The Foster
Chapter Two
Percy's P.O.V.
I walked into the pool and was hit with the smell of chlorine and the heat of the room. I looked around to find my red-headed girlfriend Rachel sitting on the bleachers near the lane pool. There was no one in the pool at this which is why I love to come here at this time so I'm alone and can focus. I walk over to the sliver bleacher that Rachel is sitting on and I put my bag down.
"Hey babe," Rachel says as I take off my shirt.
"Hey," I say and lean in to give her a quick kiss.
"Are you ready?" Rachel asked as I hand her the timer.
"Yup, and thanks for timing," I tell her heading over to the first lane of the pool.
"Your welcome, so hows the foster?" She asked.
"I don't really know, all I do know is that her name is Annabeth," I tell her.
"Annabeth? That's a different name," She says
"I know but, other than that I know nothing," I tell her as I climb on the starting block.
"Start with 50 free," She tells me as I put on my goggles. I get ready to dive in when she says go. "And, GO!" She yells loudly.
I quickly dive off the block and into the water, I stay in the stream line untill I resurface at the halfway point. I start my stroke my arms going over my head and my feet kicking fast. I breathe on every fourth stroke getting to the frist end in no time. I do my flip turn and stay in stream line until I resurface again about halfway between the wall and the halfway line in the pool. doing the same as on the way down I make it to the end in no time again and touch the wall with my hand. I bring my head above the water breathing heavy as I hold on to the wall catching my breath. Rachel walks over with a smile on her face.
"24.39," She said.
"Yes, personal best!" I exclaimed.
"Maybe you can beat the school record that you set last year," Rachel said.
"Maybe, come on let's do backstroke since I'm already in the water." I tell her and get ready.
"Okay, I think it's time for you to get out of the water and go home, you little fishy," Rachel said after I did a 100 of every stroke and a 200 of free
"Fine," I say and push myself out of the water. "And I'm bigger than you so I don't think I should be called a little fishy."
"Whatever," Rachel says rolling her eyes and handing me the timer. I walk over to my bag and pull out a green towel that I got from the swim team and put the timer in the bag. I quickly dry off with the towel, put my shirt back on, and put the towel back in the bag. I pick up my blue gym bag and put I put it over my shoulder. I turn to find Rachel behind me.
"I have to run my mom said to be home for dinner and that is in like a half hour," I said checking my phone it was 6:30 and we ate around 7:00 every night.
"Okay," Rachel said and leaned up to kiss me. "Bye."
"Bye Rach," I say running outside. The cool summer night air hit me like a wave as I ran down the street to get home. The pool wasn't that far away from my house but, it took a good amount of time to get home. I stopped running when I turned on to Olympian Lane, my house wasn't that far down the road and it would only take me a minute.
When I turn up the stairs to my house I hear a bunch of laughter behind me. I turn to see Thalia and Annabeth laughing like crazy walking to the house.
"Oh, hey Percy, I was, just telling Annabeth, about the time that, Leo got so hyper at the bonfire, and the back of his shirt caught on fire, and then we all pushed him into the pool, and jumped in so he wasn't the only one soaked." Thalia said trying to catch her breath from laughing so hard.
"Cool," I say walking inside. 'Who would have thought they would be such good friends' I thought as I went up the stairs and into my room. I quickly changed out of my swim trunks and into a pair of black gym shorts. As I was about to go down stairs, something catches my eye outside. I look out the window to the backyard. I find Annabeth swinging on the swing, her blonde princess curls going everywhere. Somewhere of to the side I see Thalia standing there talking to her.
I pull my eyes away from the scene and walk out my door. I make my way down to the kitchen where I find my mom about to set the table.
"I'll take that," I say picking up the plates she had in her hands turning to the dinning room that was right next to the kitchen. I set the plates out and the grab forks and knives from the drawer and put then on the table.
"Thanks for the help, so how was practice," My mom asked.
"Good, I beat my time in free and came close in fly," I replied.
"That's amazing, honey," She says as she turns back to the stove to finish what she's cooking. "Food's almost ready, why don't you call Annabeth and Thalia inside for dinner."
"Okay," I say and walk over to the back door.
Hey guys,
I really wanted to get to Percy's P.O.V. so we could see what was going on with him. We also saw some of him with Rachel and she will come in a lot more. Also, sorry for my misspellings I have to write on notepad because word is being really stupid, for those of you that don't know notepad doesn't give you spell check and with me writing fast I misspell words of use the wrong one, though I try to fix it on here. So, Please review and tell me what you think! Peace out!
~Care