Hey Guys,
I know I said I won't update till after Mid-Terms but it's my Birthday today and I had just enough time to finish this. I will start updating regularly after the 20th which is when I have my last exam. Also I am really happy cause my little brother bought me a copy of House of Hades online and it will be here on the 8th of October and I am sooo excited. Anyway let's move on to the stor...
Percy: Hey Scarlet!
Me: OMG! Percy, What are you doing in my Author's Note?
Percy: Umm Annabeth told me to remind you that you're forgetting something.
Me: What?
Percy: You forgot it in the previous chapters too.
Me(Scratching her head): What did I forget?
Annabeth: Oh Your memory is worse than Seaweed Brain!
Me: Now you're here too. What is this 'attack of the main characters' or something?
Annabeth: You're forgetting something.
Me: WHAT?
Annabeth and Percy: The Disclaimer!
Me(Facepalms): I am such an idiot. Sorry.
Annabeth: Don't forget it next time.
Percy: Now can I go and eat blue cookies.
Annabeth: Yes.
Percy: Yay. (Disappears with a pop dragging Annabeth along with him.)
Me(Shaking my head): What in Hades just happened? Well anyway.
DISCLAIMER: I don't own Percy, Annabeth or the gang they belong to Rick Riordan. And anyway, if I did I wouldn't have been writing fan fiction and going crazy wondering what was going to happen in House of Hades now would I. Anyway don't mind me, please enjoy this chapter.
ANNABETH PoV
I took a deep breath as I walked to the entrance to my new school. The parking lot was filled with students, some who had just gotten there, some were waiting for their friends and some were just hanging out. Quite a few people turned to look at me as I passed by, I guess that was expected as I was the new girl who had joined in the middle of the term. I mentally cursed my mom for making me move to New York .
You see, two weeks ago my mom had showed at my Dad's house in San Francisco completely out of the blue. Apparently she felt bad for ignoring me for almost my entire life and wanted to be there for me more. She asked my dad if I could come live with her in New York and of course he more than happily agreed. I didn't even get a say in it which completely sucks and before I knew it I was already settled in my mom's penthouse.
So, now here I was. Maybe it could be a good thing. After all my life back home wasn't exactly great. I was the school nerd and didn't have any friends, my brothers and step mom hated me and my dad completely ignored me. The only good thing in my life had been Percy and when he disappeared all those years ago right after he promised that he'd always be there for me, everything just went downhill. But that was all in the past, I had just gotten a chance to start fresh and I was gonna make the best of it.
As I reached the entrance, I saw a girl with spiky black hair and punk style clothes arguing with a scrawny, pale, emo-looking kid with dark hair. Another girl with beautiful dark brown hair was standing to the side looking annoyed. I shook my head and went to the office to get my schedule.
The lady at the office handed me my schedule and I looked at it as I walked to my locker.
Annabeth Chase's Schedule:
Entry: 8:10-8:20
1st Period: Algebra, 8:20-9:13, Mrs Dodds
2nd Period: English, 9:18-10:11, Mr Gold
3rd Period: World History, 10:16-11:09, Mrs Smith
Lunch: 11:14-12:07
4th Period: Biology, 12:12-1:05, Mr Williams
5th Period: Physical Education, 1:10-2:03, Coach Hedge
6th Period: Greek, 2:08-3:01, Mr Brunner
7th Period: Architecture, 3:06-4:00, Miss Fuller
As I was reading this I felt like someone was staring at me. I looked up to see a boy around 6'3 with a swimmer's build and raven black hair staring at me from two lockers away. He was wearing a simple blue shirt under a leather jacket with a pair of Denims and black converse. A pair of sunglasses hid his eyes from view. He stared for a couple more seconds before turning to his locker, shoving a book into his backpack he closed his locker and rushed in the opposite direction of me. A blond haired guy with blue eyes that had been standing with the other guy gave me a confused glance and then disappeared in the crowd to catch up to his friend.
I felt confused and strangely nostalgic. I don't know why but the raven haired boy had seemed so familiar, like I had known him once upon a time. I sighed and pushed the thought out of my mind. I needed to get to class or I was going to be late and that was not something I wanted happening on my first day here.
After wandering around for a few minutes I finally got to my first class and took a seat in the middle of the room. The spiky haired girl I'd seen this morning was sitting on the seat next to me and was talking to the brown-haired girl who was sitting in front of her. Just then the teacher came in, she must have been around fifty years old and was wearing a leather jacket. She looked mean enough to ride a Harley right into your locker. The moment she entered the room everyone fell silent, obviously scared of her.
The class went on pretty uneventfully until about five minutes before the end of class. Mrs Dodds called upon the spiky haired girl glaring at her.
"Miss Grace, will you please tell me the answer to the question I just told you all to do?"
The girl glanced around nervously, it was evident from her expression that she had no idea what the answer was. I tilted my notebook slightly so that she could look at it properly without Mrs Dodds noticing. She glanced at the answer and then turned to the front of the room.
"Uh 15?" She said questioningly.
"Good. But I want you to pay more attention in class from next time." She said sharply. "Also I seem to notice that your cousin Mr Jackson and his friend Mr Castellan are not here. Would you by chance have any idea of their whereabouts?"
"Umm No ma'am, I don't." She said just as the bell rang.
"Very well. Next time you see them tell them to meet me after school."
With that everyone hurriedly shuffled out of the room.
"Hey." I turned around to see the spiky haired girl-okay now that's getting old-and her friend behind.
"Thanks for saving me from the old-hag back there. I'm Thalia by the way and this is my cousin Bianca Di Angelo."
"Annabeth Chase. And it was no problem."
The rest of the day I hung out with Thalia and Bianca and they told me about themselves and how their fathers were all super rich and they used their mother's maiden names in order to not attract too much attention and I told them about how my mother practically dragged to me New York to live with her. I also met Nico, Bianca's brother whom I had English with. They were all really cool people and never made me feel left out. My day was going so well that I should have known that something was going to wrong.
When Lunch came around Thalia invited me to sit with her and her friends. As she led me to the table I saw Bianca and the raven-haired kid from this morning silently arguing about something, the blonde guy was there too. As Thalia and I sat across from them the two stopped arguing and the boy looked up.
He wasn't wearing his sunglasses anymore and I could see his eyes. His beautiful intense sea-green eyes that had always reminded me of the ocean. They were exactly like I had remembered them, but instead of the playful-happiness and innocence that his eyes had shone with I saw raw pain, so intense that I wanted to look away. But I didn't instead I just stared at him and he simply stared back.
A thousand images flashed before my eyes-the two of us splashing each other at the beach-making sandcastles together-eating ice-cream on the swing set in his front lawn-making blue chocolate chip cookies with his mom. They were some of the happiest memories of my life.
I realized that everyone had grown silent and was staring at us. I didn't care though, I kept staring at my child-hood best friend who had disappeared all those years ago without so much as a goodbye. Right after he promised to always be there for me.
"Percy?" I asked my voice shaking. I didn't get my answer though as he just stood up and ran out of the room. Blonde guy looked at me then at Percy's retreating figure. Then silently cursing under his breath ran after him. The whole cafeteria was now staring at us so I gathered my stuff and left as well. Ignoring Thalia and Bianca's protests.
Percy PoV
I ran out of the cafeteria as images from my past bombarded me. The past that I had wanted to forget so badly. I ran until I reached the abandoned hallway that no one ever used. It was where I'd go whenever I had a flashback or something and only Luke and my cousins knew about it. I slid down the wall and covered my face.
I could feel the tears that were streaming down my face but I didn't care. All I could think about was my mom and Paul and how...
I was broken out of my thoughts as someone sat down beside me. I looked up to see Luke, he was looking at me with a concerned face.
"Dude" He said trying to sound casual but I could sense the worry in his words. "If your dad finds out that I keep losing track of you he's gonna kill me. So, could you please stop running away like that."
I snorted and wiped the tears from my face.
"So, What's up with you and Miss Blondie?" He asked carefully.
"She hates it when someone calls her that." I said silently and Luke gave me a questioningly. So I explained to him the situation with Annabeth and he listened patiently and when I was done he didn't say anything for a moment the he turned to me and said
"So, what are you gonna do now?" He asked when I was finished.
"I don't know. I mean I want to tell her I really do she was my best friend, heck she still is but I don't want her to get dragged into this mess. I can't put her in danger. You know what happened..." I trailed off but he understood.
"Look, lunch is almost over so we better get out of here." He said and we got up. "What are you gonna do about Thalia and the others? They're gonna want answers as to your little-whatever that was-out there."
"I don't know."
Important AN Please read.
Hey, so the winners for last chapters question are-
zeester and Just-Awesome-Old-Me.
If you could give me your email IDs i'll mail you the sneak peak from coming chapters.
Also to a Guest who reviewed in my AN, nothings gonna happen to this story. I have just put it on hold for a while till my exams are over after that am gonna be back and updating. I am sorry if I didn't make it clear in the AN.
Thanxx for reading.
-Scarlet
P.S: They just released the SOM in India and I watched it and I thought it was nice but extremely different from the book, I mean Kronos did not rise for a second in SOM that was just ridiculous. But any way what did you guys think about it? Tell me in a review it'll make my day.