Chapter 2: WTF is life?

My heart hammered against my rib cage. That boy… he probably didn't have a driver's license yet, how can he possibly adopt me? Then, I saw. Misty substance surrounded him, like magic, it mysteriously made himself look older and taller.

I looked to the right, then left of me to check that the boy wasn't pointing to anyone else. No one else was around me. I quickly scooped a few hash browns to make it seem that I wasn't aware of anything. There was the thumping noise of the director's cane. Thump, thump. The deep vibrations that the cane made when it stomped against the ground cause my delicate wound to start trickling again.

I sat down on one of the benches nearest to the exit. "I have an announcement to make, a couple of good news. First, our Claudia is temporarily blind, from a recent incident, but she will heal and be able to see with both eyes again. She will be able to see within ten weeks." Everybody in the hall cheered. A couple of kids stared at me; I gave them an impassive look.

"The second news is that one of you will be chosen to be adopted, so that lucky girl will see me in my office at 9 am sharp!" Everyone half-heartedly cheered; I had a few jealous and angry looks thrown my way. Everyone knew that I was the chosen one. "Now that the announcements are down, eat, drink, have fun!"

I looked down at my plate and started picking at a hash brown, I wasn't hungry, and I was too preoccupied to think. A few girls headed towards my way, saying out loud "Congrats! You were chosen." But then, knelt down to my ear level and whispered "You're never going to hear the end of it now." After, they slapped my back hard, which looked like a friendly thump on the back.

Claudia made her way towards me and grabbed the hood of my sweater. I choked on my gruel. "Girl, come with me." She snarled in my ear. She hauled me out of my chair and down a couple of staircases.

She hung my hood on a hook on the wall and pressed my back against the wall. "Well Emo girl, looks like not only you blinded me, but also was the lucky 'chosen one' ey?" Claudia looked deep into my eyes. "You know, I HATE being blinded." My voice stammered "Wha-what? You've been blinded before?"

Claudia snarled "Multiple times, by a boy, you know what I did to him? You wanna know?" Before I had the chance to respond, she lugged me into the nearest bathroom "I drowned him, in the toilet, it was nasty, he kept twitching and screaming for help. My parents thought I was too much, so they sent me to an orphanage."

She held my face close to the toilet. To spare my time I quickly asked her "What was his name?" She thought for a few minutes, I immediately started to scream. Claudia plunged my head into the toilet, the warm water got into my eyes and ears, and I started struggling. Finally, I flung my head around to make my long ponytail get into her face. I kicked her, I must say, it was a pretty badass kick.

Claudia howled, and then mist like substance fell away from her face, now, she was more buff, hairy and had only one eye. A cyclops, WTF? Something tugged out of my chest and I stumbled underneath the sink to take cover from fragments of ceiling and wall crumbling off the structure, then, I became no substance at all.

The air turned black and chilly, I felt like I had no substance. I felt dizzy, like I was falling down onto the Earth in a dream. Suddenly, I felt sticks, stones and leaves underneath my back. I laid on my back in the orphanage parking lot. I felt tired and the world was starting to dim around me, I didn't want to fall asleep, I had no idea what had just happened, I was frightened and it felt like I was dying.

But a little voice in my head said. Just a little sleep, a little nap. I felt myself being picked up and a voice saying to me, "Sleep, it's your first time anyway, it's best for you."

I tried peeling my eyes open. But my eyes felt heavy and droopy, the sun was too bright for me to see.

Sleep.

Just a little sleep…

/LINE BREEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKKKKKKKK/

I felt the slight breeze of the wind against my face and the sun smiling down on me. I got up, I was dazed and looked around me, I was still in my same clothes, and they were very dirty and ripped.

I was in a small room with hospital beds and medical machines and tools around it. An infirmary. Of course, I must've blacked out. There was a pack of clean clothing on the bed, I wanted to take a look around but I had to put some clean clothing on first.

After I put the clothing on, I spotted a black case next to my bed. "You stupid damned, bloody fool of a thing." I whispered. I lifted my violin case and stepped outside of the infirmary, outside there was a camp fire where there was a girl tending to it.

I walked towards the campfire, when I reached it; I dumped my violin case into the campfire, with the violin and everything. The girl next to the campfire looked up. "Hello, welcome to camp, daughter of Hades."

I suddenly remembered everything, the orphanage, the boy, blacking out. "I'm not supposed to be here, I have to go back." I said. The girl pointed into the woods, "If you weren't supposed to be there, you wouldn't have passed the boundaries."

"Greek mythology isn't real, it's fake, everyone knows that." I said my heart pounding. The girl turned back to the fire place. "Doesn't everyone think that in the beginning?" She put her hand into the fire. She pulled it out. I gasped. The arm was unharmed, but fire was running up and down her arm.

"You aren't Hephaestus are you?" I asked her. The girl shook her head, her warm eyes comforted me. "Hestia? Lady Hestia?" I asked. The girl smiled, she shook my hand. "Welcome to Camp Half-Blood." She pointed behind me. "Someone is waiting for you."

I turned behind me, the boy earlier I saw at the orphanage, was leaning on a tree in the shadows. I turned back; Hestia was back to her fireplace tending it again. I shook my head in disbelief and ran to him.

A/N: I'm sorry if this chapter is a bit boring, but I need something to move the story along!