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Chapter II.

| Freddie's P.O.V. |

We walked into the front doors of Ridgeway, Carly and Sam walking a little bit ahead of me. Sam. I frowned, recalling what had happened earlier this morning. I almost kissed Sam Puckett, again. It was weird, something about how her blue eyes shined and her close proximity to me just sort of drew me towards her. And then in the hallway, I told myself I definitely would not give her the bacon, but when her eyes locked with mine, I couldn't bring myself to disobey her order. My eyes flickered to her long, golden curls and then scanned the length of her body; I found my gaze hovering over her perfect, round bu–

"Freddie, watch out!" Carly's scream pulled me out of my staring. My eyes quickly snapped off of Sam and onto the burly football playing coming towards me with a huge bucket filled with ice-cold water. He made a move to splash the water all over me, so I closed my eyes and braced myself for the impact of the icy water.

It never came. I heard a flurry of whispers break out behind me.

"Did you see that?"

"Woah, it was like the water hit a wall before getting to him!"

"He didn't get a single drop on him."

I opened my eyes slowly and saw most of Ridgeway's student population staring at me with wide eyes. I looked over to Sam and Carly. Sam's face was just as shocked everyone else's, but Carly was just nodding, as if the situation had confirmed something. I grinned weakly at the Neanderthal that wanted to attack me with the water.

"Well, looks like rain wasn't part of my weather forecast today." Kids groaned at my lame attempt at a cool joke. I just shook my head and then stepped over the water puddle that gathered at my feet to join Carly and Sam at their locker. I jerked my thumb back at the puddle. "I was pretty lucky back there, huh?" Carly smiled like she knew something that I didn't.

"Yeah, you were pretty lucky, Freddie…." I looked at her questioningly, but she just replied with another mysterious smile. Sam snorted. She banged against her locker door and it just popped open.

"Huh, you would've gotten pneumonia or something if you had to walk around school drenched in icy water, Benson. Too bad you didn't." She smirked devilishly. I opened my mouth to give her a snappy comeback, but was interrupted by a distraction in the form of my A.V. buddy, Shane. I nodded over at him.

"Hey Shane, what's up? Need something for A.V. Club?" He nodded at me, distractedly.

"Oh, hey Freddie. Um, no I don't need anything for A.V. Club. I, uh, actually came over here to talk to Sam." I raised my eyebrows. Shane had spoken to neither Sam nor Carly ever since the elevator shaft accident in last year during early sophomore year.

"You came over here to talk to Sam? Why?" Shane waved me off impatiently and smiled over at Sam. She glanced over at him warily.

"'Sup, Shane?" His smile brightened at the sound of his name.

"Hi Sam, I was just wondering if you wanted to grab a smoothie or something after school today." Sam looked at him with an incredulous expression on her face.

"Are you asking me out?" Shane nodded eagerly. "Even after all that 'falling down the elevator shaft' chiz?" He waved a hand dismissively and then wrapped his arm around her shoulder.

"Oh c'mon, Sam, that was, like, last year. I'm totally over it." Sam's eyes flickered between his face and his hand on her shoulder.

"Dude, you were in the hospital for three months because of that accident." Shane shrugged.

"Well, I'm better now, aren't I?" Sam brushed his hand off of her shoulder.

"I don't know…" He pouted and I felt a strange twinge in my stomach as he pulled one of her hands into both of his.

"Say you'll think about it?" Sam stared down at their connected hands and then up at him.

"Um, I guess I'll think about it…" My jaw almost hit the floor when Shane leaned in and gave Sam a kiss on the cheek. He pulled away smiling triumphantly and I caught Sam's wide-eyed expression. Shane started walking down the hall with a little skip in his step.

"Talk to you later, Sam!" he shouted over his shoulder. Sam looked at Carly and me.

"What the heck just happened?" I just shrugged, doing my best to act all nonchalantly. Carly, on the other hand, gave Sam the same smile she gave me. I was starting to think that Carly knew something really important that Sam and I didn't.

"Oh Sam, don't question it. I mean come on, Shane just asked you out!"

"Dude, we nearly killed the guy and a year later he comes over and asks if I want to grab smoothies with him? It's like magic."

"Yeah, must be magic, 'cause there's no way he would ever ask you out again." I slapped a hand over my mouth as soon as the words came out. Sam sent me a death glare.

"What did you say, Benson?" I flung my arms up, protecting my face from any of Sam's wrath. But before she could even lash out a snarky comment, something flew over my head and into her hands. "What the…?" She held up a plastic-wrapped bean cheese burrito.

"'Looking hot, Puckett." Rip-Off Rodney walked past us, winking over at Sam. Sam looked at the burrito, then at Rip-Off's retreating figure, then at me and Carly.

I stared down at the burrito in her hands. "Dude, Rip-Off Rodney never gives anything away for free. You're not going to eat it, are you?" I asked, as she sniffed the burrito cautiously.

"It smells normal…"

"Sam!" I yelled, "It could have drugs in it or something!" She shrugged and stretched up onto her tip-toes so she could put the burrito on the top shelf of her locker. As she reached her arms up, her sweatshirt started riding up, and I found myself drawn to her flawless, semi-exposed skin yet again. And I most certainly wasn't the only guy ogling over it. I head a couple of cat-calls and wolf-whistles from guys behind me. A protective feeling washed over my body and I snapped around to glare at the guys gawking over Sam. A group of them were standing by the water fountain, whispering amongst themselves and occasionally nodding appreciatively. I felt a weird tugging sensation in my gut and suddenly, the water fountain went off and starting dousing the group with water. The guys jumped out of their gawking and ran away from the water fountain, leaving me with a triumphant feeling. The tugging in my gut went away and the water fountain stopped spurting water. Woah, did I just control that? No, impossible…

"Yo, Fredchiz, stop staring at the water fountain. Are you waiting for it to do a couple back-handsprings for you?" I ripped my eyes away from the fountain, shaking my previous thoughts from my mind. Carly tapped me on the arm.

"Hey, Freddie, you okay?" I nodded unsurely.

"Uh, yeah. I'm fine."

Haha, you can probably guess who Sam and Freddie's godly parents are by now... I kinda made it obvious. But, I bet you don't know what's up with Miss Carly Shay! Go on, take a guess. If you get it right, I might give you a shout-out in the next chapter (:

Oh, and you're probably wonder where the hell Annabeth and Percy are. Don't fret, they're coming up in the next chapter.

Review please! Thanks to those who reviewed the first chapter! Less than three, peeps (x

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