High School Never Ends

Bowling for Soup

4 years you think for sure

That's all you've got to endure

All the total dicks

All the stuck up chicks

So superficial so immature

Then when you graduate you take a look around

And say 'Hey wait!'

This is the same as where I just came from

I thought it was over, aw that's great

The whole damn world is just as obsessed

With who's the best dressed and who's having sex

Who's got the money and who's got the honeys?

Who's kinds cute and who's just a mess

And you still don't have the right look

And you still don't have the right friends

Nothing changed besides the faces the names and the trends

Artemis didn't gap, she just stared, her jaw practically hitting the floor.

"But you are right." Tucker said in a monotone tilting his head slight to the right. "You, Apollo, Hades and Aphrodite, right." He continued to question. Artemis didn't say anything just struggled with the right words to tell him. Tucker waited, leaning backwards as she blinked and pushed hair out of her face.

"Psshhhh… Where did you get that crazy idea, p-psycho?" Artemis quickly snapped trying not to look like she was going through one of the hardest things in her life. Tucker glanced her up and down, black eyes hard, as if scanning her for any sigh of weakness.

"It's a little more obvious then you believe. But I've been watching you and quickly it became a simple answer but one people like me believe it." Tucker said calmly in a monotone.

"People like…. You?" Artemis questioned tilting her head. The idea brewed in the back of her mind but she refused to think about it. It was impossible that Tucker was one of… them.

"People like me, demigods." Tucker said blinking quietly. Artemis bit her lip.

"You're kidding with me right, t-that's impossible! You're in high school how come no one has got to you yet." Artemis snapped. Tucker smirked holding up a finger.

"So you are a goddess." He declared. Artemis' face flushed over and she leaned forward onto the desk trying to look like she was interested in the work in front of her and no at all at his words.

"Y-You're just crazy and you have no proof!" Artemis growled trying not to look over at Tucker even as her gaze drifted back.

"Ah-ha, I do have proof!" Tucker exclaimed. Before Artemis had time to react, Tucker and torn a piece of paper from his binder and ran it sharply along one of her fingers.

"Ouch!" Artemis cried her finger flying back to her chest cradling in with her other hand. Tucker was behind her in under a second pointing to the cut with a hand on his hip.

"Golden blood, only greek gods have golden blood." Tucker exclaimed a sly smile slipping it's way onto his face. Artemis glared for a second. No way was she going to give up at that. Before she could think of a smart reply Evan was back and sat down next to her. He blinked at her finger.

"Paper cut?" He questioned. Artemis nodded but didn't make any move toward him as she wiped away the golden blood on her jeans.

"It's fine, back off!" She snapped standing up and slinging her bag over she shoulder and following the other student out of the class room in a desperate attempt to rid herself of all contact of the mortal kind. Apollo found her someone with in seconds put the normal friendly arm around her shoulders.

"So, sis-,"

"Shut it!" Artemis interrupted flinging his arm off of her and heading for her locker. Apollo watched her with wide eyes, half hurt, and half in the mood to simply tease her. Brushing blonde locks of hair out of his eyes and turned and walked away catching up quickly to a scary looking Hades. Apollo looked like a ball of sunlight beside the dark gloomy Hades. Hades cast a black eyed glance at Apollo who returned it with a beaming smile and a poke in the arm.

"Back off, sunny boy." He growled. Apollo's smile only got wider as he winked knowingly.

"Artemis is being a bum and being grouchy so I'm going to come and annoy you and instead, kay?" Apollo said rather girlishly. No not girlishly, Apollo is not girlish. Hades rolled his eyes.

"Are you planning something, sunny boy?" He said stopping at a locker he attempted to call his own. Apollo paused for a second before smirking.

"Partly, I really want you to give up on this bet, Aphrodite said she's giving up because of the lack of Ares in the area," Apollo paused and cringed slightly. "And we all know how bad Ares can get when someone flirts with Aphrodite." Hades chuckled.

"Not going down that alley way again are we buddy?" He said bringing his gaze back to Apollo's golden gaze.

"Aphrodite is the one goddess I can't not get to give me anything, and look I'm the god of the freakin' sun! She's the goddess of love. Sun and love just go together, it's like Hawaii. It's warm in Hawaii and a ton of people go there after getting married!" Apollo said frowning with concentration.

"You do know that Hera is the goddess of marriage, not Aphrodite." Hades said dryly. Apollo paused before blushing.

"Didn't think that one over very well, oops!" Apollo said scratching the back of this neck nervously. Hades laughed darkly, scaring a few boys nearby for the rest of their life. "Dude, you need to stop doing that."

"Whatever, sunny boy, see you at home and there is no way I'm losing that bet against you and your silly sister!" Hades said smirking like a mad man as he left the school with a wave of his hand. Apollo sighed defeated before pouting and heading for his own locker.

~3~

Artemis wasn't angry at what she came home to, she was enraged.

A certain sea god's son was standing awkwardly next to certain death god son who was staring at the ceiling. The second the sea god's son met eyes with Artemis and put on a small smile she was ready to yell at the three of them.

"Why in the world are you three here!" She cried out. Percy searched for the right word but Nico came up with it quicker meeting stares with Artemis.

"Just, visiting," Nico said monotone. Percy smiled brightly choosing to go along with Nico's words. Artemis narrowed her eyes and looked at the three.

"There aren't any more of you are there? Demigods are so annoying." Artemis groaned. "Always showing up when you don't want them too." She pointed the last few words at Percy. She never liked him, Apollo on the other hand.

"Hey look at the little demigods!"

Artemis groaned and rolled her eyes as the sun god pushed open the door smiling like it was the best day of his life. Well he always looked like that. Percy's face lit up into a true smile at the sight of the sun god. After Percy had become the 'world's savior' Apollo had taken an interest in him and quickly began to grow on him.

"Oh look its, sunny boy." Nico growled shifting his weight onto his other foot and crossing his arms firmly across his chest. Nico had never liked Apollo, much like his father, and also had started the nickname of 'sunny boy' which Hades had quite liked. Apollo's smile faltered his eyes growing slightly annoyed. Nico only seemed to respond to the look with bright smirk that could have belonged to Apollo himself. Even the death god's sun can pull off a look like that.

"Oh look its… obnoxious kid," Apollo said failing horribuly at his insult at Nico. Nico chuckled.

"Nice try loser."

Nico and Percy XD

I just had to bring them in.

I know they are most likely out of character, that's why I like to use my own characters in storys and if I have to use character's from a book one that aren't as known as others. Percy and Nico are, although.

But hey,

I got a chapter up =)

~Tonka Toy

(I don't own anything besides Salvatore, Evan, Elizabeth, Darb, and Tucker.)