Chapter 6

Annabeth's POV

I checked in the mirror, judging my appearance. I would never be pretty enough for someone like Percy so who cares. I had on black skinny jeans, a plain grey long sleeve top, black high heel ankle boots and my black leather jacket. I grabbed my white and grey scarf and went down stairs.

"Morning Ann! Are you excited?" I saw the smile on her face when I walked into the kitchen. "A bit." I took a plate and held it out for Sue to put a waffle on. She was my stepmother.

I gobbled down my waffle and put the plate in the dish washer. "See you after school!" I shouted, walking out the front door with my backpack.

I took a deep breath before walking up the school steps. I came early, as I was new, so there weren't many people around. I walked past some guy who looked like he had never seen a human before. He stared at me, which was kinda weird so I carried on walking to the office. I knocked on the door and walked in.

"Good morning! Are you Annabeth or Hazel?" A lady with a kind face said. "Annabeth." I said, with a smile. She took a file off her desk and handed it to me. "Here you go! If you need anyone to show you around you can ask for help." I said my thanks and walked out the office, closing the door behind me.

I found my locker and started putting stuff in it, photo's of me and my friend's, a mirror just in case of an accident, my hairbrush, and my sports bag.

I started to try and find my way towards the front of the school when I walked into someone. I dropped my books so I started picking them up. The person picked up my last book and handed it to me. "I really have to stop walking into you." He said with a smirk.

I smiled and gave him a slight hug. "Hi! I never knew you came to this school?" He chuckled and I saw a spark in his beautiful sea green eyes. "Jason told us he bumped into your friend Piper yesterday and found out you guys are coming here."

I grinned at the thought of Piper and Jason. They would be a cute couple. "You wanna come with me to my locker?" He said, quizzically. "Sure."

I walked with him to the locker, but all the people were looking at us. I was leaning next to the Percy's locker when a guy said, from behind Percy, "Is this your new girlfriend, Jackson?" He had a smirk plastered to his face.

Percy chuckled, seeming to know who it was. "Funny, Brett." He turned around and the guy's did a brotherly hug. "I would like you to meet Annabeth Chase. Annabeth, meet Brett Fordyce." I shook his hand, feeling his eyes studying my face. "Nice to meet you. Hey, isn't there a new scientist at the Science Museum? Mr Chase? Is he related to you?"

I didn't realize he would know something like that. "Yes, he's my overprotective dad." I saw him and Percy chuckle a bit. Percy motioned for me to follow them to homeroom. "So with your dad being 'overprotective', does that mean you've never had a boyfriend?"

I almost stopped walking after Brett asked the question. I felt a lump form in my throat, my stomach tying in knots. I bit back a few tears. "Um, can we talk about something else?" The guys nodded and carried on walking, glancing at me a few times.

The warning bell rang as I got to homeroom. I found a seat in-between Percy and Brett. I took out the book I was reading, Peaches, and was about to read it when Brett whispered in my ear, "Did I upset you or offend you at all?" I looked up into his worried, blue eyes. "Its fine. I'll tell you about it some other time.

I sighed as I walked to lunch. Percy had told me to meet them outside by all the tables and benches. I stood at the front step's, scanning the tables till I saw Percy wave a hand. I smiled and walked towards them.

At the table was Percy, Leo, Frank, Jason, Brett, Piper, Hazel and some other guy I didn't know. Hazel and Piper practically ran to me when they saw me two metres away. I hadn't seen them since the jogging incident on Saturday. "Ann!" I laughed as they pulled me into a hug.

"Hey Annabeth!" Leo said, fiddling with his fork. Frank and Jason greeted me as well. "Hey this is Scott McDonald. He's my other friend from the swim team." I shook Scott's hand and said, "Annabeth Chase."

He smiled and shook my hand, his brown eyes never leaving my eyes. "Your eyes are grey, its an unusual colour. But its pretty." I chuckled and looked down at my shoes. "Flattery gets you nowhere, but thank you anyway." He chuckled as well. "Worth a try!"

Percy offered me the seat across from him. "So how are you girls enjoying Goode?" Hazel and Piper looked at me. "What? Do you expect me to answer every question?" They laughed. "Pretty much. yes."

"Its pretty cool, I guess. I love the architecture program." The guys looked a little stunned that I was doing architecture. "You do architecture? Its so hard!" Brett said, with surprise in his tone.

"She's a genius. Its sorta scary." Piper said, giving me a smile. "Talking about your stupid smarts, did you pick which scholarship your gonna take? New York University? Stanford?"

"You got asked to go to Stanford?" Leo asked, disbelievingly. "Yeah, so?" The guys looked pretty shocked. "That's amazing! When did they ask you?"

"They have been asking her since she turned 16 but she has this lame excuse of, 'I want to enjoy High School before I think of the future'." Piper said, with air quotations. "Pipes, my dad wouldn't let me go back to Frisco until he was sure I could look after myself. A lot has happened there." I felt that lump forming in my throat again but I pushed it back down.

"Why is the group discussion always about me. How about you, Scott? Where you from?" He started telling us about him moving from Miami and when he met the guys. The lunch bell rang and we all went our separate ways. The one thing buzzing in my mind was,

There going to find out about him.