Hello everyone! I have officially decided to make this story a series of Oneshots! They might be a bit spaced out since I'm writing one other original story and finishing another, and 8th grade year tends to be busy, but I'll do my best. Anyways, disclaimer, I don't own anything. (I hate disclaimers. I don't think it could be any more obvious that I'm not Rick Riordan.)
All through his life, Leo had been different. As a kid, it was hard to explain to the other first graders why he only had a mom, and when his class completed a Family Tree project in 2nd grade, all his the branches on his dad's side of the tree were empty.
After his mom died, Leo tried to act like he was okay. But everything- even the littlest remarks- set him off. In the foster care program, he was the only kid who had run away from home 6 times. He was the only one, for the most part, who had shared a close bond with one of his real parents, too.
And even when he got sent to boarding school in the middle of nowhere- a boarding school for "problem" kids, like him- he still stuck out like a sore thumb. Nobody else knew the feeling to be completely lost in a world where it seemed like everyone else had a loving family, however dysfunctional it may be, both parents, or at least some recollection of them, and a path to follow someday.
Maybe that's why he connected with Reyna so well. They both were used to being different; they had gone through a majority of life with nobody to lean on, nobody to guide them, nobody to talk to and laugh with. Sure, he had Piper and Jason, and Reyna had her sister, but Jason was in his own world, and Piper was not far off. Reyna hadn't seen her sister in what seemed like forever.
Both of them were outsiders, but that brought them together. They still were like the people on the outskirts of a big city, or a musician trying to make it big; nobody knew them, and few could care. However, they were lucky that there was somebody who cared. They cared about each other. And that's why they were able to survive.
A little bit shorter than my last oneshot, but I think that it sums up Leyna just as well, from a different angle. Like I said before, this will be a Oneshot series, but I'm gonna keep the name -I mean, it's pure Leyna!- but I'm gonna change the summary. So enjoy your time before inspiration strikes again!
-Broadway4eva
