Nine

Wise Girl

Story thus far: Annabeth has returned from California and is currently attending JA, Jupiter Academy, a prestigious high school. On her first day, she encountered Percy Jackson, a delinquent form the neighbouring high school Half Blood High, a school for delinquents. Much to her demise, HBH's Percy is not Percy Olympia, Annabeth's childhood friend.

After Annabeth's encounter with Percy Jackson, she found herself thinking about him from his blond hair to the attitude in his voice, she just couldn't get him off her mind.

'Annabeth stop this nonsense and head to class,' she told herself. She headed to her first class of the day, English. Annabeth believed that she would be able to get a good seat, seeing as she was ten minutes early, wrong. Turns out all the good seats (the ones in the front) were taken. Awkwardly, Annabeth found herself heading towards the back of the class while her classmates eyes examined her. Annabeth felt awkward and started tugging on her blazer sleeve as she looked for a seat.

When Annabeth finally found a seat, she decided to move on to part two of her high school plan, making a few friends. She looked around for a group she could join but cliques were already made. Since she had transferred from California, she didn't exactly have any friends she could talk to.

"Pst, if you keep staring at them, they'll get freaked out," someone told Annabeth. She turned around and she saw a panda, well a boy who looked like a panda.

"Uhh, yea thanks," Annabeth said awkwardly, tucking a strand of hair back.

"No problem, the name's Frank," he, Frank, said before turning away.

Feeling even more alone and awkward, Annabeth took out her textbooks and stared at the clock until the class would start. Luckily for Annabeth, she was only in the position for a few minutes before her teacher entered the room.

Her teacher was a in his mid-30's Annabeth would guess. He had brown hair and a beard. He also had an intense shade of brown for his eyes. He entered the room with a coffee in his hands before stopping in the middle of the room.

All of a sudden, the entire class quieted down. The students fixed their uniforms and their eyes fixed onto their teacher.

"Hello class, my name is Mr. Brunner," he said as he wrote his name on the board. "That's B-R-U-N-N-E-R, Brunner."

"Hello Mr. Brunner," the class responded.

"Now then, since we will be spending homeroom together for the rest of the year, why don't we introduce ourselves. Let's start with," he said, looking down at the class list, picking someone. "Mr. Zhang."

Mr. Zhang, or Frank, as Annabeth remembered his name started to talk. "My name is Frank Zhang, um I'm Canadian, and I like archery, yeah." He finished off awkwardly.

"Now beside him, your turn," said Mr. Brunner.

"M-me?" Annabeth questioned, she wasn't sure who he was talking too.

"Yes, you, Miss…"

"Chase, Annabeth Chase. Well I'm from California, I moved to New York to attend this school, and my dream is to be an architect."

The rest of the class started to introduce themselves and Annabeth tried to remember some of their names. There was a girl named Kate, or at least that's what Annabeth thinks her name is, a girl named Ruby, or Annabeth thinks at least. She missed what their girl said her name was while trying to remember if Kate was the previous girl's name or not. Annabeth ended up missing most of her classmates name while trying to remember the previous person who spoke.

The rest of Annabeth's day was more or less the same. She still didn't get any of her classmate's names but one name did appear over and over again in her mind. The person who goes by the name, Percy Jackson. She thought that she could get her mind off of him in her morning classes but it was no good. Whenever she tried to think of her previous classmates' names, she would get it wrong.

.oOo.

"Hey watch where you're going," someone in front of Annabeth said. "Oh hey it's you again."

Leaving her little daydream, Annabeth's grey eyes focused on what was in front of her, or who to be exact. In front of her was Luke, the sophomore she met earlier.

"Oh hi, sorry," Annabeth apologized. "My head was stuck in the clouds, sorry about that."

"It's okay, just watch where you're going. See you around grey eyes," Luke said before leaving. "Oh right, it's going to rain, so watch out okay?" He turned around and said before leaving.

Annabeth looked out to view the sky, it was still clear without a cloud in sight. Not listening to Luke's advice, she decided to take her time and walk home. She took her time and embraced the New York atmosphere, looking around she had pictured New York a lot differently, but then again she wasn't in Times Square with all the shops. She was just in a little neighbourhood on the Upper East Side that was unknown to the rest of the world.

While Annabeth was admiring the streets, she did not notice the grey storm clouds, the same shade as her eyes, take over the sky. She only noticed when a small amount of rain started to hit her head.

"Damn it," she said as she used her school bag as a cover and headed to find shelter. Annabeth had to stop running because the downpour was too much for her pour bag to handle. She found herself at the park again and under the tree.

'Hmm,' Annabeth wondered to herself. 'If I remember correctly, this was the place where I first met Percy, Olympia not Jackson, or at least that's what dad told me. I wonder what he's doing right know.'

The blonde snapped out of her daydream when she heard a twig snap behind her.

"Who's there?" she asked.

"Well, well," someone said. Annabeth knew that she would know that sarcastic voice anywhere. "Hello Wise Girl."

"Jackson, what are you doing here?" Annabeth demanded.

"Well as you can see, it's raining out there," Percy pointed to the sky. "And I wouldn't want to get my lovely school uniform wet, now would I?" He said in a mocking tone. "But of course, if I did, I could just get one of my servants to clean it, because I'm sooo rich."

"What do you have against the JA students?" Annabeth asked. She did not even know the guy for a day and he's managed to get on to every single one her of her nerves.

"Well if you must know," Percy said.

Annabeth noticed that he had beautiful green eyes, a lot like the see. But the playful mocking glint was gone from his eyes and in its place was a whirlwind of emotions. She could see the hate, the disgust in them. The sea green eyes had a dark blue tint.

Percy then approached her, he pinned her against the tree, pressing his right forearm against her neck. "You JA students are all the same. Even if you are a scholarship brat. You have the money or the brains and instead of using them, you use it to mock us. Waving your money around us, the ones who can't afford it. Talking all big. Or in your case, a scholarship brat, you guys calling us out for being stupid."

Annabeth still pinned to the tree, managed to get enough air to mutter a few words, "well I'm not like them."

"Not yet at least. Well then, that was a nice chat, see you later Wise Girl," Percy smirked.

"Wait," Annabeth called out. She managed to get her breath back. "It's still pouring, you'll get sick."

Yet as soon as Percy set a foot outside of the protection of the tree, the rain stopped and the sun came out.

"You were saying," he smirked, superiority dripped out of his mouth.

Annabeth could only stay there and watch as the sun shone over his blonde hair and a rainbow appeared behind them.

-TBC-

[A/N] Okay so a few things. First of all, I apologize to the delay in this chapter. I am currently, well still on an exchange program and I ran out of prewritten chapters. But the program drains all of my energy every day and I barely have free time, so that's the delay. I will be returning home in a few weeks but I need to start prepping for exams.

Second, I've also ran out of ideas for the story, so I will need more time to think of more. I want to keep writing about Percy and Annabeth, where they do have this rivalry and hate, because writing about bad boy Percy is really fun.

Third, after this story is finished, I think I might take some break from writing PJO, I've lost interst in the series. I plan on re-reading all the books for some muse along with BoO when it comes out. I'll post more details on my profile.

Fourth, I realized that I've changed Percy O's last name. At first it was Percy Olympian but now it's Percy Olympia. So Percy O's last name is going to stay Olympia.

Finally, I would like to say thanks to all the followers who are still with me. You guys rock.

Until next time, keep on reading.