Hey guys,

Sorry the wait was a little longer.

Snow!! I love the snow even if it only played out one of the two days I was off school.

Hey do you guys think this is unfaire? I, in year ten (I'm english, school system is differnt to yours), got Wednesday and Thursday off school, My sister, in year 7, got Wednesday, Thrsday and Friday off school! The same school but apperently only years 10 and 11 are worth the torture of school. Oh well, I can't complain too much, I had double dramma and triple art and didn't have to be at home with me 3 year old brat of a half sister.

Anyway, you doun't care about my life.

You care about Percy Olympia-Jackson's.

That's what you are here to read.

So I won't delay any longer.

Enjoy!

Lunch

Annabeth POV

After Spanish I put my notebook in my locker. I looked up the corridor but Percy wasn't there, I would have to find somewhere to sit myself.

In the cafeteria I bought the meal deal and walked towards the tables. I stopped in my tracks. The room was full of people, people I didn't know. I couldn't even get a grasp of the cliques, there didn't seem to be any. So I was just standing there, looking like an idiot.

"Are you okay dear?" a dinner lady asked me as she walked by.

"Yeah. It's just that I'm new and I don't really know anyone," I explained.

"Oh, well welcome to Goode. Just sit with someone you've met," well that helps so much – note the sarcasm. A girl recognised from my form walked past and heard what the dinner lady said.

"Hey," she smiled, "who do you know? I can't show you where they sit."

"Thanks. Um, the only person I've really spoken to is our form rep, who showed me round," I told her.

She coughed a laugh, "Percy? Well good luck. I'd sit at an empty table until you make some friend if I were you."

I gave her a puzzled look, "What do you mean?"

"Percy is the most popular kid in the whole school. Just like he was in elementary school. He has only ever sat with his family, and then Grover since last year. Every girl in school wants a seat at his table but, other than Grover, nobody has ever gotten an invite." With that she walked off. I looked around the room for an empty table. I saw one in the corner and was about to head towards it when I heard a voice from behind me.

"You look lost," I turned to see Percy standing there holding his lunch tray.

"Oh, hi," man I sounded lame, "I just um... don't know anyone to sit with, so I was looking for an empty table," I explained and glanced around to the corner table.

"You know me," I looked at him. After what the girl had told me I didn't get what he was saying.

Seeming to sense my incomprehension, he continued, "I mean, did I not introduce myself this morning?" I knew the question was rhetorical but thinking about it...

"Well actually you didn't," I smiled at his disappearing smirk, "Mr Blofis just said our names and told us to go."

"Oh, yeah ... um ... Don't tell anyone that; if it gets back to my Dad I'll be grounded for a month because I wasn't a perfectly polite, model citizen," I didn't get why that was worth a month's grounding. Percy expertly balanced his lunch in one hand and held the other out to me, "I'm Percy Olympia-Jackson. Born and bred here in New York City." I balanced my own lunch (not nearly as well as he had) and shook his hand.

"Annabeth Chase, just moved here from San Francisco. Wait," the cogs in my head clicked into place and I realised who I was talking to, "Olympia? As in Olympia Industries?"

"Um ... yeah," he scratched the back of his neck a little awkwardly. I thought back to what I knew about the family from all the times they had been in the papers, magazines and on TV.

"You're Perceus right? Poseidon's son."

"Yeah. I am," he gave me a small smile before saying, "but do me a favour Annabeth: don't judge or treat me differently because of my family."

"Oh, I didn't mean it like that," I blushed with embarrassment realising how I must have sounded, "I just realised who you were."

"It's cool," he smiled, a full smile this time, "so would you like to sit at my lunch table?"

"Sure. Thank you," I returned his wide smile.

"This way," he started walking and I followed.

He led me to a round table by the window. Sitting at it was a girl with long black hair, quite like Percy's except for the length, she was wearing black jeans that were the style that looked ripped and frayed, the belt loops has chains clipped onto them so that snakes of silver ran across her thigh in loops. She had a black t-shirt and silver chain bracelets on both wrists. The boy had a tangle of brown hair and was wearing blue jeans and a red t-shirt. We were coming up behind them and so they hadn't seen us yet, Percy stopped when he was behind the girl he stopped and leant down to her ear and whispered something in her ear. Then he carried on walking and sat down. Percy introduced me to his cousin Thalia and Grover. Thalia's eyes were bright blue, like the sky on a sunny day, she had a few freckles across her nose and silver chains around her neck, the front of her t-shirt had the Greenday logo on, I guessed she's a fan. Grover had soft brown eyes and pale skin, his t-shirt had a skateboarder on it so I figured that was his hobby. They seemed nice and I wondered if I was actually making friends.

Percy POV

I asked Annabeth to sit at my table at lunch, it was fun. I lead her over to the table and stopped when I was behind Thalia.

I whispered to her, "You in the mood to be nice to someone today?"

"Yeah, easy going today, why?" I didn't answer and just carried on walking around the table with Annabeth close behind.

"Hey guys, this is Annabeth, she just moved here. Annabeth this is my friend Grover and my cousin Thalia," they chorused hi's'. "Sit down," I told my new friend.

"Thanks," she smiled, "Is this, the cousin that would like my Dad?" she asked.

I smiled remembering I'd said that, "Yeah that's Thall."

"And what would be the reason for me liking her Dad?" Thalia asked eyeing my suspiciously.

"He's a world war two expert and loves the planes," Annabeth told her, "Why would Percy know you'd like him just from that?"

"We are both really into history, my favourite topic is world war to, and I fly."

"You fly? As in you can fly a plane?" Annabeth asked with a voice of disbelief.

"Yeah, since I was ten," Thalia said matter of factly. Annabeth just stared at her, then me and back to Thalia.

"Privet air space," I explained, "it's legal. Our parents might be rich and powerful but we're not above the law," I joked.

"Oh right," she laughed.

"Do you have any idea the damage aeroplanes cause?" Grover said, "The amount of fuel they use? The amount of pollution?"

I sighed, "Grover, we've been through this before." Mr. Environmentalist just stared at me as if I was picking favourites – which I wasn't, "Everyone causes pollution in some way, and just by being alive we're adding to the greenhouse effect so stop complaining. Thalia can only manage a small plane. The engine in it is about the same size as Dad's Lamborghini, you weren't complaining about pollution when he let you drive it around the race track, were you?" Grover looked down but didn't say anything.

"Environmentalist?" Annabeth guessed.

"Big time," Thalia and I said simultaneously.

"Problem with that?" Grover asked all of us.

"No."

"No."

"If you don't stop complaining about my plane there will be," Thalia threatened. She turned to Annabeth, "Anyway, I want to know what you did to warrant Percy inviting you to have lunch with us."

"Thalia!" I warned her, the way she had said that sounded horrible and like Annabeth shouldn't be here. She realised and tried to right it.

"I didn't mean it like you shouldn't be here!" she spoke fast, slightly embarrassed. "It's just that no one has ever been invited to sit with us. Percy doesn't normally bring people to lunch."

"Well don't you ever invite people either?" Annabeth asked the pair of them. They just looked at each other and shook their heads.

"I'm lucky to be sitting here, not going to push it," Grover answered, I didn't get what he meant.

"Even if there was someone I'd want to sit with us, it's not really for me to invite them," Thalia shrugged. I didn't get that either.

"Wait," I started, "What do you mean. What's with it not being ok to invite people and not pushing it?"

"Well I was never really invited to sit with you." Grover explained, "After you stuck up for me I was just talking to you and we got to the table and I sat down, you didn't tell me to leave so I figured I was welcome, but for about a month I wondered how long it was until you'd get bored of me."

Is that really what he thought of me?

"And, you're the eldest. Ever since we were little I've been following behind you, even if only slightly behind. It's just how it goes," Thalia said matter of factly.

"So you guys really just follow me," I looked between them, temporarily forgetting Annabeth, "in everything?"

"Yeah."

"Most things."

"Why?" I asked them. I just didn't understand why they'd want to do that.

"Because," they both started, then Thalia continued, "in case you didn't notice, you're the most popular guy in school. Everyone wants to be here and we are. If you got annoyed with us you'd have more friends to sit with, in seconds. Us? We'd be on our own." It sounded convincing, but Thalia always was, I didn't quite buy it.

"Thalia, that's why I followed him until I got to know him, you want to tell him the real reason?"

My cousin looked down and mumbled, "You're a good leader of the group and your ideas are always worth following."

"Wait," I started, "this can't be right. It sounded like Thalia just gave a compliment!" She scowled at me so I backed off.

"Anyway," Thall looked at Annabeth, "What did you do to get here?"

"I'd like to know that myself," she turned to look at me.

I shrugged, "We got on well this morning didn't we? You were about to head to a table by yourself, I thought I'd give you the chance to sit with someone if you wanted to, and didn't want to approach a group."

"I wouldn't know what group to approach. There don't seem to be cliques here," She said and glanced around the room.

"Oh there are," Grover put in.

"Just kind of hard to spot when you're looking at everyone at once," Thalia informed.

"Whys that?" Annabeth asked.

"Because of Percy," they both answered.

Annabeth looked at me questioningly.

"I unintentionally redesigned the system," I told her.

"So explain it to me."

"Well, you knew my full name and Dad as soon as you heard the name 'Olympia' right, so I'm guessing you know the names of the rest of our family?"

"Yeah, Thalia's older brothers and sisters are named after the second generation gods right?" she asked.

"Yeah, so I don't know if it is coincidence or just because they subconsciously decided to live up to their names, but they all act like the gods. So when I came here and saw that a lot of the kids always carry a mirror and have designer clothes and makeup. Never where the same things twice, exactly like Aphrodite, both the cousin and the goddess. So I called them 'the Aphrodite crowd'. Then there are the girls who are big time feminists and hate anything male, 'the Artemis crowd' the ones who are musical and good at poetry –"

"'The Apollo crowd'" Annabeth finished for me.

"Exactly," Thall answered, "the rest of the school soon found out about it and started calling each other 'The Apollos' and that. It even spread to the high school where they all have one of my brothers or sisters as a ring leader."

"Except one," Grover said, "There were a group of kids that fit in a group together but don't have their ring leader at school."

"Yeah, The Demeters, the fit her perfectly so I put them in a group, but she is my auntie not my cousin." I told the girl who was looking at the three of us with concentration."

"So," she started, "if you hadn't have invited me here, where should I have gone?" I could hear the curiosity in her voice.

"You? Well..." I thought for a moment, looking at her carefully," this morning, when you were putting things in your locker, I saw your GPA."

"Yeah, so?"

"Where did you miss the two points?"

"English and Spanish. I'm dyslexic."

"Me too. So you've got straight As in everything else yeah?"

"Yeah" she dragged the word out, obviously not seeing where I was going.

"You look kind of Athletic, play sports? I'd bet you're arty too."

"Well, yeah but what does that have to do with anything?" she sounded confused and slightly annoyed.

"I'd put you over there," I pointed to the table on the opposite side of the room, "You're an Athena kid. Every one of those kids are in at least two advanced classes, like your sciences, they are the child geniuses of our generation. As well as being smart they are all good at art and none are too bad at sport. The ring leader for the Junior High Athenas is Malcolm. He's the blond at the end. A good mate, he played basketball with me last year. He's quiet until you get him going but then he can hold a convocation. He's great with game plans and strategies. I don't know why he wasn't picked for captain."

"Because you were up for captain as well," Thalia said I her best duh voice.

"Well then this year I'll refuse to be captain of the basketball team," I answered

"Right. So what about all of the other groups? Who's who?" Annabeth asked me, preventing me from arguing farther with my cousin.

"Tell you what, we will point out a group, you guess who they are," she seemed like a girl who like a challenge, so I knew she'd accept.

"Alright."

"Thalli? Ladies first," I gestured for her to point out a table.

"Umm...that one in the centre, three tables in from the Athena."

"Well they're all tanned, all happy and there are three guitar bags and a flute box that I can see, so the Apollos?"

"Yup. The one at the end, Michael Yew. He leads the group. A very little kid with a very big ego, and mouth but mostly ego. Grover's go"

"Ah, the table in the bottom corner, almost away from everyone else."

"Oh that one's easy," Annabeth said, "it's all girls, Artemis."

"Yeah," Grover sighed and stared at the table in question.

I laughed, "As Grover is too infatuated by them I'll explain them. The girl with the black hair and light brown skin is Zoe. She leads the group and is actually a pretty good friend to Artemis outside of school. Zoe used to be Thalia's best friend but as they got older they grew apart."

"We didn't grow apart," Thalia's short statement was bitter.

"Okay then, they started to grow apart but were still pretty close, Zoe became supreme feminist and even though Thall wasn't they were still friends until Thalia got a crush on her brother's friend and then Zoe told her she was stupid and that men are useless. They had a big fight and now hate each other."

"Well you didn't have to go into that much detail," Thalia complained.

"Stop complaining," I told her and turned back to Annabeth, "So, my turn. The table by the door,"

"Hmm, I'm not sure. There are some that look like they're up to something, but then there are a lot of them that don't show any resemblance. You'll have to tell me."

"No I won't," the girls looked at me (Grover was still staring at the Artemis table), "You're smart Annabeth, you seem to know your stuff with mythology. Think about it."

She turned and stared at the table for a long time. She took in all of the kids around the centre of the group who had shifty looks and smug, secretive smirks. Then she looked at a load of kids around the edge who didn't have that, but were still welcome at the table and friends with those in the centre.

"The Hermes crowd?"

"Ding ding ding! We have a winner. You see the ones in the middle, who 'look like they're up to something' they are the ones who are like my cousin. The leaders are the Stoll brothers. Conner and Travis. Connor is in our grade, you'll see him in math class, and Travis is in 8th."

We went on until Annabeth knew the system and who was who. Then we started talking about random stuff.

"Percy, do you know who is performing at the assembly?" Thalia asked.

"I don't know but if you want my guess, I'd say Michael will be singing, Will guitar, Maxi drums and maybe Alex on keyboard as well," I predicted.

"What assembly?" Annabeth asked.

"Oh we miss last period to day for a welcome back assembly. The teachers asked for a band to get together to perform, at the end of last year" I answered.

"So just math after lunch then."

"Yeah, but it's math with Miss Dodds," I groaned.

"You said something about her earlier," Annabeth remembered.

"Yeah I said I'd introduce you to the demon math teacher.

She opened her mouth to answer but I heard another voice behind me.

"What was that honey?" Miss Dodds. The fifty year old bat face fury was standing behind me.

I turned, "Hello Miss Dodds," I flashed my honour student smile even though I know she hated me at first sight and the smile would do no good, "I was just telling our new girl that I would be introducing her to you after lunch."

"What were your exact words you used?" she asked me with an evil glint in her eye.

"'I'd introduce you to our darling math teacher'" I answered innocently.

"We both know that's not true Mr. Olympia-Jackson. Detention," She told me sternly.

"I wouldn't expect anything less Miss," this time I let the bitterness show in my voice I don't know why I even try to behave. I don't mess around in her lessons but I still get to spend an hour with her after school every Friday without fail.

She just gave me a dirty look and walked away, heels clacking eerily on the tiled floor.

My friends all gave ma sympathetic looks.

"Don't get on the wrong side of her Annabeth. She might be okay with you but she hated me from the day she saw me for no reason. So just try to be like Nancy over there," I nodded my head at a redhead sitting at the Ares table, "Miss Dodds loves that brat for some reason."

"Right," Annabeth said, she sounded like she was thinking.

"If we're all finished, can we go because I can feel the daggers in my back from Zoe and these chairs are uncomfortable," Thalia moaned.

"Sure, but why is Zoe giving you daggers? What did you do this time?"

"I put something about staring at a cute guy in swim shorts for half an hour on my facebook account. Phoebe is on my friends list and probably told her," she explained putting a disgusted emphasis on the word her and jerking her head in Zoe's direction.

"Isn't Lee on your facebook?" I asked as the four of us stood up and headed for the door.

"Yeah but there were a lot of hot guys in swim shorts at the party, it could have been anyone of them."

I rolled my eyes at her and then stopped walking to wait for Grover.

"Go ahead with them Percy, I've got to see Mr. Wilkins anyway, I'll catch up with you in a few," Grover told me.

"You sure? I don't mind waiting," and I really didn't but Grover hates feeling like he is slowing everyone down. So I gave in and caught up with the girls.

We walked to our lockers and were talking about random stuff like music and movies. When it had been ten minutes and Grover wasn't there I decided to go back.

"Hey, I'm gonna go back to find Grover. His probably sitting down with his legs hurting him," I turned to walk away.

"We'll come with," Thalia told me and started to follow. Since our earlier convocation I was conscious of making sure she only did things with me that she actually wanted to do.

"No 'sokay. You stay here and have a girl talk or whatever it is girls do when guys aren't around."

"You're such a seaweed brain you know!" Thalia told me falling into step on my right, like she usually does, and Annabeth on my left, "Grover is my friend to, I'm not just following you."So we walked back through the school debating who the best Hollywood spies are.

We got to the corridor round the corner from Mr. Wilkins' classroom. I heard a voice which I never like hearing, especially in the tone that he was using. I rounded the corner to see Grover standing opposite Dionysus looking terrified. The idiot I unfortunately have to call my cousin was looking smug and powerful while the twins he hangs around with stood behind smirking.

"What can you not keep up with your little friends because you never learned to walk properly?" Dionysus jeered and ran a hand through his hair which was so black it was almost purple.

"G-go away," Grover told him trying to sound forceful but not succeeding. I swear the next time I find Dionysus drunk I'll tell Uncle Zeus instead of Thalia.

"Oh? Did you not learn to talk properly either? Poor little baby Grover. Mommy and Daddy couldn't be bothered to stick around and teach you could they?"

Thalia knew what happened when I caught her brother picking on kids. I would talk to him, distract him from the poor kid and push his buttons while Thall stood there with an attitude and sneaking the get-out-of-here-while-he's-talking look to the drunk's victim. But when it was Grover it was more personal, I didn't just distract, I gave him a piece of my mind.

"Oi! Dionysus!" I stepped forward a few steps and Thalia stood a couple of steps back to my right the usual formation, Annabeth quickly picked up on this and mirrored her in my left, "Care to explain what's going on?" Dionysus stepped forward and the twins got into position to mirror our formation.

"This has nothing to do with you Percy!" My cousin hissed.

"Well you see it does. You're a bully, I hate bullies that's why I try my best to stop you bullying any poor kid who you feel like victimizing, But you see, he, as you well know, is my best friend. It makes it that bit more personal."

"Mr. Percy popularity king of the playground playing favourites? What would the teen magazines say?"

"I'm no king and I don't want to be, but that's not important right now. So Grover grew up in care, there's nothing wrong with that. There must have been reasons for his parents not looking after him and that's his business. As for his limp, you know he has a medical condition. He can't help it. I would have thought you of all people would understand that a medical condition can cause an inconvenience," I was working him up to hit it where it would hurt, and I knew he wouldn't realise until it was done. Grover slipped into the nearest classroom silently.

"What do you mean by that?" He hid his confusion with a mocking tone to his voice.

"Oh you know, this thing that causes your bed wetting. What was it the doctor called it?" I looked upwards with a figure on my chin, pretending to think, "Bladder weakness? I personally think that you're just too lazy to get out of bed and walk five steps to your bathroom, but I'm no doctor," I shrugged. It was hard not to laugh when the twins were giving their leader looks of shock and disdain.

"PERCY!" He yelled and ran forward to throw a punch. If it wasn't for my ADHD I probably would have gotten a real shiner there. But all my senses were awake and I saw the exact path and power that he was putting into that punch. So it was easy to dodge and grab his arm. The next thing he knew, I had pinned him against the wall with his arm twisted behind his back.

"I don't like to be violent in school, I normally save that for in the arena, but you go too far. Stop picking on the kids and trying to be big just because you've got money and think they should respect you. In case you haven't noticed me and Thalia have the respect because we are friendly and nice to the others. Respect is earned Dionysus. You need to learn that. If you don't stop being such a bully so help me I will find every chink is your armour and you will have so many cuts you won't be able to move. And if you think that I'm going to help or even just get Thalia to cover for you being drunk again you've got another thing coming. We all know how scared of your Daddy you are. So back off," I didn't speak angrily or threateningly. Just a clam, serious warning that I knew he wouldn't doubt. I let go of him. I stepped back in front of Thalia and Annabeth and looked at the twins, the skulked out of the nearest door and Dionysus quickly followed.

"You should have hurt him," Thalia told me, "I would have."

"Yeah well this isn't the time or place," I told her simply. Grover appeared in the doorway to the classroom. He gave me a thank you smile which I returned, "Come on. If we don't go get our stuff now we'll be late," I glance at my watch and walked over to the closet a few feet away from us. I took out a wheel chair (this school is prepared for everything), "I'm sorry Grover, I know you don't like it but we only have six and a half minutes."

He nodded and sat in the chair. I pushed him as me Thalia and Annabeth ran back to our lockers. We got our stuff and then Thalia put hers and Grover's books on his lap so she could push the chair and she started running towards science while Annabeth and I ran to math. We beat the bell by 2 seconds but Miss Dodds marked us as late anyway. I got the feeling that Annabeth was going to be hated by the demon just because she has been hanging with me.

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