I sat down on the sidewalk, the girl didn't bother to glance at me. I looked at her, she had short-ish, messy, curly hair pulled back into a loose ponytail and was wearing large black aviator sunglasses.
The girl wasn't that much shorter than me, but was about medium height, and had white earphones plugged into her ears blasting loud music. She was eating noodles out of a greasy cardboard takeaway box. It had 'Master Ling's Express Chinese' stamped across the sides.
"Hello?" I said, the girl ignored me and continued to pick at her food with a plastic fork, humming along with her music.
"Hello?" I asked again but more loudly this time. Still no response. "HELLO?"
"Sorry… what?" The girl asked irritably, taking out one earphone and staring at me.
"Hi. My name's Percy Jackson. I'm from New York and I was wondering if you had ever heard of Camp Hal-"
"Yes, yes" she interrupted, "I've heard about it, many times." I immediately noticed her strange accent. She wasn't American, that was for sure.
"Are you-?"
"Yes, yes, I'm English, well spotted. It sure takes a genius to notice that!" She said scornfully, turning back to the noodles.
"So I was wondering-"
"No, not interested" she snapped.
"But there's-"
"NO!"
"Would you at least let me get out one single sentence!" I leapt to my feet half shouting in frustration.
"Not if I can help it" She grinned. Hermes. She was definitely a Hermes girl with that attitude. I instinctively reached for my pockets, had she already stolen my wallet?
I could feel it, beneath my fingers. Good. Not a pickpocket then.
Then, there was a deafening roar, so earsplitting, so terrifying that the ground shook beneath our feet and cracks spread across the paving stones. For a moment it filled me, reverberated through me till I was such a part of it that I could think of nothing else except the fear coursing through my body. But at last it died away, leaving a faint ringing noise in my ears and a terrible feeling of dread clawing at the pit of my stomach.
"On second thoughts" the girl said brightly. "I'll take you up on that offer."
A/N: I hope you liked this, it's my first story so i'll improve, probably? I would like to thank for helping me to edit and please read her story (Percy Jackson and the Three Keys) if you haven't already, it's awesome! And please please please review! I will love you forever!