Introduction
Why is it that my summer never goes the way I want it? Last summer, I was all alone having my sister going to college, my dad being called off to a military base in Korea and my mom never around for "work". Now this summer I wanted to be alone and now I'm surrounded by hundreds of my cousins and half brothers and sisters. I am a son of Poseidon, and this is the story of how my life went from bad to worse in the matter of a short chariot ride over the Atlantic.
I Flirt With a Water Sprite
I attend the "prestigious and critically acclaimed" La Plata High School in; you guessed it, the town of La Plata! This place USED to be a great school but now it's far from it. Drugs and sex run wild and don't even get me started on the students. I go here not because I'm like them but because I am zoned for this school. Anyway, my story starts off with the end of my 10th grade year.
"Logan! Wait for us!"
My friends call me from across the hallway like a bunch of idiots. Why can't they understand that I don't like drawing attention to myself and being around these people is drawing enough attention as it is. Steven, John and Jacob are the school equivalent of Curly, Moe and Larry. Jacob stood out because he was huge, about 6'3 and about 215 lbs. Steven was the loudest kid you would ever meet and could not pay attention. You know how every school has that one goth/emo kid? That was John, he was super dark and edgy. For me, I was tall-ish with brown hair and green eyes, my parents tell me when I was born, it's like they took the foam of the sea and poured it into my eyes (Yeah, they are weird like that). As for the Dryad I mentioned in the title of this chapter, You'll meet her in a second.
"Why aren't you answering us Logan?" Steven asked
"Because, I don't want peoples last memories of me to be with you three."
Jacob comes around the corner and grabs my hand in a "loving" way.
"I think that's the nicest thing you've said to us all year" he exclaims while getting on one knee.
"Would you get up?! You're making a fool of yourself!"
"Everyone else is the fool for not wanting to be around us." John says as he interrupts our Days of Our Lives skit.
"No one hangs around you because you look like you cry yourself to sleep at night" I yell at him
"Not every night, only on full moons"
"That doesn't help your case, John" Steven says.
While they go on about how emo John is and how much worse of an embarrassment Steven is, I get lost in the eyes of the most beautiful girl in school. Jessica is an angel given to us for the sacrifices we have given throughout our lives. Her dark brown hair and deep blue eyes make me freeze in my tracks. The worst part is the fact that she is my friend, a REALLY close friend, since we were little in fact, which means she wouldn't want me to date her because I am "a family friend" but today, with her eyes meeting mine, I saw us together on a lake, swimming and hanging out all day and I couldn't stop myself from trying.
"Hey, Adam!" She hugs me and I could smell the chocolate chip cookie smell in her hair that she always has.
"Hey Jessica, I was wondering if you wanted to hang out tonight" I ask very hesitantly
"That's so funny because I was gonna ask you the same exact thing! Do you want to come over to my house out on our pier?"
If a girl that pretty asks me to come out onto her pier, there is no need to wait for a response, just tell me when and I'll be there 5 minutes early.
I leave my friends behind and sneakily get on Jessica's bus to ride back with her to her house. This is gonna be the best night ever, I think to myself. I can already feel the people putting this book away thinking this is stupid because not once have I mentioned a chariot ride across the Atlantic or Poseidon, but just hold your horses, we will get there.
I borrow a pair of swimming trunks from her Dad "a little big" I think to myself but I don't want to bail to go get some trunks that are one size smaller, I'm not missing a second of the beauty Jessica out on her lake. I go outside and there she is, a beauty to behold, skin as golden as the Golden Fleece and hair as brown as chocolate. We sit at the pier and she pulls a cup out of the cooler. I'm so hypnotized by her that I don't recognize that she just gave me the world's strongest cup of wine. I was drunk in an instant, starting to act a fool.
"Hey Baby, are you tide because you keep pulling me in" I say with a slur
She laughs and starts to mess with my hair and starts to kiss me…
Seeing as this is an action book I'll skip over the boring love parts because I'm sure that's what everyone wants.
…After she is done, she says "Hey, lets go for a swim!" Her voice changes as it get more high pitched and she screeches really loudly. She pushes me into the lake and before I black out, I see her back sprout wings where her long chocolate hair covers. She dives in and holds me under while I struggle to get to the surface. What she doesn't know is that she is about to get the beating of her life.
