Chapter 4
*Most of the credit goes to Rick Riordan characters and places. ONLY plot is mine and a few characters.
Piper POV
(Mid-October)
1 week later
I woke to the sound of her alarm clock, I groaned. I pushed the button on my alarm clock to stop the ringing. I looked to my left at the clock, 7:00, I remembered today is the first day of my new school, ugh. I looked around and saw her laptop and chocolate laid out on my bed. My laptop showed pictures of me and Jason. Leo had recently made me special type laptop that wouldn't attract any monsters and still functioned like normal. I slowly got out of bed and walked to my bathroom. I looked in the mirror to see that I fell asleep in my jeans and my black t-shirt and my makeup was running all over my face by my tears. I splashed the water on my face and tried to clean my face. After, I started brushing my teeth when my face looked semi-clean.
I walked back into my room seeing my walls half light blue and half orange. When I got there the room was orange but I wanted to paint it a light blue, reminding her of Jason's eyes. Ugh, my head keeps going back to Jason, I've been trying to have a clear mind cause every time I think of him I get sad and start crying. I know he wouldn't want me to cry, but I have been trying, so hard.
I walked to my closet looking for a new shirt to change to and decided to change into this yellow blouse with a white undershirt. I went back to my bathroom and redid the braid that I slept in last night cause it looked really messy. I left the blue harpy feather in my hair to remember all the good memories of me and my friends. I looked at my clock saying 7:20 and I almost left my room when I remembered that I forgot my shoes. I looked under my bed and pulled out my brown combat boots and put them on my feet. I walked toward my door picked up my backpack which was right next to the doorway. I walked to the kitchen to get something to eat and saw that dad was cooking some pancakes.
"Hey Pipes, do you want some pancakes?", dad asked.
"No thanks," I said ", I'm supposed to get there early to get my schedule." I replied.
I went to the pantry and pulled out a granola bar. I heard Chuck's muffled crying down the hall. I walked to dad and kissed him on the cheek. I walked toward the front door and heard a door open in the hall and saw Coach Hedge walk out.
"Bye Dad!," I said ", Bye Coach Hedge" I added and waved at him as I was opening the door.
"Bye Pipes!" , dad said.
"See ya Cupcake!" Coach yelled and waved back at her me.
I walked out and closed the door behind me. I started walking to my new school which was only a few blocks away from the house. I trying to mentally prepare myself for school. Not only was school really stressful but with everything that's been happening, I really had to calm myself down. I started humming to myself some of the Cherokee songs that I remembered Grandpa Tom teaching me.
Ten minutes later, I was at at the school, I checked my watch to see what time it was (Leo made me a watch as a "see you soon" gift), it was 7:32. The school was huge from the outside it looks like it has two maybe even three floors. As I walked closer she saw that some people were waiting outside the doors of the school talking with one another. I walked up to the doors and started to open the doors but they wouldn't budge. Great, I came extra early to get my schedule but the doors aren't even open. I looked around and saw more and more people arriving and starting to talk in groups.
I felt really lonely there because I was the only one not in a group. I started walking away from the doors with my head down trying not to catch somebody's eye. As I was walking I collided into somebody else and almost fell but the person caught my arms to keep me from falling.
"I'm so, so sorry!" I said to the person. I looked up and saw the guy who I had crashed into, he had golden hair and the beautiful emerald green eyes she had ever seen.
"I see you're already falling for me m'lady," he said smirking at me as he let go of my arms.
"Wait..what?!" I replied confused.
"I said that you're falling for me m'lady" he said again.
"Oh no I heard you the first time that's really weird and creepy. You're very forward aren't you? And what's with the m'lady?" I asked him and looking directly at him.
"Wow, sharp tongue I see, most girls would immediately swoon over me with my good looks." he said as he was ruffling his hair and trying to look like a model.
I snorted. "What? You don't think I'm good looking?" he asked and raising his eyebrows at me.
"Whatever makes you sleep at night Cassanova" I replied, even though he was good looking I didn't want him to know that.
"Ouch," he said, in joking fake hurt voice ", and what's with the Cassanova thing m'lady?" he asked me.
"If you are going to call me m'lady, I'm going to call you Cassanova." I replied.
"I guess that's only fair m'lady." he said, "Hey, now that I think of it. I don't think I have seen you around here before. What's your name?" he asked me.
"My name is Piper. Piper McLean. I'm new I just moved here. What's your name?" I asked him, wondering who this Cassanova was.
"My name is Oliver. Oliver Berenguier. Nice to meet you m'lady, I wish I could stay longer but I have to go meet with my friends." he said as he winked at me and walked away.
I watched as walked away and saw girls turn and start gawking at him. I rolled my eyes, I was standing around for ten minutes until the doors to the school opened. I walked in with the other crowd of people. Most of them just went to their lockers with their group of friends and talked since school doesn't officially start until 8.
I walked up to the counter where this nice looking lady with blond curly hair was sitting. I told her that I was a new student here and that I needed my schedule. She looked under the counter and looked like she was looking some files. Once she found she gave my schedule to me. Then she told me to follow her to show me to my locker. This lady walked super fast and almost lost her in the sea of students. She suddenly stopped and said that was my locker, she gave me the combination and disappeared.
I put in the combination, it opened and put in some of the books I didn't need right now. Once I emptied my backpack it felt 20 pounds lighter. Then I finally opened the paper with my schedule.
Piper McLean Schedule
1st Period (8:00-8:55): Math- Room 13
2nd Period (8:55-9:50): French 2- Room 22
3rd Period (9:50-10:45): Science- Room 8B
4th Period (10:45-11:40): World History- Room 25
5th Period (11:40-12:35): PE- Gym
6th Period (12:35-1:20): Lunch
7th Period (1:20-2:15): Art- Room 16
8th Period (2:15-3:10): Honors English 2- Room 18A
Okay so my first period is math, great. I have never really like math, I mean Jason used to try and teach me and I just couldn't get the hang of it. I remember that one time Percy and I needed help with some math problems and Jason and Annabeth tried to help us better understand it. As hard as they tried, me and Percy just didn't understand. Then Leo decided to try his way, the "Leo Way" and ended up burning both of our papers because that was, in fact, the "Leo Way". I started smiling, those were the good old days, back when we could just hang out as normal teens or at least try to with no wars just hanging out with friends.
Well anyway, I have to stop thinking about that right now, I have to stay focus on the present. I was so zoned out I didn't realize that there was nobody else in the hallways. I looked at my watch and there were only 7 minutes left until school officially started. I looked back at my schedule and started looking for Room 13. I was freaking out looking for the classroom. The hallway I was in there were number 1-8, I ran to where the office was and that lady with blond hair wasn't there. Shoot, I'm going to be late for my first class, on the first day, of my new school. I ran to the other hallway where the numbers were 14-20. Where is Room 13? It's like it completely disappeared along with numbers 9-12. I went upstairs but there was only numbers 20-30.
I looked at my watch, 8:03, I'm late. Gods, really on the first day, I'm lost. I could always go into another classroom and ask somebody but that's really embarrassing and don't want to do it. I leaned on the pillar and crumpled to the ground. I put my head down and closed my eyes, thinking of all the good memories. All the memories on the Argo II, at Camp Half-Blood and Camp Jupiter. I was slowly being consumed by all those memories and slowly started falling asleep.
I opened my eyes and looked all around me and seemed like I was in a grass field, then I saw Jason. He just appeared in front of me, he was staring at me with dazzling blue eyes, he had his hand out to offer to help me up and took his hand.
"J-Jason?" I stuttered, in shock.
"Yeah, it's me Pipes." he said with his charming smile. I jumped into his arms and hugged him.
"How are you here?" I asked muffled because my face was pressed against his shoulder.
"I wanted to see you." he said, "Do I need a reason to see you?" he asked still smiling at me.
"No, you don't but-" I stopped, "You aren't real are you?" I asked, "This is just my imagination playing with my mind. It's showing me what I want to see so desperately.", I said.
"No, I'm not real. I'm just a figure of your imagination to help you deal with your grief."
"I'm fine," I stated.
"Piper, I'm your mind, I know how you are really feeling. You feel responsible for Jason's death. You blame yourself for being unconscious and being unable to do anything. You blame nobody but yourself about his death. I could-"
Then, my eyes opened, I looked around. My eyes were unfocused but what I saw my blurry eyes was this person shaking me. I focused my eyes and saw more clearly, this guy was shaking me. He had dark brown hair with dazzling diamond blue eyes. He stood up and had his hand out to offer to help me up. I took his hand and he pulled me up. I was sort of embarrassed for him to find me asleep and probably drooling there.
"I've been looking everywhere for you, Mrs. Gilden our Math teacher asked me to come looking for you because you might have gotten lost. But clearly, you just fell asleep." he stated with this mysterious British accent.
"No no, I just...well I got lost and nobody was around to ask and didn't want to interrupt any classes so I sat here and accidentally fell asleep." I said, great my first impression and already known as the girl who got lost and fell asleep.
"Well it's fine, I won't mention you fell asleep I will just say you got lost because you want a good first impression." he said.
"Thanks, I really appreciate it." I said.
We then started walking back in silence.
"What's your name?" I asked him trying to cover up all the silence.
"Noah Doherty." he replied. "What's your name?" he asked.
"Piper McLean," I replied ", moved here from California."
"Wow, that's pretty far from here. Why did you move?" he asked.
"We have family here and my dad lost his job so we moved here," I replied.
"Oh…sorry I just-"
"It's fine," I said. "So where is this mysterious classroom that I couldn't find," I asked. We were on the first floor, and he walked all the way down the hallway where numbers 14-20 were and turned left, behind the staircase.
"Really?" I said, "How was I supposed to know there was a secret hallway behind the staircase." I said.
"Well it's not that secret, everybody went to there assigned class but you." He told me.
"Oh sure! Blame it on the new girl, who just got here and doesn't know where anything is." I exclaimed at him.
"All you had to do was walk past the staircase and BOOM! THERE IT IS!" he told me.
"Pfft! How was I supposed to know that!" I exclaimed.
He started laughing at me, "Wow, you're a jerk!" I said.
"Who's the jerk calling me a jerk!" he responded back.
"Well I'm going to class to be a responsible student and not teasing the new kid," I said and started walking to the classroom.
"HEY!" he yelled and ran to catch up with me.
He opened the door and held it for me, I walked in and he followed me. Hoping she didn't hear me and Noah just yelling in the hallways.
"Ah, this is our new student," Mrs. Gilden said and grabbed my shoulders to lead me to the front of the class. ", tell us your name sweetheart."
"Um...my name is Piper McLean" I said.
"Now tell us a bit about yourself." she said.
"I moved here from California because...we had family here and wanted to be with them." I said simply, which wasn't the whole truth but wasn't exactly a lie either. I didn't want anybody here to know about my father or not now.
"Now please go sit down sweetheart," she said to me, "Everybody please turn now to page 56 in your workbook."
I looked around for a seat while everybody else turned to page 56 in their workbook. All the girls surrounded him like piranhas, so I couldn't sit next to him which I was secretly hoping for because he was the only person I knew. So I ended up sitting in the back with all the emo looking kids. I put my backpack on the seat and took out my workbook and turned to page 56.
The rest of the class was a blur and at the end, ended getting 2 pages of math homework. dismissed us and we left.
I started making my way to my second period, French. I started looking for Room 22 which I remember was on the second floor. I climbed the staircase and walked to Room 22. The door was open so I walked in, I was one of the first people there, just me, this other girl sitting all the way in the back and the teacher. In my attempt to make new friends, I sat next to her. Once I sat down, she looked at me strangely. She had golden hair and emerald green eyes.
"Hi," I said, "My name is Piper McLean. What's your name?" I asked.
"Um...hi. My name is Kate Berenguier." she said. She looked like someone I know and I think I have heard of her last name before but couldn't place my finger on it.
We started talking a bit about some interest we both had, she seemed like a really nice girl. Then all of a sudden someone just sat on the other side of Kate, then I saw his face, Mr. Cassanova.
"What a nice day isn't it Katie.", he said, not noticing who I was.
"I told you not to call me that." she snapped back at him.
"Now who's your lovely friend over," he said, then noticed it was me, "Oh, m'lady, how nice it is to see you again." he said sweetly while he was smirking at me.
"Is it?" I replied back, "How do you know this awfully annoying person Kate?" I asked turning to her, not paying attention Oliver's fake hurt noises.
"He's my twin brother." she said simply.
How was I so blind to see, they literally have the same hair and eyes. Kate was nothing like her brother, she was sweet and kind and Oliver wasn't.
"So how was your first period?" he asked simply, not in his normally mischievous way and actually sounded polite.
"Well I got lost, not the best first day but eventually got there 10 minutes late." I said.
"That's great," he said, "so how do you know French?" he asked me.
"Um," I said trying to think of an excuse and not just because I am the daughter of Aphrodite and just magically know French. ", I really wanted to learn French because it is such a beautiful language and it just came to me and talked fluently." I said hoping it sounded believable. "So how do you know French?" I asked both of them.
"Our mom was born in France and moved when she five. Our grandparents only speak French and to communicate with them our mom taught us French and we're pretty much fluent in French." she said. "Just so you know, when Mrs. Marseille we could only speak French just so you know." she said and quickly turned as Mrs. Marseille walked in.
"Bonjour(Hello)." she said
"Bonjour Professeur(Hello teacher)." everybody else replied.
"Nous avons un nouvel étudiant(We have a new student)." she announced then looked at me. "Comment tu t'appelles(What's your name)?" she asked me.
"Je m'appelle Piper(My name is Piper)." I said
"Enchanté Piper (Nice to meet you Piper)." she said and then continue with the rest of the class. I've noticed that whenever Oliver would raise his hand and say something, they would all look at him. We ended with reading just 2 chapters of this book, Mrs. Marseille dismissed us and we left. Oliver, Kate and I left in a group.
"Your French is really good considering you don't have any relatives that speak French." Oliver told me.
"Yeah," added Kate, "are you sure you don't have any relative that speak it? Like maybe your mom or something?" she said.
"My mom left me when I was little." I said.
"Oh sorry." Kate replied immediately clearly embarrassed.
"No, it's fine really." I said, "So what are your next classes?" I asked them.
"English" Kate replied.
"History, you?" Oliver asked.
"Science, ugh," I said, "See you later" I said to the both them and turned and headed to Room 8B. I went down the staircase and went into the classroom. I sat in the back of the class while other students started coming in. Science was pretty boring luckily there was no special introduction from this teacher because he doesn't seem to care. His name was Mr. Woover and was an intimidating teacher. The whole class we just took notes on the elements and which will explode if you put them together. Our homework was just to study for the test tomorrow. dismissed us and went off to our next classes.
My next class was World History, Room 25. That class was pretty much a blur and headed to my next class, PE. I mean PE wasn't the worst thing but I would prefer capture the flag or just sparing;not just pushups or passing a ball around. I headed toward the gym and some doors that led to the locker room. There was hardly anybody in the locker room just a few girls tying their shoe laces. I stuffed my backpack into my locker and was about to start changing into my PE clothes but heard the doors opened and watched as three girls strutted in. The girl in the middle had brown hair with blonde highlights and blue eyes. Her crony to her left had strawberry blonde hair and brown eyes. Her crony to her right had light brown hair and brown eyes.
"Well, well, well, if it isn't the new kid, what's her name again Sara." she turned and asked the girl to her left.
"I heard it was Piper." Sara said, but instead pronounced it pip-er.
"It's Piper." I said pronouncing it the correct way, pipe-er.
"Who told you to talk?" she snapped at me.
"What do you want?" I asked, starting to get really annoyed of her.
"Just wanted to tell you to stay away from Noah. I see how you are with him, wanting to sit next to him please, your just some new girl" she said.
Starting to get mad I said, "Why, is he yours? I don't even like him like that, he's just a friend." and now I think I remembered her in my math class as one of the girls gawking at Noah, I believe her name is Veronica and the girl to her right I think her name is Lily.
"Now hey you little git, you don't talk to me like that." Veronica said, "Stay. Away. From. Noah." she said slowly and clearly. ",unless if you want this year to be miserable.", she smirked.
"Well I'm going to talk to whoever I want and you are not stopping me" I said as I walked around heading toward the doors and trying to go around Veronica's little posey. Then she punched my face and with the impact got pushed into the locker and made a loud noise. Immediately I had a bloody nose and my lip started bleeding. My rage took over me and I pushed her back and she fell on her butt. Then with all the loud commotion an older lady that I have never seen before busted in. She looked at my face and then saw Veronica on the floor and was mortified.
"What are you to girls doing!?" she belted.
"Oh, we're so glad you're here! We were just trying to help Piper but she pushed Veronica and got all mad." Sara said all innocently.
"What happened exactly Ms. Bauer?" she asked Veronica.
"I was just trying to help her Mrs. Basina because I noticed she had a bloody nose and her lips were really chapped but she just pushed me." Veronica said in her lame sweet innocent voice.
"That's not true!" I exclaimed, "She got mad and punched me." I said to her hoping she would believe me.
"So you didn't push her?" she asked.
"I-I did but because she punched me first." I said to Mrs. Basina
"Even if Ms. Bauer did punch you first you weren't supposed to respond in violence and try to talk it out." told me.
I was starting to get a bit mad with and her way of trying to "talk it out". Please, like that was going to happen.
"Please follow me and ." she said and looked at Sara and Lily, "No you don't have to come Ms. Zerner and Ms. Bolland. Off to class the both of you." she said and started walking off.
Veronica and I started following we went to where the office was and then went a door. In the room, there was a desk with a computer, a stack of papers and a few pens. The desk was surrounded by bookcases and there were tons and tons of books. On her desk, there were lots of letters addressed to Principal Shelby Basina. That's when I realized was the principal. sat in her chair and motioned to the two seats in front of her. Veronica and I both sat down and looked at her.
" and what you have done today was very foolish and unnecessary." she said sounding very disappointed. She turned to me and then continued," as I understand today it's your first day and I think that it's a bit too far to suspend you, but you will still be punished for your actions with detention tomorrow after school with and we will also notify your parents."she finished and out of the corner of my eye saw Veronica smirking and then turned to Veronica.
" you will also have detention with and will notify your parents for your actions today." she said strictly, "You girls are dismissed," she said, "and please go to the nurse to clean up" she added to me.
As I got up I felt the soreness in my back from crashing into those lockers. I headed to the door where there was a "Nurse's Office" sign. I walked in and the nurse saw me and gasped. I thought she was being a bit dramatic because it was just a bloody nose really and then I looked where she was looking at which was my clothes and it was pretty bad. There were lots of droplets of blood just everywhere. She asked me what happened and I just didn't feel like replying so I just asked for a wipe. She pointed to where a tiny bathroom was to clean myself and I looked in the mirror and I looked bad.
I began wiping the blood off my face and it hurt and thought there was probably going to be a bruise there. Gods, she punched hard, who knew. After I still looked bad but at least all the blood was off my face. My favorite shirt was ruined and my jeans were also stained. I heard the bell ring and knew that PE ended and was now time for lunch.
I walked out of the bathroom and headed into the hallways. Everybody was staring at me because I had blood on me and I was wearing like the brightest colors, yellow and white. I went back to the locker room to get my backpack and was exactly where I left it. I headed to the cafeteria to my stained shirt and jeans. Everywhere I went people were staring at me, I mean I don't blame them I looked like I was stabbed or something and all with a bloody nose. I was in line to get food and got a salad, water and some potato chips. I gave the money to the lady and looked around for a place to sit. I looked around and saw Kate and went to sit next to her. She was on a table by herself and I sat in front of her.
"Hey!" I said.
"Oh hi!" she said and then looked at my clothes and gasped, "What happened to you?" she asked.
I then explained to her about Veronica and how she punched me and it was because of Noah.
"UGH! She's so evil!", she fumed.
"I know, I can't stand her." I said.
We then started talking about our lives, our hobbies and stuff like that. Kate seemed like a genuine person. I learned she had a dog named Sprinkles, she and Oliver played guitar and she believed in legends and myths.
"So what kind of legends of myths do you believe in?" I asked when she mentioned she believed in stuff like that.
"Like vampires, mummies, monsters, and gods." she said and then looked at my questionable face, "I know it sounds crazy but I think that people back then were smarter than we think. Many ancient civilizations invented math, astronomy, and many stuff we still use today and their legends and myths I think they're also true." she said.
Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Oliver get up from a table of a bunch of girls and winked at them. He then turned and started walking to our table and had something in his hand.
"Hey guys!" he said and winked at us and sat down next to Kate and handed her a muffin.
"Why did you give me a muffin?" Kate asked.
"Can't I just be a nice brother," he said grinning, "Actually that's a pumpkin muffin." he said and turned to me, "I'm allergic to pumpkins, squash, zucchini, muskmelon, and cucumber. It sucks especially during spooky season when it's just all pumpkins." he said annoyed.
"What are you allergic to?" I asked Kate.
"Cats." the both of them replied.
"Hey what happened to you?" he asked finally noticing my shirt and pants. I then explained the whole story to him.
"I never liked Veronica, she's the only girl to never really like my charm and my amazing looks." he said and winked at me, Kate and I both groaned.
"Also about the shirt situation, I might have something to help." he walked back to the table he was at and looked through his backpack and pulled out something. He walked back to us and gave me something.
"Here" he said and I realized it was his hoodie. It was a large dark green hoodie. I put it on and it went down to like half of my thigh.
"You could borrow it for today but I will be expecting it back." he said.
"Thanks!" I said, "I really appreciate it!" I added and smiled at him.
"No problem!" he said grinning, he winked at me and walked away.
"Ugh! He's such a flirt." Kate groaned.
The bell rang, most people got up and started heading out.
"What class do you have next?" I asked her as I started getting up.
"Math," she said, " You?" she asked.
"Art," I said happily, I mean I wasn't some Leonardo Da Vinci but I classified myself as an okay artist. " And after that?" I asked.
"Science",she said in disgust.
"Well I have English after so I will see you tomorrow I guess." I said awkwardly.
"Bye!" she said.
I picked up my trash and threw it away and headed out the doors. I walked quickly to my locker to get the correct items and speed walked to Room 16. As I walked in, there were a lot of people there and I was probably the last person to get there but luckily the teacher wasn't there yet. As I looked around everybody was huddled together talking and the desk was shaped in a "C". I walked in and looking for a seat to sit at. Then, Oliver was waving his arm at me and motioning me to come. I walked toward him and saw there was an empty space and sat there.
"Nice hoodie!" he said smirking. It was like his face was glued like that and had no other facial expressions.
I started taking out my binder and was looking for a pencil, I looked through my backpack and couldn't find one.
"Hey, can I borrow a pencil?" I asked Oliver.
"I might as well give you everything I own if you keep asking to borrow stuff." he said jokingly, "But seriously I don't have a pencil, I lost mine in fifth period sorry." he said and turned to the person next to him and started talking.
I leaned forward and decided to ask the person he was talking to. "Hey, can I borrow a pencil?" I asked the person then the person looked at me and I realized it was Noah. "Oh! Hey Noah, glad to see you again!" I said.
"Hey Piper, glad to see you again too!" he said and he handed me a pencil.
"Thanks!" I said beaming.
"Why are you so cheerful?" Oliver asked suspiciously.
" 'Cause I'm less than halfway done with the school day." I said.
"Well Noah and I have some after-school sports so we can't quite leave until after practice." he said groaning, ", don't get me wrong it's fun but it's tiring and you could get sore for weeks at a time." he said.
"What do you play?" I asked both of them.
"Football", Noah replied.
"What position? Quarterback? Wide receiver?" I asked Noah, as Noah looked confused.
"He means soccer," Oliver said, ", the Brits call it football." he said trying his best British accent.
Noah rolled his eyes, "Well excuse me, us Brits pronounce it correctly. The only people that pronounce incorrectly is you Americans." he said.
"Well I play American football," Oliver said looking at Noah for his approval, ", I play wide receiver." he said turning to me.
"So how are you to friends?" I asked, curious how the only two boys I've talked to happen to be friends.
"Interesting story actually," Oliver said, "Well girls were constantly following us around, you know the two hotties of the school." he winked at me and out of the corner of my eye saw Noah turn slightly pink. Oliver continued, "We sort of bumped into each other. From hiding in unused classrooms or going to the bathroom frequently to get away from the posse of girls.".
"I thought you liked all girls chasing you." I remarked.
"I mean it was okay, I got used to it after a while but girls were practically breathing down my neck it was weird." Oliver stated and continued "I guess that's the consequence for being so devilishly handsome." Oliver joked, smirking and ruffling his hair to make it messier than it already was.
I rolled my eyes at how self-centered and conceited he was.
Noah sighed, "How are you friends with him?" I asked Noah, "You two are like to complete opposite of each other. Your nice, helpful, humble and responsible. He is… self-centered, hard-headed, disorganized and bad-tempered." I finished off saying with a snort of laughter from Noah.
"Hey! You don't know that! I am kind, helpful, humble and super responsible!" he exclaimed.
"That's not what Kate said…" I mumbled, loudly enough for Oliver to hear.
"Well, Kate has always had it out for me. You know being the better twin and all I could see why she said those things." he said as if that was the reason.
"See you're being conceited right now!" I exclaimed.
"I'm not being conceited, I'm just stating the facts." he said, his hands up in surrender.
"So back to the original question. How am I friends with Oliver if were quite different. Well besides that whole running into each other thing, I was skeptical about him at first because he seemed very conceited and not responsible at all but once I got to know him more I learned that he is a good person with generally good intentions." Noah said earning a clap on the back from Oliver.
"Thanks Noah!" Oliver said beaming at him, "See I'm not conceited, even Noah says I'm a good guy." Oliver said smirking at me.
"He also said you "generally" had good intentions." I said.
"No one can be this hot and be an angel, McLean" he smirked and I noticed how he used my last name.
I was about to reply but Noah interrupted me, "Can you guys stop bickering." Noah said, noticing that now he was reading a book.
"Sorry" we both muttered.
"I don't think he's coming." Oliver stated checking his watch, "1:35, fifteen minutes late. Which is good because I want to know more about you?"
"You do?" I said surprised.
"Well you're my sister's friend and I want to learn more about her new friend." he said simply, "And you aren't as bad yourself McLean" he admitted winking at me and smirked.
I rolled my eyes, "That's nice to know." I said smiling, "Especially from the guy that hits on every girl in eyesight, ." I grinned, earning a chuckle from Noah.
"I don't flirt with every girl in eyesight. I don't even flirt I'm just being nice." Oliver said matter of factly. A rather petite girl with brown hair and blonde streaks through her hair came up to Oliver. She was shaking and seemed nervous.
"H-Hey O-Oliver!" she stuttered.
"Hey! Giselle, right? You're in my fifth period?" he asked
"Y-Yes!" she squeaked, "And in your third period. So an-anyway, in fifth period you lost your pencil." she quaked.
"Oh, thanks! That was my last pencil and I thought I was going to have to use a pen instead. Definitely owe you sometime!" he grinned and winked at her, Giselle turned a dark shade of red and walked back to her group of friends that were gazing over here.
Giselle was talking with her friends intently and I think I heard a snippet of the conversation, "... he doesn't know I took his pencil and he even said he owes me." she told her friends who looked at Oliver and started giggling.
"You aren't a flirt?" I said and did quotation mark, "That's not what I saw. Sorry to break it to you Berenguier but you are a flirt." I said using his last name because he used mine.
"I was being friendly." Oliver remarked, "What I was supposed to act all brooding like Noah." he added, Noah looked up from his book.
"I'm not brooding." Noah stated
"God, I got 99.99% on my test, even though I get 100% on every single test. I'm going to fail!" Oliver imitated in his British accent.
"Ha-ha" Noah said stiffly and returned to reading his book.
"So are you going to tell me your life story while we are waiting here." Oliver said.
I continued to tell him I was from California and how my life was there (left out who my dad was). Then told him I was "cursed" always getting in trouble by "borrowing" cars and then I got sent away to a boarding school.
"Ooohhh so I'm friends with a delinquent." Oliver said straightforward.
"I'm not a delinquent." I told him.
"What would you call it then? Criminal Activity?" he asked, raising his eyebrows.
"A hobby" I answered.
Oliver laughed and Noah snorted who was presumably listening to our conversation. They were both choking with laughter.
"A hobby?" Oliver repeated once he regained himself and then continued laughing.
"You do that for fun McLean?" Noah asked.
"I did that for fun, not anymore. I mean I didn't do it on purpose they sort of agreed to it at first then caught on it was bad and called the cops." I responded, "In my defence, they did agree to it, so it wasn't all my fault and wasn't that bad." I added.
"Have you told Kate this?" Oliver asked
"Of course not!" I exclaimed, "I didn't want my friend to think I was a delinquent." I admitted.
"I thought you didn't classify yourself as a 'delinquent'." Oliver said smirking.
"I don't but others do and because I don't think it's necessarily a good idea especially at a new school to introduce yourself as a delinquent." I said.
"Yeah but I bet it gets you a lot of street cred." Oliver joked, earning a roll of the eyes from Noah and myself. Oliver continued, "So why did to tell us?" he asked.
"Well, no offense but from what I've heard you're a bit of a delinquent yourself, Berenguier." I said, remembering Kate telling me about little visits from the police.
"Well, keep it down will you!" Oliver whispered-screamed at me, looking around to see if anyone else had heard. He continued, "God, has Kate told you are whole life story?" he asked, Pretty much, I thought and I nodded. "Well, yes, I have had a few run-ins with the police but they don't have solid evidence against me and I would like it to stay that away." he whispered and again looked around to see if anybody was listening. "Before you think that I'm bad, I did those things for good reasons." he said.
"Which are?" I asked, raising my eyebrows.
"That's a secret." he said mysteriously.
"Well come on Berenguier you're in an open book just tell me already."
"Well if you want to find out McLean…" he said and leaned in close to my ear, "...you're going to have to kiss me." he whispered.
"What!" I exclaimed, a few people turning to see what the noise was.
Oliver smirked, clearly that was the desired effect, "That's the price m'lady." he smiled smugly.
"Forget it…" I muttered. "Nice try, Cassanova, but I'm not that desperate to know your secret." I said, which was a lie because I was definitely very curious to know Oliver Berenguier "good reason" to steal but now worth kissing him.
"Darn, there is always the next time." Oliver smirked.
"In your dreams." I replied.
This whole time Noah was reading his book which I was surprised he could with all our bickering. Then the conversation took a sudden turn.
"So, do you have any social media?" Oliver asked.
"I actually don't have a phone." I said surprised with the sudden turn of conversation.
"That's interesting, it's rare to see people without any technology but do you have a laptop or something because essays must be hard writing it by hand." he asked.
"I actually do have a laptop, helps a lot." I said.
"Do you have Skype?" he asked.
"Yeah, I do. Why?" I asked back.
"Here's my Skype number and Kate's, just in case you want to talk to her or me." he said.
Then the bell rang, he walked out with all his stuff without saying a word to me. Smooth. That's all I could say about it. I collected my stuff and headed out the door. I tried looking for a spec of golden hair in the sea of students in the hall but when I couldn't started making my way to my last period, English. I looked for classroom 18A and walked in, I sat in the back. That class went by miserably slow and ended up with just a sheet of homework from that class.
I walked out of the building thankful that this school day was over. I walked back to my house and unlocked the door. Dad was on the couch watching the television and turned toward me when he saw me walk in.
"Hey Pipes!" he started saying, "I got a call from your principal-" he got cut off.
I cut him off, "-sorry dad lots of homework, very busy it could take me hours, please don't disturb." I said quickly then walked straight to my room.
I closed the door and jumped on my bed. I was glad that I was home away from all the drama. I took a moment to myself trying to collect my thoughts about today and eating chocolate at the same time. I then began to do my homework because I did have quite a lot. About an hour when I was focused on one of my essays in an image appeared right in front of me. I was about to throw my laptop and run until I noticed the image was a person with blonde hair and a bright orange shirt, Annabeth.
"Hey!" I practically yelled, excited to see Annabeth again and glad she contacted me through Iris Message.
"Hey" she said more calmly, she seemed sort of wary of me, "I heard of Jason... I'm s-so sorry.",her voiced cracked, now remembering Jason and now I felt bad forgetting him. "I would have contacted you sooner but I didn't have any drachmas on me and once I got one I decided to call you. I'm so sorry I wish I was there with you...I can't even imagine." she said, "Gods, how are you?" she asked finally.
"I-I'm okay." I finally mustered to say.
"It's okay to say your not fine, I wouldn't be." she said, then I felt wetness on my face and tears were rolling down my face.
"Gods, it's all my fault Annabeth!" I cried, "I could have saved him but instead I got knocked out and Jason decided to play the hero to get us all out of there." I sobbed.
"You couldn't have done anything and even if you could Jason would always choose to say his friends rather than someone die." she said.
"I-I feel so g-guilty if only I could have st-stayed conscious and done s-something." I stammered barely able to talk.
"You would have died instead Piper. Jason would have gone through the same thing your going through. He would feel all this guilt too and maybe worse. Jason would have-" she got cut off.
I cut her off, "YEAH JASON WOULD HAVE BEEN HERE RIGHT NOW IF IT I JUST STAYED CONSCIOUS AND IF HE WASN'T SUCH A HERO!"I yelled at her, "Sorry" I said quickly mad with myself for yelling at Annabeth, "I just can't..." I cried, lots of tears streaming down my face.
"I'm sorry too… I can't even imagine… if it were Percy, I don't even know how I would be dealing with it. I don't even know if I could deal with it." she said, a few tears streaming down her face.
"So how are things with Percy?" I asked trying to lighten the mood and wiping the tears away.
"It's amazing but lots of work and assignments." she said, "By the way, we want to honor Jason here and do a little ceremony thing. Could you make it sometime near Thanksgiving? We want you and Leo to come because you two were closest to him. Percy should be talking with Leo right now about it." she said
"Um...yeah, I think I can come because we have a week off of school because of Thanksgiving and I don't think my dad will mind. He wants me to get out of the house more." I replied.
"Great! I will stop by your place to come and pick you up and will contact you with more details." she smiled.
"See you soon!" I smiled, now excited to see Annabeth in person in a few weeks.
"See you soon!" she replied back and then waved her hand through the image.
I am going to look forward to these next few weeks.
A/N: Thanks to all of those you have reviewed and extremely sorry for the wait! But hopefully, the next chapters will come out soon! (: