12 years later...

I just love water! So when it was my turn in the showers, I basically lept for joy. Hi! I'm Callisa Athena Jackson, but most people call me Calli A. I'm twelve years old and an orphan. I have black, wavy hair with natural blonde highlights. I have grey eyes with green and gold flecks with big, black, thick rimmed glasses. As I got to the showers the water refreshed me. The day ahead was not going to be easy.

I got dressed in black shirt with a light blue tanktop underneath and some skinny jeans and black boots. I brushed out my hair and put it in a ponytail. I grabbed my glasses and slung my bag over my shoulder. As soon as I left the bathroom, girls bombarded me as they rushed to get a shower. "You took too long!" I heard multiple times as I walked err pushed out of the crowd. "Sorry!" I yelled then ran down the stairs to the kitchen. I grabbed an apple as I walked past Miss Lydia.

"Is that all you're going to have, Sweetheart?"asked Miss Lydia. Miss Lydia and I have a special realtionship that all the girls were jealous of. Maybe it was the fact that she's basically raised me. I always thought it was something else.

"Yeah" I responded. She shook her head and muttered something like 'too long'. "What?" I asked, confused. "Nothing, nothing. Now hurry along to school before you're late. You have a biiig day!" She said in her cheerful way. " Bye, Lydia!" I called as I left the kitchen.

As I opened the front door, I bumped into someone." Watch where ya goin'!" He said He had curly brown hair and green eyes. He was wearing a UPS suit and carrying a weird looking phone. "I'm so sorry!" I apologized. He looked at me and did a double take. I must have looked confused because he said "I'm sorry but what is your name specifically your last." cautiously I responded " Callisa Athena Jackson" He stared at me like I was an alien. I saw my best friend, Elizabeth coming down the street. I stepped down the steps, his eyes following me "Well I have to go, nice meeting you-" I took off running in Elizabeth's direction. "Woah, what's up with you?" she said laughing.

"You see the guy on the door step," she nodded. "He asked me my name and the started staring at me and I got creeped out and ran." I shrugged. We started walking in the direction of school. "You excited for the field trip today?" Lizzi asked me." Not really, it's another boring museum." "No it's the art museum. The one that you feel 'connected' to".

At the Metropolitan Museum of Art

As I got off the bus, I looked over to the fountain. I saw a scrawny boy with bright green eyes and a red head and a cripple. The green eyed boy looked mad, the cripple looked scared, and the redhead looked smug. Then the water grabbed to red head and pulled her into the fountain. I closed my eyes and shook my head not believing what I saw. When I opened them, the three were gone. "Calli, are you okay?" Elizabeth asked. "Yeah, I'm fine." I lied. Lizzi didn't look convinced but she let me go. We walked inside the museum and were greeted by a blonde lady. "Hello everyone! Welcome to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I'm Annabeth Jackson and I will be your tour guide.

Miss Jackson looked over the crowd of middle schoolers when her eyes rested on me they widened. She then regained her composure and gestured to the left." This way, please." Lizzi leaned over and said "What was that about?" " I have no idea. Let's just go." and we followed the crowd.

We went over to the Ancient Greek section specifically a piture of a naked guy eating babies. "Now this is-," and I zoned out until I heard, "Young lady, can you tell me about the titan war?" I looked around until I realized she was talking to me. "Oh! Ummmmmm...," I heard giggles of the other girls. " Maybe you should start paying attention rather than day dreaming."

"Yes, Miss Jackson." " Mrs actually." she corrected with pride. I heard lots of 'darn its' and 'awww's from the guys." Sickos" I muttered but appartently one of them heard me and said "orphan". It took all of my willpower and some of Elizabeth's not to turn around and punch him in the nose. We walked through out the museum stopping occationally to admire. I was pretty bored when I saw the green eyed boy again this time walking behind a shrivled woman in a leather jacket.

He looked like he was talking to her. She finally turned around when they got to the big empty room she pointed inside when he went inside she closed the door behind her. I was tempted to follow them when I heard my name and presure on my arm. I turned around to see my 7th grade teacher, Ms. Day glaring at me. "Callisa Athena Jackson," I flinched at my full name " please follow the class or I will be forced to send you to the bus for the rest of the day." "Yes, ma'am." She let go of my arm and stood next to . Everybody was staring at me and giggling execpt for Elizabeth and Mrs. Jackson. Elizabeth's face was like really dude? Whereas Mrs. Jackson's looked wistful like, she wanted to hug me. She shook out her daze and looked to me. "I'm sorry for interuppting the tour ,Mrs. Jackson."

"That's quite alright, Callisa dear." She turned to the whole group and said " I was just concluding. Well everyone we hope you come back soon with your parents. It was nice meeting you all." she said with a smile. As we were walking out I was at the back of the group. "Oh and Callisa," I turned to Mrs. Jackson. ", I hope you especially come back. I have a feeling we will meet again." she said as forced a smile. Were those tears in her eyes? When I caught up with Elizabeth she asked "What was that about?"

Annabeth

As the last group left I hurried to my desk and grabbed my bag and jacket. I pulled out my phone and texted my husband:

Be in ur office. im comin 2 u

His response:

K

I hurried to my husband's marine biology lab. When I got there I went to the front desk when the receptionist said "He's waiting for you." Thank you was my response as I ran to his office. He was leaning against the door frame when he saw me he stood and put his arms out I ran into them just as I did 13 years ago. It took alot not to cry from all the emotion I was feeling. "What's wrong, Wise Girl?"

" Can we go inside your office for this one, Perce?" I asked. "Sure" When we got inside hesat in his chair and I sat on his desk I looked him in the eye and said "I saw her."

Hey! Review please. Thanks for reading! Can you guess who the UPS man is?

-Meforeverandalways