The final bell rang. And everyone jumped up and charged to the doors. Some of the more social ones chatted by their lockers. The less social ones dumped everything in their bags and rushed to the buses. Octavian waited by his locker for his friend, the mysterious and elusive Rachel Dare. He wasn't really sure if she would show up, she usually didn't. She got distracted very easily.

Ten minutes after the junior finished packing everything into his bag, he let out a sigh and started towards the door. She probably forgot, again. Moping wasn't going to solve anything. He walked down the crowded hallway, barely being able to avoid tripping over someone. Why wasn't everyone leaving? He really wasn't one to judge, he was still there too, after all.

He, regrettably, took the wrong turn and found himself in the senior hallway. Not a good place for anyone that wasn't a senior, and even some seniors found it dreadful. He could just turn back, but that would take more time. He didn't want to miss the bus home on the first day of school. That would be a very bad sign.

So he pursued the hallway. It was just as busy as the junior hallway, except with scarier people. Couples were making out, not surprising. What was surprising was the number of homosexual couples. It was weird for people to be so open about it. Did people not care anymore? Last year was horrible with people getting teased and dunked in toilets over sexuality. Someone must have finally stood up and said something. Or the people that had done it graduated. The latter was the most reasonable.

Lost in a deep train of thought, he forgot to watch his step. A deadly mistake. He tripped over a girl's leg that was jutted out into the aisle, as she sat on the floor, piling things into her bag. So, of course, he ended up going face first into the floor. Almost. Right before he hit, hands grabbed under his armpits and stopped him. He looked up.

He was staring right into the eyes of Luke Castellan. Luke was not only the schools heart throb, but also easily the most attractive and popular guy in the entire school. Very easily. Luke just stared at the younger boy, then gave a small smirk. Luke pulled the other blonde up.

"You're not a senior, now are you?" Luke gave a small chuckle. His friends started filing in behind him. Did they have to do that? It was just going to scare the boy. Luke turned around and waved everyone off. They all gave small noises of detest but did as asked. They all started off towards the doors, without their leader.

"I was taking a shortcut." Like Octavian was going to admit he got lost. Luke raised his eyebrow, obviously not believing him. Octavian did the same.

"Luke Castellan." He introduced himself. Like Octavian didn't know that. Everyone knew that. The people that just started here already knew that.

"Octavian Simmons. Pleasure." He stuck out his hand, which the other boy shook. He held on for much longer than what was acceptable.

"Pleasure is mine. See you around, Tavvy." Luke let go and turned, waving. Octavian huffed. No one got to call him that. But he was too much in shock to really argue with the senior. How could an accident turn out so well?

Clarisse really didn't want to do anything after school. They didn't have any homework, thank god, so why should she have to meet up with all of her friends? Silena was making her come. She thought it was going to bring them closer together. Yes, because over the summer they had obviously forgotten everything about each other. Silena never had the best ideas, but this one was exceptionally bad.

They all had to meet up at this coffee shop that the cheerleaders never shut up about. It was ridiculously annoying. Clarisse only knew the cheerleaders because of Silena. The girl dragged her to all of the practices and parties. She didn't really know why she hung out with the most popular girl in the school. Clarisse was strong, good at fighting, and basically a beast. Silena was the most feminine thing on earth. Small, dainty, but she was independent. Always independent. That was what made Clarisse like her so much in the beginning.

So they sat in a coffee shop with a dozen cheerleaders from last year, and some of their senior friends. Chris and Charles, Clarisse and Silena's boyfriends, also came. Charles was glad to be with Silena wherever she may go, and Clarisse threatened to murder Chris. But they were both there. Luke Castellan showed up too. He had dated Silena for a while, but it didn't work out. The two of them were still the best of friends, everyone thought they just completely forgot about their broken relationship. And essentially they did.

Bianca and Thalia showed up to. The two were sitting together, talking amongst themselves. They never needed anyone else. Everyone made fun of them, being so close. They were together before they started dating. They were best friends for years. They both moved to New York at the same time, and met at school. They started dating in their freshman year, but they knew about their feelings in seventh grade. They both closed themselves off for those two years, not talking to each other. But that was over, and for the last four years they had been together. And it seemed like that wasn't going to end soon.

Luke always came to every party or social gathering. He had to keep his popularity level high. Whether that be by flirting with every girl that walked past him, or sleeping with the prettiest girls in school, he would do anything. He never really liked being popular. It was too much of a hassle. But everyone said how handsome he was, and how much everyone loved him. So he went along with it. It was annoying how girls would throw themselves at him, but he had to put up with it.

The group all complained about their classes and how horrible the year would be. How surprising, complaining teenagers. The café manager rolled his eyes and grabbed the dirty cups off the table. At least they paid. That was all he could ask for.

Percy really didn't want to meet up with a bunch of people he didn't know. He really didn't want to know them. He was just going to be gone in a matter of months. Wait, no he wasn't. He really needed to stop thinking like that. He needed to meet these people. Get closer to them. Make friends, like his mom said. He was already pulling the mom card on himself. That wasn't a good sign.

Grover pulled him towards a big park. Under the shade of a big oak tree, there were a bunch of teens. Some of which Percy had seen in his classes. He kept his head down most of the day, not sure of what to make of this school yet. It seemed like a pretty normal school. No one had gotten the shit beaten out of them, today. That he saw or heard. That was a good sign.

A girl with long, wavy red hair waved at Grover. She was kind of pretty, she looked quite elfish, with sharp features on her face. Grover's face lit up as he waved back. So that was his girlfriend. His friend pulled him to the sitting girl, who rose and fluffed out her skirt.

"This is my girlfriend, Juniper." So Percy was right. He held out a hand to the girl, who eagerly shook it.

"Percy Jackson. I just moved here. I'm a junior." Percy smiled. He was happy Grover got a girlfriend; he had always been bullied at their old school. It also made him jealous. Grover got a serious relationship before him. Percy was always the good looking one, the one all the girls drooled over. But Grover found love before him. He put this aside. He would find someone eventually.

"I know. Grover wouldn't shut up about you," Juniper giggled. She stared intently at her boyfriend. "Have you signed up yet? We don't want to be left out because there wasn't any more room."

"I don't think there will be a long list of people that want to join the gardening club." Grover chuckled. Juniper rolled her eyes and sat back down. A blonde girl from across the way looked over, catching Percy's eye. She was beautiful. Long, curled blonde locks. Stormy grey eyes. He had seen her in class. She got up and strolled over.

"Hello. You must be Percy. I'm Annabeth. Nice to finally meet you." Grover must have never shut up about him. Said boy went and sat down with his girlfriend. Percy smiled.

"Hello. I think we have a few classes together? I think I've seen you before." Percy cocked his head, feigning innocence. The blonde grasped her chin.

"Maybe. I tend to sit in the front of the classroom, so if you sat in the back I probably didn't see you." Annabeth fixed her hair absentmindedly.

"So basically you're a total nerd." Percy pointed out. She glared then chuckled. Grabbing his wrist she pulled him over to a different group. There sat a blond boy and a red headed girl. He recognized the girl from his language class. She had spaced out and Mr. Blofis had to call her out. It was pretty funny. And her curly hair was kind of iconic, she looked a lot like Merida form Brave. The boy he had seen in the hallway.

"This is Rachel and Octavian. Rachel is an artist who needs to pay more attention in class, and Octavian is a total asshole." The red head, Rachel, giggled. Octavian gasped mockingly.

"How dare you. I am not an asshole, I am quite amazing." He held up his head to prove his point. Percy chuckled lightly.

"I'm Percy. Just moved here. Nice to meet you guys." He gave a half-wave. Rachel smiled and went back to her homework. Octavian gave a nod of acknowledgement and turned back around. Annabeth shook her head and sat down. Percy sat down next to her. She seemed pretty nice, and she would be useful. Plus she was hot.

Percy started his homework. It was understatement to say that he had no idea what he was doing. It was the first day, and they had already given them homework. The seniors didn't get homework, why did they? They were almost seniors. He let out a sigh. This was going to be a hard year.


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