It is the first day of middle school, pretty boring. I was driven to school by my dad, who works here as an English teacher. His name is Paul Blofis, You might know him, he is the most favourite teacher in this school. The bell rang so I ran to my class. Fortunately I was on time. The lesson started after a minute.
"Welcome class, I am miss Brown. Let's say something about yourself. Let's begin with" She looked down on her paper "Estelle Blofis."
"Hi, I'm Estelle Blofis and I live with my mom and dad."
"alright, Thank you Estelle, Now Austin Clark"
I zoned out, I already knew most of them. They were all in my previous classes, it's mostly for the teachers.
"Alright, thank you, George Young. That's it, Then I will tell you about a project we are going to do in this week. It's the family project, so you have to tell about your family and find as much facts as you can and on Friday you to present it. You have to make a PowerPoint. Ask your parents, Grandparents, aunts and uncles for facts about your family. It has to take 5 minutes. Are there any questions?"
Some children put their hands up.
"Olivia."
"Can I tell something about my pets?" Olivia asked, she is the animal lover in this class. She rebels against climate change and the meat industry, that's why she is vegetarian.
"Yes, but I want to hear more about your human family. You can tell the names of your pets, but I don't want their history and so on. Mark." Olivia looked a little disappointed.
"Can I also talk about friends, Because they are basically family, right?" Mark the guy with millions of friends asked.
"Only a little bit, more about the people who raised you, and who've known you since you were born. James"
"What about the people who are dead miss?" the guy whose parents and grandparents where in the army asked,
" They are still family, so yes you may include them too." This peeked my interest, maybe I could ask about Percy.
"Where that all the questions?" Miss brown looked around and saw no more hands up in the air. "You can now start to work for it, maybe you can prepare some questions to ask your parents"
I started to work directly, I wrote so many questions down my hand started to hurt.
Friday
"Alright, Who wants to start with their presentation?" Miss brown asked.
I worked very hard on it I learned a lot about Percy so I actually wanted to start first. So I put my hand high up in the air.
"Estelle, come up here."
I walked towards the front of the class. I saw some classmates looking at me like I had grown a second head, I don't have a hardworking reputation, I guess.
"Hi, I'm going to start with my parents, then about my Aunts and Uncles, then about my brother. " I said very rushed, I still don't like to be in the spotlight. "My mom is Sally Blofis- Jackson. She is the best mom in the world, she is a writer and bakes delicious blue chocolate chip cookies. My dad is Paul Blofis, he is a teacher on this school, he teaches English. He married my mom 12 years ago." You saw a picture of my mom alone, of my dad alone, and my parents on their wedding day. I gave a sign to my best friend Maddie that she should go to the next slide. I talked very shortly about my uncles, aunts and grandparents. On the slide was a group photo with all of them. Now came the best part.
"My brother is Percy Jackson. He was born of a 'fling' with a man who my mom met in the summer." I couldn't tell them that he was a god! "He passed away at age 19 together with his wife." Now there was a whole slide dedicated to them, them on their wedding day on the beach. Them kissing and them in the water. "His wife was Annabeth Jackson-Chase. I was 3 when they died. My brother loved the sea, that is why all those pictures are taken on the beach. He had a lot of friends." There was a picture of all the campers after the war with Gaea. " His favourite colour is blue, hence the blue cookies my mom bakes. After my mom had gotten Percy, she married Gabe Ugliano."
Now you saw a man with 3 strands of hair around a poker table. "He was there whole Percy's childhood. He should have gotten money, but all he did was playing poker and my mom worked in a candy shop, while also studying to be a writer. My mom didn't want to tell me a lot about him, but I think he abused her and Percy. When Percy was 12 Gabe left them, without telling them anything." Left? Murdered you mean. Man I wish I would've seen that.
"Percy met Annabeth at a camp he went to. They were best friends for 4 years, they both had a crush on each other but they were to oblivious to notice. On Percy's 16th birthday they had their first kiss. They were thrown in the lake by their friends. So that was the day they were officially boyfriend and girlfriend. 2 and a half year later they married. When they died they found a birth test in Annabeth's pocket so if they still lived I would be an aunt."
"Annabeth had 2 half-brothers, father side. She didn't had the best contact with her parents, but it started to be better after Annabeth met Percy." I looked over at the clock and I was over the 5 minute limit!
"So basically, my half-brother had a pretty bad life before he was 12 and my mom is still great even though fate wasn't always nice to her. My dad is a teacher on this school and was a gift of heaven for my dad. Are there any questions?" I rushed those words out because I was pretty over time.
"George?"
"How did your brother and his wife die? Did they die the same day? Was it an accident?"
"George!" Miss brown shouted at George and gave him a stern look.
"No problem ma'am. Yes they died on the same day, no it wasn't an accident. And my mom didn't want to tell me how they died." How do you explain they got killed by a Greek monster?
"How did they both die on the same day if it wasn't an accident?" Josh butted in.
"I don't know as I said" I started to get irritated. "Any other questions?" Some people put their hands up in the air. "That aren't about how my brother died?" All hands raised went down. Great class, note the sarcasm.
"You can sit down, Estelle. Condolences." Miss Brown said. Really? Gods, he is already dead for 8 years, too late miss. Cue the eye roll.
I looked outside during Austin's presentation. I saw someone sitting under the shadow under a tree. I saw his face and it was Percy. He looked pretty relaxed. I still remember what Nico said years ago. But I don't want him away he is something constant in my life. Just someone who is always there, who always listens when you talk he is just a great big brother.
And Done! Sooner than I thought it would be. Just for some questions that could have arisen, Yes Estelle knows about the gods. She met the 7 and so on. She knows about her gift. Percy can talk with her and talk to her. But it costs a lot of energy that's a reason why he is so weak.
For the followers I canged a little part in the last chapter, Annabeth left the underworld also but after a couple years with Percy.
