Slow Burn - A Percabeth Fanfiction AU

9) New?

Percy's POV

I ran back to my dorm, determine to clean myself up in time for dinner with Annabeth. She had avoided talking to me about the incidents, so I assumed she wanted to stay friends, or classmates, or... I don't even know.
But now she has organised a dinner together. My head began to spin, what should I do? Should I keep the relationship platonic, or should I take the next step.

After I had arrived back at my dorm, I took a shower and put on a fresh pair of clothes. The time read 6:00. I took a deep breath and waited for Annabeth to arrive.
5 minutes later, somenody knocked on the door, I ran over, expecting to see just Annabeth. Instead, Piper, Jason, Annabeth, Leo, Calipso, Hazel, and Frank were huddled around my door.

"Hey!" Jason said, and then the entire group pushed past me and walked into my dorm.

"Annabeth said yall were having dinner so we came over as well! And I brought tacos!" Leo said as he plopped himself onto my bed.

"Uh- Okay." I said awkwardly. Annabeth gave me a sympatric smile before sitting down on the ground and pulling her books out of her bag.

-----AFTER DINNER-----

"Bye guys!" I called out to as they walked out the door. While I got ready for bed, I thought about Annabeth, we would have Science tomorrow morning. And I hate to admit it, but I'm starting to not completely hate school.

DING DING DING!
My alarm woke me up, I got ready and walked out the door, I had only a few minutes until the bell went. I finally made it to class, as I walked inside, I looked around the room for Annabeth, she wasn't here. I pulled out my phone to text her when a voice booms.

"Hand it over! You know there is a strict policy about no phones." Mrs Costa snatches my phone out of my hands. "You'll get this back this afternoon!"

"Hey! Um... What's going on?" Annabeth walked up beside me.

"Nothing..." I groan. I trudge towards our desks and slump down onto the chair. Annabeth followed my example in mock humour.

"You'll get your phone back this afternoon." She says, giving me a reassuring smile.

"Ok everyone! Let's get start-" Mrs Costa faulters as a famairlier looking red headed girl bursts into the classroom.

"Sorry I'm late!"

I had breifly met Rachel last summer while I was on holidays at Hoover Dam. But I had no idea she was going to be attending Goode.

Rachel looked around the room in awkward silence, she was wearing greay overalls with paint smuged all over them. I kept my head down, determind for her not to notice me. Although I'm never that lucky.

"Oh! I forgot! We'll be having a new student in our class. Rachel, please introduce yourself." Mrs Costa invites Rachel to the front of the class room, and she clears her throat.

"Um... I'm Rachel, I just moved her from Brookly-" She narrowed her eyes at me. She hurridly finished her introduction than walked quickly up to Annabeth and I. "Percy...?"

I looked up at her sheepishly. I had only spent a few minutes with Rachel before, but I had found that she can be very blunt at times and has a habit of talking a mile a minute, which felt like she was punching me with words.

"Um... Rachel? Hi."

"What are you doing here?" She looked at me curiosly.

"I go to school here." I say obviously.

Annabeth seemed dumbfounded, "Percy do you know her?" She said the word as if Rachel was a mouldy blue cookie that Annabeth was forced to eat.

"Um... Yeah. I met her last summer." But before I could elaborate, Mrs Costa began to speak.

"Ok every one, you'll be working in your partners as usual. So get started! And Rachel, youll be working with Reyna!"

Annabeth's POV

For some reason, I couldn't get Rachel out of my head. The fact that Percy knew this person, just aggravates me. 
We spent the entirety of the lesson in awkward silence, once the bell finally rang, I packed my bag and began to leave, before an annoying voice behind me squeaked,

"Percy! I haven't seen you in forvever! Suprized you still remembered me!" I turned around the see Rachel running over to Percy and smiling as if her life depended on it.

"Yeah! Cool to see you too." 

I walked up beside Percy. Rachel looked at me annoyingly. 

"So! I'll give you my number! If you, like, need me or something." She giggled.

"Percy doesn't have his phone." I retorted

"Oh, that's fine!" And before I could start cursing her out, she pulled a marker out of her pocket, and began to scribble something on Percy's arm. 

A phone number.

I felt red with rage. Who does she think she is?! 

"Okay! Bye! I've got Art now! See you later!" And with that, she was out the door. 

Word Count - 850

WOW! Bet yall didn't expect that. I don't want to make Rachel a really bad character, but I prolly will. I tried to put as much from the book as I could. 
I also just published a short story called Let Me Out. It's only 1100 words so it will only take  you a few minutes to read. Hope you can check it out!

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