Chapter 4: Everybody's pasts holds something

This is chapter 4 everybody! Just to let you guys know, my favorite food is ice cream, because why not? I liked writing this chapter, so I hope you guys enjoy it!

DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN ANYTHING! I DON'T OWN PJO OR ANYTHING YOU RECOGNIZED IN THE STORY. JUST THIS PLOT IS MINE.


"Bobby, the Spiderman Movie is obviously better." Matthew yelled. "Nope. Age of Ultron is. Everybody knows that, right Percy?"

Ughhh, I thought, why'd they have to add me into this mess? Annabeth saw the look on my face and her face perked up. "Yea

Percy," she teased, "which movie is better?" Oh holy Zeus. "I think we should draw our names out of a hat and that's how we decide

who gets to choose first. Here let me do this really quickly." I said. I ran upstairs and asked my mom to write our names on the

pieces of the paper. After a few moments I ran back downstairs with the slips of paper in the hat. "Annabeth, draw the names." I said

to her. She reached her hand in and pulled out a piece of paper and said, "Percy's first. What movie do you want to watch?" I

thought for a second and said, "Let's watch my favorite movie, Finding Nemo!" She looked at me and gave me a weird stare.

"What?" I asked them, "That's my favorite movie. Don't judge." I turned on the movie and halfway through Dory started to sing Just

Keep Swimming. I started to sing with her, "Just keep swimming, just keep swimming, swimming, swimming, swim-" I was rudely cut

off by Annabeth throwing popcorn at me. "Shut up. Your singing is terrible." she said. "Ugh!", I joked, "You offend me." I started laughing

and she started throwing more popcorn at me. "HEY!" I yelled. She looked at the twins then down at her watch. "Shhh. The twins are

sleeping. And it's like 10pm so we should keep quiet." she said. We lifted up the twins and carried them up to the guest room. They were

light, even for 6 year olds. "Let's go back down and watch another movie." she said as she walked down the stairs, "It's my turn, by the way."

We got downstairs and she chose a tv show. "I need to binge watch all these episodes." she said as she turned it on. It was Video Game

High School from Netflix. We watched all of season one and she turned on what I wanted to watch. As the movie Moana turned on she

turned to me and said, "Want to play 20 questions?" "Sure" I replied, "You go first." "Umm.." she said, "Can you tell me about your past?" I

thought of what to tell her. I could have just cut some corners but I decided not to leave any details out. And besides, I trusted her. "So…

my mom met my biological dad and she loved him. After a while, they had me. Anyways, my dad was in the Navy, and he had to go away.

He never came back and after some time, we found out that he died in a ship wreckage. I was only three then. So my mom hired Helen to

watch over me so she could go out and work. Helen was super nice. She was the first one to realize that I had dyslexia. So she helped me

and my mom out a lot. I started to go to school and Helen had to move across the country, so she couldn't help me out anymore. Shortly

after my mom got remarried to a guy named Gabe. But I always just called him Smelly Gabe. He was nice at first, but then, he got fired

from his job. My mom had to work extra hard to keep up fed and sheltered. Gabe became an alcoholic and gambled a lot. He was also very

abusive. But one day, I just couldn't take it anymore. I called the cops and Gabe got arrested. I'm still scared sometimes, but I always

realize that Gabe can't reach me. Around the same time Gabe got arrested my grandma passed away. We weren't that close, but she, as I

said before, was loaded. She gave me most of the money because she like me more than my mom. So my mom used that money to move

here and to start up a business. She's going to open up a Ice Cream and Candy store. So I'm pretty happy that I'm here now. Moving here

makes me feel free of all the problems back in New York." I said. Annabeth pulled me into a hug. "You can trust me, Percy. I think you know

that I'm going to be your best friend now, right?" she said, "So I guess it's your turn now?" I nodded and thought for awhile. "Tell me about

your life then." She sat quietly. "I… My mom died when I turned one. I never got to make memories with her. I was always a smart kid,

even with my dyslexia. I'm actually pretty popular for that too. I grew up with my dad and my friend Thalia. Her dad would usually forget

her so she stays with me from time to time. My dad, well he was a workaholic. When I was 7 I finally got him to get out of the house. He

went to the park with me and met Helen there. I hated Helen. I didn't really know why then, but I know why now. She made my dad look

even happier than I had ever made him. I was jealous. They got married soon after. I was really upset about that. She would get impatient

with me when I would smart talk her. Otherwise than that she was really nice to me. It was really great to get some kind of mother-like

figure. Then she had Matthew and Bobby. My dad looked so complete, I felt like I was a whole again too. My life is even greater now that I

have a new bestie." she said. Her story was so fascinating that I could probably have turned it into a book, maybe a movie. But then, my life

was pretty interesting too. We sat and watched three more movies. We talked and ate some more candy. After some time we both fell

asleep. And I fell asleep knowing that I had made a new friend.


So that was chapter 4!

I hoped you enjoyed this chapter. If you want to leave me ideas or just want to correct some errors, leave a review.

Catch you somewhere in the world,

-An