A/N Hi this is my first fanfic so please forgive any mistakes in grammar, spelling or anything among that. Also I do not own Percy Jackson. If I did I wouldn't have sold the movie rights. Also my character curses a lot so please consider yourselves warned.
~Percy's POV~
There I stood, outside of hell. Or Yancy academy as the state of New York calls it. Either way I already knew this new year was going to be crappy.

Please don't think I'm a downer, I just wanna try and be a realist for once. My mom always says "This year is going to be different just wait Percy." , But it always ends up being the same bs as last year. Ok wait let me back track a little. My name is Percy Jackson, I'm 12 years old and starting today I'll be going to this amazing and prestigious academy. I can't go to regular schools cause I've been kicked out of nearly all them. It's not like I want to be a bad kid, it sort of just happens. Oh well, let's just see what this new place has to offer.

The school itself was actually pretty nice. It was big, which I expected since it was kind of for rich kids (Which I am not.), it had a main building and two smaller dorm buildings. All three looked pretty new. I finally made it to my dorm. I opened the door and found a scrawny guy with curly brown hair sitting on one of the beds in the room. He looked up at me with wide eyes as if he had never seen another person before.

"Um, hey." I said walking to a vacant bed on the other side of the room. He recovered bit and waved still looking at me in a strange way. I decided to try to ignore is stares while i checked my bag for the paper that held my room number. I was suppose to be roommates with someone in the same grade as me. This guy looked a little old to be in 6th grade with acne and hints of a beard. My number matched the room number so I guess there wasn't a mistake.

"So yeah hey my names Percy. I guess we'll be roommates this year." I said as an attempt to make conversation. The guy snapped out of whatever state of confusion he was in and held out his hand.

"I'm Grover, Grover Underwood. Nice to meet you." I shook his hand and said "Percy Jackson. Nice to meet you too." Especially now that you've stopped staring at me like a creep, but I decided to leave that part out.

"Um sorry for staring, I was just surprised cause i usually don't get a roommate." He answered as if reading my mind.

"Usually? Is this not your first year at Yancy?" I asked again worried that I got the wrong room.

"Wh-eh no it's just um I-I've been um left back before so yeah wait no this isn't my first year at Yancy." He stuttered turning around to his side of the room.

I turned back to my things and seeing as how Grover is already unpacked I decided to do the same.

I didn't have that many things. I had enough clothes, although they weren't as nice as some of the things kids in this school had. I also had a debit card that my mom gave me. She transfers money to me if i need something, it's a pretty good system, but I'd much rather be with her and living with her rather than some snotty school. Especially when leaving her meant leaving her with my crap of a stepdad Gabe. What's important to know about him is that he's a good for nothing guy who I've been forced to live with for years. I don't know what my mom sees in the guy, but I'll support her through anything. My mom is the nicest lady in the whole world she deserved so much more than Gabe. I tried sounding upbeat about going to Yancy, but I have a feeling we both knew I wasn't so excited.

Either way I'm here now so i might as well try. Grover was pretty quite which I had been thankful for. It gave me time to think about my mom and how I was gonna mentally prepare myself for not seeing her everyday. I felt sad but there was no way i was gonna cry. I'll see her soon enough, just a few months till Christmas. Ok Percy just make it to Christmas and you'll be fine.

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~One week later~

My classes sucked. Thankfully today was Friday and tomorrow we didn't need to show up for classes. But it was only first period and I was already struggling.

Math is the worst. The only reason you'd need algebra when you're older is if you plan to be an algebra teacher. Of course it didn't help that i was dyslexic, but I bet I would still suck even if the numbers didn't scramble around the page. But you know what's even worse than pre-algebra? Having a bully share your class. Yes it only took a week in this school for a bully to arise.

Nancy Bobofit, this redheaded freckled demon was giggling and whispering right behind me. She kept throwing bits of erasers at people around her. Somehow Ms.Zinober hadn't caught her, but I was getting angrier and angrier. Grover was doing his best to just ignore them, but erasers were actually sticking in his hair and I knew it was annoying him too. Over the last week me and Grover have actually started to become friends. He has been my first friend in a while and I'm not about to

let him suffer because of this annoying brat. Just as I was getting up to do something I would probably regret, another voice beat me to it.

"Can you fucking stop!" She screamed standing up facing Nancy.
The whole class went silent and all heads turned toward Isabella Flores. It was surprising to see the smartest girl in class blow up like that. Isabella was the only person in class who not only passed the pre-algebra pretest with a 93, but also knew these confusing algebra formulas that we were going to learn about around the end of the year. In the week that I've known her she never smiled or showed that much expression, but right now she was fuming. As it turns out she was one of the people Nancy was pelting with erasers.

"I don't know why the fuck you're throwing eraser bits, and I don't know who the fuck you think you're throwing them at" she screamed grabbing and eraser bit from her hair and throwing at Nancy's face to emphasize how pissed she was. "But if you throw one more at me I will make you fucking regret it."

"Isabella!" Ms.Zinober shouted making her way over towards us. "What's going on?" she asked.
"She keeps throwing fucking eraser bits at me." Isabella stated in a sharp voice.

"No I wasn't! i was just sitting here and you decided to blow up at me!" Nancy argued.

"Don't lie! Also she wasn't just throwing it at me!" Isabella countered moving towards me. She picked up an eraser bit that was on my shoulder and she held it up so Ms.Zinober could see. She then made her way over to Grover and just pointed at his head full of eraser bits.
"What are you saying that somehow erasers just fell apart all over them?" she rhetorically asked pointing at me and Grover."And why is your eraser all ripped up?" she asked pointing at Nancy's chewed up eraser. "Did you eat it?" she asked earning a few giggles from the class.
"Isabella calm down. Nancy were you throwing eraser bits?" Ms.Zinober asked.
"No I didn't this girl's just looking for an excuse to blame me! She's still mad over the thing in the dorms the other day." Now I have no clue what she was talking about, but Isabella lost it. She tackled Nancy to the floor an landed two good punches in her face before Ms.Zinober pulled her off and took her outside. Nancy was crying, but her friends were already swarming around her. The rest of the class was trying to hear what was going on outside. After a few moments Ms.Zinober came back in followed by Mr.Farnum the principal and an upset Ilene trailing behind them. Silence washed over the class room.
"Ms.Bobofit, Ms.Flores I would like to see both of you in my office." He stated in a eerily low voice. Nancy got up followed Mr.Farnum out of the class. What a great way to start the day.

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~After school~

The fight was a major topic in school that day. Because of it I was able to learn the Isabella and Nancy have had a rocky relationship since the beginning of the school year. The thing that happened at the dorm was brought up a few times, but I have yet to learn what it was exactly. I also learned that Isabella is on a scholarship to Yancy. People were betting on whether she would be allowed to keep going to Yancy or whether they'd revoke her scholarship.In all honesty I'd feel bad if she did get expelled. I'm not on a scholarship, if i had taken care of Nancy first she wouldn't be facing expelsion. I don't think i would have attacked Nancy. Maybe I'd say a few unpleasant things, but I wouldn't physically attack her...right?

"So what do you think you're going to do for the weekend?" Grover asked pulling me out of my thoughts.
"Huh? Oh um I'm not sure." I answered going back to think of what I could have done to help Isabella. Grover looked at me strangely before saying
"You know it's not your fault that girl might be expelled." I sighed
"I could have said something first. I was going to you know?" I replied.
"Yeah but she did something first. She has to deal with the consequences o her actions, I mean she didn't have to attack her. She should have controlled her anger.." he trailed off. I wondered why he stopped until I heard a soft grunt. I exchanged a confused look with Grover. We listened and heard another one.
"Should we check what that is?" I asked him. He gave a hesitant nod and we followed the noise.

We rounded a corner and i turned out to be Ilene beating up her book bag. She kept picking it up and throwing it as hard as she could onto the ground. After throwing it on the ground three times, she decided to throw it at the school wall. That's when she finally noticed us.

"What? What do you want?" she asked her voice trembling as she picked up her bag. She looked miserable. Her hair was a mess, her eyes were glazed over as if she were about to cry, her cheeks were really red and her legs were shaking. I felt twinge of guilt. I couldn't stop myself from asking.
"Did you get your scholarship revoked?" Her eyes widen for a second but then narrowed as she asked.
"How do you know about that?"
"Um people have been talking about you since that little fight in Pre-algebra today..we sort of found out from them.." I trailed off. She sighed and sat on the ground.
"Well for your information, no, I did not get expelled. But I was given a warning. Worse of all Nancy was let off the hook." She growled.
"Are you ok?" Grover ask siting down a feet feet in front of her. I decided to also sit down so I sat next o Grover. She sighed and said
"I am 12 years old. I should not be this stressed." She sounded so tired. It felt like she was talking about something more than Nancy but I decided to let that go.
"Ok well do you want to talk about it?" I asked she sighed again.
"No. I just really want to take my mind off all this negative stuff." I didn't really know how to reply to that so I decided to change the topic.
"Ok then can I ask you something?"
"You just did." She replied smiling a little for the first time.
"I'll take that as a yes. How are you so smart?" I asked.
"Why do you ask that?" She asked
"Because we have almost all our classes together and you seem to have all the answers." I replied. Well it was true she was always the first one with her hand raised and she was already top of the class in a week.
"I really like to learn. Learning is awesome. Knowing things just makes me happy so i try to learn as much as i can. I especially like it when I know something that other people don't know. It gives me a real satisfied feeling." she replied already looking better then when we found her. Her cheeks were a rosy color instead of a deep reed, her voice was steady and she seemed calmer in general. I looked over at Grover wondering why he was so quite only to see that he was strangely staring at Ilene like he was when he first saw me. Ilene seemed to notice his staring too cause she asked
"What chu lookin at?" in a fake "gangster" accent. Grover snapped out of whatever that was again and looked away mumbling a sorry.
"Don't take it personally." I offered. "He does that to everyone he meets."
"W-what no I don't I-I just..."He trailed off starting to pull at the grass. Isabella and I laughed. It was actually nice talking to her.
"Well I actually feel a lot better." she started standing up. "Thanks..um I don't even know your names."
"I'm Percy Jackson. This is Grover Underwood." I replied gesturing to Grover. He stuck his hand out. She slowly grabbed it and shook it anyways.
"Well it's nice to meet you two. I'm Isabella Flores, but apparently you already knew that." She laughed a bit before picking up her book bag.
"So do you guys live in the dorms or do you live at home?"
"The dorms." Grover answered
"Me too." She replied "Let's walk together since it's in the same direction." So we did. We walked for a bit talking about random things and laughing a bit too until I just couldn't help my curiosity anymore.
"Um Isabella if you don't mind me asking..What happened between you and Nancy in the dorm?" I asked
" We were originally roommates, for like a day. She kept making up all these weird stupid rules that i had to follow and then she started bitching when I told her to fuck off. She then poured fruit punch all over me and my clothes so I Krazy Glued her hands to the dresser and put a sock in her mouth and let her there for a while. I thought we were done until she ripped a flag my dad gave me. So I started screaming, she started screaming, the girls in the hall started screaming, until an advisor was called and our rooms were switched. So yeah I was really really pissed today. Especially since I had to do my laundry all over again. On the bright side no one else wanted to be a roommate with me so I finally get to know what it's like to have my own room!" She exclaimed looking genuinely happy about having her own room. I had so many questions, but sadly we arrived to the girls dorm.
"Bye Percy, Bye Grover! Thanks! See you later!" She said before climbing up the stairs and entering the dormitory. Grover and I talked a bit on our way in to the dormitory. He decided to get something to eat while i went to our room. I flopped onto my bed and lied there thinking about how my crappy day turned really nice after meeting this Isabella Flores.

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