Brenden grabs my arm and drags me toward the trees. My mom is trying to do the same to my 'dad,' but he won't budge. The Hellhounds are approaching him. "Dad!" I scream. "Dad! Run!"
I try to escape from Brenden, but he's, like, Hercules strong. He throws me, literally throws me into the bushes, but the entire time I'm screaming for my fake dad to get away from the Hellhounds. I hear vicious growls and my mother yelling for someone named Chiron, which sounds like the centaur teacher I read about, but none of it makes sense. I stand in the bushes to clear my head, but everything is still a jumble.
"STOP!" I command. I don't really yell it, more like declare it, but everything freezes. Not literally, but the Hellhounds back off, Brendan pulls my father away, and my mother winks at me. The Hellhounds back into the dark shadows of the tall Evergreens, seeming to disappear right into them.
I laugh. "I'm not going crazy, right? I mean, like, those are people in costumes." I point to my father. "That's fake blood." I point to Brenden. "You're on steroids. That's the only explanation. Nemisis is a myth. God knows I wish she were real, god knows I wish you were her, but it's not right. You. Are. All. CRAZY!" I laugh phsycotically as I stride through the trees. "And there's gonna be, like, a centaur back here, and he's going to be eating dinner with a god!" I snort, then hear someone coughing behind me.
It's an old pudgy man, walking next to a guy in a wheelchair. The pudgy man looks drunk, and he's wearing running shoes and a cheetah-print shirt. He flares his nostrils and takes a step towards me. "What do you have against gods, girl?"
Hey! Please review/ I havn't updated in so long because I only got ONE REVIEW! I appreciate it :) Sorry the chapter is so short, I just thought that would be a good place to stop. If you read this while listening to I'll make a man out of you from Mulan, it makes it SUPER dramatic. Lol. Can anyone guess who Cecelia's father is?