Percy POV Artemis and I arrived at school as the others returned from their shopping trip.
We all were so tired that we decided to go to bed early. So Artemis and I went our room and quickly hopped into our beds. I would gladly slept together in one with Artemis but I didn't had the courage to ask her. I mean she would probably have said no, because for her thees relationship things are very new… well for me too. It was my first relationship yet. Before I became a god, I had hoped that I could date Annabeth someday but she said that she only loved me as a brother as I confessed my feelings. But now I'm over her and happy with Artemis.
As I laid there in my bed, I just couldn't sleep. I was thinking about too much and some annoying people were always praying to me. Since I couldn't sleep, I stood up and decided to walk around school a bit. We had a big park at school, so I decided to go jogging. I snapped my fingers and instantly I had my sport clothes on. But after a while jogging became boring too. Because I didn't know what to do anymore, I concentrated on time. I closed my eyes and imagined the time as a river. It was floating at a steady pace and I told it to speed up. It did and stopped as I wished it to do so.
When I opened my eyes the sun was already rising again. I had just skipped the night, you could say.
I met with the others to eat breakfast at 7 am in the cafeteria. The first lesson was starting at 8 o'clock. "Man, Percy! The night was too short, don't you think?", Apollo asked and I could clearly see the rings under his eyes.
"No. For me it was just right.", I replied cheerfully and chuckled a bit… good that he didn't knew.
Artemis looked and me and I had the strange feeling that she noticed that I left last night. I just gave her the 'we talk later' look and sat down on the table.
"So what did you plan for today?", I asked to lighten up the mood, which was rather grumpy. No wonder… normally most gods slept till 11 am or so.
"We are having boring classes and piss off some bigheaded teachers, what else?", Hermes asked happily. He didn't seem to be affected by the early time, but I think you can't sleep long if you are the messenger of the gods.
"Yes. Just annoy the teachers… We will see what you get from it on your school certificate.", Athena remarked bitterly.
That was when all of us started laughing. The others students looked at us like we were some animals in a zoo behind a glass wall but it was just too funny.
"You know that we all don't really care about our school certificate, don't you?", Apollo laughed and we all nodded in agreement. Athena just shook her head and said: "I want to have a nice one. Anyways… Are you coming? First lesson is english and we don't want to be late, do we?"
We all sat on our seats and waited for the lesson to start. I have sat down next to Artemis.
"Where did you go last night?", she asked harshly.
"I couldn't sleep, ok? So I went outside to catch some fresh air."
"And why weren't you there when I woke up this morning?", she asked and I could swear that I could hear a hind of sadness in her voice.
"You really want to know the whole story? But try not to blame me for certain problems when I tell you, ok?", I questioned her and she just nodded. I could see that she was curious now.
"So I stood up and came to the decision to jogg around a bit, but after a while that got boring.", I started but she cut me off.
"And what did you do then? Have a party in the city?!", she asked angrily.
"Jeez! Artemis, calm down, ok? I didn't do something with other women and you know that I wouldn't ever betray you. And don't look at me like this… I know you are jealous.", I whispered the last part. After all our little relationship was a secret.
She hesitated a moment before she hung her head. "Sorry for acting so harshly, Percy. I know that I can trust you."
"Hey, don't be upset.", I said and squeezed her hand under the table.
"But let me continue with my story. So I got bored and decided to speed up time a bit. And that is why I wasn't with you when you woke up. I kinda skipped the night.", I finished.
She was about to say something when our english teacher came in. Well you could say I was surprised. Right in front of me was standing Paul. Yes, Paul Blofis.