Jupiter Roman is the name for Zeus, I thought it was a cool title. There's a bit of ThaliaxLuke, but only if you squint your eyes and tilt your head 33 degrees to the left...
"Thalia, dear, will you answer that?" her mother, Delilah Peterson called. The twelve year old girl muttered an obscenity and hoisted herself off the bed. She walked down the small dimly lit hall way that led into the kitchen. Sure enough at the door was her mother's latest boyfriend, Steve Cane. He was the bassist in never-made-it-big band called the Shiners. He had long dyed purple hair, weird sunglasses always covering his creepy black eyes and wore a lot of leather, At least her mother never dated guys more then a week. Probably dumped my dad the second she found out she was pregnant. If she had told him she'd be stuck with him and she just can't handle that. Thalia thought angrily as she let Steve in.
"What's up little girlie?" he asked. She really didn't like him.
"None of your business." Thalia said. It was early Monday morning and no normal people had boyfriends over at 6:00am. Thalia poured herself some cereal nad sat down across from Steve. Then her mother pranced in. Her mother. Delilah Peterson was on a small but successful show called "Sally's Story" (she being the starring role of Sally) the was on every night at 7:00pm and Thalia was forced to watch. This didn't help her naturally large ego one bit and Thalia's mom had ups and downs where she would spend everything one day and be broke the next (doctors would call this 'bipolar syndrome' Thalia often thought.) She was a lavishly over dressed woman with too much pink and ruffles on her person. Which is why Thalia always wore black. She'd never admit it but she was a bit of a girly girl before 4th grade.
"Come on Thalia, don't be so grouchy." Delilah said sweetly before planting a pink lip sticked kiss on Steve's cheek.
"I'll be grouchy if I want." the girl said.
"It's the age." Steve said knowingly. "We were all 12 once."
"It's not my age, it's you." she said rudely. "And after you it will be the next guy. And one after that." And she tossed the bowl in the sink, grabbed her backpack and stomped outside leaving Delilah and Steve in a very awkward silence. Thalia just kept walking until she got to the bus stop. Her friend Jessie was waiting for her.
"Thalia!" she exclaimed jumping up and down. "Guess who's got a date on Sunday?"
"I dunno, who?" Thalia asked, cheering up a bit at her friend's enthusiasm.
"Me silly! My first date ever! And Joseph Williams is so cute! What should I wear? Oh my gosh, what if he kisses me? Should I kiss him back?" Jessie gushed.
"Jess, you know I'm not the one to ask, try Leah." Thalia said referring to Jessie's 15 year old sister.
"Yeah, I think I will... Do you think I should wear pastels or bright colors?" and once Jessie had begun she didn't stop until they had to separate for homeroom. Jessie was in Mr. Boyens homeroom where Thalia had Ms. Collins, the English teacher and one of her favorites. She had especially liked the Mythology Unit they had done in September. Thalia stopped by her locker (number 1163) and put away her science home work, which she didn't need to hand in until 5th period, before making her way to Classroom 23 (she went to St. Phillips Academy, which accepted children grade 7- 12), one of three seventh grade English classrooms. She sat in her usual seat next to the window to the right of John Applegate, in front of Silvia Denver and behind Grover Underhill. As she sat down her hand accidentally brushed against Grover. His hair stood on end on for a second Thalia saw two little bumps, almost like horns... but then Grover turned around and gave her and odd look.
"Sorry." she said.
"It's okay." he said and went back to writing something in his notebook.
"Good morning students!" Ms. Collins said.
"Good morning Ms. Collins." they replied, even if they were a bit off timing.
"So todays announcements are... for all of you on the track team, it will be meeting every Thursday, rain or shine unless otherwise specified. A reminder that there is no gum allowed in the gym. And that it's Mix it Up day in the cafeteria and teachers will assign seats so you can meet people outside your social group." all the students groaned here, as they had on pajama day, twin day and clash day. The only accepted School Spirit Week activity was hat day.
"Come on kids, you might make some great new friends, or sit with a 12th grader, doesn't that sound fun?" Ms. Collins asked trying to raise the morale.
"We only have lunch with the 8th and 9th graders." Will Gladstone pointed out.
"Well, it still might be fun." Ms. Collins said matter-of-fact. Then the bell for first class rung and the class filed out.
"There you are!" Jessie exclaimed when Thalia went to get her gym clothes from her locker.
"Hi Jessie." she said turning the combination lock, R23L44R13.
"I'm glad we have gym next... It'll be really fun, we get to do volley ball with all the cute 8th and 9th grade boys." Jessie said.
"You think about boys to much." Thalia said.
"Maybe I do, but you don't think about them nearly enough, it's not normal for a 7th grader not to fawn over older guys." her friend said.
"Sure, whatever, I think I'll stick with 'boys have cooties' this year." Thalia laughed shutting her gym locker.
My school really does have Mix it Up day where we had to sit next to random people, ick.