A/N Wow it's been a while. Yeah, my bad on whole "not updating for months" thing. Just had to finish up my semester (it's been tough). (This one is not so much Percabeth as it is Annabeth's take on high school). Well, without a further wait, here's the next one-shot. Enjoy

Annabeth:

Y'know, for a place that's supposed to be all about learning (sounds right up my alley, eh?), high-school has not met my expectations. In fact, I'd almost go as far as to say that high-school really blows. Let me fill you in on how I've come to this conclusion…

Now that everything has settled down a bit on the 'godly' side of my life, I figured it'd be a good opportunity to relax and reconnect with my family for a little back in San Francisco. Obviously, I'd miss Seaweed Brain and the rest Camp Half-Blood, but a) we can all visit each other and b) I have camp Jupiter right nearby. Since I've been a year rounder since I've been 7, I haven't had much opportunity to know what is like to be 'normal' and go to school, so I thought it'd be a good idea to do just that.

It wasn't.

Due to my age and placement exams, (which I aced by the way), I've been put directly into senior year. This was already a bad start because I soon found out that by the time everyone's a senior, their friend groups are solidified, so infiltrating one or another isn't exactly the easiest. Another thing I found out within the first week is that, well for me anyway, High-school classes are waaaayyyyy too easy. I know the full curriculum for every class I'm taking already. Doesn't sitting in a class where you know everything sound like fun? Well, it isn't.

So, since any hope of learning anything academic is already out of the question, I thought I could take this time to observe and learn the social dynamic of high-schoolers. Albeit I'm only a month into the year, but what I've seen so far is a whole lot of cliques. Now, of course there are the popular kids and non-popular kids, but all those stereotypical groups you see in movies? Yeah that's mostly false. What I've gathered that defines the two groups can be broken almost into a list of criteria. 1) Attractiveness, most of the popular people are what society would generally deem as 'hot'. 2) Self-confidence, almost every kid that I see in the 'popular' group either has genuine confidence in themselves or puts on a total façade that they do (which is more likely the case). 3) Last and in this case least, they seem to play sports. Not all of them do, and some of the ones that do aren't even that good, but it's something they all seem to do together. Obviously, there are some outliers to my study, but you get the point.

While all these things seem like positives, it certainly can breed a sense of elitism among the 'populars' that cause most to not associate with anyone unlike themselves which isn't cool. I know that there are good people among the group as I have met some but I haven't really spent much time with any of them.

Now, the 'unpopulars' make up most the student body. While having a negative connotation, I promise that is not my intention with the term. It more so means that they aren't apart of the biggest clique, the 'populars'. The 'unpopulars' can be broken down into many subsections such as the robotics team, the theater crew, and so on. Just from projects in class and such I've met many of these kids and they all seem really nice. Some can obviously be annoying but it makes sense to not like everyone you meet.

Here's where I arrive at my issue. I don't exactly fit into one clique or another. I have interests spreading through almost all of them. I'd love to join the robotics team and work there, but I'd also love to join the mathletes or the debate team while at the same time I'd play a sport every season if I could. I have all of these interests but club meetings and times seem to clash with almost all of my interests. Choosing the few that I'd like to do seems almost impossible.

In addition to this, these last few weeks some girls in the 'popular' group having been trying to start beef. I don't know whether it's from a lack of self-confidence or just a genuine meanness in their hearts but if they think it gets to me that's hilarious. If anything, it just aggravates me to a point where if one of them 'accidently' gets judo-flipped, I wouldn't be too mad.

Sure, I've made some friends along the way, but so far my experience with high school just sucks. Everyone seems to have their place but even when there are no monsters to kill, titans to slay or giants to fell I guess this godly blood in me won't ever let me have mine among the normal world.

Maybe I'll ditch the rest of the year and go visit some kid who has this lop-sided grin…