𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐩 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐩 𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐟-𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝 ; ᴘᴊᴏ ✓

✧ chapter 4 : percy pov

The past month had been going great! True, most teachers hated me, and John was still 'bullying' me, oh and we had no mortal friends, but it was all okay because Annabeth was here. I can't believe she didn't tell me she was coming. She made me think I was going to miserable all year! But here she is. Almost too good to be true. Though Annabeth does make me do my homework, but she helps me with it. Meaning that in some classes, a very minimal amount, I have some good grades. Probably, no, this is definitely my best year I've had! Unless I get expelled later on. Hopefully not, because my Wise Girl will be all alone.

That's when someone threw a paper ball at me. Oh yeah. I'm at school, specifically home room. I see that John was the one who threw it. I roll my eyes and ignore him. Over the past month John has gotten himself more goons in his gang. Most of them, sadly, were in mine and Annabeth's home room.

Oh sorry, I mean, Annabeth and I's home room.

Grammar ugh.

Anyways, there was a girl who was basically a Barbie; she looked plastic, no seriously, her skin is shiny, she wore too much makeup and looked like a clown and always had short, tight, hot pink clothes on. Her name was Claire and she was John's girlfriend.

Then there was Tom who is John's best friend. He looked exactly like John but with brown hair and he didn't play football.

"Ok class! I have a special announcement." Our home room teacher, Mrs. M, said happily. "We are going on a field trip!!" That seemed to get everyone's attention including my own. Not because I was excited, I was legit scared. I listed all the possible things that could happen, starting off with me blowing up the bus.... again.

"We will be visiting a strawberry field near Long Island!"

"Oh Styx." Annabeth and I cursed in unison. The class got excited. They didn't care where they field trip would be as long as they missed classes for a whole day.

"We leave tomorrow! Oh and I have already got all your parents to sign the permission slip!"

Annabeth and I looked at each other, confused. Why would my parents sign the permission slip? After everyone left the classroom including the teacher we started panicking.

"Oh Gods, a field trip!? To basically camp!? Styx, Styx, Styx! What if they find out? We are doomed! They might even find out where us demigods spend the summer!!!??" Annabeth panicked.

"Why would my mom even say yes to this!!" I start to yell.

"Maybe Paul signed it?"

"Oh Gods."

"Maybe they just won't find out?" Annabeth said hopefully. I looked at her.

"There's no more mist remember?"

"Way to be an optimist."

We decided that we've been arguing in the classroom for too long and agreed to talk about this tonight. We walked dreadfully out the classroom. Our demigod lives could be ruined because of this. Stupid dam field trip.

I came home depressed and I guess my mom noticed.

"Percy honey? Are you okay? What happened?" She asked, worried. I couldn't hide it so I just told her. I told her everything. After I explained, she looked confused. "I didn't receive a permission slip." She thought for a moment. "Paul? Can you come in here for a second."

In a few seconds Paul walked in. They talked about the permission slip and apparently Paul did not know anything about a permission slip.

"Paul said he didn't sign it Perce." My mom told me.

"But someone had to."

Something was obviously wrong here. No one signed the permission slip? Maybe my home room teacher made a mistake. Paul nor my mother hadn't even heard of the field trip, so how could they have signed it? Maybe I wasn't going to camp after all. But then I thought of Annabeth. I couldn't just leave her alone and answer our classmates questions about the camp. I would have to think of a way to cover the camp.

Chiron.

I quickly searched for a golden drachma. I need to IM Chiron and tell him to cut of all connection with the strawberry fields during my classes trip. Hopefully they can also find a way to hide camp, like the mist used to do. Then in the corner of my eye I caught a glimpse of movement. Someone was here. I turned around and saw the window was open. My hand crept to my pocket about to pull out RipTide.

"Hey is anyone the-"

My vision blacked.