CHAPTER 4:

PERCY POV:

Usually I despised school, I still did. But now with all my friends here, I couldn't help but think that this year was going to be completely different from all the other years. This was the only school that I went to more than 2 years. I came to Goode when I was 15, and I was a major loser then. Then when I came back last year, for some reason I became Mr. Popular. It was a little annoying. But now I had people who knew me, like really knew me. And of course, that included Annabeth. Oh- Annabeth.

Homeroom lasted for a while. But all I could think about was Annabeth. She was just a couple seats away from me. It took all of my resistance to jump to her and kiss her. I know, it may seem like a teenage hormone thing. But trust me, it isn't. Me and Annabeth, we're not like that. We love each other in a whole complete different sense, we would die for each other. We nearly did so many times. I would fall into Tartarus over and over again for her. And that's saying something. She is a part of me, and I am a part of her.

After homeroom ended, I immediately took Annabeth's hand and leaded our way out. I heard the other four shouting behind us to wait up, but I couldn't wait. They still had explaining to do to EXACTLY why they're here, but that could wait.

Taking Annabeth's hand, I lead her to the nearest Janitor's closet. Clichéd, I know. But its the only place I knew right now.

Annabeth let me push her in, she even closed the door behind us. I guess she missed me just as much I missed her.

I pushed her against the wall, and pressed my chest against hers. She was breathing heavily, so I covered her lips with mine. Her arms wrapped around my neck and my hands made its way down to her waist, cradling her.

She deepened the kiss, and our tongues danced together. One of her hands went up to my hair, and another cradled my cheek. I leaned into the touch. Thousands of electric butterflies were circling around my body, and no they weren't created by Zeus or Thalia or Jason.

We smiled against each other's lips. I subconsciously started playing with the hem of her shirt, and to my dismay, she pulled away.

"Seaweed Brain." She shook her finger at me and I pouted, making her laugh. She was so beautiful.

"Wise girl." I returned, and she rolled her eyes.

"Kelp head."

"Owl face."

We grinned at each other.

"I missed you so much Percy. But we really need to go now. The others will be wondering where we went." She pecked me on the lips one more time and pulled out of our embrace.

"Oh no. They're going to make fun of us so much!" I groaned making Annabeth giggle. She took my hand and we made our way out.

I was right. The other wouldn't stop pestering us about our whereabouts. We only returned with some vague, 'Somewhere's and 'Nowhere'

"When we get out from class, you all have some explaining to do! Now I just want to walk with my beautiful girlfriend to class." I said before taking Annabeth's hand.

I heard a few 'awwwws' from Piper and Katie, but died down when Annabeth shot them a glare. But her cheeks were red. Oh Annabeth.

We walked off in the direction of Math. With Nico, Thalia, Jason and Clarisse following us.

Class was boring as heck. The whole time Mr. Biggs was lecturing us about Trigonometry, I sat behind Annabeth, playing with her soft princess curls. She on the other hand, also being Annabeth, payed very close attention and jot down basically everything Mr. Biggs said. I didn't even know why she did that, I bet she learnt all this when she was 12!

When I leaned forward to sniff Annabeth's hair, she snapped around to face me. Her grey eyes were angry, but amused as well. I gave her a smile.

"Seaweed brain! Stop it! I'm trying to focus here!" She commanded. I surrendered but planted a quick kiss on her cheek.

"Okay Wise Girl." I said. She smiled and returned back to her notebook, to find that the whole class was staring at us.

"Ms. Chase! Would you mind coming up here to solve this question?" Mr. Biggs asked, a smirk on his face. He was gesturing towards the challenge question on the board, apparently being challenging to solve. But seeing the look on Annabeth's face, it was a piece of cake for her. She would definitely wipe that smirk off of Mr. Biggs' face.

A couple cheerleaders sniggered at Annabeth. She made her way up to the board, snatched the pen from Mr. Biggs outstretched hands and lazily wrote the answer on the board. Which was probably the right answer, knowing Annabeth. Then she simply returned back to her seat. Leaving Mr. Biggs and the rest of the class in shock.

That's my wise girl. I beamed at her and she rolled her eyes.

"Well. That's- That's correct. Very well done for Ms. Chase." Mr. Biggs had a bitter tone to his voice. Too bad, he brought it on himself.

I heard a couple voices behind me, "Can't believe she got that right, she is a dumb blonde after all." Then came a couple snickers.

My head snapped back and there were 3 girls. At least they looked like girls. They were the types of girls who wore 10 pounds of makeup on their face, dressed skimpy outfits and acted like idiots.

They seemed surprised by my action, but when they saw it was me, they flirtatiously batted their eyelashes at me.

"Excuse me?!" I raged. My tone seemed to give them the message that I didn't just want to chat about dinner. They quivered under my hard gaze. "Nobody. Calls. Annabeth. A. Dumb. Blonde. She is 100 times smarter than you! Don't. Do. It. Again!" I snarled and they slid down their seats in utter terror.

I turned back, thankfully Annabeth didn't see my outburst, nor did Mr. Biggs.

When Math ended, and a whole lot of other subjects I didn't remember, it was time for lunch. Probably the biggest thing I was looking forward to. Because I could get some explanations for once!

Annabeth had to go put her books away, because she actually had books, I didn't bring anything to class. So I made my way down to the cafeteria.

When I was walking down the hallway, someone slammed me against the lockers. I smelt the all too familiar and disgusting scent of over-sweetened strawberries. I cringed.

"Heeeeeey Perce." A gnarly voice croaked. It was Sasha Elles. I hated her. Almost everyone did except for the 'famous' band of sluts.

I groaned, "What do you want?!"

"I heard you were cheating on me with that blonde. Is that true? Because you know cheating's a sin right." She smirked and me and I shoved her off me, causing her to stumble back a bit. I knew I wasn't supposed to sue my 'strength' on mortals, but this girl was seriously an exception. I don't think she was human.

"I'm not cheating on you! WE WERE NEVER DATING IN THE FIRST PLACE! CAN YOU GET THAT THROUGH IN THAT THICK HEAD OF YOURS? I will NEVER date you! EVER! So stop BOTHERING ME!" I screamed at her. I had enough. She was quivering with fear, but I didn't care. I stormed away.

"I'll get you some day Perce! Just you wait!" Her voice called after me, I could still hear traces of fear in it.

LAUREN POV:

School was pretty much average today. Apart from the arrival of the new kids, who a lot of them are now calling the 'Super Kids', no idea why. I couldn't get my mind off of that girl, her name was Annabeth I think?

She had told us that she was dating the Percy Jackson. Most popular guy in school, captain of the swim team, hottest guy in school, and most unavailable guy in school? I mean- how is that possible?

Annabeth was probably the girl I had ever dreamt to be. She was beautiful, with her golden blonde curls, a nice tan, a slim athletic build. She looked just like a stereotypical Californian girl. Except for her eyes. Now- those were scary.

When she said she was his girlfriend, I snapped. I was Percy's 'best friend' in school, we'd hang out and stuff I guess. But me and all our other friends in our group, felt that Percy didn't tell us everything. He was always distant. He hung out with us, but he never had good conversations and we'd never really connected that well.

But I had a huge crush on Percy. I'd known him since he was 14, when he came to Goode for the first time. Then for some unknown reason, left. Then came back again last year. He was everything you hoped for in a guy.

He told us that he had a girlfriend. But we'd never believed him, saying she's made up. He'd make up a lame excuse to why we haven't seen her, either 1) She's at camp or 2) She's in San Francisco.

So just having a girl who was supposed to be in San Francisco come here and say that she was his girlfriend pissed me off. I knew Percy longer than probably anyone here. If anyone had a chance of dating him, it'd be me.

That's when Annabeth walked in. She had this natural aura around her. It was like a sense of power. I could tell that you didn't want to be on her bad side, but with my outburst today, I already did.

She looked around, probably for the other Super Kids. Before landing on me. Her gaze instantly hardened and I cowardly looked away.

When I looked up, she was standing in front of me.

"Hey. What's your name again?" Annabeth asked me.

"I'm… I'm Lauren." I stuttered. Silently cursing myself for sounding nervous. "And you're Annabeth right?" She nodded and just stood there. I think she must have expected for me to invite her to sit down, so I did.

"Do you want to… uh- sit here?" I gestured towards the empty seat beside me. She looked down on it and sat down.

"Sorry about this. I just- need to find some of my other friends. They're not here yet. We're probably just going to grab some lunch outside. Per- I mean someone told me the food here isn't the best." She said. She was probably talking about the other Super Kids.

"Wait, I don't think that's a good idea. Principal Faun would never allow that. He doesn't let anyone get out of School Grounds." I argued. I knew I didn't want to get on Annabeth's bad side, again. But she would get in big trouble if she was caught off campus.

She looked at me doubtfully and scoffed, "Principal Faun doesn't concern me, he'll let us. Don't worry." I frowned at her. Where did she get this confidence from? It was slightly annoying.

That's when the noise of the cafeteria died down. We all turned to the door. The rest of the Super Kids have walked in.

I hadn't seen the Super Kids up close before. But I knew why they called them the Super Kids. All 13 of them radiated power and confidence, if you got on their bad side, your high school life would be ruined.

Let me break it down for you, from left to right.

First there was a boy. He was crippled, from the looks of it. He had on a 'Save the Earth' T-Shirt and some khakis. His crutches looked like they were used for a long time.

Then there was a punk girl. Her hair was pure black, spiked up in punk style. She wore a leather jacket, black jeans and black studded combat boots. She looked very intimidating.

Next to the punk girl, was an emo looking guy. He seemed younger than the rest of them. But his eyes seemed much older. He was wearing pure black as well. He was a little shorter than the others. His eyes were drooping and he had his hands shoved in his pockets.

Then there was a nicer looking girl. She wore a leafed tiara, a green spring dress and some sandals. She looked really kind, and gentle.

Standing beside the nice girl, were a set of twins. One of them had his arm wrapped around the girl's waist. They must be a couple. Both of them had dark brown hair, casual clothes and mischievous smirks on their face. They looked like trouble.

Then there was a girl who radiated beauty. She was really beautiful. Her long flowing brown hair and braided with an eagle feather, and was wearing a really nice flowy dress.

With an arm draped across her shoulders, was a rugged boy. He had ruffled blonde hair and sparkling blue eyes. He looked like a footballer.

Standing a far distance from the others, was a bulky boy. He had brown hair and warm brown eyes. He had his arm draped around a muscled girl. She wasn't fat, just big and muscular. It looked like a strange fit.

And finally at the very right hand side, stood a Hispanic looking boy. He looked a little younger. He also had a sly smile and his hands kept fiddling with something in his hands. I couldn't get a clear glimpse of it.

(A/N COULD YOU TELL WHICH ONE WAS WHICH ONE? TELL ME IN REVIEWS IF YOU DID!)

Annabeth quickly stood up and ran over to them. Giving the punk girl a hug, which surprised me the most. As she was probably the least approachable one in my opinion. Annabeth lead them towards me, they all followed her. She looked like the leader.

"Guys, you met her this morning. This is Lauren. Now, what are we going to do for lunch?" Annabeth quickly said. I felt a little honoured that Annabeth recognized me to her friends, they probably all hated me for their outbursts.

"I wanna get some blue pizza and cookies!" A voice said at the end of the cafeteria hall. Heads all turned, it was Percy. He was so gorgeous. His hair was swept off to one side and his sea green eyes sparkled. I've never seen him more alive, I wonder why.

For all these years, I knew Percy liked me. The way he looked at me, spoke to me. We all knew that he was distant with us, but I couldn't help think that he treated me differently.

Wait, but Percy just replied to Annabeth! What?

"Percy! You've been eating pizzas and cookies for ages now! Why do we have to eat that?" Annabeth complained. Uh-oh. They knew each other. Please be cousins, please be cousins, please cousins… I pleaded.

"Aw… but Wise Girl! I wanna…" He stepped closer to her and did the cutest puppy face I'd ever seen. I thought Annabeth would give in but instead she flicked him on his nose.

"Don't do that! It's not working on me!" She sang and giggled. Wait, giggled? Annabeth didn't seem like a person to giggle. Percy seemed pleased by this and wrapped his arms around her waist.

Oh no.

When their lips met, my heart broke in a million pieces. There was my crush, kissing another girl. A thousand of other gasps came from the room. But no-one came storming over, probably from the huge crowd of scary looking kids standing right next to them.

"EW GUYS GET A ROOOOOOM!" The hispanic boy shouted and they broke apart, thankfully. I thought my heart would explode.

Apparently the hispanic boy wasn't the only one, the punk girl, the emo boy and the muscle girl were all gagging. They looked funny. I would've laughed if my heart wasn't aching.

"Oh! Lauren! I forgot about you!" Percy said when he saw me. I put a smile on my face but I felt like crying. He forgot about me. Of course.

"This is Annabeth." He pointed to the blonde. I nodded, I already knew that.

"Grover." He pointed to the crippled boy. "Thalia." The punk girl. "Nico." The emo boy. "Katie." The nice girl. "Travis and Connor." The twins. "Piper." The pretty brunette girl. "Jason." The blonde boy. "Chris." The brown eyed boy. "Clarisse." The muscle girl. "And Leo." The hispanic boy.

"Yeah! TEAM LEO!" The boy called Leo shouted and flexed his muscles. I chuckled.

"Where's Sam, Alex and Brianna?" Percy asked me. They were our other friends.

"I don't know. I was the first one here." I replied and that's when the 3 walked in. Sam was hand in hand with Brianna and Alex was walking on his own.

When they got near, they gaped at the huge crowd waiting at their table. They sat down.

"Uh.. Perce who's this?" Sam asked. I noticed Alex was staring at Annabeth.

"Oh. These are my friends from camp." Percy said and I was drained. Camp. The camp that Percy always talked about. We all wanted to go there. But he said it was for ADHD, dyslexic and Greek speakers.

"Hey." We all said and they said hi back. It was a little awkward.

"Okay. We're going to go to Starbucks. Do you guys want to come?" Annabeth asked us. All of our jaws dropped.

"Y-You can't do that! Principal Faun would kill you!" Sam choked out. They all chuckled like it was an inside joke.

"We'll be okay bro. I think Principal… Principal Faun will make an exception." Leo said, wiggling his eyebrows at the others. Making them laugh.

The 3 of us reluctantly agreed, and to the shock of others, made our way out of the campus to Starbucks.

This is where all the talking comes in. And see who I'm up against for Percy's heart.

A/N Thank you all for reading! Please review, follow, favorite! I will add Calypso in the next chapter. Calypso223, don't worry. :) School's off for today so I will UPDATE!