Chapter 10: Prissy Jerkson… You Look Familiar
Okay…. Let's see… I promised virtual cookies correct? Haha so you guys are probably wondering the answer (I hinted that it's probably not what it seems right?) anyways….WATCHED THE HUNGER GAMES! LOVE IT! I guess they picked rather excellance characters! So guys.. Peeta or Gale? You know what I'd pick…? NONE CAUSE I'M ALL FOR CATO! ALEXANDER LUDWIG!
Q: When was Percabeth first kiss?
A: In the Sea of Monsters chapter 19: The Chariot Race Ends With A Bang, p.268 at the bottom. It was a kiss on the cheek! Mt. St. Helens was the most infamous (nah THE BEST) one but it's not the first kiss, I know I probably would've put Mt. St. Helens too… XD
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Fluffy Bunnies Are So Cute: LOL honestly I don't even know if it's even possible…XD just seem like the right thing to put in there. But no worries they aren't dorm room-mates, reassure haha it's weird enough to have a room-mate (especially if it's Luke… if it's Percy I'm perfectly okay with XD)
C-Nuggets N.L.- Haha no worries! You're all caught up now! Yep somehow Percy's gonna get Annabeth as a fake girlfriend… but that's probably a few chapters later at most XD. haha as much as I want Percy to punch Luke in the face… no actually…. PERCY GO PUNCH LUKE IN THE FACE!
Allstarry707: Haha I'm trying to develop Percabeth relationship, maybe I'll skip about one or two months (so it's not too much of a gap you know and so it seems that they know one another better than now. Haha we all don't like Luke as much when it's involved with Percabeth! Perfectly understandable. Haha as for my face washing… I don't think I even got the germs off XD
Kiransomers: haha thanks! I actually enjoy putting in all those remarks! Glad to see you find it funny though! Makes me happy as a writer. Well as much as Percabeth love each other… they don't always make it so obvious XD. And should I start running now? I blame it on Annabeth for wanting to stay in the dorms!
Flavalizz: Thanks! Glad I could make my readers laugh! I was hoping for some laughter, despite the little tension about the past, it would be pretty nice to have a bit of laugh in there huh? XD Thanks again!
Nerdygangsta: As I was reading that I was singing the song in my head! And mostly I put in the song at the bottom to try and match the chapter XD but this chapter… I don't think it matches as much, but I really love the song at the bottom! Thanks for the review!
GemOfOlympus: Yep Luke is suppose to be in the underworld because fanfictioners keep killing him XD. Haha yep your stories is going uphill! Haha I love it, I can't wait for the next chapter actually! With your threats… I think I should get a band of zombie and start running now huh? RUNN! Haha and your joke… hmm… he sparkles? XD I'm not really a crazed fan of twilight but I know enough to know that he sparkles XD
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Annabeth's POV:
I twirled around ready to punch the guy that called me blondie, "Annabeth right? Annabeth Chase?" I only have time to register what he said before I vaguely recognize him as the guy from the airport. "Remember me?" He asked me.
I smiled, "I remember,"
"Looks like you actually did got into Columbia, you're starting today?" He asked as Percy looked at both of us skeptically.
"Yeah, my brother helped me get settled in just this morning." I told the blond haired guy.
"You're her brother?" Luke asked as he turned towards Percy as his grin widen. "Nice to meet you, I'm Luke.." Luke held out his hand for Percy who shook it firmly.
"Percy." Percy replied staring intently at Luke as if having an unpleasant memory. "Luke…do… do I know you?" Percy asked Luke, his eyes somewhat filled with painful emotions as if remembering something.
Luke's smile dropped as he studied Percy, "Nope, never saw you in my whole life…" Luke said with the same emotionless face.
Percy however was not convinced, "Are you sure? I'm sure I saw you somewhere before…"
Luke's eyes seems to flickered a bit as he studied my fake-half brother. For a moment I thought it was my imagination that he seemed almost scared, "What's your name again? I didn't quiet catch it the first time." Luke said his easy-going nature seem to have disappeared.
"Percy Jackson, well Perseus is my full name." Percy replied clearly hating his full name.
"Might've seen you on magazines a couple years ago… " Luke trailed off, his tone indicating he was hiding something, but I couldn't be so sure. "But you know these days… there's lots of look-a-likes." Luke joked a bit uneasily.
Percy laughed, "I guess you're right, must've been my mistake then."
"So do you also learn here with your sister?" Luke asked clearly interested.
"Actually, I'm just getting her settled in, I'm going to work in a little bit." Percy answered.
"Oh, so how do you like the school so far?" Luke directed that question towards me.
"Too soon to tell." I answered quickly. "I just got here with Percy, and we decided to drop in to eat because someone's stomach couldn't seem to stand the pain." I smirked in my fake-brother's direction.
"I haven't eaten the entire morning!" Percy complained.
I ignored him, "So, are you in any activities around here?" I asked the blond-haired boy.
"There's almost hundreds of clubs you could join here." Luke exaggerated. "I'm in the fencing club, and art of deception." Luke smiled mischievously.
"Art of deception?" I asked completely confused.
"Thievery, lying, but they are usually harmless pranks more or less." Luke shrugged it off easily.
"You're in fencing?" Percy suddenly asked.
Luke smiled brightly, "Looking at the school's number one fencer, probably the best in the world." Luke bragged.
"Care to have a few match sometimes?" Percy challenged.
"You know how to fence?" Luke asked obviously surprised.
"Took a few lesson here and then." Percy said casually.
"Sure, whenever you're free just bring up your fencing equipments and meet me here ," His smile seemed almost a bit forced.
"YO CASTELLAN!" A voice roared over the chattering of hundreds. From beside me I felt Percy tense at the name. I turned around to met with a dark haired guy with an eye-patch over his right eye. His face looked as if someone had slammed him really hard. Even with the injury he had no problem pushing through the hoards of students crowding around the line towards Luke. "What are you doing here man? They're looking for you to teach a couple kids beginner fencing man." The eye-patched guy clapped Luke in the back.
"I'll see you later around some other times then." I told him and stood up.
"I'll be right there Ethan," Luke quickly turned to grab me on the shoulders, for a moment I tense up at the contact and by instincts quickly brushed his hands off. "Sorry," He mumbled, not sounding very sorry. "I could show you around sometimes?" He offered.
I was about to make up some lame excuses to reject his offer, because frankly I don't really know what to make up of this guy. Luckily Percy stepped up noticing my discomfort, "Actually, I think I could show Annabeth around. You probably wouldn't want to keep the students waiting." Percy replied putting a protective arm over my shoulder like the good brother he is. "Don't worry I could take care of my own sister." Percy said.
For a moment I thought I saw anger flashed in Luke's eye, but it quickly disappeared, "Oh that's cool." Luke said so casually you could barely hear the sarcasm in his voice. "Then I'll be off, it was nice talking to you Annabeth." Luke flashed me a charming smile and rushed off towards his friend Ethan.
After Luke was out of hearing range Percy turned towards me, "What was his name again?"
I looked at him in bewilderment, 'Of all things… this is what he asks?' I started walking towards the door as Percy reluctantly followed, "Luke." I replied. "Why are you asking this?"
"I don't know…" Percy admitted. "It's just his name…." Percy spaced out a bit as if trying to grasp onto a memory. "Never mind I'm probably just hallucinating or something." Percy shrugged it off even though his eyes seems to be at a discomfort level. "So... can you get around alone… or you need a personal tour guide?" He asked me.
I was about to reject his offer when I saw a couple of guys gawking at me, "Actually, it'll be nice to be accompanied by someone," I admitted trying to not notice the stares I was getting.
"Can't stand the attention from the guys?" Percy smirked nodding his head towards a group of guys. I glared at him, "Okay okay! Just kidding!" He held his hands up in surrender. "So will you be needing my assistance for the whole day… or can I leave in a few minutes?"
I felt uncomfortable with letting Percy wait the entire seven to eight hours at school just for me, but at the same time I do not want to be alone on the first day. "Could you take off work for the whole day?" I asked him.
"It doesn't matter, I could take off work for another year if I want too." He joked, but I could tell that to some extent he was serious about taking off work for a year. I studied him a bit curious about his past. He must've seen my expression and quickly said, "But yeah, I could take the day off."
I smiled gratefully, "So I'm guessing you don't mind being my personal body guard for the day?" I joked.
"Isn't that what brothers are for?" He shot back as I took out my schedule. "So where's your first lecture at?"
I took out my schedule and handed him the school map, "Here take a look."
He glanced over my shoulder to take a look at my schedule, "Let's see Advanced Architectural Studies, Architectural Designs, Architectural History and Theory…" He trailed off. "A pretty boring day if you ask me…" I did the natural thing, I smacked his head, "Ouch what was that for?"
I ignored him, "So where's my first class?"
His eyebrows scrunch up a bit as he studied the map, "Over there," He pointed to the left after a moment of hesitation.
I looked in the direction he was pointing to see a grass field, basketball courts, and the parking lot, "You sure?"
"Yeah…" Percy said scratching his head.
I sighed and grabbed the map from my so called older brother. After a couple seconds of studying the map I turned to him, "It's that way…" I pointed in the opposite directions where a crowd of students were gathering.
"You're just guessing…"He mumbled.
I probably was just guessing but I was not going to say that he was correct so instead I said, "No… I was using deductive reasoning." With that said I walked towards the classrooms to find room 273.
He groaned and followed after me while mumbling not so pleasant words about a certain sister of his.
Percy's POV:
I'll admit it… I'm bored out of my mind. Don't ask me how Annabeth somehow manages to stay and listen to some boring professor lecture about the importance of architecture for over 2 hours, because if I was in her place I'd rather impaled myself with a knife 50 billion times. Now I'm just sitting out here in the basketball court like a loner in the school. I walked around trying to find a little game of basketball I could play with but came up with no luck because either these guys here are training to be in the NBA or they've been on steroids. I sighed and sat back down in the cafeteria trying to look for more food. I know… I know… I just ate like 3 hours ago… but seriously who can survive with just eating three meals a day… I need at least 6 meals.
I sat there sipping on my iced tea which grabbing a bite from my pizza when I heard a familiar voice, "Hey!" Her tone sounded angry but however amused. I turned around to come face to face with a brown-haired girl with flaming red eyes. She had a black JanSport backpack slung over her shoulders while in her hand she held an NBA sized basketball. She was wearing a swampy green shirt that said a simple but threatening message, 'CREAM THE PUNK' with a humored picture of someone getting drowned by ice cream. Her jeans were oddly ripped and appears to be faded. Oddly enough she actually bothered to tie up her hair since the last time I saw her. Her face held a pretty evil smirk as she made her way over to where I was, "So it's really you Prissy Jerkson." She said with a smug look.
"Nice to see you again Clarisse," I said, trying for a friendly approach. Let's just say… we haven't always been on best terms. Sadly enough we met in the most surprising place… a place where you'd probably never expect Clarisse to go… the hospital. Obviously… the hospital visit was not really for her… it was actually for her long time boyfriend Chris Rodriguez, who suffered from traumatic hallucination after seeing his sister died before his eyes. I was in the same hospital as Chris, getting mental therapy just as Chris had and that was where I met Clarisse. She called me a wimp for getting mental therapy over a little issue such as love and frankly that threw me off and I threw a bucket of water at her face which result in her pulverizing me. As much as I wanted to beat her up, I knew I was in a weak state and could never manage to beat a girl that was probably trained to punch people, and added to the fact I would never hit a girl.
However, I met with Chris, and during one of his hallucinations I witnessed a bit more of Clarisse caring side (surprised she actually had one) and that she also cared a lot of Chris to be putting up with all his craziness. I actually respected her for that and oddly enough I began to talk with both Chris and Clarisse more and I came to respect them both. While sharing a room next to them, I learned a bit about their past and was able to witness Clarisse breaking down, losing her fiery aura. However as soon as I finished my session of therapy I left and haven't seen them since. Last I heard Chris was able to get over his hallucinations and finally got up the courage to purpose to Clarisse. Don't ask me how the guy got up the courage to ask this scary girl (not really) but he somehow managed.
I was a bit scared of why she was here, I remembered the last time I left the hospital… we weren't really on good terms… then again… when were we ever on good terms.
"So looks like the wimp made it to the big paper as the youngest successful business man." Clarisse insulted me even though I knew she was joking.
"What's that suppose to mean?" I said glaring at my old friend a bit.
"It means you were a wimp then and you are one now." She said simply.
"Thanks for the compliment." I mumbled sarcastically.
"Anyone sitting here?" She point at the seat across from me and without waiting for an answer, she sat down. "So any particular reason why you're here?" She asked settling down her basketball on the seat next to her.
"Waiting for someone," I answered taking a sip out of my iced tea.
"Prissy finally got himself a girlfriend?" She let out a laugh.
"Gee… I never knew I could have my own half-sister as my girlfriend." I said sarcastically.
She stared at me, "Your sister is your girlfriend? I knew you were messed up in the head… but I didn't think you were that messed up…" She said it with such a serious tone that I actually thought she was not joking..
"WOAH THERE? How is that-? That- THAT'S NOT EVEN POSSIBLE!" I nearly screamed spitting out my drink in surprised.
"You just said it yourself." Clarisse said rather calmly.
"I was making a point!" I tried to explain.
"Whatever you say Prissy, so when did you get a sister? Last time you told me you had no siblings… nor were you expecting any… " She trailed off.
"Simple… my dad was screwed up years ago… and my sister is apparently only a couple years younger than me." I gave her the short answer of my very long story. "How are you and Chris?"
If possible Clarisse smiled… for once in my life I saw the angry brutal girl smiled as she held up her hand where a big ring rested upon on of the fingers. "I'm engaged Jackson." She said in a taunting voice.
"With who?" I asked stupidly.
She threw me the basketball which I happily caught before it would destroy my brain. "Are you serious that stupid?"
I grinned, "Course not, tell Chris I said good luck to the poor guy."
"Why good luck?"
"Because handling you… is a pretty big feat." I smirked as she blindly reached her hand out for her backpack and threw it at my face.
"Just shut up." She glared at me even though I could see the amused look in her face.
"So when's the big day then?" I asked her.
"We decided to get settled down with a job first before we get too serious." Clarisse answered.
"You're already engaged… isn't that already serious?" I asked as I threw her back the basketball.
"Not in my world it's not." She replied stubbornly.
"Whatever you say then," I shrugged, "What are you doing here then?" I asked.
"Just chilling," She stretched out her hand to grab a piece of my fries as I gave her a weird look, "Nah just kidding, I'm actually here to learn for once." She admitted. "Taking a couple classes here to help preparation for a position as a offense coordinator… apparently I haven't taken all the classes required to be admitted into the program," Her eyes let out an eerie red glow (or it might've been my imagination). "Well… now here I am taking statistics, linguistics, and some other thing about adapting to other environment … don't ask me what it is for… because to be honest… I am not even sure."
"Offense Coordinator?" I asked her.
"I have an interest in action, and offense is my style." She grinned, then her expression changed to a look of pain, "So… have you been visiting… you know…" She trailed off, I knew what she meant and I didn't like talking about it anymore than she did.
I looked down in shame, "I don't know what you're talking about," I lied, knowing exactly what she was talking about.
"Quit the act Jackson," She glared at me. "You know even better than me what I'm talking about, I'm asking about my friend, and you're too scared to even say their names."
She was right, I was scared, frankly I was ashamed of myself for partly causing their death. I let out a sigh of defeat, "I'm scared… happy?" I glared back at her.
"You want to tell me what exactly happened that caused them to die?" She asked me.
I tried to delay the answer, "So how's school?" I asked her.
"Stop changing the subject!" She yelled at me.
"Why do you want to know how they died?" I asked quietly.
"Percy you left both me and Chris hanging when you finished with your session, I want to know what happened to my friend… I just need to know how she died!" Clarisse told me her eyes were almost brimming with tears, but I knew that was impossible… Clarisse never cried… not even when I nearly broke off her foot.
"Can you just stop asking me these questions?" I begged of her. "It's been three years already! LET IT GO CLARISSE!" I shouted not even looking at her face. I remembered that this was partly the reason why I finished my session so early… it was because of Clarisse constant bickering and curiosity about Silena as soon as I spilled out to the therapist. Sometimes I wished I never told her what had happened with my friends, I should've just kept my mouth shut when the stupid therapist asked me those questions, especially since both Clarisse and Chris were in the next room.
She stood up and grabbed me by the collar of my shirt, despite how much I grew over the past 3 years since that depressed state, I have to admit Clarisse are one of those headstrong girl with probably enough strength and just the right attitude to beat any guy up any day… and sadly that guy right now is me. I looked at her seem to be flaming eyes as it seems to be burning my soul from the very essence.
"Fine… don't tell me what happened… but I at least need to know who the hell killed her." She glared at me her eyes angry yet also desperate. I knew at the moment, the Clarisse with the fiery, confident attitude was gone, in it's place was a desperate friend that was wanting to avenge her friend's death.
RING! RING! RING!
'Saved by the bell,' I thought with a bit of relief knowing that I was probably about to crack, "I have to go now," I said quickly brushing her off me.
She glared at me, "Just tell me… who killed her… or caused her death?" She asked.
"I told you a long time ago… It was a car accident," I lied.
"Shut your mouth Jackson, I'm smart enough to know that's a lie." Clarisse glared at me.
I sighed, "Can we talk about this another time…?" I asked. "I really have to pick up my sister…" I mumbled.
"Call my number right now," She told me. "3872947"
I nodded and quickly punched the numbers into my cell as her phone rang from her pocket.
"Don't think about hiding Prissy… I want to know what happened and I'll find out." She glared at me. I hesitantly nodded as I turned towards my sister's classroom..
Okay… a bit shorter compared to my other chapter…. This barely reached 3500 words… sorry can't help it though… I feel like it's just right to stop here… but who do you think is the friend Clarisse is mentioning to Percy? Who was the person that caused "her friend's" death? Why does Percy seem so guilty? Why does Luke seem so familiar to Percy? READ AND REVIEW PLEASE! oh yeah…don't call Clarisse number… I'm serious… I have no idea who's number is that… so if you actually do call…(which I highly don't recommend) don't be surprised when some random person… who is not me.. pick up the phone… I mean pleaseee why would I put my cell up there… I'm not that stupid…. Or am I? *sinister laugh and disappear in black smoke*
Song: For The First Time by The Script! (You had no idea how much times I listened to this song when I first heard it!)
Random voice from somewhere
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