Tutoring Chapter 2
Annabeth had made it all day without seeing Rachel at least that was until lunch. She was at her locker dropping off her books when someone slammed her locker shut. Annabeth barely had enough time to move her hand, turning around she saw Rachel standing there with her hands on her hips sneering at Annabeth. Annabeth took a deep breath and said "What do you want Rachel?"
"I want you to stay away from my boyfriend" Rachel said her voice full of venom.
"All I'm doing is tutoring him, he needs help with his homework and I need the extra cash. Now if you don't mind I would like to go eat my lunch" Annabeth moved around her heading towards the cafeteria. Rachel angrily stomped behind her but Annabeth kept going completely ignoring the angry red head.
When they got in the cafeteria Rachel grabbed Annabeth's arm turning her to face her "I said stay away from my boyfriend Chase".
"Look if you have a problem with me tutoring Percy then you need to talk to him about it, he asked me to tutor him" Annabeth said pulling her arm out of Rachel's grasp.
"I don't need to talk to him, I'm telling you to stay the hell away from my boyfriend" Rachel yelled out causing everyone in the cafeteria to look at them.
Going red from anger and embarrassment Annabeth turned to walk away but Rachel grabbed her hair yanking her back. Thalia immediately stood up from the table but Nico stopped her and pointed to Percy who was angrily walking towards Rachel and Annabeth. Annabeth stumbled from the force of Rachel pulling her hair and fell onto her butt, but she caught herself with her wrist, she yelped in pain and cradled her left hand, she had landed on her wrist wrong. Percy stepped forward offering his hand to help her up, Annabeth ignored it standing up on her own, she was independent she didn't need his help.
"Are you ok?" Percy asked.
Annabeth nodded her head but was still holding her wrist, Percy's eyebrows knitted together "No you're not you hurt your wrist come on I'll take you to the nurse's office".
Rachel turned red with anger "Percy what are you doing?"
"I'm taking Annabeth to the nurse's office after you pulled her hair and made her hurt her wrist" Percy said through gritted teeth.
Rachel snorted "She fell on her own".
Percy's eye's flashed with anger "You know what Rachel were done, everyone saw you pull her hair and make her fall down. I'm tired of your jealousy, you get jealous when I hang out my cousins, their family for god's sake, I'm done Rachel, were done".
Rachel's mouth opened and closed like a fish out of water, Percy put his hand on Annabeth's lower back and guided her out of the cafeteria. Annabeth was completely shocked she didn't know what to say or do. They continued walking down the hall in silence before Percy spoke "I'm sorry about Rachel and your wrist".
Annabeth shook her head looking at the floor Percy's hand was still on her lower back. "I'm the one who should be apologizing you didn't have to do that for me".
Percy looked down at her confused "What do you mean?"
Annabeth looked at the floor "I mean yell at Rachel like that, I could have handled it".
Percy shook his head "I yelled at Rachel because it was totally uncalled for. I was getting tired of her anyways; I couldn't even hang out with my own cousins without her getting jealous. Did Thalia ever tell you that Rachel thought we were sleeping together?"
Annabeth laughed "Yeah she told me, Thalia almost threw up just saying it".
Percy smiled "The brake up has been coming for a long time, you had nothing to do with it Annabeth no matter what anyone else says".
Annabeth nodded her head, they stopped outside the nurse's office and she spoke "Thanks for walking me down here. You don't have to stay?"
Percy smiled "I'm not leaving you yet, I have to make sure our star athlete is going to be able to run today".
Annabeth shook her head "Seriously Percy you can go now. I'm a big girl I can handle it on my own".
Percy just opened the door stepping into the nurse's office "Mrs. Danielson Annabeth needs her wrist looked at".
Glaring at Percy who just grinned Annabeth walked into the nurse's office and sat down in one of the chairs. "What happened to your wrist Ms. Chase?"
"I fell in the cafeteria" Annabeth said wincing slightly when the nurse moved it around.
The nurse frowned "You need to be more careful Ms. Chase, it's only sprained so I'm going to wrap it in ace bandage, it's going to be sore for a couple of days but just take some ibuprofen or Tylenol and it should be fine".
Annabeth nodded her head as Percy asked "She has a meet today can she still run?"
"You're a sprinter correct?" the nurse asked. Annabeth nodded her head "Well it's going to be difficult for you to run out of the blocks since you have to hold yourself up but I would just take some pain relievers before and make sure to take it easy the next couple of days, I know today is an important day for you Ms. Chase".
Annabeth smiled "Thank you Mrs. Danielson".
The nurse wrapped her wrist tightly in ace bandage and said "You welcome Ms. Chase good luck today".
Annabeth smiled and left the nurse's office heading towards her locker were she had some Tylenol along with an apple she could eat since lunch was almost over there was no point in going back to the cafeteria. Percy leaned against the locker next to hers "You going to be able to run tonight Chase?"
Annabeth continued digging through her locker as she talked "Yeah it's going to be a little hard to get out of the blocks but after I practice a little bit it'll be fine".
"Look I understand if you don't want to tutor me anymore" Percy said sticking his hands in his pockets.
Annabeth stopped digging through her locker to look at him "Why wouldn't I want to tutor you?"
"Because I caused Rachel to freak out on you in front of everyone and you got hurt when you have an important track meet" Percy said.
Annabeth rolled her eyes and got ready to speak but Thalia came running down the hall calling her name "Are you alright Annabeth?" Thalia asked.
Annabeth nodded her head "Yeah just a sprained wrist".
"Are you going to be able to run?" Thalia asked.
"Yeah it'll be fine" Annabeth said.
Thalia narrowed her eyes rounding on Percy "You, you're crazy ass girlfriend caused Annabeth to get hurt when she has the most important meet of her life today".
Percy put his hands up in surrender "I apologized to Annabeth already, and I broke up with Rachel".
"And that's supposed to make it alright" Thalia yelled.
"What else do you want me to do Thals?" Percy yelled back.
Annabeth watched wide eyed as the two cousins yelled at each other, getting closer and closer to each other so that their noses were practically touching, if Annabeth didn't break them up she was afraid a fist fight would start. Annabeth was pulled out of her trance by the ring of the bell.
"Okay you two knock it off before you do something stupid" Annabeth said pulling the two apart "Thalia come on we need to get going to class" she said pulling on Thalia's arm, when she finally managed to get Thalia to follow her she turned around to see Percy standing there looking extremely pist off "I'll see you at sixth period" she called out.
Percy nodded his head before turning around and walking off. Thalia didn't talk all period which meant she was really pist, Annabeth needed to defuse the situation but wasn't sure how. Thalia didn't speak until they were on their way to Greek, which they also had with Percy, Nico, and Bianca.
"I'm sorry about fighting with Percy in front of you like that. I just I don't understand how the cousin I grew up with could change so much and date that bitch" Thalia said.
Annabeth just smiled "It's fine Thals really. Just try to make it through Greek without killing any of your family members".
Thalia grinned "I can promise I won't kill Bianca I like her, but I can't say the same for Nico, and Percy".
Annabeth just laughed going into the classroom and sitting in her normal desk with Thalia beside her, Bianca came in after them sitting in front of Thalia. Rachel came in the class soon after glaring at Ananbeth, but Annabeth ignored her. Like usual Nico and Percy were the last ones to enter the class room, Percy grinned at her as he walked past her towards his seat in the back row. Annabeth nodded her head back before turning to Thalia and Bianca, Thalia was too interested in her phone but Bianca had a questioning look on her face.
"What was that?" Bianca whispered.
"What was what?" Annabeth asked.
"Don't act like you don't know, why did Percy grin at you like that?" Bianca said.
"It's nothing, he's just being nice because I agreed to tutor him" Annabeth said pulling her homework out and handing it to the kid in front of her.
"So it is true, Zoe said something about it at lunch but I thought it was just a stupid rumor. Why would you agree to tutor him?" Bianca said.
Annabeth shrugged "I need the extra cash".
Before Bianca could say something Mr. Brunner started talking about their next project, which would be a partnered one. "I will choose your partner for you; you will choose one of the twelve Olympians and do a report on them. You will need to write a five page paper, and present your findings to the class. Be creative, make power points, poster boards, whatever you want, just make it fun" Mr. Brunner said, he picked up a paper and started reading off names of the people who are partnered together "Thalia Grace and Nico Di Angelo. Travis Stoll and Katie Gardner. Bianca Di Angelo and Connor Stoll" Mr. Brunner kept reading names off until only Rachel, Percy, Annabeth, and Chase Marks were the only ones left. Looking at Rachel Annabeth could tell she was hoping to be partnered with Percy. "Rachel Dare and Chase Marks, Annabeth Chase and Percy Jackson. Now everyone get together with your partner and start talking about your project, you have until the rest of the class to do so" Mr. Brunner said.
Rachel huffed crossing her arms, glaring at Annabeth as Percy came and sat next to her, Annabeth just smiled sweetly before turning to face Percy. "So which Olympian do you want to do?" Percy asked.
"Athena goddess of wisdom, handicrafts, useful arts, and battle strategy" Annabeth said.
Percy raised an eyebrow "You really know your Greek goddesses. Well I wanted to do Poseidon god of the sea".
"Why would you want to do him?" Annabeth asked.
"Because he's awesome, he's the god of the sea" Percy said.
"We should do Athena" Annabeth said.
"No way we should do Poseidon" Percy said.
"We are not doing Poseidon, were doing Athena" Annabeth said.
"No Poseidon"
"No Athena"
"Poseidon" Percy said crossing his arms.
Annabeth huffed in annoyance "You know what I'll ask Mr. Brunner if we can do both of them" Annabeth said putting her hand up in the air.
"Mr. Brunner, can we do both Athena and Poseidon, we can talk about each of them and then talk about their rivalry" Annabeth said.
"That sounds like a great idea Ms. Chase" Mr. Brunner said.
Mr. Brunner was going to say more but was interrupted by Thalia and Nico yelling at each other "Hades is ten times better, were doing him" Nico yelled.
"Were doing Zeus" Thalia yelled.
Mr. Brunner sighed "I should break them up, do you mind if I use your idea Ms. Chase for Mr. Di Angelo, and Ms. Grace" Annabeth nodded her head and watched as Mr. Brunner walked towards the screaming cousins.
Percy laughed "Those two will never get along. So when do you want to work on this?"
"We can start this weekend, I don't have any meets or practice, but I'm tutoring a freshman on Saturday, we can do it after that" Annabeth said.
Percy nodded his head "Okay but we have to be done by three; I have a swimming tournament at four thirty".
The bell rang and Annabeth got all her stuff "Meet me at my locker and we'll go to the library to start the tutoring" she said leaving the class.
She had just shut her locker when Percy showed up next to her holding a bag of food "I knew you didn't get to eat lunch so I had Jason pick me up some food you can't race today without eating something".
Annabeth narrowed her eyes "Okay what's up with you?"
Percy frowned "What do you mean?"
"Your being all nice and what not, it's unlike you".
Percy looked at his shoes "I'm trying not to be such a jerk, I'm trying to change" he said.
Annabeth narrowed her eyes but didn't push the subject further "Thanks for the food come on let's go" she said heading towards the library. Once they were seated in the private room that Annabeth always used she pulled out all of her books as Percy pulled out the food. There was two bottles of water, two bananas, a salad, and a hamburger. "You know if I didn't have a meet today I would kick your ass for bringing me a salad".
Percy grinned "Who said the salad was for you?"
"Are you seriously going to eat a salad?" Annabeth asked.
Percy shrugged "I got nothing against salads. Normally I wouldn't get you a salad but I knew you had a meet so you need to eat something healthy. Oh and I've got energy bars as well".
Annabeth smiled "Who knew Percy Jackson could be a sweet guy?"
Percy smiled "I'll have you know I was raised a perfect gentlemen".
Annabeth shook her head "Come on let's get to studying, I have to leave early so I can get ready for my meet".
Percy nodded his head opening his books.