Hi guy's, just got out of school. One more day for me. I'm ready, let's get on with this chapter. *crack's knuckles*
Chapter 12
Percy's POV
I ran home, I knew Gabe wasn't in a good mood. From what his text said, he must be really angry. I knew that whatever anger he had, he would take it out on me. It took me ten minutes to get home, I paused in front of my door. Taking a deep breath, preparing myself for whatever was about to happen. I opened the door, and walked in.
Gabe must've heard me, because he shouted "Get in here punk!" I walked into the living room. There were broken pieces of glass, strewn across the floor. Gabe probably had a temper tantrum, before I showed up. He took a swig of beer, and glared at me. "Listen up punk, I got laid off today. So from now on things are gonna be different" Gabe said, the fact that he worked surprised me. He was always gone when I got up for school, I just always assumed he was out at the bar or something. I stood there, completely silent. "From now on, I want you home by four. Got that?" He said. I nodded, he walked towards me and punched me in the gut. Hard. "Speak when you talk to me. Understand" He growled. "Yes" I managed to wheeze out. I stood there clutching my stomach.
"Now go get me a beer" Gabe instructed, I walked towards the kitchen. Pulled out a beer from the fridge and headed back towards him, I handed him the beer. He grabbed it, and stared at it. "What is this?" He asked. "Your beer" I said, he looked at me. "Why's the cap on, after everything I've done for you. You don't even open a beer for me" I made the mistake of saying "You don't do anything, at all. Especially for me" Gabe stood up so fast, I stumbled backwards and fell. "What did you say?" He growled. I stared up at him, "I-I didn't mean t-" I started, but he kicked me. My leg erupted into pain. He grabbed me and slammed me against a wall. As soon as he let go, I fell to the ground in pain. He started to kick me again, "You are to treat me with respect, understand" He said, while still kicking me. He ended it, by punching me in the face. Then I blacked out.
When I finally came around, It was dark. I looked around, Gabe was asleep on his recliner. My head throbbed, both my legs and arms hurt like crazy. I slowly got up, my bones screaming in protest. I made my way to my room, when I walked in I looked at my clock. The glowing red numbers reading 10:30 pm. I sighed, and headed to my bathroom for a quick shower. After I was done, I stood in front of my mirror wearing only a pair of boxers. I looked at the scars all over my body, I had a couple small bruises on my arms from where Gabe kicked me. But they weren't that big of a deal, what worried me was the big bruise on my cheek. It had swelled up, when I was passed out. But seemed to have gone done, when I was in the shower. I sighed, If things were changing, then no doubt he would do this everyday. I crawled into bed, and pulled the covers over me. It only took five minutes before I dozed off.
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I headed towards my locker, trying my best to cover my face with my hood. I managed to get there, without anyone seeing. But as I opened my locker, Annabeth walked up. "Hey Percy ho- what happened?" she said, gently touching my bruised cheek. Her hands felt cold, against my skin. "Does it hurt?" She asked, concern evident in her eyes. "I'm fine, It only stings a bit" Which was true to say the least, she looked worried. Annabeth pursed her lips, "What happened?" she asked. I grabbed my chemistry textbook and shoved it into my bag. "On my way home, I got jumped. 'S not a big deal" I could tell she didn't believe me, I didn't have a convincing tone. She nodded, "Ok well I guess, I'll see you later?" she asked. "Yeah, later" I said. I could tell she was a bit bothered, knowing that something was wrong.
I sighed, closing my locker. I softly placed my head against the cool blue metal, "What am I going to do?" I asked myself. A million things were going through my mind, Gabe's new rules, the semi-crush on Annabeth, and many other things. The bell rang, signaling that all the students had three minutes before they were late. Percy wanted to puke, he really didn't want to attract attention just because of his face. He groaned, and headed to Marine Biology. When he walked in Mr. Sinray was at his desk grading papers, not many kids were in class. So taking advantage of this Percy headed towards the back, sighing in relief as he sat down. He might've been one of the nobody's of the school, but that didn't mean a bruise on his would go unnoticed among the students.
No long after the bell rang, the class had about sixteen students in total, not many people seem to enjoy this class. But Percy loved it, Mr. Sinray stood up. He was a 24 year old man, with a scraggly goatee. With slick back, jet-black hair. He was a nice teacher, but if you made him angry, his eyes would look as if they were searching your soul. Trying to find your greatest fears, and use them against you. Percy just so happened to be one of Mr. Sinray's favorite students. "Good Morning class, today you will be working on a special assignment. This assignment will require you to know a bit about, Greek Mythology." He stood up, and began to write on the board, "I'm sure you are all familiar with the Greek God Poseidon, and If you are not then you should do a little research. In this assignment, you will write an essay where you are a child of Poseidon. You will explain what you can do, and describe life under the sea. As that is where your essay need's to take place." He said, to say the entire class was excited is an understatement. The whole class seemed to radiate excitement, it was as if any moment the class could explode. Soon after, the bell rang signaling the end of first period.
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Third Person POV
It was 2:30 now, which meant that school was over. Percy was more than relieved, he didn't get noticed that much. Nobody seemed to question his bruise, except for his friends of course. Percy headed towards the school courtyard, he wasn't at all happy to hang out with his friends. No doubt they would pester him, to tell them the truth. But he would rather hangout with them, then deal with Gabe earlier then what he needed to. When he got to the courtyard, It was empty. His friends were probably on they're way. Percy sat on a rickety old bench, near the area where they all hung out. He reached inside his bag, and pulled out his song book. His mind wandered, millions of thoughts bouncing back and forth within his skull. Then as if in a trance, he pressed his pencil to a clean piece of paper and began to write. Not paying attention at all to what he was writing, after a minute or so he was startled out of his thoughts by Annabeth yelling In his ear. "PERCY!" She screamed, Percy nearly jumped out of his skin causing Annabeth to back up. The rest of the group seemed worried, they were all staring at him. "Sorry, I was writing a song...I didn't see you guy's" Percy said, Annabeth sat next to him.
"Your fine, It's just your eyes seemed to have glazed over. So we weren't really sure what was wrong." Annabeth stated, the rest of the group sat in a circle on the grass. "Can I see the song you wrote?" Annabeth asked Percy. He nodded, "Yeah, It's done" He said, scooting his song book I her direction a bit. Annabeth scooted a bit closer to Percy, so she could read his song. Percy's breath hitched, She was close. He could smell her familiar lemon shampoo, He had the sudden urge to pull Annabeth close to him and keep his arms around her. But he ignored it, knowing full well what this meant. He definitely had a full on crush, a crush on Annabeth. He mentally cursed, He didn't want to ruin his friendship with her just because he was being stupid and started growing feelings for her. "This is a weird song, but I think it's good either way" Annabeth said, smiling at him. He stared into her stormy grey eyes. This is stupid, he thought. She would never like me, not the way I like her. He thought, he inhaled a breath of air. Finally speaking, "Yeah? You think it's ok?" He asked. She nodded, "Yeah It'll sound great when you guy's play it."
Percy checked his watch, It read 3:00. "Hey do you guy's wanna head over to Nico's real quick. We could play a song real quick, but after that I'll have to head home." Percy said. Everyone agreed, and they all headed to Nico's place. When they got there, the band Immediately grabbed their instruments, and started to set up real quick. The rest of the group sat in their usual spots, on the worn out leather couches. They started to play.
Do you know
I count your heartbeats before you sleep (you sleep)?
I bite my fingernails to bone (to bone)
And then I crawl back under the stairwell
To a place I call my home.
I really hope you enjoy the show,
Because for me, it's just a bad day.
You need people like me to feel.
Maybe we're just having too much fun.
Maybe you can't handle yourself,
Staring at me with your lips and tongue.
You'll never know
I don't know where I'm going to sleep tonight.
She said, "Hotels are cheap,
And there's one down the street."
But, don't you threaten me with a good time.
Murder the moment.
My God, I'm the serpent.
I'm sorry, I can't see that you truly love me.
Maybe we're just having too much fun.
Maybe you can't handle yourself,
Staring at me with your lips and tongue.
I've been having this dream that we can fly,
So maybe if we never wake up, we can see the sky.
Oh, alright.
Please, don't take this out on me,
'Cause you're the only thing that's keeping me alive.
And I don't wanna wait for the down-set date
'Cause I would rather end it all tonight.
And if I mean anything to you,
I'm sorry, but I've made up my mind.
Maybe we're just having too much fun.
Maybe you can't handle yourself,
Staring at me with your lips and tongue.
I've been having this dream that we can fly,
So darling, close your eyes.
'Cause you're about to miss everything (about to miss everything)
About to miss everything (about to miss everything)
Soon after Percy left, with a sad smile. Annabeth couldn't but feel worried, about him. She could tell he was lying, she saw It In his eyes. She might've not known Percy that long, and she doesn't know everything about him. But his eyes. They spoke more then he did, all his emotions were carried In his eyes, she still had to learn them all. But for now, she knew what she needed to. She only hopes that whatever, Percy isn't telling her, that he'll tell her soon.
Hey guy's so I'm going to end off this chapter here, It's a bit of a long one so I hope It's ok for you guy's. Also I had a question, I was wondering If you guy's had any Ideas for when The first Percabeth kiss can be, I have a small Idea of when. But I wanna see what you guy's think. Hope you enjoyed.
.Girl.- Did I do okay, for detail In this one?
FIREGIRL0202- Rachel? I'll have to think about that, but we'll see what I can work with. If I do that.
Valdez-The-Repair-Girl- Thnx, hope you enjoyed.