Chapter 2

Annabeth POV

You see most people would look at me once and turn there nose up at me because I actually look like the stereotypical nerd. Lets just say I have those big round glasses that cover up most of my face and a little of my boring grey eyes, with the star wars shirt, hehe, and I usually always have my hair up in some way or fashion and it's usually all messy because I' just not about that other life with all the fancy hair and makeup (cue my awkward tripping). 'Great I'm talking to myself again.

I roll my eyes as I turn away from the mirror thingy that I was looking at and headed towards the bathroom to wash my face. So I finished the rest of my morning routines and headed towards the kitchen/breakfast bar where there was 4 plates out one for step mom, one for my dad, one for Bobby, one for Matthew, and none for Annabeth my family has pretended that I don't exist for the last seven years so since I was ten, I'm seventeen right now.

Enough of that sob story, I just grabbed a quick breakfast of an apple and power walked out the door towards my old convertible, it looks really nice with the gray outside and a sea green stripe around the top of it. I think it looks nice she's my baby I named her Lila (A/N that's not my name in case you were wondering) she's my pride and joy. Anyways I headed over to my friend Thalia (I'm not completely anti-social).

Once I arrived I just honked the horn and heard mild-cursing to much that I'm not going to repeat, and she stumbled out the door with her 'Death to Barbie' t-shirt, midnight blue almost black jeans on with black converse that she's drawn on. She's an artist in her spare time, she likes to draw archery related things. She's absolutely obsessed with it.

Eventually after a lot of cursing and stumbling/ tripping over her things she got to my car. "You know if you just put almost all of your stuff in your backpack you wouldn't make have so much trouble getting into my car," I say teasingly.

"If you don't stop being so rude, you might lose one of your friends." she replies with so much sarcasm in her voice that I didn't know whether or not she was telling the truth so I came up with a plan worthy of Athena.

I turn away and begin to "cry" before I even bring the car out of park. She seems to fall for it and she looks horrified, "Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry Annie!" I turned away my shoulders shaking from laughter, "Please Annabeth, just look at me." she forcibly turns me towards her and sees my smile.

Her used to be worried face turned into an angry one, "ANNABETH NOEL CHASE! YOU DON'T EVER DO THAT TO ME EVER AGAIN!"

"Aye aye Captain," I answer mockingly with a salute. She sticks her tongue out at me and me being the mature person I am stuck my tongue right back out at her. She turns away laughing and starts to adjust her bag, I take this as my cue to to start towards school.

After about twenty minutes of terrible singing later we were at school. I can almost promise you that the first thing I saw screamed that this was going to be the worst senior year possible. It was the sight of Percy Jackson kissing Calypso Tucker in front of the school.

I'll let you in on a little secret I have a teensy winsy tiny little almost basically non-existent crush on Percy, you see it started in sophomore year when I moved here and he wasn't an absolute jerk face, he had a little bit of kindness back then.

*FLASHBACK*

It was my first day at Goode High, I was looking at my schedule seeing that I had Ms. Mayo my new Pre-Ap World History for first period. So I was basically wondering the halls looking around to where my class was, I was looking at the sheet of paper when someone bumped into me making everything that I had on me go across the floor. I was about to tell the person off when someone beat me to it, the person was a boy, strange, and he had raven black hair with sea-green eyes giving me the perfect color to match my rather boring gray car. He was telling off a person that looked like she belonged in a modeling agency for bikini wear with what she had on… and we were in school *shiver* the girl had caramel wavy hair with almond shaped eyes that had a golden almondy color that was to exotic to describe. I was brought out of my train of thought by a hand coming into my field of vision in front of my eyes. I looked up at a boy, it was the same boy from earlier.

"My name's Percy," he said holding out his hand for me, to help me get up.

"I'm Annabeth," I replied with what I hoped sounded somewhat nice and not a sickly and crackly like usual.

"Nice name." I nodded in thanks he took that as a sign to continue, "Are you new here?"

"Nah I just sneak into school's on my off days." I reply sarcastically, I look over at him and he actually looked kind of scared of me, I laughed, "Relax Seaweed Brain," I shove him playfully, wait does that count as flirting? Oh no I'm flirting! "of course I'm new here otherwise I wouldn't be confused on where the HECK Ms. Mayo's room is." I play off cooly hoping to cover the flirting? No friendly gesture! Yeah…

"Whatever you say Wise Girl," he replied back, "if you want me to I can show you around" I was about to reject when he quickly said, "I have a free period so don't worry about making me miss anything or whatever."

"Okay, still got to think should I go with Seaweed Brain who could possibly get me lost on purpose or just walk around and pretend I know where I'm going," I pretended to ponder what I was going to say, I did this for about two minutes before answering, he started to look somewhat sad, "I guess you could I mean there's no one else, so why not just have Mr. Kelp-for-brains lead me around." I finally answer with a smile.

"Am I really your last choice Wise Girl?" he said feigning hurt.

"Yes." I answer quickly, he frowns, I let out a quick laugh.

He looked confused, "What're you laughing at?" he pouted.

"You!" he looked even more confused.

"I don't look confused I was just thinking about my…. English project?" he replied with a somewhat question at the end.

"Okay I believe you, so want to show me my classes before I'm late to any of my classes beyond explanation." I laugh and shove him as we turn around. For the first time I look up from our conversation and see everybody staring at us I lean and whisper in Percy's ear, "Yo Percy," that got his attention, "why is everyone staring at me like I'm a unicorn?"

"Oh," he laughed shakily, "you see the funny thing is" he rubbed the back of his neck in a sort of nervous way then he took a deep breath and continued, "I'msomewhatpopularandhavedeniedanysortofdateallthetimeI'vebeenhereletalonereallyeverlookatagirlexceptforworkingonprojects." he said this almost to fast for me to catch.

ALMOST, "Ohhh so you're gay, is that it?" I answer rather questioningly.

"No no no, you see its just that all the girls at this school want me for my body."

"I don't see why Seaweed Brain." I reply jokingly because this guy oh my gosh I don't know how to describe except for the words perfectly gorgeous. I mean seriously this boy was H-O-T HOT!

He looks at me with a new found interest, "You're the first person to ever say that to me you know that right?" he pauses for a second, "Except for my cousins now that would just be awkward if they called me that."

"Who are your cousins? I would like to meet them if they share my opinion."

He looked behind me and nodded, I was somewhat confused until hands covered my eyes then I just sighed skeptically, "Let me guess, I'm meeting them now?"

"How'd you guess?" a female voice came from behind as well as two different male chuckles, that weren't Percy either.

"He kind of just glanced behind me and nodded plus I'm smart." I replied.

"Never would have guessed with California tan and blond hair, I thought you were typical." the me looking guy said.

I glared at him, he hid behind a guy that looked like blond superman, "Yeah Annie here is smart she figured out I'm more than just a pretty face." Percy replied throwing his arm over my shoulders.

We all snorted and rolled our eyes at him while he just looked confused, "Hey I'm cute!"

"Yes you are!" a random girl agreed while walking down the hall, he just stopped and looked flabbergasted.

I turned around and closed his mouth grabbing him by his arm, "Come on Seaweed Brain you still need to show me where Ms. Mayo's class is." I insist.

"Fine Wise Girl. If I show you Ms. Mayo's class you have to promise to sit and eat lunch with us and promise to meet the rest of our friends."

I raised my eyebrows and hands up, "Promise."

"Pinky swear?"

"Pinky swear."

I was—

*FLASHBACK ENDED*

I was pulled out of my flashback by Thalia waving her hand in front of my face, "Annie if we don't head to class now we'll be late."

"Oh right! Sorry Thalia I was thinking."

"About?" she questioned even though she already knew.

"YOU KNOW NOW STOP PESTERING ME!" I yell at her and slam my car door shut and locking her in trusting her to lock my car after she gets out.