A/N: Shout out to Shiely Anne who not only stole a bit of my dedication on my first chapter for them for her Valedictorian Speech but also for planning to treat me, Georgina, and Cenon to the mall today and also to Dana who can't join us today. Don't worry, it won't be the last time we'll hang out. Right now, enjoy your quality time with your family.

GoddessOfArchitecture: Wow... Thanks. I like that part too. It was funny for me since I didn't like Ethan (At the fourth book.)

Codegeasslover: Thank you. It's- uhmm.. Yep! But it's more of Annabeth sacrificing her love for Percy because she saw how he could make her best friend happy and just torture herself as she watched(and maybe help a little bit) them grew closer together. It's a little something that could help the answer to the famous question, "What would you choose? Love or Friendship." But yeaaaahhh.. I think we could consider it a love triangle. Could we? I never understood the concept of it.

Disclaimer: I do not own Percy Jackson and the Olympians

9 years later…

"I'm leaving!" I announced to the whole house as I shut the door. I could hear my stepmother's faint voice saying good-bye through the close door. I ran off the porch and met up with Thalia in Aegis.

Aegis was her old pick-up truck that she named after a petrifying shield because her truck could literally paralyze any over-protective parents with its old parts that could fall apart the moment it exceed to three passengers. Thalia loved it though. It was the first car that she bought on her own.

Thalia and I had become great friends after the incident at the playground. Silena, Grover, and I just took her in our little group of friends. As we grow older, the four of us got really close but then Silena and Grover got too busy with their clubs and school works that they barely had enough time to hang out with us so it was just usually just me and Thalia. We spent so much time together that we even consider ourselves sisters.

"Took you long enough." She said.

She was wearing her "Death to Barbie" t-shirt, black leather jacket, jeans, and boots. The perfect outfit to wear if you want someone like Drew Tanaka to stay away from you which is exactly her goal in her daily life.

"Sorry." I said as I got in the vehicle. Polka music was blaring in the radio, something that Thalia never appreciated. "I had to make sure I haven't forgotten anything."

She rolled her eyes, "Of course. Everything has to be perfect."

"Everything has to be ready," I corrected "Will you just drive?"

"Touchy…" Thalia muttered as she started the engine.

After a few minutes of driving and Thalia cursing her radio, we finally arrived in Goode High where everything is "good".

Goode High was originally founded in New York but because of its "good qualities" and special awards, it started to form branches all over America including in the little town of New Groove, San Francisco. In contrast to the reviews Goode High was receiving, I do not think that this Goode is exceptionally good. Most of the teachers are lazy and biased, a lot of students are just kiss ups and rich kids who bribe their way to the top, and the principal is a bitter middle-aged man who hates children.

If you're just a middle class student like me, surviving that school for even a year would be a wonderful miracle. I'm a bit jealous with Thalia since it's her last year in Goode; meanwhile I'm stuck in that school for another two years. Where's the justice in that?

The school itself isn't very large but the school grounds is. We went to the office and found a nervous looking Grover coming out of it.

"Grover, you look like you were just chosen to compete in the Hunger Games." Thalia said

"Can you blame me?!" Grover exclaimed "Mr. D is as scary as hell."

"Mr. D's early today?" I asked. Normally, Mr. D, the principal arrives before lunch so he could meet up with the trouble makers of the day and be done with it so he could finish playing Pac-man at home. Maybe a new school year is a new start.

Grover nodded his expression calming down, "Apparently, we have a new teacher and student that he has to welcome. He assigned me to be the student's welcoming committee then yelled about new children messing up his morning."

Or maybe he's still the same. I knew it, that bitter old man would never change.

"Well… That's it. Screw our schedule. I'm not going in there" Thalia said, glaring at the office door.

"Thalia…." I started

"No way, Annie. There is no way I'm going in there. He hates everyone and we both know the feeling's mutual."

I started panicking along with Grover that I even forgotten to scold her for calling me Annie. I put a finger over my lips, pleading her to keep quiet. "Do you want to get in trouble? Again! On the first freaking day of school."

Grover started nibbling on the collar on his shirt, "You really don't want him to hear you talking like that. He's really pissed because he missed his morning routine."

Thalia waved her hand off, "He'll be too busy ranting to his secretary to even bother."

As Thalia's best friend since childhood, I was used to her acting like this and I know no amount of pleading will get her to stay out of trouble. I rubbed my temple and sighed, "Well… If you don't want to go in then I will."

Thalia grinned, "Good luck then."

"Some best friend you are." I muttered as my hand went towards the door. Thalia laughed.

"Well… I have to go." Grover said before I could open the door. "Good luck."

"You too, Grover."

He's going to need it. Since the town is so small and everyone practically lived here their whole lives, having a new kid in our school is a really rare event in our school so not only does Grover had to worry about showing the new kid around but also answering the questions of hundreds of our schoolmates like if the new kid's a boy or a girl and if it is, is it cute? Just these kinds of questions.

I was going to need luck too. I took a deep breath before twisting the door knob then entered the room, not expecting Thalia to follow me inside where we found Mr. D yelling at his secretary, a bored looking woman who was chewing bubblegum as she typed away on her computer.

"…Don't want to tour that new teacher Pete Blowfish-"

"Paul Blowfis, sir." The secretary corrected, sounding as bored as she looked

"Yes, whatever and-"Mr. D stopped talking and practically glared at us, "Annie bell Connors and Tammy Grey! Why are you not in your class?! Finally decided that you're too good for school too?"

Mr. D had a very chubby face, a red nose, and curly hair so black, it looks purple. A running rumor said that he dyed it to be like that because a natural hair color like that is just not usually possible. His blue eyes are watery and bloodshot, probably from drinking too much and regretting of getting a job as a principal. He's wearing his favorite leopard-spot Hawaiian shirt and purple running shoes but all of us doubt that he can even run.

He also never says our names right just to show that he cares little about us.

"Uh...Uhm..." I looked at Thalia for a moment before speaking up, "I- We're here to get our schedule and classes doesn't start until 8 sir."

He looked at his secretary, "Well… give Alison and Teresa their schedules, locker numbers, and what-not."

The secretary handed us our schedules, "Annabeth Chase and Thalia Grace."

Thalia grimaced at the sound of her last name but said thank you with me as he sent us out of his office.

The last sound we heard before we closed the door was Mr. D talking to his secretary, "Tell Chiron to do the tour guide thingy for Blowfish. I have more important matters to attend to, like beating Blinky."

"We did it." Thalia said, "We survived Professor Snape's office."

The two of us laughed, "I thought you said you weren't going to come?" I said

She looked at me with confusion, "Annie, you're like a little sister for me. Why would I let you send yourself to hell without me going with you?"

"It wasn't that bad." I argued

She laughed, "You're right. I just like making jokes about him." She said as she checked her schedule then her watch and made a tsk sound. "I have to go. Apparently, my teacher for homeroom is everyone's favorite ex Pre-Algebra teacher who followed us to high school. Mrs. Dodds."

I scrunched my nose in disgust, "Lucky you." I said sarcastically

"See you later,Annabeth." She said before leaving

I checked my own schedule, having a bit of hard time comprehending the schedule because of my dyslexia.

The only good thing about Goode is that no one teases you about dyslexia because there are lots of kids in this school who has it along with ADHD. We used to joke that only one person had it but then it spread because someone touched that person. It was like in kindergarten, when kids fear a cootie infection but everyone got infected anyway.

My first class was Homeroom with Paul Blowfis, the new teacher that they were talking about at the office earlier. Since I knew that Chiron, our Latin teacher, was still or is going to be showing the new teacher around, I didn't hurry to my first class. Instead, I went to my locker to place my things because my shoulder was feeling numb from my full loaded backpack.

As I walk through the student infested hallway, I stared at the new decorations of the school. A big cliché banner that read, "Goode is good," hanged on the ceiling. The different posters and flyers for the school clubs were sticked on the walls and thrown on the floors. The janitor/ security guard, Argus was already sweeping through the mess the students made.

"On the first freaking day…" I heard him mutter, "Early in the morning… How fast can these children make a mess?"

I felt sorry for him as I passed through the lockers, trying to find mine. I looked at each number carefully so I wouldn't miss my number when I felt a great force slam into me. I wasn't normally clumsy or weak but I was so unprepared that I fell. The only thing I could do before falling was grabbing something for support but unfortunately, I grabbed something which was falling with me. It ended up on top of me.

That's when I noticed how it was moving like it was alive and how it smelled like salt water. I realized that there was a person on top of me. I screamed and pushed the person off. My mind just processed that the person who was on top of me was a boy. He had a shock expression on his face, like he just seen a bear in a tutu dancing a part in Swan Lake. He stood up and ran off, crying out, "Sorry!"

"Watch where you're going!" I yelled out throwing the only thing I had, my heavy backpack which didn't get far enough. It didn't matter anyway, he was already long gone. I groaned in frustration and grabbed my things back then started to look for my locker where I took out my anger and shoved everything, including my backpack in. The bell rang almost immediately. I went to my first class with Mr. Blowfis where I tried to forget the black haired, green eyed boy who I've never seen before and how fell on top of me and just took off like that.

A/N: So there it is.. A short chapter. I fell ashamed... But I couldn't concentrate. It's so freaking hot and what bothers me is that I'm not the one that caused it. Sorry for the wrong grammar, spelling, and punctuation mistakes that I've made. Please Fave and Follow this story if you like it and leave a Review to help my self-esteem , to help me realize my mistakes or just to tell me to get off the internet and get a life. Thank you!