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We start off after Percy meets Annabeth.
Annabeth P.O.V.
"So Annabeth... What does you schedule look like?" Percy asked, looking at me with his deep green ocean eyes. Gods, I felt like I was drowning looking into them.
"Well, it looks like a piece of paper with words and numbers on it." I said sarcastically. Percy just smirked and rolled his eyes at me.
"Oh really? I thought it was a piece of green dragon hide with pictures of butterflies and unicorns on it!" Percy retorted sarcastically, making his voice high-pitched to imatate mine. He held out his hand, and I raised my eyebrows at him, giving him the "Are you serious" look. Percy just rolled his eyes at me... again! and tugged my schedule out of my hand. He looked at the paper and tried to focus, holding the paper up close to his face, then far away, blinking every few seconds. "Jason! They're swimming all over again!" He complained. Dyslexic? I think yes. Jason took the paper from Percy and read my schedule out loud.
"She's got Algebra II with Mrs. Perry 1st, Chemistry with Mr. Brooks 2nd, English with Mr. Blofis 3rd, Free Period 4th, Latin with Mr. Forgey 5th, Vocals with Mrs. Brant 6th. So Annabeth, you've got 1st 2nd 3rd and 5th with Thalia and Nico, 2nd 3rd 5th and 6th with me and Grover, Then 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th with Percy." Jason said pointing to everyone he called out.
"Thank Gods! At least I'll know someone in each of my classes." I said feeling the wave of relief wash over me. These guys were nice, and I knew Jason and Thalia. It takes a lot for them to be close to people. If they can be close of friends with these guys, then they can't be too bad.
"Oh, you'll meet more too. I still have to introduce you to the rest of the gang." Thalia said glancing at the clock on the wall. "Which should be getting here about now. Come on, maybe we can get to them before the 'Evil bich' gets here." Thalia said, saying "bich" in a German accent, moving towards the door. (AN: Any jacksfilms fans out there? Yes, misspelling "bitch" is actually intentional.)
"Who?" I asked, looking around to all of them. Everyone had weird looks, glancing all around, except for Percy. He just suddenly became really interested in his shoes.
"Drew Tanaka. She is the "Evil bich". Also known as.. Percy's girlfriend." Nico said in a monotone, looking as if he's remembering something horrible. His nose crinkled as he made a sour face.
"Dude, I told you. She was different. Now..now she's just awful! Now even I don't know what I was thinking when she asked me to be her date to that stupid dance. Now she's just.. well.. an "Evil Bich"." Percy said rubbing his forehead.
"Heard that before, man!" Jason exclaimed, throwing his hands in the air in surrender when Percy glared at him.
"You know, it would make everything a lot easier if...I don't know...she DISAPPERED!" Grover complained.
"I know guys. I'm sorry." Percy admitted. He smiled sadly at me, as if to say "Sorry for the awkwardness". I smiled back. I knew what that felt like. When I started going out with Luke, he was nice, kind and caring. After he was made Captain of the football team his ego grew and he...changed. From the sweet, nice guy to the rude, mean jerk you would find in the stupid cliché movies on Disney Channel.
"Come on Annie! I have to introduce you to the rest of our band of misfits." Thalia said dragging me out of the room, snapping me out of my thoughts.
"Don't call me that!" was the last thing I said before leaving the room, causing the boys to erupt into fits of laughter.
Thalia kept dragging me through the hallways untill we stopped in front of, what I assumed was her of locker, 512, right across the hall from mine. Yes, I notice little details like that. Call me weird, it's just an old habit of mine. Thalia pointed down the hallway to a group of kids walking towards us. They looked like a bunch of goofballs, or "misfits" as Thalia put it. They look like the people who you either really want to hang around with...or you really don't. They all looked nothing alike. No similar clothing, backpacks, or hair do's, notta. They came and stopped next to us, all smiling at Thalia and I.
"Hey Thals. Who's this?" The girl in front asked. She had long chocolate-brown hair and soft blue eyes. She was tall, tan olive skin and fit. Her clothes consisted of a flowy pink tank-top, denim shorts, and pick flats with little bows on the top. Basically she was... really pretty.
"Guys," Thalia announced loudly over the bustle of the hallway. "This is Annabeth Chase." Thalia said, showcasing me with her hands, like some chick on a commercial. "Annabeth, this is the rest of the gang." They all said a friendly mix of "hey"s and "hi"s and "hows it goning?"s back at me. The girl in front took a step closer to us and extended her hand forward.
"Hey, Annabeth. I'm Silena Beauregard and this" Silena said gesturing to they boy next to her " is Charles Beckendorf". This guy was tall with broad shoulders, brown curly hair and light brown eyes... and he was buff. Seriously, he looked like he could flick someone and they would fly over a few feet. But he gave me a friendly smile and shook my hand.
"Most people just call me Beckendorf. Only Silena here calls me Charles." He stated giving a firm handshake. Dad always told me, "You can always tell a person by their handshake." I remember, when I was little, trying to get him to teach me how to give a nice handshake to impress people I met.
"Or when you just wanna irritate him, call him Charles." A tall blonde boy said in the back. He stood next to his, I'm guessing twin brother, mostly because they look exactly alike. The taller one of the two spoke up.
"I am Connor Stoll, the better looking twin, and this is.."
"Travis Stoll. Don't let Connor's tricks fool you, I'm obviously the better looking twin!" Travis said sarcastically. We all laughed at their silly introduction.
"Travis and Conner are like this all the time. Never a dull moment with these two!" A shorter chestnut haired girl said from beside Travis. She flashed me a smile and waved. "I'm Katie Gardner. I ,unfortunately, hang around with the Stolls here."
Travis drapped his arm around Katie's shoulder. "Aww, you know you love me Katie. I don't know about Connor, but.. come on everybody's gotta love me." He said. Katie got a slight blush and just mumbled "whatever" and shrugged his arm off. Everyone had smiles on their faces while Connor and Thalia were turning red from holding in their snickers. There was obviously something between them, it just looks like Travis doesn't know it yet. Mental note: Ask Katie about that later.
"Hey guys! Sorry we're late!" Some one said from behind us. There were three girls speed walking towards us. The taller one had frizzy red hair that went to her shoulders with light green eyes and somewhat pale skin with a large amount of freckles spread across her face and arms. She wore skinny jeans covered in doodles and paint splatters, a grey "Cornell Department of Art " t-shirt and a pair of black Adidas. The girl walking next to her had dark brown hair and chocolate eyes with dark olive skin. Her hair was fish-tail braided of to the left with feathers weaved in. Her shirt was light baby blue and she had black skinny jeans with grey converse. She was covered up in a grey jacket. The smallest of the three was a cute girl. She had light brown hair with small green highlights all over her head. Her eyes were dark green with flakes of brown sprinkled in. She wore a green "Save the Trees!" tee-shirt with dark brown skinny jeans and some eco-friendly looking shoes. I would never wear them but they looked cute on her.
"Finally! I thought you guys got kidnapped or something!" Connor said, his hands flailing around in the air.
"Yeah, like you would care." The red-head said sarcastically rolling her eyes at Connor.
"Whatever." Thalia commented. "Guys this-"
"Annabeth Chase. Thalia, I know how to introduce myself." I said sticking my hand out to the unknown girls.
The redhead laughed, "Of course you can! Hey Annabeth, I'm Rachel Dare and this is Piper McLean" Rachel said pointing to the dark brown-haired girl next to her, "And Juniper Tree" pointing to the smallest girl.
"Nice to meet 'ya." I said shaking hands with all the girls.
"What's you're first class Annabeth?" Rachel asked.
"Algebra II." I answered with confidence. I was sort of intimidating. The whole thing. Moving to a new school and meeting all these new people, only hoping you make a good first impression.
"Cool! So do I!" Everyone said simultaneously. Awesome! We all started towards our lockers to get stuff for class.
Percy P.O.V.
Annabeth Chase. That was the blonde haired beauty's name. The name ran over and over in my head. I've never heard that name before, but it fit her well. It was an old fashion name, sounded like it belonged to someone who was smart and talented. I stood there leaning up against some dudes locker thinking about Annabeth when someone squealed my name.
"PERCY!" Umph! My side was pinned to the locker by a flying hug. I looked down to find Drew. Drew and I were dating but she had gotten so...clingy? jealous? bitchy? Yeah, all of the above.
"Hi Drew." I said, really wishing she would do something so dramatic that I could break up with her.
"Hey Percy-bear." She said batting her fake eyelashes at me. Gods! I HATE it when she calls me that. It's not even clever or original! She let go of my side and attempted to kiss me...but I was to fast for that. I dodged my head to the left, avoiding her lips.
"Drew...please don't." I begged, pleading more like it.
"What? I can't kiss my own boyfriend?" She said crossing her arms, frowning like an angry two-year old. And I would know because Sophia's "terrible two" stage was full of temper tantrums with that same exact frown. It was kind of cute on a two-year old like Soph, but it made Drew look like an angry horse or something.
"No. Yes, it's just,... you see..." I stuttered. I spotted Annabeth around the corner. I looked at her with pleading eyes and mouthed "help". She shook her head, smirked at me and kept walking away. I looked back at Drew and then back to Annabeth. Drew's glare was as sharp as daggers. I gently pushed her away and ran towards Annabeth.
"Hey! Annabeth! Wait up!" I shouted catching up with her.
"What's up Percy?" She asked, slowing down "Trouble with the "Evil Bich"?". I smiled while rolling my eyes, finally walking the same pace as her.
"Oh, yeah. Thank you for ever so nicely taking your time to save me from her." I said sarcastically.
"Yeah, well, I don't want to get caught up in that." She said pointing at a pouting Drew down the hall. I definitely was not affected by what she said at all, I knew exactly where she was coming from...except my position is a little more difficult.
"I don't blame 'ya. She's horrible! I didn't even know that that could be qualified as a human being!" I exclaimed to Annabeth. She laughed and walked to a locker, I assumed it to be hers. "This yours?" I asked stupidly.
"No, I'm just breaking into some random locker and putting my stuff in it." Annabeth said with a serious tone in her voice. I raised my eyebrow at her, contemplating if she was actually serious or not. Damn! This chick has got one hell of a poker face. "Percy, I'm joking. You're such a Seaweed Brain" She said laughing at me.
I was baffled at her poker face, so I did the thing that came naturally...I bluffed. "Pshh, I knew that!" I said waving the air in front of me away. "Wait! Seaweed Brain? Where in the Hades did that come from?" I asked Annabeth about my apparently new-found nickname.
"Oh, your eyes they remind me of seaweed, because of the color. And your so dull sometimes, leading me to belive that your brain is filled with seaweed. Therefore, Seaweed Brain suits you." She explained.
"Okay, whatever." After bluffing I ,uh, then I complimented her to make the situation less awkward for me. "You know Annabeth, you have one hell of a poker face."
"I know. You kinda need one for m-... 'ya know..life, I guess." She said catching herself on her little slip up.
"Well, I'm gonna head to my locker now." I said pushing myself off of the lockers next to Annabeth's. I went around her, to the left and stopped in front of locker 712. "Ah, locker, sweet locker." I said, opening my locker. I looked over at Annabeth and saw here staring in disbelief. "You know, since we practically have the same schedule, I can walk you to your classes. Except for second period, I have biology and you have...what Chemistry?" She nodded her head. I finished grabbing my books and trying to prevent my gym bag to fall from my locker and turned to a waiting Annabeth.
"Percy, Thalia already kind of showed me around. You don't have to walk me." She said, trying to be nice.
"Ah, but then you would be lonely. And no one wants that on their first day!" I said leading Annabeth to Algebra II.
We walked in and Annabeth dashed for the seat in the back corner next to the big window, over viewing the courtyard. I followed her and sat in the seat next to her. She raised her eyebrows at me.
"What? I can't sit in a desk without having eyebrows raised at me?" I asked sarcastically. Annabeth rolls her eyes at me.
"No, it's just why would you, of all people, want to sit here next to me?" She asked like it was the most obvious question in the world.
"Maybe I just wanted to. Maybe I wanted to sit next to you because you look like you need a friend." sarcasm guys, that's what that is, it's a perfect charm.
"Or maybe you were just trying to hide from a certain someone?" She suggested pointing at the door. I looked at her. How did she know? I tuen to look at the door to see the devil herself. Drew and her stupid little posse were walking through the door, acting like they ruled the place, and I was just some measly piece of dirt.
"Why are you so damn smart?" I asked Annabeth, facing towards her, hoping to hide myself from Drew.
Annabeth just shrugged her shoulders at me. "Guess I just like to be. It helps when your trying to get revenge and stuff like that. Honestly it's too easy to do. It's like putting together a puzzle. Taking the obvious bits and piecing them together." She explained, yet again like it was the easiest thing in the world to figure something like that out.
Then it registered what she said "trying to get revenge" putting emphases on the revenge. She was offering me her help with Drew subconsciously, without really hinting it. "Will you help me with Drew? Help me make her do something so dramatic that it will make me break up with her?" I asked desperately.
"I guess, but you will owe me." I smiled at her response.
"Sweet! Let's start with the basics, making her jealous. Follow what ever comes out of my mouth. Now, knowing Drew she is looking for me right now, and wants me to sit by her. That's obviously not going to happen but she will try to persuade me. And in three...two... one." I pointed at Annabeth right as Drew came over behind me.
"Percy?! What are you doing over here, sitting with..her?" Drew asked, practically spitting "her".
I turned to face Drew and put on my "play dumb" act. It worked like a charm with Drew. "Oh hey Drew! I was just showing the new student around." I said gesturing to Annabeth next to me.
"Who are you?" Drew snapped, flipping her dark brown hair over her shoulder. I rolled my eyes at her. Gods, she's soo annoying. It took everything in me to not just push her away.
Luckily for me, Annabeth understood the situation in a matter of seconds. She just looked at Drew with the best poker face I think I've ever seen. "Annabeth Chase. And you are?" raising her eyebrow at Drew.
"Drew Tanaka. Percy's girlfriend." Drew said proudly. I pretended to gag behind her hoping Annabeth would understand what to do. Annabeth looked slightly up at me and her straight face faltered for a millisecond. She looked back at Drew before smirking.
"Oh, cool." She replied. Then Mrs. Perry walked in.
"Mrs. Tanaka, will you please sit down! The bell has rang and class has begun!" Mrs. Perry said angrily. Drew scowled at her but stomped her way to the only open seat in the front row. Mrs. Perry started talking, having Annabeth introduce herself and started going on about some "Pythagorean Theorem" but I just tuned her out like I normally do and started thinking of new song ideas. The bell rang and students started to make their way out, but not Drew. No, Drew just had to come back here.
Annabeth got a look on her face, like she just got an amazing idea. She turned to me as Drew came up to us.
"So I guess I'll see you after school then Percy?" Annabeth said to me sweetly. I got confused for a second then realized what she was doing. I smiled at her. This chick is really smart.
"Definitely. I'll pick you up around 5'ish?" I say, playing along.
"Sounds good. See 'ya then." Annabeth says before turning back to Drew who's jaw was on the floor. Drew glared at her while Annabeth just smiled cooly and walked towards her next class. I was relieved she saved me, now all I have to deal with is breaking up with Drew. Speaking of which...
"What are you two doing after school? Why are you picking her up around five'ish?" Drew demanded stomping her foot on the ground. This was just to priceless. Her biggest tantrum since her 16th birthday. Let's just say, Daddy didn't get her the right Cadillac.
"I'm meeting up with Annabeth after school to hang out." I said smugly. I was debating if I wanted to torture her longer. "I'm taking her where ever she wants."
"Why not hang out with me? You know your GIRLFRIEND!" Drew screamed at me. This is it!
"Because I don't want you as my girlfriend anymore Drew. I haven't for a long time." I finally said. She looked at me with big eyes and a shocked expression.
"What?" She said looking like someone had just told her to take the trash out.
"Yeah Drew, were through. I tired of your bitchyness and jealously and not to mention clingyness. It's irritating, just like you. So, gods I've wanted to say this for a long time, were over and done with Drew. No make-up's or anything like that. Done." with that I closed my bag and headed to 2nd period.
*Time skip to 3rd period* Annabeth P.O.V.
Chemistry was boring. It was to easy fo me and I just tuned out Mr. Brooks with his annoying high-pitched voice. Finally the bell rang for third period. English with Mr. Blofis. The first time I read this it I thought it said Mr. Blowfish. Thank you dyslexia! I walked into his classroom and sat down in the back row, pulling out my lyric journal. Hoping to work on one of my songs, only to have somebody come and sit beside me.
"That was BRILLIANT! She got soooo mad!" Oh...Percy. I looked up at him, while closing my journal and slipping it back into my backpack.
"It worked then." I said proudly. I am soo awesome for coming up with these things.
"Yeah, I did it! I broke it up with her. Thankfully she doesn't have anymore classes with either of us. You are soo awesome for coming up with things like this!" Percy exclaimed from his seat.
'Hey! That's what I thought! Okay, that is just a little creepy...'
"Thank you Annabeth. I know I couldn't have done that without you." He said complimenting me further.
"Oh, please! You probably could've got some other girl to do it for you." I said. He gave me a confused look. It was really obvious, but I guess he didn't seem to get it. I rolled my eyes at him. "Look around Percy. Every girl in this school swoons over you. I'm pretty sure that you could get one of them to help you make Drew jealous." He contemplated it for a second then his face lite up a little.
"Does that mean you swoon over me Chase?" He asked with a devilish smile.
"Really? Out of all that, that is what you get out of it?" I said baffled by this black-haired boy. He shrugged his shoulders.
"You didn't answer the question Chase." He said cockily smiling at me.
"No, for your information. I do not swoon over you. I am one of the exceptions." I informed him so matter-of-factly.
"Really? And, may I ask, who else is an exception?" His smirk grew on his lips.
"Well, let's see. There's Thalia.." He made a sour face." Didn't think about that one did you Seaweed brain?" I laughed but continued my list. "Then there's Piper, because she's dating Jason. Katie she's obviously into Travis and Juniper, because... Actually I have no reasoning for her." I said dumb-struck that I didn't have an answer for her.
"Oh no! Some one call the ambulance! Annabeth doesn't know something! You're such a Wise Girl." Percy joked.
"Wait, I've only known you for like...four hours now? and you think that you've got me figured out don't 'cha?" I asked him.
"Don't 'cha... Don't 'cha...Don't 'cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me?" Percy sang, bobbing to a beat that was in his head. "What? Song references are the best kind of jokes!" He said.
"Yes, yes they are." I answered.
"But no, I don't "got 'cha" figured out. But I do know that you are smart, really good with getting back at people, and come up with really weird nicknames. I mean come on! Seaweed Brain? What is that?!" He exclaimed
"Hey! What is Wise Girl? It is just as bad, maybe even worse, than Seaweed Brain!" I pointed out.
"But seriously, maybe that's why you're so interesting to me. You don't swoon over me like the rest of the girls do. You don't wear revealing clothing, you don't put yourself out there. And from the looks of it you don't wear inch thick makeup with the bright blue eye stuff." I blushed in my seat. "It's kind of nice, for a change."
Then Mr. Blofis entered and started taking attendance.
"Annabeth Chase?"
"Here."
"Would you introduce yourself to us kiddo?" He asked. Ugh, again? Every class I had to do this, but I guess that's the joy of being the new kid ain't it?
"Um.. I'm Annabeth Chase and I moved here from California with my family." with that I sat down. For some reason I didn't want to go into the details about my family. It was just complicated and lead to horrible memories.
"Awesome. So today we are..." and that's the last I heard before going off into my own little world. About an hour later the bell rang. Awesome, Free Period!
"So...Wise Girl. What are you gonna do for Free Period?" Percy asked shouldering his backpack as we walked to our lockers. I opened mine and shoved my new textbooks in.
"Ummm, is the music room being used this period?" I asked. He looked at me skeptically.
"No, it's free every day periods 4, 5, and 6, then after school too. Why? You into music?" Percy asked.
" You could say that." I answered, slinging my almost empty bag over my shoulder. "I will see you later then." I said before walking off to the music room, leaving Percy standing there by our lockers.
ANNABETH P.O.V.
I sat on a chair in the music room with a spare acoustic guitar in my lap. My black notebook covered in random doodles, that's full of lyrics, is open and laying on the chair next to me. As I looked over the old lyrics and dove into my past within a few lines. While Luke and I (Football team Captain. Remember him?) were dating I would get so angry at him. He would be out parting with his "Buddies", leaving me alone and stuck at home. He would go out, get drunk, hook-up with some random girl he would meet and come back to me the next day, expecting me to be all right with it. He would never take me seriously or genually care about me or what I thought. One day, we got into this huge fight about how when you have a girlfriend your supposed to stay with her and not cheat on her with someone you met at a party. I told him that I was tired of finding out he cheated on me, again every monday morning. He obviously thought other wise and argued that "it wasn't cheating" and he "Didn't mean it because he was drunk and didn't know what he was doing". Gods, sometimes I felt as if I was going to spontaneously combust! I would threaten to break up with him but he would always tell me that I would never be able to find someone like him. Wasn't that the point? I didn't want another him. I wanted someone better. However I did take the advantage of my anger and write out a few songs. They weren't completely finished and needed a few tweaking with the notes. Playing a few chords on the guitar I sang along to a song I wrote after Luke cheated on me the 3rd time.
"You told me
there's no need
To talk it out
Cause it's too late
To proceed
And slowly
I took your words
And walked away
No looking back
I wont regret, no
I will find my way
I'm broken
But still I have to say
It's Alright, OK
I'm so much better without you
I won't be sorry
Alright, OK
So don't you bother what I do
No matter what you say
I wont return
Our bridge has burned down
I'm stronger now
Alright, OK
I'm so much better without you
I won't be sorry
You played me
Betrayed me
Your love was nothing but a game
Portrait a role
You took control, I
I couldn't help but fall
So deep
But now I see things clear
It's Alright, OK
I'm so much better without you
I won't be sorry
Alright, OK
So don't you bother what I do
No matter what you say
I wont return
Our bridge has burned down
I'm stronger now
Alright, OK
I'm so much better without you
I won't be sorry
Don't waist you fiction tears on me
Just save them for someone in need
It's Way to late
I'm closing the door
It's Alright, OK
I'm so much better without you
I won't be sorry
Alright, OK
So don't you bother what I do
No matter what you say
I wont return
Our bridge has burned down
I'm stronger now
Alright, OK
I'm so much better without you
I won't be sorry
It's Alright, OK
Alright, OK
Without you
No matter what you say
It's Alright, OK
Alright, OK
Without you
I won't be sorry"
It seamed almost perfect. Now all I have to do is go to the radio station and record it with some background singers. Then I heard something outside the Music room door.
Third Person P.O.V.
Little did Annabeth know, there was a person sitting in front of the music room door, listening to her sing. He was flabbergasted that this girl could be so smart and have such a talent. Listening to her farther his interest in her grew. The music faded and he let out a "Woah" in amazement. Maybe a little to loud. He fled and the last thing Annabeth saw was the blur of a person with a grey hoodie and black hair.
Hey Guys! You made it through my huge chapter! I think it's the biggest one I've ever written! AWESOMENESS! Well, I am soo sorry it took me so long to get this out! I have another story, "My Life with Montez",(it's a Troyella fanfic and pretty cool,(if I do say so myself) if you wanna check it out!)(Wow parentheses inside of each other. Parenthesecption!) that needed to be uploaded...badly! So sorry, again!
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