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Hi my name is Kassandara Olivya Heather but my friends call me Kassi. I have long blonde hair that's so shiny it almost looks greasy, and is impossible to curl. My eyes are a clear sea green and are very pretty, from what I've been told. I go to school at Goode High and I'm a sophomore. My best friend is a guy named Grover Underwood, but he can't walk well, which makes me unpopular, apparently.

In fact, everyone hates me. They never make mean comments or anything, but I see the glares they give me when they think I'm not looking. It's mean. I don't know why everyone hates me but they do. I am nice to everyone and I get okay grades. I'm an orphan because both my parents died when I was a young child. Then I had to go to an orphanage. Everyone hates me there, too. I'm a complete and total outcast.

Today started out like any other day, except for the fact that I was wearing a very fancy outfit. It was a very pretty dress that's sparkly. It's sea green like my eyes. Even though I looked so pretty (I hoped), people were still giving me the death stare, which made me angry. I try so hard, and no one cares. Today is the last day of school.

I found Grover and went and talked to him. The bell rang and we all went to class; my first class was English and I had it with Grover. We went in and sat down. All the other people came in, too, and they kept glaring at me, like always. I sighed. Just another day.

"Good morning, class!" our teacher Mrs. Finnik shouted. She was the worst teacher at this school. I don't know why I hate her so much, though. For absolutely no reason at all, I always feel like something is just a little bit "off" about her. Well, maybe because she absolutely hates me."Today we will be reading The Outsiders," she announced.

I hate reading. (I'm dyslexic) so I just pretended to read. Suddenly Mrs. Finnik said, "Kassandra, why aren't you reading?" I was scared because I don't like being confronted.

"Why are you so MEAN TO ME?" I yelled and I sniffed. I couldn't help but ask her because I'm a very impulsive person. (I have ADHD and all the kids make fun of me for it. Just another thing to add the their hate list, right?)

Suddenly… Mrs. Dodd's turned into an ugly creature and sprouted wings. She charged at me and on impulse, I rubbed the jade pendant that hung from my necklace. It turned into a magic sword but I don't know how. In my panic, I made a jab at Mrs. Finnik, but she deflected it.

"KASSANDARA! We have to go get Mr. Brunner!" Grover shouted. This distracted Mrs. Finnik enough to look at Grover, so I was able to stab her in the chest. Alarmingly, she turned into a pile of ash. Uhm. Okay.

"Uh, what was that? Am I dreaming? Why are we getting Mr. Brunner? I mean he's in a wheelchair, for crying out loud! And-" Grover cut me off and made a motion for me to follow him. Numb, I did as I was told.

We went to go see Mr. Brunner and told him what had happened. "Kassandra, you need to go to camp," he said.

"What camp? I don't go to camp. Now can someone please explain to me what the heck that thing was? Or am I dreaming?" I asked, going off into hysteria again.

"It's a camp for special people," Mr. Brunner said nonchalantly. I noticed that that was the only question he had answered.

"A camp for special people? Special how, exactly?"

"Special as in 'demigod'. Now don't sit here arguing with me, unless you want another one of the Furies to come for you."

Assuming that a Fury was what Mrs. Finnik was, I nodded, still in shock. "What about my things?"

"You can worry about that once you get to camp. Go quick. Grover, can you please take her there?" Mr. Brunner asked.

"Okay. Let's go, Kassi," Grover said, suddenly cheerful. As if the world hadn't just turned upside down.

"Okay," I said and I followed him out of the school.

We hopped into a taxi, and paid the guy extra, telling him that we were in a rush. He sped. I hoped we wouldn't get pulled over.

Soon we reached a big hill with a pine tree on top. "We need to climb up that hill and get to the top and then go over." I nodded and ran, going as fast as my legs would carry me.

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