Thanks to the few of you who reviewed! (Joslyn, you wouldn't sick Apollo on me. He's a god, he has more important things to do.)
Yes, The Jenna in here is me, And Joslyn and Tyler are my real-life friends too. But, come on...it's Percy Jackson! I want to meet Percy! So do all my awesome friends!
Okay, go read my second chapter.

Classes started that week, and in between listening to lectures and reading textbooks, Percy and I got to know eachother better. We were both pretty messy, and he appreciated video games, so we got along pretty well.

"Where're you from?" I asked while we took a Call of Duty break from studying.

"Right here in New York," he said. "You?"

I should have seen this one coming. "Just…outside of the city."

Percy paused the game and looked at me. "Look, I really don't care if you're from Jersey."

Like a true New Yorker, he'd caught me. Perplexed, I tried to find out what gave me away. "How'd you know?" I asked.

He grinned. "No one's sheepish about living in New York."

I smiled too. He started the game again, and we went for a minute in quiet, focusing on the TV screen.

"I graduated from Goode High," Percy said. "My step-dad's a teacher there."

"Cool," I said. "I might have well as lived in the city the past two years, I took the train over so much. Damn," I added as my character died.

"It's a great place," Percy commented, happy about killing me. "I've lived here with my mom all my life."

My player reformed, and I glanced at my roommate. "What about your dad?" I asked.

Something came over Percy's face. "I see him sometimes, but my mom got, you know, full custody."

"Oh," I said, realizing it was probably a touchy subject. With my happily married parents living in a suburb, it was strange to imagine having real family problems.

My mom was a worrier. She was the kind of person who would look up obscure diseases on the Internet and find out that one of us had one symptom-then we were in trouble. I was forced to gulp down some natural, dirt-flavored medicine supposed to prevent/cure this disease every morning until my dad reassured Mom that we were all perfectly healthy.

Being an only child, I was the only one to receive my mom's erratic health and diet plans(at least once a week I had something I couldn't pronounce in my dinner. "Oh, it's so good for your various internal organ!" My mother would exclaim as an explanation). Maybe if I'd had siblings her worried disposition would have been diluted, but I never got the chance to find out.

My dad was a comforter. His shoulder was always ready. He'd drop everything just so he could focus on your issues, giving you a sympathetic pat or offering some words of encouragement. I inherited some of this from him, which is why I think I'd be a good psychiatrist. It was this calming mindset my dad and I had that made our family able to function. Thank God I hadn't been born like my mom-I don't know what my dad would have done.

My parents met at a coffee shop. My mom had just been fired(her worrying made her a bit flighty-she wasn't good at focusing on one thing, especially work-related things) and was crying over her latte. My dad saw her and brought his coffee-bitter, with just a splash of milk-over to her table. It was then that the worry-comfort cycle started, and it had yet to end.

Percy and I moved on to other conversation subjects, and eventually went back to studying. Then someone knocked on the door.

Percy got up to answer the door. It was Jenna.

"Hi!" she said. "Can I come in?"

Percy opened the door all the way, and I quickly glanced around. Luckily, we hadn't had time to release everything we owned onto the floor yet, so there was walking space. Jenna didn't seem to mind.

"What's up?" I asked as she looked around the room. She turned to me.

"Oh, actually, I just came over to invite you guys to this party my friend's having. She has an apartment in town, and she's having a sort of…housewarming party, I guess. Anyway, it should be a lot of fun, and she told me to invite other people too. It's this Saturday at eight. Do have something I could write on, to give you the address?"

I handed her the notebook I was taking notes on, and a pencil. She flipped the page and wrote something down.

"So, do you guys think you can come?"

I shrugged. "Yeah, sounds good."

Percy agreed.

"Okay, cool! I'll see you guys Saturday, then!"

She left the room and I watched after her. Percy closed the door.

"Excited?" I asked. "Our first college party."

Percy nodded. "Yeah, it should be fun."

The fact that it was in an apartment probably put it a cut above most college parties, which was nice. However, it would still consist of a large group of young adults getting together, probably with alcohol involved, which never ends well. For Jenna's friend's sake, I hoped she was really ready to break in her apartment.

So...you're gonna go review, right? 'Course you are. And then you're going to tell your awesome, Percy-loving friends about this story. Right?
I love you for reading. I really do. I wish I could give you all a big hug. Here - *cyberhug* That's the best I can do.

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Love, Jenna.