Hey guys I just finished editing this chapter, so I hope you like it! I wanted to make the story more realistic, and I didn't like how Shelby seemed like the stereotypical snobby popular girl, so I'm going to change her character up a bit to make it more interesting. Let me know if you have any suggestions! I'll be editing the rest of the story soon and then hopefully work on my other stories some more.

Okay, I couldn't think of a good reason why Percy and Annabeth would break up, so just for the sake of the story, let's pretend they never got together at the end of TLO. I was listening to the song You Belong with Me by Taylor Swift and thought of this, so it's pretty much like the song, except they'll go on a quest later. In this story, Percy and Annabeth are 18, in their senior year of high school, and they go to the same school. Well, here's chapter one! Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own PJO

Annabeth's POV

Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep! Slam! Ugh, I swear I want to destroy my alarm clock. Of course if I did, I would be late for school every day, so that wouldn't be very wise for a child of Athena to do. I put my feet down on the wooden floor and stretched my arms. It was 7:30 and time to get ready for another day of school.

My phone vibrated from my bed side table signaling a text message. I stood and picked it up.

Hey. You up? It was from Percy. After we won the war, his mom decided getting him a cell phone would be fine. In fact, a lot of demigods had them now. Most of them had no idea how to use them or even text, so they would constantly bug me with questions about every little thing. It was worse after I taught Travis and Connor to text. Of course, they showed everyone else and then I was getting random messages every five seconds with smiley faces and updates on what they were doing. Luckily, for both the sake of my phone bill and my sanity, that stage had passed after about a week.

Yeah. I replied. He texted me every morning to make sure I hadn't forgotten to set my alarm clock and over slept. It didn't happen much, but it was always good to be safe. I walked into the bathroom to brush my teeth and then jumped in the shower. I was singing the chorus to You Belong with Me by Taylor Swift and thinking of Percy when suddenly the water went cold.

"Matthew! Bobby! Cut it out!" I shouted. Gods, they always do this. My ten year old brothers enjoyed running the hot water in their bathroom sink just so the water in the shower will turn cold. They do this practically every morning and it drives me nuts. I've tried telling my dad, but he and my step mom think they're just little angels.

I got out of the shower and slid on my towel. When I opened the door, I could hear my brothers giggling in my room.

"Get out! Both of you!" I shouted at them. They ran out of my room, still giggling. I looked around my room to see what was missing or broken, but everything looked just like I'd left it when I got in the shower.

I walked over to my closet and looked through my shirts. Where is it? Finally I found the one I was looking for: a purple Aeropostale T-shirt. I grabbed a faded pair of jeans, some underwear, and a bra and changed out of my pajamas. I was straightening my shirt out when I heard my phone buzz and looked to see another text from Percy.

Umm... that's sort of personal. What was he talking about? I hadn't sent him anything after I told him I was awake. Maybe he meant to text someone else? I looked at my message history.

Be there in 20 min. Percy had sent at 7:50, which was ten minutes ago.

Hey Percy ;) Whatcha doing? *smoochy smoochy* "I" had replied. What the heck?

Getting ready for school… who is this?

Annabeth. Are you a boxers or briefs sort of guy?;)

Umm... that's sort of personal.

"Bobby! Matthew! You guys are so dead!" I shouted. I wanted to run in there and beat them up, but then I remembered that I had only ten minutes to finish getting ready.

I picked up my hair dryer and set it back down a few minutes later when my hair was almost dry. I brushed through it real quick and then put it in a ponytail.

I ran downstairs and poured a bowl of cinnamon toast crunch cereal. I sat down across from my dad, who was reading the newspaper and drinking a glass of coffee. Matthew was next to him and Bobby was sitting next to me. They were both grinning and looking at me, trying to make me explode and get in trouble.

"Not gonna happen," I told them before going back to gulping down my cereal.

"Someone's in a rush this morning." my step mom commented as she put bread in the toaster.

"She's going to see a boy." Bobby told her before I could reply.

"Really?" My dad said, sounding interested. "You didn't tell me about this, Annie. What's his name?" I glared angrily at Bobby and he smirked.

"It's just Percy, Dad."

His eyebrows shot up. "You're dating him now?"

I nearly choked on my cereal and the twins broke into fits of laughter. "No! He's just a friend."

"Your best friend," Matthew said and he gave Bobby a fist bump. There was a honk outside and I stood before anyone else could say anything.

"I have to go." I said. I picked up my backpack from where I set it by the front door and started to turn the handle.

"Annabeth!" my stepmom said.

"What?" I asked and turned around.

"Shoes." I looked down and realized I'd forgotten to put my shoes on. I ran upstairs and slid on a pair of plain ankle high socks. I grabbed my favorite sneakers and tried to put them on as I hopped to the stairs. I heard another honk and tried to go quicker, but ended up falling down.

"Annabeth? Are you okay?" It was my dad calling from downstairs. I finished putting my shoes on and stood up again.

"I'm fine!" I shouted as I hurried down the stairs. I was about to open the door when my dad's voice stopped me.

"Wait a second, young lady," he said as he stood up from his chair. I sighed and waited for him to give me a speech about something that didn't even make any sense. "I want to have a talk with this boy before you two start getting serious. I'm not sure I like the idea of-"

"Oh my gods!" I threw my head back in exasperation. "Percy is just a friend. A FRIEND! He already has a girlfriend, anyways, so nothing is going to happen between us! Okay?"

He nodded and sat back down. It's times like this when I really wish I had been born into another family. I opened the door and walked to Percy's car. It was an old blue one his stepdad got him for his eighteenth birthday. It was May now, so he's had it for almost a year, but he kept it clean, so it looked new as a five year old car could.

"What took you so long?" he asked as I opened the passenger door. "I thought I was going to have to get out and get you."

"Sorry, I forgot my shoes." And my crazy family thinks that we're dating, I laughed.

"And you call me a Seaweed Brain." He was wearing a faded green t-shirt and blue jeans. As always, he was wearing tennis shoes; the ones he had on today were white with blue-green stripes going down the sides.

"Because you are one! You know, Percy-" I had turned my head back to the house and saw my dad coming out.

"Oh, gods," I sighed. The twins must have convinced him to come out, anyway. If he talked to Percy, it would just make things awkward and I'd rather not have that happen.

"Hey, your dad is coming out."

"Come on, Percy. Drive!"

"But your dad-"

"Go," I looked him straight in the eye and he understood that I wasn't joking around. He pressed his foot on the gas and we sped away before my dad had a chance to make it down the driveway. I looked back to see him waving his arms angrily and knew I'd have to pay for it later, but at least I wouldn't have to worry about Percy getting the wrong idea. Don't get me wrong, I would love to be his girlfriend, but that just wasn't going to happen and I'd rather keep him as a friend than ruin it.

"Hey," Percy said, pulling me out of my thoughts. "Are you ready for graduation? Only two more weeks and we'll be out of high school!"

"I've been counting down the days 'til I leave my dad's house for years. Moving out is going to be great," I tried to sound lighthearted, but it was hard after what had happened that morning. My dad pretty much ignored me until it came to something that got me in trouble or embarrassing matters, such as my friendship with Percy. My stepmom had never liked me much and always believed that Bobby and Matthew, who made it their goal to ruin my life, were telling the truth. Yeah, moving out would be the best part of graduating.

"They're not that bad," Percy reassured me.

I snorted. "You just say that because you don't have to live with them. The twins are always invading my personal space and taking my cell phone."

"Like this morning?"

Oh, gods, I had completely forgotten to explain the whole "boxers or briefs" question! He must have seen the look on my face because he laughed before I could figure out what to say.

"It's all right, Annabeth, I know it wasn't you. You're one of my best friends; don't you think I know the way you text by now? Besides," he added as an afterthought. "I typically don't get winking smiley faces and smooches from you."

"That's a good point," I couldn't help but laugh with him as I thought back to the text messages. We pulled into the school parking lot and pulled in next to a silver SUV. Oh how I hated the sight of that car! Percy opened his door.

"See you later, Annabeth!" he said as he got out. I spotted my friend Julie a few cars down and went to talk to her.

"Hey," she waved as I walked up to her. We started walking towards the school and passed the silver SUV were Percy was talking to a girl. She had long, straight brown hair and brown eyes. Her tan skin looked perfect with whatever she was wearing, which was an orange spaghetti strap shirt and dark blue skinny jeans with white sandals. She was getting out of the car and, after glancing at me, kissed Percy.

"Come on," Julie said. "There's lots of other guys out there, Annabeth. And even though Shelby's a-"

"Language," I reminded her before she went on, already knowing what she was about to say since we had this conversation all the time. Normally, I didn't mind if she called Shelby that, since I completely agreed, but she was trying to clean her language up and asked me to help, so I was doing the best I could to stop her from saying anything that wasn't PG.

She gave me an irritated look before continuing. "Even though Shelby is a female dog and doesn't deserve him, that's Percy's choice. It may be a stupid choice, a very stupid choice, but it's his. Just give him some time; he'll come around eventually."

I sighed. "Yeah, I guess you're right. It's not fair that she can walk in here wearing whatever she wants, but if another student walks in with shorts that are a quarter of an inch too short, they get detention and have to wear those dorky pants from the nurse's office around all day"

"I know. Just because her stepmom is the school superintendent, Shelby gets special treatment." Julie has long, black wavy hair and brown eyes. She was wearing a plain green t-shirt, blue jean shorts, and black sneakers. She was the kind of girl who didn't care what other people thought of her, and Shelby hated her. Considering the fact that Shelby's the most popular girl at school, most other people hate her too, except Percy and me. We opened the door and walked in just as the bell was ringing.

"Well," I said to Julie. "Time for another crazy day of school."

Well there's chapter one! Please Review! Don't worry, they will go on a quest at some point in the story! I'm not sure how old Bobby and Matthew are supposed to be, so I just picked the age I think fit them best. Ideas are helpful! I'm not sure where I'm going with this story yet, so I might use your ideas! Thanks! :)