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Percy's POV
YES! YES! YES!
ANNABETH LOVES ME AGAIN!
ME! ME! PERSEUS JACKSON!
WHAT?!
Anyway...
This should've been the greatest time of my life! I was dating Annabeth Chase, I should've been over the moon about that, which I was.
Then Jason showed Frank, Nico and I texts that Drew had sent him.
Don't think I'll forget this, J. Then a dagger emoji. I almost peed myself.
"What do we do?" Frank asked, his face pale.
"I-I don't know. Do you think they'd really do something that could hurt one of us? Or the girls?" Jason asked shakily.
"Dude, you know her. She'd do anything to get her revenge," Nico said.
"So, what can we do?" I asked, really started to freak out.
"We've gotta watch our backs. Seriously. And spend as much time as possible with the girls. We have to protect them too." Nico answered.
"Should we tell them?" Frank asked.
"No. Thalia'll just beat them up before they can make a move, and that would make matters worse. Annabeth would most likely do the same, Hazel with try and tell someone, and Piper will tell someone and beat them up," Jason said, all in one breath.
Yeah, that pretty much sums it up.
"So, it's agreed? We watch our backs, spend as much time as possible with the girls-"
"That, I can do easily," Nico interrupted.
"But we don't tell them," I stated.
"Not hard at all," Frank said sarcastically.
The next day at lunch, however, proved that the girls were going to start being suspicious, if not more than they already are.
"Hey, Seaweed Brain," Annabeth greeted me at my elective, swim.
"Hey, Wise Girl. Does no one else have swim?"
"Uh, Thalia and Piper have Geography-"
"Nico and Jason have that too."
"Yeah. And Hazel has Home Economics. With Frank," She added at my already open mouth.
"Well, they're missing out on... THE BEST ELECTIVE EVER!" I shouted, a little too loudly.
"Keep it down, there. I don't need more stares," Annabeth said, a bit of bitter joking in her tone.
"Well, who wouldn't want to look at your face?" I said.
"Certainly not them," Annabeth replied, looking over my shoulder.
I turned around and saw a group of 3 boys, football players, and found them staring at Annabeth's- Well,- Stuff we shouldn't be looking at.
One them, the biggest and probably leader, noticed they had caught Annabeth's attention and wolf-whistled.
I walked over there angrily. "Hey!"
"What is it, Jackson? Don't like me hitting on your lady?" Ugly #1 snorted.
"It fact, I don't. But I'm not here because I don't like it. I'm here because she doesn't like it," I retorted.
Ugly #2 smirked. "You can't take all the pretty girls to bang."
I felt a nerve in my neck. "Don't lay a hand on her. Whether you intend to harm her or not, don't. Even. Try." I whispered dangerously.
Ugly#3 looked a bit less confident but nonetheless continued smirking.
"And what if we do?"
"I'll push you in that pool and make sure you don't come back up," I threatened. Would I really? If they hurt Annabeth I would.
I walked away from them back to Annabeth.
"What did you say to them?" Annabeth asked questioningly.
"Well- I, uh," saying it out loud to her was harder than thinking and saying it to morons.
"Did Perseus Jackson just defend me?" Annabeth teased.
"It would appear he did," I heard a familiar voice and froze.
I turned and was at eye level with red hair.
"Rachel," I spat.
"What do you want, Dare?" Annabeth asked, annoyed.
"I just wanted to know how the relationship was going so far," Rachel said casually.
"Ok, now what do you actually want?" asked Annabeth.
"Fine, I wanted to know if you could swim," Rachel said sweetly.
"Yeah, I do," Annabeth said cautiously.
I realised what Rachel was going to do a split second too late, and so did Annabeth. At least, she pulled Rachel in with her.
I watched, suspended with horror at the swirling water and the bubbles coming to surface. Then I saw the finest hint of red.
It could be Annabeth's blood.
I dived in, which I should've done long ago.
When I got in the water, I was welcomed with the darting, twisting figures of Rachel and Annabeth. I got in the middle of them and broke them up, a little harsher with Rachel than Annabeth. I pulled them both up and Rachel wrestled herself away from my grip and climbed out of the pool. Just as the teacher walked in. I've always hated the swim teacher, Mr Triton, from the first day. And he's had it out for me.
"Mr Triton! Mr Triton! Percy and Annabeth pulled me into the pool and started punching me!" Rachel fake-sobbed. I boiled with anger as I helped Annabeth out of the pool. She had a busted lip, an eye that was turning black, and a scrape on her left knee, she probably hit the wall when Rachel pulled her down. Rachel herself had gotten 2 black eyes and looked more like a raccoon/clown and a cut across her cheek. Triton had a look of proud victory on his face.
"Chase! So, you think you can come back to school from being a superstar and start picking fights?! Jackson, Dare! Please accompany her to the principal's office!" He yelled with childish glee.
As we were walking out the door, I grabbed 3 towels that were on a rack. One for me and one for Annabeth. The other I waded into a ball and threw at Triton. It nailed him in the small of his back and he too fell into the pool. I laughed aloud, not caring if I got into more trouble.
I turned my attention to Annabeth who was smiling, despite the situation.
"Good shot," she congratulated.
"Thanks. Are you okay?" I wrapped my arms around her soaking body and looked down at her bleeding knee and also bleeding lip.
"Of course I am," She reassured me, but I noticed she was standing on her right foot more than her left.
"No, you're not," I decided, taking my own towel and wiping the flowing blood on her lip.
It's just the water mixing with the blood. I told myself.
"Hurry up, lovebirds," Rachel called.
"Mad your little mission didn't go according to plan?" Annabeth taunted.
No, no, that'll just make her madder.
"Next time, it won't be just a little dip in the pool," Rachel said.
Annabeth's eyes narrowed. "What do you mean, 'next time'?"
"Oh, nothing," Rachel said carelessly.
We'd arrived at the Principal's office, though I thought we should've gone to the nurse for Annabeth. Oh, and I guess Rachel.
When we opened the door and the principal saw 3 dripping teenagers in his office, 2 of them bleeding, he stood up and took a deep breath.
"Does someone want to explain what happened?" He asked in a strained-calm voice.
All 3 of us started talking at once.
"They pushed me in-"
"She's lying. She tried to push Annabeth-"
"And I dragged her in-"
"No, you pushed me in and I punched you-"
"Oh, please!"
"Silence!"
We stopped talking over each other.
"Dare. Tell me what happened. Then Jackson, then Chase. While she is telling her side of the story, Chase, go to the nurse."
Annabeth got up soundlessly and limped to the nurse.
"Mr Perez, I can explain. We were in swim class and I was standing next to the pool. I started talking with Annabeth and Percy when I said something that got them mad. I'm not exactly sure what I said, but the next thing I knew, they pushed me into the pool. I tried to grab anything to stop myself from being pushed in, which ended up being Percy and Annabeth's shirts. Annabeth started punching me underwater and Percy broke us apart."
"If this story is true, Miss Dare, then how can you explain Miss Chase's black eye, busted lip and knee? You did not include if you attacked in return." Mr Perez said calmly and I wanted to look at Rachel with the smuggest look on my face.
"Well," Rachel said, slightly less cocky now, "I did. But who wouldn't? If someone was punching you, wouldn't you try to attack back?"
"I see," Perez said, ignoring Rachel's question. "Mr Jackson, can you please tell our side of the story." It wasn't a question.
"Mr Perez. Annabeth and I were talking and Rachel came up. She started to talk to us and then she asked Annabeth if she could swim. We were confused and then Rachel pushed Annabeth in. Annabeth grabbed Rachel and pulled her in with her. They started to fight underwater and I stood at the side of the pool. I don't know why I didn't move before I actually did; I should've. But I got down there and I pulled them apart. When we got out of the water, Mr Triton was just coming in. Rachel was quick to suck up to him and twist the story. Oh, and on the way out, I grabbed 3 towels. I gave one to Annabeth, one to myself... and the last one I threw at Triton." I said.
Mr Perez took a long, long, long breath.
"I will talk with the both of you and Miss Chase later today. Goodbye. Oh, and Percy? Mr Triton is your teacher. I expect you to address him as Mr Triton."
The rest of the day, I was a nervous wreck.
I told the 'crew' (Frank started calling us that) about it at music.
I think Thalia is going to kill Rachel. The rest of the band didn't react well either Hazel looked like she was going to throw up and Piper was muttering under her breath, probably cursing Rachel.
The boys, however, turned pale and we shared a look.
"This is the first phase!" Jason hissed.
"No, duh!" Nico snapped.
"I should've been quicker! I should've walked away the moment I saw her!" I moaned.
"Dude, we're all nervous right now," Frank strained, "We'll just have to avoid our ex's at all times."
"I'm so stupid!" I groaned.
"Perseus Jackson!" Nico used my full name and snapped me out of my pity-party, "You need to get out of it! It's done. We can't change that. But we can make sure this doesn't happen again!"
Silence.
"Death Breath, I think that was the most inspirational thing you've ever said," Jason said.
This week is my Thanksgiving Break. Normally, I wouldn't have school the day before, Thanksgiving day, and the day after Thanksgiving. However, this year, my school has had too many teachers getting COVID, so we had the whole week off. Which means I have to find excuses to convince my mom to let me be on the computer.
Anyway, enough with the boring bits.
I hope you enjoyed this chapter.
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Which would you rather go to; Camp Half-Blood or Hogwarts?
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