This is a joint idea between myself and the muffinman, idk how it's going to work yet but it will probably be worked on by both of us.

Freshy

Mr Dockerty knew he had absolutely no one's attention in the class as he tried to explain the workings of simple harmonic motion to a group of tired 17 year olds in last period of Friday afternoon, even the A grade kids in the front row were staring at the clock above him rather than the board. Being perfectly honest, he was just as eager to get out of this class as them because who really wants to stay late on a Friday when it is the super bowl weekend? Seeing as there was only a minute left he relented and started packing away his lesson "Alright you lot, pack up your stuff. We will finish the lesson on Monday. Don't leave until the bell, I don't want another disciplinary cause of you lot."

This was received with a unanimous sigh of relief by his class who were ready to go by the door within 15 seconds, silently counting down the 37 seconds left of the week. Not particularly wanting to stay behind any later than necessary the teacher packed his resources away and joined the collective wait for the bell of freedom.

Drinnng

With that signal every class opened its doors to release the hoards of teenagers onto the corridors for their weekend, well most classes did except those sadistic teachers who will run over 5 minutes on a Friday for the hell of it. Among those who were first out of the physics class was senior year hockey star Percy Jackson. Like all other students he was making a beeline for his locker so he could get this week over with quickly, though unlike the rest of his year he had a unique reason. He was lucky enough to be getting picked up by his college junior girlfriend of 4 years, along with her mates, in her Ford F-150 raptor pickup. This all led to him being the first one of his mates to his locker, which were all conveniently close, in order to try and see her quicker.

It wasn't long though for him to be surrounded by his friends as they all poured the necessary contents of the locker into their bags. Fortunately for Percy he didn't have much homework to do which meant his bag was significantly lighter, and it was more likely to actually do it if he got time. As he finished dumping the week's contents out of his locker into his bag to be taken home and ignored for the weekend he smiled fondly at the picture he had stuck to the locker door.

The photograph depicted himself and Artemis on a beach in Rome, it was just the two of them having ditched Artemis's family earlier on so they could get some quiet time together as a couple. The image showed a selfie taken by him as the two of them lounged about laughing on the beach in the sun, both posing and smiling for the camera. It was possibly Percy's favourite picture of the two of them, both so care free from the usually judgemental world around them. At that moment he couldn't care less about what others thought of the age gap, all that had mattered was her, not that that was any different now. The picture of her sparkling silver eyes was one he had printed twice as soon as he got back to the US last summer and was also set as his home screen; he liked it that much. Unceremoniously, his reminiscing was cut short by the slamming shut of his locker door, via the delicate hands of the school wrestling champion Clarrise. "Quit daydreaming Prissy, you're in the way."

Rolling his eyes Percy turned to see the majority of his mates had already assembled around him and were busy chatting away. There was obviously the twins Travis and Connor who appeared to be discussing the recent development of Travis having a crush on a quiet girl called Katie, who happened to be Grover's girlfriend's best friend, all three of whom were on the other side of the corridor discussing gods know what. Sticking with Percy's group there was also Clarrisse's boyfriend Chris, the school senior year thug Clarisse who was currently emptying the locker besides his own, the future prom queen Silena and her quarterback boyfriend Charlie though most know him as Beckford. He had more but those were just those in the immediate vicinity. Noticing his friend had come back to reality Beckford tried to stir up some conversation. "You going to watch the game on Sunday?"

"Of course, going over to Artemis's place to watch it. How about you?" Percy responded, slinging his bag over his back, checking to see if had any messages on his phone, other than the usual garbage on the group chat. Basically all he got was a picture of his cousin Nico on his Xbox because he had the day off 'ill' and a few messages from Artemis asking if he wanted to get milkshakes before going back to hers. Naturally, he typed a quick confirmation as the group began pushing their way to their way through the Friday afternoon rush hour.

"I still don't get how your mum is cool with you going out with a college girl all the time. I still get berated every time I bring Clarisse over!" Chris cried in exasperation. The form of affectionate reassurance from his girlfriend came as a headlock, this was Clarisse after all. She didn't deny it however.

"Well there's two good reasons for that:'' Percy said, showing off his trademark sarcastic smirk, "The first is that Artemis and I have been dating for the past 4 years, so it's a tad late for any complaints. And secondly, my mum loves Artemis almost as much as I do so I still get berated for not behaving well enough for her."

"Well I think that Percy and Artemis are cute together," Silena said, wrapping her arm around Beckford as they approached the doorway to freedom. Percy gave her an appreciative smile at her kind words, it wasn't often that he got compliments on his relationship choices rather than being congratulated, ridiculed or questioned. "Even if Percy is punching way, way above his weight."

Throwing his arms up in exasperation Percy continued onwards towards the exit desperate to escape this cluster fuck of a week with his girlfriend, even though they saw each other on Wednesday and face timed each other daily. There were no words to describe how much he was looking forward to crashing at Artemis's place, just forgetting about high school and just enjoying life. He was so lost in preparation for seeing his girlfriend again that he missed Connors question completely by the looks he was receiving from the group. Raising an eyebrow at Conner got him to repeat the question cause honestly playing the waiting game really doesn't work with Percy as he doesn't really care about the question either way. "I said, you going to Luke,s party on the weekend?"

"Of course I'm not going." Percy responded as if he was talking to a toddler, which was fair enough considering that this was Conner Stoll. "I hate Luke, you should know that by now, the guy took the piss out of me for the entirety of freshman year then put a scorpion on me which then proceeded to bite me so I had to be rushed to hospital and was annoyed at me for squashing the thing. Besides me and Artemis are going to one of her college mate's parties so I'm busy anyway."

"Still don't know how you manage to get yourself invited to college parties," Travis expressed in envy, imagining what it must be like at one of those parties. He had once seen Percy on a Sunday morning after he had been out the day before and judging from the magnitude of the hangover the guy had the night before must have been pretty wild. "You must teach us your ways, oh supreme partyer"

The whole group chuckled at the twin as they passed through the school's main doors, the gateway to weekend freedom. Deciding to humor them for a laugh he put on his signature smirk, turning to the trouble-making twins and putting on a remarkably good impression of their principal, Mr Kronos. "Well my Padawans, it's all about who you know, and more importantly how you know them."

"By that do you mean, you need to be screwing one of them then Prissy." Clarisse replied dryly as the group walked over to the parking lot, with Silena and Beckford tailing behind a bit wanting a bit of space from the others. Unlike Percy, most of the others had some form of transport of their own. The stoll twins shared an old ford escort they had gotten from their father who just happened to be a dodgy car dealer which was quite useful. Clarisse had managed to get herself a motorbike, much to the school's dismay, which poor Chris had to sit on the back of. And Silena went round with Beckford in his modified Slamvan which he had restored himself from a derelict shell he had found rusting in some old abandoned yard. On the other hand Percy just scabbed lifts off his girlfriend if he stayed round hers or his stepdad who so happened to be his English teacher too, though there was one minor issue with getting a lift in with Paul. He drove a Toyota Prius, which compared to everyone else was kinda embarrassing. Some of his other mates preferred to get the school bus than get a lift with him for that specific reason.

"What can I say, I'm a lucky guy." Was his oh so smug response as the group entered the school parking lot. As they did so the conversation seemed to die out as they saw the silver pickup being lent on by Percy's girlfriend, Artemis. The college junior look completely at ease leaning against her truck, aviator shades on in autumn, auburn hair bobbing slightly to the music coming from her earphones, hands shoved into the pockets of her undone silver leather jacket which partially covered the crescent moon tattoo on her neck, rocking the blue skinny jeans with doc martens look. In the back of the pickup were four of her college mates; Zoe, Phoebe, Atlanta and Aphrodite, the latter of which also was Percy's older sister. Deciding to actually be social instead of staring at his girlfriend from the other side of the car park like a creep, he led the group over to the truck, forgetting the previous conversation he was having entirely.

Artemis stared aimlessly at the walls of her old high school as she waited patiently with her mates in the carpark for her boy toy to be released. It had been a long day for Artemis so instead of sitting in the back and playing cards like she would normally do so she leaned against her door, listening to her music and chewing some gum. Honestly she couldn't tell you what she was actually listening to as she wasn't paying attention to the words but vibing with the general contemplative mood of the tune. Having had a full day of lecture followed by a meeting with the Dean due to a noise complaint she had received last week After she hosted a party in her tiny student flat, luckily he hadn't cared much so she got off but she would still rather not have to deal with it today.

Vaguely noting the slow trickle of students into the parking lot, her thoughts were brought back to the reason she was there in the first place. Percy, her boyfriend. Her relationship she thought was an odd one, she being a college junior while her boyfriend was still only a high school senior. Not that that bothered them in the slightest, they had been dating for the best part of 3 years so the initial sense of taboo had long since worn off. Unfortunately though, the rest of the world didn't feel the same way as the couple had gotten used to the accusatory stares they often received, although they had somewhat dimmed down from the initial intensity from when they first went public. To her, none of that mattered though, all that really mattered was that she loved him and he very much reproached that feeling. While they may have had their ups and downs she was confident that they were in it for the long run.

Her musing was broken by the oh so familiar sensation of the arms of her lover wrapping around her midsection. Fortunately for her boyfriend she recognised him as she turned, otherwise he would surely be on the floor begging for mercy, she was a brown belt martial artist after all. Before she could acknowledge his presence his lips were on hers, a bold but not unwelcome move by her boy toy. Not one to be outdone by her partner, Artemis coiled her leg around his waist and wrapped her arms around his neck tugging pulling herself onto him so she could properly make out with him. This sudden added weight caused Percy to lean forward slightly so that he was pushing her up against the door of her truck in order to keep up with the passion of his girlfriend.

The spontaneous make out session had drawn quite a bit of attention though no one was particularly surprised as it was a regular occurrence in the parking lot, so much so that Artemis had still retained her old parking spot despite being gone over two years. Saying this did not stop the wolf whistles of the hockey team, whom Percy was the captain of, and the jeering encouragement of the college girls in the flatbed. Both were promptly flipped off by Percy and Artemis respectively.

Having decided that he had suitably greeted his girlfriend, the high school senior pulled away from the kiss slightly out of breath as he smiled at the woman in front of him. Artemis smirked back at her younger boyfriend ignoring the eye rolls she knew she was getting from her crew in the back cause honestly she couldn't care less at the moment. Deciding to be the one to break the romantic staring contest she unwrapped her limbs from their entanglement around Percy's body and gave him a chaste kiss. "Miss me?"

"Always." Percy responded immediately, continuing their much rehearsed routine they had gotten into over the years. Turning to once again address his friends, he pulled her into a hug from behind as he leaned against the truck. Being similar heights meant that he could lean her shoulder as they spoke which Percy always took great pleasure in doing.

Upon returning his attention to his friends he realised they had begun discussing the party on the weekend which Percy was going to miss, which Percy really didn't care much about seeing as he hated the guy who was hosting it with a burning passion. Looking over at his other group of friends, the group of slightly sadistic group of college girls, he was completely ignored as they had all returned to scrolling through instagram waiting to leave the hell hole they had to endure for 4 years previously.

Noticing they were being watched, the hunters, as they liked to call themselves, all simultaneously turned and smirked at the couple, which received a pair of raised eyebrows from the both of them. "Well now you two love birds finally stopped sucking each other's face off. Can we get going before it gets dark, I'm hungry." Was the teasing voice of Phoebe who happened to be the closest to them.

"Is there a problem with the way I greet my boy toy?" Artemis replied defensively with a smug grin on her face. The hunter just laughed and shook their heads at this seeing Percy's slightly exasperated expression of being called a boy toy again. It wasn't like it was a false accusation, he was well aware of the position but that didn't need pointing out all the time. Noticing this slight discomfort Artemis gave him a peck on the cheek to let him know she was only joking, which seemed to cheer him up.

Unfortunately this just got Percy's crew riled up, making immature kissing faces. Surprisingly, it was the more responsible Beckford who made the snide remark this time, "Oh you are so whipped mate." Everyone seemed to take humour in this, even Percy and Artemis who chuckled knowing how true it was.

Once everyone settled down again, Percy smirked and went back in with the retort. "Indeed I may be whipped Beck, but which of us had their hot rod turned into a hippie wagon?"

Beckford could only shake his head at the memory of the weekend he had spent with Silena repainting his prize possession to a 'less aggressive colour scheme', see floral patterns and peace symbols. Looking slightly offended, the head cheerleader cried indignantly, "What's wrong with Bessie's new paint job?" turning to her boyfriend, "You think it looks better, don't you Charlie?"

"Of course it does." Beckford replied, immediately agreeing with his girlfriend verbally though when she turned her back he violently shook his head in disagreement much to everyone else's amusement.

Noticing the hunters' slight discomfort of staying in the parking lot full of irritating adolescents in the parking lot of their former school, Artemis decided to wrap things up. "Well as fun as it has been to see all you brats again, we better get going. I got to take Freshy into town to prepare for the Party." She stated as she got up out of Percy's arms as she did so and gave him a peck on the cheek as she did so.

"Finally, I thought we were gonna be here longer than a detention." Was the oh so intelligent impute of Zoe, who finally put down her phone and started fiddling with her switchblade, which swiftly put an end to all the attention she was getting from the other high schoolers, anxious to get out of here rather being almost anywhere else. Her sentiment seemed to be echoed by the other three in the flatbed.

"Well then I guess we will be off, Perce" Said Travis as he and his clone walked over to their slightly smaller ford. "Try not to get too fucked up this time, we don't want a zombie before Monday's Super Bowl."

"Yeah Prissy, try not to get too hammered without us. We don't want our boring high school party to look too dull." Clarrise teased as she made her way over to her motorbike with a subdued Chris following behind her as she mounted the bike. "Anyway, see ya around Prissy, Princess."

"See ya Rissy, tell Luke I said 'Fuck you' for me would you." Percy said with a chuckle at his friend's concern for his liver. "But I can't make any promises, got to keep this one entertained." Holding his girlfriend a little tighter for emphasis.

Rolling her eyes and flicking the visor down on her helmet the female quarterback pulled out of the parking lot with Chris on the back, revving the engine to make as much noise as possible upon exit. The previous football captain initially had a problem with her taking his role in the men's team, his arm is still in a cast today. Surprisingly no more objections were made.

Following their fellow high school seniors the twins made a much less dramatic exit from the parking lot in a considerably less dramatic fashion in their considerably less impressive car. That just left them with Silena and Beckford. "Well we better be off, wouldn't want to keep you from your night out."

"See you two on Monday then, look out for scorpions!" Percy joked as they walked over to their truck on the other side of the car park. Once again giving his undivided attention to the girl in his arms who was giving him a coy smirk as usual. "All good?"

"Yeah, let's get going. We wouldn't want to keep the others waiting." She replied, giving him a final kiss before going over to get in her side of the car. Chuckling Percy chucked his bag in the empty back seat before joining his girlfriend in the front ready to start the weekend.

Well that took longer than expected to write. Anyway, hope you liked it. As I said before muffinman will probably be working on this at some point too so look out for his name on it at the top cause that will be from him.

Generally this is just gonna be a series of oneshots/ short stories that all interconnect. It will switch between past and present but will generally follow them through Percy's senior year.

Word count: 3523