Chapter 2

AN: I'M ALREADY GETTING WRITERS BLOCK! HELP! To those who read the first chapter thank you and please review, I am open to your suggestions.

Ps. bear with me in this story, no joke; I actually am severely ADHD and dyslexic. English is my worst subject. I love reading but I am not good at analyzing motives and double meanings and such so everything in this story will be pretty straight forward.

PPS. STILL DO NOT OWN PJATO SADLY.

As the pair walked to class, they talked with general curiosity of how the other lives. Within a matter of minutes, Percy discovered that Annabeth has moved three times in the past few years, has never met her mother, her father buries himself in his work and is never home to see her or her step mother and brothers, and that her step mother blames her for it. He learns that she is deathly afraid of spiders and dreams of being an architect so she can build something permanent, unlike her ever-changing home life.

Annabeth learns that Percy was a result of an affair of a wealthy businessman and waitress at a beach side restaurant in Miami. He lived with his mom on North Carolina coast until two years ago when his father requested that he lives with him for a while. It was the first time he met his father and even then he barely saw him, he mostly hung out with his half-brother Triton, their high school's playboy and football captain. His stepmother Amphitrite hated his guts and refused to associate him. His mom forced his father to let him return to his mother to finish high school. He loved anything to do with the water and was terrified of flying.

Even though they just met, Percy felt as if he has known Annabeth for years. He feels like they were meant to meet.

"Hey, Annabeth! Wait up! I want to ask you something!" a voice unfamiliar to Percy called out. He could see Annabeth tense the words. They turn to face a tall boy, probably around six foot three, with sandy hair clipped short, with light blue eyes that seemed to darken by his mood, and with a jagged scar beneath his right eye. He wore a blue checkered button up shirt and khaki shorts with loafers. To Percy he seemed like a classic rich kid that got everything he wanted.

"What do you want Luke? I thought we settled we never want to speak to you again." Annabeth seemed to spit his name out with complete disgust.

"Hey, baby, don't you worry about your silly friends. I wanted to know if you wanted to hang out sometime, my friends and I can show you a good time." Luke whispered in her ear and gestured to his cronies behind him. Annabeth pushed him away from her.

"They used to be your friends too, Luke. Never talk to me or touch me like that again, or you'll be sorry."

Luke grabbed her wrist as she tried to walk away. "Babe, you know you don't want to miss out."

Percy pushed Luke off Annabeth. "She said back off dude." Luke glared Percy down before winking at Annabeth and turning to his friends. "Are you alright?"

"Yeah, I'm fine. I could have handled that, you know."

"Yeah, probably, but it would be an insult to my manliness to not do anything." Percy smirked.

"Insult to your manliness? I thought you had to be a man to be manly?"

Percy clasped his hands over his heart and feigned hurt. "That hurt, Annabeth. That was a deep blow."

They continued their banter till they reached homeroom. "Well here we are, time to introduce you to the worst teacher ever." Annabeth sighed as if she was reluctant to enter the classroom and end their talk.

There was a middle-aged lady with curly greying brown hair and deep brown eyes looking through a pair of spectacles, sitting at the desk. She wore leopard print pants and a bright red t-shirt.

"Hello, Ms. Finnerty"

"Hello, Annabeth. I trust you will not be a smart aleck this year."

Annabeth took a deep breath before speaking. "Ma'am, this is Percy Jackson. He's new."

"Yes, I can tell, Annabeth. Mr. Jackson, there is no assigned seats in here, so go find an empty one."

As the pair made their way to their seats, Annabeth whispered to Percy. "She holds the record on losing the most amount of students work and the weirdest sense of fashion."

Percy turned around and raised his eyebrow at the strange teacher. "I can see that."

"Alright, you devils, I mean students, happy first day of school." The class groaned realizing they had 180 more days till summer comes again. "Anyway, this homeroom will double as a reading class because, even though not mandatory for juniors, I feel you need it. And what I say goes, don't bother arguing."

"Mrs. Finnerty isn't it against the law to do that?" a kid Percy thinks name is Jason complained.

"I said no arguing! Now shut up until the end of the period!" With that Jason backed off. Percy saw a note drop on his desk from the girl in front of him. She had light brown hair that was obviously dyed and straightened, and squinty brown eyes. She wore high-waisted jean shorts and a pink tank top.

Hey, are you new here? I would have remembered a guy as hot as you ;) -Drew Tanaka3

Uhh, thanks. Yes, I am new.-Percy Jackson

Percy shot a please-help-me look at Annabeth, to which she responded with a smirk.

"Drew, don't you have some football player that you need to take advantage of?" Annabeth whispered, trying to sound innocent and failing.

Drew glared at her and huffed before turning around and ignoring him. Percy mouthed a thank you to Annabeth, who shrugged it off. They sat there in silence until the bell rang much to the pleasure if the students as they filed into the hall to meet up with their friend before going to their next classes.

"So what do we have next?" Percy questioned.
"We have gym; I'll be either running track or playing volleyball though. You'll be swimming. Don't worry all of my friends have that class; I'll introduce you to them. You've already met Thalia. Just get your locker number from Coach Hedge; your clothes should be in there."

Percy took one last glance at Annabeth before heading into the locker room, for some reason his stomach did little flips when she smiled at him. He looked for at least three minutes before he found a small office in the back of the locker room.

"Hello, are you Coach Hedge? I'm pe-"He was cut off in his introduction.

"Percy Jackson, the Florida state swimming champion."

"I was really hoping that title wouldn't follow me here, sir."

"Well it did, there is already a spot open up for you in the team locker room behind. Well, go on; we have to get in the pool soon."

"Yes, sir." As Percy walked into the team locker room, he was overwhelmed with the stench of chlorine and is that fart bombs? The combination was repulsive.

"Hey, are you that new kid that coach keeps talking about?" Percy turns around to face two guys that looked exactly the same, twins he presumed. They had shaggy light brown hair and pointed up eyebrows. They're eyes were the same light blue of Luke's but were full of mischief and playfulness.

"Yeah, I'm the new kid. Percy Jackson. Coach said I had a locker already?"

"Travis Stoll. This is my brother Connor. Yeah, locker number 16. Get your suit on fast; we are going to start soon."

"Okay, Thanks." They nodded before walking out to the pool. "And then there was one." Percy muttered to himself before going to get changed.