Chapter One

"Percy please come set the table." My mom, Sally, calls. I jump from my bed and start running down into the kitchen where I think some people were. "Are there people here?" I ask my mom, somewhat scared, cause I don't like people I don't know in our house. "Yes there are, Percy this is Beryl Grace and her daughter Thaila, and this is Frederick Chase and his wife Helen and their three kids Matthew, Bobby and Annabeth, and this is Esperanza Valdez and her son Leo, and this is Emily Zhang and her son Frank. Guys this is my son Percy." As she was introducing me to everyone she led me around to shake their hands.

"Set the table now please babe." My mom tell me kissing the top of my head. I smiled and set to work. As my mom was handing me the plates I was going to to table and gonna put them around the table, I was on my last one and I bumped into something and dropped the plate on my stepfather Gabe's foot. "Owwwwww, watch it kid!" He yells. "I'm sorry." I say crying cause I'm pretty sure know what's he gonna do to me when everyone leaves.

As I was crying a heard a boy who sounded younger than me whisper to his moms ear somethging but I couldn't tell what was said though.

"How about the kids go out side?" Ms. Zhang's suggests.

"Good idea. My mom says. "We'll call you when foods ready.