In case we are all confused, Mnemosyne is the titan of memories, words, and languages, so ya, that was that. Um I was gunna make this two chapters, but I figured, the Lily plotline was dragging a bit there, I mean no one really cares about her dumb ol' life rly, so I stuck in a bit of Miriam at the end, which was sortta a big deal. So I am almost at the main plotline now, yay! Umm yup so here goes, hope u like it! onward!
There's no hope in the world for you if my father's involved. If you don't agree with him that is, if you do your life is bound to get better, maybe that was why my life sucked so much.
"Hello, how can I help you?" the blonde receptionist at my dad's office is staring at my mother like she is Lady Gaga, or Obama, or something, because she looks like her surgically altered face is about to pop right back into place. Her lips barely move as she speaks and I can barely call the expression on her face a smile.
"Um, is Benjamin Groff in?" my mom asks hesitantly, she knows how the woman will react before she even answers.
She 'raises' her eyebrows and stares at my mother like she's insane, "What business do you have with him?" I swear I didn't know any human could look so ghastly. I look over at Zack who makes a gagging noise as he looks at her. I hold back a laugh; glad to see he is still capable of joking around, though it was pretty easy to joke around as far as this woman (?) was concerned.
"These, are his children," my mother answers coolly, she raises her eyes at the lady who stares dumbfounded at my mom's blotchy face. She was crying all the way here of coarse.
"Um, I don't believe Mr. Groff has children," the lady stutters, and it's clear my dad hasn't had many conversations with this idiot.
"Well he does, and I would like to see him now if you please, " my mom reaches out to grab the phone off the woman's desk.
"That won't be necessary madam," the woman says swiftly slapping my mother's hand off her phone.
"Excuse me?" my mom asks her temper rising as she stares angrily at the ugly lady. Her anger is boiling in the way I know only too well.
"I will ask you to leave now as Mr. Groff is not seeing anyone at this time," she turns around as if she has other things to attend to but what could a receptionist really have to do so urgently? Really?
"I'm telling you to let me in there or I'll…"
"Relax Kate, I'm here," I look across the room to see my father coming out of a rough glass door connected to a long hallway. He's holding his iPhone and staring down at it subconsciously. His presence is somewhat menacing, as usual, as he has the respect of I giant. His voice is somewhat bored and altogether relaxed for he knows my mother like the back of his hand, or in his case the back of his phone.
My father is a very tall man, roughly six two, and I've never seen him without a tie, except in the old photos I once found in his closet. He wears a suit to work every day, and his jet-black hair is combed perfectly back across his head. He has a somewhat short nose, and a sort lightly shaven face, he sort of reminds me of Dom Cobb from Inception. Well his presence. As far as his personality, he's cold as ice, and very drab. I don't think I've ever seen him laugh, and he rarely smiles. There's something about his cool black eyes that scares you shitless, excuse my language. And he has a way of making you agree with him, even if you completely appose him and barely even speak to him. I have to give my mom credit on that one; she's the only one I know, besides Zack, and myself, that can resist his stupid charm. Even Jack used to have trouble not agreeing with the idiot. Well technically speaking he's not an idiot he's a genius, but whatever.
"What the hell is wrong with you? You're two hours late, you were supposed to meet them for lunch!" My mother wastes no time screeching at my father's uninterested face. He doesn't even look up from his phone when he answers her.
"I had a meeting that went over Kate, just relax," he rolls his eyes and looks up at the speechless receptionist on the opposite side of the room, "Take a break for a hour or two, will you please?" he shoes her with his free hand and looks back down at his phone.
"I will not relax," my mom, screams with her air quotes, "You wanted the kids Benjamin, it's time you treated them like your kids."
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, when did I become Benjamin?" my father asks looking at her with his annoying charmy face.
"Oh get over yourself!" my mother tells him, her eyes flaring up at his shocked face, "You're fifty-six!"
"Keeping track are we?" he sneers at her, narrowing his dark eyes seductively.
"Get away from me you moron! A meeting, really? Get a new excuse for when you're off having affairs Benjamin will you?" she throws her hand up and walks towards the elevator.
"God Kate, I don't remember that it was me who was getting divorced again," my father remarks rudely.
My mother pushes the elevator button to down and whisks her head around to face him, "That's because no one would marry you!"
"You did," he counters.
"And look where that got me!"
"I think you got here all on you own babe."
"UHHHGGG! DO YOU EVER SHUT UP!"
"You first Kat," he says maliciously.
"Don't call me that," my mom says raising her finger at him.
"Kat," he repeats.
She says nothing. Instead she turns around and jams her finger into the elevator button repeatedly. It opens finally and she steps inside, "Good luck you two," she tells Zack and I. and the doors shut and take her away.
It was hardly a goodbye, but it was more than I would have expected.
"Hard to believe you two aren't still married," Zack says.
I look at him and then at my father. His eyes look like they're about to pop out of his head.
"Are you serious?" I say.
Zack smiles, "Of coarse not!"
"Good," my dad says. Zack and I both look at him, but he's staring back at his phone. I don't know why but he somehow realizes how quiet it is and he looks up and starts to laugh.
Soon we are all laughing our guts out, as we make our way down the hall to the elevator.
Maybe things wouldn't be so bad…
As long as we all agreed.
It was twilight out when I finished telling Percy about Lily. We came out of the north woods and made our way to the mess hall for dinner just in time to grab plates and offer sacrifices up to the Gods. I stood by the fire and quickly scraped off some steak, my favorite food. I have to be honest; when I first got here I would always scrape off some vegetables seeing as I hate most any food that's green. But I guess I realized that my father is never going to claim me if I keep giving him the foods I hate.
"We'll talk later, " Percy tells me kindly as he makes his way over to the Poseidon table to join the few Cyclopes sitting with him.
I walk over to the Hermes table in the disbelief that I have actually told this kid all my secrets. I make a mental note to apologize for troubling him with all my problems.
I sit down at the edge of the table; I am the only one left who is younger that thirteen as one just had his birthday last weekend. They are all talking and I would usually talk as well but I can't bring myself to pay attention, let alone listen. I'm thinking about Lily again, trying to think about why she was so mad, I didn't mean to upset her; but I didn't have much of a choice. Honestly I would rather be home and have her here, I could never be alone here, and there was always someone to follow you around. And though I was never one to want to be completely alone, I missed the darkness of the pine trees behind my house, I'd grown up by the woods, and I didn't have enough time to spend there while I was here. And I missed Lil's love most of all. What would I give to have her love me again?
"Quiet, Quiet!" Dionysus's voice comes from over the crowd and soon we are all silent, all except for Rachel Dare… or rather the oracle in Rachel Dare.
"Memories will fade, and one shall go,
drifting off into the deep.
And when the sun comes rising up,
two will come from the outermost.
One shall be blind and one shall be bold,
but with them four young Half-Bloods will go.
And one shall fade at the hand of at the mortal sin.
And as six go, five shall return at the hand of the misguided one."
The camp falls silent as Rachel trips over and into the Aphrodite table for one of the girls to reach out and catch her.
I stand up and in the arousing chaos and I make my way to the woods. I turn instead and head to the sound. Within minutes I sit down at the ocean shore, the small waves crashing up against the sand. The sea is soft and quite beautiful in the low twilight, as the setting sun twinkles brilliantly on the rolling waters.
"Beautiful isn't it?" I turn to see a beautiful woman standing up ahead, on the beach. She is tall and graceful and she looks out at the sea with her dark hair whipping in the wind.
"Who are you?" I ask instantly.
She looks down and smiles at me, "The name's Mnemosyne, and you are Miriam?"
I stare at her, " What? Wait…how did you know my name?"
"What don't I know?" she asks and looks out at the sea, "Ready yet?" she yells at the water.
"Ready for what?" I say looking back at the water to see nothing but the same scene I'd seen earlier.
"Oh nothing you'll remember," she answers.
"What?" she is looking at the sea in an almost annoyed manor, and she glances back at me.
"You're sure it's this one?" she says, "She doesn't seem so smart."
"She's only nine Mnemosyne," says a deep voice from behind me.
I turn around to see a tall man standing in the sea.
"What the?" I stutter.
"Well, you'd think they'd teach them who the Titians are," she says.
"You moron, stop talking!" the man says quite agitatedly.
"What, it's not like she'll remember anything."
"Just shut up and do it now, he's getting angry I can tell, if we're going to get Kronos back you're going to have to stop talking and get these jobs done quicker."
"Aw shut up Oceanus, what do you know?" Mnemosyne walks down the hill and stands in front of me.
I stagger backwards and fall on my butt, looking up at the two of them I am even more confused, I open my mouth to speak but no words come back, and I realize I've forgotten how to speak.
"Hey Mnemosyne, stop messing around and let the kid speak," says the man hitting her on the back.
Mnemosyne laughs and I feel my voice come back, I don't know how I knew it had but I just screamed at the top of my lungs hoping desperately that someone would hear me because I've never been so scarred in my whole life. They stopped laughing instantly and glared at me like I had just announced their deaths.
"Why you little!" Mnemosyne slapped me across the face and my voice was instantly cut off again.
I could feel my heart stutter at her touch and I fell back against the sand.
"Oceanus!" there was boom from across the shore and another man seemed to melt out of the waves.
"Mnemosyne! Finish it!" Oceanus yells at her. And he looks back across the beach to see the man sprinting across the beach towards us.
"Poseidon!" I hear Dionysus's voice from the top of the hill, and I realize that he's running towards me too.
"Mnemosyne! NOW!" Oceanus screeches in a sound that is so terrible I swear I will never hear again.
"I'm doing it!" she yells at him. She looks down at me and in a spit second she lifts her hands and stares into my eyes. I feel my chest heave upward as she stares at me vacantly and I feel my head go numb.
"Stop right there or else!" I hear the loudest voice ever from behind me. And I feel Oceanus grab my hand.
"MNEMOSYNE! ZUES!"
"DONE!" she yells, and she grabs his hand as everything around us vanishes, all I can see are the two of them and the world around us is a swift blur of color.
Soon my mind has faded away, and all my memories are gone.
I am nothing at all.
So I hope u likes it I thot it twas pretty awesome! But that makes it sound like I think the whole ting was awesome which I rly didn't. The whole lily thing was BORING! I do think you all shall agree, and if u do or don't, feel free 2 say. So I shud do my HW now as it is 10:40… and I have a soccer game tomorrow at nine, can't rly play w/o a goalie as I always say! Onward!
