Before I start with this next chapter I decided to split it into a few different parts. Part one (1-6) was called:
Part Two: Isn't it illegal to teach about God in school?
7
Shortly after I left my flock I spotted Percy and Annabeth and Grover, who was sipping coffee. I landed in front of them and laughed, despite my sudden sadness, at the looks of awe displayed on all of their faces. "Did I mention I could fly?" I jokingly asked. Total was strapped to my back with a baby carrier I'd obtained from my mother two months ago. Akila was, unfortunately, resting in my arms. The big dog was (stupidly) too big.
"Can I take the Malamute?" Grover asked me. I gladly set Akila on the sidewalk and she trotted over to Grover.
"Take my woman!" I heard Total mutter darkly from behind me. I chuckled.
The six of us, after Percy snapped his fingers and said a few weird things to the bus driver, who decided dogs were ok, boarded a greyhound bus. "Guys, I don't even know where to go." I told them. "I don't know which School is open."
"Isn't every school open?" An elderly old lady sitting in front of me asked politely. "Shouldn't you youngsters be in your classes?" She looked innocent enough, also she looked confused. I decided she was a normal old lady and turned impatiently to the gang.
"Well," Annabeth started. "My mother told me, in a dream, that there is a small School in a little suburban town in Southern California."
"Um, ok." I told her. "You know that's a long way away."
"Yeah, we've gone from Long Island Sound to California twice before." Percy informed me. "Don't worry about it."
"Well, what I'm saying is that it would be a lot quicker to fly there."
"Not all of us have wings." Annabeth said. Grover was absentmindedly stroking Akila, who didn't seem to mind at all.
"I mean in an airplane." I told her.
"Well the plane would probably be struck down by our friends' father." Percy said. He looked calm, like this sort of thing was normal. Then I realized that I knew nothing, nothing, about them. I knew they thought they were related to a bunch of gods and stuff but aside from that, I knew nothing.
"So do you guys go to school?" I asked, stealing the old lady's question.
"Well technically I'm twenty eight." Grover said, puffing out his chest. "But Satyrs grow slower than any normal human." Akila seemed to love him. "But I go to a different boarding school every year or so to find half bloods, Demi Gods, and stuff like that. It's how I met Percy."
"And Seaweed brain and I go to different schools but its spring break." Annabeth said.
"I see." I assumed that Seaweed brain was Percy.
"What about you?"
"Well I went to a school once but it was bad. Half the staff was evil, Fang kissed another girl, the principle wanted us dead. So did our landlord." I said. "Then recently we got offered a nice new school in North Virginia but my Voice told me not to settle down for school and that I should leave. It said I still have work to do."
"You really like Fang." Grover commented.
"What, no!" I exclaimed, jumping to the defense.
"I'm really sympathetic and I can tell." He said. "And I know he likes you back."
"If he did he would want us together, not shun me away." I said gloomily, dropping all the lies about me not liking Fang.
"He's keeping something from you." Annabeth told me. "I can tell."
"I know," I said. When I woke up this morning I had no idea that I'd be talking about Fang to a bunch of strangers. "And it bugs me because we used to be able to trust each other completely."
"Don't worry." Percy said. "Things will work out in the end." He was looking at Annabeth as he said this.
When the bus came to a stop we realized we had to switch buses. When I walked by the old lady I heard her muttering, "I need to go check into a mental house."
On the next bus ride they asked me if I knew my real parents. "Yeah, my mom is a really nice lady named Dr. Martinez." I left out the father part.
"And your dad?" Percy asked.
"I'd rather not say." It still hurt me so much whenever I thought of Jeb and how he seemed to be a traitor.
"We understand. it's a touchy subject for all half bloods." Percy said. I looked up at him, extremely grateful.
When we got off the third bus I saw someone I thought I'd never see again. He was just leaning casually against a post as if he were normal.
Omega.
