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Chapter 7: Ashley becomes Captain of the Wrestling Team?
Percy's POV
We headed down to the lunchroom. We sat with Victoria, Reyna, Eva, Alex, Andre, and Derek. Alex, Andre, and Derek were on the swim team with me, and Alex was also the captain of the basketball team. These guys were my closest friends, and I remember last year how I kept telling them about Annabeth. Let's just say that they didn't believe me.
*Flashback*
"Hey, Percy," Stacy, one of my friends said. She looked kind of nervous and was rubbing her arm and blushing slightly. "I wanted to ask if you would like to go have dinner sometime."
My friends watched with great interest and in silence.
"I am so sorry, Stacy, but I have a girlfriend," I said trying not to let her down too hard.
"Oh," she said barley audible, "ok. See you around." With that she left.
"Dude, she is one of the only girls in school who doesn't chase after you and isn't ugly," Alex said. "You have a girlfriend?"
"Yeah. I have told you guys about her a million times. You just didn't believe me," I told them. "I see her every summer, remember?"
"Oh." They all said in unison.
"You know, Percy, I am starting to think that this girlfriend of yours isn't real," Andre said.
"Yeah, we have never met her," Derek said.
"Guys, she is real," I said, "but I only see her over the summer. She lives in San Francisco." I walked a few steps over to my locker and took Annabeth's picture out. I handed it to the guys.
Their eyes widened, "Percy, she is hotter than almost all of the girls here!" Andre said in shock. "I still don't believe you. How do I know that you didn't get this off of the internet?" Alex said.
"She's real. Maybe you guys can meet her this summer," I said.
They laughed, "Yeah right!" Derek said.
They didn't get to meet Annabeth that summer, but little did I know that they would meet her this year.
*End of flashback*
I laughed out loud in front of all my friends. They stared at me as if I were crazy.
"What are you laughing at?" Andre finally spoke up.
"I was just remembering about how you guys didn't believe that I had a girlfriend," I said.
"Oh, really?" Annabeth said.
"We never met you and were starting to think that Percy made you up," Alex said shrugging his shoulders.
I started to tell Annabeth the story about what had happened that day when I suddenly heard people yelling, "Fight! Fight! Fight!" I turned around and saw all of the students gathered in a circle.
I got up along with my friends and headed over to the group of students. I saw Ashley and another girl in the center, and Ashley was glaring at the other girl, and she suddenly threw a punch at her. The girl was knocked straight in the jaw and fell to the ground.
I saw a girl break through the crowd and topple over Ashley. She yelled, "Get off of Vanessa, Ashley!"
The girl, which I realized as Olivia, got to her feet followed by Ashley.
"What do you care, Olivia? What are you going to do about it?" Ashley said in a mocking tone.
Olivia balled a fist and pretended to throw it at Ashley. Ashley took a step back in shock, and everybody but Ashley's friends let out a laugh.
Olivia had a wild grin in her face like she couldn't be tamed. She was sporty and muscular like Annabeth. She was another one of my good friends, and she was just about one of the only girls that wasn't so obsessed with me. I thought that she was a very funny person too.
"That, Ashley, is what I am gonna do about it."
"Whatever, Olivia," Ashley said and turned around and left, followed by her loser friends.
The crowd started slowly moving away, and Olivia helped Vanessa up.
"Hey, Olivia," I said as I walked up to her. "That was awesome!" I said, and Annabeth nodded in agreement.
"Thanks, Percy. Just between you and me, I have always wanted to do that to Ashley!" she said victoriously.
"You and me both, Olivia!" Annabeth said, and we all laughed.
We walked out of the cafeteria and hung out together during free period. We talked until we had to go back to class. Class was boring, but at least I had Annabeth.
The whole day went by pretty fast, but in Social Studies, it was a whole other story.
Annabeth and I were continuously looking at each other, and I knew we were both thinking the same thing. We were both thinking about how Olivia had tackled Ashley and how Victoria had called her a stalker. Thinking about this, Annabeth and I started laughing out loud while our teacher was giving the class a lecture. We stopped laughing and started blushing when we found out that everybody was staring at.
"May I ask what you two are laughing about?" our teacher, Mrs. Rutkowski, said.
"We were just thinking about how Ashley became the captain of the wrestling team," I snorted, and Annabeth laughed again.
"Oh, that's great! You both can tell me all about why fighting is bad and how it starts wars in your thousand word essays," she said with a grin on her face. All of the students laughed, and Annabeth and I groaned.
The lesson went on, and we were finally dismissed to go to homeroom in order to get our things.
Victoria was in our homeroom, so she walked up to us after she had gathered her things.
"Hey guys!" she said to us with a big grin on her face. "Do you want to go and have dinner with me and Olivia? We were planning on going to Red Lobster," she said.
As soon as Victoria said Red Lobster, my mouth started to water. I hadn't been there in so long even though it was my favorite restaurant. Annabeth's eyes seemed to light up a little as well. I had taken her to Red Lobster the last time she was here, and she loved it.
"Yeah!" Annabeth and I both replied at the same time.
"That would be lovely." Annabeth added.
"Okay, we will meet you guys there at seven. Is that a good time for you?' Victoria asked us.
"That's perfect." Annabeth said while grabbing my hand. "We will see you then." She said as she waved. She then dragged me out of the room.
"Slow down, Annabeth," I told her while chuckling. "What's your hurry? We have three and a half hours until we have to be at the restaurant." I told her.
"I am sorry Percy, but we have a lot of homework, plus, we have that thousand word essay to turn in tomorrow." My eyes widened at the words coming out of her mouth.
"Wait, my Wise Girl is worrying about school work?" I said while giving an exaggerated gasp.
She rolled her eyes. "Shut up, Percy." She said while chuckling.
"Well it's true." I said while shrugging my shoulders. "Anyway, let's go I want to get home BEFORE we have to go to dinner."
"Whatever, Seaweed Brain." She said while taking my arm. "Let's go."
As we drove to my house, I noticed Annabeth looking me up and down. I chuckled and said, "Checking me out, Wise Girl?"
She quickly turned away. "No!" she yelled but was blushing slightly.
"Okay, whatever you say." I said. "Are you glad that we were invited to dinner tonight?"
"Yes, of course. Why do you ask?" Annabeth said.
"I was just curious. How do you like Olivia?"
"Oh, I like her! Any girl who tackles Ashley is an awesome person to me!" she said while laughing.
I laughed too, and a few minutes later, we arrived home. I went inside and we were greeted by my mom. I guess she got off of work today early. We went to the kitchen table and started doing our one thousand word report. Annabeth finished hers within fifteen minutes, and I had barely finished two paragraphs. She walked over to me and looked at my paper over my shoulder.
"Percy, sometimes you are such a Seaweed Brain!" she laughed "Hurry up!"
"I'm trying my hardest, Annabeth." I laughed.
"Okay. I am going to go watch T.V."
She walked over to the den and sat down on the sofa. She grabbed the remote and started flipping channels. When she came to a show about Frank Lloyd Wright, who was apparently one on the greatest architects of the twentieth century, she stopped channel surfing, and her eyes were glued to the T.V. almost instantly.
After I finished my report, which I believe took forever, her eyes were still glued to the T.V. I silently sneaked up behind her and poked her side. She jumped and turned to look at me. She looked mad.
"Percy!" she yelled.
"Time to go!" I said as I lifter her bridal style and ran out the door. "We will be back later, mom!" I yelled when I made it to the door.
"Drive safely!" she called back.
I made it downstairs and put Annabeth in the passenger seat. I walked over to the driver's seat and noticed Annabeth move from her seat and lock my door manually. She thought she had won. I lifted up the keys and chuckled. She stuck her tongue out at me, and I chuckled as I opened the car door.
This was going to be a great night.
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