Forgot to do this, I own nothing but the plot! Only 6 days! I want it now, I am at college when Blood of Olympus comes so I have to get it before I leave at 10am. I can then read it on the bus, any way on with the story!
Chapter Three - Nico -
This morning was quite eventful, I got to know Thalia for about five minutes and then we both fell asleep in maths, forgot about our weaponry and had to put it somewhere secure. We then headed for English where we met the goons for the first time. What we didn't expect how ever, was that Annabeth was Luke's girlfriend. Her face literally lit up at the sight of him, we watched as she approached his desk and kissed his cheek, with a big grin on her face. I glanced over at Percy and was taken aback at what I saw. He looked down right pissed. There was a flash of jealousy that passed over his face, his eye twitched and he subconsciously went for his leg, but remembered that it wasn't there and scratched it instead. I nudged him with my shoulder as we sat at our seats at the back and gave him a quizzical look. big mistake. His defence went straight up and locked out for the rest of the lesson. I sighed as the lesson came to completion and we headed down to the changing rooms. We got changed into our work out gear we always wear, black tank top with shorts. It would be an understatement if a few people were looking at us as we entered. Oh no, we had the entire class looking at us, boy's seething at us and the girls checking us out. I chuckled at the fact we rolled our eyes simultaneously. A man came in after us in a coaches uniform with a megaphone and a whistle.
"Okay cupcakes! Listen up!" Coach Hedge yelled down the megaphone. He was a short man about 5 foot tall, "Assault course time! Pair up."
Naturally Percy and I were together in PE and then we found ourselves standing with Annabeth, Thalia, Luke and Ethan. Grover later joined us but sat out due to his condition. Two others came over, a pretty girl with kaleidoscopic eyes and brown hair, a lock of it in a braid. She must have been a descendant of an Indian tribe, she looked Cherokee? and a boy with blonde hair and electric blue eyes, like Thalia, and had a scar on his upper lip. I felt as if someone had stabbed me, a feeling I know all to well, with a knife when I saw her hugging the boy. Whoa, what the hell was that? I thought.
"Hey little bro." Thalia teased.
I mentally sighed with relief. Wait what? I can't honestly be falling for her can I? That was meant to be whipped out of us. now I know how Percy must have felt. Wait. That means he must like Annabeth if the same thing just happened to me? I wondered. I brushed it off as we got to know them, Jason and Piper. After some time, Hedge yelled at us to line up at the beginning of the assault course. Easy, Percy and I do this all the time back at HQ. I lined up on the starting line and glanced over at Percy. He grinned at me to my left and held his fingers up, 3. 2. 1. He waved his hand and I took off over the tyres. Vertically, and horizontally up the monkey bars, and dropped to the floor, with a crouch roll, instantly breaking out into a run. I sprinted at the wall we were meant to climb over. Instead I ran to the wall adjacent and ran sideways along the wall, assassins creed style, and over the top. I climbed up the rope ladder to the top of the ledge where there was a button to stop the timer. All the while War Pigs by Black Sabbath playing in my head. There was stunned silence as I slid down the rope, Percy was grinning at me still and mouthed, 'Awesome.' I hadn't even broke a sweat. Percy stood next to me and mumbled,
"could'a made it less obvious." I chuckled and patted his shoulder.
"You're up Perce, Don't disappoint." he gave me his signature lopsided grin that would make all the ladies swoon, if we were allowed to do that, and moved his head from side to side, warming up the muscles. He took off into a sprint as I watched him do the exact same stuff I had done, adding a roll over the wall after he ran up the one next to it, and slammed his fist onto the button after climbing up the rope. We high-fived and turned to the stunned crowd,
"A minute. You passed it in a minute." Coach whispered to us, utterly speechless. Not our best time, but this one was our first on a pretty basic one. We wandered back over to Thalia and the others who were staring at us, like the rest speechless.
"That. Was. Fucking Awesome." Thalia grinned at us, "Where did you learn to do that?" she wondered.
"Camp." We both shrugged and said in unison.
The rest of the lesson went pretty quickly and it was now time for lunch, the only problem was that someone stole our shirts when we came out from the showers. "Really?" I questioned, looking at our empty locker of clothes, but our trousers, socks and shoes remained. Our bags in hand as we looked at each other.
"I swear, I'm just going to go ballistic if I catch who ever did this." Percy seethed. We sighed and collected up our things and walked through the cafeteria, where it was currently lunch and the only route to get to the car park. As we entered the room went completely silent. Everyone stared, wide eyed at us as we walked down the centre row, in nothing but our trousers, socks and shoes. We had all the obvious slutty girls looking at us, as if we were going to be their next one night stand, the odd occasional wink and wolf whistle heard, and then there were the others who looked at us sympathetically. Annabeth and Thalia in particular, Thalia putting up a contest with colour, between her face and a tomato. Annabeth's cheeks were a slight shade of pink as she bit her lip looking at Percy, who in return got a glare from Luke, completely oblivious to his girlfriend checking him out. The thing I found most funny was how no one seemed to notice the absolute pissed off looks on our faces as we threw open the double doors out towards the car park.
