I DONT OWN PJO! UNCLE RICK OWNS IT AS HE IS A GENIUS. I ONLY OWN MY OWN CARACTERS.
Now that thats over with, I can apologize for giving you people another Percy in High School story. Im Sorry! I'm not going to tell you that this one is different because the only thing thats different about it is that i wrote it for a friend of mine, almost as a joke. Im putting it up because it turned out pretty awesomely. IF YOU DONT WANT ANOTHER CORNY ANNABETH GOES TO GOODE STORY, THEN DONT READ! Also this is the first story i put up, so dont be a meanie.
-Percy-
BBRRRIIIIINNNNNG
I awoke to the obnoxious blaring of the alarm clock, slightly dreading the day. While everyone dreads the first day of school after summer, I had a specially reserved hate for this one. After the whole Titan War this summer, I wasnt ready to go back to a somewhat normal life. The only positive thing I had to look forward to this year was Annabeth. Her dad had let her come stay with us and go to school with me. I was glad as she would be my ray of sunshine in the shadows that always strayed after a battle. I yawned and slowly got out of bed, sleepily putting on some clothes; jeans, a blue shirt and sneakers, nothing special. I tried to fix my hair, but there was really no solution to its unruliness.
"Percy!" I heard an impatient voice call. "Hurry up or we're both going to be late!" Annabeth poked her head in before continuing, "It's the first day of school! Do you want to get us in trouble even before the school year starts? I swear Seaweed Brain, if you do I'll-nphh" Her rant was cut off by me planting my lips on her, smirking as her anger slowly evaporated.
As quickly as I kissed her, I brushed past her, grabbed my backpack and started walking to the door. As I reached the front door, I turned to see her still standing in the exact same spot with a dreamy look on her face. "Well Wise Girl?" I teased, "What are you waiting for? Wouldn't want to be late for our first day of school now would we?" Her dreamy look snapped with a look of barely contained fury. She muttered something including Seaweed Brain as she hurried past me and to Paul's car.
"Percy?" She asked, confused as we walked up to my car. "Why on earth are there hoof prints on the car?" She looked over her shoulder incredulously at me, wondering how on earth I could've managed that.
I scratched my neck nervously. "Oh right... That. Blackjack kind of landed on the hood when Beckendorf came to pick me up before the attack on the Princess Andromeda..." I looked at her sheepishly, knowing she would find a way to blame me, instead she just laughed and got in the car, shaking her head. I got in the car and began driving to school. Paul had given me this car after he got a raise from the school and bought himself a new, undented, car. We drove in near silence, still slightly sleepy and tense for the new school year.
As we walked in, we got our information packets from the front desk, sliding through the mass of students also ushering for their packets. We quietly slipped out and found our lockers which were, luckily, near each other. We only had one locker separating us. We sat against the lockers together to check our schedules. Mine seemed to read:
Precens Jckaons - Yaer 11
Clcauluos, roow 1635
Mriane Boilygo, room 2103
P.E., gmyuasuim
Ancniet Sutedis, room 1793
Lnuch
Enligsh, romo 2001
Antomay, room 1253
Eclevtie: Simminwg, pool
Great. My dyslexia was acting up. It took me a couple more minutes to actually figure out what my classes were. I looked over to Annabeth and saw that she was having the same problem. When we finally both finished, we started comparing schedules to see which classes we shared.
"We have Calculous, Gym, Lunch and Ancient Studies together." Annabeth summed up after reviewing both timetables. "That's good! The only differences are that I have Architecture instead of Marine Biology, Physics instead of Anatomy and and Tutoring as my elective." she laughed, "You really chose Marine Biology and Swimming? That's not very fair considering that you can breath underwater and talk to fish." She smirked, finding my class choices funny.
"What about you?" I countered, "Are you going to be teaching the Architecture class and tutoring the teachers?" If my classes were unfair, so were hers.
She turned to me, jokingly stern. "Oh shut up!" She laughed attempting to give me a shove, but it only ended in me turning her so she laid in my lap. I smiled down at her startled face and was just about to kiss her, when we were interrupted by a nervous coughing. We looked up to find a very embarrassed looking girl staring down at us.
"Umm.. I umm... That's my locker..." She muttered hesitantly, pointing at the locker in between mine and Annabeth's.
Annabeth and I hurriedly jumped up and apart, both our faces slightly red from the situation. "I'm sorry... We were just... " I started, but quickly gave up trying to give and explanation. "I'm Percy," I said as she opened her locker and put away her belongings. "And this is Annabeth. What's your name."
She closed the door and looked back at me, hesitantly smiling. "I'm Shania." I watched as she studied me over. "I recognize you... Aren't you the swim captain?" I nodded, surprised she recognized me from last year. "Aren't you also the kid that randomly left school a lot last year?"
Annabeth started snickering as I nervously scratched my neck. "Umm.. yeah..." I might've known how to act when faced with a monster, but when faced with this kind of situation, I was totally unprepared. I looked at her expectant face, waiting for an explanation. "I had some... Family business to take care of..." At this Annabeth couldn't hold it anymore and burst out laughing.
Shania turned to face her and seemed to be trying to analyze Annabeth. "I'm sorry, but who are you? Are you new?" I realized that Shania's shyness had all but completely evaporated, and she seemed to now be very forward.
"Yeah, I'm staying with Percy this year. He's my boyfriend and we wanted to spend more time together." Annabeth looked over at me and smiled, obviously taking a liking to this Shania girl.
Just then the warning bell rang, telling us we had 5 minutes untill class started. Turning to Shania, I asked, "What class do you have next?"
She checked her schedule before answering "Calculous. How about you guys?"
"Same." we answered nodding our heads.
"Well then," Shania smiled, "let's go."
We walked into the Calculous room just as the bell ring, and the shot us warning glances.
"Ok, everybody take you're seats." Everyone slowly shuffled into chairs, I sat next to Annabeth and Shania sat behind me. "I'm Ms. Fell and I'll be your teacher this year. I'll be nice and try to make this year fun, however, if you get on my bad side, this year will not be pleasant." She looked us all over, as if daring us to get in trouble. "There are two easy ways to get on my bad side; being late and sleeping in my class. As long as we avoid those things, everything is going to be dandy. Understood?" We all nodded. "Good. Now, though I know most of you know each other, I just want to be sure. We are all going to stand up and say something about yourselves when I call your name. Also, I apologies for the mispronunciations I'm about to do." She turned back to her desk to pick up her attendance sheet. "First up, Ivana Buns."
A short girl with long blond hair stood up. "I'm Ivana and um... I'm the color guard captain..."
"What the hell is color guard?" A tall guy in the back of the room shouted out.
She turned toward him looking irritated, as if she had been asked this many times. "We are the people who perform with the flags during the football half time shows and compete in competitions all year." She seemed very passionate and loyal to her 'sport' and I wondered why I had never noticed her before. Then again, it was a pretty big school. Shania turned around and said something to her and they both laughed, I guess they were friends.
"Alrighty then," The teacher shook her head at the disruption, then checked her sheet for the next student. "Next we have Annabeth Chase, and if I'm not mistaken, you're new here this year, right."
Beside me, Annabeth rose from her chair, "Yes ma'am. My family lives in San Francisco but I'm staying here with my boyfriend to spend the year here and be closer to... Some close friends." She looked over at me as she said the last part, indicating she meant Camp Halfblood.
"Okay then, next on the list is..." And she went on through the list, until she got to J. "Perseus Jackson." She called, and jumped a little in my chair. I was always slightly startled whenever anyone called me my full name as it was usually monsters or enemies who called me Perseus.
I slowly stood, unsure what to say. "umm.. Yeah, I go by Percy and... There's really not much special about me." I looked over to Annabeth as I mentally added, Well, nothing I could tell you mortals about.
"I'm sure you can tell us something, Mr Jackson." Ms. Fell chided as I tried to sit back down. "What did you do during summer break?"
If only you knew... I thought. "Not much. Just stayed in New York, went to summer camp for a while..." And kind of saved all of humanity too.
Slightly surprised at my bluntness, Ms. Fell simply nodded and moved along down the list. I payed no attention until she got to Shania. "Shania LaVoix" The teacher struggled over the foreign name, failing at pronouncing it correctly.
"My name's Shania and... I'm also on the Color Guard team." She plopped back down and looked over at Ivana, completely ignored the gazes she got from half the class.
"And your last name is French, if I'm not mistaken?" Ms. Fell inquired, seeming genuinely interested.
Shania tensed for a millisecond before answering, "Yes."
"Really? Are you from France then?" Mrs Fell continued, apparently not noticing Shania's unease.
"Um.. no. Im Canadian..." Shania said while wincing. It was hard to notice, but she stayed tense even after answering, as if anticipating an assault. No one else noticed, but Annabeth and I were trained for analyzing body language, and she was definitely anticipating something to happen.
Soon after her answer, an uproar of cruel laughter passed through the classroom, stemming from three of the jockey boys in the back. The three of them, having apparently found Shania's Canadianess hilarious, began making stereotypical and derogatory Canadian jokes, much to the class's amusement. I watched as Shania shrunk slightly in her chair and her face brighten red. I looked toward the teacher, hoping she would calm the laughter, but she seemed at a loss for what to do. I looked toward Shania and her green eyes seemingly glow with fury. I didnt know if it was simply all the energy in the room, but the temperature seemed to rise and Shania started shaking slightly, furious at the embarrassment. I looked around to see if I could help in anyway and caught sight of and empty fishbowl filled with stale water. Bingo. I lightly willed the water to follow my command and felt the now familiar pull in my gut as i pulled the water, and the tank with it, toward me enough until it fell of the desk and the noise quickly shut everyone up.
I looked sheepishly over at Annabeth, scared that she would be angry at me for using my power in front of mortals, but she only smiled kindly, understanding why I'd done. I looked over at Shania and found a clear expression of relief on her face. She also happened to be looking at me quite curiously, as if knowing I had done something. But that wasn't possible, right? I mean, her head had been down and I hadn't shown any indication toward the tank other that staring at it a little.