'2nd period. English. How wonderful,' snarked Percy. 'Let's see what the resident bitch has for us today.'
Percy entered the class with Grover behind him. The bell would ring in a minute, so they had time to talk. The class was filled with a five by six grid of desks, with a bookshelf on the back wall and the teacher's desk at the front.
"Did you finish your essay Perce?" Grover asked, pulling a sheet of paper from a binder.
"Shit, no. I had to finish my redo work so I can retake that math test from last week." Groaned Percy. "Well, might as well send myself out into the hall already."
The bell rang, signalling the start of class. Percy took a seat, and since there wasn't a seating chart, Grover took the seat to the left of him. Different kids filed in and sat down, Reyna sat in front of Percy, and Annabeth across the class with the redhead, Rachel.
The teacher walked in, Mrs. Roan. She was a frail woman in her seventies, but had the death glare of, well, death. She was not nice by any means.
"Alright, settle down. Everyone here?" Mrs. Roan took count, noting that all the students were present. "Good. Now, who finished the essay over Shakespeare?" All but Rachel, Percy, and a few other kids raised their hands.
"How wonderful, alright. Since we're going over this in class, all of you out. I don't want to hear a peep out of you." The woman glared as the students left. "Ok, who would like to volunteer their essay to use as an example? Mrs. Chase, thank you…"
The door shut as the last kid left the class. There were five of them. They split up separately, and sat down along the lockers to work on other class's assignments or read.
Percy took a seat down the hall, the farthest from the door. He cracked open his binder and pulled out a sheet of paper, then powered on his laptop. As the gray glow powered up, someone sat next to him, a few feet away. He paid no mind, and loaded up his doc for the english essay.
"Hey, Percy, right? Whatcha doin'?" Asked the person next to him. He looked over, it was Rachel.
"Oh, I'm finishing the essay that was due today. Might as well see if I can get a grade for whatever I have right now." Replied Percy, showing two and a half paragraphs.
Rachel nodded, and turned back to her laptop.
A few minutes pass, which turns into ten, then fifteen. Percy started to get impatient. He had finished his essay by now, and was just waiting to be let in. He hoped Grover would be sneaky enough for what he had planned.
Percy: Yo, what time are they letting us back in
Grover: End of class. Said teach u lesson.
Percy: . . .
That was the end of the conversation. Percy sighed, 'I guess I'll have to get a grade on this later.' He packed up his laptop and opened up Instagram, swiping through the feed.
"Percy, what are you doing?" said Rachel in a hushed whisper.
"Grover said she's not letting us back in for the rest of class. Might as well have some fun out here." Percy shrugged.
She was taken aback, then packed up her laptop as well, and stood.
"Woah woah woah, where do you think you're going?" Asked Percy, reflexively standing up as well.
"You said it yourself, might as well have some fun."
She strolled right down the hallway, backpack in hand, right away from the classroom. Percy watched her go, then shrugged and followed.
He lightly jogged to catch up, and came to a calm stroll through the Goode High halls. There weren't any teachers on patrol, given the understaffing problem. The pair had free reign of the halls.
"So what's the plan? Walk around til we get bored?" Percy questioned, looking around for any students.
"Well I was thinking we could do something else." Rachel trailed off, smiling slightly and locking eyes with Percy.
"L-like what?" Percy gulped. 'Is this happening?' He mentally screamed.
"I know a place, where it would be you and me and no one else. For thirty seven minutes you'll have me to yourself." She gave Percy doe eyes, and sashayed her hips away, taking a left through a maintenance closet. Percy nearly sprinted after her.
He entered the closet, shutting it quietly behind him. 'No one saw. Right? There was no one in the halls.' He reassured himself.
"Percy." A murmur from the darkness.
Percy flipped the lightswitch, revealing Rachel with her oversized sweater falling off one shoulder. Percy gulped, but stepped forward.
"What do you want to do with me Percy? Just say the word." Rachel breathed, running one finger down her collarbone and another down Percy's chest.
He stuttered for a few seconds, before recovering, "I want to see where this goes. Where we go." He breathed.
Rachel smiled, "Let's see then." She pulled her sweater over her head, revealing a tight tank top, which revealed her light midriff when she rose her hands. Rachel caught his stare, "Like what you see?" She smirked, a gray blush starting to form on her cheeks.
"Y-yeah." Was the only response he could form. His hands reflexively went forward, grabbing onto her hips and pulling her forwards. Their bodies touched, temperature rising.
Their lips locked, Rachel clearly more experienced. Percy froze for a moment, not sure what to do. She moved her lips against his, signalling a groove to get into. He followed suit, matching pace.
Percy's hands tentatively went down the length of her body, resting against her ass. A flare of heat went through Percy, and he knew he was blushing a deep gray.
Rachel inhaled deeply, then proceeded down Percy's neck, and onto his collarbone. She latched her mouth onto his light skin and bit down lightly. He gasped, "Rachel!"
She smirked, knowing he was turned on now, and moved to grab his belt buckle. He caught her hands.
"My turn." Percy declared, then, in a fit of passion, stripped off her tank top.
A medium gray bra covered most of her breasts, revealing a small amount of cleavage. Rachel blushed harder, and almost covered herself before Percy interrupted, "Stop. You're beautiful, even a blind man can see that."
She smiled, and looked away, before Percy lightly squeezed through her bra, and planted a kiss firmly on her shoulder. Rachel gasped loudly, too loudly, but neither of them cared. Percy worked his way down her shoulder, and made a dark gray hickey just above her cleavage.
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They both froze. Breathing hard, Percy picked up Rachel's scattered clothes and handed them to her.
"Thanks." She breathed, hurriedly putting on her outfit.
"Anytime." Percy replied with a stupid grin on his face. She laughed, and smacked him on the shoulder.
"Consider this a parting gift." Rachel said, and planted a kiss on his cheek. "Although, I must say. I don't want it to be the last."
Percy blushed. He rubbed the back of his head, but said nothing. He peeked out of the door, "Coast is clear."
She smiled and passed him out the door, rubbing his chest when she passed. Percy grinned a wide smile as he walked to his next period, math. Any person who saw him would've labeled him as a mad man with the evil grin he was wearing, but Percy didn't care.
Percy took a seat in the math classroom, once again next to Grover. The smile was still on his face, although slightly subdued. Frank was also in his math, sitting behind Percy.
"What's with the smile Perce? All you've done today is piss off Mrs. Roan, I don't think that's enough for that smile." Inquired Grover, a secret smile on his face.
"Nothing G-Man, don't worry. Today took a turn for the better, so let's be glad about that."
Grover accepted it, and pulled out his notebook. Percy did as well. Percy opened up his notebook to the right page, ready to show Mrs. Ross that he actually had his re-assessment work.
Mrs. Ross walked in, a woman in her mid thirties, very curly blonde hair, and a light look on her face. She took stance at the podium in front of the class, and then started her rounds.
Mrs. Ross walked around in a snake pattern, checking to make sure every student had their homework done. It was completion graded, so Percy had one of his old assignments ready to show her, so she would accept it and move on.
"Mrs. Ross, here's my redo for the test from last week. Is there a time I can retake it?" Percy asked, hoping it would be today. He really needed to get a C by the end of the week.
"Yes, come in during your lunch period, bring your food as well. I'll have the test for you and you can go back to the cafeteria if you finish." The kind woman responded, a smile on her face.
Percy sighed with relief, 'Maybe my grade in this class will be a strong C+ by the end of this year.' He mentally laughed, 'As if.'
Class passed by quickly, a relief to many. Many had simply zoned out the lesson taught, including Percy, Grover, and surprisingly enough Annabeth, though for a different reason than the majority of the class.
'When will this class end!' Annabeth almost yelled aloud. She angrily scratched down a few fake notes on what Mrs. Ross was saying, when really she just scribbled a zig-zag taking the entirety of the line.
'This class is so easy. I get it, a squared plus b squared equals c squared. I learned this like two years ago!' She continued to rage. Annabeth tugged again on her leggings, feeling strange ever since Luke that morning. She remembered, 'What? Like this?' Then he grabbed her thigh.
'It wasn't meant to be harmful was it? Surely he meant it as a joke, with maybe a little feeling. Did he like her? That could be a reason,' She blabbed to herself. 'Maybe he does.'
Annabeth once again pulled on her leggings, tugging them farther upwards as they began to drag. 'Yeah. My leggings are just sagging is all, nothing else.' She reassured herself.
A paper ball landed on her desk, originating from a desk slightly behind her and to her right. Her head jerked back, looking for anyone suspicious, and saw Percy Jackson looking back at her.
Annabeth looked strangely at her, but opened up the note as quietly as she could.
You okay? You look kinda uncomfortable.
She froze. 'No, I'm perfectly fine.' She thought, and wrote the same thing on the paper. Discretely, she looked around, luckily there were some kids absent today, and she tossed it back.
Percy opened the note again, reading what was inside. He frowned, scribbled some words on it, and tossed it back.
I don't believe that in the slightest. If you ever need someone to talk to, I'm here.
Annabeth was only slightly comforted by the gesture, but wrote her message, and tossed it back.
I don't need anyone to talk to. I'm fine, really.
Percy snorted to himself.
Whatever you say. Just remember the offer.
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The class shuffled out of the room just as Annabeth read the last message. She looked up to see where he had gone, but the class was empty.
"Percyyyy, I see you with Annabeth. You tryna make a move?" Grover crowed, a smirk on his face.
"Shut up man. She didn't look so well so I asked what was wrong. That's it."
"Whatever you say."
Percy tried to ignore how the last statement reflected his last note to Annabeth, but couldn't ignore the irony in that statement.
Grover went his separate way, and Percy went to PE. Percy entered the locker room to get changed, only to find utter madness.
Leo, as always, had done something spectacular. This time he had rigged what looked to be six bottles of Axe body spray in a ball, where the terrible smelling odor was being sprayed in every direction. It was hanging by a string of paperclips, Percy was noticing a recent pattern, and was spinning like a disco ball.
In fact, it was shooting off different shades of gray like a disco ball as well. Percy still wasn't sure how that was possible, but he sprinted to the corner of the room as fast as he could.
"Oh, hey Percy!" Frank yelled over the madness. They were both ducked in the farthest corner, with a locker door open to hide behind.
Before Percy could respond, a voice came through a megaphone, specifically from the Coach's office, where it was perfectly safe. The voice was muffled slightly, but it was clear enough to hear.
"What wonderful weather we're having here folks! Looks like cloudy with a chance of bad smell to me. Be careful however! There have been sightings of a terrible monster in the storm, it could destroy the storm, and the area around it too! Be careful!"
Leo.
The lights started flashing faster and faster, until an air horn was sounding from the middle of the ball made of gas. It got louder and louder, until the entire thing fell apart and everyone's ears were ringing.
A faint cry was heard from the office, where Coach Hedge was holding Leo by the back of the shirt.
"Well. Hi Frank. How's your day going?"
Class actually began about twenty minutes later. All the boys weren't dressed out, because of the madness in the locker room, but the girls dressed as normal.
Coach Hedge gave the workout for the day, "Alright listen up! Today there'll be three stations, each with an equal amount of you at them. Station one is twenty five jumping jacks and twenty sit ups. Station two is fifteen pushups and twenty crunches. Station three is full sprint for one minute, jog for thirty seconds, and walk for thirty seconds back and forth across the gym. Understood?!" Ordered Hedge. He also spoke with a megaphone, however he didn't cover the 'weather' like Leo.
Coach Hedge pulled up his megaphone again, "Oh, and Valdez!" Leo perked up, "Every number I just said is tripled for you. Go!"
Leo whined and moaned for the rest of the class period, especially when having to do situps with his tool belt on, but he didn't directly object. However, Percy was in a predicament.
The groups were about ten people each. He had hoped to get Frank or Leo in his group, but no dice. He was stuck with seven random people he had never met, Rachel, and Annabeth.
Percy was in a pickle.
Annabeth had been his crush for a long time, almost in a romantic way, but Rachel was a fiery passion that heated him up when he was cold.
History or chemistry, what to choose?
"Percy! Percy!" Rachel yelled, right in front of his face.
He jerked back, tripping over a free weight and falling flat on his ass. "Huh, I'm awake, I swear!" Percy protested, despite having done nothing for the past minute.
"C'mon, get up. We're moving to the next station." She rolled her eyes, and helped him up.
Rachel leaned close, "Now, unless you want to almost get caught staring at Annabeth's ass while doing jumping jacks, I suggest you wake up. You had a staring contest, and you won."
Percy's mouth fell open. "I didn't mean anything like that, I just zoned out!" He protested.
"Yeah yeah, I'll take it for now. One more time though, and it's going to be much harder to get some of this again." Rachel gestured towards her ass, and sashayed away.
'She has a habit of doing that. I'm not entirely opposed to it though.' Percy thought, and jogged up to the rest of the group.
The class passed relatively quickly, until Percy felt that he had to bring something up with Rachel, "Rache, what are we?"
"Ooh, it's Rache now? I like it."
"You dodged the question." Pointed out Percy.
"Well, what do you think we are?" Rachel answered.
Percy thought for a second, then responded, "I mean, I want you and me to be something more than friends, but I don't think it counts as boyfriend and girlfriend if we haven't gone on a date."
Rachel had a hint of a smile on the corners of her lips, "Oh? So what are you implying Jackson?"
"Would you like to go out with me, Rachel Elizabeth Dare?"
"I would love to." She responded.
Percy sagged with relief, "That's a relief, I've been thinking about it all period but couldn't decide if I should."
"Percy, I won't lie. You're really good looking. You have a nice face, good hair, and beautiful eyes. I've always had a crush on you, which is why I was so forward earlier in second period. There was no way I would say no to that."
Percy blushed a dark grey, and stuttered out a, "T-than-ks."
Class went on as normal from then on, but someone overheard the entire conversation. Annabeth was confused. Percy had been so nice to her, comforting and supportive, even when she had pushed him away. Was he playing her? Trying to pick the easy girl? She didn't say yes to talking to him and the next period he was dating a girl.
Annabeth fumed, 'Percy Jackson, you sly bastard. You can't fool a Chase.'
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PE was dismissed, and all the girls went to go get changed, while the boys went straight to their next classes. Percy came alongside Leo, ready for their next class. Science.
The class was interesting for Percy. The teacher was Mr. Ross, Mrs. Ross' husband. It was Percy's favorite class, just because he got to watch things explode and cool stuff. It was also different because Percy actually had an A in that class.
The class settled in, all at lab benches around the edges of the classroom. Today was Monday, which meant a lab to do. Mr. Ross was the fun teacher who made class interesting, and he wanted to cheer up everyone's Mondays with a little science.
Roll was taken quickly, and Mr. Ross got down to business.
"Hey y'all! Okay, so to get right to it, we gotta long lab today, so let's all hurry and see the end of the lab. If everyone finishes I might let y'all out a bit early." He said with a conspiratorial wink. "The instructions are on the board, don't forget yer lab coats, goggles, and gloves too. Roll up yer sleeves as well."
Percy smiled at the accent Mr. Ross had. It was often the butt of jokes in the class, but it was all light hearted and everyone laughed.
Percy was partnered with Leo, who was already stirring a bottle of an unlabeled chemical with a bendy straw.
"Um Leo," Percy tentatively said. "Hmm?" Percy looked at the chemical with some amount of fear, "I don't think whatever that is will react well with other chemicals, taking into account that it's unlabeled, potentially contaminated with plastic, and it slowly turning different shades of gray.."
Leo stopped, and took a good look at the beaker, "Ah, yes it's working."
Percy stopped, but decided not to question it, and got started on the actual instructions.
The minutes flew by, Percy working painstakingly on a project assigned for two people, and taking notes for both of them, and Leo was hard at work with his mysterious liquid, and was experimenting with a bunsen burner to see what would happen.
"Ooooh, pretty." Admired Leo, gazing at the beaker. It now had two layers, one significantly light gray, and the other an almost black.
Percy once again made the smart decision and didn't question Leo's methods to insanity.
The class was about half over when Leo finished what he was doing.
"Ah HAH!" Leo yelled. The class suddenly got much quieter, and Leo shrunk back into his seat. "What's up Leo?" The elfish boy grinned, and held up a 'stop' sign with his hand. Percy sighed, but went back to work.
Leo pulled some materials out of his belt. Approximately two and three quarters inches squared of card stock paper, seven pipe cleaners, all different shades of gray, giving them a unique look, a thin clear tube, and one very specifically shaped slingshot.
One made specifically for a test tube.
Leo quickly got to work, strapping together the cardstock around the test tube in a cylinder to cover it, and then secured it with the pipe cleaners. He then took the clear pipe and fed it into the test tube, which was yet to be filled with something.
Lastly, Leo poured his mystery liquid into the test tube through the pipe, and grinned madly at Percy.
Then he threw it, as hard as he could.
More specifically, he strapped the end of the clear pipe to a beaker, and then placed the test tube in the slingshot. When he launched the test tube, it flung away with surprising speed. The beaker was pulled with it, and was launched through the air, landing perfectly on the shelf above one of the lab benches.
The beaker had managed to land so that the pipe ended facing with its exit downwards, and the test tube above it, landing on some text books.
The liquid flowed out of the pipe, right onto Jason Grace's head.
As it turned out, Leo had been lying about the liquid the entire period. All he did was have two liquids, one that would change color depending on temperature and different variables, and the second, which actually went into the test tube.
The liquid covered Jason's light gray hair completely, soaking his head. He reached up, after a yell of shock, and tried to swipe the majority of the liquid off, which had piled on the crown of his head.
His actions had unexpected consequences.
Hair came out in very large clumps, a dark gray thanks to the liquid. Jason, naturally, freaked out, and sprinted to the nearest bathroom.
Leo cracked up, as did the entire class. Mr. Ross stood up and tried, with lots of difficulty, to address the issue without laughing. Needless to say, he didn't even get a word out before a completely bald Jason Grace ran, screeching, through the door.
The entire class burst into raucous laughter, only further embarrassing Jason. He hung his now gleaming head in shame, and left the classroom. Mr. Ross recovered, eventually, from his laughing fit, and made a call to the office to make sure Jason either got home safely, or got to his next class on time.
Mr. Ross gave up on making the class focus, and gave them the entire period.
"Leo, you're a damn genius." Percy said, amazed.
"I know." Leo grinned, "And you wanna know the best part?"
"What's that?"
"No one knows it was me."
Percy laughed out loud at that statement, and gave Leo one hell of a fist bump for that amazing class period.
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Percy grabbed his backpack and cleaned up his station, then headed out the door. Somehow, he knew that Study Club had made one hell of an effect on his life, and so far, he loved it.
Alrighty I'm back with another chapter. Not quite as long as the first but almost. Thanks for the follows and favorites by the way!
Now I'm off to another dimension, where there aren't any unfinished fanfics, and every story has no spelling or grammatical errors. Peace! o/