Annabeth POV

I heard Percy creeping up behind me, but thought nothing of it. He was probably just trying to scare me. Again. He is such a Seaweed Brain sometimes...

"Boo!" He whispered right behind me. I spun around whilst drawing my dagger, and shot it towards his neck.

But as I stared into his sea-green eyes, I noticed just how shocked he looked. I shook myself out of my 'Percy-trance' and removed my hand – and dagger – from his neck.

Percy tried to look cool by leaning on the bookshelf, but he ended up miss-judging the distance, and he fell flat on his face.

I stifled a laugh, and quickly looked around the room to make sure no-one saw him fall.

The only people I saw looking were Diana Greeber and her bitchy posse. Oh well, they probably just wanted to scope out the 'new guy'.

I turned back to Percy, only to find him acting as if nothing had happened. I slow-mo clapped him, and laughed at his offended expression.

"Wow. That was amazing balance." I joked.

"Hey! That's rude! I never said anything when you fell off the lava wall at camp!" He retorted.

"That was because Clarisse threw a spear at me! You have no excuse!" I replied.

For a couple of seconds, I watched the one and only great Percy Jackson stand there with his mouth open like his friend – Billy the goldfish. But then his shoulders slumped, his head tilted towards the floor, and the corners of his mouth drooped.

I immediately felt bad, and I went over to comfort him, and give him a hug and a whispered "I'm sorry." But as soon as the words left my mouth, he looked up at me with his trademark grin.

"Gotcha!"

I blinked, then realised what he had done. That cheeky little...

I slapped him, and then stormed off. I heard him follow me, and then I felt Percy's arms around my waist. I leaned back into his strong chest, and vaguely heard him murmur something.

"Huh?" I asked. He chuckled.

"I said when does class start?" I looked at the clock.

"In about 1 minute." I replied.

"Wanna go and break up Jasper?" He asked, grinning at me.

"You have been spending far too much time with Silena!"