I DO NOT OWN PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS NOR IT'S CHARACTERS
Chapter 3: Ember
I didn't know what to wear to orientation, the navy blue t-shirt or the black t-shirt. Honestly I didn't care but I needed some sort of camouflage. in case someone stalked us home, and by us I meant me and Lucifer, we knew each other since we were seven and then later found out I lived only a block away from him. After a couple years of hanging out and doing projects together we were close. Last year we were walking home one day until he stopped me and gestured to someone behind us and made a hand sign that meant followed us. See the thing is, me an Lucifer made hand signs kind of like what the S.A.S does, my dad is currently in the S.A.S, so we knew basic hand gestures and little things like that. Anyways, we walked home cautiously every night after that and one day me and Lucifer made a grenade in School. He made the solution in Chemistry, I made the mechanism and shell in tech. During lunch that day Lucifer got nervous and starting saying stuff like LOOK, he has a GUN now. He's probably going to kill us today. So with those comments he threw the grenade over me and at him. MAN, that explosion was BIG, I mean like it was like a real fragmentation grenade straight from my dad's combat vest. Well with that I was expelled with account of accomplice and such, also my mother on that same day left me. I had nowhere to turn except for the Rukins.
Honestly I didn't know what to say to them, when I asked Aleks, his guardian, he said, and I quote 'Sure why not, I could be fun!' they bought the room next theirs and let me live in there, with MY last name. I never got their last name through the adoption process, I believe it was because my father is still alive, then I moved into it and found quickly that the Rukins are not father and son, they are more like brothers.
They looked completely different with Aleks usually sporting a black leather jacket and a almost pale looking skin with complimentary black jeans, Black hair and black shoes. I thought he looked kind of cute but it was weird the way he acted around girls that were crazy about him. I mean, he looked like he could attract anyone with the way he looked by he turned down every girl that asked him out was like he really HATED the person. He always wore a wedding ring but whenever I asked him who he was married to, he usually said something beat-around-the-bush-like and said 'someone beautiful'. He always said that with a frown.
Lucifer on the other hand, wore either black shirts, grey shirts or white shirts, ALWAYS wore his camouflage hoodie whether hot or cold, usually wore cargo pants in various colors it usually depended on his mood. Wore black shoes, almost like hiker shoes, then for some reason no matter what the look he had his pure black necklace his guardian gave him. He said he felt safe with it on. Feels like Aleks is always watching over me. Wait! Never mind that is kind of creepy now that I think about it.
I picked up the black t-shirt and headed to school hoping I wasn't late for the Rukins, which of course I was.