Disclaimer: I've run out of witty things to say to say that I don't own PJO or HoO, so... Rick Riordan is the owner to the rights of PJO and HoO.

Chapter 5

August 18, 6:55 AM Annabeth's Apartment

Annabeth's PoV

I was finishing getting ready for school. I had just brushed my teeth and was packing my bag with basic school supplies. I'm going to need to get a supply list from the teachers today so I know exactly what I need.

I walked downstairs to get breakfast when I felt like something was out of place. My hand moved to my knife, which was always strapped on my belt, which couldn't be seen by mortals.

I moved slowly towards the kitchen, when I smelled food, I turned the corner and saw someone eating something. They had raven black hair, and from their neck, I saw they had a dark tan. Percy...

I moved towards Percy, confused at why he was here. "Percy!" I yelled in his ear, causing him to jump and fall out of the chair he was sitting in.

"Annabeth! Don't do that to me, you know I hate it when you do that!" He complained from the floor. He got back up and sat back in the chair, then turned to look at me.

"What are you doing here and... how did you get into my apartment?" I asked him, nearly screaming.

"First of all, hi, good morning! How are you, I'm fine, thanks for asking." He said with a lopsided grin.

I just glared at him with my arms crossed.

"Okay, okay. I'm here because my mom said that I should bring you to school today. I also made you breakfast," he pointed to the half-eaten food in a dish.

"Well, that explains WHY you're here, but how did you get in my apartment?" I asked him, calming down a bit, but still angry.

He pointed towards a closed window. "You never locked it. You know, someone could have broken in if you weren't careful." He pointed out with a lopsided grin.

I just sighed and walked behind him nonchalantly. I poked him, hard, in the small of his back, his weak spot. He just crippled to the floor in pain. I proceeded to take his spot at the table.

"Ow, Annabeth! What was that for?" He asked me in the same tone I used on him earlier.

"The first reason was for breaking into my apartment without even telling me you were here, I thought you were a monster for Hades' sake! And the second reason, is for eating half the breakfast you made for me." I explained like it was no big deal.

"I'm gonna get you back for that, Wise Girl!" He threatened playfully.

"Just try it, Seaweed Brain." I challenged him.

After I finished eating, we were getting ready to leave. I went to the kitchen drawer and pulled out a key. "Next time, just use the key, instead of breaking in." I handed him a key. I already had a key to his apartment, so it was only fair.

7:32 PM Goode High School

Annabeth's PoV

Percy wanted to leave a bit earlier for school so he could show me around before classes started.

When we got to school, there was about 30 minutes before classes started. (A/N: For me, high school actually doesn't start until 7:15 AM, but setting it to 8 makes it easier, since I didn't want them getting to school at like 6:45 or something.)

We went directly to our lockers when we got there, I put all my supplies in my locker and grabbed the stuff I thought I'd need for my first class, History. Luckily for me, Percy and I had all the same classes, (Thank you, Mom!) so it was easy, I just had to follow him.

Percy showed me around school, showing me where all of our classes were, the library, of course, the pool, the gym, and the cafeteria. When we got back to our lockers, we had about 10 minutes before classes started, and kids started to pour into the front doors of the school. I just walked around hand in hand, with Percy in tow. It caused a few kids to start whispering behind our backs, but I didn't care.

I saw a poster on the bulletin board and pulled him towards him. At first, I couldn't read it, but someone came up behind me. "Thinking of joining the volleyball team?" A girl asked.

I spun around to see a girl about three inches shorter than me, with short brown hair, pale green eyes and a slight tan.

"Hey, Emily!" Percy said behind me. Emily? Who's Emily? I thought to myself.

"Hey, Perce." She replied simply.

I turned to look at Percy with a confused face.

"Oh! Where are my manners? Annabeth, this is Emily Ailen. Emily, this is Annabeth Chase, my girlfriend." He stressed the word 'girlfriend' so it had me a bit worried.

"So this is the Annabeth Chase that he never stop talking about! Nice to meet you." She held her hand out.

I took it and turned back towards the bulletin board. "So, the volleyball team, when are tryouts?" I asked her.

"This Wednesday, you should come, I'm on the team, it'll be fun!" She exclaimed.

"Yeah, sure, I'll be there." I told her.

"It'll be good, back at our summer camp, Annabeth never lost a game of volleyball." Percy bragged.

I started to remember the times back at Camp Half-Blood when the Athena cabin was undefeated. Even the Hermes cabin, with the Stolls, would never be able to beat us, even with all their tricks and pranks.

I drifted off into my own world, and was brought back to real life when I noticed Percy was shaking me. "Annabeth, Annabeth! Wise Girl, wake up!" He nearly yelled in my ear.

"Huh? Oh, sorry. What's up?" I asked, shaking myself out of my memories.

"We should hurry to class, because of your daydreaming, we only have two minutes to get there." He said, pushing me along.

August 20th, 8:05 AM GHS

Percy's PoV

(A/N: Before I start this next part, I know that I didn't go through their school day before, but I plan to do that through Percy's PoV.)

For once, I actually looked forward to going to school, since Annabeth and I had every class together, I could always trust her to help with my homework.

The only things I don't like during the school days, are the times when guys hit on Annabeth and I'm sitting right next to her. She also doesn't like it, and she told me, when girl hit on me and act like she's not good enough for me.

For the guys, I threaten to punch their lights out, even though I know Annabeth can handle it, as for the girls, she glares at them with her, step-away-from-my-boyfriend-before-I-gut-you, stare. Even though they just come back the next day, it's fun to threaten them every day.

When we were sitting in History, 5 minutes before class started, guess who walked in. Did you guess it? Stacy, the girl who tried to hit on me, and the one who Annabeth almost killed after she called her stupid.

As she walked in, I swear, I could see a cloud of perfume behind her. When she walked by my desk, she gave me a wink and continued to the back.

Her perfume cloud gave me such a bad headache spike that I gagged out loud right after the wink, and to add on to it, I made a choking sound as I grabbed my neck. Annabeth burst out laughing in her seat, causing the teacher to look up at us from his papers.

After Annabeth finally caught her breath, she leaned over to me and whispered, "I wanted to do the same thing."

The bell for class started, and the teacher pulled down the projector screen and played the school news, Goode Programming. (Such a horrible name for student news, who came up with that name?) [ ='( ]

When the news ended, the teacher, Mr. Lowe, split everyone into groups to work on an assignment. "And group six will be Percy, Stacy, Henry, and Annabeth. Remember, these will be your groups until next week, then on Tuesday you will all present your subject." I groaned out loud as everyone started shuffling around and rearranging their desks.

"Of all people, why does it have to be those two people?" I complained to Annabeth as we arranged 4 desks for our group, while Henry and Stacy just watched.

"Stacy... is that the girl that was hugging you and called me stupid in the library when we were getting our stuff before school started?" Annabeth asked.

I just simply nodded.

"What's she doing here? I haven't seen her around campus, let alone in class." She stated.

"I heard she went to a mental hospital after you threatened her." I joked.

"She belongs in one. And what about Henry?" She asked, glancing over at Henry.

"Henry is just annoying. He thinks that because he's from England and has an accent, as mangled as it is, it makes him awesome. He's probably average when it comes to brains, but I'm still a lot smarter than him. He's the country champion for weightlifting in high school, I think he benched like 600 pounds or something, so that's why his muscles are bigger than his head. He thinks he's a player, but just about every girl avoids him, and you'll see why soon, since he's most likely going to try to hit on you." I explained to her.

When Henry and Stacy walked over to us, I quickly slid into the seat next to Annabeth so we would be as far away from those two as possible.

Annabeth and I went straight to work. We opened our textbooks and opened it to the section on World War II. We had to report on what events led up to World War II, and why each country got involved the way they did.

While Annabeth and I were struggling to make out the words in the textbook, Henry had to make it harder by starting to hit on Annabeth.

"So, did it hurt when you fell from Heaven?" He asked Annabeth as he smiled with his crooked, yellow teeth that were more yellow than Apollo's Chariot. I wanted to punch him in the mouth right now, at least it'd make his teeth look a little bit better. (A/N: Before any people would get offended, for some reason. I am not trying to insult anyone from England with Henry's appearance, as stereotypical and ignorant as people are, I don't see people from England like that, but I just needed to make Henry look as unappealing as possible... I may have done too well of a job.)

Annabeth looked at me with eyes that said, I can handle this one. I just nodded and went bank to work, trying to decipher words on the page.

"Yes, it did hurt," she replied sweetly, causing Henry to flash his ugly smile. "But it didn't hurt as much as I'm going to hurt you if you don't leave me alone and get back to word." She said threateningly.

I couldn't hold it in, I burst out laughing so hard that my head banged the wall between our classroom and the next one. A few seconds later, the teacher from the other classroom came in and told me to shut up.

"I like your girlfriend, Jackson, you better watch yourself before she falls for a man like me and dumps your sorry ass." Henry said as we were leaving the classroom.

"Yeah right, like you'd ever leave me for a guy who's nail is bigger than his brain." I commented to Annabeth, but it eas just loud enough so that Henry would hear.

She laughed at Henry stopped and turned around to grab my shirt by the collar. "You got something to say to me, Jackson? Say it to my face!" He spat.

I brushed his arm off and proceeded to walk away, but he spun me around and threw a punch at my face, sending me flying into the lockers.