Tutoring Chapter 7
The next day Annabeth dressed in blue jeans with black and white Nikes and a red blouse with a black jacket. She was supposed to wear dress clothes to her meeting with UCLA so she packed them in her back pack along with her track workout clothes.
Downstairs she found Susan making breakfast.
"How you feeling Annabeth?" Susan asked sitting waffles in front of her.
Annabeth stared at her food trying to choke down the lump in her throat and calm the butterflies in her stomach. "I feel like I'm going to throw up. Thanks for the breakfast Susan but I really don't think I can hold it down" Annabeth said pushing the food away.
Susan nodded her head "I understand just try and stay calm and at least try eating a banana you don't want to faint or anything".
Annabeth nodded her head grabbing a banana from the fruit bowl and standing up "Thanks, I'll see you after practice" she said heading towards the door and grabbing her stuff.
Annabeth drove to school alone since Thalia got her car back. Annabeth parked in her normal parking spot and grabbed her bag heading to her locker. Annabeth stood in front of her locker putting her books away when all of a sudden someone spoke from behind her door.
"Hey wise girl" Percy said leaning against next to hers.
Annabeth jumped dropping her book onto the floor "Jesus Percy you scared me" Annabeth said.
Percy smiled bending down to pick up the book "Sorry I didn't mean to" he said handing it to her.
Annabeth smiled taking the book "It's alright. Did you get your homework finished?"
Percy nodded his head "First time in my life I got my homework done on time".
Annabeth laughed closing her locker "That's good; just remember that you can't skip out on tutoring just because I'm going to be late".
Percy nodded his head "I know I know I'll be patiently waiting in the library when you get done with your meeting. Which you're going to rock by the way".
"I hope so, I mean obviously their interested but I really want this scholarship" Annabeth said leaning against her locker next to Percy.
Percy was getting ready to speak but was interrupted by Drew coming up to him "Hey Percy" Drew said batting her eye lashes.
Percy nodded his head "Hi Drew".
"So now that you and Rachel aren't dating how about you and me go to a movie tonight?" She asked stepping closer to him.
Percy tried to move away but since his back was to the lockers he had nowhere to go. Annabeth rolled her eyes "I'll see you later Percy" she said walking away.
"Wait" Percy said but Drew shushed him.
"Let her go Percy, now we can be alone" Drew said setting her hand on his chest "Besides what would you want to do with that loser anyways".
Percy glared at her grabbing her wrist "Don't talk about Annabeth like that you don't even know her. And no Drew I don't want to go out with you". Percy slide along the lockers until he was clear of Drew and ran after Annabeth.
Drew huffed turning around and going the other way.
"Annabeth wait, I'm sorry about that" Percy said catching up with her.
Annabeth shook her head "You've got nothing to be sorry for Percy; I understand you're popular and I'm not".
Percy frowned "You seriously think you aren't popular. Annabeth you're the top female athlete this school has seen in over a decade and you're incredibly smart. Everyone knows who you are and likes you there are just girls like Rachel and Drew who are too stupid to see how incredible you are".
Annabeth stopped walking facing Percy "You don't even know who I am Percy".
"I know that you're smart, and an amazing athlete and your kind to everyone, and you have the most beautiful eyes I've ever seen, and obviously your great person if you're willing to tutor me" Percy said smiling at her.
Annabeth looked down trying to fight the blush rising to her cheeks "You didn't have to say that Percy".
Percy just smiled larger setting his hand on her arm "No I needed to say that, you're my friend Annabeth, I'm not going to let you beat yourself up just because of Drew".
"Thanks Percy" Annabeth said right before the first warning bell went off signaling it was time for homeroom. "Well I have to go I'll see you in Greek".
"Wait I'll walk you to class" Percy said walking beside her.
Annabeth looked at him "Won't you be late then?"
Percy shrugged "I have Mr. Brunner he'll understand".
Annabeth laughed "Typical Percy Jackson gets out of detention because all of the teachers love him".
Percy laughed bumping her shoulder with his "Not every teacher love's me, Mrs. Dodd's absolutely hates me, she lives for giving me detention. I think she could die happy if she could finally figure out how to get me expelled".
Annabeth laughed "She hate's everyone, I have her for advanced calculus she loves giving me a hard time because I have dyslexia".
"You have dyslexia?" Percy asked shocked.
Annabeth nodded her head "Yeah I just know how to handle mine better than you do seaweed brain".
Percy playfully glared at her "Way to hurt my pride wise girl" he said stopping in front of Mr. Blofis' room. "Have fun listening to Thalia and Nico argue, you know it's going to be really bad now that he know she's dating Luke right?"
"Are you serious?" Annabeth asked groaning.
Percy nodded his head "Oh yeah I had to listen to it all night from Nico".
Annabeth groaned "Why exactly is he so protective of her?" Annabeth asked.
Percy looked down at the floor "It's not really the place to talk about here, I'll tell you when we meet in the library".
Annabeth nodded her head "Okay".
"Hey Kelp Head what are you doing here?" Thalia asked stopping beside the two.
"Just talkin to Annabeth making sure where still meeting for tutoring" Percy said "I should get going, I'll see you later Annabeth. Oh and have fun with Nico pinecone face" Percy said grinning as he walked away.
Thalia groaned "How bad would it be if I just skipped home room?" Thalia asked as they walked into the room.
Ananbeth laughed "You probably shouldn't you've already skipped it enough, besides you'll end up seeing him in Greek you two have that project together".
"Damn Annie you just had to remind me of that didn't you" Thalia said sitting in her desk.
Annabeth just shook her head sitting down as well. "So what are you doing this weekend?"
Thalia shrugged "I don't know my parents are going out of town so it's just me and Jason but I think he's having Percy and Nico over. You wanna hang out at my house or yours?" Thalia asked.
"Yours the twins will be there and be annoying as ever" Annabeth said. The second tardy bell rang and Mr. Blofis started the morning announcements, but Nico hadn't shown up yet.
"Where's Nico?" Annabeth asked.
Thalia shrugged "Don't know" she said turning back to Mr. Blofis. By the time home room was over Nico still hadn't shown up, Thalia and Annabeth went their separate ways both wondering why he hadn't shown up.
Annabeth didn't see Thalia until Advanced Calculus and Thalia was abnormally quiet just looking at her phone every now and then.
After calculus Annabeth walked to her locker putting her stuff away "How was home room with my two crazy cousins?" Percy asked leaning against the locker next to hers.
"I don't know Nico wasn't there" Annabeth said closing her locker.
Percy frowned "Weird he wasn't in English either I figured he got in a big fight with Thals and skipped class to cool down".
"Nope he didn't show up" Annabeth said.
"I'm sure he'll show up eventually, if not I'll look for him after practice tonight, he probably just needs to wrap his head around Thalia and Luke" Percy said "So mind if I eat with you since Nico probably isn't going to show up?"
"Yeah sure if you don't mind eating with a bunch of girls" Annabeth said.
Percy grinned "Of course I don't mind".
Annabeth rolled her eyes walking towards the cafeteria Annabeth went to her normal table where Thalia, Piper, Juniper and Hazel sat. "Hey guys Annabeth said sitting down".
Percy sat down next to "What's up ladies?"
Piper looked between Annabeth and Percy "Uhh what's going on?"
"He asked to eat with us and I said he could" Annabeth said.
"Well I sure as hell didn't, what are you doing here kelp head?" Thalia asked.
Percy smiled "Calm down pine cone face Nico isn't showing up for school so I'm eating with you guys".
Thalia looked down at her food not saying anything which was unlike her. Piper and Hazel just shrugged and kept talking when Jason, Grover, Frank, and Leo came over and sat down around the table. "Hello ladies, Percy where's Nico?" Leo asked.
"Skipped school today" Percy said.
"Excuse me but who said you guys could sit here" Thalia said.
"Uhh Percy's here so we decided to sit here as well besides Hazel's here" Frank said smiling at Hazel.
Hazel smiled back at him kissing his cheek. Thalia started to say more but Annabeth interrupted her "Just let it go Thals, it's a nice change" Annabeth said.
Thalia shrugged going back to her food, everyone laughed and talked and goofed around but Annabeth was distracted only two more classes until she was meeting with the recruiters from UCLA.
"Stop worrying your meeting is going to go fine" Percy whispered in her ear.
Annabeth turned slightly to look at him "How did you know I was thinking about that?"
"I tried getting your attention like three times, plus your foot has been tapping none stop" Percy said smiling at her "Just relax".
Annabeth nodded her head taking a deep breath. Once she was paying more attention to what her friends were doing she noticed that Percy and Thalia kept looking at their phones and then up at each other. Frowning Annabeth tried to figure out what the two cousins were doing.
After lunch Percy walked with Thalia and Annabeth to her locker. "You ready to go Thals?" Percy asked looking at his phone again.
Thalia nodded her head "Yeah let's go".
"Wait, what is going on with you two, all day you've been looking at your phones and quieter than normal. What are you two doing?" Annabeth asked crossing her arms over her chest.
Thalia sighed "Were trying to find Nico, were going to skip class and go find him we think we know where he is and hopefully bring him back to school if not we'll take him to Percy's house" Thalia said.
"Why is he freaking out so much over Thalia dating Luke?" Annabeth asked confused.
"It's not just that, today is the day his and Bianca's mother died, he takes it really hard, and we were stupid enough to ignore it thinking he would be able to handle it. Bianca isn't here either but she's at home, Nico is out hopefully not getting drunk somewhere" Percy said.
"Oh well won't you guys get in trouble for skipping class?" Annabeth asked.
"Doesn't matter Nico is our cousin and we need to make sure he's alright" Thalia said right before the warning bell rang.
"Hey you guys ready to go?" Jason asked coming up to them.
Percy nodded his head "Yeah let's get going, we'll be back in time for Greek. Oh and make sure you to stay relaxed" Percy said smiling at her as Jason pulled him away.
Thalia smiled at her "Trust us Annie we've done this a lot for each other" she said before following Percy and Jason down the hall.
Annabeth watched them walk down the hall towards the doors heading to the parking lot. Still confused Annabeth turned around heading to advanced English. She didn't know what Thalia meant by saying they've done this a lot for each other. She's known Thalia for years and this had never happened before at least that she noticed. Annabeth was distracted all through English which was a good and a bad thing. Finally after almost forty minutes the bell rang Annabeth headed to Greek where she hoped Thalia, Nico, and Percy were at.
