I leaned against my locker as Drew and her minions(everyone called them that) came towards us. I sighed. I was getting a little annoyed at Drew now. I asked her out a few days ago just for the fun of it, but now she's getting insanely annoying.

Nico didn't seem to mind though. He loved being the centre of attention with girls. He was a complete amateur when it came to girls, he hadn't been out with many girls. But Beckendorf and I had gone out with tons, earning us both experience and a reputation.

"Hey sugar," said Nico, winking at a pretty brunette. "People call me Nico. But you can call me tonight."

I rolled my eyes. I was going to have to give Nico a few tips later on.

Drew made her way towards me, her heels clacking loudly on the floor. I wasn't an expert on make-up and clothes and all that other stuff girls love, but I could tell that Drew had probably gotten up at five in the morning to put the layers of make-up on her face.

Most guys like it when girls wear that much make-up, but to be honest I preferred it when they didn't wear any. But unfortunately most of the girls in our school wore make-up except for Annabeth and her friends Piper and Hazel.

"I heard you had an argument with that Annabeth girl today," said Drew.

"Yeah I thought you would've heard about that," I said.

Drew frowned, probably hoping for some details to gossip about with her friends.

"Look Drew," I began. "We gotta talk."

Drew looked at me curiously. "Talk."

"Well look-" I said. "I think we should break up."

Drew's expression almost made me double over in laughter.

"Why?" she asked, almost desperately, one of her minions automatically grabbed her arm curiously but Drew shook it off.

"It's just not working out," I said.

Perfect line to break up with a girl. One that I'd been using for years.

Drew's face flitted through a dozen different emotions- shock, surprise, anger, composed and calm.

"Fine with me." She said.

I could tell she was trying not to explode at me. Drew was a really bad actress.

And with that she stalked off down the hall, probably to the bathroom, with her minions following after her, staring at me in curiosity.

Grover came to stand by me. "That was a quick relationship."

"She was getting annoying," I said.

Nico laughed. "Man, her expression was hilarious."

I laughed. "Yeah. I was trying hard not to roll on the floor at that point."

Grover gave a small smile. "But won't she be like bawling her eyes out, I mean that wasn't exactly the gentlest way to end a relationship."

I rolled my eyes.

Grover was always soft with stuff like that, since he'd been dumped by this girl he really liked before, but at least he's dating Juniper now, or else he'd still be moaning about it.

"She never liked me that much," I said.

Which was true. Drew just used me to be more popular.

"True," said Grover, but he still looked worried.

I rolled my eyes again. "G-man relax, why do you care about her anyways?"

That shut him up.

"I do not!" Grover protested.

Nico snickered. "I caught you staring at her butt before,"

Grover almost looked hurt. So I defended him.

"Nah," I said. "Grover wouldn't. I'm pretty sure you were checking Thalia Grace out though before."

Nico blushed.

All of us knew he had a huge crush on Thalia. Why? I don't know. But I guess they're similar. Thalia always struck me as an emo or something since she wore black all the time, and Nico was all into dead people and black clothes, so I figured they'd make a good pair.

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I groaned when I walked into Math class. The only empty seat in the classroom was one next to Annabeth and my cousin Thalia. I sighed, sitting down beside Annabeth, praying that she wouldn't notice me. She was probably still mad about earlier.

Unfortunately she heard me sit down and looked up.

She glared at me with those weird grey eyes. Scowling, she turned back to Thalia and carried on talking to her.

Miss Dodds walked in, with a scowl that sort of reminded me of Annabeth. Without a word, Miss Dodds began writing up equations on the board.

I squinted at the numbers, trying to read the numbers. But my dyslexia made that impossible. The numbers swam round my head, making me dizzy.

I looked over aaboutnd saw Annabeth with her head bent down, scribbling furiously.

I sighed, deciding to take a risk. "Annabeth?"

She looked up, probably annoyed for interrupting her. "What?"

Why is she always so grumpy?

"What's the first question?"

She looked at me for a minute. "It's on the board-oh you have dyslexia."

I stared at her. She remembered that?

"You remember that?"

Annabeth raised an eyebrow. "Why wouldn't I?"

Suddenly Miss Dodds came by us, frowning.

"That's enough talking there," she snapped.

Annabeth turned away from me, continuing with the equations on the board.

I sighed, trying my best to finish the equations.

I was on the third question when I saw a hand slip a small sheet of paper before me.

I flipped it over, struggling to read what she'd written.

Here are the answers. But don't expect me to do this again for you.

Annabeth

Below her little message were the answers to every single equation. I looked up at Annabeth, surprised that she would do that. I caught her eyes and mouthed thanks to her. She just nodded- her grey eyes unreadable.

AN- Hey it's me again. I was going to post this yesterday-but then I had nothing to do so i figured- why not? I hope you like it. I sort of rushed it so forgive me :)

takemeto1nderland xxx