What you Find when you are Home Alone
Disclaimer: I don't own PJO
Third POV
Hallie was home alone. Her parents were out to dinner, and Sophia was at Greg's house under the watchful eyes of his parents. She didn't know that her parents' clues led to the Greek yet, and so she knew close to nothing compared to what Sophia had learned. She wanted to know more, so she did something that she would ever have done before this madness. She went in her parents' room and snooped around.
She looked on the shelves. She looked in the drawers. She looked under the bed. She looked in the closet. By the time she had finished looking through the TV cabinet, Hallie was stumped. She didn't find anything out of the ordinary, and she didn't know if she would recognize what she was looking for when she saw it. But then she tripped over the floor. Hallie rarely ever tripped over thin air, so this came as a surprise to her. Then she remembered that she felt something hit her foot and then she tripped.
Hallie looked where she had tripped and ran her hand over the wood. She felt a catch, and she pulled on it. To her delight, the floorboard came up and she found stuff under it. She took the stuff out and looked through it. There were two orange shirts that said Camp Half-Blood on them, a box, a horn, a pearl necklace, a Yankees hat, a Blue Ray disk, and two rope necklaces with beads on them.
She opened the box and found two more Yankees caps. Nothing important to her, so she put the box back under the floorboard. The horn was weird, and it looked like it had been pulled off something. Hallie was intimidated by the weird horn, so she put it back under the floorboard as well. The pearl necklace was beautiful, and Hallie was tempted to keep it. But her mother would notice, and then she would know that Hallie had been snooping. Hallie reluctantly, gently, placed the necklace back under the floorboard.
Without another thought Hallie put the last Yankees hat with the rest. She decided that she would watch the film last, so she studied the rope necklaces. One of them had beads with a picture of a pine tree, a centaur in a dress, and much other stuff. Unlike the other, this one had a college ring attached. The other one had a bead that particularly attracted me. It was a picture of a trident, and it reminded her of the ocean. She loved the place.
Hallie put everything but the disk back under the floorboard and got up to load the disk into the player. What she didn't know about this disk was that it was the same one her parents had received the night before. She sat on the floor in front of her parents' TV and watched it. She was intrigued by the opening lines. In the pictures and videos at the beginning were teens that reminded me of my parents. She told herself it wasn't them, because none of the stuff in this film could ever be real. When the film was over, Hallie was positive that she did not want to be a demigod. It was all too much! She took the disk out of the player, put it back in its case, and put it with the rest of the stuff under the floorboard.
Hallie wondered why her parents had these things under a floorboard. The simple fact that they were hidden was obviously because her parents didn't want Hallie and Sophia to see this stuff. Maybe it had something to do with these secrets that they always keep, thought Hallie, But what would a camp called Camp Half-Blood have anything to do with this? Of course, she didn't know that it had everything to do with all of this.