Everything Makes Sense Chapter 3
Percy Pov
I had absolutely no idea why the Journalist, James Stark he said his name was wanted to ask my mum a for lack of a better word nobody about Poseidon Olympia. I was about to say that he must have made a mistake when I looked towards my mother, she looked terrified. "I guess that you'd better come In then" she said in a tone that I'd never once heard her use in my whole twelve years, she almost sounded defeated. She turned to enter the living room and gestured for Mr Stark to follow, I was about to follow as well when my mum asked me to "go to the store and pick up some milk" as I reluctantly walked out the door I faintly heard Stark saying to my mum that "he deserves to be here". Walking towards the store along the busy New York City footpath I was surprised when a hand grabbed me from behind. Turning I was surprised to find Luke from school with a Teenage boy who seemed to be about 15, it took me a while before I realized it was none other than Triton Olympia. "Percy, it's good to see you" Luke said "yea um hey I said" glancing at Triton he quickly said "o how rude of me Triton, Percy Triton, Percy. Triton goes to Star academy across town". "Good to meet you" Triton said, "I heard you stood up to my brat of a cousin" "Ha-ha yea" was all that I could reply. After spending some time talking to the pair Luke said "say Percy I noticed that you were sitting with just Grover underwood at lunch today, your both welcome to come and sit with us tomorrow if you want?" I was taken aback by the offer. I had assumed that Luke was one of those kids who was being nice just because the teachers told him to. 'Uh sure" I said "well got to go" I said as I realized how long I'd spent talking to the pair. As I hurried to pick up the milk I noticed a flash blue Porsche zip past, not that uncommon in New York but something made me look anyway. After purchasing the milk and hurrying home by which time I'd been gone for over two hours. The first thing that I noticed as I walked up to our building was that the blue Porsche that I'd seen earlier was parked outside, the next thing I noticed was the amount of chatter in the lobby, it sounded like they'd seen some celebrity inside the building's lobby. I dismissed this thought as I took the lift to my floor. Nothing however could have prepared me for what I found when I opened the door. Sitting on the couch was a man who I instantly recognised from my mums gossip mags, the news and just general knowledge. Sitting on my couch was none other than the multi billionaire Poseidon Olympia. "Hello Percy" he said. I was completely lost for words here sitting before me was one of the most powerful men and somehow he knew my name. We just stood there staring at each other. I began to notice features that I hadn't really noticed before, body features that I also had. Just then my mother entered breaking the awkward silence. "Percy I see you've meet Poseidon, he's going to take you for a little drive okay" I wanted to argue but I could see from looking at her that she was close to tears. Giving up I agreed reluctantly to go for a drive with this stranger, who I was growing increasingly suspicious was more than that to me. As we walked together to Poseidon's car I couldn't help but notice the looks I was getting from my neighbours, Probably wondering what I was doing with THE Poseidon Olympia? To be honest I myself didn't know. Only now did I notice that we were heading towards the Blue Porsche. As we climbed inside I realized that this was probably the flashiest car I had ever driven in. As we drove in complete silence my head was filled with all sorts of Questions to ask Poseidon, I just couldn't build up the courage to ask them. Judging by the eerily similar expression on his face I could tell that Poseidon was experiencing similar thoughts. Finally I built up enough courage to ask the one question that had been bugging me for the past hour and a half "are you my father?" the silence that followed was deafening. I had begun to think that he hadn't heard my question when he replied with one word "Yes". Now you see my whole life I had dreamt about meeting my real father I had fantasized what I'd say, what I'd want to happen but now that the moment had finally came I was completely lost for words. Eventually Poseidon broke the silence "I told your mother that I'd take you out to dinner and explain everything to you" he said to me. I expected that he'd take me to some fancy up market restaurant, you could imagine my surprise when he pulled into my favourite pizza restaurant. I was speechless as we walked through the front door. Julia the usual waitress recognised me instantly. "Percy! " She said it's so good to see you it's been a fortnight since you've been here, then she looked up and saw who I was with. "Table for two" she said giving me an odd look. As we sat down I couldn't help asking how he knew that this was my favourite restaurant. He gave me a smile and chuckled "you'd be surprised how much I know about you". "I've got one question, why am I just meeting you now" was all I said. His response surprised me "for you" was all he said. "I guess that I should elaborate" he said, after a pause he continued, "You see my father Kronos is a bad man I knew that if I told anyone about you that he'd find out and try to take you or hurt you". "Because of this I thought it would be better if I took a step back and allowed you to have a normal childhood, I did my best to support you and your mother" he looked like he was honestly disappointed that he could've been there for me however what he said next was what surprised me "you don't realize but I've been all through, I never once missed a school play or swim meet" that really surprised me the fact that he actually cared. "You got me into Goode" I said the pools where built for me the stunning revelation left me not for the first time that night speechless. "Percy there's something that I've got to tell you" his tone suddenly became serious. "Your mother and I have done our best to shelter you from the glare of the media but that's all about to change. We've negotiated to keep the story from being published till Saturday but after that your life's going to change". After that our conversation drifted off to discussing our lives. I discovered that his brothers and sisters knew of my existence as I was listed in his will to inherit half of his 20% stake in Olympia industries. I also discovered that I had a multimillion dollar trust fund that would mature when I was 16 when he and mum had originally planned to tell me of my true heritage. However perhaps the most startling revelation was when Poseidon revealed that Triton knew everything about me as well. I was startled as this meant that he must have recognised me when we meet on the street. Poseidon no dad (it feels strange to say) told me of how after he and tritons mother had divorced he had become lonely. That it turned out was where my mum came into the frame they had fallen in love and planned to marry but apparently she had been unwilling to put herself and her unborn baby in such a public position. They parted on good terms it turned out. "It's getting late I'd better get you home" my father (still odd to say) said. As he was dropping me off he explained that he'd be spending a whole lot of time with me now and also told me that on account of the article being printed Saturday I'd be meeting his family no, my family tomorrow at a family banquet at his mansion.
Tell me what you think. Also do you think that I should make it that Luke's in on the secret and that's why he's suddenly being nice to Percy?