Annabeth's POV
Finding out that the Stoll brothers not only went to Goode, but are in my homeroom was one of the highlights of my day. Mrs Edwards seemed like a nice teacher, slightly strict but willing to run with students thoughts, and ideas. I would have liked if all my teachers were like that but unfortunately that didn't happen. After homeroom Percy and I made our way to MC2 for geography, we got there just as the bell rang. From the looks of things these halls got very busy in-between classes. We walk together up to the teachers desk. She's shuffling through a few papers when we reached the desk, she doesn't look up but briskly says "Jackson, what brings you here?" That's when she looks up she looks at me obviously slightly startled by my appearance, "I'm Annabeth Chase, I'm new to Goode." I state she looks at me quizzically and then at Percy. She must put two and two together that Percy is my guide, but must be wondering why a student in there final year of high school would transfer schools at the beginning of term three. She finally says "well Miss Chase, I'm Ms Benoni. You can sit next to Miss Port just by there." Percy and I go to our allotted seats. I'm in the second row next to a girl who has mid length, dark mousy brown hair. She looks at me then after a short pause says " hi I'm Holly, and you are?" She questions.
"Annabeth, nice to meet you" I say. She has a workbook on her desk and its covered in drawings, in what looks like permanent marker. I smile it reminds me of Rachel, she's always drawing and doing all sorts of arts. Of course Rachel would be at school now too, it's a bit of a shame she had to change to Clarions Girls Finishing school, otherwise she would be here and I would know more than three students. Holly spots me looking at her book and starts to say "oh it's nothin-" before I cut her off.
"Oh no, I was admiring it and I kind of reminded me of my friend." This startles her a bit. Before we could continue the conversation however were cut of by the teacher beginning the lesson.
Finally after 45 minutes of torture the bell finally rings. I normally don't mind geography, I mean I have travelled a bit. Percy and I have tromped all over America, and with the quest to defeat Gaia I've seen more countries, but this was truly torturous. Ms Benoni spoke in a monotonous drone and would get angry at the simplest things like a sneeze or cough. I packed up my stuff to move to Ancient History when Percy's there helping. Holly greets Percy then looks a strangely at him as he begins to help me. "Do you two know each other?" She finally asks us. I look at Percy then say, "oh, Seaweed Brain and I go way back, don't we?" Percy just looks at me shaking his head then says " yeah, we've been on many adventure together, and seen each other at our worst. Wise Girl, is my best friend." Holly just looks at both of us confused and we just burst out laughing. " it's a long story." We both tell Holly at the same time. Still visibly confused she just says "okay then well, I'll see you at lunch." With that she heads off. Percy and myself make our way to Ancient History which is conveniently just down the hall at MC8. We walk in and up to the desk I introduce myself to the teacher who introduces himself as Mr Sheather, his older but because he is a quieter it's a challenge to guess his age. He assigns me a seat right next to Percy in the front row on the left hand side of the room.
The class starts and Mr Sheather introduces the topic we'll be studying this semester. Which causes Percy and I just to look at each other with evil smirks on our faces. "Who can name the all twelve of the Olympian Gods in both their Greek, and Roman aspects?" Mr Sheather asks. Our hands shoot up. He looks at us slightly surprised at our speed but delegates Percy to name the Greeks, and myself the Romans. We both pull it of flawlessly. Mr Sheather is astounded and asks the next question which both our hands are up in a instant for " name two gods who are known for quarrelling?" After looking long and hard around the room ignoring us, finally he turns to us and together we say " Poseidon and Athena." Again we astound him while we have the biggest smirks on our faces. After a few questions he hands out a pop quiz to test our general knowledge on the topic. Fifteen minutes in I'm finished, I check it a few times to ensure that all the answers are indeed correct, and out of the corner of my eye I see Percy doing the same. We finish and together walk up to the desk. Mr Sheather looks at us disbelievingly and then says to us quietly "from the so far flawless answers and speed in which you two finished this test you better get 100%." He sends us back to our seats, we're not allowed to talk because the others are still completing their quizzes. Mr Sheathers going through our papers, so we start passing notes to each other.
We're so going to ace Ancient History.
We still have to work for our mark, but yeah I agree Seaweed Brain this will be pretty cinch.
Wonder what his face will be like if we get 100% though, : O
It'll be priceless. I love you Seaweed Brain.
I love you to Wise Girl.
So what are the names of your friends you sit with at lunch?
Well there will be you, the Stoll's, James, Alex, Holly who you've met, Nicola aka Nicki, and Charity.
Oh cool.
I look up, Mr Sheather has a shocked look on his face, very much like the drawing by Percy. He looks up and see us watching him and beckons us over. We get there and he tries to speak but can't he is a lose for words. He hands us back our papers and on it written on the front in red pen 100%. I look at Percy's and he looks at mine there exactly the same. We hand them back and Mr Sheather appears to regained his power of speech, "Never in my forty years of teaching have I ever seen a student pass the test in flying colours in the space of 15 minutes let alone two!" We look at each other and then I say "Ancient History means a lot to us and we both have very prominent links to Greek history." Mr Sheather looks at us a bit more closely and then nods his head and say "ah I see, you may return to your seats and continue to have that conversation you were having while passing notes. Yes I saw it Mr Jackson don't look so surprised." I look at Percy and he's at a lose for words, as we head back to our desk. We remain there for the remainder of the lesson just passing notes back and forth until we are dismissed for lunch.