Chapter 4, Rose's POV, Greg?

Well this was officially the worst day of my life. First, a new kid comes to school and gives Amanda a hard time. Second, Amanda walks home without me, and third she runs away! I could not believe this! Amanda never runs away. Even when she threatened to run away she always came back. I bet she would walk through the front door any moment and say "Just kidding." And things would go back to normal.

I waited, and waited, but she never got back. I swear she would usually be back by now, and she was a no show! What if she was never coming back? What if she meant it? That meant I was going to be alone, and what's worse is she took the Percy Jackson series with her! Who else was going to help me keep my ADHD under control? We both have it so we understand each other and help each other out. She was my best friend, my companion, and now she was gone.

I wanted to cry, but I knew crying wouldn't bring her back, and yet if this situation was serious I should be crying. This was so confusing. Then a bell rang, the doorbell rang to be exact. I wondered who it could be. I knew it wasn't mom and dad 'cause they had a key and could get in without the use of the doorbell. What if was Greg? Should I answer the door, let him in, it was his fault Amanda left in the first place. I shouldn't jump to conclusions Amanda said it was unhealthy. Amanda! Maybe I should just answer the door.

I answered the door, and it was Greg! Immediately anger boiled up inside me, I struggled to contain it as I opened the door to talk to him. "What do you want?" I spat at him, anger control Rose, anger control. "Hi, my name is Greg, is your sister home?" he said politely, but unfortunately for him it was a little late for a change of heart. "I know who you are!" I replied angrily, he looked at me puzzled. "How?" he asked, that was a good question.

"Amanda described you to me!" I lied "A better question is how you know where we live? Did you force the answers out of her?!" I yelled

"No. I looked in the yellow pages." He replied slightly shocked. I seriously jump to conclusions too much, but it didn't prove he wasn't the reason of her leaving. "If you didn't force the answers out of her, then, WHAT DID YOU DO TO HER?" I asked

"Nothing, I just asked her if she had ADHD?" he replied, looking quite scared. Either Amanda was totally embarrassed by the fact that someone knows she has ADHD (besides Mom, Dad, and me) so she changed her name and ran away, or he wasn't the reason she left. I have got to stop jumping to conclusions! "Can I come in?" he asked.

"Sure." I answered, totally embarrassed. After a moment of confusion and complication, both he and his crutches got inside. "So you didn't answer my question from earlier, is Amanda here?"

"No. Why?"

"I wanted to ask if I could borrow one of her Percy Jackson books."

"Haven't you heard of a library?" I asked slightly annoyed.

"Actually it was just an excuse to see her, so when will she be around?" I could tell this kid seemed really interested in Amanda so I should tell him the truth. "Unfortunately for you, Amanda left, like for good, and she took every Percy Jackson book with her, even the comic book!"

"There's a comic book? Wait, what? Amanda left! Where did she go?" he yelled

"Beats me, I don't even know why she would go let alone where." I stated sadly

"Listen I think I know where, and we have to leave right know if we want to see her again."

I did what he said no questions asked. Why you may ask, because I was desperate! Desperate to see Amanda again, and desperate to know what he was talking about. So I went upstairs to pack. The usual stuff: clothes (nothing too fancy, just some normal stuff I would usually wear. I'm not a fashion diva, not by a long shot!), Toiletries (Toothbrush, hairbrush, toothpaste, etc.), all the money I possessed, and then I needed to pack entertainment. I would pack the Percy Jackson books, but Amanda took them all! I thought about taking my video games, but where would I charge it? So I thought I could manage entertaining myself on my own time.

I headed downstairs, and grabbed my passport (who knew where we were going?). Then I wrote a note for our parents so they wouldn't search the country for Amanda and me. I had to try and copy Amanda's handwriting for the signature, which was hard since the only thing I could've traced Amanda took with her. When I finished the note I stuck it on the fridge and met Greg out in the front yard with my suitcase.

Greg just got off the phone with someone, I guessed the taxi service. Although that was hard to believe because this town only had one taxi service I could think of, it wasn't even a taxi, and it was a house-run operation about a block away. So I asked him "Who were you just talking to?" he turned around to look at me "I just contacted some transportation for us," he paused. So he was calling a taxi, he glanced over at my suitcase "Geez' did you pack enough stuff! Is that why you took so long?" he asked angrily. I snapped back at him "I only packed the essentials! I took a long time because I was writing a note for my parents, so you know; they won't search the country for me." He turned away from me for a moment and mumbled something that sounded like "Like they wouldn't do that anyway..."

I turned to him and asked "So where are we going, anyway?" his reply was a short "New York." Curious for more information I asked him

"Why are we going there? Can't we go someplace in Canada? It's supposed to be the most peaceful place on earth." He simply laughed at that comment

"Ha, yeah right." He said. I was offended by this comment, but decided not to say anything for the time being. I countered it with another question "When's our transportation getting here? It is getting late-around 4:00 PM, so my parents will be home soon- and I don't really feel like walking all the way to New York." He smiled, which was a first, and said "Don't worry; it'll be here soon enough."

I looked down the road both ways, but I didn't see any cars or headlights. I didn't hear any cars either. All I heard was the flapping of wings. I looked up expecting to see a bird land on my lawn; instead I saw a horse as black as night and a boy in a chariot of wood being pulled behind him.

I must have looked stunned, because then Greg started explaining things to me. "I'm sorry, I thought flying would be faster." He took a few steps over to the chariot. "Rose, this is Butch and this is midnight, they're going to take us to camp half-blood." He said calmly, all I could do is stare.

Half of my mind was thinking "What's wrong with a taxi? I could understand why you wouldn't want to bother paying for one around here, since it was just a beat up van this guy gave people rides in, but a chariot and flying horse? That seems like a little much." The other half of my mind was thinking "Flying horse! Camp Half-blood! What the heck! This has to be a dream!" then I got a crazy idea.

"Jump at me!" I commanded. They both look confused, "What?" Greg asked, looking at me suspiciously. "I usually wake up if something jumps at me." I explained, he smiled and tried to explain "I can assure you Rose, you are not dreaming." It didn't matter, besides, how can I know for sure this isn't a dream without testing it. "Just jump at me!" I commanded again, hoping he would listen. With that last command, he just shrugged his shoulders, and jumped.

He hit me with a thud. "Okay," I said groaning "so I'm not dreaming."

"I told you so." Greg said a little too cheery, it was like he enjoyed landing on me, or he just enjoyed being right. "Oh by the way, that hurt!" I complained and he ignored me. I was trying to figure out who his godly parent would be until that point where I was getting up and I saw his hooves and hairy ankles. "Sa-a-a-atyr" thought the one half of my mind, while the other half was trying to figure out what was going on by piecing together everything that has happened thus far.

Things started getting weird when Amanda told me about Greg, then she left without me, ran away with all the Percy Jackson Books, Greg shows up knowing where she went, says we're going to New York then Camp Half-Blood, a flying horse (Pegasus) shows up followed by a chariot, I find out Greg's a Satyr. That basically covers everything.

This could mean two things: 1, this was a big prank everyone was in on, with wires and hologram projectors and costumes and make-up artists. Any second Greg will say "You have just been pranked by the Prank patrol" then Amanda will come out of the bushes and we will hug, then I will say "I am so going to get you back" we will get interviewed later, then swarmed by people at school for being on television before everything going back to normal.

2, The Percy Jackson series is real, and Amanda found out about it and took off to camp half-blood. I would have loved to think that it was option #1, but I knew it was option #2. Greg said that Canada wasn't very safe; I thought about sea of monsters and knew he was right. Laistrygonians were flooded throughout Canada, although they usually left mortals alone, unless they were hungry. So that meant...oh no.

As of this moment I knew three things: 1, The Percy Jackson series was real. 2, Amanda and I were both demigods. 3, we were both in great danger. I don't know why, but for some unknown reason after that, and for the first time in my life, I passed out.

Didn't see that coming did you? Well, if you guessed it congrats. What do think will happen next? Please post predictions in review. Stay tuned to see what's in store for these twins.