Hey y'all! It's summer, it's raining, life is perfect, so I thought I would write another chapter(: I'm sorry I haven't been so active, I hope I will be able to update every week in the future. Anyways, enjoy and please read and review. (: ily guys.
Percy's POV
Annabeth was the perfect student, she was so attentive and she never got bored. It was actually kind of impressive, I could never pay attention as long as she can.
After the bell rang I knew I had to say what I was going to at the beginning of class, but I couldn't build the courage. I started towards the door but turned around and headed back to her desk, I had to tell her. I didn't want her thinking I was another stupid jerk.
She was packing up when I blurted out words before thinking about it carefully. "Look Annabeth, I wasn't trying to make fun of you, I'm not like those other jocks." I told her. Then I spun towards the door and headed out before I could give her a chance to talk.
Gah I should have said that better! I mentally punched myself in the face while I kept talking to myself, after I walked out of the classroom Luke stopped me to talk.
"Dude I need your help!" He whispered looking around, "with what?" I asked at a normal tone. "Shhh! I don't think she's left the class yet," he said still whispering.
I was so confused why Luke was being so secretive, he always wants every one to know everything. As Annabeth walked out of the classroom, Luke started talking about swim meet very loudly. Annabeth looked so cute while reading, well she looked cute while doing pretty much everything, but of course I couldn't say that out loud, I would never tell Luke I liked Annabeth.
"Okay she's gone, we're good." He said talking normal again. "What are you planning?" I asked scared for his response. "Well," he said slumping against the lockers, "you know how I used to date Annabeth in 9th grade?" WHAT?! I yelled mentally, I wasn't here for 9th grade but Luke usually told me everything, why was this different?
"No I actually had no idea, whe—" "Kay well we did" he said cutting me off, "she broke up with me and blah blah blah, anyways, this year I want to try and freak her out." He said with an evil grin.
"How are you going to do that?" I asked angry on the inside but calm on the outside, "Well as we all know, she hates me," he told me like I already didn't know, "So I'm planning on just talking to her and hitting on her until she breaks, because she will."
I rolled my eyes and he smirked. "Anyways, I'm late, see you at lunch percy, and like I said, I'll need your help" he yelled walking down the hall.
I was not excited to see this plan take action, he was going to be a total jerk to her, and she's not going to like it. The bell rang and I realized I was really late to PE. I booked it to the gym only to find Rachel Elizabeth dare flirting with every guy.
"Oh hey Percy!" She said while waving goodbye to the other boys and walking towards me. Oh great.. A whole new year with her in my gym class..
After gym the rest of my periods went by fast, I just wanted to get to lunch so I could tell Luke I wasn't going to help him with his "genius" plan. I walked out of geography and started down the hall when I saw Luke stop Annabeth and tuck a hair behind her ear.
Annabeth was clearly uncomfortable, and when his skin touched her she flinched. I felt bad for her, he was doing it on purpose and she knew that. She pushed past him and ran off to her lunch spot. Luke just sat there laughing.
I yelled his name and called him over, "Hey, I have the perfect idea for you to do!" He told me, "Ah Luke, I'm sorry but I can't help you with this. I just um.. Promised my mom I wouldn't do anything.. "Hilarious" this year..."
"Nah it's okay dude, don't worry about it, I'll just get someone else to do it." He responded. I was so angry with him at this point that I had to count to ten in my head to calm myself down.
I was still mad but I was actually intrigued with this relationship that happened in 9th grade, so I asked Luke about it. He said to follow him and they'd talk.
They got their lunch and escaped the busy lunch room, on the way outside I brought up the relationship again so he'd talk about it.
"See," he began, "it lasted from about the beginning of 9th grade to the end. You know Perc, she was actually the most popular girl in the school, every girl wanted to be her, but then she broke up with me the last week of school."
I just looked at the ground thinking about Annabeth being popular, she probably hated it.. A lot.. But maybe she didn't. I was thinking about the way she flinched when he touched touched her hair, so I asked him about it.
"So I saw you guys talking in the hall today and when your skin came in contact with her she kind of flinched.. Do you know why?"
When he finished chewing on his roll he opened his mouth but nothing came out, he closed it and opened it right after, "well, I don't know how to say this because I mean, I'm sure you'll freak out, but at the time it was the cool thing to do, and I was under my dads influence and you know how he is.. So don't hate me okay? Because it wasn't really that bad!"
At this point I was really concerned so I just agreed I wouldn't hate him even though I probably would.
"When she broke up with me I didn't handle it too well.." He said stopping, I nodded for him to continue, "we were hanging out at her house when she broke up with me and her parents weren't there.. So I may or may not have thrown a lamp at her..." He said quietly.
Just when I thought he was actually sorry for throwing a fucking lamp at a girls head he said "but I mean, she deserved it, who breaks up with Luke Castellan? But yeah, then we didn't actually break up until probably a month before sophomore year.
I was so enraged that he actually hurt Annabeth physically, that I actually just.. Sat.. There... Well I didn't want to make Luke upset because then he wouldn't tell me things! I'm sorry! I do get mad at him later though.. Just wait..
"So she actually stayed with you after you threw a lamp at her head?!" I yelled, Luke just smiled and said "Well, of course she told no one about it because I made her swear she wouldn't, and she didn't really have a choice wether she stayed with me or not."
I started thinking.. "What do you mean she didn't have a choice?" I asked as the bell rang, Luke sighed and stood up, "let's just say she got a lot of mysterious bruises that summer, okay?"
At that I stood up outraged and yelled at him, "You hit her?! You physically hit an innocent girl in 9th grade because she broke up with you?!" He chuckled and responded, "she wasn't innocent, she broke up with Luke Castellan!" And walked off.
I walked furiously all the way to Social Studies. He hit Annabeth?! He physically hit Annabeth! Oh my hell she must have been so scared! No wonder she hates him and every other jerk out there! I feel so terrible.. Who would actually do that?...
When I walked in to social studies Luke was chatting with Butch and I was still so angry that I didn't have anything to say to anyone, I just sat down and stared at a wall.
Thalia and Annabeth walked in to only have their nightmares come to life, Thalia, who hates me, had to sit next to me and Annabeth had to sit next to Luke. I just looked at Annabeth sit down and tell Luke to shut up, I was furious he was even allowed to sit next to her let alone talk to her!
I kept looking at Annabeth until class started, class was actually pretty fun until the end. Our Social Studies teacher loves group projects, so naturally he gave us one.
So apparently we had to be paired up with someone, but of course we couldn't choose them, and we had to do a project on what we learned last year in this class. Oh AND it was due next week. Yay.
I was just sitting there bored out of my mind as he called all the partnerships out, I didn't really care who I was with because I hate group projects no matter who I work on it with.
"Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase.." Our teacher called out, I perked up a little and smiled at her, Maybe I would learn to actually like group projects from now on!
Annabeth didn't look too happy, she just slumped back in her chair and gave me this half smile... I couldn't tell if it was a good or bad half smile, so I really wish it was as happy one..
Yes yes, I'm sorry that Luke is abusive, it makes things more interesting so I added it, sorry if you don't like it. Well, please leave a review on how you liked it! That would be awesome! Thank you guys so much.
-A's Huntress.
