3. I Get Crushed.

I felt like I was having a nervous breakdown.

And no, it wasn't just in my head. Every muscle in my body seemed to be tingling, and that included my brain. It must have been literally spinning around my head at full force, because my head was throbbing and felt light.

If I could have, I definitely would have run for it. But unfortunately, I was frozen. I wasn't sure if it was from being claimed by a higher power, or if it was from all of the people who stared at me because of that. Maybe it was a little bit of both. All I knew was, that I wanted to get out of there; in fact I needed to get out of there as quickly as possible, but I couldn't. My feet were seemingly glued to the ground. I closed my eyes, trying to snap myself out of this trance.

I thought about Haley. What would she do if she was ever in my situation? I couldn't place her in my situation though, because Haley would never even come close to being like me. Mom liked Haley. Haley lives with her dad. Haley is considered mentally stable. Haley is normal.

Just then, I felt someone touch lay a hand on my shoulder gently. It was just Percy, but it was like he'd broken the spell I was just under. It was about time, too. I hated thinking about my past life, even though at some points I missed it. It just made my current life all the more difficult.

My eyes sprung open, like they were electrically wired to react at Percy's touch. He stepped back from me once he got my attention. He opened his mouth like he wanted to say something, but the words just wouldn't come out. He was as speechless as I was.

Nice to know someone was in the same boat, for once.

Finally, after a few moments of just staring at each other like we each had three heads, Annabeth stepped up and spoke up for Percy, and gave me an excuse to leave. "Hello? Seaweed Brain?" She said to Percy, waving a hand in his face, and snapping her fingers obnoxiously to get his attention, "Why don't you show your sister around before she runs away again?" She shot me a significant look.

"Oh, about that…" I began to say.

"Yeah, that sounds good." Percy said, cutting me off, and still staring at me.

Annabeth began to walk away, but I took a sideways step in front of her, cutting her off. Percy had followed me, and was now standing behind the two of us.

When I'd cut Annabeth off, I'd been thinking that it was a good idea. It was a smooth way to make her listen to me, and everything would be fine. Now that I'd done it, judging by the glare I was now receiving from her, I wasn't so sure.

"I'm sorry," I said as confidently as I could manage, to Percy and Annabeth. "I just got worked up. I didn't mean to run off like that, it was rude." They didn't say anything. They just slowly made eye contact with each other, as if they were deciding whether or not to forgive me, and then looked back at me with blank expressions. "That's not an excuse though. I should have…"

Annabeth put her hand up, facing me, as if to stop me from apologizing. "It's all right," She said, and Percy nodded in agreement. "Now, go with Percy," She told me, "He'll explain everything. But if he doesn't-which, I personally don't think he will-come find me." Annabeth smiled at him, indicating that she was just kidding around.

"Hey!" Percy said with a small defensively joking grin, "Are you telling her not to trust me?"

"No, I'm just saying how you're not very experienced, when I am." Annabeth laughed, and then pushed both of our shoulders away from her. "Now, go!" She said with a smile, and so we went.

Once we were far enough away from the theater, I started firing off questions. I decided to ditch the 'best for last' theory, and asked all of my important questions first. Like, where do I sleep? In cabin three. Why three? Why not some random number, like 13? Because you were claimed by Poseidon, you sleep in cabin 3. (At this point, Percy seemed to be getting a little annoyed with me, but that didn't phase me one bit) He seemed to tackle all of my questions with ease, saying that I'm actually the daughter of a sea god, and he's actually my brother. Go figure.

Finally I asked the question that had been biting me ever since we'd left the theater. "Why did Annabeth say you don't know what you're talking about?" I decided to summarize it, and I'm not sure Percy liked that too much, but he answered me anyway.

"It's because I only have one other sibling beside you," Percy explained. "Annabeth has many. We're both head counselors of our cabins, but she usually gets all of the action because she's in charge of a big cabin. I'm only in charge of myself and Tyson, if not just myself…"

"Why's that?" I asked, clearly yanking him out of a deep thought.

"Why's what?" He asked, and I clarified it for him.

"Why does Annabeth have a lot of siblings, and you-we-don't?"

I hadn't realized where we were walking until Percy began to devise ways to explain this to me in his head. We were standing in front of a large cabin, that was right next to some water. Percy opened the door, and let me in first. He flicked on the lights.

"You might as well sit down," He said, "This is going to take a while."

So I sat down on what was clearly Percy's bed, since it was sloppily made, and had a few books entitled Sword Fighting for the Beyond Advanced, and Extreme Rock Climbing for Dummies. Percy swept them out of the way and sat down next to me.

"We weren't supposed to be born." Percy said. I smirked at him like I was joking, but his face didn't budge. He wasn't kidding. Why hadn't I seen this coming?

I could see why I wasn't supposed to be born, since I had always been a mistake, something undesirable. But Percy? He seemed like a cool guy…

"Wait," I said, "What do you mean?"

He cleared his throat, just for the effect. "Here's how it went;" He began, "Our dad, Poseidon, is one of what's called the 'Big Three' or the three most powerful gods. Since they were the most powerful gods, they would have the most powerful demigod children, like us,"

I pointed to myself, in disbelief. Percy nodded and laughed. "It's not all fun, Jo." He said, while still laughing, "If you haven't noticed, the more powerful you are, the more things try to kill you."

"I can't argue with that one," I said, with a slight grin as I had a flashback to earlier today. That already seemed like forever ago.

"Anyway," Percy continued, "The children of the 'Big Three' caused the two world wars, so after World War Two, they all made a pact with each other that they wouldn't have any more half-blood children."

"So Poseidon broke the pact," I said slowly, piecing it all together, "Twice."

Percy nodded. "Yeah, but Zeus broke it twice too…" He pointed out matter-of-factly. A big crack of thunder rumbled outside. I jumped about two feet into the air. Percy looked up at the ceiling. "Maybe I shouldn't have pointed that out…" He said.

"They can hear you?" I asked, my eyes wide in amazement. This was other worldly. But of course, these were gods we were dealing with.

"Of course," He said, "They can always hear you," He looked down at the floor, and then back up at me. "Well, unless they're not listening…And apparently Zeus is," He added, looking up at the ceiling again, but maybe he was really looking in the general direction of whatever was above it.

"Why would Zeus be listening to you?" I asked curiously.

"Zeus doesn't particularly like me…" Percy whispered, so I let it drop. I didn't want Zeus after me as well. That seemed like a bad break.

Percy then got up and set up a place for me to sleep. Now, three of the four beds in the cabin were taken, even though this Tyson guy wasn't even here. Percy said he'd be here in a few days, though, but our father keeps him really busy under the water, apparently.

"Don't be freaked out," Percy said rather casually while setting up my bed. I walked over to the other side of the cabin to help him, and he continued. "Tyson's kind of a Cyclops."

"A what?" I asked, but right then the door swung open, speak of the devil. I suddenly knew what Percy was talking about. It was a big, tall, brawny guy, and he seemed kind of scary as it was just because of his size. Add in his single, solitary eye, and you get terrified, if you're me. I found myself frozen once again as Tyson stepped through the doorway.

"Brother!" He said, and bounded for Percy. He gave him a huge bear hug, lifting Percy's feet practically off of the ground.

"Cant. Breathe…" Percy said, struggling to gasp in air. Tyson smiled genuinely, and let Percy go.

"Sorry brother," He said, "I missed you." Suddenly, Tyson didn't seem all that scary to me anymore. His eye flitted around the room until it landed on me. Percy seemed to read his mind, and introduced us to each other.

"Joaitha, this is Tyson. He came sooner than I thought," He added with a smile, "Tyson, this is our sister, Joaitha."

Tyson's whole face lit up. "Sister?" He asked excitedly. He looked like one of those kids on those corny commercials who have just been told that they're going to Disney World. Except, multiply that ten times, and you get Tyson's reaction.

He unexpectedly grabbed me, and gave me one of those bear hugs. "Oh, yeah, Jo," Percy said as I was politely gasping for air, "Tyson's a hugger."

"I. Can. See. That…" I gasped. That literally took all my might. To my relief, Tyson finally let me go after that.

Tyson moved himself back into the cabin, and then began telling us stories about his adventures under the sea. He told us about what our father was up to-and he was busy as usual, according to Tyson, although Poseidon wouldn't exactly tell him what he was doing down there. "He told me not to worry about it," Tyson said, shrugging it off.

From all of these stories, I began to wonder what my father was like. He seemed powerful, but you'd expect that. He's Poseidon. But he also seemed kind of-gentle too, in a way.

Both Percy and Tyson seemed to miss their dad. I only wished I could share in the experience, just for the sake of having a father to miss. I guess I was halfway there now…All I had to do was find out a way to miss Poseidon.

And someone like Poseidon is hard to miss in many different ways.

A/N: I can't thank you enough for reading this. I've worked really, really hard on this for a long time! Please review this no matter if you love it or hate it, please just tell me how you feel! Thank you sssooooo much! Expect a new chapter probably in the next week.