Hello, I wanted to start this out by saying that Percy Jackson and the Olympians is the Property of Rick Riordan. Any character likeness is attributed to him and his work. I want to apologize for putting out so much of this today. Unfortunately, I've had a really terrible day, losing my dog to cancer, and I find peace in writing. In the future I probably won't be releasing three chapters in a day. Thanks for Reading ^.^
Annabeth's POV:
I had mixed feelings about the boy who had just sat down next to me. Part of me was interested in learning more about the boy that had captivated my attention on the way to school, the other part of me felt really sorry for him. I could see his jacket dripping on the floor.
Fortunately, he and I were about the same height and build and my jacket was dry. I offered it to him and he gratefully turned it down. (There is one thing that I would like you to understand before I continue, I am very determined.) I asked again and he accepted and took my jacked gingerly, looking upset and slightly embarrassed.
After that, he looked much happier. It may have been that I just gave him something dry to wear, or it may have been the slightest blush that I saw on his face when I asked if he wanted to borrow my jacket. The longer that class went, I really hoped that it would be the second option.
He seemed like a really good student and a good person to try and make friends with. He raised his hand trying to answer every question that the teacher gave us.
Unfortunately the tone ending class sounded and as all of us stood up, he took off my jacket and handed it back to me, saying softly, "thank you for this."
I replied, "it's no big deal, consider it a friendly gesture." I also decided to introduce myself to the mystery boy.
He told me his name was Percy. This made me even happier than it should have. His name was fitting for him, adorable.
After our short conversation, he excused himself saying, "I should probably get to my next class."
The moment he left the room I turned to Thalia. Before I had the chance to get a word out, she burst out laughing. I gave her a soft punch in the arm and asked why she was laughing. To my surprise, she told me that I had been blushing since the moment I set eyes on "lover boy." I stuttered as I scolded her for calling Percy that and that I hadn't been blushing because of him, but because the classroom was a tad bit cold.
Unfortunately for me, Thalia saw through this rather poor excuse (looking back at it now). I knew from this moment on, Thalia was going to make my life a living hell whenever Percy was around.
I quickly collected my stuff and put on my jacket that Percy had been wearing only a few minutes before. I was amazed to find out that it smelled of the ocean and freshly baked cookies and not like wet, sweaty teenage boy. This made me blush even more and caught the attention of Thalia. She walked up to me and stuck her nose right on the inside of the neck line and inhaled deeply through her nose.
To my surprise, when she pulled away she giggled, something a girl that looks like Thalia would never do. She broke me out of that thought by saying, "firstly you think he is dreamy looking and he smells good. Lucky you."
That surprised me. "What," I exclaimed.
"I saw the way he was looking at you, he's obviously into you Annabeth. You should try to get to know him better. There's no harm in that."
After Thalia said that, I didn't need her to tell me that I was blushing, I could feel my entire face warm up. I quickly pulled out my phone and opened the camera. To my surprise, the face looking back at me was as red as a tomato. That didn't help anything, if anything it made me blush more.
In an attempt to avoid any more embarrassment, I picked up my backpack and quickly walked to the door while turning to say that I would meet Thalia at lunch.
I briskly walked through the halls towards my next class in a desperate attempt to make up for the lost time that my conversation with Thalia had taken up. I bust through the door into my next class not two seconds before the bell signaling the start of class rang.
After calming myself down that I wasn't late to class, I took a quick survey of my surroundings trying to find an open seat. I found one, right next to the window about two seats from the back of the room. I was halfway to the seat before realizing who was sitting in the seat directly across from the seat I would soon be occupying. It was him, Percy.
"Percy," I exclaimed.
"Annabeth," he responded. I didn't know you liked Marine Biology.
In all honestly, I don't like Marine Biology at all. The Chemistry class I wanted to take was full before I could register for it. He didn't need to know that. "Yeah, I love Marine Biology, I find the subject to be very interesting and rewarding," I responded. He didn't need to know that the subject I meant wasn't actually Marine Biology. It was studying and getting to know him.
That class seemed to drag by for me. Percy, on the other hand, was able to answer every question the teacher asked us and was able to fill in a worksheet diagramming the ocean without even needing to open his text book.
The bell rang and Percy stood up, I quickly grabbed his arm, feeling sparks fly up my arm the moment I touched his arm. He looked at me slightly concerned that there was something he didn't see on his arm. I told him that there was nothing to worry about and that I just wanted to see his schedule to see if we had any more classes together. He pulled out the still slightly damp piece of paper with his schedule printed on it. I screamed on the inside when I saw that we had every single class together. Even architecture.
The next class flew by, I mean it pretty much had to as I sat next to Percy and paid far more attention to him and all of the small things that he did instead of the boring history lesson that captivated his attention.
Fortunately, lunch followed history immediately. I said a pleasant good bye to Percy and told him that I would see him after lunch and exited the room. As soon as the door closed and I saw that Percy had yet to leave the room, I sprinted off to find Thalia.
I found her slamming her locker. "Patience," I told her. This made her jump.
"Damn, you scared me," was her response. How were your first three classes?
I doubt she understood a word of what I said because of how quickly I told her my feelings about the classes. The only thing that stopped my rapid-firing of words was when I got to the point that Percy was in all of my classes. She freaked when she heard that.
"It's like you two are meant to be together," she exclaimed.
I could have killed her for that remark except for the fact that at that moment Percy rounded the corner, gave me probably the most adorable smile I've ever seen and then proceeded to keep walking.
As soon as he was out of earshot, Thalia kept driving home the point that the two of us were meant for each other. She didn't' stop until after we had found a table and sat down to eat our lunches.
"Thals," I exclaimed. It's not that I don't love you talking about Percy continually, but please stop before other people get the wrong impression about us. Fortunately she listened to my advice because not fifteen seconds later Percy showed up and asked if he could sit with us.
I don't know what it is with that boy and his impeccable timing ability to appear within ten seconds of Thalia and I stopping talking about him. I let him sit with us, what else could I do, turn the guy away.
Thalia took the initiative and introduced herself to Percy and gave him a handshake. She proceeded to do the most embarrasing that that has happened to me in my life up to this point. She looked Percy straight in the eye and asked, "so, when're you going to ask my friend out?"
Fortunately, both Percy and I turned bright red and he coughed and rubbed the back of his neck trying to process the question that he had just been asked.
I responded for him by giving Thalia a thump on the back of the head and saying that the two of us have only known each other for only four hours or so. Followed by saying how inappropriate the question had been.
Thalia tried her best to keep herself from dying of laughter. Finding the entire situation far funnier than Percy or I had.
Fortunately for Percy and I, lunch ended quickly and the two of us left Thalia and proceeded to our next class, Architecture.
It was apparently obvious that Percy was in the same boat that I was in Marine Biology, he did his best to look interested and follow along but I could tell that he was having a hard time understanding the concepts that the teacher was explaining to us.
When class ended, he asked me something that took me by complete surprise. He started with "Hey Wise Girl," something that took me completely off guard. "Wise Girl," I asked.
"Yeah," he replied, you have to be pretty smart to understand anything that he just explained in the class. Seeing as how you looked so enthralled. I was wondering if you would be willing to, perhaps, I don't know...Tutor me in it.
My heart nearly burst when he said that. Percy just asked me for help. Me. Annabeth Chase.
My daydreaming was rudely interrupted by none other than Percy who said, "I take it from your blushing that your answer is yes."
"Yes!" I blurted. This kind of took him off guard.
"Wow," he responded, you are enthusiastic about Architecture.
"You don't know the half of it," I thought to myself.
The last two classes came and went without any issue. When the bell rang to dismiss us from school, Percy and I stood up and walked out of the class discussing what we thought of our last class. We met up with Thalia and started walking towards the front doors of Goode. Percy pulled up the hood on his hoodie and was preparing to say his goodbyes when a thought came into my head.
He has to walk home in the rain too!
He got about five steps away from me before I ran after him, grabbing his shoulder and began pushing him towards Julia's car.
"What are you doing," he asked.
"Being a nice person, Seaweed Brain," I replied. I don't want you to get sick when I can help it. Come on. My step-mom should have no issue driving you home.
"Seaweed brain," was his response. Followed by, "I guess it kinda fits me."
This made me chuckle a little bit. Both of us had come up with nicknames for eachother in the first day of school. This has to be a good sign.
Julia asked how my day was as soon as I got in the car and got a rather strange look when Percy opened the back door of the car.
"And who is this handsome young man," she asked me. This made me blush. I turned my face away from Percy before he could see. I told her, "he's my new friend Percy, he's in all of my classes."
"It's nice to meet you Percy," she told him. "The pleasure is all mine," he responded.
This made me blush even more. To start things off he is cute, smart and a gentleman, how much better can Percy get? My day dreaming was cut short by Julia asking where Percy lived. He told her and we started off towards his house. The three of us made small talk on the drive.
The only things I could think of on the drive were how heavy the rain was, how nice it was that I was having a conversation in the car with my step-mom and how adorable Percy was.
It wasn't until we got to Percy's house that I realized that Percy lived in the building across the street from me. "How can this get any better," I wondered to myself.
Percy thanked my mom and I for the ride home and gave me a small slip of paper and told me not to open it until I got home. I thanked him and said that I would see him tomorrow at school.
After he closed the door of the car and walked into his apartment building, Julia finally spoke up, "what's up with you two?"
"Nothing," I blurted a tad bit quickly. To my dismay Julia chuckled a little and said that there is nothing wrong with having a crush on Percy.
I gave the same response that everyone gives when their crush is exposed, "I don't have a crush on Percy."
"'Are you sure," Julia asked, "you were blushing every time he said something to you."
I had no way out of this situation. "I guess I have a small crush on Percy," I told her as we parked the car. We didn't speak until I was about to close the door of my bedroom. All she said were the words, "I knew it the moment I saw you two and Thalia talking."
With that I closed the door of my room and opened the piece of paper that Percy had given me. There, on the small scrap of paper was Percy's name written neatly in cursive with his phone number written under it with the simple note "text me" written under it. I squealed when I read that and I heard Julia laugh somewhere else in the apartment. Today had been a great way to start High School. Making a new friend/crush. What more could a girl want.