Our Life's Changed When She Appeared
"Oh shit," I said as I woke up on plush soft green grass. It was seriously the first reaction I had. I propped my self up with my elbows, and looked around the grassy plain surrounding me. I scratched my head. Last thing I remembered I was home alone, my parents and sisters were out on vacation, while I stayed home for summer hell camp. Yay. I stood up and cleaned off my shorts and ran my fingers in my straight hair. A few women walking their dogs passed me by. I looked around the park. Cherry trees, pine trees, wide black gates, and most odd, statues. Why the hell would you have statues in a park? It was nothing like anything I had ever seen any L.A park I had been to. I patted my shorts looking for my phone.
"Mary?" I turned at the sound of my nickname. No way, I only let my friends and not even my family but my parents call me that. I didn't see any one I knew. So I just turned back around looked down at the pavement in front of me, wondering where the hell I was, and at this moment wishing that I had a phone with me. I stared down at pavement again, and looked up to see a road. Or a way to get out of this park and back home. So I decided to play Dorothy and "follow the yellow brick road". After a few walkers passed by me, I realized how cold it was. I rubbed my arms and wondered how it could be this damn cold and cloudy in summer. I then got pushed and pummeled by moving bodies. People slammed into me right and left. But they weren't running. Jut furiously walking. The crowed pushed me into another wave of people. And another, It was so fast that I didn't even have time to say excuse me or sorry. Until I fell, flat on my face, into the street. People just past by me. Like no one even had the time to help me up? I stood up, with tears in my eyes. The crowd was no longer there, so I could finally see where I was going.
"Oh my god." She said as she looked up at the empire state building.
"Im in fucking New York City. IM IN FUCKING NEW YORK!" She pulled back her hair with my hands and dropped them back down to my sides
"How the hell did I get here? Oh my god."
"Mary... Mary..." The voice slurred, I turned back to it.
"Ignore it. Ignore it. Please." I thought.
"Em...pi...er" I heard the raspy voice say. Empire? A gust of wind blew past me. I squinted.
"Empire State Building." I mumbled. I shrugged my shoulders, and walked to the buildings doors.
...
I looked around the marble room and walked to the counter where a man warring glasses sat. I looked at the man while he read a magazine. I cleared her through. The man looked up at me. I plastered a fake smile on my icy-tan skin.
"Can I help you?" The man said in a raspy deep tone.
"Um, ya. You see I um."
"si...x...hund...red" The voice screeched.
"600" She whispered to her self.
"600? Im sorry miss, but there is no 600th floor" The man said. I snapped back into action. The man crooked his head at me.
"Why do you need to get up there?"
"Um, some kind of solstice thing." I responded, not knowing where these words had come from.
"Huh. Alright, then but I should warn you they don't like late visitors." The man pressed a button making the elevator doors open.
"They? Who are they?" I wondered as I walked into the marble elevator. I also wondered why the man had to open the elevator for me, and why I couldn't do it my self. I listened to the annoyingly light music that played in the elevator while it carried me to, who knows where. I impatiently tapped my foot waiting for the stupid elevator to stop. The elevator halted, and I was just about to stupidly walk into the closed elevator doors when I saw a button appear at the top of all the other numbers. A 600th button. I took a step back and studied it. It was glowing a goodish yellow, and had golden designees around it. I blinked at it.
"What the hell?" I said, I squinted at it, and then shrugged,
"Yolo" I pressed the button. I kept looking at the button like it was supposed to speak or something. I looked around the elevator. Nothing.
"Crap." Then out of know where the elevator started to shake and the shake pushed her back into a wall. Like earth quake shake. But I had to remember that I wasn't in California any more, and New York didn't have earthquakes. The elevator exceled and pushed me up faster. I held onto the wall like it was dear life as I tried not to scream. My eyes were closed shut and I was curled up into a ball like form thing. The elevator stopped. I opened one eye to be safe and then the other and blinked around the room. I started to pant and pace around the room.
"Im alive. Oh god. Im alive." The doors opened. I stopped pacing at looked out the doors. My eyes grew wide.
"Holly Mother," I said cutting my self off as I covered my mouth with my hand, and then to my forehead.
"O...Lym...Pus" the voice had said again.
"This is! Holy mother fucker I must be dreaming...or im going crazy!" I pinched my self
"Nope im not dreaming must be crazy then." I looked the beautiful sculptures and buildings. This was what I imagined heaven to be like. I smiled, truly smiled. It was truly beautiful. Music. I heard music, laughing, singing. A party? There are parties in heaven? Well isn't that good to know. I ran, yes ran. I didn't know what I was running from or to. But I knew it was right. I stopped at the edge of the buildings doors, caught my breath, and walked into the golden room.
Percy
"Ha! Ya right Annabeth. Like Nico would ever do that." I said smacking Nico on the back. Nico Di Angelo glared at me.
"Would you want to throw water at the god of wars face? I think not." I smirked at him. And opened my mouth to say something. When Annabeth interrupted me.
"Who's that?" She asked pointing her finger over my shoulder. Nico turned his head around. His eyes grew wide.
"Donno, but she's hot." I rolled my eyes, Nico thought ever girl was hot. I turned around. I saw a girl around the age of 15 walk toward me. She wore white shorts and an black imagine dragons tee shirt. She had her lightly tanned hands in her pockets as she looked around the room. She had long straight cinnamon brown hair with light blond highlights. She came closer and closer until she bumped into Nico.
"Oh crap im so sorry." She said looking down. Nico just smiled at her and continued to drool. She looked at Nico and then poked him on the shoulder.
"So what are you? I didnt think angels wore black." Nico? An angel? Yeah right.
"Ha, not an angel sweet heart,i work for a different side." Her muscles tensed. Nico smiled.
"Hey don't worry, I'm not gonna bite, well maybe." She grabbed her neck.
"Nico's not a vampire." I smirked. She turned to me. And walked closer until I could closely see her face. She had green-gray eyes, a sharp nose, puffy pink lips and long brown eyelashes. Nico was right. She was pretty. She gave me a confused look. She ran her hands on my arms then to my shoulders, to my chest. I shivered as she did so. She squatted down to my legs and was about to examine them when my girlfriend Annabeth cut in.
"Ok, that's enough." She pulled the girl up. She looked at Annabeth the same way she had looked at me. And put her hands on her face ad then quickly took them off.
"How come I can touch you guys? Aren't u dead?"
"Last time I checked I was alive." I said. Her eyes grew wide.
"So dose that mean im dead? Holly shit." She fell to the couch behind her. She put her palm to her chest. Nico followed her with his eyes and smiled. She looked up at him grunted and snapped her fingers in his face. He went back to earth.
"Eyes, up here." She said, like it happened to her all the time. I could see why. She looked back at me and gave me a look that said
"Do you wanna get kicked in the balls?" I looked down at the marble floor. Annabeth swatted my arm and gave me the same look.
"So, if you guys aren't angels and I don't think I'm dead, than who are you guys?" She ran a hand through her hair as she talked.
Nico smirked.
"Im Nico, that's Annabeth, and next to her is her boyfriend Percy."
"Marisa." She said looking at me. Why dose this chick keep looking at me like that?
"Marisa Bois." Annabeth got a worried look in her eye and looked at me.
"Percy can I talk to you?" I nodded "Excuse us." She pulled me away.
"Do you think she's human?" She asked. I looked back at her as Nico slid down next to her, trying to flirt. But she ignored him, probably to worried to be flattered. I bit my lip.
"If she was the mist wouldn't let her see the 600th button."
"Well how do we know she came on the elevator, there are other ways to get to Olympus Percy?" She said raising her voice. My eyes widened and i put my hands on my hips.
"Well sorry that I can't remember everything like you can." She playfully rolled her eyes.
"Whatever seaweed brain. How about we take her to camp, if she can't get through the gates then she's not a half-blood. If she isn't than we ask Rachel to erase her memory." I arched my brow.
"Don't you think we should ask Chiron what to do?"
"Percy, were not kids any more we can handle this by our self's." I pursed my lips
"Ok wise girl." I kissed her "I trust you."
"I love you." She said.
"I love u to" I smiled.
"So we tell Chiron were leaving and drag the girl out into camp. Got it?"
"Got it."
We walked over to an annoyed Marisa and an only warmed up Nico. Annabeth sighed. Marisa looked up and gave us a relived smile. Her eyes said "Thank you" I winked at her. "Any time" Nico narrowed his eyes at me. Shit. He caught that? Did Annabeth?
"Marisa?" Annabeth asked. Oh thank gods she didn't catch that. "Do you have any where to stay tonight?" She said nonchalantly. Marisa looked at the ground.
"No." She looked up and smirked "ill tell you that story later."
