Percy

Walking in on Monday he dreaded school more than usual because after the weekend I was afraid to face school knowing it would bring attention. I simply walked through the halls with his head down and got to my locker and opened it quickly got my books and left. Heading towards the bathroom I saw Luke coming the other way so I stuck to the wall and went around avoiding him. I walked into the bathroom and the five minute bell went aft but I just sat my stuff down and looked in the mirror.

I saw the self that has been around for the past four years that I have just learned to get used to. The shattered blue- green eyes with dark circles from the many sleepless nights. My disheveled black hair sat on my head like usual but it almost blocked out my eyes but that was probably for the best. I sighed, grabbed my stuff and left the bathroom dreading the day ahead.

Luckily I was one of the last people in class so my entry was relatively unnoticed and I took my seat near the back and noticed Annabeth wasn't here yet. But I had thought too soon because at that moment she walked through the door and immediately started back towards me. This is not going to end well and she will just make things worse. She sat down and I turned and looked out the window in an attempt to show that I didn't want to talk but she didn't get the hint.

"Hey, Percy." she said.

I simply didn't respond hoping she would catch on but still she resisted to get that I didn't want to talk. I looked around the room and got a dirty look form Luke and that only meant that after class we would have a talk, again. Annabeth sighed and just gave up on trying to talk and class began which kept here focus off of me. Unfortunately class ended too quickly and on my way to second Luke stopped me in the hall.

"What the hell do you think you're doing Jackson?" Luke asked.

"What do you mean?"

"I mean what are you going around and making friends with my Annabeth?"

"I'm not."

"You better not because she is taken and if I see you trying to make friends again you won't have a face."

He stormed off and I hated the way he talked about her despite the fact that we weren't friends. But that didn't mean he could go around claiming her as his own, she was a person not an object. Where is this coming from, I don't even care about her she did enough already. So I just sighed and made my way to second which luckily didn't include Luke or Annabeth.

Making my way to the back I sat next to the only person I ever talked to in the entire school.

"Hey Nico." I said.

"Why are you here so late? Have another chat with Luke?"

"Yeah he said I needed to back off of Annabeth because she is apparently his."

"Why would he think your trying to do anything?"

"Its Luke, he get's jealous if another guy so much as glances in her direction."

Just then Will walked up and sat down and he and Nico started talking. Now two things about Nico is one he's gay and dating Will which was a surprise to me. Also he is the only one, other than my mom, who knows the whole story. Will knows small amounts but I wouldn't let Nico tell him the entire truth. When Nico started dating Will there was some backlash from either Luke or one of his friends but since nothing changed they all gave up and Nico dated in peace.

Sometimes, well a lot of times, I wished for that kind of piece to do whatever and no one bothering you about it but that hasn't happened since the sixth grade. I just opened my binder and looked at the letter again thinking about what might have been but then coming back to reality. That hope was stamped out after five years of horrible events followed by heartbreak.

I just didn't pay attention as class wore on and fell into my normal routine of going from class to class and half paying attention. See the school was legally forced to be aware of my situation and they cut me a lot of slack. So after fourth I grabbed my lunch and sat down just started eating. But I stopped when Annabeth sat down again next to me and I knew I needed to get her out of here.

"Go away." I said.

"No, not after you didn't talk to me this morning."

"Yeah and that got me almost beaten up, so go away."

She took my luck and said, "You're not getting this back until you tell me what's going on."

"No."

I reached for my luck but she kept it away but that meant she wasn't paying attention to how close it came to the edge of the table and then fell of the floor. My tow bottles spilled and the pills went everywhere.

"Percy are those antidepressants?" she asked.

"Yes, now go away." I said picking them up off the floor.

She didn't go away but rather just sat there in utter shock of what she just saw. Nico and Will were the only ones at school who knew that I had to tie the pills in order to even show up and stay at school. Just to my luck of the day Luke came over and smashed the remaining pills.

"You see, Jackson is just so weird he needs drugs to make him normal. Or at least as normal as he can be." He said to Annabeth.

"Leave him alone Luke."

"Why he's just a nobody who's going nowhere in life, right. I mean how is your mother doing Jackson? Finally got enough money to get you into a mental hospital?"

I didn't say anything but most of the cafeteria heard and everyone stopped talking and I grabbed my stuff and ran out of the room. Luke and his friends laughing as I went, today turned out to be one of the worst in a long time. I ran to one of the bathrooms and locked myself in a stall and just sat there. I looked down at the bottles and shoved them in the bag and pulled out the other thing I use to ease the pain, a knife.

It was the original reason I was put on medication but sometimes the medicine didn't help and I had to turn to old ways. Just like this time I turned my arm palm up and looked at the scars on my wrist and just started the normal routine. When the luck bell rang for fifth I had cleaned up and was on my way to my locker. I just went into the classroom and sat down and buried my head trying to look unnoticeable. It worked and people filled in and soon class started only to be stopped by an announcement.

"This is Principal Zeus and I need to see Percy Jackson in my office immediately.

The teacher looked at me and waved me off so I left and headed to the principal's office. It wasn't far and Zeus was a long lost relative so he usually only called me down if there was something with the family to do. For some reason he greeted me at the door and guided me to his office where he shut the door.

"Percy, why did you do it?" he said.

"Do what?"

"Why did you beat up Mr. Castellan?"

"I didn't."

"So you are to have me believe that the black eye and broken nose he suffered and then said it was from you is a lie?"

"No, not the part where he got beat up, but the part where I did it."

"I have reason to believe you because from what others had said happened you couldn't have done it."

"Do you know who did?"

"Yes but the main purpose is to show you that you now have others looking out for you. Also you might want to keep your medicine in another place other than your lunch bag."

Annabeth

I stood there furious as Percy ran out with his stuff after being made a complete fool of himself. Luke then had the audacity to come up to me like nothing was wrong and try to act all nice.

"Get away from me Luke!" I yelled.

"Why? C'mon babe its just you and me now."

"She said back off." Jason said.

"And what are you going to do, Grace?"

"This."

Jason then proceeded to punch Luke in the eye, hard. Then as Luke kneeled over he gave him a quick knee to the nose and probably broke it because it began to bleed a lot.

"That's for messing with Percy."

"Since when do you care?" Luke stuttered.

"Since Annabeth made him worth it you little punk ass bitch."

Jason gave him another punch and went back over to the table and sat down like nothing ever happened. Piper looked at me and I walked over and sat down.

"What happened?" she asked.

"Luke picked on Percy when he was getting his medicine off of the floor." I said.

"What was he getting off of the floor?"

"His antidepressant medicine." I said quietly.

"He takes depression medicine?"

"Yeah, he has for years." Nico said.

He and Will just sat down most likely because they are Percy's only friends and they always got involved when it had to do with Percy.

"Since when did you come out of the shadows?" Jason asked.

"Since you suddenly had interest in my friend, Grace."

"Okay everyone just calm down and we can talk this out." Piper said.

"My question is why do you care?" Nico pointed at me.

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"What do I mean? I mean is why do you care about him, are you trying to crush his spirit even further?"

"I never would do that."

"Oh really cause you already did about five years ago."

I stayed silent when I finally realized what I had done all those years ago but I disregarded it as they were still talking.

"Well I don't mean to do it again."

"I believe that when I see it."

"Where do you think Percy went?" Piper asked.

"Most likely he went to do what he always does when the medicine isn't enough."

"And that would be?"

"To somewhere no one can see him hurt himself."

"He does that?" Piper asked shocked.

"Why do you think he was put of the meds in the first place?"

Everyone stayed silent and I thought of what to do next, I mean I knew Percy was hurting but not that bad. It made me wonder what had entirely happened in the five years I was gone.

"We need to tell the principal." I said.

"And tell him what? That I beat up Castellan because he picked on Percy, yeah that will go well." Jason said.

"Well we better think of something because we can't just let Luke get away with what he did again." I said.

Unfortunately we didn't and the luck bell rang and we all headed off to class and I knew I had Luke in my net class. When I sat down I looked around the room and saw Luke and he winked at me and I just rolled my eyes deciding to ignore him. He had a smile on his face for some reason and then I understood why.

"This is Principal Zeus and I need to see Percy Jackson in my office immediately."

Luke had already ratted to the principal and it wasn't enough that he picked on Percy but now he had him in trouble with the school. What was Luke's problem with Percy anyway? Luke never showed this much effort in anything else in his entire life. I made a plan to find out what his issue was though the way to do it may cause some lost friendships but if it meant helping Percy then it was worth it.

I finally finished this chapter while it may have taken a while I did put forward some new plot things here and there. For the reason why it took so long was because I was gone for like three weeks and I was working on this other story that you guys should totally check out. I will try to get more out faster but with sports starting soon and I have to worry about ending high school it may be sporadic. Anyway read and enjoy.