We never did get to go shopping, but I wasn't that sad about it. Lizzy would have made me hang out with her at the comic book store looking at her stupid shojo manga. I would be on the other side of the store looking at the Spiderman and other Marvel comics, pretending to not be with Lizzy. Then she would have made me buy school supplies with her. Yes I did say school supplies. Lizzy is addicted to the stuff. She has a cabinet full of school supplies. Every six months she updates it all, mostly because she uses so much of it, but more about that later. I want to get to how Lizzy's mom reacted to all of this.
When we arrived at Lizzy's apartment building, Nico shadow-traveled back to camp, saying he had some "official business" to attend to. Yeah right. He probably just didn't want to hang out with us. I glanced at Lizzy as Nico disappeared into an alley wall.
I think I should explain a couple things about Lizzy's mom before you meet her. Her name is Isabella Jensen and she is what you could call eccentric. She loves collecting random knick-knacks. She has a whole collection of stamps from around the world. She also has an enormous closet full of shoes. You'd think she would run out of reasons to buy shoes.
Anyways, when we walked into the apartment, Lizzy's mom was reading a letter. She looked up when we came in, her face looking a bit forlorn, but it perked up immediately. She stood up and walked over to us.
"You look like you have spent the entire morning being attacked by a giant crab," she said mildly. Lizzy exchanged a glance with me. How did she know?
"Well…" I began. Lizzy's mom cut me off before I had time to say more.
"I already know dear. I had just finished reading a letter from Chiron I got 5 minutes ago."
"But, how do you know Chiron?" I asked. She giggled and led us into the kitchen, where we sat down.
"I am a demigod," she said after getting us some lemonade. My jaw dropped. I couldn't believe she was a demigod. "I adopted Lizzy when she was only 5," she continued. "I always knew she was special from the moment I laid eyes on her."
Lizzy, who still didn't know what we were talking about, raised her hand tentatively. Her mom and I looked at her. She cleared her throat and said, "So what does this have to do with a summer camp?"
We were just getting out of the baggage claim area when I spotted a familiar face. It belonged to the hero of Olympus, the one and only, Percy Jackson, who is the only son of Poseidon. He was holding a sign that read: Addie Hunter. I grinned and grabbed Lizzy's arm and began leading her over to where Percy was standing.
"Hey Percy," I said, noticing out of the corner of my eye that Lizzy was ogling like he was a million dollars.
"'Sup Addie," he replied. "Argus has a cold, so Chiron sent me to pick you guys up instead. We better hurry otherwise Annabeth will bore Grover to death with her architecture talk." I giggled, and followed Percy out to the parking lot, Lizzy tagging along at my heels.
When we got to the camp strawberry van, Lizzy and I filed into the back and sat next to Grover, who had a sack of red apples with him. I asked if I could have one, and he gave me one.
I glanced at Lizzy carefully out of the corner of my eye. She had pulled out a copy of Vampire Knight, the only shojo manga I can stand to read, and began to read it. I had actually finished reading every chapter online, but she is more patient than me. Lizzy can stand waiting for the next volume to come out.
We arrived at the base of Half-Blood Hill, only to see Nico waiting for us up at the top. It was obvious he wasn't going to help us. Damn him. The lazy little son of Hades he is. If only he were forced to carry Lizzy's suitcase, which is so heavy with her stuff, Percy had trouble carrying it up the hill.
When we reached the other side of the hill, we went straight to the Big House. On the way there, one of my siblings, Mira, caught up with us.
"Hey Addie," she said excitedly, her pale blonde curls bouncing as she walked with us. "Do you want me to take your stuff back to the cabins? Cause I probably can get Axel to help me!" She whistled and Axel came running up, looking a bit pissed that he had been summoned.
"Welcome back, counselor," Axel said, sounding as depressed as ever. How he was Mira's twin I will never know.
"Axel, you are gonna help me carry this stuff back to the cabin," Mira commanded. Axel took my duffel from me and Mira grabbed my guitar, leaving me with the backpack on my back. I waved goodbye to them as they set off in the direction of the cabins. I turned to see that Lizzy was staring at me.
"What?" I asked.
"Why did those two kids just take your stuff? And why did the one with red hair call you counselor?" I smiled at her questions.
"Well I am the counselor for our cabin, and they were being nice," I said, "remind me to give them their presents later." Lizzy didn't look very convinced, but we had arrived at the Big House so she couldn't ask any more questions.
A/N: Okay the reason this chapter is broken up by lines is because i wanted to cut down on the writing so not to waste writing time with unnecessary details.
I hope you enjoyed the story. I updated as soon as I finished the writing up the chapter. I am soooo glad I go that done. Also, I will figure out how to post pics of the new characters, Mira and her twin brother Axel soon. I also would like to say that Percy and Annabeth will hardly show up in the story, and the same goes for Grover. I just didn't want the boringness Argus can be as a chaperone. Also I think it would have freaked Lizzy out too much ^^
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