Disclaimer: The Percy Jackson and the Olympians series was written by and is owned by Rick Riordan. The use of his characters in this piece is for the enjoyment of readers, and is not collecting any profit

Annabeth POV

I wriggled in my uncomfortable school uniform. What I would give to be in a t-shirt and jeans instead of this itchy skirt and stiff blouse…

"Ms. Chase, what is the domain of the equation?" Ms. Petra asked me.

"All real numbers except 0,-1, and 4" I answer. Ms. Petra goes back to teaching, while I go back to day dreaming. Looking back on it, my plan seemed pretty bad, but I was a little desperate. This school is pretty boring. It only worked for a week, and then my mom found out...

I was sitting next to Percy in English while Mr. Blofis went over a quiz. All of a sudden, a bright flash came from outside. I cast Percy a anxious look.

"ANNABETH CHASE WHAT IN THE WORLD WERE YOU THINKING, GOING BEHIND MY BACK!" my mother stormed in, looking scary. Most of the class shrank down in their seats, twiddling the pencils. Some of my mortal friends looked on with raised eyebrows. Percy just looked terrified at first, but then he just looked confused.

"Hi mom," I started out.

"MOM?" half the class blurted out. Whispering started to break out, but my mother didn't care. She just looked at me like she wanted to skewer me with her eyes.

Mr. Blofis cleared his throat. "Lady Athena, maybe you want to take this outside. You wouldn't want to disturb the lesson, would you?"

I raised my eyebrows and saw Percy give a discreet thumbs-up to Mr. Blofis, and then my mother dragged me out of the room. I stood in the hallway rubbing my arm while my mother yelled "You too Perseus, this is also your fault!"

I could just imagine Percy jumping up and fast walking to the door, looking terrified.

"What did you do?" he whispered out of the corner of his mouth. Before I could reply, my mother turned on me.

"Why did you do it? Was it for barnacle beard's son here? I am not blowing up at you because I know that daughter of Zeus, Thalia, is Artemis' lieutenant. I can only hope you joined the Hunters of Artemis or are planning to."

Percy looked at me, a hint of betrayal in his eyes.

"No, Percy-"I stuttered, trying to think of what to say.

"It's okay; I should have known you would join anyway." He actually looked a little angry at me.

"Oh, thank goodness. I'll talk to Artemis to see if she could visit soon to pick you up. You shouldn't be this near boys right now." My mom took out her cell phone and started to punch in a number, when I finally got my voice back.

"No! I came here for Percy, not to join the Hunters. Of course, I am glad Thalia's here, but I didn't know she would be! I hacked into the computer systems so I could go to school with Percy."

"You hacked into the scho-", Percy got cut off by my mother

"Annabeth he isn't good for you! He is reckless and he never uses his brain! This is the exact opposite of you! I would rather have you date that son of Apollo-"

"I AM NOT GOING-"

"Annabeth, everyone is gonna hear!" Percy shushed me.

I cleared my throat, "As I was saying, I am not going to date any son of Apollo!"

"Maybe I can't control that, but I do control what school you attend," That was when I was doomed. "You will attend the school I picked out for you; I will talk with your father and step-mother to find a suitable excuse for you coming a month into the school year."

With that, we turned away, my mother left, and the bell rang. With one look, we knew we had to bolt to avoid questions. Thankfully, we had taken our backpacks. We sprinted to our lockers, stuffed our books into our bags, and sprinted back outside. We walked fast to Percy's apartment.

"So, you hacked into the school system for me?" Percy raised his eyebrows.

"Well, yeah. It wasn't too hard. Just cut my info from one database and paste it in the other. The security for both lists was really bad."

"Who knew you were a computer geek too? Isn't architecture enough?" Percy shook his head and chuckled.

"Why can't I like both? Is that a bad thing?" I acted hurt, and I guess I was pretty convincing.

"No! I mean, I shouldn't call people names…geeks aren't bad…but…um" he tried to explain himself.

"It's okay Percy," I laughed and gave him a kiss.

"So, I guess you won't be coming to school with me," he looked disappointed.

"We can still hangout on the weekends, and maybe I can come over after I'm finished with my homework to help with yours." I replied. I would make it work somehow.

So, that's why I'm here in the worst possible school uniform. I guess it could be worse, I could be in California or the Titians could be ruling. I was happy that I got to see Percy almost every day. I guess as a demigod, you learn to appreciate the small things.