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You know I never really liked being involved in anything. You could invite me to a celebrity party and I would turn you down. My sister Cassandra always says 'Maximus you have to learn to be more social'. I absolutely refuse. I stuff my hands in the black coat my mom gave me and headed off to my twin sisters room. When I reached the door I could vaguely hear screaming. I burst through the door and what I saw amused me, now if my sister was in danger I would do anything to save her but what I saw in front of me was hilarious.
"You OK there?" I asked her. I immediately knew the answer, she was standing on her bed pointing at the rat staring at her.
I looked at the rat and knelt down "Hey, you're kind of freaking my sister out can you get out of here?"
He looked at me and said in my head 'I asked her to open the door'. I open the door for it and he scampers out.
My sister finally relieved that the rat was gone looked at me.
"So what did you think about moms letter" She asked me grabbing her sketchbook.
"The one about how she loves me more" I said smiling. She didn't say anything she just quickly sketched something and showed me the word 'NO' beautifully drawn I must add.
"You mean the one about that summer camp she wants us to go to?" I asked.
"Yup, she said she went there when she was younger and thinks we'll enjoy it." Cassandra said.
"You can go I'll stay home." I said flopping down on her beanbag chair.
"Oh, no mister if I have to go you do too. Besides mom will be disappointed." She said making me sigh deeply, she knows just how to make me do what she wants.
"Fine, but if it sucks I'm blaming you" I said rolling my eyes, she tossed a color pencil at my head.
"You think she's trying to get rid of us, I mean, boarding school, summer camp, we're pretty much never home." I said, which caused my sister to glare at me. Then she sighed loudly.
"The only reason why we go to boarding school is because you got us kicked out of our last school and no other school would take you because of your grades." She said pointedly.
Maybe if you're lucky I'll tell you the story of how I managed to get us both expelled from school, I don't feel like telling it now.
"C'mon we have a field trip to attend." She said standing up and walking out of the room sketchbook in tow. Now I'm not even sure why we are going on this field trip it's for a class a year ahead of our but we were told we had to go.
We were all sitting on the bus heading to the museum and someone who I could easily see was a bully was throwing a sandwich at a gingered haired kid. I ignored it I hated bullies but it's better not to get involved. We walked around the museum. Mr. Brunner asked some questions to a guy named Percy. Then sadly he turned to me.
"Mr. Snow" He started "Can you tell us about this painting?"
I looked at him 'why me' "Can you pick someone else please." I said almost begging.
"Come now don't be that way." He said.
I looked at the painting and the greek words scarily turned to English. "It's the twin archers Apollo and Artemis." I don't know why but the name Artemis kind of bothered me. He smiled kindly, like he knew something that I didn't.
Did I mention I hated museums but my sister she looked like she was in a dream. She gushed over everything, but when she came to a statue of Artemis she looked at it like it did something to her. Then she went over and sketched a statue of Ares.
At lunch time I went outside and sat on the top stair with my sister. Percy was getting into it with that bully girl again. I think her name is Nancy, but while I was sitting there Percy raised his arms and I must have looked away for a second because the next thing I noticed was she was in the water. I looked at my sister but she was sketching extremely fast. Their teacher Ms. Dodds who by the way looked like some sort of monster called Percy into the building and my sister dragged me after them. What happened next made me think there was a gas leak in the building or something.
Ms. Dodds turned into some sort of creature and Mr Brunner came charging in and threw a pen to Percy that turned into a sword. Percy then proceeded to destroy her with the sword and then Mr. Brunner was gone and so was the sword. Percy looked back and saw us. I pulled my sister out of the museum because she was busy sketching something again. We all went back to the field trip like nothing happened. I was surprised to notice that everyone we talked to said that Ms. Dodds didn't exist. Weird, but I honestly didn't care that much.
Back at school my sister accompanied me back to my room.
"I have to show you something Maximus." She said, I tilted my head she only called me Maximus when it was important.
She handed me her sketchbook. I started to look through the drawings statue after statue in astute detail. The next page really caught me off guard it was Percy standing in front of bully girl and the water coming out of the fountain and grabbing her. Listen my sister is the best artist that I've ever seen but she doesn't do abstracts or imaginary scenes. Everything she draws is something that she's actually seen.
"Yeah, the water just came up and grabbed her" Cassandra said. I continued to flip through next was Ms. Dodds before and after her transformation into a monster.
"So I'm not crazy and you saw all that stuff too?" I asked her. She nodded deadpanned.
"We need to speak with Percy" She said.
"We?" I asked. She glared at me and I sighed heavily.
"Fine draw me a picture of that pen turning into a sword and I'll go." I said and she smiled making a flipping motion. I turned the page again and there it was the pen transforming into a sword. What can is say the girl is good. We heard the bell that meant everyone who wasn't in their rooms better get there soon because the RA's were going to round on us. I could tell life was going to get way more annoying.