PS Chapters 16-22 will be in individual god's POV…as soon as I edit chapter 16
Chapter 17: New Best Friend
Poseidon's POV
One of the few things that I learned while staying here in this school, is the influence of popularity to the society. The other is the beauty of friendship. After a few months as mortal teenagers, I never once noticed that I don't have any friends. Excluding my son and his friends and the other demigods who attend this school, I would be considered as what they would call a loner. That was until the new girl started to attend. I can tell that she's not just a mere mortal. But she is very kind and very…enthusiastic. I was in chemistry class, and the teacher was in front with a clipboard in her hand.
"Alright class" She said "Today we're going to have new Lab partners"
"Paige Andrews and Marco Collins" she pointed to the second table to the left of the classroom.
"Dale Simons and…
I dozed off a bit. What I didn't notice was I was already called. Allison, the new girl, tapped me on the shoulder.
"Huh?" real intelligent Poseidon, real smooth
"Come on new partner," she said "it's time to make stuff explode."
"Awesome" I said with fake enthusiasm.
We sat at the middle left side of the lab. I turned on the Bunsen burner, or at least attempted to. I stared at it. Why isn't it on yet?
Allison laughed then I realized I thought out loud. "You need to light the match on it first." She grabbed the match from the basket at the corner of the table.
"Oh let me" I said reaching for the match
"Zuh" she said slapping off my hand. She turned the knob of the gas and lit the match.
"Oh" I said
She held the long strip of some metal ribbon and placed it on the tongs. "Wanna do the honors?"
I shrugged "Sure" I grabbed the tongs and grabbed one end of the ribbon. I placed it in the fire.
"Now you take it out" she said "see what happens."
I took out the metal ribbon and it started to light up. I stretched my hand farther away from my body and watched in awe.
"It's not going to hurt you" she said "That's a Magnesium Ribbon. It's the stuff they use for the fireworks it will not hurt you if you don't touch it with your finger. It will just slowly burn off"
Surely enough when the ribbon had finished the light was gone.
"You do this a lot?" I asked
She shrugged "More than once. I am a stubborn child. I like to play with fire. I love the sun and its heat. Though I did get burned more than I could count"
She pulled up her arm and on her forearm was half a crescent burn on her arm. Its brownish shade was contrasting her pale skin. And from the looks of it, it is new.
"What happened there?" I asked
"Let's just say that my mortal enemy is metal. I touched a metallic ring in the last chemistry class." She said then smiled "Want me to show you a trick?"
"Depends" I said "does it include anything to do with fire?"
She rolled her eyes "Seriously, ah'm not a friggin child. It's just fahr"
She tore a page from her notebook and opened the tap water half the paper was wet and she grabbed the tongs. She placed it vertically into the fire. She removed the paper from the fire.
She smiled at me "come on look what happened"
On the piece of paper was an impression of the fire.
"Wow" I said "I honestly thought it might catch fire"
"My mom showed me that before" she said "It's an experiment my mom told me about"
"Nice" I said
"You haven't done anything like this before haven't you?" she asked me
"No" I admitted "We used to be homeschooled"
"Sometimes it seems better to be homeschooled" Allison said "There won't be anyone to think of you badly. Or look down on you for small disabilities"
"Why?" I asked curiously "What happened before?"
"Nothing that doesn't happen everyday of my life" she said. This girl is confusing. But I can get her point. Sometimes I can see all the pain demigods experienced, the indifference. I notice her tapping her hand on the table uncontrollably. She just maybe…
"What do your parents do?" I asked
"My mom's a doctor" she said simply "she's always so busy. Its seldom that we have an entire day to ourselves. But we're close."
"Dad?"
Her expression slightly darkened "Never met him"
Possible Demigod. I thought
"How about you?" she asked suddenly pulling me out of my thoughts
"Dad's in prison" I said simply "Mom died"
"I'm sorry" she said "But hey just cause he's terrible doesn't mean you are right?"
"Yeah"
"Anyways now that we're stuck together for the next semester…Friends?" she held out her hand
"Friends" we shook hands. Maybe having a mortal friend might not be so bad
I had spent a few days with Allison and it had confirmed my suspicions. She's a demigod, an unclaimed demigod. She had moved through many different places, transferred schools. But what I admired was here attitude. She still looked at it in a positive way. Ignoring the fact that I was a god and her, a demigod, she makes a very decent friend, kind and open minded.
"Hey did you know that a group of flamingo is called a flamboyance?" she said suddenly. We were talking about hobbies just a few minutes ago. ADHD strikes again, I guess.
"No" I said "I did not know that"
"And it also means colorful" she said as we stopped by her locker "So are a lot of flamingoes… well theyre pink but what if you dye them all in different colors right?"
"Maybe" I said shrugging. I looked into the history book I had in my hand, when I heard a high pitched scream. I jumped and look beside me. Allison was covered with peanut butter with half of an elastic balloon stuck in her hair. And nearby were Zeus and his new friend Ivan, laughing their heads off.
Yey new chapter is done. I started writing this earlier but I was in a bad mood and was very busy. Sorry. I got bad vibes from my former BFF who showed up in the same review class as me with her boyfriend. Reminding me of my failure as a friend… Anyway enough of that
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