I AM SO SORRY FOR THE MONTHS LONG WAIT. When I was about to work on chapter 3, I got really sick, and then school got really busy, and to tell the truth I completely forgot about it. I will be trying harder now though to upload, and to make VERY LONG chapters... so enjoy!

Percy's POV

As I walked out of math, I wondered, what just happened in there? I had never spoken to that girl before in my life, and most certainly hadn't run into her at my lunch table. Now to think of it, I may have her in a couple of his classes... What startled me was her eyes. The grey seemed to be moving like storm clouds, always holding a new thought, new idea; almost as if she had a hard time trying to focus on just that tiny conversation. I shrugged. Whatever, not like I'll ever speak to her again...

I strut down the hall and joined a couple of my friends: Silena, Luke, and Rachel. Silena and Luke had been dating a couple of weeks now and he had his arm protectively around her waist, holding her hand on the other side. As I joined them, my hand also went around Rachel's waist surprising her. When she turned around, I planted a quick kiss on her lips.

" Hey babe!" she gushed " We were just talking about Silena's party this weekend. What time do you want to show up?" Her smile was willing to compromise, but her eyes said she had already made up her mind. I lifted one shoulder lightly, " You know it doesn't matter to me."

At this she giggled, " Good because we're going at 8:30, so pick me up at 8:15 on the dot!" Silena's smile dropped an inch. " But guys the party starts at 6:30, you'll be two hours late!"

Rachel gave another smile and half a giggle " Better to be fashionably late darling! Now, I have economics, Percy walk me to my class. Toodaloo!" She wiggled her fingers behind her in a gesture of goodbye.

"Wait a second, I need to talk to Luke about basketball tryouts, go get your books from your locker, and come back okay?" She pouted but finally agreed. Silena stay so she and Luke could walk to calculus together. Just as Luke was about to tell me the date of hte second tryout, someone crashed between us. All I saw was a flash of black, blue, and purple hair before hte person had righted themselves on the bank of lockers. I recognized the girl, but I couldn't put my finger on her name... She was that guy Jason's sister, he was at the first basketball tryout, he was also called back for the second.

" Hey guys." she said this so casually she might of been hanging out with us her whole life. "Hi Thalia!" exclaimed Silena, who was generally nice to everyone. THALIA, that's it. I knew her name was interesting like that...

" So, about your party on Saturday, is it open invitation?" She questioned. Silena was too nice to refuse anyone, so she had invited the whole school to her party.

" Definately! Will you be there?" Silena fired back.
" Yup, me and a few other friends, as long as it's okay. What time does it start at?" "Well," Silena started " The party REALLY starts at 6:30, SOME people think they can come at 8:30 though... just don't show up that late." She shot me a look.

I put my hands up in surrender. " HEY! Just doing what Rachel wants me to!"
"Well sometimes I wish you wouldn't.." This must have gotten kind of awkward for Thalia, because she started to retreat down the hall.

" Um thanks for the invite Silena, see you on saturday!" she finished and bolted down the hall to what must be her group of friends. I heard a long, full, laugh coming from their direction; the owners voice sounding very famalliar... Just as I spotted the brown curls, my vision was replaced by red curls. Rachel was back from her locker with her books, and ready to go to class. She said her goodbyes to Luke and Silena, laughing and giggling the whole way through; me watching her the whole way through.

Why was Rachel so giggly today? As she half tugged half displayed me down the hallway, I stopped and pulled her into an empty classroom.

Immediatly alone, her smile quickly disappeared. "What is it sweetie, I'm going to be late for class!" I gave her a look to let her know this was serious. "Why are we going to Silena's party so late? You made her really upset."

She snorted, a very un-Rachel thing to do. " Oh pish posh, she'll get over it, won't she?" When she said this though, she wasn't giggling or joking around. I frowned, "What's gotten into you today?"

This brought on half a smile but it looked more sly than friendly. " Oh darling little boy, you look so confused when you make your face like that. Careful, you'll get wrinkles." She walked right up to me and put one hand on the back of my neck, the other on my shoulder. " I promise I'll try to be good frim now on okay?" She breathed. She had me on a hook. All I could manage was a nod. The bell rang and at once the spell was broken.

She stepped back and collected her bag and sweater from the floor where she dropped them. As she straightened she asked " Are we done here?" sounding more like a business deal than a relationship. I mumbled a response.

"Good." She made her way to the door and opened it. As soon as people had a clear view of her, she flashed again her brilliant teeth. " Bye babe!" she exclaimed happily, pecking me on the cheek before sauntering down the hall to her economics. Never mind what the hell happened with Annabeth, what the hell just happened here?

Annabeth's POV

Thalia, Katie and I flounced over to our regular lunch table at the back corner of the cafeteria. We're not what you would call losers, but it would be better to draw as little attention as possible to us. After sitting for a few minutes, Jason, Travis, and Conner joined us. As they sat down, Thalia stood up; tapping her pudding cup with a spoon, as if about to make a speech. "Quiet, quiet please." She waited till the rest of us stopped talking. "Thankyou. Now as you all may know," she started as she sat down, "Silena is having a party in Saturday. And I happened to run into her and ask her something... And we are all invited!"

The boys were in a chorus of awesome! 's and exchanging high fives. Katie squealed in her seat. "Yes! Her party's are the best" I turned my head to look at her and raised an eyebrow.

"Katie, you've never even been to one of her parties" This didn't faze Katie. "Well they always sound so fun when people are talking about them in the hallways." I sighed and smiled at her. Trust Katie to always know what's happening around the school. The rest of us don't care. We usually keep to ourselves when school drama is involved. I usually keep to myself more often, but that's okay. It's good to have some alone time. And that's exactly why I did this: "I don't think I can go... You know... homework.. I'll probably have a test... feed my cat..." I mumbled out a list of excuses, never actually forming a sentance.

Thalia slammed her pudding cup on the table, thoroughly coating the school band sitting at the next table in the stuff. Thalia ignored their hey's and remarks. "Annabeth, you are coming to that party, wether I have to drag you there in your pajamas or not." I didn't have a reply for this except to shrug and nod at the same time. I gave a big dramatic sigh. "Fine! You'll convince me anyways, might as well agree now."

Thalia cheered and yelled " Drinks all around!" and by drinks she meant the cans of pop you get from the vending machine. We all toasted to finally doing something with our lives and all lauged and giggled when we were attacked with hiccups and burps. As school ended; Katie, Thalia, and I decided to cram all our homework into one night so as to not have anything for Saturday. It kind of worked... we eventually got all of our homework done after goofing around and giggling over photos of Josh Hutcherson. As I went to sleep that night, all i wondered was what the hell could be in store for me tomorrow.