"
I looked at Percy. He was nervous, but I think he would be ok. I turned back towards Annabeth.
"Sure Annabeth," I replied.
We put our desks together and got a worksheet from Mr. Caglistino. I gave one more look to Percy and we got to work.
Nico POV
End of August, Goode High room 122, 1:30 pm
It was the last period of the day, for me, Chemistry. Percy was in this class with me and we sat next to each other.
The 'problem' girl Annabeth sat in front of us with Abby.
She hadn't recognized any of us yet, but we weren't taking any chances. That's why Abby was the one to always talk with her.
We made it through the school day and the four of us quickly headed to our lockers and grabbed our things. We headed out to the student parking lot.
What we found was a bunch of students, mostly freshmen, eyeing our Ferrari.
Percy nudged me.
"Watch this," he said. "Guarantee half of them jump."
Percy clicked the unlock button twice. The car went 'chirp-chirp' and all of the freshmen jumped.
The four of us walked up to the group. Percy and I were laughing. Abby and Thalia were just rolling their eyes.
"So, you like the car or what?" Percy asked the group of freshmen. After a bunch of excited answers Percy finally got the group to move and we were able to head out of the parking lot.
We got back to our high-rise penthouse suite fifteen minutes later and the three of us except for Abby hit the couch, grateful for not being recognized.
We decided to stick with the plan of having Abby being the one of us to talk with Annabeth. We wouldn't shun her, for instance we would talk with her when she spoke to us, but we would try to avoid it as much as possible.
The plan seemed to be working. We were three weeks into the school year and Annabeth hadn't questioned any of us. She hadn't even mentioned anything about it to Abby, which was good.
However, when Percy approached me in Chemistry one Friday afternoon, that was put into deep jeopardy.
"Nico, we have a problem," he told me before class.
"What's that?" I asked him.
"You know that project we have to do for English? The partner one?"
"Yeah, what about it?"
He gave a look to the table in front of us, where Abby and Annabeth sat.
"Well, guess who's my partner."
A/N:
So, what did you think? Short, but very important, like I said earlier.
Question of the Chapter: What grade are you in and in which state (or country, if outside US) do you go to school?
Answers are greatly appreciated, but make sure to review as well. Please tell me what other characters you want in the story, or, if I already included them, which ones you want to have more of a major roll. This story is still young in the writing (I've only completed half of Chapter 4), but that's mostly because I'm working on finishing my other story, The Princess and the Peasant. If you haven't read TPATP, please do so. It'll be worth your time.
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Thanks!
-PSON
