Annabeth POV

"Swimming, huh?" I asked, as Percy and I walked out of Starbucks. Thalia and Nico walked in front of us, bickering.

He blushed.

"Come on!" I whined, "Don't be so modest!"

He laughed.

"I absolutely love the water. I feel so free in it. Almost...more powerful, but that doesn't make much sense does it?"

"It does, actually. That's how I feel when I..."

I stopped, Thalia already wanted to hear me sing, I don't need him wanting to.

"What? When you what?"

"Sing."

I can't believe I just said that.

"You sing?"

"A little. But I'm not sure I'm very good. I've never sang in front of any one before."

"Well, maybe I can be your first audience."

"Yeah, I guess I would like that."

I can't believe I just said that, either.

We walked along in comfortable silence. He kept glancing at me, and once, I caught his eyes.

We stopped walking.

Gray on green.

I blushed, and ripped my eyes away from his.

You only just met him.

And right now, I don't really care.

Thalia POV

I glanced back at Percy and Annabeth. They were just staring at each other.

After about, 3 minutes of that, Annabeth ripped her eyes away, and looked down at the ground. I noticed her cheeks were turning a light pink.

They started walking again, and I quickly whipped around, and turned my attention back to Nico, who was staring at me oddly.

"They are so gonna get together."

Percy POV

Annabeth and I walked into Goode, only to be stopped by Luke and Silena.

"OMG!" Silena squealed, "Look, look, look, LOOK!"

Leo was kissing some girl that I had never even seen before, and she seemed to be kissing back.

"Who is that?" Annabeth asked.

"Her name is Calypso! Apparently he wasn't lying when he said he had a girlfriend in Maine!" Luke said, crossing his arms.

"OMG! That. Is. So. Friggin. Cute!" Silena exclaimed, clapping her hands together.

"Yeah. We've got to get to class. See ya at lunch!" Annabeth called, dragging me away.

"Why in such a hurry?" I asked her.

"I am not getting detention on my second day of school!" She exclaimed.

I snorted as I remembered the ugly old witch that goes by the last name Dumbles. What kind of name is that, anyway?

We stepped into the classroom and sat down.

"Beth, we're like, 15 minutes early!" I whined.

"Do not call me Beth!" She said, crossing her arms.

"Then what do I call you?"

"Figure it out!"

"Wise Girl?"

"Wow. Intelligent, Seaweed Brain! And, note the sarcasm."

"Seaweed Brain?"

"It's better than Wise Girl."

Silence.

"Told you."

"Whatever, Wise Girl."

I giggled a bit, and then quieted down as Mrs. D entered the room.

Today, she was wearing the ugliest shade of pink known to the human being.

In other words:

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

"Today class, we will be learning about the-"

Thats when I tuned her out. I knew this stuff already.

So I took out my pony, and let my curls fall down around my face.

I felt someone glance at me, and I new it was Percy. But...why?

I absent mindedly twirled my hair around my finger for the rest of the period.

Percy and I walked to our next class together, which happened to be Greek.

Turns out we both excelled at it, seeing as both Athena's and Posiden's parents immigrated to the U.S. from Greece.

We both kept inturupting the teacher, Mr. Goldsmith, who obviously knew nothing about Greek mythology.

By the end of class, he was fuming.

I swear just as he was about to scream at us, the bell rang.

Percy and I high fived, raced out of there, and headed to our last class before lunch.

P.E.

Coach Hedge was a short, fat, 50 year old man, who screams "DIE" at anyone who slacks during the hour that we're in there. What fun! (Please note sarcasm)

After that...interesting class, we had lunch.

Thalia got straight to the point.

"We're having a sleepover at our place tonight. We'll text you the address."

She didn't even bother to listen to the replies, and plugged her ear phones in and most likely was listening to music on her iPod.

Percy, who sat right next to me, turned and asked, "Number?"

"If I can have yours."

We exchanged numbers and then continued to eat or lunch.

After lunch there were three more periods that I totally tuned out, and I found myself walking home, Percy at my side.

I had told him he couldn't come, but he followed anyway, so I didn't have much choice.

When we got to my apartment I started to climb the fire escape. Much to my relief, he didn't follow.

I climbed through the window and hopped down to the floor.

The house was silent.

I figured I'd have to leave a note, so I walked out of my room and into the living room.

Mathew and Bobby were sitting on the couch, watching TV, when I came in.

"Where's your mom?"

"She's at the bar."

"Kk," I said, search for a pen and a piece of paper.

When I finally found some, I wrote my note, put it on the counter, and turned to Bobby and Mathew.

"When mom gets home, lock yourselves in your room until dad does. I'm gonna be gone for tonight, okay?"

They nodded and I ran to pack my stuff.

I packed a lacy gray spaghetti strap tank top, a hot pink sports bra and booty shorts for pajamas, a white tank top with a sliver owl on it, skinny jeans and gray converse for tomorrow, my gray bikini just in case, a brush, deodorant, and a tooth brush and tooth paste.

Lets get this show on the road.