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p class="Paragraph SCXW175733172 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; overflow-wrap: break-word; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; text-indent: 48px;" xml:lang="EN-US"span class="TextRun SCXW175733172 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 34px; font-variant-ligatures: none !important;" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW175733172 BCX0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: inherit;"Look, I never wanted to be a demigod. What's fun with monsters attacking you every five seconds, getting kicked out of every school you've attended, and going on super dangerous quests that likely get you killed? I just want to warn you; I'm one of the lucky ones. The exceptions. If you're a half-blood, chances are you don't know you are. Otherwise, you'd probably been monster chow for a hellhound in Tartarus. But I'm getting ahead of myself. I don't want to scare you to death before I actually get into the good stuff. /span/spanspan class="EOP SCXW175733172 BCX0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 34px; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{:480}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW175733172 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; overflow-wrap: break-word; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; text-indent: 48px;" xml:lang="EN-US"span class="TextRun SCXW175733172 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 34px; font-variant-ligatures: none !important;" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW175733172 BCX0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: inherit;"My name is Annabeth Chase. I'm twelve years old. Until a few months ago, I was a student at one of the most prestigious junior highs in the country, Boston Latin School. Am I a troubled kid? It's complicated. /span/spanspan class="EOP SCXW175733172 BCX0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 34px; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{:480}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW175733172 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; overflow-wrap: break-word; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; text-indent: 48px;" xml:lang="EN-US"span class="TextRun SCXW175733172 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 34px; font-variant-ligatures: none !important;" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW175733172 BCX0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: inherit;"See, I got good grades (except for English), I don't mouth off to teachers, and I don't bully kids or anything like that. It's just that… well, trouble follows me around sometimes. If my life was a blooper reel, I could show you any section of my horrible existence, and you'd be sold. Like the time when I used my teacher's lunch and my "Junior Chemistry Kit: Science is Kool!" to blow up part of the second floor in first grade, or, actually the day my story starts off is a perfect example./span/spanspan class="EOP SCXW175733172 BCX0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 34px; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{:480}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW175733172 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; overflow-wrap: break-word; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; text-indent: 48px;" xml:lang="EN-US"span class="TextRun SCXW175733172 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 34px; font-variant-ligatures: none !important;" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW175733172 BCX0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: inherit;" I was on a field trip. Now ordinarily, this would be cause for celebration. But I've had bad luck with field trips my entire life, and statistics show that that probably wouldn't change. The only thing different was that my favorite teacher, an old man in a wheelchair named Mr. Brunner, who taught Latin, was leading this trip. We were going to a Latin museum (surprise, surprise!) with my least favorite teacher, Mrs. Dodds, who taught English (you can see why I probably wasn't her favorite either). I was dyslexic, and it seemed like she personally hated me for it. I was jittery with nerves. It didn't help that Nancy /span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW175733172 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 34px; font-variant-ligatures: none !important;" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"span class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2 SCXW175733172 BCX0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; background-color: inherit;"Bobofit/span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW175733172 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 34px; font-variant-ligatures: none !important;" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW175733172 BCX0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: inherit;", the school bully, was throwing pigeon excrement at me and trying to annoy me. We waited on the bus and it was 7 and a half minutes until Mr. Brunner wheeled up the ramp in the back of the bus, which was surprising since he was almost always punctual. A boy walked behind him. Handsome, I guess. Black, messy hair, very strong. He fidgeted with something in his hands. They moved so fast I could hardly see them. Probably ADHD. He looked at me and shot me a sly smile. I looked away. But then I caught sight of his eyes. Green, exactly the color of the sea. I could've sworn that I could see waves in them. I didn't get the chance to analyze him before Mr. Brunner spoke. /span/spanspan class="EOP SCXW175733172 BCX0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 34px; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{:480}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW175733172 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; overflow-wrap: break-word; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; text-indent: 48px;" xml:lang="EN-US"span class="TextRun SCXW175733172 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 34px; font-variant-ligatures: none !important;" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW175733172 BCX0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: inherit;""Hello everyone. Pardon my tardiness. This is my … ah, well, /span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW175733172 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 34px; font-variant-ligatures: none !important;" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW175733172 BCX0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: inherit;"υπ/span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW175733172 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 34px; font-variant-ligatures: none !important;" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"span class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2 SCXW175733172 BCX0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; background-color: inherit;"έροχος/span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW175733172 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 34px; font-variant-ligatures: none !important;" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW175733172 BCX0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: inherit;" α/span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW175733172 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 34px; font-variant-ligatures: none !important;" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"span class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2 SCXW175733172 BCX0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; background-color: inherit;"νιψιός/span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW175733172 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 34px; font-variant-ligatures: none !important;" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW175733172 BCX0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: inherit;"." /span/spanspan class="EOP SCXW175733172 BCX0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 34px; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; color: #202124;" data-ccp-props="{:480}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW175733172 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; overflow-wrap: break-word; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; text-indent: 48px;" xml:lang="EN-US"span class="TextRun SCXW175733172 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 34px; font-variant-ligatures: none !important;" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW175733172 BCX0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: inherit;""What the hell does that mean?" an annoying boy named Tod asked./span/spanspan class="EOP SCXW175733172 BCX0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 34px; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; color: #202124;" data-ccp-props="{:480}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW175733172 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; overflow-wrap: break-word; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; text-indent: 48px;" xml:lang="EN-US"span class="TextRun SCXW175733172 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 34px; font-variant-ligatures: none !important;" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW175733172 BCX0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: inherit;""Language, Tod. It's great nephew in Greek. His name is…" he gestured at the boy./span/spanspan class="EOP SCXW175733172 BCX0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 34px; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; color: #202124;" data-ccp-props="{:480}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW175733172 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; overflow-wrap: break-word; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; text-indent: 48px;" xml:lang="EN-US"span class="TextRun SCXW175733172 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 34px; font-variant-ligatures: none !important;" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW175733172 BCX0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: inherit;"He looked over everyone before answering. "Percy Jackson. My name is Percy Jackson."/span/spanspan class="EOP SCXW175733172 BCX0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 34px; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; color: #202124;" data-ccp-props="{:480}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW175733172 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; overflow-wrap: break-word; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; text-indent: 48px;" xml:lang="EN-US"span class="TextRun SCXW175733172 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 34px; font-variant-ligatures: none !important;" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW175733172 BCX0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: inherit;"Look, I never wanted to be a demigod. What's fun with monsters attacking you every five seconds, getting kicked out of every school you've attended, and going on super dangerous quests that likely get you killed? I just want to warn you; I'm one of the lucky ones. The exceptions. If you're a half-blood, chances are you don't know you are. Otherwise, you'd probably been monster chow for a hellhound in Tartarus. But I'm getting ahead of myself. I don't want to scare you to death before I actually get into the good stuff. /span/spanspan class="EOP SCXW175733172 BCX0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 34px; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{:480}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW175733172 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; overflow-wrap: break-word; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; text-indent: 48px;" xml:lang="EN-US"span class="TextRun SCXW175733172 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 34px; font-variant-ligatures: none !important;" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW175733172 BCX0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: inherit;"My name is Annabeth Chase. I'm twelve years old. Until a few months ago, I was a student at one of the most prestigious junior highs in the country, Boston Latin School. Am I a troubled kid? It's complicated. /span/spanspan class="EOP SCXW175733172 BCX0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 34px; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{:480}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW175733172 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; overflow-wrap: break-word; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; text-indent: 48px;" xml:lang="EN-US"span class="TextRun SCXW175733172 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 34px; font-variant-ligatures: none !important;" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW175733172 BCX0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: inherit;"See, I got good grades (except for English), I don't mouth off to teachers, and I don't bully kids or anything like that. It's just that… well, trouble follows me around sometimes. If my life was a blooper reel, I could show you any section of my horrible existence, and you'd be sold. Like the time when I used my teacher's lunch and my "Junior Chemistry Kit: Science is Kool!" to blow up part of the second floor in first grade, or, actually the day my story starts off is a perfect example./span/spanspan class="EOP SCXW175733172 BCX0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 34px; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{:480}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW175733172 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; overflow-wrap: break-word; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; text-indent: 48px;" xml:lang="EN-US"span class="TextRun SCXW175733172 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 34px; font-variant-ligatures: none !important;" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW175733172 BCX0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: inherit;" I was on a field trip. Now ordinarily, this would be cause for celebration. But I've had bad luck with field trips my entire life, and statistics show that that probably wouldn't change. The only thing different was that my favorite teacher, an old man in a wheelchair named Mr. Brunner, who taught Latin, was leading this trip. We were going to a Latin museum (surprise, surprise!) with my least favorite teacher, Mrs. Dodds, who taught English (you can see why I probably wasn't her favorite either). I was dyslexic, and it seemed like she personally hated me for it. I was jittery with nerves. It didn't help that Nancy /span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW175733172 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 34px; font-variant-ligatures: none !important;" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"span class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2 SCXW175733172 BCX0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; background-color: inherit;"Bobofit/span/spanspan class="TextRun SCXW175733172 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 34px; font-variant-ligatures: none !important;" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW175733172 BCX0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: inherit;", the school bully, was throwing pigeon excrement at me and trying to annoy me. We waited on the bus and it was 7 and a half minutes until Mr. Brunner wheeled up the ramp in the back of the bus, which was surprising since he was almost always punctual. A boy walked behind him. Handsome, I guess. Black, messy hair, very strong. He fidgeted with something in his hands. They moved so fast I could hardly see them. Probably ADHD. He looked at me and shot me a sly smile. I looked away. But then I caught sight of his eyes. Green, exactly the color of the sea. I could've sworn that I could see waves in them. I didn't get the chance to analyze him before Mr. Brunner spoke. /span/spanspan class="EOP SCXW175733172 BCX0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 34px; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{:480}" /span/p
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