ERMEHGAWSH! I am soooooooo sorry for just up and disappearing like that! I've had band camp (actually, band camp is all this week) and I lost my flashdrive that had all my chapters on it! *facepalm* I know, how much more loserly can I get? Well, here goes nothing...

To riml: yes, Sally is worried and Percy is an uber rich popstar who doesn't really need to keep his identity a secret, but he wants to because I am the author and I say so! So ha! Yeah... I justn liked the plot idea and I didn't really have any logical ideas so I'm just kinda going with the flow. Sorry!

Disclaimer: I own nothing, read my lips "ain't happenin' muchacho!"

HOLY S%&T! I totally typed this entire chapter up then I realized I switched POV's *facepalm* ignore it, it'll go away in the next chapter

The first day of school. Can you say hell? It was always bad enough being the new kid, but a new kid with a secret to hide? Poor Percy didn't stand a chance. He felt like he was under a microscope. Any little thing he said was to be dissected and analyzed. It scared him to death.

"C'mon, Percy" Annabeth said, dragging his arm to pull him towards the office.

"Do I have'ta?" Percy whined, uncharacteristically sounding like a two year old. Annabeth didn't even bother to justify that with a response. She just pulled a little harder.

Waking up that morning had been particularity painful, as Percy hadn't gotten a single wink of sleep. He simply laid there in horror thinking of the coming day and of the torture that would await him. Percy had been the new kid before, just once, in third grade. He and his mom had moved from Brooklyn, to Long Island after her husband, Gabe, had died. He had had a run in with a snake. How unfortunate. The third graders had been brutal to the new kid. Always singling him out and calling him names. A couple of the other kids would beat down on him, and over all in wasn't a pleasant experience.

"May I help you?" came the voice of an older secretary. She had a nasal voice and graying hair.

"Yeah, I'm, um, a new student."

"naaaaaame?" she drawled. Percy resisted the urge to roll his eyes.

"Perseus Jackson" The old secretary gave him a once over, made a face of disapproval, and handed him a schedule. "Uh, thanks." The secretary snorted and Percy was almost afraid she would keel over right there. Unfortunately, she didn't.

"What's your first class?" Annabeth asked, peering over his shoulder. Percy looked, it was French One with Ms. Tiffany. "Ah, French, tough luck." She looked at him and smirked. "If only you were fluent due to... hmm, I don't know, a European tour?"

"Shhh!" She stuck her tongue out at him and flaunted off. Great, I don't know where I'm going...

'Need some help?" Percy looked up and saw a small Native American girl with chopped hair.

"Uh, yeah..." He blushed.

"It's cool, I'm Piper McLean" She took his schedule. "And you are... Perseus Jackson"

"It's just Percy"

"Ok, just Percy, so you have French?" Percy nodded. "That's what I have too, just follow me!" Percy did and was relieved to make it to class unharmed, and in time for the bell.

"bonjour, quel est ton nom" (hello, what's your name) said a pretty woman at the door.

"Je m'appelle Percy Jackson" (my name is Percy Jackson) Percy said in fluent French.

"très bon!" (very good!) "Parlez-vous couramment?" (are you fluent?)

"Oui" (that should be self explanatory) the French teacher, Ms. Tiffany, smiled at him and nodded him into the classroom.

"You speak French?" Piper asked him, looking confused. Percy gave her a look that clearly said 'no duh' "well, I guess that was kind of obvious, wasn't it?"

"Little bit..."

French had been a pretty easy language for Percy to learn, it had only taken him a couple weeks. He liked to learn new languages while on tour, and since he visited places like France and Canada a lot he figured it would be pretty useful. At his other school, in New York, Percy had been taking Spanish as well, the two languages were closely related and made it easy to learn both.

Percy zoned out for much of the class, only coming too when Ms. Tiffany asked him questions. At one point, she had him stand in front of the class and demonstrate proper pronunciation. Percy blushed and managed to not mangle a few of the words.

When the bell rang, he said goodbye to Piper and headed off to AP Calc (Idk what math he should be taking...it's what my sis is taking and she's in 11th grade) Annabeth was in this class. He tried to sit as far away from her as possible, but as it turns out, the seating chart gods were not on his side. He ended up just to her left.

"So how's your day going?"

"Fabulous" Percy made sure his sarcasm was noted.

"Oh come on, it can't be that bad." Percy just ignored her and watched the teacher write complex equations on the board.

Finally, it was lunch time. Percy had been starved for quite some time. He didn't have the stomach to eat this morning, and once his nerves settled, he quickly regretted it. Today's lunch was meatloaf, with green beans and mashed potatoes. The meatloaf was an odd color, somewhere between red and green, Percy stayed far away from that. The green beans were semi-slimy but edible, and the mashed potatoes were cold. All in all, Percy gave it a .5 stars.

He had been making his way over to an uninhabited table by the trash cans when Silena showed up out of nowhere and dragged him over to her table.

"Hi guys!" she chirped. "This is Annabeth's cousin, Percy!" I managed a half smile at them. The table had plenty of people sitting there. There was Piper, who was sitting on some blond guy, in a football uniforms, lap. There were two identical (go with it for the story) boys with matching mischeivious grins, a curly haired boy who wouldn't stop moving, and of course, the Fearsome Four.

He sat down and tried to look as inconspicuous as possibly, but they kept asking him questions. Eventually he just started to ignore them and they started to ignore him too. I zoned out as they talked and was only brought back with the mention of his name.

"-of course Percy is going to do it, I already signed him up!" Annabeth looked at him with an evil grin as she caught him looking.

"What am I signed up for?" She gave him an evil shrug 'I didn't even know shrugs could be evil' Percy thought

"The talent show, of course, Percy is an amazing singer!" Whaaaaa?

"No, I most certainly am not" everyone at the table started to plead. "Ok, fine! Whatever, I'll do it, just shut up" Percy gave them all an evil glare, but smiled a little. The table burst into cheers. "But don't think I'm going to be happy about it!"

"C'mon, Percy, it'll be fun!" Percy was ready to punch a tree. And he was only halfway through the first day.

sobsobsob I'm really disappointed in myself. I expected longer, better, and quicker updates. Ignore the POV change, please.

Sorry this took so long!

I love y'all!

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