"Freedom!" Jared's friend Ian screamed at the top of his lungs as he raced out of the school building, coming to a stop beside a tree and letting himself fall down onto the ground. Rolling his eyes, Jared walked towards him, along with his other two friends, Kyle and Percy.

Letting his backpack fall off his shoulder onto the ground, Jared sat himself beside of Ian, who had by now sat up. Kyle and Percy had caught up to them, but had apparently opted to not sit down, as they were both leaning against the trunk of the tree.

"Ahh, man. Two whole days of doing nothing but eating and sleeping." Ian said, grinning.

"Until Monday comes around again." Kyle pointed out, which was accompanied by a groan from Ian.

"We'll cross that road when we get there. But right now, I am not doing a thing." Ian said, then he paused. "Wait, scratch that. I am going to do something. I am going to have to make you stop thinking so negatively. I mean, the weekends just started and already your already fretting about Monday." Ian threw back his head and laughed.

Kyle bit his lip. "I wasn't thinking negatively. I was just stating an obvious face."

Ian waved his hand aside. "Oh, I know. I'm just messing with you."

Suddenly, a certain stream of curses issued from where Kyle and Percy were standing by the tree. Jared looked over and saw that Percy was down on the ground, searching for something in his backpack.

Jared watched as Percy stood up, slowly shaking his head. "I'll be right back guys. I forgot something in my locker." Then he turned around and ran back inside the school building.

They sat in silence for a few minutes after that. Ian had ended up playing around on his cellphone, Kyle had taken some science-fiction novel out of his backpack, and Jared picked at absent-mindedly at his shoelaces.

Looking up from his shoes, Jared saw a sleek, silvery-gray car approaching them from the street a few feet away. Jared watched as the car parked on the side of the road. Someone opened the door from the inside, and out stepped a girl with long curly blonde hair.

The girl turned around, and Jared was brought head-on with her beauty. She was absolutely gorgeous and beautiful and pretty and- he stopped himself. He looked back down again at his shoes- the chances of a girl that good-looking approaching them, 0 to none.

However, a shadow soon fell over him, and Jared looked up and saw the girl standing not two feet from him. Jared felt butterflies building in his stomach, and averted his eyes away from the girl, silently cursing himself as he felt himself blush, and also glad that he wasn't like Kyle, who had looked up from his book and was now mumbling incoherently as he stared at the girl.

Ian, however, sat straight up, and opened him mouth to speak, but Jared beat him to it. Despite how much Ian tried to be the "cool" one of their group, he was a terrible flirter. And, personally, Jared didn't want to scare her off too quick.

"Hello. Are you looking for something? I could help you." Jared said, hearing a slight stutter in his words as he said them.

The girl smiled. "Oh, there's no need. I already found it." The girl said looking at something behind them. They turned around and saw Percy walking towards them, carrying a notebook in the crook of his right arm.

"Sorry about that guys. Mr. Harold stopped to talk about my English- Annabeth!" Percy yelled, dropping his books and running straight towards the girl, wrapping her in his arms and swinging her around.

"Hey!" The girl- who was apparently name Annabeth- said in surprise. "Put me down!"

Percy complied to her wished and set her back down onto the ground. She swayed slightly, but soon regained her footing.

"You forgot, didn't you?" Annabeth asked accusingly.

"Forget? I didn't forget anything. Uh, what exactly is it that I'm forgetting." Percy said, picking up his backpack from beside the tree.

"We were supposed to go this afternoon and pick up something for your mom. You know, for her birthday." Annabeth said.

"Oh, right, I knew that!" Percy said, rubbing the back of his head.

Annabeth crossed her arms over her chest. "Oh, really? Then why did you look so surprised to see me? After all, we did arrange this entire thing. I would pick you up from school, and we would go get your mom a birthday present."

"Oh, right, uh, well. Oh, Uh, these are my friends from school." Percy said, in a very poor attempt to change the subject. Pointing to each of them in turn, Percy introduced them. "That's Ian," Ian waved goofily at Annabeth, apparently all thoughts of flirting gone from his head, "Kyle," who blushed even further and buried his head back into his book, "And Jared." Jared nodded his head in acknowledgement, "And guys, this is my girlfriend, Annabeth."

Ian raised his eyebrows. "Dang, you got a girlfriend before me? Well, that's a bummer." Ian said, laughing. Then, saying as an afterthought. "How long have you two been together."

"A little over a year." Percy said, smiling down at her.

"Well, we'd better get going. It was nice meeting you." Annabeth said, taking Percy's hand and walking away.

Silence followed after that, until, finally, Kyle peered up from his book, glasses slipping down the length of his nose. "Well, that was unexpected."

Personally, Jared felt as if that summed up the whole event.


Author's notes- So, yeah, I was going to update this earlier, but certain things got in the way, and I wasn't able to write anything. So, sorry about the small wait.

Once again, if you guys have any suggestions, please tell me. It would help me a lot.