a/n: this is dumb and just an idea that wouldn't leave me alone. there'll probably be more parts 'cause this chapter was mostly just set up. nothing's changed except the demigod camps are boarding schools and there weren't any prophecies looming over anyone's heads.

Annabeth stormed out of the Student Council room, slamming the door to make sure everyone in the room knew just how upset she was. And with the way the door rattled on its hinges, she was sure everyone knew that she was extremely upset, to put it lightly. How could those Roman assholes think that they could come to her school and tell her how to run her Student Council? Well, they couldn't. Now, instead of being in the room and listening to their criticism, Annabeth was walking the distance between the student council room and her dorm.

"Cultural exchange? Yeah, right. They're from San Francisco, not Rome," Annabeth muttered to herself. Sure, the guys from Jupiter Boarding School were the children and descendants of Roman Gods while the students here at Half-Blood Boarding School (the name was still extremely uncreative to Annabeth) were the sons and daughters of Greek Demigods. However, seeing as both boarding schools were still in America, their "cultures" couldn't actually be that different and this cultural exchange was not that great of an idea.

And the leader of asshole gang, herself? Reyna Ramírez-Arellano. Admittedly, Annabeth didn't know much about her, but from the hour she had spent in the student council room prior to leaving, Annabeth had learnt that Reyna's lead position in the jerkass crew was well deserved. She had practically taken over the meeting with just a couple words and then spent the majority of the time criticizing the executive decisions that Half-Blood's student council had lined up before summer break. The killer part in all of this? Reyna's group would be at the school for the entire school year, so Annabeth couldn't just ignore her.

"Who even comes to another school for an entire year? Like, who's even running the student council back at their school?" Annabeth threw open the door to her room and practically threw herself at her bed. She considered screaming into her pillow, but really, this wasn't worth a full blown tantrum. Annabeth laid there with the pillow over her face until she heard a voice from the doorway.

"If you're trying to suffocate yourself, please don't do it while I'm here." Piper, her roommate and the student council's secretary must have just walked in. Piper pulled the pillow out of her grasp and Annabeth glared up at her.

"Not now, Piper. I'm still pretty upset."

"Well, I think it's now-or-never for me to give you this heads up. Reyna's going to be your roommate this year."

"What?" Annabeth jumped out of her bed, which was pretty dramatic but given the fact that she just learnt that Queen Criticism was her new roommate, dramatics were very appropriate.

"Yeah, the principal said it would be better for the exchange if each exchange student roomed with someone from our school." Piper started gathering up her luggage. Given that they each had arrived at the school the day before students were actually to start arriving to straighten up some student council business and welcome the exchange students, no one had gotten around to unpacking yet.

"First, they infiltrate my student council. And now the leader of the gang is infiltrating my room? This isn't right!"

"Annabeth," Piper sighed, "calm down. Reyna isn't that bad. A bit domineering? Yes. But not that bad."

"Where were you when she practically destroyed all of our hard work?" Annabeth crossed her arms and raised an eyebrow at Piper.

"Yeesh, given my mom, I thought I'd be the more dramatic one in this friendship," Piper bit back. "Anyways, calm down. I'm out. I need to get the good bed in the room before that Hazel girl grabs it. See you later." Piper started making her way towards the door and Annabeth thought that, maybe, it was time to calm down a bit.

"Sorry, you're right. I was really looking forward to us rooming together again this year," Annabeth crossed the room and brought Piper into a hug, "Bye."

"From mad to affectionate? Woah, cool the dramatics." Piper chuckled as she returned Annabeth's hug. "Same here. At least we still have Chemistry, Greek Literature and PE."

"Ugh, why did you remind me about Literature? Get out of here before I keel over." Annabeth pushed Piper away from her.

"And with that," Piper raised her hand in a mock salute before picking up her suitcase and wheeling it towards the door, "I'm actually gone. See you at dinner." With that Piper left the room and right before Annabeth closed the door, she could hear Piper talking to someone in the hall.

Annabeth walked back over to her bed and sat down. She looked around the room. The white walls were still bare and her own suitcase was by her feet. She sighed. She would have to start unpacking soon. Annabeth stared at her suitcase and before she had finished building up her resolve, there were three quick knocks on her door.

Sighing once more, Annabeth walked over to the door and opened it, just to see Reyna there.

"Hey," Annabeth ground out. She opened the door wider to accommodate Reyna, who instead of replying, just began hauling her suitcase into the room.

"At Jupiter, the beds are bunk beds," was the first thing Reyna said to Annabeth that didn't sound condescending. And even then, just so.

"Really? Wow. That's actually amazing."

"I would appreciate less sarcasm, but I don't think you can help it. It's the sign of a baser wit."

Annabeth was a daughter of Athena for Zeus' sake. If Reyna thought she was about to get away with insulting her intelligence, she had another thing coming. "Disappointing comeback, but it's to be expected. I've always heard that Romans liked the bare necessities in life. Basic intelligence, minimal creativity and just a bit of manners. And, wow, you're really Roman."

Reyna rolled her eyes, "Good try." She almost immediately began unpacking her things and Annabeth had to respect her initiative. Annabeth was still wondering how late she would have to end up going to bed tonight because of right now, her bag just wasn't looking appealing at all. Especially because she knew of the mess that laid inside. She had been so busy with her internship and research that she barely had time to pack and she had basically just dumped her wardrobe and everything she needed into her suitcase and called it a night.

Reyna's suitcase, on the other hand, was packed so neatly that Annabeth was convinced it had taken her all summer to do so. It looked like the suitcase of someone who cared a lot about packing efficiently. Annabeth could tell that Reyna cared about doing everything efficiently from the "suggestions" (read as demands) that Reyna had made during the student council president. Annabeth appreciated efficiency but years at Half-Blood had made her grow into the laid-back (and very sloppy) mannerisms of practically everyone around her.

Anyways, Annabeth definitely wasn't about to start unpacking now when Reyna could use her haphazard packing as a reason to ream into her. Instead, she grabbed the book on modern architecture she had been leafing through all summer because of her internship and got lost in the diagrams of roofs, buildings and structures.

A bit later, Annabeth felt her phone vibrating against her leg. She checked the message. It was from the Student Council group chat.

Percy: guys! since we got here early they said wed have to get our own food since the kitchen staff arent done preparing the kitchen _

Annabeth: I said this, Percy, in the email I sent last week. Did you even read it?

Percy: uh…tl;dr? it was so long im pretty sure my phone crashed while loading it

Piper: ditto. like mine actually overheated loading one of the attachments.

Annabeth: Ugh. Anyways, guys, I have my car because I drove up. We can go somewhere for some.

Piper: what about the guys from Jupiter? even though Reyna is inhumanly like perfect I'm pretty sure they need food too.

Annabeth: One of them drove here behind their bus, I think. I'm actually not sure.

The conversation went dead for a few seconds. Annabeth considered asking Reyna if they had a way of getting food, but she would have to wake her up. Right when Annabeth was about to shout and wake Reyna up, her phone vibrated again.

Piper: Hazel said Reyna drove. Annabeth could you talk to her and update her? maybe get something sorted out?

Annabeth: Yeah, I will. She's sleeping now, though. I'll check in again later.

Leo: omg guys….im really feeling for tacos. im just putting that out there. just in case anyone was wondering.

Percy: yay tacos! good idea leo!

With the group delving into a discussion on just how awesome tacos were, Annabeth decided it was time for her to sort out the whole food situation with Reyna. How would she manage to wake up Reyna without undoubtedly unleashing the other girl's wrath upon herself? Annabeth had no clue. She looked around the room and promptly hit the jackpot. Reyna left her phone on her nightstand and, if Annabeth recalled correctly, Reyna had more than once unlocked it without using a passcode throughout the student council meeting.

Annabeth quietly and swiftly walked over to Reyna's phone. As quickly as she could, she took it up, found the alarm app and set an alarm to ring in five minutes. Annabeth dashed back to her bed and laid down, trying to look as comfortable and as busy as possible. She flipped through the pages of her architecture book, watching Reyna's bed out of the corner of her eye.

Annabeth was only halfway down a random page she decided to read when the most annoying alarm tone ever conceived started blaring in their room. Reyna's eyes cracked open and she reached over and stopped the alarm mere seconds after it started sounding. Annabeth was a bit impressed. It normally took her until the second round of alarming to even think of turning her phone off.

"I don't remember setting that alarm," Reyna muttered to herself but she shrugged her shoulders and let it go. Annabeth thanked the gods that Reyna didn't take out a spy kit, wipe down her phone and look for fingerprints. It was a distinct possibility with Reyna. She had walked into the Student Council Room with a ten-year plan, five hundred potential events and a small offering to the gods.

"Hey," Annabeth called out. "We have to get our own dinner tonight – the kitchen's not ready. I heard you had a car?"

Reyna nodded, "Yeah, I drove behind the bus."

"Okay, so I have my car, as well. We can take everyone out for dinner together. Can your car hold all the Jupiter people?"

"Mhm. It's a seven seater, so I can even drive some of your members if you don't have enough space."

"It's fine. Thanks for the offer, though." Wow. Did they just have a decent conversation? Was Reyna actually being nice? Annabeth was shocked but still far from believing Reyna was actually a half-way decent human being. "We're going for tacos, by the way. It's like a twenty minute drive."

"Okay, I'll let my people know." Reyna took her phone off her nightstand and sent off a text. Then, she threw her phone to Annabeth who barely had enough time to catch it. "Let's take each other's numbers. Text me when you guys are ready. We can meet in the parking lot." Annabeth quickly punched in her number and saved it. Not wanting to take the risk of throwing Reyna's phone and having it shatter against the wall, lamp or Reyna's ego, Annabeth walked over to the other girl's bed and gave it to her. Reyna immediately dialled her number and Annabeth heard her phone start vibrating on her bed.

"Okay. Now that everything's in order, I'm going to go take a shower. If you'll excuse me." In one fell swoop, Reyna gathered all her essentials and walked into their room's adjoining bathroom. Annabeth was once again taken aback at how polite Reyna seemed. It could have been like Piper said. Maybe she had misjudged her after all.

And maybe not. Once again they were in the Student Council room and, once again, Reyna was being the hugest asshole to every grace this side of New York. They were trying to finalize the semester's budget and start piecing a welcome back event together. Reyna proposed some start-of-semester academic workshops while Annabeth was insistent that they have the traditional game of Capture the Flag. Needless to say, neither one of them was backing down. Everyone in the room was wondering how the two of them managed to be civil, friendly almost, when they went to Taco Bell together. Percy wondered if they were just too hungry to fight. Leo thought it was the power of the miraculous crunch wrap. Either way, they were both hoping the two of them would stop fighting.

"Maybe we should calm down," Frank, Jupiter's secretary, suggested. He was a bit of a quiet guy so he went unheard over Reyna and Annabeth's rapidly escalating argument.

"We've always done Capture the Flag and we sure as hell aren't stopping now!"

"You guys could use the learning. Last night, that Percy character held up the line by asking if the combo came with a drink. It said so right on the menu!"

"It only took the cashier one second to answer his question!"

"One second more that I could have devoted to planning a really great welcome event!"

"This is kind of meaningless," Hazel, Jupiter's treasurer, said to the others. "We can do both events. They both won't cost all that much money and they come from different budgets."

"Piper, do something before they get physical," Percy whispered. He didn't want Reyna and Annabeth to hear him and take his comment as a suggestion.

Piper rolled her eyes. She hated using her Charmspeak but this meeting was going nowhere except down in flames. "Reyna, Annabeth, stop arguing and kiss and make up or something. We need to get on with the meeting."

In seconds, the room was hushed. But peace didn't remain for long. The second, unintentional part of Piper's command caught up to Reyna and Annabeth and, surely enough, they kissed right in the middle of the room with all of the Student Council members watching them. Hazel gasped. Piper chuckled nervously. Percy and Jason raised their eyebrows at each other. Leo flat out started laughing. Frank looked vaguely worried and Nico just looked blank.

The kiss went on for several seconds without comment. Percy, feeling at least partially responsible, asked the question on everyone's minds. "Are they not gonna stop?"

"I don't know," Piper answered, "but I'm afraid to say anything else."

"Reyna! Annabeth! Snap out of it!" Leo yelled at them through cupped hands.

This seemed to do the trick. Reyna and Annabeth parted and started at each other in a daze. A tense few seconds ticked by so slowly that Piper swore she could have rewatched all of Titantic. Then, Annabeth and Reyna were at it again.

"I can't believe you kissed me like that," Annabeth spat out, wiping her mouth furiously and taking a hundred steps back from Reyna.

"You kissed me," Reyna countered, "and very sloppily, I might add."

"Hey, my skills are top notch. Piper's Charmspeak just had my brain too fuzzy to properly access them."

"Oh, yeah? Prove it to me."

Not one to back down from a challenge, Annabeth closed the gap she had just created between herself and Reyna in two long strides, grabbed Reyna's waist and gave her the kiss of a lifetime. Several lifetimes, in fact. Heck, Aphrodite was going to watch this kiss and seethe with jealously at Annabeth's skills. This was all just to prove Reyna wrong, of course. Annabeth was a damn good kisser and Reyna was not going to make light of her skills. It was just supposed to be a short, very good kiss. Until Reyna started kissing her back and caused Annabeth to forget all about her previous intentions. After about a minute of awkward silence permeating the Student Council room, Leo coughed into his hand, reminding Annabeth and Reyna that they were not alone.

Annabeth stepped back slowly, and seemingly forgetting about the meeting at hand, she spun around and walked out the door. Reyna went after her immediately.

And the rest of the Student Council forgot about those two and went on to finalizing the welcome event on their own.