Anonymous. // Percy Jackson and the Olympians.

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After a few more minutes of Mrs. Aggio showing me around she stopped outside a door labeled Mrs. Jones.

"This is your homeroom, and where I leave you. Your locker is right down the corridor. I will see you in Italian class!" She smiled at me before leaving. I looked at the clock hung up on the wall and saw it was 8:25; 5 minutes until homeroom started. I took a minute to memorize my schedule.

Period 1- Algebra 1
Period 2- Art
Period 3- Italian
Lunch Period with 10 minute free time
Period 4- Science
Period 5- English/History
Period 6- Gym/P.E

Lucky for me, the teacher was nice enough to type this in Italian.

I slowly opened the door to homeroom to see that only one student was in there. It was a girl with blonde hair and unique grey eyes, who had a book in her hands. A bored expression was set on her face, as she passed the time by reading. Her hair was tied up in a messy ponytail, and she had a leather necklace with several clay beads on it. She looked up for barely even 2 seconds before she continued reading her book.

"Oh, hello, I didn't hear you come in. You must be Nico!" The teacher called in English from her desk. I didn't understand all of what she said, but I did catch 'must be Nico'.

"Am N-Nico." I stuttered, hoping I said the right thing in English.

"Okay, you may go take a seat next to Annabeth Chase." She smiled, pointing to the blonde girl. I stood puzzled for a moment until I heard the girl sitting down speak up.

"I'm Annabeth Chase. Mrs. Jones wants you to sit her by me, okay?" She smiled as she spoke, surprisingly, in Italian.

"Okay." I nodded, making my way over to the empty seat beside her. Right after I sat down, the bell rang and a bunch of other teenagers piled in, trying to find empty seats. One boy, green eyes and the same kind of leather bead necklace as Annabeth, stood in the middle of the front of the class, looking quizzically at Annabeth and I. I felt a little uncomfortable, but Annabeth just rolled her eyes.

"It's only for today, Seaweed Brain." Annabeth stated in English before pointing to a seat up front. I didn't know what she had said, but the boy huffed and sat down in the seat she had pointed to earlier.

"His name is Percy Jackson, and he usually sits where you're sitting." She told me.

"Does he want me to move?" I asked, not wanting to make Percy upset. Annabeth just laughed.

"He'll live." I nodded, and took out my notepad. I started to doodle on it, drawings lying haphazard across the sheet of paper.

"Good morning, class! Today, we have a new student, Nico di Angelo!" Mrs. Jones had said, in a sing-songy voice of words I couldn't understand.

So I continued to doodle.

"Nico, will you stand up, please?" She asked. I looked up at the sound of my name, not getting what she was asking to do.

"Stand up is what she's asking." Annabeth said from beside me. I blushed a little, probably sitting there looking like a fool. I quickly stood up, placing my pencil on my desk.

"Nico, where are you from?" Mrs. Jones asked, smiling patiently at me.

"Where are you from?" Annabeth whispered.

"R-Roma, Italia." I replied quietly, not quite looking at anyone.

"Ooh, interesting," Mrs. Jones said to the class, before moving on. "When is your birthday?"

"When is your birthday?" Annabeth translated, and I was grateful to be sitting next to someone who could translate to Italian.

"G-Gennaio 28," I stuttered quietly once again, shifting from foot to foot.

"He said January 28th." Annabeth told the teacher, and I expected she said my birthday in English, judging by how the teacher nodded.

"Thank you Nico, I hope you enjoy your time at Artemis Prep." The teacher smiled.

"You can sit down now." Annabeth told me, gesturing to my seat.

"Thank you, Annabeth," I told her gratefully, sitting down.

"No problem." she smiled, turning back towards the teacher

Mrs. Jones started talking about things I expected to be school related, before she let everyone talk amongst themselves. The boy from earlier, Percy I think, can over to our row and started to talk to Annabeth.

"Annabeth, do you think he-?" Percy asked, glancing at me. Naturally, I couldn't understand a word he was saying, so I kept drawing.

"Percy! We only talk about this in private, even if this school is for- you know, for us- there still might be you-know-who's here!" She sounded exasperated, and by the tone of her voice, I could tell she was very annoyed. Then, Annabeth looked around and dropped her voice to a whisper.

"I really don't think so anyway, Percy. He seems like a normal Italian guy!" I caught 'Italian' while she was talking, and immediately perked up with curiosity.

Oh God, where were my manners? I forgot to introduce myself properly. If Bianca was here, she would have pestered me about it. I stood up quickly and kissed both of Percy's cheeks. (Bianca always found it cute that I used the more 'feminine' way to greet people.)

"I'm Nico." I told him, sitting down. Percy looked so surprised that he just stood there, eyes wide and mouth agape. But soon, a blush appeared lightly on his face.

"Wha- what was that for?!" Percy turned to Annabeth quickly, looking for answers. But, she was trying really hard not to laugh. I didn't know why, though.

"P-Percy," she breathed out, erupting with laughter. "T-that's how y-you greet people in I-Ita-Italy!" She was turning highly hysteric now, and I still looked questionably at Annabeth.

"What did I do, Annabeth? Why are you laughing at me?" I asked, confused and now growing more and more flustered.

"Here, Nico, we don't greet people that way. Doing that is saved for showing affection to someone you love." Her grin only widened a fracture, but I became more flustered anyway. Oh God, what did I do?

"I'm so sorry, Percy, I didn't mean- I didn't know- Oh, my God!" I was a complete and utter stuttering mess, embarrassed blush and all.

After Percy stared at me with a faint blush still on his face, Annabeth noticed and started to explain what I had said. "He's apologizing, Seaweed Brain." She tried to suppress another smile, wiping tears from the corners of her eyes.

"Oh." Percy stated dumbly, before continuing with, "I-it's fine man, don't worry about it."

"He says it's okay," Annabeth translated. As I nodded in understanding, the bell rang.

"Nico, what class do you have next?" Annabeth asked, as I gathered up all of my stuff.

I thought back before homeroom started, before answering with, "Maths, I think."

"Huh, Percy and I have math, too. Let's go together?"

"Okay," I nodded again, "Thanks."

First day in a new school, and in a new country, and I already have 2 possible friends. That might be a start.

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i typed the story on both this and youcompletemess' profile anything they say is a dirty lie

very long chapter pretty good cause its p gay already lmao. updates may or may not be frequent it depends on how fast i can copy and edit youcompletemess' version onto my account

/dave