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Chapter 1: Physics
POV: Percy
"Name?" The school nurse asks in a sickeningly sweet voice, yet not bothering to take her eyes off the news paper on her desk.
"Percy Jackson." I answer, broadly.
It was at this point that the nurse looked up from her paper and addressed me calmly.
"What is it today, Mr. Jackson?" She asked in a tone that suggested this was an every day occurrence, which it wasn't.
I only come into the nurse's office every other day.
"I have a head ache." I told her.
It wasn't a lie. I get frequent migraines that make me throw up, if left untreated.
"Again?" She asked in disbelief, leaning back in her black swivel chair.
I nod.
She rolls her eyes and sighs.
"Take a seat while I fetch the Motrin." She says in an exhausted voice.
I thank her and sit down on one of the plastic chairs by the front of the office. When she returns I take the pills and bid her fare well before returning to class.
It was only down the hall so it took no time to get there. Once inside I take my seat near the back of the room and listen to the teacher drone on about physics and the transfer of kinetic energy. I wanted to laugh.
"Why isn't my desk moving?" The teacher asked.
The class was silent because the answer was so obvious but no one wanted to be that idiot that answers the simplest questions wrong.
"It's not moving," The teacher continued, unaffected by the lack of response. "Because No one is pushing it. Kinetic Energy is when…"
The teacher suddenly froze as his deck randomly slid three feet to the right and stopped.
The hole class remained silent as we all stared at the desk. I wanted to burst out laughing. The teacher goes on and on about how objects don't move without being pushed in one way or another when his desk randomly jumps to the right.
That's what the others saw at least.
I could all ready see my mother's face when I got home though. She's going to be so pissed at me. I promised her I would stop doing this kind of thing. It's gotten me expelled from every school I've been to and nearly arrested once.
People always fear what they don't understand. Little kids are afraid of the monsters in their closets because they don't understand it's only a sweater in the dark. Teens are afraid of the real world because they don't understand true responsibility. Adults are afraid of death because they don't understand what comes next. Sure the answers to these questions can be taught but they aren't understood until there is first hand experience.
The little kid won't stop crying in the night until one strange night the kid decides to fight the monster and discovers it is a sweater just like daddy said. The teen will try and dodge responsibility until they are out on their own and have no choice but to accept it and then they see it is not the end of the world. Adults continue to search for answers to death but always cling to life for as long as possible just incase they are wrong. Then they are truly at peace once they finally experience it.
Humanity fears what it does not understand, so naturally they fear me. I have what some describe as Telekinesis. I can make things move with my mind. I just imagine an invisible thing gripping an object and then move the invisible thing. As the invisible thing moves so does the object it is rapped around.
Every time people find out about me they freak. I've been shunned, pelted with rotten tomatoes, and even in one extreme scenario down south, a religious group accused me of being a follower of The Devil and tried to burn me alive. I used my powers to smother the flames on their torches though and then I used my powers to snap the ropes they had me tied up with.
After that last one my mom made me swear not to use my powers in public again. The problem is that I'm ADHD and my impulsive nature makes keeping that promise very tricky.
I know I shouldn't be so impulsive but I can't help it. The teacher has been on about how furniture doesn't move itself for three days! I just had to mess with him a little.
That was when I looked to my left and locked eyes with my best friend Thalia. She and Nico were the only two people I had ever met who didn't freak out when they found out about my powers. They were also the only two people in the class who knew about my powers.
As I locked eyes with Thalia she shook her head. It was a clear sine that she didn't approve of my little joke. There was no hiding the silent chuckle she was having though. She might not approve of the joke but she sure as hell found it funny.
It was about this time that the bell rang to end the period. I knew we had lunch next and couldn't wait for a break from classes. I was putting my books back in my locker when Thalia leaned, heavily, on the locker next to me.
"You almost blew your cover in there." She commented. "This might not be like that time in the south you told me about, but I still don't want you to get into any trouble so please don't pull that stunt again."
I closed my locker and turned to Thalia with a smirk on my face.
"I saw you chuckling." I said with a laugh.
Thalia held her hands up in surrender, while shaking her head in laughter.
"I never said it wasn't funny." She giggled. "But it was still stupid."
I shrugged.
"Maybe." I replied.
"That was awesome!" I heard a boy sheik as a set of arms wrapped around my shoulders. "Dude, you are a guineas!"
"Thanks, Nico." I chuckled.
Thalia rolled her eyes in frustration.
"You two are impossible." She grumbled.
"And hungry." Nico intoned. "Who's up for lunch?"
We all nodded and headed for the cafeteria.
Once there we quickly found a lunch table and quickly placed our bags down so we didn't have to hold them on the lunch line.
So we waited on line and got our food only to return to the table. I know, so exciting!
Just as I was about to sit down I felt a tap on my shoulder. When I turned around I found a girl who I didn't recognize. She had long, blond, hair and storm gray eyes. The way she clung to her books she was either a nerd or new.
"Are you Precious Jackson?" She asked.
"It's Percy." I told her. "But yah, I am."
"Hello, Percy." She continued, extending her right hand to me. "I'm Annabeth."
I shook her hand, not quite sure why she was here.
"I'm new," She continued as we shook hands. "And I was told at the main office that you could show me to my classes."
My eyebrows went up in surprise.
"Oh," I began. "Yah, no problem."
She seamed relieved by this and I watched as she visibly relaxed.
"Thank you." She breathed.
"Don't sweat it." I laughed as I took my seat at the lunch table.
When Annabeth didn't sit down I turned to her. She appeared to be uncomfortable.
"You ok?" I asked her.
"Fine." She replied curtly, not meeting my eyes.
Instead she appeared to be scanning the room, analyzing every thing.
"Well, sit down." Thalia said with a chuckle.
Annabeth nodded and sat down in the seat next to me and across from Thalia. Nico was across from me.
"Annabeth," I began. "This is Thalia and Nico."
She nodded to them and they nodded back.
"Nice to meat you." Annabeth greeted.
"You too." Nico replied.
So far the new girl was blending in ok for herself, other than that weird scan the room thing but who am I to judge on what's weird.
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