Greetings reader. I hope you'll enjoy this story that I have incorporated bits of my life into. Any feedback or reviews are welcome.

Chapter 1

Percy woke up with a numb look in his eyes. His face held one emotion. Exhaustion. It was another meaningless day. Another day where Percy would get out of bed, greet his parents, go to school, try his best to succeed but would fail and get miserable scores at tests.

Percy's eyes no longer held the excitement and mischief that they once held. Sigh…those were the times. The times where Percy would not care about his report card nor his parents' admonishments.

Now, all he felt was anxiety, sadness and restlessness. It didn't help that he started having insomnia a few weeks back.

Knowing that he had to go to school or face his parents' wrath, Percy forced his eyes to stay open and stared intensively at the white ceiling above him. Grudgingly, he got out of his bed and headed towards the showers, right outside his room.

As he opened his room's door and walked out, he was met with an everyday occurrence. A bowl of cereal was neatly placed on the table in the living room along with a half-filled jug of milk that must have been used by his father before he hurried to work. Near the table was his mother, a jet-black haired woman with a warm personality, sleeping soundlessly on the couch.

"She must have prepared breakfast for dad." Percy thought.

His father, Poseidon Jackson, worked as a marketing manager at a car company and was a determined man. He had ambitions: to become the CEO of the company he worked at.

On the contrary, Percy didn't have any aspiration. All he wanted was to earn enough money in order for him to live happily while keeping his family happy.

His sister Andromeda took after their father and had real ambitions. She wanted to become a member of the upper class and have a high-paying job.

His mother, Sally Jackson, the woman currently sleeping on the living room's couch, was a beautiful and kind mother. Honestly, Percy couldn't have asked for a better mother than her. He would give up his life in a heartbeat for her happiness if he had to. His life didn't mean much to him anyways. He just didn't want to die before he made sure that his family had enough money to live a content life. That was all that mattered. His family's happiness.

After taking a hot shower and eating breakfast, Percy looked at the clock, hanging on the wall of the living room. It read 6:50. School started at 8:00.

Percy lived an hour by common transportation from his school. Thus, he had to use common transport every day for two hours. It was bus first then metro then finally bus again.

After putting on his grey hoodie and blue jeans, he gave a quick glance at the mirror in his room and walked out of his apartment, headed towards the local bus stop.

Percy arrived at his school at 7:40. So he stopped by the convenience store just in front of the the building to buy a can of coffee and a bar of Kitkat.

As he entered his school, he greeted one of the four school monitors, Patrick, a young man who just finished his master's degree in architecture and got the job for a few months to pay off his student loans.

Percy was on good terms with him being a senior and all. Percy respected Patrick and Patrick respected him. That was how it went. You didn't mess with him. He didn't mess with you.

As Percy went up to the fourth floor, munching on his chocolate bar, using the stairs only allowed for seniors (the rest had to take another route that took much longer), he couldn't help but think how unenthusiastic his day was going to be.

It was Monday. And that meant four hours of Math, an hour of English along with and two hours of Biology and an hour of French.

This was going to be a long day….

Math class started horribly. As soon as he got on his seat, he felt his teacher's stare on him. As if he did something wrong.

"Hey Percy, why is he staring at you?" whispered Thalia, the girl to his right.

"I don't know"

Percy figured out a few minutes later that it was probably because he failed a math test. As the teacher handed out the graded exams. Percy's mood immediately went down. A big fat 9/20 was written on the paper with a remark that said: "You should work more"

This only added insult to injury as, unknown to the professor, Percy worked his ass off for the whole night before the test.

The teacher would never know the amount of time and effort Percy took to study. Nor the amount of pain and psychological damage he received when teachers scolded him for getting bad grades.

"Not that he would care even if he knew." muttered Percy.

"Hm? What was that?" asked Thalia, hearing Percy say something

"No, its nothi-" Percy was cut off by a loud and startling voice.

"Mr. Jackson! Please pay attention in class if you ever plan to raise your grades!"

"I'm sorry Mr. Compter"

Oh boy…. This was going to be a long day….