The Little Big Three

Project 101

Annabeth's POV:

First Greek was going well. Then I heard Percy and the two new kids talking about me in Greek. Dang it. I wish I knew it as much as them. But I got the gist of it.

Γεια σου ρε παιδιά. Ακριβώς ένα heads up. Κανείς εδώ δεν καταλαβαίνει την Ελληνική, εκτός του κ. Μπλε. Προφανώς. Και η κοπέλα που κάθεται πίσω μας, την'Ανναμπεθ.

(Guys... Heads up... No... Here... Greek... Blue... Girl... Us... Annabeth...)

Αχ. Έτσι, δεν μπορούμε να μιλήσουμε για κατασκήνωση και την ουσία.

(Oh... So... Talk... Camp... Stuff...)

Όχι, εκτός αν θέλετε της'Ανναμπεθ να το γνωρίζουν.

(Not... You... Annabeth... Know.)

Ω έλα. Έτσι, δεν μπορώ να πω ότι το κεφάλι σας

(Oh... On... I... Say... Your head-)

No! why did you cut her off. I feel like I should know what your talking about. But I don't understand you. Stupid Greek language!

Ok. Πρόστιμο. Θα το πάρει! Είμαστε απλά πειράγματα!

(Ok... Fine... We... It... Teasing!)

Oh well. I did find a bit of useful information. Science with Katie and Selina next. I can tell them all about it then.

"So class. I assigned your groups yesterday. You two newbies can be a group. The project. Your task is to design a power point or poster for either one, or two," Pointed look at Thalia and Nico. "Greek gods and/or goddess'. You will have a few classes to work on this but the majority will have to be done in your own time. Please disperse into your groups and discuss what you will be doing."

Percy turned around to face me, "Poseidon." He said it in a voice that clearly said 'do-not-challenge-me-or-you-will-lose'.

"Fine. Where do you want to meet tonight?"

He looked at his friends for a few second, "My place after school till seven. My mom will give us dinner."

"What's your address?"

"East One-hundred-and-fourth and First. Come on guys. We have to get to math." Percy Jackson turned his back on me and walked away.

***

I rushed into my seat just as the bell went telling all the slackers it was the start of class. "That was close." I heard Katie say. I took out my phone and signalled for them to turn it to silent.

I then proceeded to write a text the length of an A4 sheet of paper. Ok. Maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration.

'You'll never guess what happened in Greek!

Me: 'I found out the two new kids speak Greek as well as Percy, Mr Blue is Percy and Nico's Uncle and Thalia's dad.

And Percy is the head of some camp or something.

They all attend it. Also they tease each other regularly and in a weird sort of way.

Oh, and they all have really weird nicknames.'

Katie: 'What do you mean? Percy's a loser. It's not like he could lead some camp. Well, unless its for losers!.'

Selina: 'Yeah, but remember how scared the Stolls were at having these three people from their camp here. Maybe we could ask them. They might know something.'

Me: 'Yeah. Smart thinking. We'll ask them at break.'

Selina: 'I can be smart you know. We will talk then.'

Katie: 'Love Ya Girlies'

The rest of the lesson was boring. We just took notes on chemical and physical changes.

***

"We're free!" I sang as I skipped (Selina and Katie were walking) out of the classroom. "That was the longest fifty minute period ever!"

"Agreed!" Katie and Selina said as they walked behind with me skipping in front.

"Where are the boys?" Katie asked. Our table was empty. Suddenly someone grabbed me from behind. From the squeals of the other girls they had been grabbed to. Katie had been grabbed by Travis, Selina by Becendorf and when I turned around... "Luke?"

"Yeah. Boo?"

"Pathetic. Lets go eat." I grabbed Connor and Luke by the hands and went to find something to eat.

I ended up with a blueberry muffin and apple juice while Connor got a large chocolate chip muffin and a 600ml bottle of coke, and Luke had a mango fro yo. and a small chocolate milk.

"So Luke? What's your last name? We've only known each other for a couple of hours. I was curious.

"It's Castellan." Hmm. Doesn't seem to talk much.

"So what's your family like?" Connor tried.

Luke flinched. "Yeah I have a mom. No known siblings and I've only met my real dad once. When I was seven." He looked at the table. He looked so dejected I grabbed his hand and gave it a squeeze.

Once everyone was sitting down Travis asked, "So. How's Operation PJ?"

"Lets see." Katie said as us girls pulled out our phones. "What did Annabeth learn in Greek today?"

"Well she learnt that Mr Blue is Percy Jackson and Nico's Uncle and he is also Thalia's dad." Selina said starting us off.

"Hmm. She also found out that they regularly tease each other is a weird way." Katie added.

"She also found out that Percy is apparently the head of some camp or something. Oh and I'm going over to his place to work on the project tonight."

"Yeah. We have to enquire about the whole head-of-some-camp thing." Selina said. "Travis, Connor?"

They looked at each other. "Look. We don't really know anything."

"But you see. That's where your wrong." I said sweetly but with a threatening undertone.

They obviously heard it because they 'gulped'. "Ok. Fine. We know those three from a summer camp we attend every year. Up until last year Percy was a year round camper. Thalia drops into camp every now and then with the group of girls she travels with and no one really knows anything about Nico." They said it at the same time and fast.

"Ok. So where's the camp?" Becondorf asked.

"That's the hard part. Because its a camp for ADHD and Dyslexic kids we are stuck on a bus with blacked out windows and given iPads/iPods for the journey to keep us calm and quiet."

"But you know?" I persisted.

"All we know is that it's beside the ocean." We kept trying to pry answers out of them for the rest of break but they refused to tell us more.