Ok. One thing you should know about me is that I am not a morning person. It was 7 am and I was not a happy chappy. I groggily got up from the Poseidon table at breakfast. All done. Now I needed to grab my bags and meet my mum at the big house by 8:30. The camp was already alive with activity. People running all around the place, eager to say goodbye to their friends before they leave for most off the year. As they were running, I got a lot of;

"Bye Percy!"

"Have a good year, Percy!"

"Later Percy!" And so on. But I did get one:

"Hasta la vista, Perce. Good luck surviving high school! *cough* you'll need it *cough*." From, of course, the one and only, Leo Valdez. Jason came into my cabin with his sister, Thalia and Nico trailing behind them. They all wished me hearty goodbyes. Luckily for them, they were year rounders, so they didn't have to go to some school. Although, they promised me that they would come see me in NY.

8:15 came around and I left with my stuff to go to the Big House. Travis and Connor stopped me along the way and said goodbye.

When I arrived at the Big House, Mum was already there, drinking coffee with Chiron. (A/N: do horses even drink coffee? Idk so just go with it)

"Why, hello there Percy." He greeted as soon as he saw me.

"Morning Chiron. Morning Mum. How's Tyson?"

Technically, Tyson was actually my half brother and wasn't related to my mum at all, but he still loved to hang around her and visit her and Paul.

"He's good. My baby! Percy! You've grown so big! So tall, so muscly!" I groaned inwardly and glanced at Chiron who looked as if he was trying not to laugh.

"Mum! Stop. Lets go. Bye Chiron. See you in the mid-year holidays. Iris message me if you need anything at all or something drastic happens at camp."

"Now Percy, I just got here-" Mum began.

"Yes well, we really should be going, anyway. I have school tomorrow. I need to rest. And revive... Unless you changed your mind and don't want to send me anymore?" I added hopefully.

"Percy, you have to go to school. We've been through this." Mum said. Despite what I say sometimes, I really do love my mum and don't want to make her mad (not like she ever gets mad anyway). Sighing, I say,

"Well lets go then!" And tug her up onto her feet. She continues thanking Chiron until I manage to pull her out the door.

"Mum!" I groan, as soon as we're out of earshot, "you're so embarrassing!"

She laughs and says,

"It's what mums do." Sighing, I shake my head and we walk to where our car is parked.

On the way home, mum asks me how my time has been at camp. If I've been getting along with everyone, etc. Truth be told, I think the main reason mum wanted me home is because she misses me. I'm glad, though. I miss her too. It was a long, boring 5 hour ride home. More so because of my ADHD. I kept on fidgeting and tapping on things and generally just being annoying. I tried not to, I truly did. I just can't help it.

As soon as we arrived at my apartment building, I jumped out of the car as fast as I could and ran up and down the stairs about 6 times, trying to get all of the bottled up energy out of me. I began to calm down and walked into my apartment. Number 212. The first thing I noticed was that Paul wasn't in. For all of you who don't know, Paul is my step dad. He's a great guy and works as a teacher at Goode High; the school I'm going to this year. He recently moved in with my mum.

"Where's Paul?" I ask.

"Working. He'll be back around four. In the meantime. We're going shopping." I groaned.

"Shopping? But mum. You know I hate shopping!"

"We'll stop at my old work, the candy store, and get you some blue lollies." That got my attention. I mean lollies are great. Blue food is great. But together...

"Fine. I'll come."

"Good." With that, we headed off

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Five hours later:

We arrived home at 6:30 and were greeted by Paul.

"Hey Sally. Percy! How are you?" He asked as soon as we walked in the door.

"I'm good." I say. We ate dinner and talked about how my summer was. By 8 o'clock, everyone was exhausted and we decided to call an early night. After saying good night to mum and Paul, I headed to bed and, for once, fell into a dreamless sleep.