Chapter 3

Hey Guys! I'm so sorry, it has been over a month since I last updated. I will continue this story, and thank you for all your supportive comments. I will be releasing a new fanfiction today. It's a series of one shots about all the PJO characters, including ships, bromances, friendships, etc.

Enjoy this chapter, and I would love recommendations about one shots for my new story, maybe plots that you've never read, and have always wished to read.

DIsclamer: I don't own PJO…sadly.

Percy POV:

To say school was going great was an underestimation, this school was so different then my former school. I was always the scrawny kid who didn't have any girls trailing behind him, I guess it was the same here. I just wanted to get home and enjoy the blue cookies that my mom promised.

(A/N: Remember that he's playing Taylor Swift's role of not being popular.)

It was lunch time, and I could tell this was the stereotypical High School where different cliques sit at assigned tables. I looked around, when I spotted Annabeth at a table with a crowd of a variety of people. I got closer and I first made sure that Luke wasn't at that table. Surprisingly, he wasn't.

There was a girl with brown choppy hair, and kaleidoscope eyes, next to her was a boy with blonde hair and electric blue eyes, next was a boy with curly brown hair and elf like ears. A Chinese boy that looked like a panda and next to him was a girl with gold eyes and curly brown hair. Finally there were two emo, goth-like people… wait I knew them! Yes! Finally someone I knew at this school!

"Thalia, Nico!"

I clasped my mouth shut, because the moment I yelled that, the cafeteria went silent. Everyone was looking at me and making me feel uncomfortable. I felt my face heat up and I walked to the table. Thalia stood up and gave me a bone-crushing hug, while Nico "bro-hugged" me. You see, they were my cousins, but people often mistook them as a couple, which made me laugh so much. I sat down in the empty seat between Annabeth and Nico. Everyone in the table that weren't Thalia, Nico and Annabeth were looking at me weird.

"Hey, I'm Percy," I said.

They went down the table introducing themselves, Piper, Jason, Leo, Frank and Hazel. As lunch went by, I realized that they were really nice and fun people.

` Annabeth POV:

They were still looking at Percy weirdly but not because of his personality or his appearance, but because Luke was bound to appear any moment, and that was his seat. Nobody bothered to tell Percy that because I could already tell they liked him more than Luke. The moment these thoughts left my brain, I felt a hand on my shoulder, Luke. I turned around, and the table went silent. I shut my eyes, tears threatening my eyes, I opened my eyes, cleared my thoughts and faced him.

"He's sitting in my spot," he said through clenched teeth. "Why did you let him sit there?"

He gripped my shoulder tighter and I did something that I would've never thought I would do, I slapped his hand, hard. He let a yelp out and glared at me. He raised his hand, and I flinched waiting for the slap. I felt nothing, I looked up again, and Percy was in front of me, Luke's hand still up.

"Don't hit Annabeth," he said. "If you really want your seat just tell me and I'll move, but don't hit her."

Luke looked at Percy, more like glared and sat on the chair that was now empty. Percy grabbed his bag, waved at everyone, and walked away. Everyone else looked at Luke like an intruder, and there was an awkward silence in the table. Nico and Thalia broke the silence by standing up, and they left in the direction of Percy. Slowly everyone in the table left in the same direction, leaving me alone with Luke. I stood up, to follow them and started walking.

Percy POV:

Luke was such a dick, I couldn't believe he would dare hit Annabeth. I was calming myself by doing breathing exercises, when I heard footsteps behind me.

"Percy, wait!" I turned around and saw Thalia and Nico. I stopped and let them catch up. Let me tell you about them, Thalia and Nico are my cousins, on our dad's side. They are my favorite cousins and they are both my age.

Thalia's dad is Zeus, the owner of a big airplane company, and owned a lot of buildings in New York. Thalia's mom was an actress, but she died a few years ago in a car accident. Thalia was a bit of a punk, but people often mistook her as emo, or goth. She hated heights, and when we were in a family vacation at the mountains, she crashed into a pinecone tree. She had some other dark history with Luke, that she would tell me about.

Nico's dad, Hades was in charge of a different company, that neither Thalia, Nico or I liked. His company helped families prepare for a funeral, and he would "refurnish" the dead people. It was scary if you asked me, which is why we never dare to go anywhere else in the house than in Nico's room. Nico was emo, but he wasn't into the halloween theme, of skeletons and dead people. I think he secretly likes that though. His mom was my favorite aunt, but she had sadly died along with Nico's sister Bianca.

"Percy, we know why you stood up for Annie back there," Nico said.

"Um, why?" I asked

"Ugh, Percy, stupid as always" said Thalia.

"You obviously like her," Nico said.

Thalia face-palmed.

I blushed, and shook my head. Thalia and Nico shared this really weird look, and kept on walking with me, we went outside to the school's patio. We sat under a tree and continued eating. What we hadn't noticed before was that everyone had followed us and were being really secretive about it. We were really enjoying our lunch and I knew I had made the right choice of choosing this school.

Annabeth POV:

I felt great walking away from Luke, until I felt a really tight hold on the back of my neck. I turned around and saw Luke, he was fuming.

"I still haven't gotten my payback from before, Annie" he sneered.

"You don't need it, Luke, you get it every single day,"

He looked confused for a while, and then he got it. " You little bitch," he said.

Ouch.

"You were probably looking for Jackson right now. You slut, are you cheating on me Annabeth? Is that why you let him sit on my spot?"

A/N: So… It's not really a cliffy, because we know that she isn't cheating on him. Tell me how you felt about this chapter, and remember to check my new story out. I will try to update sooner, I'm really sorry about the long wait.

- percalangelo13