Chapter 2
Once I was all packed I went to see Hermes. He was going to take me home. It was around lunch. Then I remembered that this week Mom's friends were coming over. I got excited. Soon I found Hermes and we left. I live close to camp half-blood but far from Olympus. We live in the country. One thing about my house. It's huge. At first glance you would think it was a normal house but the inside is a different story. It has a large basement, a main floor and a second storey. There are five bedrooms on the second storey and two bathrooms. The main floor has the staircase a living room, kitchen, and dining room. Then we have the basement. In the basement there is a indoor pool the size of a small gymnasium, the library with desks for all of us, the training room with different types of practicing items, the music room where me and my band practice, I will talk about my band later, and the other room that was made into the kids room. In the kids room we have a TV, a small snack bar, paints and easels, beanbag chairs and a lot of other stuff that would take too long to explain. It's an awesome house. Back to the story! We got to my house in half an hour. There were eight cars in the driveway. Only two of them were my parents. The rest of them belonged to my parent's friends. They were all here. Hermes left me at the end of the driveway. I walked to the front door. It was locked. I picked the lock and walked into the front hallway. I closed the door quietly and locked it. I heard talking from the living room. I walked quietly towards the living room and peeked in. The adults were sitting on the couch with their backs towards me and the kids were on the floor facing me. Let me introduce you to my parent's friend's kids. There's Lexi, Tristan, Penny and Jake Valdez children of Leo and calypso. Then there are Haily, Sammy, and Fay Zhang children of Frank and Hazel. My awesome (not) sort of cousins Beryl, Bianca and Nick Di Angelo (they are triplets) the kids of my dad's cousins Thalia and Nico. Then Jay, Alexis and Bella Grace the children of Jason and piper. Alexis, Tristan, Haily and Jay are all fifteen. Sammy and Alexis are fourteen. Will is thirteen. Penny, Conner, Beryl, Bianca and Nick are eleven. Fay is eight, Jake is six and Bella is three. I think Tristan, Jay and Sammy all have crushes on me. Now it is time for the story. They saw me but I put a finger to my lips and signaled them to be quiet. They started to smile. The adults saw this and the children didn't look at me. My parents were sitting right in front of me. I got an idea. I winked at Selina and backed away to the front door. I unlocked it and opened the door. It opened with a squeak. The living room was quiet. "I'm home!" I shouted like I just got home from school. The kids burst out laughing.
The adults were shocked. I sauntered into the living room and my friends laughed harder. Relief flooded onto my parents faces. I still had stitches on my legs, a couple on my back and on my face. I smiled and walked over to where I left my bag and went upstairs. I made it to my bedroom and changed into some sweatpants and a sweatshirt. The pants were an aqua color and the sweatshirt was grey I put on some ocean blue socks and put my hair into a ponytail and went downstairs again. I entered the kitchen and opened our refrigerator and found some carrots. I pulled out two carrots and went into the living room. I found an empty chair and sat down on it gently. I was nibbling on the carrots and Alexis came over and sat on the floor beside me. "How are you feeling Seph?" My mom asked me worried. 'How am I feeling?' I asked myself. "I am feeling sore, hungry, tired and happy all rolled into one." I answered after a while. I listened to other conversations and looked around everyone was goofing around except Selina and Charlie. They were sitting there doing nothing. "I wonder what they're upset about.' I thought as I looked through the bag I had kept with me from the hospital. In the bag I found a can of coke, a compass, a case of makeup, a hair clip shaped like a lightning bolt, a sand dollar, a fake skeleton, a book on marine biology, a bow and arrow necklace, a small box of seeds, a sun and music note charm bracelet, a red pocket knife, a necklace with a fire charm and lastly a touch phone. The phone was like an iPod touch that probably couldn't signal to monsters. I set a lock on the phone and the outside changed color to an aqua green color with streaks of grey. I found that on the phone it had all my favorite songs on it. I have no certain kind of favorite song it all depends on my mood. I put the pink headphones on and picked the song the only one by Anna Graceman. I started to hum to the song. When the song was over I turned off the phone and started a conversation with Haily and Bianca. I showed them the items from my bag. I didn't get why there was a can of coke though. Then on the can it said 'refills with any kind of non alcoholic beverage' 'cool' I thought. We chatted and soon my mom went and made veggie wraps for dinner. We all talked and watched the Disney movie Hercules. It was an okay movie but I was starting to get really tired. I soon fell asleep on my chair. My dream was horrible. I was captured and was forced to hold up this void from a big, bulky and menacing guy. I was going to be crushed by a void of something. I heard voices in the distance. I couldn't tell what they were saying soon Selina and Tristan came into view with other people trailing behind them. I felt like I was going to faint. I didn't realize how long I had been there for. I heard someone yell something. It sounded like wake up! But I couldn't tell. My heart was beating faster. Soon just as I was pushed out from under the void and almost crushed I woke up.