Chapter 1

Author's Note: Yo, what's good everyone? Simple's back with another new chapter (the first) and I just wanted to let you know that I'm going to try my best to upload weekly. Probably on Fridays if at all possible. None of you have given me your opinions on whether this should be a Goode High Performing Arts story so I've went off on my own accord and made it one. It'll most likely be like your typical Performing Arts High story. Expect more drama, music, and of course Percy and the gang. As always if you have any ideas for new chapters please hmu. Well, for now that's all from me. This has been Simple. Enjoy the chapter!

-Simple

Annabeth POV

Luke was going to fight Percy Jackson.

That right there in and of itself is mind-boggling. Fighting over me no less. Maybe it shows that Luke still does care about me, even though he does have the facts wrong. But that's probably just wishful thinking.

I wonder at times why I'm still with Luke. I mean, after all he does hit me. When we were younger Luke was different somehow... He'd always been there for me, even when everyone was bullying me for being intelligent. Something has drastically changed between then and now. If I had to guess, it would be that his father left him alone with his mother. He can't stand her at the times when she goes into one of her fits. She goes bat-shit crazy and just starts throwing things and hitting Luke. Luke doesn't hit back because he knows he'd hurt her worse than she's hurting him. So he takes it out on me...

I guess what I'm getting at is that I stay with Luke out of pity.

As the bell rang for lunch, the first thought that ran into my mind was that Percy was in danger. I couldn't let him get beat by the best fighter in the school when in all reality, he didn't even do anything to Luke. So during lunch, I slipped away from my table to find him.

I found him with his group of friends, Rachel Elizabeth Dare, Grover Underwood, Hazel Levesque, Frank Zhang, and Grover's girlfriend Juniper.

Unsurprisingly, they weren't exactly pleased to see me. Rachel's face immediately dropped, Frank spit his lunch out of his mouth and Grover stopped mid sentence to stare at me. Percy turned around to find me standing right behind him.

"Hey, what's up Annabeth?" He asked me, lacking all of the iciness his voice had held earlier.

Now standing in front of him I found it was hard to make the words come out of my mouth, especially when all of his friends were staring at me and Rachel was giving me a cold glare.

Rachel hated me, that much was obvious. I heard every chance she got she was all over Percy. They're kind of a thing.

And no, I wasn't jealous that this pitiful redhead had Percy all to herself.

Okay, if I'm being honest there was definitely some jealousy there. It didn't make sense but I could tell I had feelings for this cute boy from Manhattan. Anyways, that was currently irrelevant, I came here on a mission.

"Yeah, Percy, we need to talk." Cue the next visual dagger thrown at me from Rachel. I turned back to Percy. "Preferably alone."

"Anything you need to say to Percy you can say in front of us all." Said Rachel.

Of course she had to go and be like that. I was getting a little irritated but Percy seemed to have noticed and stood up.

"Listen," He said to Rachel in particular. "Annabeth just wants to talk, it's not a big deal so don't worry, I'll be right back." With that he walked past me, expecting me to follow his lead.

We exited the cafeteria and made our way down one of the hallways. We walked for awhile with a comfortable silence hanging on the air.

Now that I had Percy to myself I wasn't entirely sure what to say. I mean, would he get angry if I would be to bring up Luke? When I was ready to finally say something Percy finally broke the silence.

"Alright Annabeth, what's up? What did you need me for? I'm sure it wasn't to take me on a lovely little stroll through the school corridors."He stated with a brief smile. "If this has something to do with earlier I want to apologize…" He trailed off and looked over at me. I held his gaze and he gave me his infamous half smile, that drove all the girls crazy, with his shockingly beautiful sea green eyes sparkling.

"I didn't mean to be so cold Annabeth, I was just pissed. Not at you, but at Luke. Maybe you're right, maybe I need to get on his good side and then he won't treat me like dirt." He paused for the second time. "You're awfully quiet Annabeth, what are you thinking?"

"Percy, he wants to fight you after school today." I said truthfully.

"Wait, what? Why?" He asked totally bewildered.

"He thought you were flirting with me this morning. He wants to 'mark his territory'." I air quoted with my fingers.

Heat rose to Percy's cheeks. "Well did you tell him that quite the opposite was happening?"

"Of course I did," I said defensively. "He just didn't believe me."

"Why didn't he believe you Annabeth? You're his girlfriend aren't you? Or do your words carry no weight with him?" Percy said.

Sighing, I told him the truth. "Let's just say that his best friend's words mean more to him than mine do…"

He caught my eyes for the second time. From his eyes I could tell that he was going where his mind was leading him. I could practically hear the unspoken question, 'then why are you with him?' And even though deep down I felt the exact same way, I chose to stick up for Luke anyways.

"I didn't mean.." I started.

"I know what you meant." He replied shortly.

There he was again going all cold. What was it with this boy? It was almost like he was jealous. I laughed internally at the ludicrous thought. Percy jealous, HA!

It was crazy how easily Percy could read me after having only known me for such a short time. He read me like an open book.

Our conversation seemed to have come to a screeching halt after I tried to defend Luke. I wanted to salvage it but didn't see how I could.

The bell finally rang stopping us in our trek through the school hallways. He stood facing me with his deep brown hair and his sea green eyes shining, I didn't know what to say… If I should tell him to kick Luke's ass for me or to let him win. I was so confused that I just hugged him. All of my emotions were a rage but internally I knew I needed him to show Luke up. I couldn't bear the thought of Percy getting beaten to a pulp by the asshole who I happened to be chained to.

Turning to face his ear I whispered "Just, don't lose Percy, for me."

And with that I broke our embrace, walked back to the cafeteria to collect my things and made my way to Architecture.