𝐍𝐄𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐒 | 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐂𝐀𝐁𝐄𝐓𝐇

chapter 7

The next week of school was the worst; girls hitting on Percy, Annabeth only talking about Luke, and Percy already failing a few exams.

They still all have lunch together, but Annabeth sits with Thalia all the time, both just chatting about Luke. Honestly, Percy thought that Thalia might have developed a small crush on Luke as well. This really sucked.

Why did Luke have to be so likable? Why did girls always fall for him?

Percy remembered his first girlfriend: Rachel, who broke up with him because she became crazy about Luke. Then she realized Luke was a jerk and ended up dating some guy named Octavian (a.k.a. Teddy Bear Murderer). Luke always steals his girls or crushes. It really wasn't fair.

He sighed and walked into class. Today was his first P.E. class since he got here. In this school, boys had P.E. at the same time as girls. He had Reyna in his class, which was actually pretty cool since she was fierce and nice all at once.

He looked around the class, to see if he knew anyone else. The only ones he knew were Reyna and (urgh) Drew.

There was a tap on his shoulder. "Hey, handsome." It was a red-head. She seemed familiar, but Percy couldn't tell how or why. She seemed to be thinking the same thing about him.

Then it hit him. "NANCY!?"

"How do you know my name?" she asked. Gods, Percy hated this girl. Childhood bully, to his childhood friend Grover (who moved to Seattle two years ago) and to him.

"Yancy academy. You loved teasing Grover and me," Percy said. Her jaw dropped. Literally.

"Percy? Percy Jackson? How and when the fuck did you get so hot? You were an ugly little pig before."

Percy chuckled and rolled his eyes. "Thanks."

Nancy still looked just as surprised. "But-but how? You're so muscular and-and tan and HOW?"

"Thanks," Percy said again, smirking like crazy. Reyna came up to him.

"Hey, Perce," she said, "is this little girl bugging you."

Nancy rolled her eyes. Percy just shrugged. "Nah, not really." At the comment, Nancy seemed delighted and hugged his arm.

"Well, then," Nancy looked at him dreamily. Urgh. He'd already had enough girls drooling all over him. He didn't need more. Especially NOT Nancy Bobofit. "Please don't," Percy said. "I have a girlfriend," he lied.

Nancy didn't believe him. "Oh, yeah? Who?"

"Me," Reyna said. Percy had had a sneaking suspicion that Reyna had a crush on him, but everyone had said she liked Jason, but now... he wasn't so sure. Nancy looked at Reyna, and Reyna looked at me and I mouthed a 'thank you' to her.

Nancy huffed. "Well, it's not like I care. You're still the same idiot you were in sixth grade. Then, she walked away. Reyna looked at me. "You know, she's gonna spread the rumour, right?"

Shit. "Does that mean...?"

She sighed. "Yeah, Perce, it does. We have to pretend to date."