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That scumbag. Why would he do this? To her of all people. She was nice and sweet, although maybe a little annoying at times. We run through the alleys, searching, all of us. I here a scream, the next alley over. He found her. I crouch down. Beaten, bloody, and dead. Can't be. He takes the body. He places it in the warehouse. We go home, for now. I unlock my apartment, quietly, for my mom is sleeping. I punch the wall, and a few tears come down. Just a few, I can't allow more than that. I have a job. A reputation. A gang to lead. And some revenge to plot.

Percy's p.o.v.

I wake from my nap with a start. Yes, gang leaders take naps. You have a problem with that? Good. School is not fun, especially if you are not smart. Book smart, that is. I'm street smart, knowing almost all of New York. I looked at the clock and got up. I put my bandana on my head and leather coat on my shoulders. I wrote a note and left it on the counter for my mom. I love my mom, I really do, and it hurts me to see her upset or angry at me. I pulled on black vans and walked out the door. I stepped into the cool air and noticed something. Before you call me mad, crazy, or even psychotic, let me tell you something. Years of growing up around gangs because of my dad and lead one of the most famous ones in New York, my gut feelings and senses had sharpened. Sometimes your life depended on them when put in danger, which I had been in many times. Something was not right. Something happened, or more precisely, someone's here.

When I get to the warehouse, I find only Nico there. "Dude, where's everybody else?" He replies without even turning around.

"Hey. It's the end of Christmas break. Some people who want to pass senior year," he turns around and looks at me, for I don't care about passing this year," need to rest before going to school. Also, Luke will be there tomorrow and we need to be ready. " I nod. "Then why are you here," I ask, scrunching my nose up.

"Someone needed to tell you. None of us wanted you climbing in our windows and scaring us half to death by pushing us out of bed, dragging us out the window by our ears, and tying us to a chair." A smile and he smiles back. Nico was like my little brother and he looked up to me. He also needed sunlight in his life. His dad was barley ever there, plus he's a creep. What fifty year old man wares man eye liner? His siter also died when he was four and his sister- well we don't like to talk about it.

"You can go home now Nico, and thanks for telling me. He nods and turns to leave. "See you tomorrow." Soon after I leave myself, after locking up everything.

When I walk home, I take a quick detour to Luke's headquarters. Everyone knows were his is, because he likes bragging and boasting. He is very high-and-mighty, lavished in a huge and fancy abandoned building. I peek through and alley at it and see all of the windows dark. Good, he has the same idea as us. When I get home, I go right to bed, dreading school.

I wake up to my alarm clock going off. I reach over to hit the snooze button, but my mom comes bursting through the door. "Get up! Get up!" when I roll over and cover my head with the pillow my mom says, "Perseus Jackson get up! I let you sleep longer than I should have, get up!" With that she walked out of the room so I could get changed. I sit up and groan. She pokes her head back in. "Fine I'll eat all of the blue waffles by myself." With that she leaves and I jump up like I had been stabbed, which had happened before. Many times.

I wolf down the waffles my mom gives me and I kiss her cheek before I rush out the door. I hop into by busted up ford pickup truck, painted a shiny black with sea green flames. Each member of the gang has his own, black with different color flames. That way everyone know who we are, and no one challenges us.

I see Thalia talking to some girl, and they laugh and walk into school. They look like friends, the way Thalia protectively slings her arm around the girl's shoulder. It's a shame the girl looks pretty, brown hair and a nice figure. To bad she will run for cover when Thalia introduces her to me. She looks to innocent. But there is one thing I can see, she's is different than other people. And strangely familiar.

Thalia has an interesting job between the gangs. You see, Luke, her, and I were playmates as kids. She wanted to join a gang, but the one thing Luke and I agree on is not to get her hurt. So, she acts like a messenger between us. But, I take in Thalia and she fights with us, once in a while. She is a good aim.

Up until lunch, the day is unproductive. Thalia introduces me to 'Annie', who excuses herself after an introduction. I look at Thalia. "Did you tell her?"

"Of course, you idiot I told her. Don't worry; she's just shy and scared. I would to, I mean, coming to New York a little into senior year." I nod we finish our lunch in silence. Little things jumped out at me about the girl. I told you I wasn't very smart, but my street-adapted brain tried putting pieces together. The blonde roots, barely visible, in her hair. Her shifting eyes. Her tightly zipped sweatshirt. Her jiggling her knee. Her familiar face.

Huh. Whatever.

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