Disclaimer: I am most definitely not Rick Riordan. If I was, I would have written House of Hades ages ago
Annabeth's POV
By the time Percy and I reached Math class, the teacher was already doing roll call. We saw 2 empty seats at the front of the class, but they were separated by Nicole, who patted the seat next to her, and some really muscular jock wearing a jersey that seemed to be on its breaking point due to his disgustingly enormous muscles. He was eying me up and down and staring particularly at my… chest area. I gagged. I think Percy noticed his stare, since I felt him tighten his grip on my hand and that he was glaring at the jock.
"Late again, Mr Jackson? Sit down immediately, before I am forced to give you both a detention, regardless whether or not the young lady is new." The teacher raised her eyebrow. Nicole smirked.
I sat down next to Nicole, Percy with the jock. I could feel the disappointment oozing from Nicole. I'd rather sit with her than let Percy sit with her. I smiled at Nicole, opened my notebook, and started taking notes.
After an hour, math ended. Percy was at my side instantly when the bell rang. He steered me out quickly after I grabbed my things. "What's with the hurry, Seaweed Brain?" I teased
"Ermmm… Just the guy I was sitting next to. The further you get from that guy, the better for both my anger and his health." Percy replied nonchantly, like announcing that he was jealous was an everyday event. He's so cute when he's jealous!
"Percy! I can't believe you'd think I'd even consider leaving you for him! I like toned guys, but I don't like bowling-ball sized muscles! It looks gross." I grimaced at the image of his disgustingly large biceps. In response to my answer, Percy flexed his small but toned biceps. We both laughed.
"Who is he, anyway?" I asked.
"Mark Sandellas. Football team captain, resident playboy, and a self-obsessed pain in the neck." Percy muttered, scratching his neck.
"Perce. Seriously. Why in Hades would I leave my hot, caring, best friend, and boyfriend, for a jerk like him?" I said. He grinned and joked,
"I know I'm hotter than him, thanks for the compliment anyway!"
"Guess your ego is already sky-high." I muttered. We both chuckled.
While we were talking, we arrived at our lockers. Percy, being the clumsy Seaweed Brain that he was, walked straight into our locker, hitting his head on the hard locker doors.
"Seaweed Brain." I said.
"Wise Girl." He replied. He leaned forward and kissed me.
RIIINGGG! The bell rang loudly, signaling that we needed to get to English pretty soon. I reluctantly stopped kissing Percy and said, "Perce, we need to go." He fake-sobbed.
When we arrived in English, we grabbed the only remaining seats in the back. Luckily, they were together. And even more luckily, neither Mark nor Nicole were in our English lesson. Just as we plunked down on our seats, Paul came in. Oh right. I forgot he was teaching English in Goode.
"Good morning class, how was your summer?" Paul smiled. He was answered with a lot of yawns. "I am Mr Blofis, your English teacher. To those who were here last year, welcome back! To our new students, welcome!" (Quoting from Dumbledore's lines in Harry Potter. Mini Disclaimer to J.K. Rowling!) Even though today is the first day of school, you're still going to have to do some school work. This year, we're going to kick off with Shakespeare." A few groans and an overly-enthusiastic voice piped up. "Great! I love Shakespeare! He's just so interesting! His plays are so moving and tragic, except for A Midsummer's Night Dream! What do you think, Mr Blofis?" A girl wearing a short blue skirt and a white top smiled eagerly. Paul gave her a tired smile and replied wearily, "Yes, Emily, Shakespeare's plays are really good." Percy leaned over and whispered, "Emily is this really over-enthusiastic girl in Paul's classes. Only in his classes though. You'd think she had a crush on him." I smacked Percy on his chest.
"Of course she has a crush on him! Duh!" Percy grinned sheepishly at me. He leaned in for a kiss. Suddenly, I noticed that the class was silent. I turned to find out that everyone was staring at us. I felt my cheeks turn bright red.
"Percy, Annabeth, I know you guys haven't seen each other in a while, but could you please keep the kisses for after class?" Paul said.
"Yes, Mr Blofis." Percy and I chorused in unison. Everybody else started muttering and whispering to each other, no doubt gossiping about what just happened. While Paul started talking about Shakespeare, I took notes studiously while Percy pretended to take notes, while actually fiddling with my hair. After a half hour or so, the bell rang. "Come on! It's lunch!" Percy grabbed my books and his own.
"Seaweed Brain! I'm totally capable of carrying my own stuff!" I protested.
"I'm just being your helpful boyfriend." Percy winked. Then he took off down the hall with our books.
I chased him to the cafeteria, catching up with him halfway there. Percy was exhausted by the time we got to the cafeteria. "When we get back to camp, I'm going to do some more running training." He panted.
"Perce, I have to go put my books back into my locker. You too." I laughed.
"Come on! I just ran all the way to the cafeteria and now I have to go back!?" Percy grumbled.
"Seaweed Brain." I teased. Percy just stuck his tongue out at me.
After we put our books back into our lockers, we grabbed some food and sat down with Percy's friends.
We mostly just talked about school stuff, and I learned a bit about them. June liked reading, sports, and wanted to go to Stanford, Jane was good at cooking, Alex was really good at Drama, Jason was athletic and mostly played soccer, Ian was on the soccer team with Jason, Brendan was good at swimming, like Percy. Kali liked dancing. Just as we finished eating, Nicole walked up to us. She sat next to Percy and twirled her hair. "So, Percy, for prom, what are you wearing?"
Percy replied, "I don't know. Haven't decided yet." Nicole pouted.
"Tell me when you decide, because I have match my dress to your tux. See you!" She told Percy.
Percy smiled politely at Nicole, before replying that he was not going to go with her to the prom. She sniffed and said, "You'll come around. I mean, who would want her when he could have me?"
Percy replied, "Nicole, please go away." She flounced away, but not before saying loudly that Percy was hers. Percy sighed and put his head on my shoulder, with difficulty, since he had grown taller than me. "She's annoying."
"I know." I replied. Percy leaned in to kiss me. After what felt like eternity, we finally broke apart. June and the rest of the gang were grinning. "Go get a room!" They cried.
After lunch we went to Biology with June and Brendan. I tuned out in this class because I knew it all already, Percy was pretending to listen but actually sleeping a bit. June was listening attentively and taking notes, whereas Brendan was looking bored and not really paying attention. After class, we walked to our lockers together, complaining about the huge pile of homework Ms Tryant had given us, despite that it was the first day of school. Just as we got to our lockers, Nicole popped out of nowhere, grabbed Percy, and kissed him full on the mouth.
I apologize for not updating in over a month. I had major writer's block. Can I please have constructive criticism in reviews, not just telling me to update? Operative CG16, thanks for the info on high school, and to the Guest who said I am Canadian, I'm not Canadian, I'm Asian. Guess my nationality! I made this chapter longer (1,277) because everybody said longer chapters in the reviews. And I forgot to put disclaimers in the previous chapters. I've added them now.
