October 15th
Mirra's P.O.V
It has gotten cold really fast here in New York. I was at school right now, gym class to be exact. Or, at least that's what they called it. In elementary school, gym is mainly just playing random games. Today's game was dodge ball. We weren't aloud to hit each other on the head, or else we were out. Cones were sat out to act as the border between our two teams. In my opinion, it was more of dodge ball Jr. But then again,we were only in second grade.
It was girls against boys. In our class, there were 13 girls and 8 boys, for a total of 21 students in all. The girls side used pink balls and the boys side used blue. The girls side would've had the boys beat, due to our advantage in numbers, but there was this one boy who was like a mini hulk in strenth.
His name was Adam. He has dark red hair, almost brown, slightly long, and in certain light, looks to be flaming. His eyes a violet blue, covered by round silver glasses. His face was absolutely flawless, no freckles or moles or scars of any kind. I didn't know him very well, but I've heard his dad is a pro wrestler, which explains why he's stronger than the average eight year old.
Most of our team has gotten out. The only ones left were Ellie, me, and Kimi, a brunette girl with pale brown eyes.
There were five left on the boys side, Adam, Zack, Mike (Brown hair, greens eyes.) And two others who were both named Brandon(one had blond hair, the other had red. Both with brown eyes).
The girls were conored in a corner of the gym. Adam had a ball in his hand, ready to throw. Kimi hid behind me and Ellie tried to scare the boys into running away by saying 'boo!'
I tried to figure out a plan on what to do. Annabeth had taught me how to pinpoint your enemy's weakness by watching their every move. I had been doing that, and thats how I'm still in the game. The more I watched Adam, though, the less I could see any evidence that he even had weaknesses.
Adam threw his ball. It hit Kimi on the shoulder, almost hitting me but missing by a centimeter. Kimi looked relieved to be out of the game. That was the only ball they had, so Ellie and I made a run for it, in different directions. I ran for the nearest pink ball I could find, but Adam caught up to me and kicked it out of the way before I could reach it.
That's when I finally figured it out.
He had been throwing and catching all the balls with his right hand. At first, I thought it was bevcause we was right handed. But just now, he kicked the ball with his right foot. He was stronger on his right side that on his left. So, if I threw the ball to his left, I might have a chance of hitting him.
I went for the next ball I saw. Ellie had managed to get both brandons out, so Adam was now going after her. Zack had retreted to the boys side to collect more balls to use. Mike threw his ball all me, but I dodged and threw mine. Just barely, but it hit him on the shoulder.
I looked over to the bleachers were all the people got out were sitting. Ellie was now sitting over there so Adam must have gotten her out. I felt a ball fly by my head. Adam was standing a mere five feet from me. He had a ball in his hand. I gripped onto mine. He advanced on me, so out of sheer panic, I threw it to his left side. He gasped as it nearly came in contact with him, but he dodged it in the last second.
I was caught like a deer in the headlights as he threw his ball. It hit me in the face, causing me to fall backwards. That was aginst the rules, so the girls won.
I rubbed my nose. It hurt. Then I saw a hand leaning down to help me up. I looked up to see Adam standing over me. I was a bit confused, but took his hand.
"I'm really sorry." He said. "Are you okay?"
I nodded. "Yeah, I'm fine." Even though my nose did hurt.
What Adam did next shocked me. He took my cheek in his hand and lifted my face up to look at him. He was taller than me. With his other hand, he ran his finger over the bridge of my nose. I must have been blushing fifty shades of red.
"It's not broken." He said. "I'm really sorry.
"I-i-its o-o-kay" I stuttered while I felt my heart beating a mile a minute.
He released my cheek and walked away, leaving my absolutely flustered.
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It was lunch. All the second graders shared two tables, same with all the other grades. We usually sat at the same place everyday. I sat at the edge of the table with Zack sitting next to me. Ellie Sat across from me and next to her were the twins, Nancy and Casey. Alfred sat next to Zack. The lunch today was chicken nuggets shaped like dinosaurs, but I hate school food, so I brought my lunch, a chicken sandwich with blue cookies.
For some reason, I kept glancing over to the other side of the table where Adam always sat. I didn't know why, but for some reason I found myself watching him eat his lunch. I don't know what was entertaining about it. This did not go unoticed by my friends.
"Hey Mirra?" Casey said with a mouth full of food. She was never one for manners. "Why do you keep staring over there."
This brought me out of my thoughts, only to blush at getting caught. "I didn't realize I was."
Ellie laughed. "How can you not realize something you were doing for 10 minutes?"
I didn't know I was starring for that long.
Ellie suddenly gasped and stood up, only to be glared at by the teachers. She sat back down and squealed.
"I know what's happening!" She cheered. "You have a crush!"
This caused me to spit out a piece of chicken. "What!?"
Ellie giggled. "Don't try to deny it! My sister told me all the sighs of a crush! And staring at him for 10 minutes defiantly is one!"
"So is blushing uncontrollably." Nancy pointed out.
"And after what happened in lunch" Casey said, slightly slurring due to the amount of food in her month. "I'd defiantly have a crush on him."
I blushed. My heart was beating harder that I'd ever felt, I suddenly flustered everytime he looked at me.
"I guess I do have a crush on Adam"
Suddenly, Zack stood up. "I'm not hungry." Then he walked off to go dump his tray.
Ellie and I looked at each other. "Whats with him?"
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"Come on, Mirra!" Ellie whined, trying to pull me off of the swing set. "Go talk to him!"
It was currently recess. Grades 1-5th were out playing on the playground. Ellie was trying to get me to talk to Adam. I was too shy.
"Come on, scary cat!"
"Its scardy cat!" I corrected.
"Whatever! Just come on!" She gave my arm another yank.
"No!"
Ellis sighed. "Fine then...ADAM!"
"No, wait-!"
Before I could react, Adam had already ran across the playground. He wore that blue jacket and white scarf, trying to replicate a beyblades character. I blushed.
"What is it?" He asked. I noticed that his cheeks were a bit red from the cold.
"Um, we..." I tried to make up an excuse, but Ellie beat me to it.
"Mirra likes you!" She blurted out.
"ELLIE!" I yelled. It was times like this that I wish I had my brothers sword so I could shut her up.
Adam blinked. "Really?"
I blushed and hid behind Ellie, who just laughed. I had to remember to kill her later.
"Because I like you to." Adam said.
Ellie squealed louder than a dumbstruck. I blinked as I looked at Adams blushing face. I must have worn a similar expression. He looked at me. We stared at each other for few seconds before laughing.
Adam and I played together for the rest of the day.
Percy's P.O.V
Annabeth had suddenly showed up right when school ended. I was more than happy to see her, but was curious as to what she was doing here. She said her school ( a private school about 20 miles from Goode) had let out early and she decided to visit. Which was perfectly fine with.
Paul had to work detention, so Annabeth and I had to walk Mirra home. Paul still won't let me borrow his car.
We walked down the little nature trail that led to the elementary. When we got there, I searched the crowd of faces for Mirra. Then I saw her...holding hands with a boy!
My expression must have looked like I've seen a ghost, because Annabeth suddenly drew her knife and looked around like she was expecting a monster to jump out.
"What is it, Percy?" She asked, still on alert.
I was still to shocked to talk so I just pointed. When Annabeth saw what had happened, she started laughing.
"Aw, Mirra's first boyfriend." She said. "How cute."
"Cute?" I snapped. "You think its cute!?"
Annabeth nodded. "Well, of course it is." Annabeth laughed. "You need to calm down, seaweed brain."
"Calm down?" I asked. "How on Olympus do you expect me to calm down!? I mean, what if he hurts her? What if he's a monster in disguise? What if he's an alien sent to destroy the human race? What if he's secretly a government spy gone rouge and is on a mission to take down all of humanity in a scheme to take over the world!"
Annabeth stared at me like I'd grown a second head. "You watch way to much TV."
"It could happen!"
Annabeth sighed. "Percy, you need to relax. I remember my first crush."
"Yeah, in know" I mopped. "Still, what if...wait, who was your first crush?"
Annabeth blushed. "Um, oh look!" She pointed behind me. "A distraction!" Then she ran off.
"Annabeth?...ANNABETH!" I chased after her.
Yay, it's snowing today! No school tomorrow, so that means I can continue wasting my time writing. Please review!