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"Jackie, what's going on?" I asked, confused as to why she was talking to Susan.

She turned to me, noticing me for the first time. She looked scared for a moment, but instead, Susan answered. "We're talking... about you're being a demigod-"

"Demi-what?"

" human, half god." Jackie finally replied in a quiet tone, facing away from me. What the hell? What was going on? I just learned what I was this morning, and now everyone knows. I walked up to Jackie, and tilted her head to look me in the eye.

"How did you know? How long have you known?" I asked her, with a frown on my face, anger clear in my eyes.

"A while. Your mom told me when I first met her, and promised me not to tell you. I had just figured out I was one too a few weeks before that. But your mom never told me who your godly parent was. And I still have no idea." Defiance was clear in her eyes, and I felt guilt well up in me.

"Why am I feeling guilty?" I asked myself. "I didn't do anything wrong. THEY are the ones who knew all along and didn't tell me!"

"They must have had a reason," a small voice in the back of my told me. "They are the two people on this Earth who you trust. They wouldn't betray it without a good reason."

"Oh," was all I had as a reply.

Susan finally spoke up. "Look, it doesn't matter now who knows. All that matters is that we should get out of here and get you to camp. It's extremely important."

I turned to her with distrust clear on my face. "I'm not doing that without saying goodbye to my mom first."

"Fine," she huffed. "We'll leave here in a few moments then go to your house. Afterwards, we'll go to camp."

"Just one question," I asked. "How are we getting to this camp?"

She turned around and pointed to someone who I hadn't noticed before that was sitting up on the top of the bleachers. It was a guy that looked about 17 or so. He was African with dark skin, and brown eyes. He was wearing light blue jeans and a tight black shirt that covered heavy muscles. His hair was cut short and I could see that out of anyone here, he would be the toughest. He leaned over and jumped the 7 foot jump to the ground from the top of the bleachers.

"I'm driving," he said in a surprisingly gentle voice. He walked up to me and looked me in the eye. "Hmmm... Chad Veeler... Nice to meet you. I'm Anthony, son of Perses." I shook his outstretched hand.

"Wait a second... Who's Perses? Is he a god or something?" I asked, embarrased at my lack of knowledge. I knew the names of most of the gods, very few titans, but just about all of the primordials.

He grunted. "Hardly. Ugh... Nobody knows of him anymore. Guess the only thing that keeps him from fading is the fact that humans are so destructive."

I must have looked confused because he explained, "He's the titan of destruction. Most of his children helped create the first atomic bomb, in fact." He said all this with a calm face, and it made me wonder if he was joking.

He gestured to Susan and said, "She'sa daughter of Menosyme. The titan of-"

I cut him off. "Memory, and the mother of the muses." He nodded his head, and told us that my mom got ahold of them and that we needed to get going. We walked out the gym doors, and I noticed Jackie behind me, acting oddly silent. I pulled her aside for a moment and asked her what was wrong.

"It's nothing. I just have a bad feeling about them. They-" She was interrupted by the sound of a car horn. Looking up, I was wondering who's car they had jacked. It was a midnight blue mustang with black tinted windows.

It rolled to a stop in front of us, and the front window rolled down. Anthony was sitting there, his hands on the steering wheel, and he was twitching slightly. "Get in," he ordered. I pulled open the back door, and gestured my arms for Jackie to get in. She huffed for a second, and folded her arms before stepping into the car. I got in behind her, and was surprised at the interior. It was all black leather, but the steering wheel was the same shade of blue as the outside of the car, but had tiny twinkling constellations on it.

"Anthony, where did you steel this car from?" I asked, scared that we were going to get pulled over. He pulled out of the parking lot, and turned to face me for a second before turning his eyes back to the road.

"Didn't steel it. Somebody lent it to me to forgive an old debt. Alright?" I nodded and looked at Susan who was sitting in the passenger seat of the car, clutching the armrests like a lifeline.

I poked her shoulder and asked what was wrong. "Well, since my mother is the titaness, of memory, she knows just about everything that has happened. And she knows just how many people die in car crashes, which makes me nervous to even get near a car with a driver like Anthony here."

In response he reved the engine and made the speedometer reach up to 70 while they were in a 40 mph zone. "Anthony!" she yelled, making him slow back down. She turned back around, and started talking to me again. "And don't mind Anthony's trying-to-be-mysterious act. It's dumb. The Krios kids lent it to him because he saved their butts in battle."

I nodded my head, and the ride turned to a quiet one from then on. I looked over at Jackie and couldn't help feeling that something was wrong with her. I reached over and grabbed her hand, giving it a small squeeze. She looked at me and blushed, and turned away, but still holding my hand in hers.

Within a few minutes of driving, we were about a mile away from my house. Looking up, I saw a black plume of smoke rising up into the sky that still reeked of ozone and lightning. When we got closer, I felt a growing pain in my gut like something horrible had happened.

Anthony's twitching was dying down, and his driving was speeding up. When we were a block away, I saw that it was my house that was on fire. "STOP THE CAR!" I shouted, in a panic.

Anthony swerved, and the car slowed, but before it could slow enough, I jumped out of the car, and started running towards the house. I was barely conscious of the slamming of doors and my name being called. I didn't care! My mom was in there! I needed to save her!

I got closer and saw the firefighters pulling around the corner, but ignored them, and kept up my running to the house... to my mom. I was just a few feet away from the porch when I felt someone wrap strong arms around me and Anthony say, "There's nothing you can do! You have to stop! Now! Calm down, Dude! Ugh!"

I elbowed him in the ribs and didn't register him screaming in pain, only my screams of, "Mom! Mom! Please!" I got to the porch, only to feel my legs give way underneath me, and someone grabbing me and pulling me away. I saw Susan and Anthony standing a few feet away, and felt a tingling in my gut and a rush of power and rage and sadness rain over me. I felt the hands slip from me, and then, barely holding onto consciousness, I felt myself float into the air, and unleash all of my feelings out onto everyone and everything around me, before blacking out.

Can you guess what happened to Anthony? What happened to his mom? Find out next chapter. Now review.