High School Hostages

Chapter One: Annabeth POV
The day started off like any other.

I got up, had breakfast, got ready for school, and drove to school in my sky blue Nissan Micra.

I hurriedly walked through the tall iron school gates, meeting my best friend Thalia right inside.

'Hey, Annie,' she smiled. I smiled back and gave her a hug.

'Hey, Thals,' I chimed. 'What's the day today?' My memory was still a bit hazy from a party Thalia had dragged me to the night before. Not to mention the two beers she'd practically shoved down my throat.

'Uh-,' she glanced at her watch for a second, '- Thurday.' She pulled her head back, questioningly. 'Thursday already? Jeez,' she moaned. I knew she was regretting the five beers she'd sculled on a dare, plus the two vodka shots.

'Haha, how drunk did you get?' I giggled. I could tell by the dark sunglasses and heavy make-up that she didn't have to answer. 'C'mon babe, walk and talk.'

We walked past the Maths and Humanities blocks before Thalia was approached by the guy she'd met at the party, whose name happened to escape me at that moment.

'Hey hon-ay,' he said, sliding an arm around her waist putting on a cool-boy suave that didn't suit him. He was dressed in all black, much like Thalia herself, also wearing dark lensed Ray-Bans.

'Take a hike, di Angelo,' she groaned.

What was his name? Didn't it start with N?
Nate? Nope.
Nick, Nicholos, Ni-

'Nico!' I exclaimed, proud of myself.

'Hmm?' Nico craned his neck around Thalia, his arm still wrapped around her waist, interested in what business I had merely speaking his name.

'Oh, sorry,' I blushed, embarrassed. Then, focusing on Thalia, 'I'll meet you in English.' I walked off down the next right-turn, towards the language arts block.

I went through the first two periods in silence.

First Period: Math.
I found this subject fairly easy, even though I took the extension classes with the seniors and I was a junior. I didn't talk to anyone, seeing as I didn't know anyone. And to them I was the smarty-ass junior who always had something to say. It didn't bother me though, I worked better in silence.

Second Period: Ancient Greek.
I absolutely loved this subject. All the myths and stories, they intrigued me, and I had been pretty much begging Thalia to swap into the subject with me. There were only about nine people in the class, including the Nico kid and Percy Jackson; the school's popular jock.

Every guy wanted to be him, every girl wanted to date him; well, most girls. He was a Junior, like me, so he was only the popular jock of our grade, and every grade had one.

Freshman Jock: Jack Dennis

Sophomore Jock: Connor Stoll

Junior Jock: Percy Jackson

Senior Jock: Luke Castellan

Rumour had it that even some of the senior girls had a crush on Percy, and maybe I had a teency weency crush too. But, once you saw him, you wouldn't blame me.