Well damn guys, it's been a while. And I cannot express or be more sorry for that, because I feel like I've let so many of you down in my absence. But I do have good reason, believe it or not, I had started this story just as a nice hobby of mine and a way to just let my creative juices flow and to just write about a character I had just absolutely adored. But it was also a way to relate and maybe write the character that I could get behind and see that not everyone's story is perfect and there are some bumps. Well on July 3rd of 2013 I hit quite a few bumps.
I was on a ride home with one of my best friends in the entire world, my own brother, and we had just finished up with a hard, but exciting football practice. With him being a senior and me a junior, the world seemed at an all time high. But then we were crossing the intersection when a drunk driver slammed into the drivers side killing him instantly and leaving me with a broken arm and emotional scarring that will last a life time. I'll admit, things changed. I cut myself off from the world, my parents started to fight more, I felt alone in the world and I didn't know what to do. So I walled myself off, I became as alone as Percy had and I just constantly felt a rage and a feeling of helplessness, because I wasn't able to do anything to change it.
And so in walloping myself off, I just stopped for a while. Stopped playing football, stopped hanging out with my friends, I stopped reading, and the part that affected you. I stopped writing. I felt that if I enjoyed myself that I was cheating him, stupid I know, but it was the way I felt. A year went by, and things slowly started to get better. Though I know not everyone who reads this will be religious, but I found solidarity in God, and I needed that feeling that my brother had in fact gone to a better place. But as I improved I'm afraid not all of my hobbies and pleasures came back with me. Then that changed when my campus english professor, now that I'm in college. Yay. Came to me with the percy Jackson books and asked me if I had read any, and if I hadn't I should give them a try, now I don't know why he did this, mainly because I'm a computer engineer major in study hahahaha. But he did, and it brought me back.. And so I started to reread the series, and I found an old sense of joy that I didn't think I'd ever feel again.
And so we return to the present, now I know many of you have moved on past this story, perhaps even past Percy Jackson (jk that's not possible, trust me I know), but I feel a sense of duty to finish out the tale of Omega. And I would like to invite every single one of you to join me on that journey. So thank you, thank you all!