THANK YOU GUYS FOR YOUR SUPPORT ON THIS BOOK! I will probably never do Author Notes unless it is very important. Anyways Olivia is about to start writing the second chapter. Enjoy!
I loved Manson. I really do. I just think that kid will get his hopes up if he doesn't get that spotlight that he wants. As Manson laced up his sneakers to get ready, I walked out of his bedroom and across the hallway, into Kayla and Bethany's room. Their room looked like a unicorn fairy barfed all over it. Pink and white vertical striped walls, light hardwood covered in fluffy rugs, two full beds covered in sparkly pink and white bedding. You get the picture. Kayla appeared to already be set to go. She sat at the edge of her bed wearing a pink ruffle skirt, a loose purple sweatshirt, and purple glitter high-tops. Her hair was in a ponytail and fly-aways brushed back with a pink bow headband.
She was on her phone of course, and was taking a selfie of course, and probably did some stupid thing on Snap Chat and sent it to all her friends. She giggled and called me over. Showing me her phone, I wasn't surprised when she showed me a picture of her looking like an alien on Snap Chat… Of course. "I'm totally gonna send this to all my contacts!" Of course.
Bethany was nowhere to be found, but on her bedspread I found homework sheets sprawled around. She was probably just getting a snack or something. "Kay, we're leaving in three minutes." She nodded as I walked out of the room, only to bump into Bethany. She had a towel wrapped around her hair and a robe on. She had a green mixture on her face and gave me a dirty look as she entered her room. As I yelled, "Be ready to leave soon!", she slammed the door in my face.
I shrugged and moved onto Kyle's room. His area was neat. His bed looked like it had never been slept on, dresser with everything in order, bookshelf with every book in place. He had athletic posters all over his walls, especially soccer and tennis. He was hanging in a little nook, practicing knee kicks with the new soccer ball he got. He was the opposite of ready to go. He was sweating from a recent workout and was wearing a white tank top drenched in sweat. "Kyle! We're about to leave! In like two minutes! Freshen up, please!"
Kyle nodded and wiped the sweat off his forehead and set the ball on the floor. He quickly rushed toward his bathroom. I exited the room, but not before I saw an envelope closed with a sparkly lip stick sitting on his bedside table.
Brittany was probably my favorite sister, because we really get along, but Libby by far makes me the happiest. She is twins with Kyle, and they both love sports, and are super competitive, especially against each other. Her room had purple walls filled with gymnastics and dance posters, along with tennis and volleyball. On a shelf above her bed, she had thousands of trophies for all the sports that she played, and a signed and framed poster of Zac Efron, cause we all have our hobbies…
Libby was ready to go, wearing an A&M sweatshirt, a loose pleated denim skirt, and some black flats. She had a bunch of sports equipment in this room that was connected to her bedroom, and I found Libby on her gymnastics beam, doing a back handspring back layout dismount. Her hair was in a mess from the skill, but she joked about it and went to go quickly fix it back to its wavy perfection.
Brittany was the last person I needed to go get, so I hurried over to her and my room at the end of the hall, and she was putting on her glasses. Brittany was the academic one in our family. She must have gotten it from mom. Everyone else is more like my dad: ADHD, usually gets in trouble, has a tendency to be hot-tempered. Our mom jokes about how dad always overpowered anyone. Brittany's side of the room consisted of Lord of The Ring posters and Newton and Einstein quotes all over. She had a basket full of Academic Chic magazines and a picture of her at a carnival with Michael and me and me when we were all in elementary, sitting on her bedside table. Brittany had an argyle black seater, a black pencil skirt, and some black wedges. She tends to dress up for occasions more than average.
After gathering everyone, the downstairs was a mad place, complete with Manson doing skateboard trick shots all over the house, and dad and Michael doing an intense Table Tennis match in the garage. Kyle was messing around with Libby and they starting fighting over who was better at soccer. Bethany was wearing a showy black dress and pumps, with an expensive jewelry collection on. Compared to Libby's outfit, she looked completely different. Michael jumped up and down and raced into the kitchen. "I just beat dad!"
A defeated dad came walking in and smiled. "It's only because I let you win!"
We all piled into the car and started the journey to the concert. Only minutes later we made it. It was a cool band we were about to see, Bethany and my favorite band of ALL TIME: Maroon 5. Bethany and I sort of hate each other, but we have that in common. As we walked into the ginormous center, we made our way over to the snack shop. There were TV's everywhere, showings ads and movie previews.
As we made our way into a line, I saw an ad about Greek gods, and made everyone look at it. Kronos was towering over everything, looking ready to destroy a city. Everyone around him? The helpless buildings. What surprised me to shock was when a young 18 year old Percy Jackson marched up to Kronos.
Kronos laughed, "Percy Jackson." The voice boomed over all the speakers in the shop. Everyone's heads tilted to look at it, but turned like it wasn't important.
Percy smiled. "You know, my dad sent you to hell! I'm not afraid to do it again!" He climbed all the way up to Kronos' hand, and smiled. Kronos stomped all over the ground and made the Earth shake.
"Percy Jackson! Your destiny is going to make you die!" Kronos mushed his hand into a fist, closing Percy inside.
With a burst of light, Percy popped Kronos' hand open and his sword was glowing brightly. "Sometimes destiny needs a little changing." Having said that, Percy climbed up his forearm, than his arm across his shoulder, and sliced down where Kronos' heart should've been, still slicing until his feet landed on the floor. Percy had blood trickling over his face, but what really tickled me was when an 18 year old Annabeth got into the picture.
Our family was snapped out of staring at the screen so intently when the person behind the counter call out, "Hey, next in line? We got a lot of people to serve!" Dad cleared his throat and bought some food. We were silent for the whole concert. I was so confused I could hardly see straight.
(Zoe Here)
On the drive home, everyone could hear whispers back and forth between everyone. I held up a conversation with Brittany. "We need to figure out what's going on with mom and dad. Don't you find it weird that we all are natural amazing at Ancient Greek and we ALL have dyslexia and ADHD. Something's up. I want to figure out what."
Brittany nodded. "Maybe there's a logical explanation. He might have just done a preview for some lame-o Greek gods movie and that's how he met mom."
As we got home, mom instructed us to do our homework, and by 11:00, lights out. We went upstairs and Bethany and Kayla went to go study together. Brittany had finished her homework, so I invited Libby to come do her homework with me. Brittany had her headphones in and sketching something for an extra credit Art History assignment, so I knew the coast was clear.
"Libby, I think mom and dad are demigods."
She stared blankly at me for a second before coming to her senses. "Those are just myths, Angela. I think of all people you would know what was reasonable to think of and what wasn't."
I nodded absent-mindedly. "Yeah. It's just that when dad was talking to Kronos, he said "My DAD sent you to hell, or Tartarus, I guess. I just figured out that we've never met our grandparents from our dad's side. Like ever."
Libby nodded. "You're right. That's a solid point. We should probably head off to bed now. It's getting close to 11:00.
I know Olivia wrote most of this, but her creative juices were flowing, and mine just weren't. So there's chapter 2! You should probably see another chapter uploaded very soon!