I'm Travis Young, I go to Goode high school.I'm not popular but not unrecognized. People know me, but I'm not popular. Does that make sense? I have dark brown hair and blue eyes. My hair is always messy, I don't really care about appearances though. I guess I could be popular or handsome if I tried to, but I don't really want to.
My swim team, The Sharks, are competing against our number one rivals, The Water Tigers, this coming weekend, Saturday, to be precise. Luckily, we have the swim teams number one guy. Percy Jackson.
I don't know why, but he is th fastest swimmer. He looks great, don't get me wrong, his raven black hair is windswept like he took a long walk on the beach, his sea green eyes are so beautiful. He is like half god! The girls in school swoon over him. But he always turns them down, saying he has a girlfriend.
He's really my friend, just a teammate.
I was walking to my last class of the day, when I accidentally bumped into someone. Their books and my books fell to the ground.
"Look where you're..." I start to shout.
I look up to see the most beautiful girl I had ever seen. She had gorgeous honey blonde hair that had luscious princess curls, that cascaded down her back. She had stormy, gray silvery eyes that scanned your every move. She was perfect, she was going to be my girlfriend. I knew it. She must be new, because I've never seen her before.
"I'm so sorry!" I continue, but in a different tone "I should have been looking where I was going!".
I bend down and pick up her books and hand them to her.
"Thanks" she thanked me, and gave me a smile. Even her voice was beautiful "I wasn't looking where I was going".
"No problem" I explain "Are you new going to this school?".
"Um, I am only taking classes here for a day because I was giving a presentation, and I didn't want to miss out on school periods so I just took the classes" She explains.
"Oh" I reply dumbly "My name is Travis, what's yours?".
"Annabeth" she tells me.
She takes out her schedule.
"Ok, can I maybe ask you a question?" She says.
"Sure anything!" I respond.
"Ok, I normally don't like getting help from people, especially people I just met, but I need to know where Mrs. Johnston's History class is" She replies, obviously confused.
"oh, I have that class too. Maybe I can show you" I offer.
She looks a bit uncomfortable but then decides
"sure".
We walk together to class.
Saturday...
I'm one of the first people competing at this meet. I was getting ready to go in, I was on probably ten minutes.
I look around the room at the crowd and I see Annabeth and two other friends come through the door, holding signs.
She told her friends about m and they are cheering me on!
I run over to her.
"Hey Annabeth!" I yell.
"Oh hey. Travis is it?" She answers.
"What are you doing here?" I asked confusedly. but I think I actually know the answer.
"Cheering on a friend" says one of the girls with Annabeth.
"But he's a little more then a friend to Annabeth" says the other girl, teasing.
Annabeth blushed.
"Well we should go find some seats" She tells me "See ya".
They go to sit down in the crowd, around the middle rows. I wonder who they meant, me? Someone else?
I just shrugged off the idea as I got ready to swim.
...Time skip to after he swims...
After I was done, it was the end of the meet and Annabeth and her friends haven't even held up their signs. Only two people are left, the anchors.
Percy, from my team. Then, Harry, from the other.
they were about to start swimming, just when the buzzer went off. Bang! They were off.
I looked back at Annabeth, their signs were up. They said:
Get a move on Ariel!
was held by the Cherokee girl.
Get em Kelp head!
Was held by the girl with darker skin and curly brown hair. I overheard her name was Hazel.
Go Seaweed Brain!
was what Annabeth held. But I still don't know who they're rooting for.
after the swim meet, everyone was crowding out. I saw Annabeth talking to someone, I couldn't see them because thy were hidden out of my view. I crept up as close as I could, and listened to their conversation.
"I still kinda think you're cheating thought" she says.
The other person speaks "Well I'm just naturally talented!". Sounds masculine, probably a male.
"Seriously Percy!" Said Hazel "You're naturally good a swimming because of your dad!".
Well, my first reaction was. What? My second was It's Percy they were cheering?
"well it doesn't mean anything! I do it all on my own" Percy protests.
"Yes it does, he zapped a special gift of swimming on you" the other girl smirks.
"Guys, the van is outside probably waiting to take us to camp" Annabeth says.
I run out after they left, following them.
I run outside, acting cool I call "Hey Annabeth!".
She turns around, so does her friends.
"Oh, um, hi Travis" Annabeth says.
"Did someone say my name?" Says another voice.
"That's not you Travis Stoll! It's someone else!" Screams back the Cherokee girl.
"sure you weren't talking about me" calls the voice again, sarcastically.
Cherokee rolled her eyes, and walked over to the van, probably where the voice was coming from.
"Hi" I repeat again.
"Hi" she replies.
There was a few awkward silences.
"Who are they?" I ask.
"this is Hazel" she points at the brown curly haired girl "the other girl who went into the van was Piper," and this is my boyfriend Percy" she explains.
My face practically falls. I had used all my strength not to drop open my jaw.
"Cool" I state, tripping to act natural.
"Bye!" I add and rush off.
There goes my chances with Annabeth.