This chapter is for Percy Jackson. Happy Birthday!


Chapter 3

Percy's POV

"Hey, Pipes."

"Hey, Kelp Head!"

I threw Piper a death glare, but she didn't seem to notice. Piper McLean is one of my friends. She has choppy, chocolate brown hair and kaleidoscope eyes that change from green to brown to blue. She is beautiful, but she always tries to hide herself. Take today, she is wearing scruffy jeans that have holes in from her stabbing a compass through them and drawings on the thighs, a black t-shirt with a silver hello kitty face in the front, and a pair of snow boots. Her old purple ski jacket was in the passenger seat along with her school rucksack... Where I like to sit.

"Erm, Pipes? Can I move your bag and coat please?" I mean, I never get shotgun due to Flame Boy (Leo, but he does this really cool trick when he passes his hand through fire and doesn't get burnt), her best friend, or Juniper. So when she nods I jump in straight after picking them up.

"Where's Flame Boy?" I ask after a while.

"He text me saying he has a ride with somebody else. So just you and me, Buddy-Boy."

I nod. Leo sometimes gets a ride with his 'Mystery Friend'. We still don't know who it is.

"One down and one to go. Juniper?"

"She is ill, my friend." We suddenly stopped and I was thrown forward, then back again.

I looked up and saw that a car had swerved in front of us. I read the licence plate and immediately saw it was Drew, Piper's stepsister. It said "8EAU7Y". Translating into 'Beauty', which is the complete opposite of what she is.

Drew is the sluttiest student in school. She is also the most popular, as well as her 'friends' Amber and Arielle. Below them is Thalia's gang.

On my first day at Goode High, I was sat at lunch by myself, listening to music when I felt a breath against my ear. I immediately shot up and saw Drew. She was wearing a hot pink mini-mini-skirt and a white tank top. You could see her black lacy bra underneath it. She also had black stilettos on.

"No need to jump up Hot Guy." She said with a wicked smile. She then moved uncomfortably close to me, put her hands on my shoulders, pushed me back down to my seat, then started to massage my shoulders. "I'm Drew." She whispered in my ear. "What's your name?"

I decided to play along with this for a little while. She then sat down in my lap and asked if I wanted to go to her place after school. "Sorry, I don't go out with sluts."

Her face was hilarious. She wore a confused look for a while after figuring out what I meant. "I am not a slut!" She screeched. Then she grabbed another poor kid's smoothie and poured it on my head. But it was totally worth it.

After Drew stalked away, Piper came over, introduces herself to me and explained how Drew is her stepsister, helped me clean up, gave me her lunch since mine was all raspberry and mango flavoured, then introduced me to her friends who watched the entire thing through the window.

Once I got comfortable I asked why they didn't help me, and Grover said that he spotted what I was doing.

Anyway, Piper beeped her horn while Drew threw her hands up put of the convertible and screamed at the top of her lungs.

Piper got out of the car and checked the front of it, then cursed loudly. I got out too and saw that we had scratched something. It went all along my side.

"My dad is going to kill me!" Piper shouted then started cursing again.

"Come on, Pipes. We need to pick up the Stolls. I'll fix it for you." I could fix cars. Engineering and scratches on the paint... Anything. One of my many talents.

She had calmed down. "Thanks, Perce."

We got back into the car and then I suddenly remembered about Jason's behaviour. "Hey, you have an admirer."

Piper looked shocked at first. Then said, "No I don't."

"Yes you do, and I know who it is."

I saw a little hope in her eyes. "Who?"

"Drum roll please!" I started slapping my thighs until she whacked me in the head, indicating that I should say who or I would never see sunlight again. "The one, the only, Jason Grace!" By this time we has pulled up at the Stoll's house. They were sat on the pavement waiting for us.

When they opened the door, all they heard was Piper yelling at me about how it isn't funny because I know she likes him and all that jazz.

"Whoa! Dude, did you put Piper in a bad mood?" Travis, the eldest Stoll brother, questioned.

"No! I just told her who likes her and she doesn't believe me!"

"Who likes her?" Connor asks while jumping up and down on the seat. Travis starts joining in, both chanting 'Tell us' over and over again.

"No!" Piper shouted. "I don't need to be embarrassed about it from you two too. It isn't funny Percy. The amount of times somebody has played that trick on me now is impossible to count. It hurts, Percy."

"But I am telling the truth! I'll tell you what happened exactly at school, if you don't want these two Tweedles to find out."

She thought for a moment. "Fine. Tell me at school at my locker."

I nodded, then heard a load of shouting from the back. I turned around in my seat and so did Piper. We saw the Stolls playing on the Nintendo DS's. Connor looked up at us and exclaimed: "What? It's Mario Kart. And he won." He said jabbing his thumb towards Travis.

The eldest one looked up. "Yeah, and we are not the Tweedles."

Piper and I turned back around. While Piper changed the gears I said, "Whatever you say, Tweedle-Dum." I snorted and Piper smiled a little.


"Peter Johnson! What do you think you're doing?"

I turned around to see Mr D stalking towards me. He is the 'principal' of this 'school' that hates me. His real name is Mr Dionysus, but everyone calls him Mr D.

Right now, I was stood outside his office door and had just finished my masterpiece. I had spray painted over his name, and then written Mr. Drunkard. Then I had painted wine bottles and glasses, sticking them all over his door, but I had attached a leopard print fabric to his entire door, instead of it being plain, boring brown. Around his doorframe were pink feather boas. I had used a hot glue gun for the entire sticking-and-gluing part, so it would be 99% impossible I imagine.

I looked at him innocently. "But, sir. I was just walking past your office when I stumbled across this masterpiece! I must say, this is amazing work, amazing enough to be mine, but unfortunately I did not do this. I have taken offence that you automatically assumed it was me!" I said, mockingly and dramatically, putting a hand over my heart. After my mini speech, I smirked.

"That's it. Detention! You can stay after school and clean this door up and then sit with Miss Dodds for extra maths." Horror replaced my cockiness. I hate maths, full stop. But I soon remembered who I'm meant to be.

I put my smirk back on. "Oh well. Not like I care." I walked past him. "Bye, My Drunkard!" I yelled across the reception.

I heard some sniggers and gasps. I just walked away, grinning at Thalia's little group.


"Hey, Percy."

"Hey, Jack-ass!"

I glared at the Stoll brothers. They both had curled dirty blonde hair and blue eyes. The only way to tell them apart is by their height. Travis, the eldest, is taller by an inch or so.

"Hey, Tweedles!" I got a glare from both of them, but everyone else in the group laughed at their new nickname. I looked around the group.

It was lunch so we were all sat under a tree in the school gardens. Sat on my left was Grover Underwood. He has curly red hair and brown eyes. He has a disorder with the muscles in his legs, so he has to use crutches.

Next to him was his girlfriend, Juniper Bush. She has slightly pointed ears, with green eyes and auburn hair. Her hands are have been tinted a pale green, since she works with the plants all day. Then Katie Gardner. She has brown hair and mud brown eyes. She has a crush on Travis that everyone knows about apart from him. Travis was sat next to her, and was blushing at how close Katie had sat next to him. Travis also had a crush on Katie, but we don't know why they won't ask each other out! Next to Travis was Connor, who had a notepad out. It's his 'Supreme Prank Book' as he calls it. He writes about all the pranks he must do to people, and then ticks them off when done. Next was Leo Valdez, who was messing with a few pipe cleaners, some paperclips and everything else he could find in his pocket. He has curly, dark brown hair and brown eyes. He looks like Latino Santa's elf.

Will Solace was next to him, eating his sandwich while getting a tan. He has blonde hair, bright blue eyes and teeth that blind you when any source of light shines on them. Then there was Piper, sat next to me. I smiled at her and then she glared back at me. We both chuckled.

"So, Perce. Heard you got DT." Travis said.

"Yeah, I have to sit with Miss. Dodds and do maths until six." Yep, nearly a whole extra hour of maths, not counting the door cleaning.

"What did you do this time?" Connor asked.

"I decorated Mr. D's door. It's still up if you want to see it."

Will stood up and legged it along with everyone else, apart from Piper. She grabbed m arm and pulled me to the lockers. "Come on. You need to tell me what happened."

I nodded and grinned.


"So, that's it?"

I nodded. I could see the excitement flowing from Piper. We were currently stood next to her locker, and she was drinking from her Pepsi-Cola can. I, on the other hand, was eating my cheese, ham and ready salted crisp sandwich. It is the best.

Piper smiled. I smiled with her. "So, he really likes me? You're not lying?"

"Yes, and no."

She laughed. I can't believe somebody likes me. That is huge, never mind the fact that it's Jason Grace!"

I nodded and said, "Oh my gods, it's a 'Dear Diary' moment." (A/N: Whoever knows where this quote is from will get a shout out!)

Piper punched my arm. "Still, Jason Grace? Wait, will it be weird for you if we do end up going out?"

I shook my head. "No, why?"

"Since, he is Thalia's brother. And I know you and Jason get along, but Thalia seriously hates you. And we are going to be hanging out, so he might sit with us, or I might sit with them, or we might sit by ourselves."

I frowned. "Nope. Just talk to him first. The Halloween party is in a few weeks, he might ask you and you could go in matching costumes!"

She scowled and punched my shoulder. "Shut up. Like he would ask me to the Halloween dance."

We had entered the library. "He would! Hey, what you doing tonight?"

"Erm, one min." She unlocked her new I-Phone 5 and went onto her Reminders app. "Nothing, why?"

"You can come over if you want. Pizzas and movie. Voila! I have perfect alone time."

"So, why do I need to come over?"

"You and Jason can have some alone time and then you can both realise that you are both in love with each other-"

"We are not in love."

"-And ask each other out to the dance and then become the happiest married couple."

"Ok, I'll come over. But you will let us watch the movie and eat the pizza with you."

I groaned. "Fine. But you two can order your own."

She nodded. "Great. Now come on. I want to see your masterpiece."

We both laughed and ran towards Mr. D's office.


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