I was sitting in English class, just after we'd gotten our paragraphs back. The assignment had been pretty easy so I was surprised when the guy who sits opposite me (what was his name?) sighed and moaned

"Not again."

I glanced up from my paragraph and glanced over at What's-his-face. He had a look of slight annoyance on his face, like a bug had just landed on his hand.

Curiously, I asked " Can I read your paragraph?"

"Sure." He shrugged and passed it over.

My paragraph.

Blue. Blue is my favourite colour. I think I'm even wearing blue underpants but I can't check because I'm in English.

My blood is probably blue from all the blue food colouring I've consumed. It's a good thing I work out at camp because, I wouldn't even fit through the door otherwise.

And there are no blue vegetables, are there? Unless you leave celery in blue food colouring. That was the coolest science lesson. Except the one where my brother, Tyson, blew up the lab. That was Amazing!

Blue is the colour of the ocean too. Well, technically bluey-green. But in picture books it's always blue.

Blue is a nice word too. Ha! Poem!

Blue. Nice and short. One syllable. Boom. Blue. Easy letters too, because there's only four. It's funny how four has four letters. Are there any other numbers like that? It's a good thing they don't all do that because when you meant zero you'd just write . And a million would take forever to write.

What's the last thing I'm supposed to cover? Sewery? Oh, Summary.

Blue is a nice colour.

By Percy Jackson

F. Percy, I asked you to describe a character from the novel. Are you even more mentally disturbed than I thought? I've set up an interview with the guidance counsellor.

"Um. Nice ...paragraph?" I passed it back over. I had no idea what to say .

Percy just nodded. "I do like the colour blue though." Luckily before I had to think of a response the teacher waddled over, squeezing between desks and tapped Percy's shoulder

"Your appointment's at eleven." Percy gathered up his book, nodded at me and left.

Funnily enough, I never saw Percy again after that. I assumed he just moved English class, but it turned out he was expelled. The other funny thing? The guidance counsellor was gone by the next day too. No one even remembers him. Maybe he was driven crazy by Percy's blue rants.

Or maybe I'm the crazy one.

I do like the colour blue...