I'm back! I know, it's been..what two weeks? Well, that's not bad..I've just been SUPER busy lately. Well, enjoy this...slightly odd chapter. It's mainly describing this one pretty awesome play that everyone's FORCED to take part in XDD

Enjoy!

"NO!" Nico rushed to the other end of the gym, accidentally knocking Travis to the waxed floor.

"Sorry man," he yelled as his hands came in contact with the ball.

He skidded back to his position and cheered for his team.

"No! Wait, get the other-NO OTHER SIDE-Wait, never mind OTHER SIDE. WAIT. PUT YOUR HANDS OUT!" Nico groaned inwardly and smacked the ball yet again, saving his team from another loss.

The ball flew over to their side of the net and Connor dove just in time to catch it and pop it back up in the air.

"Yes!" he cheered, high fiving everyone he saw.

"We won! Whew, that was one intense game of volleyball!" Travis exclaimed.

"It's SO INTENSE." Connor giggled at the reverb that Percy's phone app provided.

Nico rolled his eyes and giggled as well.

"Well...okay, lemme try!" He was amazed at the way his voice sounded; it was free of cracks and actually ON pitch.

"That thing is TOTALLY worth three bucks!" He shouted, snatching the iPhone away from his companion.

"Guys," Travis beckoned for them to stop looking at the iPhone.

"Look...a play!" He pointed to the paper, laughing at the school's cliche choice of a play.

ROMEO AND JULIET TRYOUTS!

When: Today, May 19 after school.

Where: The auditorium near the North Field.

Come try out and maybe YOU could make it in!

"Ooh! Ooh! Let Connor try out for Juliet!"

"He sure could look the part."

"HEY! THAT'S MEAN..."

"Hey, I have an idea," Nico snickered, snatching the pen that was hanging on top of the clipboard.

"Jason Grace-Romeo," The devious son of Hades stifled a laugh as he then attempted to forge a girl's writing.

"Reyna-Juliet."

"PFT-" Travis busted out laughing and rolled across the gym floor.

"Ha! Them-Romeo and Juliet-HAAHAHAHAHA! Those two can't even go one minute without fighting! You expect them to pretend to be unrequited lovers?"

"Why ,yes." The teenager seemed completely serious, but then cracked a light smile.

"It's a joke, genius."

"I...knew that."

"Mhm. Sure, let's go find Percy and the others."

The trio laughed and walked all the way down to the quad area in the back of the school and caught sight of their other friends-when a terrible, horrifying gelled up object blocked their pathway.

"Look, guys," A girl by the name of Amara laughed at Nico cruelly.

"He has friends."

"Isn't that sweet, Amara? Wait till Jesse hears this." one of her cronies laughed and scrutinized the two boys beside the "reject."

"Hm." she said, leaving a LOT of inferring to do about her simple response.

Amara yelped as she went flying into the lockers. She looked, terrified at her broken heel.

"Leave. No one likes you." Thalia said blatantly.

"Thalia!" Annabeth scolded.

"Well, I'm SORRY...it's TRUE, ya know."

"Just...go, Maria." Annabeth facepalmed herself at her friend's blunt words.

"It's Amara."

"Does it LOOK like I care right now?"

After Amara screeched and stalked off, Annabeth slapped Thalia on the shoulder, half kidding.

"Dude!"

Thalia snickered. "Well, I got her to leave, didn't I?"

Annabeth rolled her eyes, as any child of Athena would.

"You have to plan this out carefully...Start out being nice enough, and then BAM. Slap them in the face with a hard-hitting insult. That way, they really stumble."

"Jeez, you even have a battle plan for something like THIS?" Thalia asked incredulously with a small smile on her face.

"Be prepared for anything."

"Exactly! Be prepared for a lame insult them BAM," Thalia half-mocked.

"Ya slap 'em as hard as you can and scar their ugly, made up faces-"

"Okay, getting too far now," Nico chuckled nervously, still a bit afraid to stand in the middle of an Annabeth/Thalia debate.

Those things were worse than death by Backbiter.

The final school bell rang, indicating that everyone should go to whatever after chool activity they have or get the hell out of the school before they drive the students home their selves.

"Well, let's get a move on," Jason Piper, Leo, and the other popped up behind Nico and started to move towards the car before Nico dragged Jason back by the collar.

"Dude-" Jason was interrupted and dragged to the other side of the school before he could utter another word

Next thing he knew, his eyes were looking at the battered red doors of the school auditorium.

"Why would you guys take me to the auditorium?" Jason asked quizzacally. Then, he snapped his fingers and a light bulb glowed over his head.

"Travis is trying out for Romeo in te play and..NO." Jason was thrown into the auditorium before he could process what was happening, and crashed into Reyna, who was o forcefully dragged in by Annabeth and Thalia.

"Hope you get the part, little bro!" Thalia giggled, waving her fingers.

"And you BETTER TRY." Annabeth warned, lingering at the last few words to show she was serious.

With those few words, all five teens left and shut door behind them.

Reyna scowled at the exit and crossed her arms.

Jason whistled slightly to pass the time..five minutes went by without so much as a breath and it seemed like a lifetime to Jason.

"So..." he said, trying to change to a more comfortable subject.

'What, comfortable subject," he yelled in his head quite loudly. 'TEHRE WAS NO SUBJECT TO BEGIN WITH!'

"Shut up," Reyna's scowl grew deeper as her name and Jason's were called.

"Well, we were warned that we had to try...meaning, they're probably watching." Jason stated.

Reyna nodded her head and trudged angrily onto the stage when he name was called a second time.

"Trying out for Romeo and Juliet?" The director confirmed.

"Okay, start act 2 scene 2. Action!" The director looked anxious and critical as soft music started to set the "scene."

Jason breathed deeply, willing himself not to throw up.

"Can I go forward when my heart is here? Turn back, dull Earth, and find thy centre out-" Jason coughed and ruined the serene mood of the stage.

The director looked confused at Jason. His slouched posture was unnerving and Reyna's bored expression angered him.

"Just...try the more romantic scenes...go down about 15 lines."

Jason coughed more violently now, and Reyna shifted around, looking scared.

"Can we just go from the end where Romeo dies," Reyna started. Jason interrupted her.

"Or maybe the part where Juliet suicides because Romeo is OBVIOUSLY too good for her-"

"Enough!" The director scolded. "We're starting from those lines. Start."

Jason groaned and tried in vain to get back into "character."

"But...soft-erhem. What light though yonder window breaks? It is the east and err...Juliet is the sun? Arise, Fair sun, and kill the envuh-envious moon!" The director hesitantly nodded and gestured for Reyna to skip to her line.

'Obviously he doesn't like me,' Jason cried out gleefully in his mind.

'Yes! He hates me! Awww yeah!'

Reyna cleared her throat and glared daggers at Jason, who cockily gestured for her to continue.

"O Romeo, Romeo" she started dully, not even remotely trying to be passionate.

" Wherefore art thou Romeo?" She sighed and continued on.

"Deny thy father and refuse thy name Or if thou wilt not be...but sworn my love and I'll no longer be a Capulet." Reyna said in one, drawling breath. She even sounded slightly sarcastic.

Jason smirked and decided to twist her words for once.

"So...you think I'm hot, right?" he asked, talking out of line...Literally.

"That was NOT in the script." Reyna stated, glaring at Jason for the third time that hour.

"Yes it was."

"I didn't say that!"

"It was implied."

"Maybe implied in your mind, oh cocky one."

"I know you are but what am I?"

"Stop being so immature?"

Jason poked Reyna and giggled at her annoyed look. He kept poking her and tugging her hair until Reyna exploded.

"STOP BEFORE I SLIT YOUR THROAT AND DRAG YOUR BODY-"

"EHEM." The director cleared his throat, which Reyna was that close to slitting as well.

"O Romeo, Wherefore art thou ROMEO," Reyna started again forcefully.

"Deny thy...fact that thee are a complete dumbass and refuse thy name. Or, if thou wilt not, be but punched in thee face by thy hand."

The man directing slapped his forehead and waved his hand.

"Thank you, you are dismissed." he mumbled, giving up on the two teenagers fighting on the stage.

"Ugh, you are INSUFFERABLE." Jason whined like a girl, stamping his feet.

"Good!" Reyna spat.

"Well-Well good too!"

"Fine!"

"Fine!"

"Stop copying me!

"STOP COPYING-OW! I DIDN'T MEAN IT! OH MY GOD! OPEN, DOOR! JANITOR! OPEN THE DOOR! JUST OPEN THE GODS DAMNED DOOR! AHH!"

Nico felt a sudden rush of wind fly by him ,and saw Jason running away. he scoffed.

"And he ALWAYS loses the fight." he muttered, handing Travis his well earned ten bucks.

"Think they'll make the cut after all of that terrible fighting-"

"Oh definitely. I'll make them grovel on the floor to the director if I have to."

"I'm hungry."

"Me too!"

"DOMINOES!"

"NO. PIZZA HUT."

"PAPA JOHNS!"

"...Percy's place."

"AWW YEAH."

So uhm...R&R? LOL, this was a very odd chapter, but at least I updated! I know, SUCH an overrated thing, but it's not like this is Jeyna...well, slightly :)