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Chapter 4

Annabeth's POV

Wait, did Percy freaking Jackson just ask us to hang out with him at lunch? The coolest kid in school wants us around? I'm not going to faint or anything like most girls do, I mean, he's hot, like heat of the sun hot, and muscular and dreamy... Annabeth stay focused! Ok, I totally fancy him. Ewww, since when did I become Drew? Anyway, it's not like it matters, he probably just meant Thalia but didn't want to offend us, which I think is kinda nice really. He is a nice guy though, always helping other people. He talks to everyone no matter what, though if it's people like Drew and Luke then it's through gritted teeth, but he never puts anyone down, he's always so... Perfect.

Leo Valdez is a great example of Percy's kindness. Leo got bullied a lot in the younger years. He has ADHD worse than anyone I've ever seen but I don't really know him. I don't really know anyone. Sure I could tell you their names and what they look like and probably a fair chunk of their school history, but I can guarantee that I've never spoken to any of them. But yeah, Leo got bullied until one day some of Luke's buddies were punching Leo, and Percy didn't like that, so he went over and helped Leo out. They have been friends ever since. Of course, when Beckendorf heard about it he was grateful to Percy for helping out his cousin. Percy didn't know about Leo and Beckendorf back then but he was happy all the same. They all work down at V and D's garage now, I see them hanging round, fixing up cars and working on their own too. See what I mean about him being so perfect? I swear, the kid can't put a foot wrong. He can joke around in lessons and still come out with a good grade, his parents have enough money to afford nice things for him, he's the star of football, swim and Zeus knows what else he does, he's helpful to every kid who needs a hand. At least, the ones who say they need help. I need help occasionally, not with school work, I'm way too organised and smart for that, but with other things. Social anxiety, which I am happy to say has been reduced now, although I'm not one for entertaining the masses or anything, making friends, having a life outside of school. All areas that I do not excel in. And none can be helped by books. I'm really glad I have the friends I have now, don't get me wrong, but even they have other friends, Juniper has a conservation club or something, Cal had made friends with Leo Valdez and hung out at the garage sometimes, although not on Percy's shift, maybe why he didn't recognize her, and Thals had Jason and the guys now. I just had them and no one else. But I don't ask anyone because I'm too prideful. That's my weakness, my "fatal flaw" you could say.

"Helloooo, Earth to Annie?" Thalia's voice snapped me out of my reverie. I hate her 'pet name' for me. And she knows it. "What did you just call me?" I questioned, lowering my voice and doing my best to try and intimidate her. She pretended to be scared before pushing me while the others laughed. I hadn't realised how much I had missed them until now, and I am honestly so glad to be here with them. Just then the bell rang for homeroom, the school year had officially begun and I am honestly looing forward to it. We hurried to homeroom with Mrs Sanders. She was an art teacher and seemed pretty nice to us. She was new this year, the old art teacher, Miss Rosa had left at the end of last year to get married. I glanced around to see who else was here. Obviously Thalia, Juniper and Calypso were here, but I recognised a few faces. None that I could match names to, but I felt familiar with them. We grabbed seats at the back near the windows and chatted until Mrs Sanders took attendance. Afterwards we pretty much had the run of the place, Mrs Sanders could see that we weren't bad kids so she let us do whatever we wanted. That is, until the timetables came around. "Class," she called in her soft voice, we all stopped at once to see what was up. "I have your timetables here, come and collect them from the front desk." She said, gesturing at the sprawl of card behind her. Everyone rushed over, eager to see what classes they had and who they shared them with. To my surprise, me and the girls all shared the first day together, all of the same lessons at all of the same times. Needless to say, we were pretty excited. "Aiyeeee!" screamed Calypso, drawing a lot of looks from the others. "We share all of today!" Like she needed to tell us, we were happy too, but we didn't need to shout about it. Thalia hid her head in her hands in embarrassment as we scolded Calypso and apologised to everybody. It earned us a few smiles and snickers but hey, we all have embarrassing moments, some of us more frequently than others.

The bell went, signalling the end of homeroom and everybody rushed off to their classes, chatting excitedly about the day ahead. It would all die down tomorrow of course, the novelty of new classes, new teachers and of course, seeing who was in your class. Me and the girls had history first with Mr Brunner. I had heard good things about him from Malcolm, who had had him before. He had told me to expect good things from Mr Brunner's class if I ever got him. He was certainly right. We were the first to arrive, seeing as our homeroom is only a couple of hallways away. There he was, stood at the door, grinning at us. "Welcome!" He said, I admit he looked nothing like a History teacher. He was tall, fairly good looking, but nothing to fantasise about. He had brown eyes, short curly hair and a well trimmed beard. If I had to guess I would say he was in his early thirties but he certainly could pass off for younger. "Go in, go in," He smiled, waving us in "sit where you want, I'm not bothered as long a you don't mess around too much." He stopped and looked at us thoughtfully "You don't look like trouble makers though, so I'm sure we'll get along just fine." I smiled nervously, I was already taking a liking to the teacher and he seemed really enthusiastic about his subject. Maybe he would end up like most of the others though, and get a couple of weeks in before dropping into a tired, bored and depressed state. Me and Thals sat next to the window, me behind her, about halfway in the classroom. We didn't want to come across as extreme nerds and sit right at the front with all of the seats available to choose from (A/N: NOT THAT THERE IS ANYTHING WRONG WITH BEING A NERD OR SITTING AT THE FRONT OF CLASS, I AM GUILTY OF BOTH MYSELF ON A COUPLE OF OCCASIONS) but we also didn't want to come across as badasses that sat at the back not paying attention. People began to file in, Mr Brunner greeting them just as enthusiastically as he did us which caused many of the students to walk in with a bewildered expression, giving the rest of us something to laugh at already. The class was about half full and I was staring absent mindedly out of the window when Thalia turned round and poked me. I glared at her in annoyance but she just grinned and pointed at the door. I followed her gesture and saw in surprise that Percy Jackson was stood talking to Mr Brunner. They seemed to be quite familiar with each other. Percy must have had him before, I reasoned. Percy's friends walked in, greeting Mr Brunner, who politely greeted them back, a twinkle in his eye. The group consisted of Jason, Thalia's brother, Piper Mclean, Hazel Levesque, Frank Zhang, Reyna Ramirez Arellano, Leo Valdez, Selina Beauregard, Charles Beckendorf, Grover Underwood and Nico DiAngelo. Wow that kid has a lot of friends. They all took seats and the classroom suddenly seemed a lot smaller and a lot more full. A dull buzz began as people caught up with each other until finally Mr Brunner cleared his throat. Unexpectedly, Jason and his friends were the first to fall silent. The rest of the class exchanged surprised looks as Mr Brunner's eyes twinkled again. "So class, another year has come upon us and I still find myself in the company of certain students, no matter how hard I try to get rid of them." He paused and smiled as Jason exchanged smirks with Percy, I was clearly right that they had been in his class before. "Now, for a majority of the first half of the year we will be studying the Ancient civilisations, can anybody suggest which these might be?" He trailed off as Percy and Jason raised their hands, another first for many in the class. "Yes boys," Mr Brunner asked, glancing at their identical grins.

"The Ancient Greeks," Percy said.

"And the Roman Empire." Jason supplied, to general astonishment of the student body. The two high-fived as Mr Brunner nodded, smiling at the pair of them. "Yes, quite right. Arguably the two biggest civilisations in history, there is still debate on which was greater-" He broke off as Percy boldly said

"What debate, it was obviously the Greeks."

"Dude, you're messed in the head, it's totally the Romans!" Jason put in just as confidently. Mr Brunner just sighed as the boys grinned again.

"Boys, you have only been here a total of five minutes, can you at least pretend that I'm a normal teacher for a while?" He said exasperatedly.

"Sure thing Mr Brunner." The boys chorused, still grinning from ear to ear.

Mr Brunner sighed, "Call me Chiron, that goes for all of you, this Sir and Mr Brunner business tires me and makes me feel old."

"Yes Chiron." The pair continued, earning a small smile. Everybody else sat shocked, no one ever did this to a teacher. Chiron looked around and took in our expressions. "It's ok kids, I'm used to it, I'm friends with their parents and I'm not really one for all of these rules. Just treat me with a bit of respect, do as I ask and we shall get along just fine." He told the gobsmacked class. At once the tension in the room eased up and Percy and Jason laughed. Mr Brunner, sorry, Chiron didn't give us any books, which I found strange, but proceeded to tell us more about the upcoming work. "This unit of work," He began "is spaced out, which gives us a lot of time to fully explore both civilisations, meaning that we also get a lot more fun in our lessons." Everyone perked up, no one liked constantly working from textbooks. Chiron knew how to teach, that was for sure, he had the class's full attention and had even made the course sound bearable, if not enjoyable. "So we will be doing projects, learning much about the lifestyles and mythology-" He broke off to look at the boys, they clearly knew more than they let on as both looked excited. "I may decide to educate you in some basic Ancient Greek and Latin, and of course, there will be re-enactment days and... Fieldtrips." He uttered the magic words. There were mixed reactions. A chorus of "Yes!"s and a lot of excited chatter while some people looked dismayed, as though expecting a lot of boring museum trips. I couldn't wait, and I began to wonder where Chiron might take us. Thalia turned around and looked at me, her eyebrows raised, her expression teasing as if she knew exactly what I was thinking. Then again, she probably did. I stuck my tongue out at her and glanced at my friends who were mirroring her expression. They received the same treatment and laughed. This was going to be interesting...

We left Mr Brunner's room in an excited buzz and headed over to Spanish together. It would seem that Percy's friends shared our first and last two lessons of the day. We would all be seeing a lot more of each other.

I arrived at Spanish first and was met by the extreme opposite of Chiron. Miss Hinchado was an uptight woman who regarded us all as troublemakers and saw anything that was not done perfectly as a disappointment. "You will find a seating plan on the board." She said as we entered the room. I stifled a groan as she turned away. Unluckily, Percy didn't quite manage to stop his. The end result was her yelling in rapid Spanish at him for five minutes straight while he stood there, unmoving and unimpressed. The rest of us found our seats and to my amusement I was sat with the very boy currently having his face blown off by the teacher's loud, quick yelling. We sat there in silence as Percy slowly edged towards his seat, mouthing "uptight bitch" to his friends, who hid their faces in their hands to stop themselves laughing. He reached his seat and slung himself down next to me, across from Leo Valdez, who smirked and whispered "She did not say some very nice things to you dude."

"How do you know that?" A voice asked from his other side. I leaned over and saw Calypso sat there, staring at him in awe. "I'm Spanish, so I've been able to speak it since I was two." He answered, moving the corner of his mouth as the teacher glared at us all. She began to write her name on the board for us to copy onto the front of our exercise board. As she moved away, revealing Senorita Hinchado on the board, Leo burst out laughing. All eyes shifted to him as the woman looked at him with something between disgust and disapproval. "What is so funny?" She interrogated, stalking between the aisles to come to a stop in front of him. Leo gulped visibly and I could see Reyna hiding her laughter. Why was she laughing? What did they know that we don't? "Nothing Senorita Puf- I mean Senorita Hinchado." He stammered. Her eyes narrowed. "What did you just call me?" She growled in her broken English.

"Ummm, well, it's just your name..." He began.

"What about my name?" She hissed, lowering her face to just inches from his. He scooted backwards.

"Well it means Miss Puffy doesn't it?" Came a strong female voice. There was an audible gasp as everyone turned to Reyna. She was a rule follower, why did she just break them?

Miss Puffy growled like a real tiger. It was frightening.

"¿Qué hay de malo con mi nombre le horribles desgraciados? ¿Le parece divertido a usted? Bueno, tal vez debería informar al principio o mejor aún, tratar de usted a la antigua usanza, un bastón! Te debo vencer tanto este instante para esto!"

She ranted in Spanish (A/N: I am so sorry to any Spanish speakers out there if this is wrong. I used Google translate for this.) We sat there shocked as Leo stood up and looked at Reyna

"Esta vieja vaca no tiene idea de lo que está haciendo ¿verdad? Ella parece pensar que ella nos puede vencer y hacernos daño. El pegado para arriba puta. Me gustaría verla expulsado de la escuela y, a continuación, burlarse de ella a través de las ventanas. Que pasa contigo?"

He gibbered in rapid Spanish. This caught Miss Puffy off guard and she stood there in confusion. Evidently, she could not understand Leo, maybe he was speaking too fast for her to follow. Reyna laughed out loud and spoke back.

"Estoy completamente de acuerdo Leo. También me gustaría verla expulsado de esta escuela. Tal vez en un saco, si eso es posible. Podríamos tirar de ella en el río nd nadie sería más sabio. ¿Vamos a ver el principio?"

Seeing the look on Miss Puffy's face was priceless as the two got up and walked to the door. It was open before she had even moved.

"¡Espera! Recibe de vuelta aquí a la vez! Usted no tiene derecho a salir de este salón de clases!" She screamed at them, storming towards them. They ignored her and walked out, slamming the door in her face. I looked to my right to find Percy in hysterics. The rest of the class were in silent fits of laughter as Miss Puffy stood there, heaving for breath and looking as if she were about to explode. I turned to look behind me and saw Nico DiAngelo and a guy called Will Solace filming the whole thing on Nico's phone. Will had tears running down his face and Nico had trouble keeping the camera still.

It took a member of the NYPD to remove Senorita Hinchado from the school. Reyna and Leo accompanied him to the classroom and when she had left there was a mighty cheer. Many people were shaking their hands and clapping them on the back. Leo's friends even lifted him up and paraded around the classroom. Even Calypso hugged him. Both went red in the face and jeers came from all sides. We did nothing until the bell went for third period and then we gathered our things and headed for the science labs.

Authors Notes

Hey guys, thanks so much for reading! I know this chapter is quite long, let me know if you want more this length or if you want them shorter. I am trying to make it up to you in advance because after next week's update I will be on holiday and so won't be able to update. Any tips are always appreciated, thanks again.

Scott