Chiron decided the camp needed a new activity. So he decided to get a skate park built. He had heard that that's what a lot of the demig-ds liked and wanted then to have even more fun after all they have been trough.

The first day the CHB Skate Park opened, The 7, Nico, Thalia, Will, and The Stolls went together. It was during Spring break and the friends wanted to do something fun.

"I haven't skateboarded in forever." Percy said excitedly.

"We are going to teach you guys to at least stay on the board." Leo told the group. "So who does know how to skateboard."

The stolls, Thalia and surprisingly Nico raised their hands.

"Ok lets do this!"

Percy, Nico, Thalia, Leo, Conner and Travis tought the rest of the group the basics, which they caught onto pretty quickly. After about an hour those 6 decide to just have some fun, while the others sat back.

"Percy your going to get yourself killed like that!" Annabeth screamed after said seaweed brain pulled a 180 and flipped his board after sliding down a rail. (I don't speak skateboard and therefore have no clue what the tricks are called lol.) Percy just screamed an "I'll be fine!" That got chuckles from the rest of the group.

There were really 2 groups, the group who watched in horror of the other doing crazy tricks and the group that laughed at their faces while doing said crazy tricks. At one point Jason did get better and tried some crazy things with Piper screaming at him to not do crazy things. Nico and Percy forced Will and Annabeth to at least sit on a skateboard and go on the slops.

This lasted for quite a while until Will noticed that Percy was sometimes skating on one foot. So he asked "Hey Perce, why do you skate like that?"

"Like what?" A confused Percy asked back.

"On one leg, but it looks like you try to make it look like your on both legs."

"Oh uh, I trust trained myself to do that so it looked like I was just clumsy and that how I broke my leg a few times." At that his eyes went wide like he said to much.

"What, why would you need to make it look like you broke your leg one way when it happened another." Hazel asked, everyone listning.

"Just forget it." Percy said turning around.

Piper being the daughter of Aphrodite and good at catching emotions, heard a tint of sadness in his voice. "Percy, we are your closest friends and we care about you. So don't say this is nothing and tell us what is wrong." She added some Charmspeak to the last part because if she didn't he would remain silent.

Percy rolled his eyes in a sad way. "Fine you deserve to know."

Everyone sat down in a circle, all eyes on Percy. It took him a minute but then he started. "Well I never really told anyone about my life before this." He said gesturing to the camp and being a demig-d. "Things weren't always amazing in life. Well actually life was never even good. You all know Paul right." Everyone nodded. Of course everyone knew him he was the best stepparent a demig-d could ask for.

"Well he wasn't always my stepfather." It took Percy a second to continue. When he did his mind looked far away as he looked passed everyones' eyes. "Before him was... Smelly Gabe." The name made Percy's eyes dim, sadness clouding them fully. "He used up all the money on poker and beer. So mom was always working to make ends meet." Annabeth held Percy's hand, Thalia squeezed his shoulder. Everyone looked at him sadly but he could not see anyone. The pain of remembering taking him to another planet.

After a few minutes he continued "Between him and the bullies, life's horrible. If for some reasons the big kids don't beat me up, he makes sure to hurt me for them." Percy rubbed his body, like he remembered the pain. "I'm not popular, not even liked, no one wants me, they push me away. First they mock me because I can't read or sit still. Even if they were rude to a teacher, when I did it to the same one they would mock me. Then when I got older maybe 2nd grade it was that from my classmates and beatings from the big kids. I used to be short and scrawny. There's nothing to me." The way Percy spoke made everyone tear up. He sounded so sad. No one could bare to interrupt him for fear of making things worse. They let him tell the story while he was in this trance-like state where he was reliving everything like here was there now.

"At home it's not much better. Gabe pokes me for money, if I don't give it to him I have to be punished. If I make to much noise, I have to be punished. If he loses a game or bet it's my fault, I have to be punished."

Annabeth couldn't keep silent "That's why you always felt thing were your fault? You know there not, right?"

Percy didn't answer he was still in his trance he just continued. "Mom's barely home those times. She has to work. Gabe said if I tell anyone he would hurt her. I just want her to be safe, she doesn't deserve it."

"You didn't deserve it either." Piper tried to Charmspeak him, but it didn't work. He stayed in that trance.

"There were so many times when I had to go to the skate park to make it looked like I fell and broke my arm or leg. It hurt so much. If the bullies break my bones, the school deals with it. But most of the times I had to play things off because there's not enogh money for me to be a wimp. Mom doesn't know. She never will know. She can't know."

Annabeth hugged him so hard. So did the rest of his friends. He started crying. Everyone took a second to realize the tears streaming down the tenager's face, Percy never cries.

He finally broke out of the trance and looked around. "Shoot, I-I I'm sorry I c-"

"Don't you dare apologize Percy." Nico looked murderous, he was so angry the shadows crowded around him. In fact all the other Big 3 kids looked like they were ready to find this man and send him to a place worse than Punishment barehanded. The others looked like they would deal with those bullies who did this to Percy.

Everyone knew Percy was bullied. They also all knew Percy had low selfesteem, now they knew why. Now the also knew why Percy hated cigarettes and alcohol so much, they just figured because he cared for people that way. But no, he lived that. He dealt with that.

Leo hides pain with humor, but he also talked about his life. Percy was sarcastic and humorous in ways similar to Leo. Why did no one realize they did it for the same reason? Was it because Percy hid so well or because of their lack of attention, maybe it was both.

Everyone just sat in silence for a while then Will spoke up "I felt the pain and sadness in you ever since I became a healer. How many times did I treat those stupid wounds? You were always so happy, but then I checked you out and there was always sadness. How could I over look that?"

"Don't blame yourself Will. You know as well as I know that you asked me about just that many times, but when I said nothing you wisely didn't push. I hid from everyone. No one needs to know about how I couldn't defend myself against anyone." Percy replied flatly.

"Percy, you can defend yourself now. Now that we know this it still changes nothing. We will be here for you, always." Jason said. He viewed Percy as a brother, they were brothers as far as anyone was concerned.

After a minute Percy's words rushed out before he could think "I never really finished." Everyone was quiet so he could. "I think dad left me this skateboard at the park." He pointed to a skateboard with a wave design on it. "It was always at the park ready for me to use it. Skate boarding was my escape."

"I don't want to push you Percy but you never told me about school after 7th grade." Annabeth gently asked him.

"Well I was still the loser. I wasn't beat up as much anymore though. Still no one cared for the kid in the giant blue hoodie in the corner who never said a word. The teachers over looked me, they knew I couldn't read and I could barely write. I still failed most of 8th grade. Goode was better but I was still the loner kid who never said a word who had no friends as far as people were concerned. Then AHS was pretty much the worst. My 10th school, I was outcast as much as the rest. No one wanted me, no one was friends with each other, we all had our problems. When I put on the swim team uniform they saw my scars, probably thought I was from the streets. Most kids were. I was the relatively nice kid who didn't hurt anyone but after the first few weeks people stopped hurting me. The death glare they recieved scared them away." Percy looked down when he finished that.

"And you still go to school after all that?" Both Stolls asked at the same time. They went to school the most of the group besides Percy, but didn't deal with as much bulling. The 2 of them were a team, they had each other. In school Percy either only had Grover or only Tyson. The other 9 years of school there was no one outside camp.

"I want to go to school for mom I guess." Was all Percy could say.

For a while no one knew what to say. They just sat there, taking turns hugging Percy and muttering reminders that he has friends now and is worth everything to them.

The small smile on Percy's lips was enough for everyone. "Thanks guys, all of you. I mean it." The conch horn blew so then he added "Lets get some food!"

That night everyone realized just how much Percy kept hidden. Who knew what he watered down for them or kept to himself? But the fact that he told his friends showed maybe he was one step closer to losing the depression they all knew he suffered horribly from.

I hope you like it. Even if the Grammar is that bad.