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Chapter Two- Betrayal

Percy POV

I woke up the next morning, surprised at the unfamiliar bed before remembering that I was at Demigod Academy. Groaning, I dragged myself from the comfort of my warm bed.

I changed into an ice blue t-shirt and dark blue jeans, slipping on my blue and grey high-tops. I only had two pairs of shoes, high-tops and Nike-Airs.

I walked down the hallway by myself. Luke wasn't up yet and Nico had already left. As I walked down the hallway to the Breakfast Bar everyone was staring at me and whispering. I'd been through it all before, all I had to do was make sure I didn't humiliate myself. As the new kid, that would give me a really bad reputation. I knew from experience.

I made it to breakfast without tripping, got a plate of eggs, bacon and toast and took a seat next to Nico.

Thalia entered the room. There was a girl standing next to her with far too much make-up, blonde extensions, fake nails and high heels, wearing nothing but a crop top that showed off her stomach and a tiny mini-skirt.

Thalia was the complete opposite. Her electric blue eyes were surrounded with black eyeliner and she wore a black t-shirt, a black leather jacket, black laddered jeans and mid-calf black boots. She looked totally punk and I swear Nico started drooling.

Annabeth was walking behind them. She wore a pale pink t-shirt, a caramel coloured jacket and blue jeans. Her jaw was locked, her arms were crossed and she was glaring at the back of the make-up-caked girls head.

Annabeth's shining blonde hair was pulled back in a ponytail but one lock had escaped, framing the side of her tanned face.

The three girls got their food and came over. Annabeth and Thalia sat opposite me and Nico while the other girl latched herself onto my arm.

"Hello," the girl said seductively, batting her false eye-lashes, "I'm Silena." Out of the corner of my eye, I could see Annabeth scowling as Thalia covered her mouth with her hand in order to stop herself from laughing.

I slowly inched away with an, "Uh, hi?", but Silena didn't seem to get the hint. She inched towards me and I froze.

She leaned forward towards my face. What was I supposed to do? I couldn't pepper spray her, no matter how hard I wanted to.

"Do you wanna have some fun?" She asked breathily.

"Uh… no thanks," I replied, pushing her off. Silena scowled and stalked away.

Thalia and Nico burst out laughing and even Annabeth smirked. I glared at them. "Shut up!"

"Oh my gods," Thalia said, wiping tears of laughter from her eyes, "Your face!"

I started laughing too and so did Annabeth. "I wanted to pepper spray her so bad!" I snorted.

After another burst of laughter, we cleared up and headed to class. I had History with Annabeth and Luke.

Annabeth and I walked into the classroom, laughing because she'd brought up the 'Silena Incident' again.

Annabeth stopped dead in her tracks when she saw Luke. He was surrounded by a bunch of jocks and cheerleaders, including Silena.

I was about to ask her why she'd stopped when it hit me. He'd ditched us at breakfast to hang out with them.

Annabeth gave him a small wave when he looked our way, but he ignored us. She gave a small, almost inaudible, gasp and walked over to a seat in the back of the classroom. "You okay?" I asked, taking a seat next to her.

"I'm fine, Seaweed Brain," she replied, but her eyes were shining. She shook her head slightly, as if trying to wake herself up from a bad dream.

"Seriously? Seaweed Brain? Is that the best you can come up with, Wise Girl?"

"Shut up, Kelp Face."

"Why don't you shut up… uh… Annabeth…"

"Ha," she snorted. "FAIL!"

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Annabeth POV

Class hadn't been as bad as I'd expected. Luke's betrayal had hurt, a lot, but Percy and I joked and messed around the whole lesson.

For a moment, he made me forget about Luke.

At the end of the lesson, our teacher, a centaur named Chiron, handed us each a folder. "This is your assessment," he said. "You need to write a report about a God of choice, it cannot be your parent. You shall be working in pairs, your partner is on the sheet. You will need to include information, pictures and main life events of your God of choice. This will be one quarter of your final level. Class dismissed."

"Whose your partner?" Asked a familiar voice from behind me. My body stiffened all over but I couldn't turn around because I knew that once I looked at him my resolve would crumble. Luke always had that effect on me.

"Why's it any of your business?" Percy retorted sharply. He placed a hand on my shoulder and, in a softer voice, said, "Let's go, Annabeth," before steering me out the door.

Once we had left, I leaned against the wall, sliding down it until I was sitting on the floor.

Percy sat down next to me. "You okay, Wise Girl?"

"I can't believe that he did that," I mumbled, holding my head in my hands. "I've known him for years, and- and he just ditches me for the popular crowd!" I ran my fingers through my messy blonde hair, pulling it out from its ponytail.

"Hey it's alright. He's a jerk, he doesn't deserve to be friends with you." Percy says it with such certainty that it's hard to disbelieve him. "Now, c'mon, we gotta get to P.E." He offers me a hand and pulls me up.

It took us a while to find the gym, so we were late.

The coach is a big pudgy man with a large red nose, greasy black hair and sunburnt skin. He was wearing a repulsive red track suit that made him look even fatter than he was.

He looked at us, sizing Percy and I up, before saying, "You both look pretty fit. You're in Group One. Now go get changed!"

Despite his appearance, the coach wasn't really that bad.

I changed into the girls P.E. uniform, a tight-fitting crimson t-shirt and black short-shorts, before pulling my hair into a side ponytail and heading into the gym.

Thalia was already sitting down and she beckoned me over. "So," she started, a mischievous smile on her face, "You and Percy, both late for class, at the same time. What a coincidence!"

I push her over and she falls on her back, snorting incredulously. "It's not like that!"

"Sure…" she replies, raising an eyebrow suggestively.

I swat at her with my hand. "Oh, SHUT UP!"

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Percy POV

I was sitting on the cold hard floor of the gym, watching Annabeth and Thalia talking, when Nico walked up to me.

"Hey man," he said, "I'm not sure if you've heard, but, um, Luke's moving dorms."

To be honest, I expected him to do something like that, but I couldn't help myself from feeling angry. Seriously, how much of an evil back-stabbed can one person be? I was about to voice my thoughts when Nico spoke up again.

"Dude, did you know we can paint and decorate our bedrooms? Well, our part of the dorm. And since Luke's moving out, we get half each!"

"Cool! Mine's gonna be… aqua, like the ocean, and I'm gonna get a dark blue rug, and maybe paint some blue waves on the walls!"

"Awesome!" Nico exclaimed, giving me a high five. "Mine is going to be… crimson, with loads of skulls on it, and I'm gonna have black curtains and a black rug! It's going to be totally…"

"Punk!" Thalia said, smirking and fist-bumping Nico. I jumped, not even realising that she and Annabeth had come over.

"Gotta be more alert than that, Seaweed Brain," Annabeth said smugly.

"At least I could find the gym, Wise Girl!"

"I was the one who found it!"

"… So? Why are you bringing it up, it's not that big a deal!"

"I- you-" Annabeth spluttered with rage.

Just then, Coach walked into the room. "Boys," he yelled loudly, "Take off your shirts!" A couple of boys, Luke included, took off their shirts while I just stared at Coach incredulously. "If you refused to take off your shirt, then you are not happy with your condition. I don't care if you want to or not, TAKE OFF YOUR SHIRTS!"

I sighed in resignation before pulling the t-shirt over my head. People started staring at me and I took a step behind Nico. "Dude," he said "What are you doing?"

"Uh, hiding?"

"Not any more," Annabeth replied, pulling me out from behind Nico. She stared at me for a second before turning around.

Thalia was poking her and they had a short whispered conversation. Me and Nico leaned forward to listen, like the true perverts we are.

Thalia was smirking while Annabeth was speaking. "-Not like that!" She whisper yelled. "Besides, at least I don't fancy Nico!"

Nico smirked from beside me. "I do not!"

"You do so!"

"Nu-uh girlfriend!"

"Yu-huh girlfriend!"

"NOOOOOOO!"

"Fine swear on the River Styx!"

"Shut up," Thalia scowled, turning her back on Annabeth.

I tapped Annabeth on the shoulder. "Yu-huh girlfriend? Really?"

"Shut up you perv!"

"I am not a perv,

I merely observe!

I'm not being absurd,

I just overheard!"

Annabeth raised an eyebrow at me. "Seriously? That's what you're going with, Seaweed Brain?"

"Yu-huh, girlfriend!"

Annabeth just rolled her eyes and turned her back.

"Today," Coach bellowed, "We shall be practicing our swordplay. If anyone brought their own swords, you are free to use them! You shall be fighting in pairs, boys against boys, girls against girls!" I fist-bumped the air in a 'ca-ching!' gesture while taking Riptide out of my pocket and uncapping it. "First to fight is… Thalia Grace against Silena Beauregard!"

Thalia and Silena stepped into the ring. Thalia won within seconds because Silena was trying not to break a nail.

"Next to fight is… Percy Jackson against Luke-" What? I couldn't do that! There was no way I could win this fight!

I stepped into the ring with Luke. He was grinning at me evilly. Oh boy…

I was going down.

Luke stepped forward, thrusting his sword at me. I brought Riptide up to deflect it, then swiped at his legs with the flat of my sword. He fell on his back, and I lifted my sword to his chest, placing the tip right above his heart.

"Percy Jackson wins!" Coach yelled.

"Yay, Percy!" Annabeth yelled and Luke scowled.