CHAPTER 10

Annabeth vs. Rachel

Annabeth Chase's PoV

"Uhhhhh, Annabeth? Maybe we should leave…." Thalia whispers. Me and a couple of my friends were dressed in black hoodies, spying on Percy and Rachel's date. And when I heard their conversation, I wanted to blow up. A lot. Then I notice Percy glancing in our direction. We really did have to leave. Now.

But I thought of a better idea. Leaving was a bad idea.

"Not yet! Don't you think it's a little unnatural that as soon as he sees us, we leave?" I say.

The all kept quiet. I'll take that as a yes. Rachel's looking at me now. She knows. Oh, man. I knew this was a bad idea!

"You know what, Rachel? Let's get out of here." Percy asks her as he grabs her hand and leaves. It was pretty obvious. He knows. We were caught. RED-HANDED!

Once we realized they were gone, we immediately took off our hoods and breathed out.

"Annabeth blew it. She blew it." Clarisse complains as she looks at me with a glance.

"What? What did I do?" I ask. Seriously, though. What did I do that blew our 'undercover' mission?

"Your curls, wise girl. Your curls. Your blonde hair hanged from your hood when you were trying to be 'undercover'. That's what they saw." Clarisse then scoffs and rests on her chair, closing her eyes.

"I hope you're ready, tomorrow, Annabeth. You and Rachel are gonna have a fun time."

Lunch time was where it all happened. It happened so fast, but the entire time during English class, Rachel was looking at me. All the time. And it was an angry look. Like she was waiting for the right moment to pounce on me. Apparently, Percy was nowhere to be seen, because I heard from Piper's 'spies' that the reason that he's usually absent is because he works at the morning, he does jobs to get extra money for his family.

That's so hardworking of him. One of the traits that makes me like about him.

And here comes Rachel. As I enter the cafeteria, the first thing I hear is….

"You really got the nerve, don't you? AN-NA-BITCH?" she stops in front of me as she screams those words in my face.

I wanted to act natural, but I love Percy. I can't just stand this beyotch taking him away from me. So I had to fight back.

"YOU? You and Percy? Puh-lease. You don't even got half the heart to like him. You're mean." Gotta admit, it felt good, just wish didn't use the 'mean' part, though.

"Mean? MEAN?" she gets angry then smirks. "You're one to talk. Does the word 'seaweed brain', 'loser' and 'pathetic freak' mean anything to you, Annabeth?"

I stopped dead in those words.

"I-I-uh-I wasn't looking hard back then! I was blind! You know what? I'll scream it to the world! I like Percy Jackson! You got a problem with that?!" I shouted. God, this was heating up. "He doesn't deserve you, Rachel!"

"Who are you to decide who he deserves? You're mean, laid back, and all you care about is your popularity. You HATED Percy. Now that I like him, you want to be with him now? Are you trying to take away everything I have?!" Rachel shouts at me.

I'm pretty sure 90% of the school gathered a circle around us, just watching us fight-talk.

"HE LIKED ME FIRST! HE LIKED ME FIRST! And he likes me until now." I say to her.

"You really are jealous, aren't you, Annabitch?" she smirks and gives me a bad look. "You were blind. You didn't realize that you like Percy until he started hating you! Well, you're out of this game, and I'm in. I like him, all right?! You already have everything! What else do you need?!" she shouts.

I reply, as if answering her question. "I need Percy."

It was then when I clenched my fist and punched her in the face. Rachel tumbled to the floor. It happened so fast, all I can process is people screaming "Oooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh….." and some were covering their mouth. Some were saying things like "Damn!" "Yeah!" But I was just getting started.

She was there lying on the floor, covering her face. She stood up so quickly and slapped me in my left cheek. Again, I hear people screaming the same thing from earlier. The pain hurt really bad, Rachel can pack a punch. But the pain disappeared quick and no sooner I find myself standing up and ramming her through her torso, like an angry bull tackling her to the floor.

We land on the cafeteria floor and the people easily avoid us, still watching us fight.

Her strategy was pulling my hair, yanking it so hard, it hurt my head a little. We both said grunts and growls and I screamed like a baby as she yanked my hair. Fortunately, I was able to claw her face. Yes I'm serious. CLAW her face.

She shouted so hard her noise penetrated my ears and then she stopped her yanking of my hair and threw me across the room.

My body slid from the floor and people shouted the same things they shouted during our first fight.

"BITCH FIGHT! BITCH FIGHT! BITCH FIGHT! BITCH FIGHT!"

Things went far below the radar when Rachel picked up a chair by her hands and threw it at me. I easily dodged it. I went to a near table and took a ketchup bowl and threw it at her face. Hopefully, it hit her pretty well. Her face was now covered in Ketchup.

Oh, and her next objective was picking up a tray and throwing it at me.

But before she could do that, our Principal, Mr. Blofis arrived in time and shouted some words that I acknowledged quickly.

"EVERYONE SHUT UP!" he shouted, and it worked.

Then I saw Calypso. Or Callie. She was with Mr. Blofis. She was the one that reported us fighting. To my luck, she added a couple more things.

"It was them Mr. Blofis! You shouldn't let them join the Dance of October, Mr. Blofis!" Callie tells him. She was smiling at us with her evil face.

Wow. I just acknowledged that Callie was like us. Completely obsessed with Percy Jackson. And she would do anything to get him too. She was actually trying to convince Mr. Blofis to not let us join the D.O.C. Like that's gonna happen.

He then points in our direction.

"You two; come with me." He said with intense anger in his eyes.

Looks like my Journey ends here.

Hopefully, I think I won that fight. But what would Percy think of me now? I started to regret fighting Rachel.

Author's Note #10

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Next on: The More You Hate, The More You Love….

Chapter 10: Mixed Feelings

Percy is hurt a little when he found out that Rachel and Annabeth fought. For him. How will he react to a situation like this?