Thalia Grace
It's me. Thalia Grace. You may or may not have heard of me. My family, the Olympians, comprises some of the planet's most successful people, which means I'm pretty rich.
So anyway, we've been privately tutored so far, but now we're about to attend a public high school, me and my cousins, Percy and Nico. I think it'll be kinda fun, though I dread the fangirls.
Congratulations to Goode High School's students. Not to brag, but with us there you're gonna have an interesting few years.
I braked my silver convertible, got out of the car and entered the three-storey house (quite modest for us) which I shared with Percy and Nico. (Hey, rich kids don't have to deal with busy parents.)
"Perce, Nic!" I called. "Breakfast's here!" This was our last school-free day and we were looking forward to spending it well.
The sounds of Call Of Duty stopped abruptly and Percy and Nico came running. Don't ask me why, but Nico loved pomegranate pudding and Percy liked his food blue. Weirdos.
Percy spotted the McDonalds pancakes and poured on half a bottle of blue food colouring before proceeding to demolish the pile. I sighed and shook my head as Nico devoured all my fries except for two pathetic little crispy stumps.
I glared at him with my best death glare.
"What?" he protested. "I was hungry. Besides, you see I left some for you two." He gestured to the tiny bits of fries. I sighed again and popped one in my mouth, then crushed the other between my fingers and sprinkled the crumbs on Percy's head.
He looked up, fingers stained blue. "What?"
"There are fries in your hair," Nico told him. Way to spoil the surprise. I sighed. "Come on, after breakfast we can do all your favourite things."
I gave Nico his disgusting pomegranate porridge, then his 'perfect pomegranate pudding', as he called it. He really loved pomegranates. It was an obsession.
As for me, I tucked into a normal hamburger and tried to imagine my cousins with lipstick on their faces, clothes ripped by ferocious fangirls. Ugh.
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Nico di Angelo
Thalia had promised to take us to a 'really cool place' for our last night of fun, but so far it wasn't feeling that great, because the place was a long way away and I had to spend the journey in the back of Thalia's tiny convertible. It was cluttered with archery and camping equipment which kept poking me as I fidgeted.
Around a century later, Thalia screeched to a halt in the parking lot and flung out her arms. "Welcome, you unbelievers, to the Underage Bar!"
It was a dimly lit two-storey building with a nice ambience for alfresco dining. It was pretty crowded, with mostly teens mingling, but people were practically queuing up to offer us their tables in exchange for an autograph and a picture. Being famous has its perks.
Dinner was quite good if a bit costly, but it didn't matter to us anyway. After dinner, a girl walked up to us. She was attractive and kind of familiar, but I couldn't place it.
"Hey, you're the Big Three, right? I mean, their kids," she corrected. "Would you, um, want to join our game of Truth Or Dare, by any chance?"
I absolutely hated that game, but I didn't want to be a bad sport, so the three of us accepted, Percy offering a smile to the girl, who seemed kinda nervous.
"I'm Silena," she introduced herself. "And you must be Percy, Nico and Thalia." Again, I thought the name Silena was familiar, but I just kept my mouth shut.
"Yep, at your service," Thalia grinned. "Nice to meet ya."
We followed her outside to the neatly trimmed lawn, where a few other people were sitting in a circle. The others introduced themselves - Michael Yew, Katie Gardner, Luke Castellan, Charles Beckendorf and the identical brothers Travis and Connor Stoll. They seemed painfully familiar, but I just couldn't recall. Good thing was that none of them wanted autographs.
"Who starts?" Percy wondered aloud.
"You," I told him, and no one protested. So he pointed and asked, "Katie, truth or dare?"
"Um… truth."
"Okay," Percy grinned. "Who do you like?"
Katie buried her face in her hands. "I don't…"
"Oh yes you do."
"Argh, fine. Travis!"
Everybody started clapping and yelling stuff like, Told you so! or, in Silena's case, A match made in heaven!
Travis just sat there smiling dreamily to himself while Connor patted him on the back, asking patronisingly, "Are you in shock?"
Katie's face was red. "Enough! Nico?"
"Dare."
"Okay, then." She turned to Thalia, who was sitting on her left, and whispered something inaudible.
Thalia replied, and after thinking a bit, Katie rubbed her hands together gleefully. "I dare you not to eat a single pomegranate seed for the next four days. Not even pomegranate-flavoured stuff."
"Pshh, Katie, you dishonour me," I said, shaking my head. "That is so easy!" She'd said no pomegranates in the day. I never heard anything about the night. "Dare taken. Thals… no. Percy. I dare you to…" (I knew he'd pick dare.)