Chapter TWO! YAY! Let's see, last time I left off... that's right the library, Annabeth had just left Percy. CHAPTER HERE I WRITE! :D!
Chapter two!
Disclaimer: I do not own Percy Jackson, I wish I could, but alas, Rick does... I do own the plot and some of the backgrounds! Me: 1 point. Rick:... 100 points. He owns it soo..
Percy's P.O.V
Annabeth had left me to think. Why had she gone off? Didn't she believe me? I got up and put the papers in my folder and shoved it in my backpack. I grabbed the books I got and put them on the shelf.
I walked out and waited at the bus stop. Minutes passed then I saw Leo running at me smiling like crazy. "Man!" He yelled. "I found thee!"
"Yeah?" I said as he reared up in front of me.
"Guess what?!"
"Do I have too?"
"Yes, come on man guess it." Ugh, I'm guessing I'm going to have to.
"Fine, did you get more members on team Leo?"
"Yes, in fact I did, but that's not it, keep going."
"Did you find out that there is no team Leo?"
"Come on man, for real. And ouch? I do have a team, come on keep going."
"You found something?"
"Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes!" He said without even stopping, I didn't even know you could say yes that many times in a row. But apparently you can, only if you are Leo.
"What is it?" I said looking up at him.
"Guess, come on you know you want too."
"Not really, could you just say it?" I said complaining.
"Ugh fine man, okay so I was walking and I came by a movie rental place so I thought: 'why not check it out.' so I went in and I found all three of! Guess!" He waited for my guess.
"All three Crocodile Dundee's?"
"All three man!" Okay I should explain two years ago, someone bet Leo (Jason and Hazel) that he couldn't find all Crocodile Dundee, and ever since he's been looking. Jason heard that Pipers dad had a minor role in that movie, so Jason had been looking, then Hazel found out. She got in on the action, but after like a five months, they had no luck. Leo then found out and said he'd find all of them. And now he did. I'm not sure what the winner got, or what the loser didn't get. But Leo never stopped looking.
"Nice man, good for you." I said.
"You know what this means right? Two things." Oh no, no. Don't say it Leo, don't.
"One: A Crocodile Dundee marathon! Two: We gotta show this to the rest!" And he said it.. marathon...
His smile got even better it got so big, I'm pretty sure it would make the Joker jealous.
"Okay sure this weekend man, promise, we'll all get together and watch it."
"Cool cool." He said sitting down. "Now I need a ride." My face must have said something because Leo asked, "What's wrong?"
"I need to tell you something, but you have to swear. You have to promise not to tell anyone."
"Yeah okay, what is it? Please tell me it's not about a dead moose in your basement man, because a girl once told me she had one in her base- whoa, she was lying! Who has a dead moose I mean maybe like a rat, but a moose! Ugh, that took me way to long to figure out." I laughed a little, Leo knows how to make me laugh.
"No, it's about Luke. Something I- that I overheard."
"This can't be good."
"That's why I have to tell you, I overheard he owes money, like a lot of money and that he needed to asked someone for money, a girl, to be more precise, that girl was Annabeth."
"Wait, isn't he like, rich? His dad drops off two thousand dollars, twice a year. I mean, he should be packing some major cash." Leo said.
"Yeah I'm sure, he was talking to that new kid, Chris? And yes his dad gives him four thousand dollars a year, which make me think, how deep in debt is he? And the second check came a week and a half ago."
"Man, I'm getting chills just thinking of it. You so owe me a marathon of Crocodile Dundee."
And hour passed and since Leo had no where to go for dinner since his aunt isn't really feeding him anymore. So he is coming to my house, we still had about and hour till Gabes pals got here. We thought it would be best to stay in my room and play some ps2 which at this point in time is a hundred years old.
"Oh man, you got Grand Turismo! And Jake and Dexter! Gods I remember these from my foster place!" Leo said esthetically.
"Yeah, Percy has some of the oldest game." Tyson said well he was playing around with some scrap. He loved building stuff, he once built me a clock, and it blow up, but that's not the important part. It's the thought that count. And the fact that I wasn't home when it blow.
"No kidding big guy." Leo continued to file thorough the games till he found, Lego Star Wars, the first one.
"Don't you think we're a bit too old for that?" I asked.
"Dude, lesson one: You are never to old to play with legos with your friends." And that's what we did, we played legos.
"Run droids, RUN! If I catch you, I'll send your metal butts to the underworld!" Leo yelled at the TV.
"Did you use Greek Mythology as an insult?"
"Don't make me eat you like Kronos eat his kids!" Leo taunted the game like this until Gabe came in.
"Shut up you little brats!" He said opening the door and slamming in shut. Gods hes such a jerk.
"Wow I hate that dude. And you have to live with him?"
"Yeah, I hate him too."
"Man you are braver then I thought." He died on the game and lost most of his coins. "No! Dang you Separatist scum!"
My mom came in the room to tell us food was ready. "Foods ready, and it has a side of blue chips, just for you." She smiled at me, and everything that occurred today, her smile warmed me up.
"Okay be right there mom."
"So close, we are about to kill General Grievous. Ah I suppose we can have a last supper before I die again. Since you made me the clone, and you get to be Obi-wan."
"Hey man, you wanted second controller." We pulled up another chair for Leo to sit in.
"So Leo, how's school?" My mom asked once we were seated.
"Pretty good Mrs. Jackson." Leo said dipping a chip in nacho cheese. "Thanks for dinner."
"Anytime Leo."
"Yes, um, thanks for the meal." Gabes pal, Quinn, said. Quinn had longer hair, skin that looked really close to laundry detergent.
"So who has seen Avatar?" Leo asked to keep up the conversation.
"I have." Another one of Gabes friend said. But after that only Gabe and the others talked. Leo and I ate as fast as we could to get out of there. We finished the food twenty minutes later, mostly because Leo had to have seconds.
"Hey mom, can we go out?"
"Sure be back by eight." We raced down the flights of stairs in a rush.
"Nico, Piper, Jason, Calypso, and Hazel are hanging out at Jason's place, I was thinking we should go?"
"Is Luke or Annabeth going to be there?" I asked.
"No man, no way they are." We got on two buses a subway and a taxi to get to Jason's, which is a lot of cash in total. New York is a spendy place.
We got there and we knocked it took about five seconds for Calypso to answer. "Hey guys!"
"Hey." Leo said trying and may I add, failing at staying cool. "Hey." I added as I nodded toward her.
"Come in, Annabeth is here Percy." She said winking at me. I gave a look at Leo.
"Luke isn't here is he?"
"In fact he came with Annabeth!" Oh great, my luck. She moved aside and gestured for us to come in.
"I thought you said she wouldn't be here." I whispered over to Leo. Who, I think, was holding back a laugh.
"And I thought I had bad luck." He commented. We walked in and said hi to everyone, although I tried to avoid Luke and Annabeth all together, both said hi within the first few minutes.
"Hey kid, Percy, pal. We need to talk." He pulled me aside. "I know you talked to Annabeth."
"Say what now?" My voice went high and squeaked. "Me? Tell? Never! Why- why would I do such a thing?" I said as sarcasticly as I could master.
"You know you almost ruined things, right?"
"Oh no, ruin them?" I said a little to happily. "Um oh no! Ruin them!?" I tried again, but Luke didn't buy it, sadly enough. Wish he would've bought it.
"If we were alone, I would punch you."
"Scary." I said with a tad of a sassy voice. He walked away, put on a smooth face, like our talk never happened, and went back to Annabeth.
Nico was in the corner with Hazel, Piper, Jason, Annabeth, and Luke where in a semi circle. Leo was chatting with Calypso in the hallway, I was out of their view. I felt alone right there, I was off to the side, and I got angry. Luke was here and he was playing so cool, he was also playing with Annabeth's feelings. Luke once found out that Annabeth liked him, he never told her that he knew. But I think he used that to his advantage. I looked at him longer than a moment.
I walked over to the punch and got a cup. "Percy." Someone said behind me.
"Yeah?" I turned to face Annabeth.
"Sorry about earlier, I overreacted."
"It's okay Annabeth."
"Are we good?" She took a step forward.
"Um yeah of course."
"I heard you were going to try out for the play?" How did she? Let me guess, Rachel. "You should, I'm trying out too. Maybe we can go together." Then my mind actually had an idea. I can hang out with Annabeth more, plus maybe that's when we could be together.
"Sure, sounds awesome." I took a sip from my drink.
"Okay, can't wait." After that I left. I went home and went to bed.
Leo's P.O.V
First time, let's see, first time I did something stupid was when I was eight and thought I could fly (Too much Superman if you ask me.) So I made wings and jump off one of my foster parents Trailer.
Little background with me. After my mom died I kind of bounced around from foster home to foster home, I was kicked out of each one, heck even one time they gave me medication once. My aunt picked me up when I was turning eight, but up till then I had no home.
My mom died when I was four. She died from a fire that happened at one of my dads old repair shops. And I have more about why the fire happened... but more on that later. Anyway, my dad had been pretty lonely before he met my mom, but it got worse after, he left me when I was five, a year after the fire. He moved to Tennessee and got a Hotel room, where he- out of misery of losing my mom- pulled a gun to his... it's hard to talk about, but he um shoot his head. He lived for a day after he tried to commit suic- anyway he passed away and a passed from home to home until my aunt picked me up. I don't know why she did it, since she hates me.
After all that I started going to school in new York, my aunt has a business here that sells auto parts. So I went to all the Yancy's , the elementary, the middle school, and now Yancy Academy High. And I met the gang, our big main group of friends.
I got Percy to go to this party, or shin-dig, or get together with our friends. Plus, you know, Calypso was there so I found it the perfect chance to get to know her. So far I know that her dad, Atlas Kione owns three big company's. The first one being one that sells chemicals to foreign countries, the second is a big plant down south in another state. Then she said this one is a 'cover up company' it basically means this company helps the look of her father. The cover up company makes toys and other happy kid stuff. Which is a complete lie and she doesn't even like him. Her mother owns a little plant shop downtown. And she owns a pretty big house, since her family is rich. Why pick New york when you have that much money? I got no clue.
"Can I tell you something?" I asked.
"Sure Leo, anything." She pulled her hair back behind her ear.
"You know the fire that happened when I was a kid?"
"Yeah. Why?"
"I caused it. I was messing around in the heating room with the furnace, it heats up the building, and I was playing with some wooden toys and I had a toy on the hatch that pulls down, so you can put coal into it. And it sparked, and then boom! It went up into flames and it fell over, there was oil on the ground from the workers before. It was midday and my mom was working on a car that someone had brought in to be checked out." I looked at her, I never told anyone this before.
"So I ran out to get my mom and I couldn't find her anywhere, I ran out of the building calling her name. 'Mom! Mom! Where are you!' I saw crying and weeping, and wheezing. I heard a scream from inside the building and I ran back, only me and my mom where there so I knew it was her, and she was trapped under a car... She... she had been in the damn bathroom the whole time, she cleaned her hands and we were going to leave the building... I was so close to keeping her... then... then I lost her." I took a deep breath to continue the story.
"A beam support fell and I fell back, the beam had almost hit her. She yelled 'Go! Leave, please Leo I love you, go! Go!' I didn't know what to do, she was trapped and I was scared. She kept yelling for me to leave... to go and leave her there, and that maybe... she would she me one day. I cried some more and I didn't want to leave, she was my mom. But I left and.. when I looked back the shop blow up in flames. I yelled 'mom!' over and over again till I fell to my knees and cried."
"Oh gods, Leo." She looked like she was on the verge of tears, I felt bad that I had made her cry. But I had to tell someone.
"The cops came and blamed me for my mothers death. I spent a night at the police department, that's when foster care took me. I bounced around a lot and ended up with my aunt."I didn't know what to expect to happen after I told her, but she hugged me. I didn't expect that to happen.
I do think I have a real member to Team Leo! Pat and pending.
"Do you want to hang out some time? Maybe a movie?" I asked nervously.
"Yes, Leo. I woul-" CRASHH! She was interrupted by the sound of a breaking vase.
Pipers P.O.V
I was at the party that Jason was throwing, or hang out, Reyna was supposed to be here soon. Percy had left not to long ago and Annabeth was walking over to us, Jason, Luke and me. "Guess what!" She said with a smile.
"What?" Jason asked first.
"Percy is doing the play, he's tying out with me."
"Oh man that I gotta see." Jason said laughing.
"I'll film it." I offered.
"Yes! And we'll post it on YouTube! It'll go viral!"
"So Viral." Annabeth said.
"I can see it now 'Messes on stage and falls of of the stage'" Jason said while making a filming box with his fingers.
"He won't be that bad." She said. Jason gave her a look like-yeah-he-will-be-that-bad look. "Okay maybe he will." We both laughed at that.
"Hey Jason, can we talk? Alone." I asked suddenly.
"Yeah sure Pips." We walked over by the door.
"Did you hear?"
"Hear?..."
"About Luke, I didn't want to say this in front of Annabeth." I said looking over at her.
"No. I didn't hear, what is it?"
"He owes a lot of money and he asked Annabeth for some."
"Pips, you sure? I mean, Luke is a nice guy and we shouldn't start rumors."
"Yes, I mean at least I think-" KNOCK KNOCK!
"Most be Reyna, we'll talk about this later." He opened the door and let his girlfriend in. Truth be told, I kind of wish I was her, she's so lucky to have Jason. She kissed him and I decided to talk to Annabeth, but it seemed she was having a super heated conversation with Luke.
"You lied Luke! You lied! Gods, I can't believe it! Percy was telling the truth." Annabeth looked super pissed, are the rumors true? Did Luke take money from Annabeth?
"Annabeth it's not what-"
"Oh! Don't even! Percy found out and he tried to tell me, only thing is, what did you do when he did find out?"
"Nothing! I swear!" Luke yelled in defense, although I have a feeling that he was lying and apparently so did Annabeth.
"If I find out Luke that you are lying..." She was so mad she couldn't finish the sentence.
"Please, wait a minute!" Then Annabeth was so mad she pushed him into a flower vase. It fell and made a CRASHH! sound everyone stopped talking. Everything just stopped. Everyone came into the room to see what was going on.
"Gods I need to talk to Percy, I need to tell him I was wrong." She grabbed her stuff and left. The room fell into silence. I even stopped breathing for a second. Then Leo walked up to Luke with a smile.
"You know what this is for." Then he pulled back his fist and flinched. His fist hit Luke's jaw. Luke Looked pissed and he started to hit Leo over and over again.
"No! Get off! Luke get off!" Calypso yelled at him in tears. By then, with all the hits he got, Leo passed out. "Leo! Get off Luke, get out! Leave!"
Luke must have realized what he was doing because he backed off and fell back. "Wha- Wha?" He got up and stormed out of the building. Leaving all of us stunned.
WOW! What about that chapter? Phew that took a long time to write. Hoped you liked it! This one is only 100 words behind the first chapter!
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