Chapter 1 – The Dawn of Things
My name is Alexander Leonardo Pendragon (1). I am fifteen years old and I have quite an unusual life.
I look normal. I am a Greek-American (2). I am 5'11 with dark blue eyes, a straight nose and a slightly narrow mouth. Girls seem to think I look good, I disagree. I am a Gemini (3), which means that I get bored easily, so I have a lot of hobbies. I like all types of sports, playing computer games, watching movies and, strangely enough for a teenager, I enjoy reading.
I mean, I do go to school, I like to hang out with my friends, I love comics and I totally think that Halle Berry (4) is hot.
Most of my life is unusual. For one, I have like a hundred relatives fighting for the giant inheritance that my parents left me when they died three years ago. I didn't even know I had so many relatives till my parents died.
But the weirdest thing in my life must be what I am going through now. I am seeing somebody. Not as in "having a girlfriend", but "seeing somebody" as in "seeing a lady that nobody else can see or hear" (5).
Maybe you are getting confused here, so I should start from the beginning, when I first met her…
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(1) That's not my full name, my full name is Alexander Leonardo Schindler Anastassakis – Pendragon. DO NOT ask me why I am called that. I blame my parents for it.
(2) My mun's Greek, my dad's American, so that's why my surname is that long. Somehow they decided that it would be fun if I took both their surnames, but let me tell you, it was NOT fun. Try learning to write your own surname in pre-school.
(3) My birthday is on the twenty-first of June, as my friend Josh likes to say "one day after Nicole Kidman, on the same day as Prince William of Wales and one day before June Carter Cash."
(4) If you don't agree, just watch Catwoman. Sure, the plot sucks, the line sucks, the director sucks, but Halle Berry is hot in it.
(5) And that is something I am sure most people do not experience.
