Percy's POV
As I walk into the locker room, I see three jocks huddling together with smirks on their faces. Great. Idiots who ditched class.
I walk over to my locker and put in my combination. As I pull out my gym uniform and put my stuff in my locker, something one of the guys says, Dylan, I think his name is, catches my attention.
"Hey Josh! You see that new chick yet?" he says to his buddy playing on his phone next to him.
Looking up from the game he was playing with a curious expression on his face, he asks," No. Why?"
"She's kinda hot man," the third, James I think, says. "What I would pay for those legs."
I clench my gym shorts in my fist and my back stiffens in anger. They don't know one single thing about Annabeth!
Get your freaking minds out of the gutter people! I'm a teenage boy and I'm not trying to make advances towards her but trying to know about her and her life which is more than two of you will ever do!
"Leave the poor girl alone guys. You two already have girlfriends and she might already be with someone if what you say about her looks are true," he says annoyed.
I give you ten points! I cheer in my head. Now I won't have to get in trouble and get kicked out of another school for the seventh time in my life.
I change my clothes then head out of the PE room leaving those disgusting idiots to think their idiotic thoughts.
As I walk out, I see Annabeth exit the girls' locker rooms and start walking towards Coach Hedge. I follow and get there just in time to hear the Coaches instruction about what lovely activity we will be doing today at the beautiful Goode high school. I hope you caught the sarcasm in that sentence because, if you didn't, there's no hope for you.
Anyway, he puts both of us on the same team in basketball and we head over to our group. Its mostly made up of the "nerds", goths, and non-athletic people. (A/N: No offense intended. I am all of those things except goth. However, I was goth my last year of junior high so...) Just our teams luck, the other team is made up of all the jocks and preppy kids, so I'm the only person on my team that I think even plays a sport.
A few of the guys are messing around and a few of them are checking Annabeth out as their girlfriends try to gain back their attention. I see many hateful glares thrown Annabeth's way, and my fists clench near my sides.
I walk over to where Annabeth is standing in the corner as we wait for the coach to actually start the game. (A/N: There is only about 30 teens in the class overall, so just imagine 15 people per team.)
"You OK Annabeth?" I ask when she looks up.
"Yeah. I have had to deal with it for years, so I'm used to all of this by now. Don't worry about it."
I look at her for a few seconds before sighing.
"Fine."
"Thanks Percy. You're the first one to seem like you actually care," she says looking at me with a small smile on her face.
I feel my face redden a little as I look away, embarrassed. I can just FEEL the smirk she is giving me right now.
"Um. Yeah. No problem," I get out trying to preserve every last shred of dignity I have left.
She snorts as the coach tells us to get in position before the game starts. Ethan is holding the basketball, ready for when the whistle blows, so I stand in front of him, determined to pay him back for this morning.
The whistle blows and the game starts.
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A/N: Well that was a crappy chapter! I apologize for how cheesy it was. Also, sorry it was so short, I was in the airport and my flight was boarding so I had to end the chapter fairly quickly.
