Ok so this is the second chapter of my first story, Forever High. It might be a little OOC, I just wanted to emphasize the similarities and differences between Annabeth and Piper Hope you like it.

Disclaimer: I am not Rick. I do not own any of the characters in this chapter.

I got to my new school a little late. I had been up all night charting the stars. It was okay because we didn't have classes today. A few people were still walking up the steps. I tried to run, but failed because of my heavy luggage.

"You're sure you don't want help, sweetie?" My dad asked skeptically. I was determined to prove to him that I wasn't a baby anymore.

"I'm sure, dad." I said. I hoped I sounded confident. I forced myself to hide my feelings and skipped up the steps. The architecture on this building was amazing. It had columns, which gave it an old look. It also had a few towers. The building reminded me of Hogwarts. The front desk had a long line, so I was glad to see I wasn't that late.

There was a girl in front of me in line. She had brown hair that went down to her shoulders in a braid. She must have known that I was there and turned around. Her eyes were blue. No, wait, they were grey. Green? Her eyes seemed to change colors. She was beautiful, stunning. She wore only a simple yellow t-shirt and jeans.

"Hey, I'm Annabeth Chase." I said. The girl smiled genuinely.

"I'm Piper McLean. Nice to meet you."

"Are you excited? The architecture of this building is so amazing! Do you like classes?" I asked, then mentally face palmed. Of course, I had just met a new friend, and I asked about classes. She didn't seem to mind.

"Yeah. I like classes, though some days I just want to stay in bed," she joked. I smiled.

"Oi! Can you get moving up there?" Someone shouted from the back of the line. We had been so deep in discussion we didn't notice we were second in line now.

We moved up and the person currently at the desk went away. Piper stepped up. I wanted to hear what they were saying, but didn't want to intrude. After about a minute of me trying not to look at them, Piper turned away from the lady and faced me.

"Hey, I was assigned to dorm 1B. Want me to wait for you?" I smiled and nodded. She motioned from me to the desk lady. "Go on ahead." I chuckled and went to the lady.

"Name?"

"Annabeth Chase"

"Ok, sweetie. Just give me a minute to work my magic," she said. She winked, then typed away at the computer. "Ok, Annabeth." she mumbled under her breath while humming. "Annabeth." she stated louder. "Your dorm is room 1B." I wondered where I had heard that before. "Take this," she handed me a packet. "It has your schedule, rules, dorm room, important days, and some other important things." I nodded and walked over to Piper.

"So…." She said enthusiastically.

"So what?" I asked absentmindedly.

"What dorm did you get assigned to?"

"1B"

"Yay! We're roomies!" She squealed. Roomies? Roomies! Piper and I were in the same room!

Piper Pov:

When Annabeth and I got into the room, we both rushed to the opposite bed. I guess we won't have to draw straws. Annabeth set up lots of stuff with owls. She apparently really like architecture and had a whole bag full of sketches and pencils and other stuff.

"So, do you like movies?" She asked me. I gulped. Here it comes.

"Yeah. My dad is kind of big for movies."

"Oh. Mine isn't." She didn't get what I meant. My dad didn't just like movies. He was in them.

"My dad is… Uh… Well-"

"Spit it out, girlfriend!" Annabeth interrupted jokingly.

"My dad is Tristan McLean." Annabeth shrugged.

"That's cool. He's a good actor." Annabeth didn't care. Annabeth didn't care!

Finally someone who didn't care who my dad was!

I smiled from ear to ear. She looked at me strangely.

"Piper, are you ok?"

"Yeah." I reassured her. "I'm fine. I'm just so glad that we're roomies!"

Annabeth smiled. "Yeah, so am I. Hey, wanna hang out at the French-Fry-A-Fi tonight? I hear it's the best restaurant here."

"Sure! I think that will be fun."

"So, Piper…"

"What?"

"I've never really had a friend like you… Man, that sounds pathetic."

I laughed. "No it doesn't. I'm a pretty good friend." I joked.

She chuckled. "Well, what I wanted to ask you was-"

"What?" I interrupted.

We both fell to the floor laughing.

"Ok," she said wiping tears from her eyes. "Ok. So I wanted to know if you saw any cute boys."

I looked at her strangely. I hadn't seen Annabeth as a girl who would be like that.

"Ugh." She groaned. "See! I try to be a normal girl, talk about boys with her friend, and this happened. We are so undeniably tomboys!"

I chuckled. "No."

Her head tilted slightly sideways and she looked at me quizzically. "What?"

"No. I didn't see any cute boys. I had just gotten there and then you showed up and we talked the whole time."

"True, True." Annabeth said. "Wanna go check out the classrooms?" She asked excitedly. I groaned.

"Annabeth! We just got here! Today we're supposed to relax!"

"No! Today we are supposed to get to know our school. And classrooms are a very important part of our school!"

So are our beds!" I exclaimed, and dug my head into my pillow.

"Piper!"

"Annabeth!"

We eyed each other warily.

After a few minutes of silence, I couldn't stand it anymore.

"Fine! You win! We'll go out and study the classrooms." I said grouchily.

Annabeth smiled. "Mwahaha!" She laughed loudly. I chuckled.

This year was either going to end in total chaos, or total fun. With Annabeth right now, I don't know the difference between the two.

Ok! So, news. First, check out my friends fanfiction, riptidedauntlessgryffindor, she is amazing at writing.

Second, I just want to say that I update every Wednesday, in case you didn't know.

Third, review on what I can improve on! Even if you are reading this at a later time, its ok.

I will just be doing two people for a little while, but next chapter I am adding in my own character.