Sorry for the long wait between updates, I got really really busy! I tryed to make this chapter longer, and there MIGHT be more percabeth *wink*wink* and I know the perspective is in third person, but you can see what Annabeth is thinking so I'm gonna say it's her POV. Enjoy!
Annabeth's POV
After what happened this morning, Annabeth wondered why Percy had helped her. They had never even spoke! She had never really taken that much notice to Percy before today. They didn't ever collide, the y had absolutely nothing in commen! Or so Annabeth thought. After paying closer attention to him today, she noticed that he was in 6 out of her 8 classes. She also noticed that he was good in the mythology class they were both in. He seemed to raise his hand almost as much as her.
In last period in math, Mr. Collins sprung a pop quiz on them, but it was more like a pop EXAM. This thing was 7 pages long! Annabeth took this time to examine Percy more closely without inturruption. With everyone focused on their tests, she snuck a quick peek at Percy through the wall of curls cascading down her shoulders. He was staring intently at the paper on his desk, with his brows furrowed together. He had very very dark brown hair. Wait, scratch that, it was black. It just seemed brown with the way the sun was glinting off of it...
" ANNABETH!" her inner voice screeched "May I politlely ask, WHY THE HELL YOU ARE THINKING OR PERCY THAT WAY? You don't even know him! He's a dumb jock and his hair most definatly does NOT glint in the sun."
Annabeth tried to listen to herself but failed. This is for scientific purposes, she convinced herself, a study of the popular teenage male in his natural habitat. When she peeked at him again, she decided not to hide behind her hair. She sat up straight and non chalantly looked over at him. This time though he wasn't frowning at his paper. He was staring right at her! Annabeth tried not to squeak. His eyes, she noticed, were startlingly green. They seemed to see right through her... This is when her inner voice came back:
" Hellooooo? Annabeth? This is what you call scientific purposes?" Her inside voice snorted " Ya right!"
"Shut up.." Annabeth mumbled as she broke her stare with Percy. He also seemed to come out of a daze but he frowned again.
" Sorry, did you say something to me?" He whispered. He was staring at her again and Annabeth wanted to look anywhere excep into those eyes.
" Urm, no" she managed to say.
" OH okay... um you're Annabelle, right?"
" Actually it's Annabeth" She corrected and turned back to her test as looked across the class.
" Mmhhm okay so can I ask you something?" he questioned? Omigosh, what is he going to ask me? Does he want too know if I have a boyfriend? No, that's not it... what's that look on his face, oh god this must be serious, maybe it's something about Rachel... All this ran through her head before she finally nodded. But when he opened his mouth, it wasn't to ask her about Rachel. What he said was:
" Can I borrow a pencil?" Annabeth sighed, half with relief and half regret wishing he actually wanted to talk to her about something.
"Sure." she replied as she started to root through her pencil case. The only pencil she could find was the one that her little brother Bobby had gotten her the past Valentines day. It was a red pencil with mice all over it that were falling in love with cheese. When Bobby had handed it to her, he had exclaimed: " CAREFULL! IT'S CHEESY!" I laughed after my dad gave me the you-better-laugh-and-not-hurt-your-brothers-feelings look. She thought to herslef, if she was going to observe this subject she has to be on talking terms with him. What better way to break the ice than with a joke?
So as Annabeth handed Percy her pencil, she too also said:
"Carefull, it's cheesy!" He seemed confused at first then looked at the pencil. After a couple of seconds, her got the joke and chuckled nervously and turned back to his work before saying " Err... thanks."
Annabeth once again hid behind her hair and face palmed.
"Carefull, it's cheesy?"
her conciense laughed hystarically "What were you thinking! Oh Annabeth Annabeth Annabeth! That boy is never going within 5 feet of you for the rest of highschool! Nice job with your 'science experiment' " She could practically see the air quotes. She quietly groaned to herself. She wanted to hit her head against the desk, she felt so dumb. She went to take her mind off of it and turned to her "quiz". By the time the bell rang, she felt so relieved that the class was over and it was the end of the day. As she was gathering her things, she felt that someone was standing behind her. She turned with her arms full of books. She almost dropped them, along with her jaw. IT WAS HIM! Why was he evn talking to her still? What he said next made sense why:
" Here's your pencil. Thanks." He murmered. HATED it when we weere loud, even after the bell rang. I wasn't sure how to reply.
"Umm your welcome..." he set the pencil on my stack of books and staretd to walk away.
" SORRY!" i bursted out as he was at the door. Annabeth you stupid girl! You could have walked away from this horrible situation unscathed! Look what you've done!
" What are you sorry for?" He seemed to frown alot, but not out of anger, mostly out of confusion. He looked really cute when he was doing it... Annabeth shook her head back and forth as if to shake these thoughts out.
"Umm for what I said, that was really.. umm. I' reallydumbsosorry." She said in all one breath. Instead of getting annoyed or mad like any other popular person would, he just chuckled. He smile really brightened his face.
" It's okay, really." He leaned closer towards her ear. His lips were inches from her ear. She could feel and hear the whoosh of his breath as he said
" I thought it was cute." He straightened up and half walked half backed out of the classroom still smiling and chuckling to himself. What was that all about? She must have been red as a tomato! Annabeth could see that this one would be hard to figure out...
Annabeth met up with Thalia outside the building and got into her car. As they drove to Thalia's house, Annabeth filled her in on everything that happened that day. Thalia didn't have any classes with her and Annabeth had forgotten to tell her at lunch. Annabeth even threw in the story about Percy saying what she said was cute. Thalia was shocked.
" He's so loyal to that whore of a girlfriend! That is so not Percy!" she said confusedly "Maybe you entrance him!" She giggled and wiggled her fingers in Annabeth's face. " I do not!" She exclaimed, pushing her fingers away, her face getting hot again. "This is just another science experiment!"
"Well, I know where you can continue this science experiment! At Silena's party on Saturday!" Thalia got really excited.
"I don't think I'm invited..." I bit my lower lip. I always did this when I got nervous or uncomfortable.
" Oh Silena won't care, besides, it was open invitation. The whole grade is invited. It's gonna be awesome! And you're gonna help me find what to wear! Sleepover tonight! Girls night!" Annabeth couldn't help but laugh at Thalia's enthusiasum.
They pulled into Thalia's driveway and tromped up to her room, thanking Miss. Grace for the snacks on the way up. Annabeth had to admit; it was fun goofing off, and giggling over dresses and magazines, having a fashion show in Thalia's closet, and pigging out. In the back of her mind though, her gears were working away to decode why Percy acted the way he acted around her. She couldn't seem to get the answer. It kept her from sleeping and almost made her late for school the next day when she woke up late. The first thought that came into her head was:
UGH! SCHOOL!
It wasn't the work part that bothered her, it was the people. Not her friends of course: Thalia, Thalia's brother Jason, Conner and Travis Stoll, and Katie. It was the so-called rulers of the school, the popular kids: Percy, Rachel, Silena, Grover, Luke, and Clarisse. They flounced aorund the school like they owned the place. It really ticked Annabeth off.
The second thought that came into Annabeth's head was:
Thank God it's Friday.
Sorry about the change in font size, I'm not sure what happened... hopefully this one's much longer than chapter one! I don't want to put too much info in one chapter, I want to spread it out so my stories not just 4 chapters long. Thanks so much for the reviews guys! Please continue to R&R! And I think the next update won't take as long! Fingers crossed!
