The house was a bright sunny yellow with white carnations on the window sill and a large oak tree with an old two seater swinging gently under the branches, it was picture perfect. All that was missing was a white picket fence and children playing the yard. This... house used to be my home, it was be painted the blue of a summer sky, there used to be a battered old tire swing that I built with my big brother, Liam, hanging under the old oak tree. There used to be beautiful rose bushes that I had planted with my Mom one summer afternoon. Now? Now it was someone else's home true my mom, stepdad, and brother lived there, they or more rather, he, painted it yellow and took away the roses and the tire swing. He removed all evidence of me living there, me, the embarrassing step daughter that had to go to a camp for trouble makers. Not that I really was a trouble maker, I was just a demigod, Tamara, daughter of Hephaestus.
VROOM! A car passed by startling me out of my thoughts causing me to stumble, luckily my suitcase caught my fall. I shook myself off standing up, lugging my dark blue suitcase behind me. Nervously I walked up the wooden steps cringing as my suitcase thunked against the stairs. I knocked on the door, anxiously twisting a curl around my finger. Almost immediately I got an answer, it was my mom. "Mom!" I exclaimed happily, "Tamara" she replied almost wearily. I grinned and asked if I could come in. "of course sweetie!" She said with a fake smile, "come on in" and with that I walked through the door.
AN/ How's that for a first chapter!?