10A

The next school day was pretty crazy. Not only was my breakup with Will the talk of the school, everyone was talking about how Percy had swung a righty at Will's pretty face.

I tried to ignore it, but it was everywhere—even the teachers seemed to know.

I groaned inwardly as I went in to Mr. Locke's class. I grudgingly sat next to an ever smirking Percy.

Then there was all the,
"Are they dating now?"
"That's so romantic."
"I thought Luke married Percy's sister though."
"Yeah, they're in laws."
"They can still go out. I like Annabeth with Percy a lot more anyway."
"No, I like Annabeth and Logan. You think that would ever happen?"
"Ew, no. I'm totally for Percabeth."

They made me sound like a star of my own reality show. I didn't even bother telling them off. This had gone on in all the classes I had before.

I simply lay my head face down on the textbook in front of me, earning me a chuckle from the infuriating idiot to my left.

I kicked him in the shin with my foot.

"Ow." He cursed.

I smiled. He deserved it.

At lunch, Silena kept close to me, giving me the pleasure of telling me all the gossip about what went down at the pool party.

I gave her a look and she laughed, finally stopping.

"Fine, are you coming over today?"

"Yeah, definitely. My mom's staying out late and I don't want to be alone at all today."

Silena smiled at that, "Great! We can binge watch Netflix and order pizza."

"Yes, that's sounds like heaven."

Silena caught someone behind me and smiled, "Hey, Hazel! Over here." She said, waving.

I looked behind me and saw a cute girl who I had never seen before. The chick had tan olive skin and chocolate brown hair that matched her eyes.

She came over to sit next to Silena.

"Hey, Hazel. This is Annabeth."

"Oh so you're who everyone's talking about."

I gave her a tight smile, "Yup."

Hazel gave me an sympathetic smile, "Sorry, I haven't been here long, but it'll probably pass soon."

"Are you new?"

"Yeah, Hazel's the new girl here. You'd probably be the talk of the school if not for what Annabeth caused at the pool party." Silena said for her.

"Hey, it wasn't just me." I said defensively.

Hazel gave me a shy smile. Silena simply laughed out loud then hooked her arm with Hazel, "Hey, Hazel, you want to come over after school today? Me and Annabeth are going to binge and eat pizza."

"I'd totally be down, but I probably have to continue helping my mom unpack. You know" She poitned to herself, "Just moved in."

I laughed at that. She seemed pretty cool.

"Ok, well, if you change your mind. You have my number." Silena said.

I zoned out of the conversation gradually and looked around the cafeteria. Will with his busted lip was sitting at his usual jock table, not really talking with his friends—his eyes were watching Percy who was sitting at another table to his left.

Will's eye then caught mine and he immediately looked down, averting his gaze.

I then looked over at Percy and was surprised to see that he was already looking at me. He kept staring so I didn't stop staring either. He looked over at Sil and Hazel, then back at me.

With a flash of a smile, he looked away first, returning back to what his friends were saying.

Lacy Workman went over to him and started flirting with him and I looked away, concentrating on finishing my yogurt.