OMG! I've been such a bad author (shame on me). I haven't updated in a month! So sorry to keep you all waiting.
Thalia POV
It's Monday. Kill me now. If only I could just freeze time and sleep for another ten hours. But unfortunately I can't do that. I think I'll just lie in bed until Annabeth comes in and demands for me to get up.
"Thalia!" Dammit she's on time as usual. "Get out of bed! It's six thirty!"
Grumbling and groaning I dragged myself out of bed and made my way towards my bathroom. I went to the bathroom, brushed my hair, rinsed my face, and applied copious amounts of mascara and eyeliner. I changed into my school clothes- black skinny jeans, my 'You Can't Sit With Us' crop top, army jacket, and combat boots. I marched out of my bedroom, with my backpack slung over my shoulder.
"Jason!" I yelled as I passed my brother's room. "If you are still in bed I will come in there and-"
"Don't want to loose your voice," Jason walked out of his room fully dressed and his backpack slung over his back. I grumbled and pushed past him, heading towards the kitchen.
"I made bagels and scrambled eggs!" Annabeth said. I sat down at the kitchen table as Annabeth set down three plates. "Blue one is Jason's, Green one is mine and red one is Thalia's. We all like different things on our bagels so I made sure to put them on different colored plates."
I smiled, "Sometimes your OCD comes in handy."
"Shut up and eat your breakfast."
We ate in silence for about ten minutes until Jason jumped up from his seat and said, "Seven fifteen! Better get going in five minutes!"
Jason was right of course. It took about thirty minutes to get to school in a cab and we needed time to get our textbooks and binders before class. When we were all ready we ran out the door and headed down the elevator. The cab ride wasn't bad but we were running late.
"Shit, it's seven fifty-five!" I yelled as we ran out of the cab and towards our school's front doors.
The three of us sprinted down the hallways and then turned our separate ways. I headed down the senior hallway while Annabeth and Jason the junior.
I was sprinting now, knowing that I had mere seconds until that dreaded bell rang signaling that class was beginning. Just in time I made it to my first period class and sat down at the only open desk. Seven fifty nine. I was some sort of hero.
"Yo Thalia!" I heard a familiar voice say. "Cutting it close."
I turned around in my desk and grinned, "I'm a rebel Travis, what can I say."
"How is it that you can tell us apart but even our mother still has trouble?" Connor asked, appearing behind his brother.
"I have a special gift," I chuckled, wiggling my eyebrows. They laughed.
"Do you have a pencil?" I turned to where the voice came from.
Nico Di Angelo was sitting at the desk next to me and I hadn't even noticed. Holy shit the guy was hot. Dark hair, dark eyes, wore dark clothes, liked scary movies and shows, listened to loud and kind of disturbing music… my kind of guy.
"Hey Nico," I smiled. "Yeah, I have one."
I bent down and fished around in my backpack. Damn it, where'd I put them?
"Bit of a slut move, don't you think?" I heard a girl's snide voice said. I angrily sat up and saw Drew standing there with the biggest smirk on her face.
"Oh look, my favorite bitch has arrived," I smirked.
"Your insults don't mean anything Grace. And by the way "the looking for a pencil move" is so outdated."
"What the hell are you talking about?"
"Your obviously just trying to let Nico see down your shirt."
I blushed and flickered my eyes towards Nico who looked very uncomfortable, "First of all Drew, the only girl who would attempt that move is you. Second, Nico is a respectful guy and wouldn't go around looking down girl's shirts."
"Spoken by a true looser," Drew laughed. "Later bitches."
When Drew finally had sat down in the back of the classroom I said, "I actually can't find a pencil to spare. I'm sorry."
"It's fine, I actually had one in the first place."
"Then why'd you ask me? Wait! Did you actually wan to look down my shirt!"
Nico's face went pale, "Of course not! I just needed an excuse to talk to you."
I blushed and was about to say something back when our teacher walked into the room, "Sorry I'm late class. Please open your textbook to page 47. After that, look up at the board so I know you are ready."
History was pretty boring. In fact, I think history is a pretty useless topic. All this stuff happened thousands of years ago. Who cares about it now? Every so often I'd glance at Nico to see if he was listening. Sometimes he'd catch my eyes, others he'd be paying attention and my favorite- he'd be resting his head on his textbook. In the last ten minutes of class a scrunched up piece of paper was thrown onto my desk. I was so surprised I jumped a little. I carefully plucked the piece of paper of my textbook un unfolded it. It read: Kill me now. This is the most boring class ever
I looked at Nico who was grinning at me. I flipped the piece of paper over and scribbled down a response: I would so much rather be watching American Horror Story while eating pizza. I tossed the note back and he caught it stealthily. After he read it, he chuckled and stuffed the paper back into his pocket.
"Something funny Mr. Di Angelo and Ms. Grace?" I was snapped back into reality as I looked up and saw Ms. Day glaring down at me.
"No ma'am," I responded, trying to hide the annoyance in my voice. Actually something is wrong. You are a terrible teacher.
"Please focus on the lesson," Ms. Day snapped. I suppressed the urge to solute her and say, "Yes sir!" but I just kept my mouth shut and nodded politely.
After history I cornered Nico in the hallway, "I can't believe you! Getting us in trouble in class then not even speaking up?"
"God Thalia, relax," Nico said, chuckling. "Now if you would be nice enough to move out of the way, I have science."
"Idiot," I muttered, letting go of Nico's shoulders.
Nico just punched me playfully in the shoulder, "Love you to."
I smirked and was about to punch him back when a voice behind me said, "Thalia, can we talk?"
"Luke, I swear if you bother me again I will castrate you," I growled, turning around.
"Woah there, calm down," Luke said, giving me a grin. Was he trying to be hot? "Look, I just wanted to apologize."
"For cheating on me, slapping me in the face or punching Percy in the nose?"
"All."
"Who's Percy?" Nico asked from behind me.
"Not now Nico," I straightened up. "Look Luke, I have class. Don't talk to me again."
I stormed off before Luke could say another word.
Percy POV
I glanced down at my schedule.
1st period (8-9): US History- 206
2nd Period (9-10): Calculus- 124
Break
3rd Period (10:30-11:15): Private Studies- 255
4th period (11:15-12:00): Spanish- 213
Lunch
5th Period (1-2): Chemistry- 456
6th Period (2-3): English- 319
Ten minutes until first period. I thanked the women at the front office and walked out, following her instructions to my locker. Turn left out the door, walk down the hallway and turn right… or was it left? My head span with the now mixed up instructions. I bumped into someone in the hallway and looked down.
"Oh, I'm sorry," I said, looking at the girl.
"It's okay," the girl said, but she looked like she wanted to throttle me.
"Sorry to bother you but I'm a little lost. Do you think you could help me get to my locker and first period class?"
"Sure," the girl took my schedule out of my hands. "Looks like we have every class together."
"That's cool," I said.
"Oh, and by the way- my name is Reyna."
"Do you happen to know Thalia Grace?"
"I do, actually. Do you know her?"
"Yeah, she's my older cousin."
"I can see the family resemblance."
We continued walking down the hallway together while making small talk. Reyna showed me how to get to my locker. She then led me to my History classroom.
"Here it is."
"Thanks Reyna," I said, smiling.
We walked in together but went our separate ways when the reached the desks. I sat down next to a familiar blonde boy.
"Jason!"
Jason looked around and grinned, "Hey Percy! Thalia told me you moved here! Nico to see you, man."
A girl with choppy brown hair appeared next to Jason, "Hi. I'm Piper. Nice to meet you."
"Percy Jackson," I shook her hand.
"You and Thalia look a lot alike," Piper observed. "The eyes are a little different but the same hair."
"Except Thalia's is more spiky and yours messy," Jason pointed out.
"For your information, my hair is naturally messy."
"Whatever floats your boat."
"And who do we have here?" A girl with straight blonde hair marched up in front of me and smiled. "I'm Sasha Star."
I managed to hold back my laugh, "That's actually your name?"
She sneered at me, "My mom is Elena Star. Supermodel and heiress."
"That's nice."
"Well, let me fill you in on some of the Goode High School 411. Hanging around with Piper… that's a no. I mean she could be cool if she got a decent haircut and wore girl's clothes."
Piper looked hurt and Jason's face turned red with anger, "At least Piper doesn't hide her face behind a pound of makeup."
"Excuse me, but I only have foundation, primer, concealer, blush, highlighter, eye shadow, mascara, lipstick and eyeliner on. That is not a pound of makeup!"
"It is a mouthful though," I said, laughing.
Sasha glared at me, "Well, if you change your mind about that rift raft call me."
"Thanks Percy," Piper said with a warm smile.
"No problem. I can't stand girls like her."
"Neither can I," Jason said with gritted teeth.
At lunch time Piper lead me to what she called "the usual spot".
"It's where our whole group sits," Piper explained as we walked through the hallways of Goode. "One table is for the juniors and the others the seniors. But we are pretty much all one big happy family."
One we were outside she led me towards the table area and around the basketball courts. Under a big tree were two tables. I spotted Thalia sitting on top of one of the tables laughing like a maniac.
"Hey, you've made it!" Thalia sat up and rushed towards me. "Everyone, meet my little cousin Percy."
I looked around at all the new faces, gosh how was I going to remember everybody's name?
"I'm Hazel," An African American girl with caramel colored hair and brown eyes smiled sweetly at me. "And this is my boyfriend Frank."
I nodded towards Frank. He was a big Asian kid with black hair that swept across his forehead.
"I'm Leo Valdez, the sexiest man on earth, the most talented mechanic ever to walk the hallways of Goode and may I say, excellent with the ladies," A Hispanic kid with a wide grin held out his hand. I didn't know whether to be confused or scared or just laugh in this kid's face.
"Cocky much?" I turned around to see Reyna, the girl who had led me to History first period.
"I wouldn't say cocky," Leo grinned.
"You disgust me Valdez," Reyna walked past me and sat down at one of the tables.
"She wants me," Leo whispered in my ear and I couldn't help but chuckle.
"I'm Silena," a pretty girl with straight black glossy hair smiled at me. "Thalia has told me about you."
"All good things I hope," I said, looking at Thalia who just laughed.
"Well, I hope you like Goode so far. Oh, and this is my boyfriend Charlie," I held out my hand to the big African American guy. "But call him Beckendorf."
I was introduced to what felt like a hundred more people. At one point, I just shoved a handful of potato chips into my mouth so I wouldn't have to introduce myself to any more people. Half way through lunch Annabeth arrived.
"Sorry I'm late guys, just was sketching some ideas for my Math Club's t-shit," she sat down next to me. "Did I miss anything?"
"Well, I was introduced to everyone," I said. Annabeth jumped and looked at me.
"Oh my god, I didn't see you there," she said. "Hey Percy."
"You know Percy?" Hazel asked.
"Yeah, we met at the Delilah café the other day," I explained.
"And I told them that they would be a cute couple," Thalia said, turning around in her seat to face us.
Annabeth's and my face turned tomato red as everyone turned around to face us.
"Hmmm…" Silena said as she looked us over. "Yeah, you guys would look cute together. Although Percy and Reyna could be a thing."
"I think not," Reyna snapped.
"Stand up for a moment," Rachel told us. I looked at her with a puzzled expression. "Just do it."
I got up from my chair and so did Annabeth. We stood next to each other.
"Good height to. Percy your like what, 6 feet tall? Annabeth's like 5 6'. That's perfect!"
Annabeth's eyes went big as saucers, "Excuse me?"
"Percy put an arm around her," Jason said. "I need to get a picture of this."
"What?!" I said.
"Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it!" Now everyone was chanting. I grudgingly put an arm around Annabeth's shoulder.
"Happy?" I asked.
"Here, let me get a photo!"
"Thalia!" Annabeth and I groaned.
"Smile!"
We both smiled as Thalia took the picture. Then everyone whipped out their phones and took pictures of us. It was the most embarrassing moment of my life.
"Okay, you guys can sit down now," Thalia said cheerfully.
Lunch was pretty quiet after that. Thalia and all her senior friends chatted but the junior table was not loud. Hazel and Frank talked, Reyna glared at Leo, Piper and Jason flirted and me and Annabeth awkwardly at our food.
"Okay, I'm a genius!" Thalia announced suddenly. "Look at the edit I made!"
Everyone passed around Thalia's phone and awed. When it got to me my jaw dropped. It was the picture of me and Annabeth with "Percabeth" written in cursive pink letters on the bottom.
"I'm going to post it on my Facebook," Thalia said gleefully.
"No you will not," Annabeth said angrily.
"Oh lighten up Annabeth," Thalia cooed. "It's cute."
"It's not cute!" She snapped. "It's embarrassing."
"It's not embarrassing!" Rachel said.
"Oh, really?" Annabeth snapped. "How would you like it if a picture of you and a certain Nico Di Angelo made its way on FaceBook?"
Rachel blushed a deep red. Thalia looked angry and confused. Everyone else got quiet.
"I'm… I'm sorry Rachel," Annabeth mumbled, getting up from the bench. "See you guys later."
I watched as Annabeth hurried out of the courtyard. I looked over at Rachel whose eyes were filled with... tears?
"Rachel?" I asked.
"It's nothing," She stood up, whipped her eyes and ran off.
"What the…"
"It's a long story," Piper said, one Rachel had left. "Nico dumped Rachel a couple months ago but we are all pretty sure she still hasn't gotten over him."
"Oh…" I said. "Whose Nico?"
"I'm Nico," I jumped and looked around. The guy had dark hair, pale skin and eyes that looked almost shallow.
"Percy Jackson," I shook his hand.
"So, why you guys talking about me?" He asked, looking over at Thalia.
"Annabeth and Rachel-" Silena began.
"Never mind, I don't want to know," Nico walked over to the senior table and sat next to Thalia. "You okay Thalia? That Luke guy still bothering you?"
"Luke," every muscle in my body tensed up. "When I see him I'll-"
"You'll do nothing," Thalia interrupted me. "He's not worth any of your time Percy."
"But he-"
"Percy!"
I fell silent.
Annabeth POV
I paced the isles of books, trying to clear my head. Why hadn't I kept my mouth shut? I shouldn't of brought up Nico with Rachel. And then there was Thalia. It was so obvious she liked him. I mean, even the most oblivious person could tell.
"Annabeth?" I looked up and sighed. "Hello Ms Fritz," I said my calmest and sweetest voice.
"I didn't hire you for nothing, get back to work! There are carts of books that need to be put back in their correct spot!"
"Sorry Ms Fritz," I mumbled.
I tried to surround my books at all times but sometimes it had its downfall. I just recently took up the job of working as a part-time librarian. I could be in my favorite place all day and get paid. But, Ms Fritz was agitating and it was hard trying to sneak in homework time when my shift was from 3:30-8:30 every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. Today for example, was one of those days.
I found the nearest cart stacked with random books and started doing my job. As I was walking towards the AU section, I bumped into someone.
"Percy!" I said.
"Hey Annabeth!" He smiled.
"What are you doing here?" I asked.
"Stalking you," he replied with a shrug. I blushed a deep red. "I was only kidding. I needed to check out a book for science to help me with my independent project."
"What are you looking for?" I asked, the temperature in my cheeks still hot.
"Stuff on the ocean," he said.
"Okay, can you be a littler bit more specific? There's a ton of 'stuff on the ocean'" I replied, walking down the isle.
"Kelp and seaweed mainly," he said. "I'm researching underwater plant life."
"Oh," I said. "So your head for the next few months are going to be filled with thoughts of kelp?"
"I guess you could say that," he chuckled.
"You are such a Seaweed brain!" I laughed.
"Seaweed brain?" he asked. I looked up, that sounded really offensive now that I think of it. "I… I like it."
I smiled, "Com'mon, I'll show you the ocean plant life section."
"Okay, Wise Girl."
I tried not to over analyze the nickname he gave me as I showed him the ocean plant life section.
"Thanks," he started to look around the section.
"I'm putting books back so if you need anything, just come and fine me," I pushed the kart away towards the graphic novels.
It was now 5:25, what was Percy still doing here? He came here like an hour and a half ago. I typed away at the computer, trying to look like I had something to do. Percy was still in the ocean plant life section, now sitting against the bookshelf flipping through pages of a book.
"Percy," I hissed. He looked up and smiled. "What are you still doing here?"
He motioned for me to come over. I scanned the room for Ms Fritz, then made a mad dash towards Percy. I plopped down next to him.
"I'm probably going to head back home around six. My mom has book club on Mondays, plus her own catering business- so it's never quiet," he explained. "We also just got a new dog named Ms O'Leary so she's always barking and stuff."
I nodded, "I understand."
