Love at First Sight

Percy

I remember when I was a lot younger I would always ask my mom about my dad. I never actually met him. He left before I was born. Mom would always tell me how they had had love at first sight. When I was little that was great and all but now I'm like "Yea, ok and that's why he left us to go hunting for some whales." As you can tell, I'm sort of a non-believer. Well, until I meet Annabeth. This girl is like wow. I swear I was practically drooling when I first saw her. She has these gorgeous blond curls and these amazing stormy gray eyes and her legs. Oh gosh, don't get me started on her legs. Anyway I'm getting a bit ahead of myself.

My names Percy Jackson. I'm ADHD and dyslexic and what some people would call a troubled youth. Manly because I've been kicked out of every school I've ever been sent to. I'm actually on my way to my new school right now. A place called the Wilderness School. Don't ask me why it's called that. Anyway it's an all-boys boarding school. Which probably means it's not going to smell that great. The lack of girls is kind of depressing too.

"Percy, are you sure you're going to be okay being this far away from home?" Mom asks in her worried tone. My mom's name is Sally Blofis, originally Sally Jackson before she married Paul a year or so back. My mom is one of the greatest people you will ever meet. I'm really happy she found a good guy like Paul. He treats us both pretty well.

"Yes mom, I've gone to schools farther away than this. Honestly, I'm fine with it. And I'll see you for thanksgiving."

"I know. I just worry."

"Sally, you have nothing to worry about. Percy's going to be fine." Paul said trying to reassure my mom. Trying and failing.

"But what if-"

"Mom" I interrupted, "It doesn't matter. I'm going to be fine and we're here." It was true, we were indeed here. Maybe it's called Wilderness School because there's nothing around it besides the wilderness.

"Alright, is everyone ready to go in?" ask Paul. As an answer, I get out, grab my luggage, and start making my way across the parking lot and up the stone steps.

"What's the room number again?" I ask.

"Room 316" Paul answered. We made our way over to the elevator and hit the button for the third floor. The elevator music was the Hokey Pokey which made me wonder what kind of school I had been signed up for. We found the door and I took the door handle and found out it was already open. I walked into a medium sized room with two beds, two dressers, two desks, along with some other essential needs. Then I saw a kids head shoot up into the air. He was pretty pale, skinny, and had curly reddish brown hair. We kind of just stared at each other for a while before Paul cleared his throat and said, "You must be Percy's new roommate."

"Oh! Yeah, hi. I'm Grover Underwood." He said, reaching out his hand to shake.

"Percy Jackson" I replied, shaking his hand.

"Hi Grover. I'm Sally and this is Paul. We're Percy's parents." Mom told him.

"Oh, nice to meet you." He responded, shaking both their hands in turn.

"Well Percy, Your mother and I need to get out of here. Long trip home and we both work pretty early tomorrow." Paul told me.

"Oh Baby!" mom said crushing me into a hug. "I'm going to miss you so much."

"I'm going to miss you too mom."

"If you need anything, don't even hesitate to call."

"Will do. Thanks." I said hugging her one more time.

"Have a good time Percy. See you at Thanksgiving." Paul told me, then led my mom through the door and shut it behind him.

"So," I said turning to my new roommate Grover, "You been at Wilderness school for a while?"

"Yea, since freshmen year. Where we learn useful trades like running through the cactus. He must have seen the face I made because he added, "Don't worry, you only do that if your one of the kids who stays over summer."

"Good thing I wasn't planning on doing that."

"So why are you starting junior year?"

"Got kicked out of my old school."

"What you do?"

"I got into a lot of fights and stuff."

"A lot of jerks at your old school?"

"You have no idea."

He seemed to study me for a few seconds. "I think you'll get along with most of the guys I hang with."

"Really?"

"Yeah. There's Luke, Jason, Chris, Nico, Leo, Frank, Will-"

"Wait, I'm not going to be able to remember all those names."

He grinned at me. "You'll be fine when you meet them. Come on. I'll introduce you." And with that he grabbed my arm and steered me out the door.

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