Hey guys, how's it going? I'm sorry it took me so long to update but I kind of the lost the thing that had all my writing and I couldn't find it so, yeah.. Uhm...yeah...Any who...Enjoy. I owe nada.
Percy's POV
As Annabeth and I walked to Paul's classroom, she was just as confused as I was when I told her that I didn't know why he was a junior teacher. I could tell that part of her thought that the gods had something to do with this. I, to be more specific, thought that my father was the brain behind Paul's grade switch. I mean, I stayed with him in Atlantis for a while so my wounds would heal faster and he saw how vulnerable I was. Paul knew what was going on, somewhat, so if I had a random panic attack (flashback) he would know how to calm me down. My father probably thought of this and asked Paul if he wanted to be one of my teachers this year. Paul probably accepted because he was worried for me.
When I came home from Camp, I had a bunch of panic attacks that he and my mom witnessed firsthand. They couldn't touch me when I had a panic attack because my memories, depending on their intensity, could be passed to them and that would be extremely bad. Experiencing that and how Annabeth manage to calm me down was what finally made my mom accept the fact that I had to move out and move in with Annabeth. Of course, I still have my room in the apartment in case I want to sleep there or something. I practically live with my mom in the afternoons but when I want to sleep or just relax is when I go back to Annabeth's apartment. I look at this like living in an extra two worlds. My mom's world and Annabeth's world, and now I have six worlds. The other four are The Godly World and The Mortal World, then there's The Greek World and The Roman World.
Anyway, as Annabeth and I neared Paul's classroom, the students started to clear out the hallway. The one-minute bell rang and we both picked up our paces. We walked into Paul's classroom and sat down on the seats that had our names on it. We were right by each other in front of Paul's desk. This was suspicious. There was no way to make this more obvious than it already was. Annabeth check the names and they were all in alphabetical order except ours. I shook my head an stifled a laugh at the failed attempt to be secretive about this. Well, maybe they weren't trying to be secretive and just didn't bother to explain this to Annabeth and me. I just realized something. Paul knew that Annabeth was coming to Goode and he never told me. Where was he anyway? The tardy bell rang and a timer on Paul's desk started counting down 15 minutes. What was that for anyway?
More students rushed in and relaxed when they saw that Paul wasn't in the classroom. Everyone sat down on their seat and waited for Paul to walk in but he didn't. Annabeth sank into her chair and put her head on my shoulder while playing with my hand. I moved my arm and wrapped it around Annabeth's shoulder which ended in Annabeth laying her head on my chest. A couple of girls started whispering something and I could tell it was about me. I decided to ignore it, they always did this. Finally, the timer blared an alarm that lasted for a minute and Paul walked it.
"Hey guys, today I'm gonna start class with a random fact." He said. "Did you know that if a teacher takes more than fifteen minutes to return to his or her class the students have a right to skip class."
All the students groaned except Annabeth, Destiny, both which knew the fact, and I. Paul chuckled as he put the timer away. He grabbed a stack of papers from his desk and passed them out. He smiled at Annabeth and me and winked at us as he sat a packet and in front of each of us. We looked down and noticed it was in Greek. Thank you Paul, thank you so much. My headache is gone now. He walked back to the front and leaned against the table that was in the middle of the front of the classroom.
"Alright, first thing is first. A lot of you have been asking me why this table is here." He said. "This table is here because this was a science classroom and I want this table so this table stays. Now, the packet I gave you is to summarize everything you did in your English classes since you were little fishes."
The class groaned. "You also have questions from the first few months in the school."
More groans. "Annabeth, you may help Percy out since we both know he couldn't get an F+ to save his life."
I rolled my eyes. "Thanks for the vote of confidence."
Paul smiled at me. "You may all start and you have all the class period."
With Annabeth's help, the test was fairly easy. Everything that I didn't understand, which was 98 percent of everything on the test, Annabeth would point out the correct answer and explain to me why it was correct. Finally halfway through the class period, I stood up and turned my test in along with Annabeth. She would have turned it in earlier but I wouldn't let her. Like she always did, she rolled her eyes at me. After we turned the test in, I took out a sheet of paper and we started playing Tic-Tac-Toe. Of course, by the end of class Annabeth had won. The score was 50-4. How does she do it? I guess that even Tic-Tac-Toe is somewhat all about strategies.
Finally, everyone turned in their tests and the bell rang. Annabeth and I got up and started walking out the class. I turned around to look at Paul and pointed and accusing finger at him.
"You, sir, have a lot of explaining to do later."
Paul rolled his eyes and Annabeth and I walked out the room. I took Annabeth's schedule from her hands and looked at it.
Calculus with Mr. Cal (Yes!)
1st Elective: Swimming with Coach Sugarplum.
I turned to look at her. "You chose swimming just to be with me."
She rolled her eyes and said, "oh hush, don't get a big head."
U.S. History with Mrs. Shington
Lunch
English III with Mr. Blofis
Advanced Architecture with Mrs. Arch
2nd Elective P.E. with Coach Walker.
Greek II AP with Mrs. Jackson
We have the same exact schedule except for sixth period and 2nd elective. I grabbed her hand and lead her to the second to last classroom on the other side of another hallway.
"This, wise girl, is your classroom." I said. "I'll come get you later to take you to P.E."
"Where's your class?" She asked.
"Upstairs, last classroom."
"Well that's far away-ish."
I smiled and kissed her cheek. "You've been spending too much time with me. Not that I'm complaining."
Annabeth rolled her eyes and walked into her class. I smiled and walked to a staircase.
Okay, I hoped you guys liked it.
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