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(Percy Jackson, Cassandra Clare, Divergent fics)

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Miss. Waters

Chapter 8

After that, swim classes met regularly every Tuesday, after dinner. Other than the 'I will bitch-slap you if you look at my man' looks from Rachel, every so often, things were fine.

Actually, whenever Rachel didn't give her that look, she was pretty nice. If only Rachel knew that she wasn't out to get her 'man'. If Rachel knew that, then they could be good friends.

Classes went on, out of all of them, she liked Architecture Design the best. She thought that Basics of Architecture was just a tad too basic, Greek Mythology was just a tad too easy, English was okay, the books were fine, just a tad too boring, and Math was just...math, a tad too mathy. If that was even possible. Gosh, she'd used tad a lot in those past thoughts.

Architecture Design gave her ideas on how to design Olympus. It had been already two months into school, and no one knew the 'Architect who's building this awesome Olympus' yet. News had traveled that Olympus was being redecorated, not by the Gods themselves, but by a demigod. That was an uproar.

Over all, her life was a tad too normal, sometimes; she wished for something weird and interesting to happen.

Her trips to Olympus were every two months, and each time she went for a week, so her first time going to Olympus...was just in a few days.

Annabeth's grades were fine, reaching her desired goal each and every time. Though that didn't come with good things either.

Ever since the whole student body discovered she was...educationally advanced, her name had been dubbed 'Nerdette'. Malcolm, one of her, uh...half-brothers, was dubbed thee 'Nerdy'. Her social class in the school had hit rock bottom. Not that she cared much anyways.

The whole time Piper and Thalia had stuck with her. Piper fared better, as 'not-to-Aphrodite girl', whatever that was supposed to mean, Thalia...Thalia fared better than the both-Piper and Annabeth-combined.

The others got stunned by the Aphrodite kids' amazing looks, and immediately, they were skyrocketed to the top. But not as far as the Big Three got. If you drew the social pyramid of DAFT, then it would probably be-starting from the bottom-Athena, bunch-of-other-cabins, Aphrodite, then a few million blank spaces that Annabeth didn't know, or rather, didn't care, to name, then the Big Three.

Percy was dubbed as 'cute, hot Poseidon's son', Jason, 'hot, charming Zeus's son', Nico as 'death's emo kid', then Thaila 'Zeus's Goth Girl'.

It was like no one bothered with names here. At least 'Nerdette' still was friends with 'cute, hot, Poseidon's son', so that was one of the comforts she got.

What was up with people and smart people? After all, chances are, you were going to end up working for a nerd in the future anyways.

"Hey, Nerdette! Can I borrow your math homework?" It was another Apollo kid, flaunting with his hot-shot bow in flames. He had a flame-resistant glove in one hand. The arrows were on fire, though the wood didn't burn.

The flame flickered dangerously close to Annabeth's homework. She stared warily at the kid.

Hold it back. They're not worth your tears.

The name stung, but she didn't cry.

She opened her mouth to-what, protest? Scream?-just as her homework caught on fire.

Yelping, she scrambled up and took off her jacket, madly beating at it, trying to take the fire out. Suddenly it was gone, and the paper was soaked. She looked up to see Percy, glaring at the Apollo kid.

"I can't believe I need to look after you Apollos; stupid flaming weapons," Percy muttered.

The Apollo guy looked momentarily shocked, like he was thinking, Why's he defending an Athena girl?; then his face expressed fear, which Annabeth savored. Clearly, irritating a kid of the Big Three wasn't a good choice.

He quickly recovered however, and had the nerve to look casual, shoving his hands into his front jean pockets, the flaming weapons disappearing altogether, and leaning back against the wall, all laid back and cool. Pathetic, she spat mentally at him, and she wanted to sock him in the nose to wipe that smug smile on his face.

Let's see how cool and tough you look with your pretty little face bleeding! she snarled in her thoughts.

Almost as if he read her mind, Percy growled, "Out!", and pointed out the doorway.

When the boy stood still, shocked by his sudden command, Percy repeated, more menacingly, "OUT! And I don't want to catch any of your lot messin' with her again!" Then, for good measure, he added, "Oh, and by the way, her name is Annabeth, NOT Nerdette."

Finally coming to his senses, the Apollo kid finally managed to nod vigorously in agreement, before plastering a smirk on his face as he turned to look at me while exiting the doorway, like, Oh, so you need Prince Charming to come to the rescue as your knight in shining armor, huh? No such luck next time, Nerdette!

When he finally disappeared, she let out a sigh of relief, and Annabeth noticed, that Percy had a more relaxed rather than tensed up posture.

Annabeth smiled at him and whispered a small, "Thanks."

Percy hadn't really talked to her; actually she hadn't seen him except for the occasional Lunch or dinner and the swimming classes. The swimming classes were the best times of her week, actually.

"So, I'll see you at lunch?" Percy asked, ignoring her thank you, or maybe he hadn't heard, shoving his hands into his pockets.

"Yeah."

~*LINE BREAK*~

She breathed; she was leaving tomorrow for Olympus to take a look around at the progress. Annabeth would be gone for a week.

She bought her usual lunch-a hamburger, fries, the such, and water, just for good measure on cutting the calories she consumed everyday since she didn't do much exercise. Not that she was concerned with her weight, but still...-and sat down at her usual spot at the table with Thalia and Piper The usual banter ran across the table. It usually consisted of 'Did you hear...?', 'What was homework for_?', or 'Can I copy yours?' kind of stuff.

"Did you hear that Jason hooked up with that Demeter girl?" Thalia was saying to Piper.

Annabeth decided to try and politely interrupt their gossipy conversation to break the news that she'd be gone for a week. "Hey, guys, look, I'll be leaving for-"

However, she was cut off by Piper saying, "Are you serious? Th-that...whatever, I don't like him anyways..."

"I know, but really, it must've stung," Thalia said, insistently teasing Piper.

"Uh, guys I need-" Annabeth started again, but once again, was interrupted by Piper, who made a feeble attempt to change the subject to homework.

"What was homework? I think this time we're learning trig."

"Oh, it was page 234 and 235," Thalia said, taking the bait.

"Can I-"

"How about homework for history? Oh shoot, I forgot, give me your homework to copy down!"

"Piper, Thalia, I need to-" Annabeth tried again.

On this particular day, Rachel decided to grace them with her presence.

"Hey, girls!" she chirped, and sat down next to Annabeth.

She groaned; there was no way in hell that she was going to get even a word into this conversation now. She just sat there and listened, pitching in every so often.

After her afternoon classes were done, she wrote a note, folded it, and dropped it in the mail box in front of the boy's dormitories. It was for Percy to tell him she wouldn't be able to make it to Tuesday's lesson.

Arriving at her room she breathed in. She took out a duffel bag and started packing up for the trip to Olympus