I do not own PJO.
"Alexis!" my aunt called me from my bedroom through the intercom, "I need you to come and clean twins' rooms," she ordered
"Why?" I asked glumly
"Because they are going to have a sleepover tonight with their friends,"
"Well can I invite Kenneth and Willow?"
"Get to work!"
You see, when I was born my dad left us and ever since I had to deal with my mom dyeing when I was three ,in a shooting my aunt says, and having to live with my jerk stepdad, Liam Jeffery, and half-sisters, Chloe and Jessica, with my rich mean aunt, Elizabeth Darke. My aunt had a strong loathing towards me. I was only one when the twins were born, but every time I came within five feet of crawling distance they would scream like the world was ending. My aunt got married to Liam and took the Jeffery name and completely pushed me out of the picture leaving me with my mom's maiden name, Darke.
They treated me like I was their slave sending me with the cook, Marcus, and the maid, Eileen. I stayed in the attic, not one of the five guest rooms, the attic. I fixed it up a bit though, every month I got $50 and when I was eight I saved up for a long time and when I got &150 for my 9th birthday, i added my other savings and I bought some purple paint, two bean bags and some new sheets and my room looked more presentable.
Anyway I never had a real family because my aunt hated me for stupid reasons, my mom died in a 'shooting', my dad left me at birth and my stepdad favors my half-sisters. The closest things to family I have are Eileen, Marcus, who had only been working there for three years, Kenneth and Willow.
I rolled the cleaning cart out from the cabinet and headed to the girls' rooms. First I went to Jessica's room because it was always the messiest. I walked in to find both the twins sitting on Jessica's bed talking about a Justin Bieber probably. As they realized someone was in the room they turned their heads and smirked, "Oh look the emo's here to clean my room," Jessica said
"I'm not emo," I protested
"Nobody asked you, now get out," Chloe snapped
"I'm busy now; can I ignore you some other time?"
"Whatever, come on Chloe lets go to the pool," Jessica finished and left the room with her sister following.
After cleaning both their walk in closets, huge bathrooms and everything else I changed into some ripped grey jeans, 'Paramore' t-shirt, combat boots, black studded cuff bracelet, crossbones skull earrings and necklace I always wear with a black stone charm and a gold chain I found on my bed when I was seven and wore it a lot since then.
I quietly left the house and met up with my two best friends Willow Campbell and Kenneth Hawke. Every afternoon we would meet up at Will's house since they both hated my family and Ken's mom was just like Aunt Elizabeth, plus they were friends.
That day we were going by Will and I was walking there with Ken when we saw Will running towards us, her eyes full of tears.
"Ken! Lex!" she called and when she stopped she continued, "I-I was at the library getting a b-book for d-d-dad and when I c-came home the h-house was on fire and d-dad was inside!" she wailed
"Oh Willow, I am so sorry-" I tried to sympathize
"Wait," she cut in, "I'm n-not finished. I saw a giant snake and claws go behind the house."
"Snakes don't have claws," Ken said smartly
"I know th-that," she commented still shaken up, "I was planning to run away. I already packed my bag,"
"What?" Ken and I said at the same time
"I was g-gonna ask you guys to come. Both of your families are awful- no offense-"
"None taken," we said at the same time again
"A-anyway, do you want to?" she asked. We looked at each other and then nodded in agreement.
We stopped at Ken's house first. He quietly entered the house and after 10 minutes we heard a crash and loud shouts from inside, "Where do you think your going Kenneth? You get back here!" I heard his mother shout and then Ken pushing through the front door. He ran quickly to us with his blue and black Jansport backpack and Nike running shoes. He is always prepared.
Next was my Aunt's house. I had to take the stairs and good thing it was around 5 because the girls were picking up their friends then according to Aunt Elizabeth. As soon as I reached the attic, I packed everything important first: A picture of mom, my savings card (so I could take out my money at an ATM), my candy stash, my disguise kit containing: shades, makeup, etc (you never know), all my favorite clothes and a tote bag for extra storage plus my phone and iPod in my blue and purple Jansport bag. I then went downstairs and got three bottles of water and went to say bye to Marcus and Eileen. I stopped to hear their voices in the kitchen, "The girl is always slipping away! We've been here for three years Thorne, three years!" I heard Eileen's voice say
"I know Kelli but the mortals are always around her-" Marcus tried to tell her but was cut off
"Has that ever stopped you before?"
"No,"
"Exactly. This is a strong one, Alexis. We must act soon," I inched closer and saw that Eileen's face in one of the shiny steel pans. She looked much younger but she had hair of flames and she had one bronze cow leg and Marcus had an orange lion mane and bull horns, a bloody body covered in cuts and a huge scorpion tail and black wings. I shook my head in disbelief as I heard Marcus say that he smelled me. I quickly walked off without a sound and ran into the twins and their snobby friends, "Where do you think your going?" Chloe asked
"Somewhere," I replied and tried to walk around them but she just pulled me back
"Chloe asked you a question emo," Jessica reminded me. I just gave them a cold stare and they screamed. I walked off hearing them say how my eyes turned black completely. I sprinted out side and told Will and Ken everything, "Wait, your eyes turned black?" Ken asked in shock
"Two of the closest people in your life are monsters?" Willow asked
"I don't even know if i was seeing right, you know how my dyslexia messes up everything. Now let's get going, did you guys bring your savings cards too?" I asked trying to change the subject and they nodded and we started our journey to the city.
We found the nearest ATM and I had about $850 from my life's savings, Ken had $545 and Will had the most, $1500. In all until we found somewhere to stay we had to live on $2 895.
"Uh, Will where are we even going?" Kenneth asked
"Long Island," she replied
"Why?" I asked
"I heard my dad talking about it on the phone. He was going to take me somewhere in Long Island and I want to do the thing that would make him happy," she said wiping a tear from her face. I touched her shoulder sympathetically and we were off to catch a train.
Through the ride there was a strange man with curly brown hair sniffing the air. He then looked at us and his eyes went wide. He had crutches too so he limped over to us and said, "You guys have to get out of here," we stared at him like he was mad and then he said something even more strange, "you need to come with me,"
"Why would we want to do that creep?" I snapped
"Watch it Alex he might pull something on us," Ken remarked. I rolled my eyes and the man with the curly hair just sighed and pulled out a business card with fancy letters. The words were all over the place for Kenneth and I but Willow read it out clearly, "Grover Underwood- Keeper Camp Half-Blood Long Island New York. Wait what?"
"Shh!" he told us, "If you guys don't trust me go on your own but-"
"Guys, my dad was talking about this place n the phone! We've got our location!" she said excitedly but still the sadness could be heard. She turned to the strange man, "Thank you sir," and then the train paused for the first stop
"Let's set camp around here tonight," Ken suggested and we followed him out giving a short wave to the man that helped us.
That night we set up camp in the near forest and roasted marshmallows from my candy stash, "You know guys, this was probably the best day of my life," Kenneth said
"Why is that?" I asked him
"Well my mom has always hurt me in so many ways. I've always just wanted to run away but I never had the courage. I finally did it. With you guys." He replied. Will and I smiled at him and we started to make our plan for the next day.
The map we got from the train said that we were still in Manhattan but just in a forested area. The forested area was in Central Park. Fail. Anyway, we planned to go east. Yep that was our major plan so far.
I slept for about and hour but then I heard a noise. I was going to wake up Willow and Kenneth but they must of heard the noise too because they were awake. We got out from the tent and heard more noises coming from the bushes.
After a few seconds of silence we saw eyes looking at us from the bushes. We grabbed our bags and ran away screaming.
Cliffhanger! I think. Ok the first chapter of the story, try and help me make up a title for it. I HATE making up titles cuz they always come out terrible for me. Submissions are still open, It's only the beginning still!
