A/N: It's been a while (again)… (Oops I did it again…I played with your heart…so on so forth). Feel free to yell at me.

Disclaimer: I don't own PJatO. Good old Ricky does. ;)

Roommates - 4

Percy awoke to the atrocious sound of an alarm clock. He reached around to see if he could locate the 'snooze' button, like he always did at home. Unfortunately, he was not at home, but rather in a dorm room sleeping on the top bunk of a bunk bed. His body rammed into the pointy wooden railing as he mentally applauded himself for his stupidity.

Thanks to the bruise that he could feel was already forming, Percy felt awake. The alarm had finally shut up from its incessant beep beep noise. This time, more carefully, Percy leaned over the railing of his bed to find the clock saying it was only 6:30 am. Who the hell wakes up at 6:30 am?

As if to answer his brilliant question, the bathroom door opened to reveal the blonde girl from the day before. She was sporting a cream pencil skirt and bold white blouse, similar to what she was wearing the day before. Her blonde hair cascaded down her shoulders in princess curls, which, in Percy's point of view, were kind of overrated anyway. He randomly started thinking of how curls bounce when you tug them.

The aforementioned girl looked up at him, her bruise less evident then it was before. Her grey eyes watched him in pure annoyance. "Do you have any plans of even getting up?" she asked in an omg-you-are-so-stupid tone, which—sadly—was a tone Percy was used to.

Percy was really irked by this. It's not like he purposefully dropped that heavy bag on her head. (Although, now thinking on it, he would do it again if it meant she would stop bullying him.) He wasn't the type of guy running around finding ways to ruin other peoples' lives. Why couldn't she just accept his apology and move on? She stared at him like he was intentionally placed on the planet just to ruin her life.

"Actually, I was planning to sleep in like normal people do when they don't have school. I like to relax on my off-days. But I bet the word relax isn't even in your dictionary. You're always so uptight and mad at everything. Sheesh," Percy responded thoughtfully. He attempted to sit up. Unfortunately, he was too tall for the ceiling and bumped his head with a loud thunk. Percy cursed at himself. Why did he seem to be extra clumsy whenever she was around? That wasn't exactly helping his situation.

She scoffed at his inelegance as he rubbed his head. "I do too know how to relax. I just want to be prepared for everything tomorrow when school starts. I'm going to go check out this place so that I won't get lost on the first day of school." and with that, she left the room (a bit too dramatically, for Percy's taste).

Percy looked at the door blankly. That girl. She needed to be taught a lesson. She was going to get nowhere with her attitude.

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Annabeth walked around the building, not actually paying attention to where she was going. She couldn't believe she had been paired with such a dimwit. Of all the people, it just had to be someone who didn't have any common sense. Every minute she spent in the room with Percy Jackson felt a minute too long. There was so much irritation whenever she was near him that she could practically cut through it with a knife.

She didn't really understand why she was so mad at him. The bump on her head had magically started to disappear this morning—it wasn't even that noticeable. Perhaps being around him had caused her to lose brain cells. This would explain some things. If Athena had seen how Annabeth had reacted to the bump on her head, she would have told her to stop throwing tantrums like a two year old. But Percy, he just, he made her so angry for no particular reason. Maybe they were just meant to be enemies.

Annabeth continued to pace confusedly through the mostly vacant halls of the NU. She concluded to herself that she just had the worst luck.

"Hey!" a voice called out.

She turned around to find the same junior boy, Luke, who had helped her yesterday. In an attempt to seem affable, she smiled. He smirked back. His constant smirk was almost endearing.

"What are you doing up so early?" he asked out of curiosity.

"I could ask you the same," Annabeth said in a joking manner.

"No really." He raised his eyebrows, only making the scar above his right eyebrow more visible.

"Okay, fine. I was just scouting out the place, trying to figure out where everything was before tomorrow," Annabeth explained.

Luke chuckled. "It seemed more like deep, thorough sulking to me."

"Well…" Annabeth hesitated on sharing her drama with this junior she barely even knew. She didn't want to be seen as the overly theatrical type. Instead she changed the subject and asked, "Are you allowed to change rooms?"

Luke glanced at her in slight puzzlement. "You can…if there are any rooms left open."

"Really?! I mean, could I?" Maybe Annabeth could get a better roommate. The thought itself was relieving.

He nodded. "Let's go see if there are any rooms available."

They walked over to the front desk. Luke flipped through a book, trailing his finger down room numbers. He frowned a little. "Hmmm…sorry, but it looks like all the rooms have been taken," he looked up at Annabeth, "is there some reason for wanting to change rooms?"

Annabeth shook her head. "No, it's just that…my roommate, well, he's just…actually never mind. I can deal with him." It would sound kind of lame to switch rooms simply because her roommate was a total klutz and possibly had the IQ of a 5 year old.

Luke shrugged. "Okay. Well…" They both stood there in silence. "Have you tried the frozen yogurt at the café? It's really good." He checked his phone, texting someone. "My friend and I were going to go get some, wanna join?"

Annabeth nodded. "Sure, sounds fun." She smiled as she thought to herself see Percy Jackson, I can relax. I'm not super uptight all the time.

Luke wrapped his fingers around her arm. "Come on, I'm already late!" She laughed at his eagerness and allowed herself to get dragged to the café. Luke seemed to be nice, and Annabeth was going to need some friends to survive this year.

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Percy Jackson was sprawled out on Grover's red sofa that had definitely seen better days, drinking blue cola. Grover was talking about something, but there was a mysterious green stain near where Percy's head was, so he was having trouble paying attention. What stains green anyway? Guacamole? Green peas? Or maybe…

"Percy, did you hear me?" Grover interrupted.

"Huh, what?" he responded intelligently.

"Man, Percy, you suck at listening. I was asking you about your roommate."

Percy groaned. "Ugh, it's horrible. So I accidently dropped one of my bags on her head and she got super pissed about it. She won't even let me apologize and every time she talks to me it's like she's talking to the dumbest person in the world."

"But what if she is?" Percy threw Grover a glare. "Percy, I'm just kidding," Grover laughed. "You done with that?" he asked, gesturing at Percy's cola can. Percy tossed it to him. Grover started to chew it thoughtfully.

Percy couldn't help but laugh, "So does your roommate know about your weird goat habits?"

Grover nodded. "Katie's pretty cool about it all. She's into botany and stuff and said that as long as I don't, like, eat her plants, I'm fine. She went down to the gardens or something."

Percy sighed. "I wish my roommate was as chill as yours."

Grover continued to chew his can, "Come on, she can't be that bad. What's her name?"

"I don't know."

"You don't know her name?"

"Uh…no?"

"Sometimes I worry about you Percy." Grover shook his head.

"Meh. You want to go get something to eat? I'm starving," Percy suggested, changing the subject. He didn't really enjoy when Grover decided to be his mom. Sometimes that just got weird.

"Yeah su-" Grover started before he was interrupted by Percy's cell phone buzzing.

Percy looked at the caller ID and cursed. "Shoot Grover, we need to go the café now. She's going to beat us... and that means…"

Grover's face paled. "No!" as he spit out the chewed-up can into the nearest wastebasket. They both flew out the door as quickly as they could.

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Thalia Grace sat at a table off in the corner, smiling to herself. To any bystander, she looked like the average punk-rock chic sporting blue plaid that made her eyes striking like lightning. She was eccentric, and she caught many curious stares with her seemingly devious smirk as she swirled her frozen yogurt in slow circles. But she only paid attention to the increasingly louder sound of running feet approaching in her direction. If possible, her smile got even wider as her eyes caught sight of two boys sprinting towards her as if they were being chased by a bear.

When they spotted her sitting leisurely at the table, both boys groaned in defeat. She casually checked the time on her phone before acknowledging them, "Percy, Grover, late again."

"Don't rub it in," Percy remarked, still panting from sprinting all the way to the café.

She simply held out her hand, "3 dollars and twenty seven cents. Pay up."

Percy and Grover dug through their pockets, eventually finding enough money and handing it to her in shame. She smirked, "You guys were the ones who made this bet like five years ago, and now you're blaming me?"

"What bet?" A new voice behind them asked. They turned to find Luke. He smirked mischievously and there was laughter clear in his eyes.

Thalia's eyes brightened. "Luke." She gestured at Percy and Grover. "This is my cousin, Percy, and my friend, Grover. We went to high school together." Then she pointed at Luke. "Guys, this is Luke, we met when I was a freshman here, and we've been friends ever since. I figured we could all have fro-yo today and get to know each other better, that's why I asked you all to come."

They greeted each other before Luke asked again, "So what bet were you guys talking about?"

Grover huffed. "We used to race Thalia to lunch in high school. So we made this bet that whoever gets there first gets their lunch paid for by the losers."

Thalia laughed. "I win practically every time," she waved her winnings in her hand victoriously. Then she looked at Luke in confusion. "I thought you texted me that you were bringing someone along."

Luke nodded. "Yeah, she needed to go get something from her room. She'll be here in a few minutes and she told me that she was fine with us getting fro-yo without her since she'll be a little late."

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Percy magically had reached the fro-yo line, tapping his fingers impatiently against the counter-top in order to get his blueberry flavored fro-yo. The lady who was pouring it into his cup was taking an excessive amount of time, making it into the most perfect swirl she could master. Percy just wanted his frozen yogurt, and grinned widely when he finally got it. He began to purposefully walk towards the table, holding his fro-yo close to him protectively.

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Annabeth rushed out of the elevator and into the café, trying to spot Luke's familiar blonde hair. When she spotted it, she breathed a sigh of relief and started to head over to the table. Just as she was about five feet away from the table, she collided into a tall figure, knocking her off balance.

She felt herself slipping backwards as a strong arm came around her waist and caught her. She locked her eyes onto her savior (though, really, she was not a damsel in distress…it was just bad timing). When she saw those startling green eyes lock onto her grey ones, she gasped in surprise.

Seriously? She thought. She then shoved Percy Jackson away from her in pure annoyance, not seeing the cup of bright blue frozen yogurt in his free hand.

And because, as Annabeth knew so well, the momentum of her shove caused the cup of intensely blue frozen yogurt to fly out of his hands and onto her bold, bright, white blouse.

She looked at Percy, seething with fury.