in which percy notices something weird.

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Percy usually sat with a big group at lunch. No, they weren't popular, and no, they weren't outcasts either. They were... in the middle somewhere. Just regular students at a regular school.

First up was Piper McLean, a Cherokee bad-ass who's father was a famous actor, but she always skipped that part when she introduced herself.

Then Jason Grace, Piper's boyfriend, who was a blonde haired, blue eyed dork with glasses who was Percy's bro.

Grover Underwood, who you all already know, and his girlfriend, Juniper Grow, who was really nice and had a green thumb.

Hazel Levesque was an innocent soul who was dating Frank Zhang, a canadian who was even more innocent than Hazel.

Hazel's half-brother (yes, hard to believe, i know) Nico di Angelo was a dark guy who had gotten a bit more sunny after meeting his boyfriend Will Solace.

You got a problem with that? Then you'll have to get through Reyna Avila Ramirez Arellano, Nico's best friend and bodyguard. Reyna also had a crush on Thalia Grace, Jason's sister who sat somewhere else, but shhhhh.

Leo Valdez was a trouble-making flirt who was best friends with Piper, and the heir of a big repair company that his dad owned. Leo had a huge crush on Calypso Nightshade (who sat where Thalia sat).

And finally, the Stoll Brothers, Travis and Connor, pranking masters who, no, were not twins. Travis had his eye on a girl he refused to name, but Percy had seen him steal glances at Katie Gardner, who sat with Calypso and Thalia.

There used to be another person who sat with them, but no one really talked about her anymore, because everyone was heartbroken about the whole thing in general. It was a horrible night, with horrible timing, and a horrible memory for Percy, Nico, and Thalia to keep.

No. Percy thought. No.

Most people called them The Demigods, since they were all mythology nerds. Especially Percy, who had first gotten introduced to the world of greek mythology by A--- Nevermind.

12 people is a lot, but hey, they were family.

The whole reason you needed to know that was because of something weird that happened at Lunch. Well, other than Annabeth coming.

Percy's table was in one of the corner's of Goode's lunchroom, with perfect view of where The Hunters sat. The Hunters had gotten their name because they reminded people of a group of bad-ass single girls who refused to date boys. Which, is basically what the girls at the table did. The Hunters consisted of Thalia Grace, Calypso Nightshade, Katie Gardner, Miranda Gardner, Rachel Dare (Percy still hoped he could one day change the fact she didn't date), Clarisse LaRue, Kayla Knowles, Lou Ellen, and Zoë Nightshade.

Zoë, Reyna and Calypso usually strayed away from boys in general, but everyone else was pretty nice, except for Clarisse, who although she respected boys, would and could fight anyone at anyday at anytime. Percy tried once, and manged to flood the whole bathroom. It wasn't pretty.

But today, The Hunters had gotten a new member: Annabeth Chase. Percy knew that Thalia was great friends with Annabeth, but he thought that she would take her side on this and leave the blonde to sit alone, since they were cousins.

Rude.

That lunch Percy had taken nothing but a small muffin from the lunch ladies, as the muffins were the only thing edible, and his mother had already given him lunch from home.

Percy looked down at the muffin before taking a bite. It's not blue. He thought solemnly, but took a bite anyways.

He sat next to Grover like he always did, taking out the brown paper bag his mother always used for his lunch. Just as he was about to take out his sandwich, Annabeth fucking Chase walked in. Grover didn't seem to notice, muching on his plastic fork comtendly.

"Grover," Juniper scolded. "How many times do I have to tell you that eating plastic can kill you?"

Grover shrugged, putting the fork down. Then Juniper turned away to talk to Hazel and Grover began eating it again.

Percy rolled his eyes and Grover turned red, letting out a small bleating laugh, and went to talk to Frank about animals or something.

Percy didn't care, honestly. He watched Annabeth's every move, wanting her to get the fuck out of Goode.

He heard that Athena Chase had recently died, the same way his father had.

He felt bad, and part of him wanted to give his condolences, but the rest of him refused. He watched as she sat down next to Thalia, immediatly chatting up everyone at the table.

Probably kissing their asses.

Now, onto the weird thing. When Annabeth sat down, a small peice of paper fell out of her bag, landing a foot or two behind her. Percy, as the curious little shit he was, wanted to read it.

He quickly wolfed down his sandwich, excusing himself from the table, because 'he had to throw away his trash'.

Thankfully, The Hunters sat fairly near the trashcan (which frankly was where Annabeth belonged, in his opinion), so he began walking towards the table, and once he got fairly close enough, pretended to drop his dirty napkin.

So he pretended to grab it, when in reality he was trying to grab the note. But then the note was kicked away by a passing student. It went right under Annabeth's seat.

He cursed, reaching his arm out to grab it, when someone noticed.

"Percy Jackson!" Thalia shouted, sniggering at his position. "Are you really so desperate for a girl that you're checking them out for down under?"

Annabeth yelled furiously, getting up from her seat, her arms crossed and red from anger. "You little shi--"

"Right back at you." Percy cut her off, grabbing the note and storming away.

He would've flipped her off, but right now he was more preocuppied with what the note said.

WE'RE COMING.

It was written in something that Percy didn't think was strawberry jam.

And what scared him the most was the fact that he didn't think Annabeth knew it was in her backpack.

[ I'm screeching I didn't know this book was something people would like oh my gods! And I have almost ten chapters written already so I. I love you all. ]