Piper POV

Walking into a new school got me thinking,how many kids in total were entered in the Battle. I mean, there was quite a few of us there. And all of us, accept for the ones living in LA, have to attend.

"Remember, don't cause any trouble." Sally scolds, before walking out the gate.

"No promises!" Percy calls to his Mother's retreating figure.

My mum decided to explore LA. Not like her, I know. But she's probably getting a tan as well. I wasn't sure what to think about my Mother tagging along on the journey. She is a great Mother and cares about my well being but she can get a little carried away. She almost told Jason that I liked him, and that can't happen. Ever.

"Pipes, are you okay? " Jason asks, making me snap out of my thinking.

"Hmm? Yeah. I was just thinking." I say, shuffling to the doors.

"'Bout what?" He digs, following me.

"Stuff." I reply, not wanting him to know I was thinking about him.

"A boy?" Jason sing-song's, nudging me. I look up from the concrete path to glare at him. "Ouch. Someone woke up on the wrong side of bed this morning."

"No." I reply smartly, "Just I had to take a real short shower."

"Sass." Jason comments as we get to the doors.

Why hadn't he raced ahead like everyone else and left me here?

Because he cares, a smug and frankly annoying voice in my head says. I choose to ignore it. He doesn't like me. He barely acknowledges me for gods sake!

But... Maybe it's because he's scared of reveling his true feelings, the voice says.

Shut up, stupid.

"Hey!" Jason says, mocking offence as if he...

"Was I just speaking out loud?" I say embarrassed. My cheeks heat and go red.

"Just that 'Shut up, Stupid.' I thought you were talking to me!" Jason says, opening the door for me.

I walk in, and find that its basically like Goode. Well, the students anyways. The hallways were red, not blue.I guess that's their colour then.

"So, what were you thinking about?" Jason keeps poking, not literally.

"Nothing!" I exclaim, shoving through students to get to the office. Or at least find it.

"You must have been thinking about something? Like I said, was it a boy?" I blush and duck my head, "Aww, you're blushing! It was a boy!"

I spot th e door labelled 'Office' and discreetly slip into it. Ha, take tha Jason. There's a door, which you could open in the way of you teasing me.

I accidentally bump into Annabeth, and about three other bands.

"Crap, sorry!" I say, helping Annabeth stand again, "I was just-"

"Hurtful! I was trying to keep you company." Jason scoffs, wounded. His face was angled away from me, and his eyes were cast towards the floor. My heart clenched. Why me?

"I'm sorry. I just had a bad night sleeping." I say, which was half of the truth. I spent the night up thinking about how crazy it would be if I ran into my Dad. Would he still be here? Does he remember me? Would he even recognize me?

See, my parents split and Mum got custody over me because Dad was away too much. She moved to New York with me in her trail, and away from Dad. We used to live here with him, in Malibu. I wonder if he still has our dog.

Jason starts laughing at me. "You- you b-believ-ved me!" He howls, "Golden. I'm not offended Piper. I'm touched you care about my feelings though."

I glare at him forcefully.

"Shut up, Stupid." I say, "Who knows. I might've been talking to you before."

A lady rushes out from behind the desk, her cheeks red and flustered. In her hands was a big box filled to the brim with papers.

"Okay." She says, slamming the box down. "I have files for each band to hand out to their band mates to stop there from being chaos."

She lists off the band names, with Thalia collecting ours, bravely before sitting down again.

Thalia hands my my schedule and map, before we're pushed out the door by the other bands.

Finding classes was hard enough already as it was. No new school needed. So, new town, new state, new school is chaos. Utter chaos. I'm surprised I made it to lunch.

Annabeth has dark circles around her eyes.

Calypso is leaning on a sleeping Paisley.

Thalia is picking at her sandwich sluggishly before resting her head against the edge of the table.

What a well put together band I have.

"Are they okay?" I ask Annabeth, sitting next to Paisley and getting her forehead off the edge. Her forehead had a red line from where the table was. Instead, I let her lean on me.

"Tired." She says as the boys start to slowly stumble to the table. "So, how has your day been so far, Percy?" She asks sarcastically.

"Hmph." He replies, groaning. "It's like they're trying to get rid of their contestants by killing them in school before they've barely started."

I agree. The teachers have been relentless with the amount of work they expect us to hand in at the end of it. One asked for a five page essay tomorrow, another had ten pages of Algebra. Explode my brain, why don't you? Go ahead.

I feel someone's eyes on me, but I'm too tired to look up.

The bell rings, making us all jump.

"Fudge!" Paisley squeals, jumping up and almost knocking Calypso over. "Anyone know where room twenty one is?"

By the time we had crawled our way back to the Hotel, we were half dead. Nico looked almost there.

"How was your... day?" Mum trails off, looking up from the cooking she was doing to look at us. "Bad first day?"

"Nah kidding. They're trying to kill us!" Luke says, running a hand through his blonde hair.

"Well good for you that Hermes said you didn't have to do the homework. They're already giving you tasks to learn which determine who goes home and stuff." Mum says, making the majority of us sigh in relief. A huge weight just got lifted off my shoulders.

Suck on that, Mr. Richmond!

"Go to bed and rest." Mum orders in what she's deemed her 'Motherly Voice'.

No complaints there. Everyone practically crashes on the spot. I lean against the wall on the way to the room again.

A muscled arm wraps firmly around my waist, steadying me. And almost making me pee in fright. Yeah. Then I figure the arm is attached to Jason. It would be really embarrassing if I peed.

"You look like you're drunk." He comments, assisting me to the room across the hall.

"Shuddup." I say, leaning on him. "Just because you're used to the work load, Genius."

He helps me sit, and tucks the covers over me. Everyone else is already asleep with the curtains drawn.

My eyes slip shut, and I feel something warm and damp press to my forehead.

"Sleep tight, Pipes."

"Best sleep ever!" Thalia comments, sitting up. It's six in the morning, and Annabeth is already using the shower.

"Yeah." I say, "Yesterday hit us like a freight train. I wonder why." I say, flicking a page in a book Annabeth wants me to read, despite my dyslexia.

"Where'd Calypso go?" She inquites, trying to un-knot her dark unruly hair.

"She went to wake the boy's up. By the looks of thing's she's gonna need help. They alll sleep like the dead." I remark, "Is Paisley still sleeping?"

"Nah. Well, she's not in her bed." Thalia says, and before I can start to panic, I see the said girl shuffling in tiredly in her onsies that make her look like a penguin and rubbing her eyes.

"Morning." Paisley says, flopping down, "I wish I could slide on my belly like a penguin."

"Why?" I've grown used to her strange behavior. Well, strange wishes. I guess. Sometimes I question her sanity, but choose not to comment.

"Because I'd be able to slide away from everything and go tobogganing without that horrible plastic thing that slips out from under you halfway down the mountain or hill." She looks at me.

"What brought this on?" I ask, as Annabeth comes out of the bathroom, hitting Calypso with the door.

"Hey!"Calypso says as we stifle giggles. "That hurt."

"Sorry Calypso!" Annabeth grins, "But you gotta admit it was funny."

"I wanna be a penguin. Nooooot. Nooooot." Paisley giggles, covering her mouth and rolling around on her bed, her hair flying everywhere.

Thalia gets up, and before anyone can ask what she's doing, she yanks on Paisley's orange fabric covered foot causing the younger girl to fall to the ground.

"Ouch! That wasn't very nice!"She remarks, getting up and flopping down again. I laugh at her childishness. She was in a good mood this morning. Let's hope the teachers can put up with it.

"Who said I was a nice person?" Thalia raises an eyebrow, going for her iPod.

"ME!"

"Well, you're delusional."

"Luke likes you." Paisley says, "And Jason likes Piper. And Leo likes Calypso. And Percy Looooooves Annie. And Percabeth is going to get married. And Augustus isn't really dead. He's in a really deep sleep that when he wakes up he's gonna be really angry at Hazel-Grace and then they're gonna get married. But I still think Percabeth will get married sooner."

Annabeth blushes bright red. But that's not what sparks my interest.

"And-"

"Reverse a bit." I tell her, eyeing her suspiciously.

"Augustus isn't really-"

"Before that." I add helpfully, watching her confused face perk up.

"Oh! Jason likes you!" She says, "It's so obvious that he does. I mean, if I said what you did to him yesterday he would've almost hit me."

"She's right." Annabeth says, "I read a book about love. And apparently when a guy likes you, he'll stare at you. He can't help it. He just does."

"Why were you reading that?" Calypso wiggles her eyebrows, as she took her turn in the bathroom. Annabeth goes redder than a radish.

"Back to the point. He was staring at you. You'll see Piper. He likes you. No doubt about it." She assures, "I'm willing to bet my Harry Potter books on it."

A/N

What? Another chapter?

Jason POV next.

I finished Blood of Olympus. I don't know how I feel about it. I mean, I'm glad the war is over but

ITS THE LAST PERCY JACKSON BOOK.

EVER.

I can't grasp the concept.

~KaleidoscopeColours

Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Who thinks Jason likes Piper?

And I come from NZ, like Paisley. I also look alot like her. Just in case anyone was wondering.