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Happy New Year! Holy, it's already 2018. How was everyone's winter break? Mine has been pretty fantastic. I hope you guys all had a wonderful, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and or Christmas! At th every least I hope you guys all enjoyed not having to go to school or work. I know I did!

I know, I know, I know. I have been very much so MIA lately. * Dodges anything and everything being thrown at her.* I took a break from the ff world without warning and I realize that that wasn't cool. As a reader I know I would've wanted a warning . So I apologize profoundly for this terrible delay in updating. I hope, I really do hope that you will stick by me. I also aspire that this chapter can make up for my absence. I think now, I am back. And for the better and for good. I will start writing more and more. So watch out because your Girl is back! Thank you to my lovely supporters. I'd also like to give a special shout out to the marvelous A.W.G xx who sent me nothing but kindness and encouragement to rejoin the ff world when it was time💕.I will let you know that I am perfectly fine, I was just and still am sorting things out in my complicated life. Anyways, enough about me. Enjoy!

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Disclaimer: I am not Rick Riordan. Therefore I do not own anything from this lovely world.

Chapter Nine.

Stupid Stolls.

Percy Pov.

Well, you could say my lunch was eventful.

Understatement of the day.

Thank Gods for Piper. She shut Drew and Rachel down and put them in their place. I knew that I wanted to but couldn't. Don't ask me why, because I have no answer for you. Hell it's a question I've been asking myself for the past two years. It all started one day when they all showed up at school with a new look, and a new attitude seemed to be part of the deal. Normally however they don't waste their time gossiping about nobodies. Ahh, no! Annabeth is not a nobody. She's a somebody. Stupid Percy. But you know what I mean right? Normally they spit fire and move on to a bigger fish. Wow this is not going well for me is it? Let's move on shall we?

So, Piper and I aimlessly wandered the halls. We passed by plenty of classrooms filled with bubbly wide eyes fresh men eager to be in High school. Just you wait kids, it's not all bright and shiny. We accidentally walked in on some kids doing a drug trade. Stop right there. I know what you are thinking. No it wasn't just the "bad" kids who do drugs. Actually you'd be surprised by how many "goody two shoes" do them. It seemed to be a senior guy holding a bag of what looked and smelled like weed. He was dressed in a blue Goode high lacrosse hoodie. He was handing the bag semi descretly to a junior girl with six shiny and clean piercings and goth makeup. If Coach Hedge found out this kid was dealing, he'd be kicked off of the team. You're probably thinking, Percy, you should tell someone!

Hell no! No way. I am no snitch. Sure it's a stupid idea for him to be dealing it. I know it's illegal but there is zero chance of me snitching. My status would go from a one hundred to a negative ten. There's one thing people hate more than a douche bag and that's a snitch. No one trusts you after that. I quickly grabbed Piper's hand and directed her towards a different hallway.

I continued to show her around and coincidentally we had math together next class. At the end of my very interesting tour of Hell, sorry I meant Goode high, we found Piper's locker. It took her a total of two minutes to fully decorate it. She covered it in photos of her and Jason, some of her an Annabeth as teens and I couldn't help but smile at the ones with her and I as kids with this other blonde girl in the picture. I couldn't seem to pinpoint her name. But those grey eyes did look familiar. Piper pulled out her glossy black binder and slammed her locker shut with a loud thud.

She turned to face me and smiled. "Where to now Mr. Tour guide?"

I opened my mouth to speak but heard the sound of the bell ringing endlessly. I shrugged my shoulders. "The only place I am going, completely against my will, I must say, is math class. With the devil herself." I huffed in frustration.

Piper seemed to understand immediately who I was talking about. Her perky smile turned into a scowl and she rolled her kaleidoscope eyes.

"That woman is still alive?! What the hell!" Piper growled.

"I know, I think she made a deal with the devil, to keep her alive so she can continue to torture us. She'll probably fail us just to get back at us for making her life miserable." I smirked.

Mrs. Dodds along with most teachers at this school are miserable and boring as a log. They clearly hate their jobs, but do them for the summer break is my guess. Or maybe they enjoy their work. I can't really tell. They just all look depressed and irate all the time. All except two. Mr. Brunner and Coach Hedge. Mr. Brunner is just all wise and stuff and seems to actually care about the kids. Coach Hedge however is a different story. He is just always yelling and just batshit crazy. He loves baseball for some odd reason. He is always carrying around a baseball bat and is always wearing his signature baseball hat. He threatens to hit students with his wooden weapon of choice, if they misbehave. I know what you are thinking, CHILD ABUSE! Hello! Is anybody seeing this!? Calm down, I don't think he has actually hit anyone….

Yet.

But we all love the guy because deep down he cares. And I mean deep, deep, deep down. Mr. Brunner and Coach Hedge are my favourite teachers by far. At least so far they are.

"It's okay. You have me now to dazzle her with my charm." Piper grinned sarcastically.

"Yes of course." I smiled playfully.

We were ambushed by buzzing students all rushing to their next classes. They were all panicking in hopes that they weren't late. To be honest I was starting to get worried that we would be late to the demons class. As much as I disliked her, I did not and I repeat I did NOT want to be on her kill list. This was the year that I need to step up my game if I want to get into a good college and or university. I don't mean I have to go to Yale or Harvard. I just need to get accepted and I need a scholarship. And to do all of these incredibly difficult and improbable things, I need math.

"I don't know about you but I would hate to be on Satan's bad side." I attempted to say cooly as if I didn't care. When in fact i was freaking out on the inside. My conscious was saying MOVE YOU STUPID IDIOT! The next thing I knew Piper and I were swallowed by a group of freshmans and were being conveniently pushed towards her class. I grabbed hold of Piper and we escaped a group of giggling girls. I flashed them a flirtatious smile and they parted the seas so that I could walk through. I felt horrible for doing that but I needed to get to class on time. Piper snorted.

"What?" I asked with a quizzical expression.

She continued laughing hysterically.

"What!?" I asked a bit louder and more confused than ever.

She made herself breathe and slowly through laughs she said. "The famous- laugh- Percy Jackson - laugh, laugh- has still got it.- laugh-Look!-laugh- one of them fainted!- " All of this followed by an even bigger laugh.

"Oh shut it." I scowled while rolling my eyes.

"Aww, muffin. You LOOOOOVE it." She smirked.

" You jealous of all my attention, Pip squeak?" I retorted with my eyebrow raised.

Within a split second, her cheeks went pink then went back to their normal colour.

"Am not!" She pouted like a seven year old.

"Are too!" I said like an older brother.

"Am not!"

"Are too!"

"AM NOT!"

"Are too." Said Jason who had just walked in on the conversation behind Piper. "Wait, what are we arguing about?" He asked while hugging Piper from behind and she pouted.

I couldn't help but be a bit devious here.

"Oh nothing, Jason. It's just your girlfriend here is telling me how she is going to dump you for Travis or was it Connor? I can't remember." I shrugged my shoulders innocently.

"Well then, got to go. Byeeee!" I smirked as I waved goodbye.

I quickly walked away upon hearing Jason screech "Wait, what!?"

I laughed a bit too myself when I saw Piper' face turn tomato red. I quickened my pace when I heard her inevitably deathly scream. "PERCY JACKSON YOU SON OF A…."

That's when I turned the corner before hearing the end of that sentence. I snickered to myself as I wandered down the hallway. I didn't acknowledge the Stolls laughing and giving each other a high five until they ran into me and fell down. I lended them each a hand and hoisted them up. That's when I realized who I bumped into. Oh no. See the mean, jackass, Jerk Percy inside of me told me to let them walk into that hallway and most likely be beaten to a pulp by Jason. I know, I know I won't do it. That's why I said the mean Percy would do it. Ugh, but it is so tempting. What. Being Nice Percy isn't as fun at this moment in time. Alright, alright. I'll be a good person. Jeez, calm down.

"Hey, you guys might not want to go down that hallway." I added as they resteadied themselves.

"Why not?" Asked Conner.

"What did you do?" Accused Travis.

I felt slightly bad, but it was all in good fun. Right?

"Oh, Nothing, nothing. We just have an angry Piper down there. I would avoid that at all costs if I were you." I said slyly.

The stolls looked at each other and grinned. "She's angry right now?" Travis smiled mischievously.
"I wonder what would happen if someone were to prank said Angry Piper?"" Added Connor impishly.

The Stolls grinned from ear to ear, and began to promenade down to precisely where Piper had exploded.

They had forgotten that I was there and were plotting something. I didn't even want to know.

"It's your funeral." I called over my shoulder.

"Thanks Perce." They called back.

"Stupid Stolls." I muttered to myself while shaking my head.

I looked back to see them walking up to her with something rotten in their hands. I saw the rage flash in Jason's eyes. Oh no. Well, I warned them. They cockily placed the rotten food on Piper and she screamed. Jason immediately punched each of them in the face. Piper swatted the food off of her head and it landed on some prissy freshman girls apparently "designer" clothing. What's so designer about some tacky skirt with grimy sequins on it? Anyways, she threw a hissy fit and was balling her eyes out. I felt a bit bad for laughing. Piper was trying to calm Jason down. At the end of the two minutes that this all went down, we had one crying freshman, check. One enraged Jason, check. Two black eyed Stolls, double check. And one Piper fueled with rage and I don't doubt that the Stolls won't pay for it later. Check, check, checkity check.

"Stupid Stolls." I smiled again, as I hastily sped walked to class at the sound of the warning bell. The warning bell is the, get your ass to class bell. Hey that rhymes! I walked into Math class and sat in my seat. I couldn't help but grin when I saw that Piper sat down next to me in a new outfit. Her now food stained coral top had been replaced with a light blue flowy top and her black jeans were now black leggings. I swear girls carry their closets with them. It blows my mind sometimes. She sat down beside me in her assigned seat and grimaced.

"I hate you." She spat.

"No you don't. You LOOOOVE me." I said mocking an earlier phrase of hers.

"Sure I do." She pouted.

She kept her scowl and eventually she sighed. "Just don't pull that again you doofus."

I smiled. "Of course not. I'm an angel, I would never do anything like that ever again."

She shoved me playfully, "You suck."

"I have no idea what you are talking about." I added naively.

"Oh, grow up."

"Never."

"What am I to do with you?" She sighed.

"No clue." I shrugged.

The bell rang and cut off our conversation.

I spent the entire class writing down notes and chatting with Piper. I really did miss her. She was one of us. Always has been, always will be. I kept thinking back to right before class. I felt bad for the Stolls. However,I think they will thank me for getting them out of class. A black eye is a pretty decent excuse.

Turns out the Stolls won't be the only ones with black eyes.

Soooooo... Thoughts?

I'm really curious on what you guys think.

Side note, I do not think the Stolls are stupid. It just made for a catchy title.

I decided to give you guys a double Percy chapter because earlier there was a double Annabeth one. I wanted to give a quick shout out to Cinder Luna, without whom I wouldn't have posted today without her help! Go check out the story I am beta-ing ( I don't care if it's not a word)for her called the Order of the pack. What did you guys think of the little stunt Percy pulled? I really liked writing it, I felt so devious. Mwuahahahah... ahem sorry. Anyways, so did this chapter make up for my absence in the slightest? I am still looking to hear some great music and scene ideas from you guys!

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~Dimitri Jinx. 💕