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Percy

BEEP-BEEP, BEEP-BEEP

I woke up to the sound of my screeching alarm clock and I draped my arm wearily across to the nightstand to turn it off. Unfortunately my muscles seemed to be a bit unresponsive this morning and instead I knocked over the nightstand itself which crashed to the floor.

"Percy? What was that?" called my mother.

"Err… nothing." I said, not very convincingly.

I let my head drop face first into the pillow groaned. Don't get me wrong, my mother's the nicest person on earth but she's probably the second most person in the world I wouldn't want to be mad at me.

"Well can you get up please, or you'll be late for school." School? Ugh.

After about three minutes of attempting to heave myself up, the covers were suddenly flung off me and my mom stood over me, shaking her head.

"Come on, up."

"Fine." I murmured.

I dragged myself out of the bed and walked to the shower whilst my mom went to make breakfast. Boy let me tell you, as a son Poseidon, nothing beats a shower or a bath (except for blue cookies of course).

After the long awaited shower, I hoped out feeling refreshed and raring to go, got dressed and made my way to the living room. As I entered I couldn't help but be reminded of the toothless walrus that was Gabe, always leaving beer cans everywhere and those nauseating cigars. I grimaced at the memory.

Thankfully we had redecorated the house after he left, with light sea blue wallpaper and a new couch against the wall with a coffee table and TV. It was modest but still very homely. At the opposite end of the living room I could see the fire escape, on which in the small patch of earth stood the moonlace I had planted over a year ago.

"Honey, breakfast is ready."

"Coming." I replied

I followed the warm voice of my mom into the kitchen and found her sitting opposite me on the table with Paul (my stepdad) on her left. On the table lay a plate that lured me in with the sight and sugary smell of blue pancakes. Seriously, how does she make this?

As I sat and began enjoying the pancakes, Paul put down his newspaper and took a sip of coffee. He and my mom had gotten married over the summer which was both an odd and brilliant thing at the same time.

"You ready for the first day of school?" he asked me.

"As ready as I'll ever be I guess"

Heck, Annabeth and I got through Tartarus. I'm pretty sure I can manage high school.

After we finished breakfast, me and Paul got our things together and said goodbye to Mom.

"Bye sweetie." She said giving me a warm hug "Remember, no taking advantage of the other kids, especially in swimming." She ordered.

"Don't worry, I won't."

"And don't listen to any bullies." She told me, gripping my arm "They're a tenth of the man you are and have no idea what you've been through."

"Yeah okay mom." I answered, not wanting to be reminded of any painful memories and eager to be released from her vice grip.

She let me go and gave Paul a smooch on the lips (to which I told them promptly to get a room) and we left the apartment, went down the staircases to the car.

As we drove to the high school, Paul said to me, "Sally told me what you did over the summer. I want you to know I'm incredibly proud of you, but that doesn't excuse you from learning Shakespeare this semester however."

"I'm looking forward to it." I replied sarcastically.

You see Paul's not just my stepdad, he's also an English teacher at Goode. I know, fantastic isn't it?

We arrived outside Goode high and drove into the parking lot. We got out and walked toward the entrance, Paul pointed me to the left and I looked to see that an elementary and middle school phase of Goode had been built since I was last here. I saw a young girl with golden brown hair skipping toward the elementary school.

Paul waved goodbye, wished me luck on my first day and strolled off merrily to his classroom to get ready for the first lesson of the day.

I walked in through the double doors and thankfully there weren't many people in the hallway to stare at me, even so that didn't help the looks that two girls in the corner were giving me… definitely Empousai, I'll have to avoid them in the near future.

I walked down the corridor and found to my left, a door that lead to the reception, I knocked and walked in to pick up my lesson schedule. The first thing that hit me was the stench of perfume, wow, I doubt even the Aphrodite camper's use this much in a day.

Cringing, I walked up to the desk and asked the large woman on the computer with a head of scraggly hair, "Umm, excuse me, can I get my schedule here?" she gave me a yellowish toothy grin. Thankfully, the mist had been used to cover my absences and give me passes on most of my subjects for the previous year so I wouldn't have to spend longer explaining anything to her.

"Of course, what's your name dear?"

"Percy Jackson."

"Okay, here you go." She said, handing me a white piece of paper. "Have a nice day."

"Yeah, err, you too." Well she was creepy.

I left and checked my lessons for today, unfortunately it took a while for me to decipher it as the letters began moving. I must of looked like I was struggling because a teacher came over and asked if I needed any help, I told him no and probably went a bit red. I finally deciphered it and found that after home room I had math. Brilliant.

Thinking of maths suddenly reminded me that Annabeth was also attending Goode this year, I'd better go and find her. I sped up and turned the corner only to walk into a beefy guy about my height and sent him sprawling onto the floor. He had a buzz cut and a very square shaped head with a prominent nose.

His two shorter lackeys helped him up, they both had quite round faces and large bodies, they reminded me a little of Frank before his 'growth spurt'.

"What do you think you're doing you runt?" The one with the buzz cut asked and leaned in to me although he didn't look completely confident about it "You better watch yourself Jackson, one of these days you're going to-" He cut off looking beyond me with what looked like fright and then turned back to me and murmured "Lucky punk." Before hightailing it down the hallway.

I was wondering what an earth had just happened when someone tapped me on the shoulder. I turned to find the pair of stunning grey eyes and blonde hair that I was looking for.

Annabeth jumped toward me and gave me a bear hug that Tyson would be proud of.

"There you are! I've been looking for you for ages." She told me.

I beamed and returned the hug, taking in the sweet smell of lemons.

"Well I'm glad you're here. I've missed you so much since everyone went different ways."

"Percy, it's been like three days, but still that's really sweet."

We let go of our embrace and she noticed the schedule in my hand and swiped it from me turning her back to me to stop me taking it back. She scanned it doing that cute frown she does when she reads.

"Looks like we've both got home room and maths together." She said.

"You sound disappointed." I chuckled, wrapping my arms around her from behind and she laughed.

"Come on seaweed brain" She smiled and entwined her fingers with mine.

As we walked to our class we passed two teens arguing, one was pretty tall; probably 6'4 with dark brown hair, but despite his huge appearance and well-built stature, he didn't seem like any jock. The other was much shorter and probably a few grades below him, he also had brown hair but it was lighter and much messier.

As we passed them I caught some of their conversation.

"What were you thinking? Coming back at like ten in the evening and apologising, what where you even doing out for so long anyway?" Asked the taller guy.

"I don't know I just… met some dude and he was pretty cool."

"That's what they all are, don't tell me you went to his house or something."

"No, he wasn't like that. Look I'm sorry I was out so long and for shouting at you."

"No, I'm sorry for being such a douche these past few weeks…"

They're conversation slowly became inaudible as we rounded another corner. Weirdoes.

"I didn't know you were such a menace to the jocks." I told Annabeth.

"Yeah, well he tried to come on to me earlier."

"Oh really, what did you do?"

"Well I'll just say that he was running away from me when he bumped into you."

Eventually we came up to our home room and we stared at the door, ready to start high school after one hell of a summer, literally.

Annabeth looked at me, trying to read my thoughts. "Look, I know summer was pretty horrific but it's all over now. No more monsters, titans, giants or old sleepy head down there." She gestured to the floor.

"Yeah, you're right." She lent up to me and kissed me on the cheek and hand in hand, we entered our home room.

A voice greeted us as we entered. "Ah, Percy and Annabeth is it? I'm Mrs Dodds and I'll be your homeroom teacher."

I've been a bit under the weather a bit recently and I've got GCSE's and all that jazz to do (yeah not the best time to start writing but hey) so I'm not sure how fast I'll be writing, especially with the poor exam papers. The education system in the UK is literally run by an evil Orang-utan on a typewriter. No joke, it's awful.

Anyways, thanks for the reviews: 'Me' I'd like to thank you for my first review ever, glad you enjoyed and I hope you like this one. Big up to 'SirPepsi' (whom I suggest everyone check out), thanks for the review and just being a stand-up guy. I know the wording is a bit incoherent at times but that's just how I write really, sorry. 'Guest' thank you for the 'lovely' review hope you enjoy this chapter as well.

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Have a beautiful day.

Haben Sie einen schönen Tag.

Avoir une belle journée.

Mają piękny dzień.

Avere una bella giornata.

Ha en härlig dag.

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