Disclaimer: All characters in this story belong to Rick Riordan, not me.

Jason:

Jason awkwardly walked into first period chemistry and sat alone at a lab table that was clearly meant for two. It was the first day of senior year and he had been intending to sit with Piper, but then they broke up a week before school started and now he was alone. He glanced around the room and silently prayed someone would come sit next to him so he wouldn't be stuck without a lab partner all year.

His heart started to sink as the room filled up and the seat next to him remained empty. He groaned as he watched all the smart kids pair up like Piper & Reyna and Will & Nico. Jason himself was pretty smart, he got all A's. But now he was starting to think he was going to be stuck with some idiot all year that would make him do all the work.

His fears were confirmed when a confused looking boy stumbled into the classroom. He was clearly new here, Jason had never seen him before and this was a pretty small school. The boy had jet-black hair and sea-green eyes. He was tall and had an athletic build. ...Not that Jason noticed.

Anyways the boy's eyes scanned over the room for a minute before landing on Jason, or rather the empty seat next to him. The kid walked over and dumped his messy pile of books onto the table and sat down on the stool next to Jason.

"Yea, sure you can sit here" Jason said sarcastically.

The boy glanced at him and raised his eyebrows. "Oh- sorry" he said "it was the only empty seat."

Jason gave a small shrug. He wasn't too pleased, this kid didn't look like the brightest judging by how messy his books were when the school year hadn't actually started yet. "I'm Percy Jackson" he said as he stuck out his hand.

Jason tried not to roll his eyes as he shuck Percy's hand. "I'm Jason Grace" he said. "You're new here?"

"Yea" Percy said "I used to go to the school up town."

"What happened?" Jason asked. The school up town was definitely better than this one, why would someone switch?

"Um... I..." Percy's cheeks turned red and Jason realized he might have over stepped, but he never found out because the bell rang. The teacher came in and started giving the typical spiel about the syllabus and what not. To Jason's dismay the teacher also announced that the people they were sitting with right then would be their lab partner for the rest of the year.

Great, Jason thought I'm stuck with some kid who probably flunked out of his last school. If my grades hurt because of this kid...

"Read this pre-lab and then work on this worksheet together" the teacher said as she passed out the work.

Jason glanced over at Percy and saw he had started bouncing his leg up and down. Jason ignored him and grabbed the lab. It only took him a few minutes to read it, but he reread it just to give Percy more time. When he was done he asked "are you ready?"

"Um, what?" Percy said. He had been staring pretty intently at the lab. "I mean- yea. Sorry. Let's do the worksheet."

"Okay" Jason agreed "so the first one's pretty straight forward. It's written right at the top, we can just copy it down."

Jason started scribbling on his worksheet. He copied down the sentence he was supposed to and glanced over at Percy to see he'd only written down the first two words and was staring at the lab. "Um, hello?" Jason said "are you going to write it down or...?"

Just like that Percy's face turned bright red. "I- uh- what's the answer again?" he asked.

"Dude, I told you it's written right there" Jason said as he pointed to where it was on the lab.

"I know, but-" Percy let out a frustrated groan. "Look can you just tell me the answer?"

"Dude, can you even read?" Jason asked and the second he said it he realized he was being a jerk. He instantly wished he could take it back.

If it was possible, Percy's face turned redder. "I'm dyslexic, okay?" he said so quietly Jason hardly heard him.

"I'm sorry" Jason mumbled "that was kind of-"

"It's fine" Percy said, but his voice sounded angry. "Can you just help me?"

Jason gave a small nod and read him the answer. He made extra-sure not to ask Percy to read anything for the rest of class. He felt like a jerk, not only because he was rude to Percy, but also because he was kind of annoyed that he was stuck with this boy for the rest of the year. He was also incredibly annoyed that he had an ever-growing urge to help this boy. Something about this kid was just... different.

Percy:

Percy wanted to smash his face off the lab table repeatedly until he died. His first day at this new school wasn't going very well. First of all, this Jason boy was going to be the death of him. He was kind of a jerk and it didn't help that he was kind of ridiculously hot.

Not that Percy was interested in him, he was simply observing a piece of art. Which Jason was. Percy had always had a thing for blondes and well... Jason was exactly his type. Not that it mattered anyways, he was probably straight.

Even if he wasn't straight he obviously thought Percy was an idiot. Gods, Percy was so pissed that he was forced to read something like that on the first day. He was kind of hoping to hide his dyslexia from people for as long as possible, but that clearly didn't work out. Normally it wasn't that bad. He could read most stuff, but when he was nervous it got worse and Jason made him very nervous. So now Jason was fully aware of how dumb Percy is.

Percy groaned and rested his head in his hand. He glanced across the classroom to see someone was staring at him. Percy sat up straight and smiled at the girl across the room who was making eyes at him. The girl had dark hair and caramel skin and Percy had to admit she was very pretty.

Percy was good at this game. Since he never managed to stay at a school longer than a year he'd had a lot of short-term relationships. Most of them were with girls because he never felt it was worth coming out as bisexual when he didn't know how people would react.

So instead of channeling his flirting energy towards the boy sitting next to him, he raised his eyebrows at this girl and gave her a smile. He shot her a wink to which she smiled and turned to whisper to the girl sitting next to her.

Percy nudged Jason's arm. "Hey," he said "who's that girl?"

Jason frowned and glared at Percy. "Piper" he said plainly "my ex-girlfriend."

"Oh..." Percy said awkwardly. If humanly possible he seems to have made things even worse. "What happened?" Why did you ask that? Percy silently yelled at himself.

Jason's body stiffened. "None of your business Jackson" he said.

"Sorry dude, I was just curious" Percy defended.

Jason opened his mouth to say something, but then the teacher starting speaking again. Percy literally groaned she assigned another worksheet for the night. What teacher gives that much work on the first day? Percy was going to be up all night trying to sort this out.

Percy almost jumped out of his skin when he felt Jason's hand on his shoulder. "Dude, we could meet up tonight or something if you want me to he-" Jason cleared his throat and rubbed the back of his neck. "I mean, we can work together. Get it done quicker."

Percy gave an appreciative nod. Obviously Jason was offering to help Percy. He would clearly get it done quicker on his own, but Percy appreciated his attempts to play it off like it would be a mutually beneficial arrangement. "Thanks bro" he said as he flashed Jason a smile. "You can come over to my place tonight if you want."

"Cool" Jason said as he slid Percy his phone. "Put your number in and I'll text you for details later."

Percy made some type of noise that was supposed to be a yes and he entered his number into Jason's phone. The bell rang and as Percy walked to his locker he was starting to think that maybe this place wasn't so bad after all.

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