I do not own PJO; if I did I wouldn't be writing fanfic. I would be sitting around laughing to myself while I torture the rest of the world by making them wait 4 more months for MoA.

Sorry about the long delay from updating, last week was finals week and I worked 36 hours this weekend so I didn't really have time to post. I will be more consistent now that it is summer.

I realized I had 2 teachers named smith so I changed one.

I have the rough drafts for the next 2 chapters written and will be posting them sometime tomorrow. For Chapter 8 I know what I'm going to write I just need to know who's POV you all want it in, Percy; Annabeth; Thalia or someone else, P.S. chapter 8 is entitled housewarming party. Let me know what you think.

Again sorry about the delay, ENJOY.

Percy's POV

As I walked to class hand in hand with Annabeth I couldn't help the huge smile that was plastered on my face. I glanced over and saw that she had an identical smile on her face. I bent down and kissed her on the cheek.

She looked at me smiling, "What was that for?"

I told her, "I'm just so happy you are here."

She smiled even brighter, and got up on her tiptoes to kiss me. Before the kiss could really go anywhere we were interrupted by Thalia.

"Annabeth I know he can't control himself because his head is full of kelp, but please show a little self control." We pulled apart blushing. "Now come on are you really going to make your best friend walk into this classroom full of strangers alone?"

"Oh my, is the lieutenant of the hunt, who faces down the worst monsters in the world scared of high school students?" I joked.

"I'm not scared," she growled at me, "but just so you know, high school girls can be way worse than any monster. They are ruthless."

With that we walked into our homeroom, which was pretty full, laughing. Paul was sitting behind his desk, so we walked over to him. "Hey Paul," I said causing him to look up, in school he is supposed to be Mr. Blofis, "look who I found wandering around."

Paul looked over finally noticing the other two and said, "Annabeth and Thalia it's so good to see you what are you doing here?"

"My mom needs me in New York so we are going to be attending school here this year." Annabeth told him as he gave her a hug. Just then the bell rang so we went to the three open seats on the side of the room opposite the door.

Paul stood up in front of the class and addressed everyone. "Alright, welcome to another year here at Goode. I expect us to have a great year together. As you all know you are juniors this year, so those of you who were here last year will be assigned a freshman to mentor. Mrs. Smith and I are in charge of the mentoring program so if you have any questions, feel free to ask either of us. She should be here any moment with who your assignments are." As if on cue Mrs. Smith walked in right after he said this. She started to pass out manila folders with the name of our freshman, a picture of them, and a small survey they filled out.

Mrs. Smith is a short, old lady with gray hair, and she always wears weird sweaters. She looks like a vulture, with her long neck and long nose sticking out like a pointed beak. We hate each other. It would be one thing if she was just mean, I could deal with that. The worst part was she teaches math, my worst subject. With my dyslexia I always get a headache staring at the problems that just keep changing and getting more mixed up, so eventually I either start looking off into space or sleeping. This almost always results in a detention.

I was thinking about the 87 detentions I got from her last year and didn't even realize she had reached my desk until she threw my envelope down in front of me.

"You can tell your freshman that since he decided to make jokes in his survey and not take it seriously, he has detention today." She said in a fake sweet voice, before continuing in the same voice. "Oh, I almost forgot. Since he is your responsibility you can join him there." She smiled smugly and turned walking out of the room, with me staring daggers at her the whole way.

Annabeth who was sitting next to me whispered, "That doesn't seem fair how can she give you detention for something you didn't even do. Who is this kid and what did he write anyway?"

"Probably just some dumb jock who was trying to be funny. I bet she gave me the worst possible fresh….." I had opened the folder and read the name and it made me cut my sentence short. I looked at the picture and sure enough it was him. "No Way." I mumbled.

Annabeth looked concerned, "What who is it?" she asked trying to look at the folder.

"It's Nico." I answered still stunned.

Thalia interjected, "What the heck is corpse breath doing here?"

I didn't answer her because I was too busy reading and cracking up at his survey answers.

Q: Name

A: Nico DeAngelo

Q: Age/D.O.B.

A: 85 / 12-10-1930

Q: Do you have any special talents?

A: I see dead people. They talk to me. They walk around like everyone else.

Q: Why did you decide to come to Goode?

A: My dad is basically the devil, and my stepmom hates me so she made me come.

Q: What did you like best about the summer orientation?

A: I couldn't make it. I was helping my relatives kill my grandpa. We succeeded thank the gods.

It was a good thing everyone was talking about their folders because I was cracking up. Nobody even looked my way. I handed the paper to Annabeth and Thalia and they both joined in the laughter after reading it. I am for sure keeping this survey.

We were dismissed early to find our freshman so I said goodbye to Thalia and gave Annabeth a quick kiss saying I would see them later.

Nico was at facing his locker getting his books ready for his first class, so I decided I'd mess with him.

"Hey punk, you got me detention for your stupid comments on that survey. I should beat the hell out of you." I said in a fake angry voice to his back. A couple of the nearby freshman looked at me a little shocked.

"Well go ahead and try to," he yelled, turning around with his hands clenching into fists, "if you're felling man enough. I'll..." He stopped dead when he realized it was me.

"Oh, I'm definitely man enough to take on a little twerp like you death boy." By now almost all the people in the hallway had turned hearing us, and were giving us anxious looks as if they were excited about the prospects of a fight.

Nico gave me a look and I knew exactly what to do. I swung my right hand over his head, which he ducked causing people to gasp. I smiled and swung my left hand doing the same thing. He swung at my right side and I blocked it, then he swung at my left side and I blocked that as well. Everyone was watching us at this point. So we both pulled back like we were going to punch the other with as much force as we can, but at the last second turned it into a quick man hug and started laughing at everyone's faces.

Some people looked at us disappointed; others looked at us like we were idiots. The best were the people with their mouths on the floor, who couldn't believe we just had that little exchange.

I know you are probably thinking, How pathetic, secret handshakes are for little kid, but cut me some slack Nico was 10 when we met so he was a little kid. Besides at a time like this that was hilarious.

"Percy what are you doing here?" Nico laughed to me.

"Why does everyone act like they didn't know this is my school?" I asked him.

"Wait what do you mean everyone?"

"Annabeth and Thalia are going here too."

He smiled, "Really Annabeth and..a..Thalia are here?" I couldn't help but notice his stutter and slight blush in saying Thalia's name, but decided not to push him on it.

"Yeah apparently my dad and Zeus got in a fight and destroyed part of Olympus so they need Annabeth and Thalia is recruiting hunters." I said as I led him on a quick tour of the school.

"Huh, what else is new Zeus and Poseidon fighting, and Artemis taking more pretty girls out of the picture." He joked back but I noticed a little anger in his voice when talking about Artemis. I laughed to myself, hahaha Nico likes Thalia, she is gonna kill him.

The warning bell rang so I said I'll see you at lunch and in detention. Then I walked off to my first class.

Alright y'all sorry it's a little short, but I decided to cut it in half making two chapters instead of one really long one. I'll have the next chapters up some time later tonight or tomorrow depending on when I get out of work today. Let me know who you want for chapter 8. When it says someone else, I know who the someone else I am going to be writing it from if it's not the other 3 so you can just tell me someone else you don't need to put a specific name.