Chapter 2-
Recap: Though I've never done anything wrong, apparently, I've been rude, dismissive, and my favorite possibly deranged or inhabited by an evil spirit. Maybe my mom just doesn't want to deal with me anymore. Either way I'd be sent off to some school by the end of the summer where I'd have 'a lot of adventures'.
Whatever adventures I have couldn't be the same as the ones I've had this year. I've had… encounters if you want to call them that. I think it's because I'm the daughter of a god. Although I was young when I heard some voice tell me I was a demigod, I believed it thoroughly. It wasn't some make-believe game that children play. I was very sophisticated for my age, and I trusted what the voice said. Besides, the encounters somehow knew I was a demigod for they said. "Die half-blood!" I assumed it was the same.
Whether it is a small mishap at the pool where I 'fall' and nearly drown, or in the forest where some tree tries to topple over me they were far from accidents. Though I've never been directly affected or even seen these things, I hear them, telling me to die. I'm partially thankful to those accidents for they've sharpened my senses to the point. I can immediately feel when a calamity is about to happen. Its as if I have a 6th sense was instilled in me telling me 'something's wrong'. My mother quickly caught on to these encounters and wanted me to stay inside as much as I could. However, I just couldn't stay in all day. I lay in bed one day thinking… why do they want me dead? I haven't figured out the answer yet.
Also, if I'm some half-blood why don't I have any miraculous powers? What does it matter anyway? I shouldn't be worrying about trifling demigod problems, I should be worrying about how I'm going to fair in this new school. I've never really had friends before. I wonder what they're like.
"Adalyn, come here please," I heard my mothers voice. But it didn't sound the same, it sounded… flirtatious. I walked downstairs to see my mother cuddling with another man. I hated each guy she was with. "This is Tommy. I met him at work," I looked at him. His black hair was far from groomed, his clothing looked far from professional, and his cologne was far from sparsely used. And he gave me a feeling that made me not want to be around him. A feeling of caution.
"Hey there kido, how you doing?" Tommy extended his hand to me. I stared blankly at him.
"Sweetie, don't be rude. Say something to him," I looked at my mom. I could tell in her eyes she didn't really like this guy. She had the same look with all her boyfriends. Why would she waste her time with such losers? And if she didn't like him, but was willing to burn time with this guy, then I wouldn't. So I didn't respond to Tommy. With a short breath, he placed his hand around my mothers' waist.
"Aw its ok, she's just shy," this man hadn't known me for five minutes, and he knew I was shy? There was a long list of words in a very specific order that I wanted to say to him, but then I remembered that I wasn't going to waste my breath on this guy. I merely glared at him. "Well…," he said trying to shake off my stare. My mother gave me a warning look and I stopped. "You sure made a pretty kid there Tracy," he said with a laugh. I despised the comment. I was starting to like this guy less and less but my mother laughed. It was a fake laugh but Tommy didn't seem to notice
"Oh, you're so sweet," she said. I scoffed and left the house. I didn't want to stick around to watch Tommy snuggling with my mom. "Don't go far!" I ignored my mother's command. I was too upset to head anyone's instructions. I stormed around and then ran into the forest. I yelled at the sky.
"This is ridiculous!" birds fled from the sight in fear at the sudden disturbance. I sat down on the summer leaves covering the ground. Then I got the feeling of apprehension. "Here we go again…," I whispered exasperated. But instead of some falling tree, I saw a boy running by me; he held a sword in his hand that blazed. "What the-,"
"Hey! Look out!" he didn't need to tell me, I had sensed some creature flying through the air. I had heard it also. It screeched loudly yelling. It looked like an over-sized crow, with the face of an old woman.
"What a perfect opportunity! Two for the price of one!" the bird lady thing flew past me.
"Two? But that would mean-," the boy dodged the bird by half a step; he thrust his sword through the bird. It fell to the ground with a blood-curdling scream and then perished into the earth. Lucky me, I finally got a chance to see what was attacking me. Lucky me, this boy with a blazing sword was here to slay it for me. If it weren't for him, I'd probably be the one on the ground dead. My mind was racing, what had just happened? The boy put a cap to the sword and it transformed into a blue pen. He looked at me for a minute. "Who are you?" he asked me. I didn't respond to him.
"Percy! Hey Percy! Are you alright?" someone was running to the boy.
"Yea, I'm fine," he called back.
"That's the third time this week! It might be best if we head back to-," he stopped seeing me.
"Adalyn! Adalyn were are you?" it was my mother. De ja vu ran through my mind. It was like four years all over again. My mom running through the forest. But this time when she saw me she didn't hug me, instead she looked at the boy, and then at the second boy running to him. "you two…," she started to say. "thank you," what was she thanking them for?
"uhm… no problem?" the boy said confused. He apparently didn't know either
"Percy," the boy standing next to him nudged his shoulder. "we uhm… we should go," the boy who I assumed to be Percy walked off, but the second one looked at my mother for a little bit and gave her a slight nod before leaving. I don't think my mother knew that I had seen this nod.
