Growing Up

Perseus


Saratoga Battlefield & a Civil War Cannon

Percy's P.O.V.

I was in fifth grade and I was at yet another school. I groaned as I was stuck on the hottest, stickiest, smelliest, bus of all time with Albert Grazas. He was an okay kid, but he reeked worse than anything I could imagine.

We, the thirty plus students of Masters Academy, were on this horrible bus with our creepy teacher Mr. Lanlock. He was a wrinkled old man who always looked ready to drop, and he was just under sixty five. Did I forget to mention he thought I was the devil? Yeah, he got me in trouble for everything, and because today we were heading toward the Saratoga Battlefield, he was keeping me on a tight leash. He sat right in front of us, his beady green eyes darting around and coming back to me every few seconds.

When we arrived we all ran excitedly off the bus. It's not often that a bunch of troubled kids get to go to a battlefield that has weapons scattered all over the place.

"Jackson," Mr. Lanlock wheezed at me. I sighed as I turned and waited for him. For me to go on this history trip he had to be watching me at all times.

We walked around "calmly" and we got to check out some of the weapons and fire some blanks.

Then we got to the cannon.

We were learning how to fire it, even though it wasn't loaded, and the instructor, Mr. Simmons, asked for a volunteer. I couldn't help myself; I was bouncing up and down with my hand in the air. I wanted to get away from the old teacher, and learn to shoot a canon. You never know when it could come in handy.

I stepped up to the cannon and all the other guys seemed to glare jealously at me. That's a first.

I fired, and expected nothing to happen, but the cannon swiveled around and shot a cannonball.

Right into our school bus.

The smoking hole in the bus didn't seem to be enough, because then the engine blew. All we were left with was a burning heap of yellow metal.

"JACKSON!" Lanlock wheezed.

Why does all of the unlucky stuff happen to me?

I was definitely expelled.

Again.


So whatcha think? One more chapter then this story is done. Then all I have to do is finish Marisol's Growing Up story. But that might take a week because I need to add to her backstory. Percy is a character we know all about, so I figured I should give Mari some more detail before I start the twin stories all over again (TLT, SoM, TTC, BotL, TLO, TLH, SoN, MoA, you get it). So, should I do this story in both their P.O.V's for each chapter, just Percy's P.O.V in the whole story, or Just Marisol's P.O.V in the whole story? I'm gonna put up a poll for that, and it'd be great if you, my dear readers, voted.

Til next time.

Love you all.
~Xoxo ScarlettRose4Love