Beep, beep, beep, beep! Ah, the joys of waking up at 6:00 o'clock in the morning. Ugh. I blame Nico for all of this, he was the one who got me to go for the job, write my résumé and quit my job at a publishing company, just so I could wake up at 6:00 in the morning to teach a bunch of brats about English. Fun. To tell the truth I am excited, I've always wanted to be a teacher, but I'm also nervous, and dreading the fact that today I'm going back to school. Nico's convincing speech about how fucked up my life is wasn't the only reason I went for the job. I use to go to Goode High School, and always wondered what it would be like to teach there. Well, now it's my chance. Sigh.

It took me a total of ten minutes to get up, get dressed, and get out the door. It took me five minutes to realize I forgot my briefcase, fifteen minutes for me to drive back to my apartment then to Goode, and one minute for me to officially declare myself insane. I had a well paying job, sure I didn't enjoy it, but I was just a couple promotions away from assistant to the CEO. That's some major money, but, I quit that, to become an English teacher. Me, Percy Jackson, the boy who failed half his classes, became a teacher. If only they could see me now. I was walking down one of the long hallways rimmed with lockers on my way to my classroom when Nico ran up behind me. "Hey Percy, looking forward to your first day of being known as, Mr. Jackson?"

"Oh, you can't imagine how excited I am." I said sarcastically, Nico laughed. Nico and I met in college, we both went to Columbia, I got a degree in teaching and English, he got one in teaching and science. If you met him, this would be a huge surprise. He's like that emo kid that never grew up. Since he's a teacher he has to dress in something other that a black tee-shirt and black jeans, so instead he wears a black dress shirt, and black pants. Surprise you, huh? We reached my classroom and he looked over at me. "Don't worry Percy, it will be fine. They'll love you, your just like them, never really grew up and are still extremely immature!"

"That makes two of us." He laughed again, then started off in the direction of his classroom that was down the hall, before he got too far he turned around and shouted over the bustle of students talking to friends and setting up their lockers, "Meet me in the Staff room for lunch, Govers going to be their too!" I nodded and walked into my classroom. Grover was another friend of ours, I had known Grover since fifth grade, and we immediately became best friends. He got a job as a counselor here about three years ago. The warning bell rang and students started filing in, I said hi to a few and started to get ready for class. This is going to be a long day.

"So tonight's homework is to get all the homework from your other classes done because I was in high school once and I know how much it sucks," I said. The class laughed as the bell rang signaling their next period and my lunch break. Finally, I was starving! I grabbed my brown bag lunch and headed down the hall to the staff room. When I got there I saw Nico and Grover sitting at a table with six strangers, I walked over and took a seat next to Grover, in the next 20 minutes I found out this:

1. Juniper Heartwood was the first one I was introduced to, it was obvious that she liked Grover and he like her back, but they too scared to admit it. She's also a counselor and an environmentalist, in other words, a female version of Grover, she even looks kind of like him with green eyes and long, curly brown hair. 2. Next I was introduced to Thalia Grace, the Spanish teacher. She wore all black, like Nico, and is quite scary; however, we get along pretty well. She has short, spiky, black hair and electric blue eyes, not to mention a huge attitude. 3. Luke Castellan is a tall, blonde hair, blue eyed guy who was definitely the most popular jock in high school. He is one of the three gym teachers at Goode, and is relatively nice, but seems like he is always holding something back, oh well, nobody's perfect right? Wow. Now I'm quoting Hannah Montana….4. Next I met Clarisse La Rue, and I still, and probably always will, wonder how someone like her can be friends with somebody like Grover. She is another one of the gym teachers here and definitely fits the part. She is scary, buff, mean, and not at all friendly. 5. After Clarisse, Rachel Dare is introduced; she is the art teacher here at Goode and the only child of the CEO of Dare Enterprises, in other words, she's rich. She's kind of cute with frizzy red hair and bright green eyes, plus I like her sense of humor, but without a doubt, number six was the most interesting person I met today. 6. Annabeth Chase is simply amazing. That is really the only word I can think of to describe her. She is gorgeous with her curly blonde hair and stormy gray eyes, not to mention her flawless face and amazing curves. But even better that that (almost better) is her sense of humor, wit and friendliness. Sure at first she thought I was a freak, but then we started having a conversation and found out that we actually have a lot in common, and even better, she teaches ancient history in the classroom just across from mine. Today may not be so bad after all.