sorry for this late update, I know, I'm horrible
all of your reviews are so incredibly nice, so thank u all so so much :)
(also to the guest that recommended on what should happen in the story: that's actually what I've been planning on doing with this story since the beginning! so yeah!)
disclaimer: I do not own any of these characters or the song How To Be a Heartbreaker by Marina and the Diamonds
AP World History was a bust for Jason. Reyna sat across the room from him and she barely even blinked at him, let alone talk to him. He was trying to put together a plan to show Piper that he could handle getting a girl like Reyna, but obviously that wasn't going to happen. He tried to catch up with her when the bell rang, but the encounter went like this:
"Hey, Reyna! Did you get the homework?"
"Yeah, I did. Why?"
"Oh I was just wondering if you could tell me, I couldn't catch what he said."
"Really? I saw you write down the homework even before he started saying the instructions." Busted.
"Oh! That? Yeah, um I was just, um, doodling! Yeah! I'm a big doodler." Totally saved.
"Um, that's great Jason, so I'll see you around?" Or not.
With a defeated sigh, he said in return, "Um, yeah! Cool, see ya!" Yeah, better luck next time.
Jason was busy now working on his homework that he didn't even notice Leo sitting on the other end of the table in the courtyard. Jason looked up to see Leo staring at another girl across the pathway leading people from inside the school, to the outside. Jason looked over and saw her, she had soft cocoa brown eyes and was laughing at something her friend, Rachel he thought her name was, said. Leo sighed sadly, turning his attention back towards Jason, his facing turning back to his normal self, carefree and smooth.
"What's up, bro?" Leo asked, as if the events that had just happened never did. Jason was surprised at how Leo quickly changed his mood, fitting his mood into who the people around him were. His surprise must have shown because Leo looked at him weirdly, but Jason tried to save himself by saying, "Oh, um, sorry, i was just thinking about something else. So, Calypso, huh?" he raised his eyebrows suggestively towards his friend, but also hoping he got her name right. Leo groaned and answered back with the same look he had when he was looking at her, "I don't know man. I just, I don't know, I guess she's just different. And I know I've said that ten billion times before with all the other girls I hit on, but she's something. I have her in Music and her voice, is just like, it makes me want to melt." He confesses this with a small smile on his face growing.
Jason whistles and says, "Wow. You're that far into it, huh?" Leo nods miserably and puts his head in between his crossed arms on the table and then mumbles with his head down, "What am I going to do? She doesn't like guys like me, she likes guys like you and Percy!" Jason scoffs and says back sarcastically, "Yeah, how could she like a guy with a great sense of humor and who's one of the stars of the basketball team? She totally wouldn't fall for you." He groans and says to himself as he lifts his head, "You really don't get it, do you?" Jason shakes his head, confused with the look Leo had on his face, like he didn't believe a word Jason had just said. "Jason, no girl wants me. I'm a nobody compared to you and Percy. You guys are like the gods of this school, and I'm a puny mortal." Jason stayed silent after this, in which case Leo decided to leave.
So Leo left, following the path towards the school and opening up the door. He left Jason to think about how clueless he had been about his own best friend. Who did Jason not realized? Here he and Percy was competing in who could date the most girls, where Leo wasn't even confident about himself. Which Leo should be, he is hilarious and fun to be around, any girl in their right mind would be lining up for Leo, but the problem was: they weren't. But Jason had a plan to change that.
The fact that Piper and Leo sat next to each other in Chemistry class was bad enough, but that they were doing a lab experiment together was worse. Their regular Chemistry teacher was absent today so the school Vice Principle, Mr. Dionysius or Mr. D, was substituting. He was the worst Vice Principle anyone has ever met. He could care less about the students and he could even care more less on what happened to them. The only thing he did care about was annoying the crap out of the students he hated the most, aka the ones who got in Detention, so Percy Jackson.
Piper had been mixing two liquids, the blue one and sparkly orange one, and the mixture had created it to bubble up. Leo clapped his hands like a five year old and picked up a purple one excitedly, and mixed it in as well. The mixture made a boom sound, which caused Mr. D to wake up from his placement at the desk in the front of the room.
His feet that laid on the desk suddenly went to the ground and he screamed "Bingo!" loudly as his comic book he was reading fell to the floor as well. Everyone laughed, but Mr. D's eyes landed on a boy in the back of the room who wasn't paying attention at all.
"Johnson!" Percy looked up, startled, from a sketchbook. Piper didn't know what the sketch was, all she knew was that he had been working on it and staring at it the whole entire class period. "Perry, how many times do I have to catch you not paying attention in class, for you to understand that I hate staying late after school with you?" Percy looked at him confused and answered back in what was more of a question, "Um, 100?" The whole class chuckled, except for Annabeth she had earbuds in and was oblivious to the conversation.
Mr. D did an exasperated sigh and said to him, "Get up and move your stuff to the table over here." He pointed to the first table that was occupied by Luke Castellan, the quarterback of football, and Annabeth. Percy looked at him shocked and stayed at his seat, not wanting to go near Annabeth, who was currently dancing to You Belong With Me by Taylor Swift. "Now, not 100 years later, Johnson," Mr. D said impatiently. "It's Jackson sir," Percy said, still not getting up.
Mr. D rolled his eyes and said again annoyed, "Do you think I care about you're name? Move. Now." Percy got up grudgingly from his seat in the back, stuffing his sketchbook inside his messenger bag and slinging it onto his left shoulder. Everyone's eyes were on him now. Luke got up as well, putting his Jansport back pack on his right and passed Percy, bumping his shoulder into the others while saying, "Don't even think about hurting her again."
Percy rolled his eyes and dropped his backpack to the floor and sat down as another song played in Annabeth's ears as she was standing up and pouring the next mixture in. The room was still silent until Leo and Piper's mixture mad another bang sound, which caused Leo to say, "Sorry, my bad," and jolting everyone else back to their own conversations.
"Hey, Luke, can you pass me the turquoise liquid?" Percy nervously tapped her on the shoulder, causing her to say, "What now? I was in the middle of listening to High School," she stopped talking as her gray eyes met with his sea-green ones. Percy smirked and asked, "So, still into the classic HSM, huh?" She scoffed and rolled her eyes and replied, "What are you doing here, Jackson? I thought Luke was my lab partner." Percy nodded towards Mr. D as Piper walked up to the couple that wasn't a couple.
"Hey, guys! You all hear about the basketball game tonight?" Percy nodded his head confused as Annabeth went back to her experiment. Piper tried to get both of their attention again by saying, "Yeah, Jason and Leo can't stop talking about it. Annabeth, you can shoot some hoops, right?" She peeled her eyes away from the turquoise liquid she was holding and said quietly, "I mean, I guess so."
Percy grinned up at her and asked,"No way, Ms. I-don't-have-time-to-hang-out-I'm-studying-for-a-test can actually shoot a hoop?" "Is that a challenge, Jackson?" Annabeth asked with a knowing smirk, he nodded and reached out his hand for a handshake. Annabeth accepted it, leaving Piper with a satisfied smile.
This was such a short chapter, but I promise I'll post one either tomorrow or the day after that SO DONT WORRY I PROMISE I WILL NOT NOT FOLLOW THROUGH WITH THIS
Also, I think my fav HSM movie is all of them, BECAUSE I CANT CHOOSE so yeah XD
anyways, I'm sorry if you didn't like this chap, but I really wanted to post this and get onto the next one :)
~songsaboutjasper ;)
