CHAPTER 3:
Annabeth's POV:
Today was the day. Finally. Today was the day I would be seeing Percy, after being apart for what-4 months? I was both excited and nervous. Apparently, so were Piper and Katie.
"OH MY GODS WE FINALLY GET TO SEE MORE PERCABETH ACTION!" They both screamed in my ear the moment I woke up.
"What in the Hades is PERCABETH?!" I demanded and their cheeks flushed, then they left. Stupid girls, they woke me up for that? Well, there was only a couple minutes before my alarm clock rang anyways.
I wanted to look good for Percy, he probably looked better than four months ago, not that he wasn't good-looking before... i mean- yeah he was very good looking, but- ugh. You know what I mean.
I brushed my blonde hair and left it down, so that it cascaded down my back. I put some lip gloss on but left my face clear of makeup, obviously. I'd never wear makeup until the day I die. Well, let's hope they don't make you put makeup on in the underworld.
I put on my regular orange camp t-shirt and some jeans. My camp necklace was still on and I wore a pair of converse. I examined the piece of white in my hair, it became much more apparent after our trip to Tartarus. It was just there to remind me of the torture I received.
When I got down, almost everyone was downstairs. Of course, not the Stolls. They were probably thinking up a new prank to do to us. But they should know not to mess with me- or I will kill them.
Piper and Katie looked good. Of course, for their boyfriends. Piper, being a daughter of Aphrodite, naturally looked good. Her choppy brown hair had now grew to her mid-section, and today she had braided it with a white eagle feather. If anyone else had done that, they would've looked ridiculous. But Piper looked great with it.
Katie had put on a green-leafed tiara sort of thing, it intertwined with her brown locks and gave her green-eyes a very nice look. I, on the other hand, didn't care what I looked like. Sometimes I didn't even brush my hair, it was pretty embarrassing.
The boys looked pretty much the same as they always do. So no surprise there.
After breakfast, we made our way down to the basement. Where the grand garage was. Here's the breakdown of the cars.
Jason had a lightning-blue Pagani.
Piper had a white and pink Maserati .
Leo had a coal-black Porsche.
The Stolls had a white Jaguar .
Katie had a dark green Mercedes Benz.
Grover had a light green Bugatti.
Nico had a black and smokey green Maybach.
Thalia had a silver Aston Martin.
Chris had a white Chevrolet.
Clarisse had a red Dodge Viper.
Percy had a sea blue Ferrari.
I had a steel grey Lamborghini.
It was a little too much for me, but if the gods gave you something, you can't really give it back can you?
Instead of each driving our cars to school, I had convinced everyone to go in pairs or 3s so that it would save energy. A couple of them (*cough*coughTheStolls and Leo*cough*cough) complained that they wouldn't be able to show off their cars but I glared at them and they complied.
Now the driving arrangements were like this:
Jason would be driving Piper.
The Stolls would be driving Katie.
Grover would be driving Nico and Leo.
Chris would be driving Clarisse.
I would be driving Thalia.
Of course, I had come up with that plan. And everyone thought it was pretty reasonable.
Then we drove off.
The minute the first car drove into the school parking lot (Jason's Lamborghini) a lot of the kids turned towards us. Even more started gathering when 2 more cars drove in. The minute I drove in in my Ferrari, nearly everyone around was crowded around.
Once we parked. We started to get out.
LEO'S POV:
Have you ever watched those movies where these nice cars come in and then they step out and they have those shades on and they're like 'YEAH WE'RE POPULAR AND COOL!' ? Well-
HECK YEAH THAT'S US!
We all got out at once. Most of us guys had shades on, so that was a plus. Jason got out, his blonde hair was flying in the sun and I swear I saw some girls faint. Me, Nico, Travis, Connor and Grover didn't cause that much of a commotion, but we still looked really cool.
The girls, on the other hand attracted a LOT of attention. I looked over, they were receiving a lot of wolf-whistles from guys. So Jason put his arm around Piper's waist. Katie received the same treatment from Travis, she looked delighted. When Thalia heard the whistles, she responded with her death glare, instantly making the whistles die down. Only Annabeth didn't have her boyfriend to protect her, so to other guys, she must seem single. Uh-Oh, that's not good.
Annabeth was really good-looking, but if I had ever went near her in that sense, Percy would beat me senseless, Annabeth would probably too. But Annabeth only rolled her eyes at the whistles.
We all walked to the school entrance, and the crowd parted like the red sea.
Oh we are going to rule this school.
The minute we entered the Main office, we were greeted by an unpleasant smell of unnatural Cinnamon spice. Gross.
Annabeth walked up to the lady, and smiled.
"Hi. We are new here, and we need to collect our schedules." She said. Boy, Annabeth was good at mortal talk. Not that I wasn't, well- actually I'm not.
The lady there looked absolutely repulsive, and by the faces on the other demigod's faces, they felt the same. Her face was caked with makeup, her eyeliner was off and she had put too much perfume on. I could smell it a mile away.
"Oh- I see. You're the band of ADHD and dyslexic kids aren't you? Ugh more troublemakers." She grumbled and we all resisted the urge to snap her head off. But Annabeth glared at us and we were forced to comply. I mean- no one messed with Annabeth. Apart from Percy of course.
The lady reached over with her wrinkly hands to get a pile of schedules and threw it over the countertop. Annabeth glared at her but picked it up.
"Thank you." Then she left, everyone followed.
ANNABETH POV:
We had about 20 minutes until homeroom started. I glanced at my schedule, I was able to make out : HOMEROOM-PAUL BLOFIS through my dyslexia. Asking around, turns out 4 other of my friends had him too. Phew, I wasn't alone. The 5 of us were: Me, Piper, Jason, Leo and Thalia. Clarisse, Chris, Grover, Nico and the Stolls had someone called Ms. Harolds.
For a long time, not any of us could find our lockers. So I walked up to a group of people nearest to us. There was 2 girls and 3 guys.
"Hi. I'm new here, as well as my friends over here. Do you think you can show us our lockers?" I asked. They all looked over at me. Thankfully, no pervy looks.
"Of course! Here, let me see it." One of the girls said. Thank the gods, these were one of the nicer people of the school. I handed my locker slip over and she gave me the directions. I had a pretty good memory, so I remembered it.
"Thanks a lot. Oh also, do you think you can help me find my boyfriend?" I asked her. I wanted to surprise Percy the first thing in the morning. Or he might see me before I could see him.
"Yeah! Sure, what's his name?"
"Percy Jackson." I replied and immediately all of their gazes hardened. Uh-oh. Were they monsters? Apparently the gang thought so too because some of them reached for their weapons.
One of the girls stepped up to me, she was a brunette with green eyes that were now cold.
"Now listen up new girl, you can't just come here to this school and start bragging to everyone that Percy Jackson is your boyfriend. We've got a lot of that lately, and you don't even know him! So if you were hired by the band of sluts of this school, scurry back to them and tell them that NONE of us are falling for it. I am SICK of all these little brats running after Percy like he's some sort of grand prize, so give up, and find a better dream you dumb blonde." When she was finished, my jaw dropped, along with the whole gang.
I regained my composure, anger was flaring through me, no-one called me a dumb blonde. I took one step closer to her, I was about 5 inches taller than her. I glared at her and she flinched a little bit under my hard gaze.
"Excuse me?! How dare you! Percy is my boyfriend. You have no right to accuse me of something that you have NO IDEA what you're talking about. And NEVER call me a dumb blonde." I emphasized that last part. The girl was trying to match my glare but I knew she knew that she was failing.
I felt a hand grab my arm. I turned around to see Piper. "Annabeth, stop. I don't think she means it. Calm down, its ok." I knew she was using her charm speak because immediately I felt calm and my anger died down.
I took one look at the group again, "I'm sorry for my outburst. But watch your tongue." I said and we stalked off towards our lockers.
MARCUS POV:
I made my way down to my locker.
We were only around 20 minutes into the school day and almost everyone was talking about the new kids that had made that grand entrance in the parking lot. I knew because, I was there.
They looked like that group of kids who bullied everyone.
I would know because, I am one of those people that got bullied everyday. I was one of the school nerds and I didn't have many friends. The only people nice to me were Andrew ( my best friend ), my brother, and Percy Jackson.
Percy Jackson is the most popular guy in school. But he was different from the other popular kids. He didn't bully anyone. He was nice to pretty much anyone. A lot of people liked him. But I didn't believe him. He was probably just putting up a mask so people liked him. I bet he was just a jerk on the inside.
When I got to my locker, I noticed that Percy was there, surrounded by a couple of his swim team friends. They were decent guys I guess, but they could be pretty mean to people. So I stayed clear of them.
Entering my locker combination and stuffing my books into my locker, I couldn't help but eavesdrop on their conversation.
"Hey Perce." One of Percy's friends in the swim team, I think his name was Alex? They greeted each other.
"Did you hear about the new kids?" Sam asked. I resisted the urge to roll my eyes. Do you see what I mean about everyone talking about them? I wouldn't blame anyone though, they looked cool. One of the girls especially caught my eye. She had long blonde hair that glowed in the sunlight, a beautiful athletic figure, and a nice tan. She looked like a Californian, but her eyes were different. They were a stormy grey, like it was calculating and analyzing your every move. She looked beautiful.
Percy shook his head. "Dude, how could you not? I mean- they had the coolest cars ever. There were like, 11 kids. And the girls are HOT man!" Alex, another swimmer told him.
My jaw clenched, I absolutely loathed the way jocks and popular people talked about girls, like they were meals or something. Percy knitted his eyebrows together, looking like he was thinking hard about something.
"That's nice. What do they look like?" Percy asked. They all shrugged, "I think one of the girls had blonde hair or something." Percy's eyebrows raised and he had a tint of a smile on his face. I frowned.
"Really? What else?" He asked, his voice a little amused. Alex stroked his imaginary beard, "Oh! That blonde, she looked Californian. She's fine man! You can finally get a girlfriend!" I clenched my fists. Percy rolled his eyes.
"Dude! I have a girlfriend okay? Seriously." He seemed annoyed. But no-one can blame the others. I heard he's been telling everyone he had a girlfriend that was from California, but they've never seen her so they all thought she was fake.
"Whatever man. You can ramble about your 'girlfriend' later." Sam said and did quotation marks on the 'girlfriend' note.
"Let's just get to class before Pa- I mean Mr. Blofis gets mad at us for missing homeroom." With that they all left. My brows furrowed, they were obviously talking about that girl. I hope they don't get to her. I was planning on talking to her, even if it meant being humiliated. She was the most beautiful girl I'd ever seen.
Homeroom with Mr. Blofis started off average. The boys (Percy and his gang) hadn't gotten here yet. We were all fiddling with our book and pens when we heard the door open.
Then 5 kids stepped in. The first one was a girl and she had jet black hair, spiked up in punk style. She wore a black 'Chemical Romance' shirt and black combat boots. The second was a skinny Hispanic boy, he had a sly grin on his face and in his hands he was fiddling with a paper... a paper helicopter?
The 3rd was another girl, she had brown hair braided with an eagle feather. She was very beautiful. With an arm wrapped around her waist, was a blonde boy. His blonde hair was flat on his head and he had sparkling blue eyes. It was obvious they were a thing.
The 5th and definitely most recognizable was a girl. The girl. She had blonde hair and grey eyes. An orange shirt and some jeans. It didn't look like she was wearing any makeup but she looked stunning.
I recognized them as some of the new kids in the parking lot. I noticed everyone was staring at them except for Mr. Blofis, he was still writing on his chalkboard.
When he turned around and saw the kids, his expression turned upset. I thought he was going to scold them for being late until his gaze shifted upon the blonde girl. His expression immediately softened.
"Annabeth!" He exclaimed and they hugged. I was confused, they knew each other? And her name was Annabeth! Score for Marcus, I knew her name. The other 4 kids stood there awkwardly.
"Hi Paul, I mean Mr. Blofis." She said. It dawned on me that they were probably really close if they were on first-name basis. They exchanged a few words privately, and he assigned the 5 to some seats in the front.
Uh-oh. Annabeth had sat on his seat. Percy Jackson's seat. Normally Percy's really nice. But he really doesn't like it when people sit on his seats. He gets kind of angry, and you don't want to make him angry. Apparently everyone had gotten the message as well. I wanted to get on good terms with her by warning her, so I stood up and walked over to her. Mr. Blofis was still writing on the board.
"Hi. Um- Annabeth right?" I asked her wearily. She looked up from the book she was reading and looked at me. Her grey eyes seemed to penetrate into me.
"Yes?"
I almost couldn't talk. "Uh... I'm just warning you, this is one of the seats of the most popular guy in school and he really doesn't appreciate it when people sit on his seat. So, I don't want anything to happen to you or anything." I said, blushing a little bit at the end of the sentence.
She smiled at me, and I couldn't help but think how beautiful her smile was.
"Thanks but I think I can handle some prick." She said and I wanted to argue with her, saying how wrong she was about that. But I was quickly silenced by the footsteps thundering down the hallway. That was bound to be Percy, so I quickly returned to my seat.
Annabeth put her head down and slouched, then returned to read her book. I didn't know why she did that, but apparently her other friends found it funny.
Percy ran into the room, he was breathing heavily. I saw a couple scratches on his arm, I didn't know why. He quickly apologized to Mr. Blofis for being late and searched around for his seat. When he noticed his seat was taken, his gaze hardened.
Annabeth's other friends watched the situation with interest, but kept their heads down low. Percy had not noticed the other kids. He walked towards Annabeth. She was still reading. I braced myself for her, I didn't like what was happening.
"Hey, girl. Sorry- I'm pretty sure you're sitting in my seat." He said as politely as he could. Annabeth was still buried in her book.
"Does it have your name on it?" She said. All of our jaws dropped, I heard a couple snickers from the new kids. What was their problem?
"Listen, I was assigned this seat and you can't take it. I'm sorry, you're going to have to move. Or I will have to make you." He said a little bit angrier. I gulped, this wasn't going to end well. We were all scared by Percy's angry voice. I expected Annabeth to scurry away in fear but all she did was look up to meet Percy's gaze.
"Oh yeah? And what are you going to do to me Seaweed Brain?" She asked, her voice filled with amusement. Seaweed Brain? Where did that come from?
I saw Percy's expression turn into surprise and then awe and then happiness.
"A lot of things Annabeth. Would you like me to show you?" He asked. He was clearly joking with her now. We were all surprised. Did Percy know Annabeth?
My question was answered when Annabeth hopped up and they hugged like no tomorrow. It was a 'Oh my gosh I missed you so much' hug. My heart ached. Please let them be cousins, or friends, or siblings. Anything but a couple!
But the odds were not in my favor. Because the minute they pulled apart, their lips adjoined. It was a small lingering kiss, but it made my heart break.
They stayed that way for awhile, and everyone's jaws were wide open. Percy Jackson was kissing the new girl.
PERCY POV:
When I walked into homeroom, I immediately noticed the new head of blonde sitting in my usual seat. Well, this would be interesting. I already knew who she was of course. But I wanted to entertain everyone.
I slowly walked up to her, restraining myself from running up to her and kissing her like no tomorrow. I had missed her so much.
"Hey girl. Sorry- i'm pretty sure you're sitting in my seat." I tried to make myself sound a little angry. She still had her head buried in her book. I resisted the urge to laugh.
"Does it have your name on it?" She said. Oh- good 'ol Annabeth.
"Listen, I was assigned this seat and you can't take it. I'm sorry, you're going to have to move. Or I will have to make you." I made my voice raise a little bit. I noticed all the other people's shocked expressions. And a couple smug looks from some stupid girls.
"Oh yeah? And what are you going to do to me Seaweed Brain?" She looked up and my breath hitched. She looked so beautiful. We had iris-messaged every night, but it was completely different.
I knelt down and I heard her breath hitch. She was so beautiful. I stared into her gorgeous grey eyes, "A lot of things Annabeth. Would you like me to show you?" I saw her eyes shine with amusement and joy, apparently she couldn't take it anymore. She leapt up and we hugged. I smelled her hair and smiled, she still smelt like lemons.
She pulled away and I immediately pressed my lips against hers. She seemed a little surprised but immediately began to kiss me back. I could've stayed that way forever but I heard someone say, "GET A ROOM!" Of course, that was Leo. Annabeth pulled away and I pouted and she laughed, kissed me on my nose.
"You still have to move. This is still my seat." I whispered. She rolled her eyes, punched my shoulder and sat next to Piper. I winked at her. That's when I realized everyone was staring at us.
A/N HEY GUYS! Finally a chapter with Percy! Hope that was good enough for you guys. I updated 3 chapters in 3 days! How'd you like that you guys? Please keep reviewing, I do read them and respond! What would you like to see in the next chapters?
Basically, I uploaded this chapter last night. And the whole night I was thinking that I wanted to add a part. So this morning, I edited in a part where the girl confronts Annabeth about Percy and stuff. I also got a couple reviews saying, where's Chris and Clarisse and the others? So I gave you more info on that through Annabeth's POV.