Life's Complicatios

Coincidence?

Percy POV

Its been a week since I met Annabeth, and also a week since Thalia fully recovered. She originally wanted to return to that house, but I forced her to stay. Well, persuaded her. Forcing is kind of impossible when It comes to Thalia. I sighed. Today had been a hectic day, and a newcomer showed up for all of my previous classes...guess who...

"Class, this is our new student. Please treat her kindly. Her name is Annabeth." Mrs Johnson, our Science teacher, announced to the class. Everyone was staring at Annabeth, who was looking down at the floor, not recealing much of her face, or eyes.

As for me? I was staring at her, mouth agape and eyes wide. I knew that she had moved near here. I knew that she would be going to a school. I even wondered whether she would come to my school. It was a possibility. When I had seen her in school. I was not surprised. When I had seen her in my first class, I was mildly surprised. When I had seen her in my second class, I was quite surprised. When I had seen her in my third class...well you get the idea. What I had not forseen was that she would be in the same class as me for almost every one of my classes.

Science was the last period of the day, and it was my seventh class. It was also the seventh time a teacher has been introducing her with me present. So I guess we are in the same class for every period for the rest of the school year...

"Annabeth, go take the empty seat beside Percy. Can u spot him? Fifth row.." Mrs Johnson said to her. She looked up in mild surprise, but quickly looked down again. For the whole day, she had been doing that for each and every class. And, for some reason, she was always positioned to sit beside me. Well, maybe that's because no one sits beside me all the time since they're afraid of me...kind of. They think I look scary, which is just odd. I guess sticking with Thalia may make me act a bit like her... when she was acing cold, of course. Not her inner personality.

Whenever a teacher tells someone to sit beside me, they would strongly refuse with lots of excuses. And the teachers also knew that Thalia, Nico and Grover would make plenty of noise if they sat near me. Hence, no one sat beside me. I guess they are trying to use the opportunity of having a new student to take the seat beside me so the higher ups won't ask "Why is he alone?" or "Shouldn't you move that boy down to his other classmates?" and stuff. I always refused to be shifted. I loved my corner, because the window there had a nice view. Heh heh...

"Hey, you again." I whispered as she sat down on the seat beside me. She looked at me and smiled slightly.

"I guess I'm going to be stuck with you for every class." She said in a small voice. I laughed softly at that. We then turned back to the teacher and listened to class.

After the class ended, I waited outside the classroom. I sighed as I leaned back on the wall. Every Monday and Thursday, I have to wait outside my class for the last period. A certain someone had tasked me something to do.

"Hey, Percy!" Grover shouted as he ran towards me. I rolled my eyes as I pushed myself off the wall to face him.

"Have you seen Juniper?" he asked excitedly, and I exhaled in annoyance and resignation. Juniper was the girl he liked. Not the casual crush type, but the seriously 'I love you very dearly and will stick with you forever' kind of love. I know it sounds stupid and mushy, but that's about the only way I can think to describe his attitude towards Juniper.

"Umm, I think she went to the toilet straight after class. Ah, there's her bag. You can wait for her over there." I replied as I pointed at her back at one of the front seats. Seems like she left it there and went to the toilet. She was in my class for the period that just ended, and Grover was not, so he kind of gave me the duty to keep track on her during these classes.