Anyone else see Frozen yet? Anyone else think it was the most amazing thing you've ever seen? (Slight exaggeration there, but it was still pretty darn good).


Annabeth

I unlocked my locker and pulled out my history text book and binder. There was still only a few more minutes before my first class started, so I tried to hurry.

"Annabeth!" a voice called. I looked down the hall to see my friend Thalia running down the hallway, her electric blue eyes vivid with excitement. "I made it!" she squealed.

We had known each other since we were pretty young, but I never saw her too often. The important thing to remember about Thalia was how quickly her moods could change. One moment, she would be happy and excited, the next she would be ready to tear you limb from limb. Luckily, I had never been on the receiving side of the latter.

"What?" I asked, feeling extremely confused.

"I made the archery team!" she exclaimed.

"That's awesome! When's your first competition?" I asked.

"I have no idea!" she said joyfully.

"That's really great, Thalia."

"Mr. Brunner said I had natural talent," she beamed, crossing her arms over her chest proudly.

"Speaking of Mr. Brunner, I have english now. He'll chew my head off if I'm late," I said. She nodded understandingly and we said our good-byes before parting.

I walked down the hallway and turned the corner. It looked like I was going to be on time, that is, until I smashed into someone else. A binder and a bunch of loose papers dropped to the ground.

"Sorry," I said in unison with the guy who I had bumped into. I looked up and found myself staring into a pair of sea green eyes that lit up when they met mine.

"Hey! It's you!"

"Guilty," I said. We both dropped down at the same time to pick up his papers, our foreheads smashing into each others.

"Ouch!" I exclaimed.

Percy sat back on the ground. "Sorry... Ow..." he groaned. "You see those kinds of things on TV, but you never think they're actually going to happen. You know, the guy bumps into the cute girl, drops his stuff, and then when they bend down to pick it up SMACK!"

"So, would I be the 'cute girl' in this situation?" I asked, a small smile pulling at the corner of my lips. Percy turned red and laughed nervously.

He switched the topic. "I've gotta go switch some of my classes, but I'll see you later."

"Bye," I said. He walked off down the hall with a laid back stride. I watched him go.

A loud blaring buzzer sounded over the speakers. My initial thought was Guess I should head to class, until I remembered that it wasn't the five-minute-warning bell, it was the If-you-aren't-in-class-you-have-a-detention bell. I swore under my breath and took off down the hall.

I turned the corner sharply and stopped running, knowing if any teacher caught me I'd be held back another five minutes explaining why I had to run in the first place.

When I reached Mr. Brunner's classroom, the door was already shut and the class inside was quiet.

"Crud," I muttered under my breath. I sighed and pulled the door open, stepping inside and closing the door, trying to be as quiet as possible as if I could sneak past Mr. Brunner.

"Annabeth. It's not like you to be late," he said immediately.

"Sorry, Mr. Bruner," I said.

"I am too. Rules are rules. Come back here after school, please," he said. I nodded and walked to my seat in the second row. I sat down and pulled my books out of my bag.

"As I was saying, today you will be put in parters. You will be completing in class assignments together, doing peer editing, and, starting today, a summative assignment for our ancient civilizations unit," he said, pushing his wheel chair over to his desk and picking up his clipboard. Everyone in the class began whispering to each other, asking to be each other partners.

"I will be assigning you your partners," Mr Bruner said, overpowering all the whispers. An audible sigh passed over the class. "Yes, I know, I'm a monster. I hide my extra legs underneath this blanket," he said sarcastically, gesturing to his legs. Mr. Bruner was paralyzed from the waist down, and always had a plaid quilt covering his lower half.

Paralyzed, yes, helpless, not even close. The entire school knew about the archery range he had set up in his front lawn. He was known to be an extremely sharp shooter.

He pushed his wheelchair over to his desk and picked up a clipboard and a large metal mixing bowl.

"There are an uneven number of kids in the class so there will be one group of three," he said. He began reading off a list of names. People snickered at some of the pairs, other times the room went quiet, and some people gave small whoops of excitement.

"And finally, for our group of three, Piper, Leo, and Annabeth," he finished.

"Yes! Beauty Queen, we're gonna kill it!" shouted a voice at the back of the class. I swiveled around in my chair to see Leo Valdez, the curly haired, hispanic boy who sat at the back of the class, doing a strange, dance beside his chair. The girl in the seat in front of him laughed and yelled at him to sit down. She was wearing a white shirt with Super Mario characters all over it.

"Get into your partners and introduce yourselves. You'll be spending a lot of time together," Mr. Brunner said.

I stood up and made my way past everyone else as they shuffled around the room to find their partners. Piper was turned around in her chair facing Leo. When Leo spotted me, he got up from his chair and bowed formally.

"Hello, fair lady. I am Sir Leo."

"More like stable boy," Piper muttered. I sat down at the chair beside Piper.

"I'm Annabeth," I said.

"I'm Piper, and I'm afraid we're stuck with Sir Idiot here," she said, rolling her eyes. I recognized her name, though I had never met her before.

"You know you love me," Leo said, plopping back down in his seat and smiling.

I could tell the two of them were close, which made me less keen on being in their group. I didn't want to be completely disregarded just because I was new. One on one wouldn't be so bad. That way, I wouldn't be put second to the other group member.

"I'm passing around this bowl with the names of different ancient civilizations. These will be your project topics," Mr. Brunner said.

There was a knock at the door. A bunch of girls began giggling and whispering to each other. I leaned over to see who had walked in. It was none other than Percy himself.

"Percy, what are you doing here?" Mr. Brunner asked.

"I had to switch around my schedule, so I'm in this class now instead of tomorrow," he said, holding out a purple slip. Mr. Brunner examined it carefully and attached it to his clipboard.

"Well, that works out well for us. We now have an even number of students. We just have to pull one person from our group of three..." Mr Brunner said, looking down the row at me.

"I will volunteer to work with Percy, though it brings me great pain to leave these two lovely ladies," Leo said solemnly, standing up and raising his hand.

"Annabeth," Mr. Brunner said, paying no attention to Leo. "Come up here for a moment," he said. I got up and walked to the front of the classroom. Percy flashed me a small, quick smile.

"You two are going to be partners."


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