A/N: This is a story my friend and I are currently co-writing on our website .com/ Check it out if you want :D. Updates will be post here as well though. This story will eventually be a Harry Potter-Percy Jackson crossover, but for now we are still working on the Hogwarts part. So, enjoy :)

Disclaimer: Now really, if I owned the Harry Potter or Percy Jackson series, would I be spending my time on a fanfiction website?

Theresa

Music has always been my escape. Whether I was ignoring snide comments about my love of reading and honor-student grades, on my way to archery practice while the "cool" kids went to cheerleading, or finding out one of my best friends wasn't going to the same high school as me, I could always find a song to match my emotions. Ms. Web, our school musical director, said this was a "gift," but for me it was just life.

I always knew I was, well, different from other kids. For the most part, I could relate to book characters better than real people, and was more absorbed in my studies than making friends. Sure, throughout grade school and middle school I found a handful of people I grew very close to, but no one I really connected with. Until Alex came in 7th grade. She was as crazy as I was studious, and we balanced each other out. She thought it was cool how good I was at archery, and I was amazed by her skills on the swim team. We both had a love for imaginary worlds, ones that could make us forget about our troubles in the real one. Amazingly, both of us live with our mom and step-dad, our real dads having died when we were both babies. Alex and I became best friends very quickly. But my freshman year of high school was the year everything changed.