PJO High School

Chapter 25

Percy POV
Its been a day since the exchange students arrived and they both seem super nice. Although I don't talk to Will much he is always around Nico. But one time I got a paper cut on my finger from flipping through me and Rachel's project and he practically jumped over the table to try and help me. It worked out in my favor though, I got an awesome band-aid with little whales on them.

Rachel is really into this project she texts me almost every hour asking the weirdest questions about it. I don't even know how she got my phone number... We are meeting up this afternoon to go ask our final set of questions. Then I will be done with this horrible project and will stop getting these weird....

Rachel: hey :) Can't wait to see you today! To work on our project.... I was wondering if the font size was big enough? ;)

Oh look another text. I sigh and type a quick response.

Percy: it is. 👌🏼

Rachel: ok :}

Why can't she use real emojis... I find the ones she use to be creepy. What even is that last face she sent me? Oh who knows! I throw my phone onto the bed and walk out to go eat breakfast.

"Morning sweetie!" My mom has a huge smile on her face as she whips up some bacon and eggs. "Morning... Why are you so happy?" I look at her face and see her trying to hide her smile... It wasn't working. "Is this about Paul?" When I say that she drops the spatula into the eggs on accident and looks at me. "Why would you think that?"

I start to laugh as she wipes the eggs off the spatula. "I don't know just a guess from all the late night phone calls." At this point she is staring at me with wide eyes. "How do you know about those?" I look at her and say "it's hard not to hear them when you are giggling really loud."

"I do not giggle!" She gives me a mean look. "Mom, the eggs are burning." "Oh crap." She turns off the stove and shovels the eggs on to a plate with the bacon.

After breakfast I go change into swim shorts and a t shirt to go meet Rachel. When I get to Cafe Lay Rachel is already there sitting down eating a salad with no dressing. Ew she is basically just eating leaves. Rachel sees me and waves me over.

I walk over and sit down across from her in the booth. "Hey! Do you want a bite of my salad?" She says this and quickly looks out the window. "Umm I'm going to have to pass that looks..." I get cut off by a mouthful of leaves. Rachel starts to slowly pull out the fork when I hear my name.

"Percy?" I whip my head around and see Annabeth standing there with Luke watching me and Rachel carefully. I try to talk but remember that Rachel just shoved unwanted food into my mouth and spit it out. "Annabeth uh hey." I smile sheepishly at her and that just makes her angrier. She grabs Luke's hand and drags him to the other side of the Cafe to start interviewing people.

I turn back to Rachel anger bubbling up inside me. "Why did you do that? You saw her coming didn't you?" I hit my fist against the table and stare at Rachel waiting for and answer. "So what if I did!" "Why would you do that?!" Rachel shoves another piece of salad in her mouth and chews slowly.

I look over to where Annabeth is sitting and she is staring at me. Our eyes meet and I can see the mixed emotions in them. She looks away and continues talking to some random guy she and Luke are interviewing.

"Are we going to ask people questions or what?" I turn around and Rachel gets up rolling her eyes and struts over to a random table. Ugh I need food. I reach over and grab some salad and put it in my mouth before I realized what I was doing. I spit it out immediately and then get up to help Rachel.

A/n: sorry it is a short one... At least I think it is. Hope everyone is having a good summer and if you are not on summer break when you read this then I'm so sorry... School sucks.
Funny story that happened to me this summer:
My friend and I where playing basketball and the ball went over the fence into the woods so my friend grabbed a shovel and we both jumped the fence. When some random lady yells watch out for water moccasins it's their season. We both start freaking out and we run to the fence roll over it and fall to the ground. In the process my friend accidentally hit me with the shovel and I elbowed her in the face. We never got the ball...