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Percy's POV

"Was it bad?" Annabeth's question replayed on my mind and her expression when I told her that I actually got expelled, kicked-out, not just to get away and forget some trouble.

Now I might ruin the trust of these great people who just accepted me into their family of friends. Even though I'm far from her now and everything's over between us, I'm still haunted by the past and it's destroying the chances I have now of moving on with these people. My thoughts were interrupted when Annabeth excused herself.

"Hey guys, I'll just go to the comfort room." she said.

"You want me to come with you?" Thalia offered but she shaked her head 'no' and finally headed to the CR.

I watched her leave and thought that I made her upset, that she don't trust me. When she's gone I diverted my eyes back to our table and saw Thalia looking at me. Piper and Jason are talking to each other while Nico put on his headphones and finished his lunch. Silena, Leo, and my bestfriend Grover are back to their apple topic.

"Is she upset?" I asked Thalia.

"Nah. I don't think so but she may be upset about what SHE did, not about you." she replied.

Why would she upset about herself and not me? She did nothing wrong, really. I wish I could clear that to her. On the bright side, maybe she's not upset or just don't trust me because she may think I did something horrible back at Yancy Academy. Thalia may have noticed that I'm stressing about it.

"Hey, look, don't worry. Why don't I go after her and see how's she doing, kay?" Thalia offered.

"You don't have to." I said not wanting to bother her.

"Oh please, I also want to check on her, so just let me. One question though, are you upset with her when she asked you the question awhile ago?" she asked me.

"No. Not at all. I was just afraid that I would ruin all of your trust when you have just accepted Grover and me into your group." I told her.

"Good, you're not upset." she said. "and Percy, whatever happened in your past, just know that we all respect your privacy. We'll give you time until we earned your trust to tell us about it. Deal?" she smiled and I'm thankful that I'm starting to have real good friends here.

"Deal and in return I'll earn your trust also. I really like this group so far." I told her truthfully.

She nodded and went looking for Annabeth. So far, so good. All I need is time and I'll be able to have a better start here in Goode High with these people.

A few minutes after, we finished our lunch and Thalia came back with Annabeth. I gave Thalia a look that says 'how-is-she?' and looked at Annabeth. She just gave me a huge grin which tells me that everything's just fine and I don't have any idea what that means. Is she not upset? I really hope so, I want her and I to be friends like the others, not making her hate me for the whole senior year.

We decided to go back to our room and someone poked my shoulder. I turned around and saw Annabeth which made me smile like an idiot because she wants to talk to me and maybe she's not upset after all just like what Thalia told me.

She smiled back and said, "Umm, Hi Percy, I just want to say I'm sorry for what I-" then she was interrupted by the least person I want to be interrupting us right now.

Luke. I gripped the strap of my bag, controlling my frustration.

"Hey, I've been looking for you." he told Annabeth. His arms were draped around her shoulders. Are they together? Piper told me that they're just bestfriends. I wonder if she knows Luke's games with other girls.

"So who's this?" Luke asked. Before Annabeth even have the chance to introduce me, I said, "I'm Percy Jackson and I know you, you're Luke."

I looked at him straight in his eyes. Looks like he don't know me, besides he has nothing to do with me, I just know him because of what he did to some girls back at Yancy.

"Yep! Luke Castellan, the one and only. Nice to meet you bro. By the way have we met before?" Luke said as if he's trying to recall a time whether he already saw my face before or not.

"No, we haven't met yet. I just heard about you from Annabeth's friends awhile ago." I confirmed and stared at him blankly.

For a couple of minutes we just stared at each other's face, probably thinking we could kill each other through it, well it might be only me who's thinking that and sometimes I don't know why I'm so mad at him except for the fact that he's cheating on girls, and I know some who's still innocent for his little games and trust me they've been scarred, not literally though. I remembered once my friend back then was also a victim of his. She even gave her virginity to him thinking that he won't leave her for another girl. I already warned her but she trusted Luke so much.

"Um, okay guys! I think we have to go to class now." Annabeth said interrupting my thoughts and laughed nervously. I completely forgot that she was even there in the first place.

"Well, nice to meet you, too, Luke." I said and walked away from them.

Great job Percy, I think you just acted rudely towards Annabeth. I went back to our room after that. I tried to listen to our lessons but always got distracted about things that happened to me lately. So after our classes ended, Grover and I walked home together since we are living in the same neighborhood.

"Hey Perce? You okay?" Grover asked me, he probably noticed my silence.

"Just fine, G-man." I lied.

"You're skills in lying is just as bad as mine, dude." he said.

"It's just you know me for many years that's why you can tell, but trust me, I'm a better liar than you." I retorted.

"Ha! See, you did lied." crap! He caught me there.

"So what's up?" he asked me.

"The sky, some birds, the sun..." I enumerated everything I saw up in the sky. I'm searching the sky for more when my bestfriend whacked me in the head.

"Ow! What did you do that for?" I cried out.

"'cause you're acting like a child and I'm asking you a serious question." he said.

"I did gave you the answer and I-" I stopped myself because his face has this look like he's saying, 'say another word or I'll whack your head again'.

"I thought so. Do I have to ask you again?" he smiled.

"Fine. I was just thinking about everything like our new friends at Goode, Luke and Annabeth, my responsibility as the new swim captain... and Cally." I stated.

"Yeah, they all seem nice. What about Annabeth? And Luke? As in Luke Castellan?" he asked, surprised.

"Yeah, we're all in the same class you know and Annabeth and Luke are bestfriends. I kind of felt uneasy because you know Luke, he can be a jerk to girls and I don't want Annabeth to be one of them, she seems nice." I said.

"Right. She asked you an uncomfortable question at lunch and it doesn't seem nice to me." he countered.

"She's just curious and she did tried to apologize to me after lunch although some jerk interrupted her. That's when I met Luke personally by the way." I told him.

"Woah, I bet that's even more uncomfortable." he said.

"Yeah, and his arms were draped around Annabeth all the time. I can't believe him. It kept me wondering if Annabeth knew him really well." I said.

"Let's just keep out of it, we don't want any trouble in our new school remember?" my bestfriend reminded me.

"I know, just wondering that's all." I told him but when something happens that will push me over the edge, I'm not sure if I can hold it anymore. I swear to the gods.


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