Chapter 3: The modeling business

Monique's POV

Katie told me to take Hailey shopping cause she needed new clothes, so I had her over at my penthouse to try on some clothes. I peeked into the large changing room and I saw Hailey standing there. And then it clicks, she would be a great model, even if she's only 5'6.

"Um Hailey…" She turned around.

"Yes?"

"Could you try on something new?"

"Um sure."

Hailey's POV

After she slipped me into some clothes, she rushed me into another room and someone did my makeup and then she dragged me to a room with a white backdrop and cameras.

"Is this a photo shoot?" I asked her. She nodded.

"Can you please do this for me?" Grandma asked. "You're modeling material." After a few shots, I took a taxi home. And in a few weeks, they came out.

"Why would you do this?" Alex asks me. We were sitting at his house, but really, I just broke in to steal cereal. He held up a magazine that had my picture in it. "You don't seem like the modeling type."

I just shrug. "I don't know." But I do. When the cameras were flashing, Gaea shut up, but I couldn't tell anyone, I just couldn't.

Alex stares at me and I stare back. I feel his hand on my shoulder and we both lean in.

"ALEX!" I lean back and Mr. Jackson walks in. He slides his hand off my shoulders. "Oh… am I interrupting something?"

Alex smacks his forehead. "No dad, absolutely not." Feeling the awkwardness in the air, I teleport home.

Jacob's POV

I blinked the tiredness out of my eyes and got out of bed, only that I wasn't in bed. "Wah?" I sat up and saw my face imprint on a canvas. "Oh no… not again…" I touch my face and look at my fingertips. Paint. I walk out of my room and walk to the bathroom to wash it off.

After I wipe off the paint on my face I go look for anyone who's already awake. I figure Hailey's already awake because she's always the first one awake. I walk into kitchen and see the honey-nut cheerio's box lying on the floor, empty.

You see, when you live in a house with a daughter of Demeter and three other people with Demeter blood, cereal runs out fast. I figured she went to the Jackson's house, as she always does to steal some cereal.

I open a cabinet and take out coffee grounds. Yum… Coffee. I grab a spoon and start to scoop the coffee grounds into the coffee maker.

And just so you know, I've been drinking coffee since I was 10 and I'm 5'7", so take that people that say that coffee stunts your growth.

Hailey teleports into the house I nod a hello. "Mr. Jackson is such a cock block!" She yelled. She put a pillow to her face and commenced to scream in it.

"Good morning to you too." The phone rings and I tell her to pick it up, but she doesn't hear me so I sigh and pick it up. The caller ID said: Out of Area.

"Hello?"

"Hello, is Katie Gardner here?" Maybe it was me being shocked but I couldn't understand what he was saying. He talked a mile a minute.

"Um… Who is this?"

"Miles Potter, and who may this be?"

"Jacob Stoll." It was weird that his first name was my middle name. I heard him chuckle.

"Oh so she hooked up with that bloke, well can you please put her on the phone."

"Wait a sec." I ran upstairs and shook mom awake.

"Meh? What?"

"This is for you." Dad was already at work and it was a Saturday. I left the room and I heard a high pitched scream. I peeked into her bedroom to see what was wrong, but she was smiling and almost talking as fast as that Miles guy.

"It's snowing outside." I look at Hailey who is looking out the window. It was December at the time.

"Yea, it is." She gets all giddy.

"Do you think we could go to Central Park this weekend?" She liked playing in the snow, a lot.

Alex's POV

"Can't skate Jackson?"

"Shudap." I said gritting my teeth. Hailey was circling around me. "Your grandfather is the god of sports, so I'm not surprised if you're good at sports the first time you play them."

Jacob came speeding by with Rosie in hand and I heard her giggling. I swear, they're connection was unnatural, or maybe it was from me being a single child.

"Let me help you."

"No!" I heard her let out a sigh.

"You and your pride." But she still sticks out her hands for me to take. I looked up and after procrastinating, I take it. She helps me up and I realize that her hands are really soft. I'd expected them to be rough from gardening all the time and being a B.A.M.F.

I slip a bit and she catches me, our faces are so close together. "Maybe we could…."

"Yea." We both lean in but then some fat guy crashes into us and causes us to break apart.

"What the fuck?" Hailey said. The fat guy just giggles.

"You guys were 'bout to kiss." He giggled. I mutter things that if my mother heard, she would slap me all the way to Japan going east. I could see Hailey getting into her 'I'm gonna kick yo ass' mode.

"You better skate away before I go all hell fire on you." And all the sudden her presence isn't nice and fuzzy, more like a 'you're going to die' presence.

He skates away and Jacob skates towards us. "Dude, Hailes, why didn't you beat him up?" She just shrugs and gets the imaginary dirt out of her nails.

"Can we get out of here?" She asked. "I don't want to kill Fatty McRuinthemoment."

Rosie's POV

I didn't get my sister's attraction to Alex, I truly didn't. How does she find boys attractive? Girls are pretty and sweet and nice…

Is it wrong to like girls? Because in everything I see, it's about a boy and girl falling in love and getting married, but it's never a girl and girl.

I mean, I like boys as friends, but I could never love them. I love my brother of course, but not in that creepy way.

But I kept to myself about this.

Jacob's POV

Soon winter break ended and we had to go back to school. We got kicked out of our 7th grade school (don't ask… But it was AWESOME.) so we were transferred to some private school called Yancy Academy.

"Do you think we'll tear shit up?" Hailey asks checking her nails.

"Hades yea." She looked up and smiled.

"Of course, we're B.A.M.F.'s, all Stoll's are B.A.M.F.'s" We rolled our luggage into the school and a woman greeted us.

"Welcome to Yancy, here are your schedules and your keys." She said. "By the way, I'm Mrs. Larky."

I nodded and Hailey just waved. "I hear that one of you is mute, which one?" I raised my hand. "Will you have trouble communicating?" I shook my head and showed her my note pad. She nodded and we got dismissed to go to our rooms.

I unlock the door and all of my text books are already here, them being placed on my desk. The first thing I do I get out all my mini canvases I got this Christmas/close birthday. I set them up in the corner of the room with my paints, brushes, and canvas stand. School starts tomorrow and I know that my sister's ADHD got in the way of unpacking, so I picklock the door of her room and walk in.

And I was right; she was laying on her bed rolling her R's while pretending to drive an imaginary steering wheel.

"Aren't you supposed to start unpacking?" She looks up.

"Oh, I didn't know you were here." She looks around. "Can you help me?"

"Fine." I sigh. "But this time, you actually have to do some work." She sighed and got up from her little world.

THE NEXT DAY…

Abbie's POV

I sat at my desk filing my nails; class was about to start and everyone's gossiping about the new kids. "New meat." I giggled to my two B.F.F.L.'s, Laurie and Cassidy. They giggled back.

Hi dweeb, I'm Abbie Sanchez and me and my friends are the H.B.'s of this school. And if you're an idiot, H.B. means head bitch. And I'm the head head bitch. The bell rings and Mrs. Ackens opens the door with a really hot boy and a other girl that looks, all right… I put her into consideration to let her under my wing. She looks familiar…

"Good morning class, today we'll be welcoming two new students, Jacob and Hailey Stoll." Then my jaw drops. They're the kids of that hot old dude. That hot old dude still has abs! Sure he might be in his 40's, but still, that's old.

Jacob looks like he's filling in nicely by the way his arms look. I wanted to see more though… Hailey looked familiar like I've seen her before, but where? I dug into my bag and pulled out VOUGE. And on the front cover, Hailey Stoll was standing there smiling. How could she do that, in the picture it looks like she's older! My daddy has been pestering Monique Stoll to let me model for her, how does she get in?

Mrs. Ackens directs Hailey to sit behind me and Jacob to sit behind Reese, the awkward silent guy. Just by the way she walks looks like she owns the place. She sat herself down at the chair and sat up straighter.

"Hey new girl." She glared at me.

"I have a name you know." She said. I just gave her a smile.

"Hailey isn't it?" I reached out my hand for her to shake but she folded her arms. "I'm Abbie Sanchez."

"I decline your offer, but thank you." She said glaring at me with those green eyes that I swear that had a fire in them.

"What?" I shifted in my chair. "What do you mean?" She smiled a crooked smile.

"I know what kind of person you are, you think you're the H.H.B. and you're welcoming me into your little passé." She started to drum her fingers on the desk. "And like I said, I decline."

No one has ever done that before. "You've got some nerve Stoll." She just laughed.

"Yes Ms. Sanchez, I do, so kill me." Then class started.

Jacob's POV

I bit my pencil trying to pay attention to the lesson. But I found myself later drawing. But then I forced myself to listen. But I felt many eyes on me. I turned my head a bit and saw many girls ogling at me like I was their favorite thing in the world but they couldn't have.

I looked at my dear sister and she was staring straight forward, probably day dreaming or something. I sighed and went back to my notes, which I knew that I was going to lent to her. The bell rang and I picked up my stuff to go to my next class, which was literature advanced.

You might be asking, why are you in literature advanced and your dyslexic? Well I dunno, I just happen to read and write better than a regular dyslexic person. The guy named Reese is in my class and once again, I sit behind him. He doesn't talk much but don't mind, but if he's going to sit in front of me for the rest of the school year, I would want to be in good terms with him.

I write a note that says: hey. and pass it over to him. He opens it while he raises his eyebrow. He gets out a pencil and writes in it. He passes it back and says: Why do you want to talk to me? No one ever talks to me.

I write in my notepad: Because, I talk to anyone, no matter if no one talks to you. BTW, I'm mute. I show him the notepad and he raises his eyebrow again. "Mute huh?" He says his voice is gruff and really low. I nod. "Must suck."

You have no idea. He laughed at that and adjusted his hipster glasses. He had jet black hair like Alex did and brown eyes, but it was cut short, he was medium height and was kinda skinny, but not quite.

"Reese, Reese Robinson. And I know who you are; you're the son of that famous guy." I nodded. Trust me; I don't like all this fame. He nodded like he understood. Then class started. And it was funny cause some guy tripped over my sword and didn't even know.

Next I had science and I sat next to a petite Asian girl and I could tell she was blushing, even with her long black hair covering her face. The teacher was this middle aged guy named Mr. Vaughn. He talked for a long time and his voice was all nasally. But finally he shut up when the bell rung.

Hailey was in the same class with me so she walked with me out the door to advanced math. Cause hello, science connects with math, and we happen to be good at both. The math teacher was bubbly Ms. Madigan and I could tell she dyed her hair blonde because I could see the red roots.

The day went by and at 8th period, was art. Yay. Then 9th period is gym. And the gym teacher is some burly dude named Mr. Sanders and what we're doing is, believe it or not, fencing.

Hailey's POV

Fencing, this day couldn't get any better. "All right, today we'll be fencing…" But I didn't pay attention to what he said cause I was eyeing who I would like to dominate, hmm, maybe that Abbie girl. She makes my life a hell, at lunch, she purposely dunked her food on my head but said that she tripped. Tripped my ass.

"Female Stoll with Sanchez." Mr. Sanders barked. I gave her a coy smile and picked up foil.

"Just so you know, I know how to fence and I'll kick your ass." She sneered.

"All riiiight princess." I said giggling, sadly for her, I've been fighting off monsters my whole life with these bad boys.

"Unguard." I said holding the foil up. I lunged but our foils clashed together. She wasn't bad for a mortal, but still, she could be better. After a few clashes she found herself on the floor with the tip of the foil on her forehead. I gave her a smug smile.

"I win." She just scowled and got up.

"Just luck new girl." She said bitterly.

"Yea right." After changing a tall Middle Eastern girl came up to me.

"Hi, my name is Isha Amir, and just so you know, I'm from Pakistan." She reached out her hand for me to shake and I took it, seeing she wasn't fake and all.

"Hi, I'm Hailey Stoll, and just so you know, I'm from Greece." She laughed at that.

"I'd be weird if you related to the Greek Gods, huh?" She laughed. And I gave her a nervous laugh.

"Yea, I'd be weird." No actually, it wouldn't, since I actually am, to two of them. We walked to our dorms and we departed and I walked into my room. We had intill 6'o clock for free time. I had an Iris message waiting for me. I run my hand through it and oh look, it's the smart seaweed.

"Hi Alex."

"Hi Hailey, wazzup?"

"Oh nothing up, just dealing with the bitches."

"I think my dad went to that school. You know, in the beginning of the first book." He held up the book that said, Percy Jackson and the Lighting Thief. Ever since Rick Riordan, an Athena child started writing books about our adventures, it had been supporting our camp ever since. Money wise I mean.

We sit there and talk intill his mom calls him to do something. I wave goodbye and decide to go to Jacob's room. He doesn't answer so I pick lock the door.

"Wassup bro?" But he's too busy to hear me cause he's in his 'don't-talk-to-me-I'm-being-an-artist.' Mode. I sit on his bed and shake his shoulders. "HULLO?" I yell, but then break out laughing. He looks up and flashes me his apparently 'dazzling, charming, and hot' smile.

"Oh hi." He said, but more like laughed. "Close the door."

"What you think that the other guys will think you're lame?" I asked him.

"No, and if they do, I'll kick their asses." He was getting cocky now, but hey, as well as I was, he was a B.A.M.F.

I walk over to his desk and sit on top of it and begin to play with his PSP. There's a knock at the door and I ask him if I can open it.

"Sure." He said. I opened the door and some guy with jet black hair and hazel eyes is at it.

"What do you want?" I asked him, his mouth was wide open. "And what are you looking at, keep your eyes up here buddy." His eyes averted to my face.

"Uh, I'm here to talk to Jacob but if you want to do something, I'll be happy to change my plans." He said leaning against the doorway. I laughed.

"In your dreams big boy." I pushed him aside and walked back to my room.

Jacob's POV

I looked up and saw him looking at my sister's ass. "Stop looking at her ass you idiot." But I knew he couldn't hear me. Silly mortal.

I grabbed a sharpie and wrote in big caps on a sheet of paper: DON'T YOU DARE TRY FOR MY SISTER. He turned around and saw my sign.

"Whhy?" He whined. "She's so hot. I mean she's gotta chest and an ass." I glared daggers at him.

Trust me; she's kinda taken by a friend. And I was sure I could feel all his hope drop to the ground and die.

"By who?" He asked. You don't know him.

"Is he famous? You know since she's a model." I shook my head. Well he was famous at camp since his dad was our camp leader when he came to camp, now I don't know who the camp leader is, but I'm still pretty sure it's him.

He's from camp. He raised an eyebrow.

"You go to camp?" Yea, it's a special camp, but never mind that. He sighed and then noticed my recent piece of art. "You draw?" And paint, sculpt, and all that shit. I nodded.

It's not much. "What do you mean? You draw like a pro."

Abbie's POV

I saw Hailey walk by and all the boys in the hallway stared at her. Ugh, she wasn't that hot. "She's such a skank." Laurie whispered.

Hailey opened the door to her room and closed it with a loud thud. What was her problem? "Bi-polar much?" I giggled. But then I heard her scream.

I couldn't hear what she was saying but I heard some Latin in it. Why was she screaming in Latin?

"She's a freak." Cassidy murmured. Hailey Stoll is a freak.

M'Kay I'm done. Thanks for reading. I like having my own character's cause people can't say that they're OOC cause their mine! And if you're asking about the sexuality of Rosie, then read it again and figure it out. And if your new and don't know about Rick Riordan being a half-blood, well he was, but by now he's like dead or something cause you know they're in the future and Rick would be old and stuff. And they're aware of the books. Also I'm thinking about writing another Tratie story but I'm not sure about it, so should I? Ok, thanks again for reading and if you want to then review.