A/N: Chapter 2 is up, and hopefully I can get 2-3 chapters in per week.. schedule willing. Thanks to those who've read so far and hopefully we can get the high school drama ramped up soon enough, PJO style.

I had assumed that with the vice principal, Mr. Brunner, dismissing me with my now finished schedule, that I would be shown around the campus and have some free time to explore as well. That was a severe miscalculation.

"Perry Jandan!" I winced at the butchering my name took.

"It's Percy, sir." I bit on my tongue as a portly, red faced man drunkenly wobbled my direction, jabbing a chubby finger at me.

"Perry, Parker, Pamela..." he trailed off in his slur, with a hiccup. "It doesn't matter much. I've seen your files, Patrick, and you're one very troublesome troubling trouble maker and I won't stand for it."

I wasn't sure whether to chuckle at his antics or feel repulsed by the terrible smell of too much wine that seemed to waft off of him.

"I'm not here to cause any trouble, sir." I said like I had rehearsed and announced to gods knows how many previous schools principals.

"Ha." He said with a forceful hiccup. "You've already caused plenty of trouble."

I stared at him blankly as the wheel chair bound Mr. Brunner rolled between us, interrupting. "Mr. D, I think that perhaps you are slightly mistaken as this is our young Percy's first morning with us."

"Maybe not yet.." The drunk seeming principal, Mr D, stammered and shook his finger around more. "But maybe not..."

I stood there with a completely blank and puzzled expression as I tried to figured out what his words meant. Mr. Brunner prodded the wobbling principal out of the room and came back to apologize.

"That happens more often than you would believe, sadly."

I found myself frowning slightly, as I wondered what my parents had gotten me into. I was rather frustrated with the situation, unsure of how this prison camp of a school campus was going to be good in any way. I was pulled out of my musings by the vice principal, who seemed to understand my silent frustration.

"Mr. Jackson, are you alright?" Mr. Brunner asked, refocusing my attention. "A lot of young, new students tend to feel anxious and overwhelmed by our unique methods of teaching and living. Perhaps you just need a little more familiarity."

As if on cue, a young girl with silky dark hair and gleaming black eyes entered the room from upstairs. I was slightly caught off guard by how cute she looked. She was wearing jeans and an orange shirt, lightly twirling a green cap on her fingers. She glanced between Mr. Brunner and myself, lightly smirking as she walked over to our location, just not far from the fireplace.

"Hey, Chiron. Mr. D said that you might need me to be a tour guide." The girl gave a small wink in my direction.

"Ah, perfect timing Bianca." Mr. Brunner said with a friendly smile. "You can show Perseus around. He's transferring here and today is his first day."

I lightly flinched but mentally shrugged it off, looking at the wheel-chair man. "Chiron? Like as in the myth of the old Greek trainer?"

"Yes, my parents thought the name suited me." He replied back solemnly, but cast a glance at the girl, Bianca.

"Of course, I'd love to show the new guy around." Bianca wasted no time in grabbing my hand and pulling me back out of the house.

"Hey.. what's the big deal?" I called to her in a little bit of frustration.

She completely ignored my question and proceeded to show me the building layout. Twenty large buildings were shaped like an Omega. She quickly went on to explain that the back line of cabins were used as the varying classrooms. The cabins along the sides were for housing, five on each side. The ones closest to the bottom row, were for guests and transfers before they progressed up by enrollment year. The seniors stayed in the cabins at the top of the rows, boys on the left side and girls on the right. The just left the two large, open air like structures at the top of the Omega. Those were the two temples, males on the left and females on the right.

I nodded a little absent minded as she explained the layout and structures, completely missing the mention of the temples. She talked about the other structures around the campus, like the climbing wall and volleyball pit and basketball court. My ears perked up when she mentioned the baseball field, that was just a little distance from Mr. D's strawberry fields.

"So your cabin would be number eleven." Bianca's playful smile turned to a sneer as the redhead who I had met from early was leisurely resting on the porch of cabin eleven.

"Why, hey you two." Rachel Elizabeth Dare smiled brightly, making Bianca hesitate to come any closer towards the porch.

"Uh.. well, maybe I'll see you around later or tomorrow some Percy." Bianca blushed and gritted her teeth at the same time, before turning around and hastily heading back to the big house.

"Hey, Rachel. Fancy seeing you here." I stammered out a little nervously.

"Oh, I was waiting on you. No biggie, really." She replied back, stepping off the porch and approaching me.

I gulped lightly as she reached for my hand, then pulled me inside of the cabin. There was just one bed prepared with a dresser full of clothes that seemed custom fit exactly for me. I thought it was a little peculiar, but I shrugged it off. It took me a moment longer, after having surveyed the mostly empty cabin, that Rachel was still holding onto my hand.

"So, I didn't get very far in my tour.." I trailed my words off in embarrassment.

"Yeah, I couldn't help but notice that." She paused, giving a little bit of a mischievous smile. "I guess I'm just gonna have to show you around myself, then."

"So, if nobody else is here early yet... why is Bianca?"

"Rumor is that her brother will be attending next year also." Rachel said that words with a slight touch of distaste.

"Oh, but that doesn't exactly get to why she's early."

"I was getting to that." She said with a forced smile. "Bianca is from an orphanage, supposedly because she doesn't have parents. At least, that's the story I've heard around campus."

"That's just terrible." I replied back in a hushed tone, unsure why I was nearly whispering when nobody else that I knew of was even around.

"She's a bit of an outcast, or at least she was at the summer enrollment and everything."

"Summer enrollment? You mean she's new too?"

Rachel rolled her eyes a little, but smiled playfully more. "She's just a freshman. She's not a transfer like you are."

With that, Rachel looped her arm through mine and escorted me out of the cabin and off towards the edge of campus and the woods.