Chapter 7

I was getting ready at my locker for first class of the day, looking over at Drew who was standing by her locker. If looks could kill I would be dead. She wasn't going to get over yesterdays confrontation – which to be fair she started – and it seamed she had It out for me. Nothing had been done yet, but I could tell something was coming soon. But I couldn't really think about that because Percy was about to sneak up on me, no doubt trying to scare me.

"Hey wise girl" he whispered, getting right up close to my ear. Now while that didn't scare me, it did send shivers down my spine "Yes seaweed brain?" I laughed, turning around to see his face fall

"Told you it wouldn't work dude" Jason laughed along with Grover, leaning against the locker next to mine "You can't scare Annabeth"

"Was worth a try. So my place or yours tonight?" he asked. Tonight would be our first session of tutoring, something which I couldn't wait for. It gave me a built in excuse to not go to a party Luke was throwing. I went to them occasionally to please Thalia, but they were loud with loads of guys who had hands that tended to wonder after a few drinks. So they weren't really my scene. But Piper, Jason and Thalia would be going, which meant I'd be getting a lot of juicy stories in the morning.

Who'd thrown up on who, who'd gotten the most drunk and who was grounded by their parents. I would also be emergency driver if things got out of control.

"How about yours?" I suggested, thinking that having my dad lurking around whilst we were trying to study would be a bit annoying. I loved my dad seriously, but he could be a bit clueless at times.

"What's happening tonight guys?" Grover asked, eye brows wiggling

"Oh you know" I answered before Percy "Just some hot and steamy maths work. Seriously it's going to get intense in there. Want to join?" I smiled, adding a little seduction in my voice like Thalia had taught me when we were 13. "Why Annabeth didn't know you were into threesomes" Grover gave back, the grin on his face turning into a huge one. Thankfully, I was feeling more like my confident self today.

"Oh baby you have no idea what I'm into" I laughed at Grover's face which was a little bit shocked, Jason laughing behind me. Closing my locker, the bell rang which meant "Ready to go to Maths?" I asked Percy, a frown covering his face.

"Do I have to?" he wined turning into a five year old "Yes you do" I said, waving goodbye to Jason and Grover at my locker before heading off in the direction of Percy's idea of Hell.

"So I got your text last night" I told him. I hadn't replied, not really knowing what to say to it. I had stared at it for good hour before mum came in my room to collect any washing. At that point I had chucked my phone under my bed where it had stayed for the rest of the night. It had been glaring at me this morning, but I couldn't deal with it. I was in too much of a rush, running late.

"Yeah, I hope you didn't mind me getting your number off Jason" he stumbled out, actually seaming nervous. Well this was a first.

"Calm down seaweed brain, it's fine" I smiled, watching as Percy blew out a sigh of relief.

"Then how come I didn't get a reply?" he said entering the classroom in front of me. Taking my usual seat I was surprised to see Jackson taking the seat next to me. He usually sat at the back, sinking in his chair whenever Mr. D asked a question.

Whipping out my phone, I replied with a hey, sending a smile over to Percy "There's your reply"

His phone buzzed a second later, to which he started typing away on. Within a minute my phone was buzzing again.

Seaweed Brain: come on Wise Girl you can do better then that

I smiled, but before I could answer my phone buzzed again with another text from Percy. I love your smile flashed on my screen, making me shoot a look to my left but his eyes were focused solely on the front of the class, Watching as our ordinarily grumpy Maths teacher walked in. He seamed in a worse mood then normal, probably hungover. Whenever I had gone up to talk to him about anything he always smelt like stale wine which made me want to vomit.

He started to drone on about Calculus, the new subject of the term. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Percy's face fall as Mr. D continued on, drawing the first of what I could assume to be many graphs on the board

Don't look so down seaweed brain I texted him, knowing that I shouldn't distract him. But I could tell he was about five seconds away from giving up. And we were barely ten minutes into the class. How are you understanding this? He typed back, expertly hiding his phone under the table. I, having had less practise was finding it hard to hide my phone. Thankfully Mr. D either didn't notice or didn't care, knowing that he had already lost half the class.

Class had gone the same as usual. Percy and a few others had been picked on, homework had been handed out and Mr. D had emptied a pencil holder, filled it with water and popped two pills all before sending us on our way. That was hell flashed up on my screen. We had separated, me having biology, him having something else.

We will go over it later I text back, looking up to see a very bouncy Thalia standing outside the lab. Someone was obviously looking forward to the party. My phone buzzed in my pocket, but I refused to answer It, knowing that if I did Thalia would get curious and start teasing me. And I couldn't stand an hour of that.

"Oh I can't wait for tonight" were her first words to me when I reached the door "Are you sure you can't come?"

"Yes I'm sure" thanking Percy mentally yet again for needed a tutor "Not only is it a school night, I'm tutoring Percy" I smiled, looking forward to tonight more then I should have. She was obviously excited because she didn't listen to me, choosing instead to rattle off her outfit choices and making me choose one that sounded the best. Even though she would ignore my advice, it was a pre-party ritual for us.

"Tonight I'm going to look so hot that Luke is going to want to rip-"

"Don't really want to know" I interrupted, pulling out my phone anyway. She wasn't going to notice me texting, she was to busy in Party land. "ugh I love having a boyfriend in collage" she exclaimed, walking into class as I trailed behind glued to my phone.