WHAT? NO, THAT'S NOT TRUE. WHO TOLD YOU THAT?
Selena made into the girls changing room, just before the teacher noticed her. She took a deep breath in and walked into the changing room. The second she was in the room, she gagged. There were smells of perfume and deodorant.
She quickly got changed into her swimmers and went outside with the others. It was a sunny day, and it made the classes cheer. It was better when swimming on sunny days. She was sitting by herself when three girls came and introduced themselves.
"Hi, Selena. I'm Rose, this is Scarlett and Jean. We were wondering if we could be your friends." Rose asked her smiling warmly. Selena immediately liked her.
"Sure, it's my pleasure, Rose. Nice to meet you, Scarlett and Jean." She told the three girls. They smiled at her. They sat together and watched the swimmers get ready. She was looking at the boys who were going to swim, when she saw a boy that made her body go into shock.
"Jean, who is that boy over there getting ready for the race?" she asked casually. The boy had a dark hair with the same sea green eyes as her. Jean looked at the direction she was pointing to.
"Oh, that's Percy Jackson, the hottest boy in the school with Nico di Angelo." Jean said that like it was so obvious.
"Is he Kara's boyfriend?" she asked. Jean shook her head in horror.
"What? No way in hell, that he's Kara's boyfriend! She's just lying." Selena nodded. Percy looked so familiar to her that made her head go spinning. She put the thought aside and asked Jean another question.
"Who's Nico di Angelo?" she looked at Jean. Jean began blushing madly.
"Umm... he is a good-looking boy... er..." she looked at the crowd. Her eyes sparkled. "There! He is standing next to Percy!" Selena looked for Percy, than saw Nico di Angelo standing next to him also getting ready for the race. He was the boy who had smiled at her in the cafeteria.
"He is Percy cousin you know, although they don't look alike..." Jean kept babbling about Nico so Selena lost interest and looked away.
She saw Nico talking to Percy, then Percy looking at her, then turning back to Nico. Nico looked at her like she had done something wrong. She looked away and saw that Kara was coming to the seats with her friends glaring at her. She stuck her tongue at her and looked away. Scarlett was looking at her worried.
"Sel, what's wrong with your cheek? They are swollen and bleeding." Selena stopped and touched her face. When she touched her cheek, the pain shot through her body, making her yelp. Scarlett stood up and ran to get a teacher. Selena looked down on the grass. Then Miss. Johnson came over. She asked her what happened and Selena had to make up a lie about tripping over at the cafeteria bumping into a table.
Miss. Johnson just nodded and applied a bandage on her cheek. Then the race started. She realised that Percy was a very good swimmer because when he was half way through the race, the others were struggling to keep up.
She smiled.
Finally, she found a person that she could take on. She had come first at everything in sport at her school before, and it had been too boring. But now, she saw a person she could have a changeling race with!
Percy came first (as usual) and lots of girls were swarming around him as well as swarming around Nico. They looked happy, but annoyed.
It was her race next. She went to the starting line with her friends, who kept saying that they weren't very good at swimming. She just smiled. She also saw that Kara was in the race and Rose told her that she was the best girl swimmer at the school. That just made her smile bigger.
"You'll see what happens." She told her friends. They looked confused.
They went up to the diving board and got into positions. Kara was going to be racing next to her, which made Selena happy. She looked up to see that all of the students and teachers were watching them as well as Nico and Percy. She just relaxed and listened for the gun shot.