7. Kenneth
When his mom picked up, he could tell that she was worried. Her voice wavered as she spoke in her broken English and soon they started conversing in Mandarin. Now that he thought about it, he was Caucasian, wasn't he? Was he mixed? Maybe he was part Chinese. His non-godly mother said that he was born in China. He really didn't know. Now was the time for answers and he was determined to find out the truth.
"Māmā. Wǒ de bà ba shì shuí?" he asked quietly, his voice wavering as he spoke, "Wǒ xiàn zài zhù zài nà gè yíngdì jiào Camp Half-blood. Tā men shuō nǐ bù shì wǒ de māmā. Nǐ shì shuí? Wǒ de bà ba shì shuí? Wèi shén me nǐ méi yǒu gàosu wǒ?"
Kenneth never did notice that his voice got louder with each question. He listened closely as his mother started sobbing. It was true. He wanted to ask more but his mother was breaking down. No. She wasn't his mother. His mother was Aphrodite. Or were the gods lying to him?
"Duì bù qǐ, Kenny. Nǐ bà ba shì wǒ de biǎoqīn. Tā shuō tā bùxiǎng nǐ, dànshì wǒ ài nǐ." she whispered into the cell phone, sobbing in between, "Tā shuō, nǐ de māmā pǎo bù le. Duì bù qǐ, Kenny. Duì bù qǐ..."
Kenneth sobbed and just screamed some more into the phone. He didn't really care, actually. He wasn't too sure what he was doing. He just wanted to get rid of the stress. He kept asking questions that made his mother even more upset. Who was his father? Why did he leave? Why did she never tell him? Is that why she kept him away from America for so long?
"Kenneth!" he heard Marsh shout, "Kenneth you have to stop! This isn't going to help you!" It was then that Kenneth realised that Marsh had been trying to get him to calm down. He threw the phone onto the ground and it fell apart as it crashed into the ground. Kenneth collapsed to his knees, sobbing into his hands. Marsh sat down beside him, placing a reassuring arm around Kenneth and patting him on that back. Kenneth didn't even try to push the other teen away.
"Way to go, Marshall. You're so great at comforting people. You've made him twice as upset as before." said Mallow sarcastically as she clapped slightly. Kenneth balled his hands into fists, thinking.
He needed someone to blame and Marsh was right next to him. Marsh could have just left him to think on his own. He would have figured it out eventually. He didn't need to come and tell him to call up his mom. Well, ex-mom. He was just even more confused now. He wanted to know even more about his family now.
That's right. It was Marsh's fault that he was upset. Mallow was right. He shrugged Marsh's arm off and noticed that the teen backed off a bit. Kenneth gritted his teeth and threw a punch aimed directly at Marsh's face.
Marsh hadn't expected that at all and fell back with a yelp, covering his now bloody nose. He scowled, pushing himself back up to a sitting position.
"What the hell was that for!" he shouted, wiping the blood away from his nose with his hands and sleeves, "You mad or something?"
Kenneth suddenly jumped to his feet and hissed, "Yeah, I am mad! Mad at you for askin' me to call my mom! It woulda been better if you kept your bloody nose outta my business!" Marsh just growled, pulling his motorcycle goggles over his eyes. Mallow couldn't help but laugh slightly at Kenneth's 'bloody nose' comment.
"You want a fight, bro? Well come at me, you little fatherless twerp!" Marsh exclaimed, balling his hands into fists, "You know what? I bet you're jealous. No. I know you're jealous. You're jealous that I, out of all people, am a child of Ares. You would give anything to be the child of the god of war, right? But right now you're just prancing around with your bright pink aura, you know?"
"No, I don't know!" Kenneth snapped, clawing desperately at his hair, "I ain't jealous! Last I heard, you ain't the one who got claimed! Me and Mallow got claimed but your daddy still ain't carin' 'bout you, just like your mama!"
The two boys charged at each other, trying to wrestle each other to the ground. Mallow stood by the side, not fully caring about what happened, as long as nobody broke any bones. Sure, cuts and bruises are fine, but she would draw the line and tear them apart if they started doing something stupid.
Kenneth shoved Marsh so hard that the boy stumbled back and fell over. Marsh was about to push himself back up but Kenneth pinned him down by the shoulders. Marsh was grabbing at Kenneth's arms, trying to pull them away.
If Marsh kept this up, Kenneth was going to win easily. Kenneth wasn't going to lose. Not today.
My Mandarin is so bad LMFAO. But you catch the drift, righttt? He's reeeaaaallllll pissed.
Ooooohhhh Cat fighttt ;D
Marsh sucks. He needs practice.
Also:
"Māmā. Wǒ de bà ba shì shuí?" - "Mom. Who's my father?"
"Wǒ xiàn zài zhù zài nà gè yíngdì jiào Camp Half-blood. Tā men shuō nǐ bù shì wǒ de māmā. Nǐ shì shuí? Wǒ de bà ba shì shuí? Wèi shén me nǐ méi yǒu gàosu wǒ?" - "Right now I'm staying at a camp called Camp Half-blood. They say that you're not my mom. Who are you? Who is my dad? Why did you never tell me?"
"Duì bù qǐ, Kenny. Nǐ bà ba shì wǒ de biǎoqīn. Tā shuō tā bùxiǎng nǐ, dànshì wǒ ài nǐ." - "Sorry, Kenny. Your dad is my cousin. He didn't want/like you, but I love you."
"Tā shuō, nǐ de māmā pǎo bù le. Duì bù qǐ, Kenny. Duì bù qǐ..." - "He said that your mother ran away already. Sorry, Kenny. Sorry..."
