Good morning/evening people of the world! 3 Here's the newest update! Make sure you have read the newest chapter titled Updating Changes before you read this so you arent confused :)

Thank you so much for reading! 3

also im not rick lmao


Published 10th August

Tom POV

Annabeth walked away with Percy without another thought! My best friend, leaving me for some guy I'd never met, who was supposedly her boyfriend. And the timing of his arrival – the day he was going to ask her out! He would chuckle if it wasn't for the fact that Annabeth, his major crush and best friend of 5 months, had a boyfriend!

The rest of the group arrived and saw his devastated expression.

"Uh… you ok there T?" a voice said, which he presumed was Olive. No one else called him 'T'. Tom broke out of his thoughts.

"Annabeth… guy… boyfriend!" was all he could stutter out, still disbelieving of how his awful luck.

"Huh? Speak up dumb dumb!" Olive demanded. Jasmine spoke.

"Guys, you just need to listen! A guy turned up and knows Annabeth and supposedly is her boyfriend." She stated. The group stared at her. Tom didn't notice, still lost with the questions whirring around his mind.

"How'd you know?" Hayden asked.

"Like I said – you just need to listen. Fill in the gaps with the energy you feel off him. It's simple with practice."

Still confused, they turned back to Tom with sympathetic expressions – they all knew of his crush. Everyone in their group did; well except for Annabeth of course.

"But I thought her boyfriend was fake? How-" a voice interrupted Olive as she was thinking out loud. It was Annabeth, with her boyfriend next to her.

"Tom I'm so sorry! I was caught up in the excitement. Guys, this is my boyfriend, Percy Jackson." She put an arm around him as he waved with a grin. Tom glowered at Percy. Why should he come along and steal his best friend? Tom was perfect for Annabeth – they were both smart, both could speak Greek. This Percy guy was probably just another dumb jock and Annabeth hadn't seen his true side yet.

The rest of the group were staring with shocked faces at the fact that Annabeth's boyfriend was standing in front of them.

She laughed as she took in the surprised faces of her group. "I told you he was real!

*liggity iggity line break*

Tom barely registered what happened in English. He had been watching Percy very carefully, trying to pick up on anything strange that he did. He was mad and confused – this guy was stealing everything from him. His best friend, his seat in class, his crush. Tom was determined to find out all he could on Percy. Something about him wasn't right. English ended and they had their first elective of the day, which for Tom was biology, one of the only classes he had without Annabeth, as she had graphic design.

Walking into the classroom Tom stifled a groan. Of course Percy had to be in his class. Tom was surprised he didn't choose all of Annabeth's electives. Perhaps they were fighting? Or maybe Annabeth was getting sick of him. Tom certainly hoped so. He watched Percy make a beeline for the fish tanks, smiling strangely at the little creatures swimming around. Weird.

Percy POV

Percy finished up his conversation with the fish about how they were being treated by the school to find Tom looking at him strangely. Tom quickly looked away once he saw Percy had seen him, but Percy wasn't going to let this go. He decided to talk to Tom about how he felt, to make sure the air was clear between them.

"Hey dude, can we talk?" Percy asked. Tom scowled, but nodded slightly and brought him off to the side of the classroom, away from the chatter of students awaiting their teacher. "Look, I just wanted to ask you if I've done anything to make you mad at me. If I have I'm so sorry, and I'm also sorry for forgetting if I did something - I'm not the brightest." Tom's eyes flashed with disbelief and intrigue before returning to their normal state.

"No, that's okay. You haven't done anything." Tom walked away, but Percy could've sworn he heard him mutter 'not that you know of' underneath his breath. So something was bothering him. Interesting. He would ask the gang about it later at recess.

"All right class, settle down, settle down!" Percy took his seat next to James, who also took biology. They grinned at each other and turned their heads back to the front. "Welcome to biology! I'm your teacher, Mr Lee. Now I've heard we have a new student today! Introduce yourself, Perseus? Is that right?"
"I prefer Percy, sir." Percy responded as he stood up, and Mr Lee nodded and wrote it down on his roll. "Uh, hi, I'm Percy Jackson, and I like the water." He smiled at the class and sat back down, ignoring the girls who were trying to subtly check him out... and failing.

"Thank you, Percy! Now I will run over how we do things here for you. These seats are your permanent seats for the rest of the year-" Percy and James fistbumped underneath the table, "and for this semester each of you can choose a different continental area from around the globe to study. This can be marine life or terrestrial (land) life. Open your laptops and lets begin! Instructions are on Google Classroom."

Percy pushed thoughts of Tom out of his mind and got to work, excited to be studying Australian marine life.

Alllllrighty kids theres the chapter! Hope you enjoyed :))

I think I've decided to update every 2-3 days, as I am doing shorter chapters. I just realised this ones actually quite long so the next update might be a bit further away, but other than that 2-3 days will be my schedule :)

Thank you for your continued support on this story - it means the world to me! 3

Have a great day, and as always,

may the odds be ever in your favour.

- FawnWing20