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Dear No One,
5 new things I have learned about Percy:
1) He sings and plays guitar.
It was around the beginning of the week when I first heard him. I was walking past his apartment to go to the elevator. I used to always use the stairs but now, not so much. At first I thought Sally was playing music but then I realized, Sally went out to lunch with my parents.
It was some stupid 'Our kids are spending a lot of time together. We should get to know the parent' type of lunch. Honestly, my parents and Sally have already met. They just wanted some time away from me I think.
I could barely hear the words from outside of the apartment. My face was smashed up against their door. Good thing many people don't travel down this hallway. I probably looked like a wacko.
I was left to my own devices
Many days fell away with nothing to show
And the walls kept tumbling down
In the city that we love
Great clouds roll over the hills
Bringing darkness from above
But if you close your eyes,
Does it almost feel like
Nothing changed at all?
And if you close your eyes,
Does it almost feel like
You've been here before?
I had never heard that song before. The person singing sounded like Percy but I thought that was crazy, Percy doesn't sing. He would always say his voice would cause an avalanche or break glass, one or the other.
So like a good neighbor State Farm is there (sorry couldn't resist). Seriously, like the good neighbor I am, I broke into their apartment. I knew where the key was so is that technically breaking in?
I walked to the room where the music was the loudest. It was Percy's room. I opened his door silently.
He was sitting on his bed facing the window. His back was turned towards me so he couldn't see me. Percy was playing away on his guitar looking at the Manhattan skyline.
But if you close your eyes,
Does it almost feel like
Nothing changed at all?
And if you close your eyes,
Does it almost feel like
You've been here before?
How am I gonna be an optimist about this?
How am I gonna be an optimist about this?
If you close your eyes, does it almost feel like nothing changed at all?
When he finished he didn't turn around, he just wrote something down in his notebook (I assume it was lyrics). I quietly slipped out without him ever knowing I was there.
2) He's a great fighter.
It wasn't a date. Percy just took me to the skate park near our apartment building two days ago. He said I should get out more and it was the first day snow wasn't on the ground.
It was me and him walking across the street. Percy had a skateboard in hand and I was wheeling my smaller oxygen tank (Dr. Eaton thought I should use it this week since it was cold and the air was dry. She thought it would put less pressure on my lungs).
I sat on the bench watching Percy. He was doing some crazy stunts that I didn't even think were possible.
While I was watching him some guy came over. He had dirty blond hair and brown eyes.
"Hey beautiful. Do you want to go out with me?" Mysterious guy said. He was standing right in front of me so I couldn't see Percy.
"Why would I go out with you when I don't even know your name? Even if I did know your name I still wouldn't go out with you." There was no way in hell I was going to go out with him.
"I'm Dylan. A pleasure to meet you." He stuck out his hand which I did not take. Dylan did not know when to take the hint that I was not interested in him.
"I'm good." I tried to turn away from him but he grabbed my shoulders roughly. I cried out. His fingers were digging into my shoulder blade.
"I would rethink that if I were you, sweetheart." Dylan said his tuna breath in my ear.
"Get your grubby paws off her." Came Percy's voice from behind him. Dylan was about to respond with 'No' but then all of a sudden Percy's board came flying across Dylan's head breaking in two.
The next thing I know, they are getting into a fist fight. Percy won with no bruises on him while Dylan had two black eyes and most likely a couple of broken ribs.
We retreated from the skate park to the safety of the coffee shop just a few steps away.
"Did he hurt you?" Percy asked, scanning me to see if I was injured.
"No. He just frightened me. What about you. Are you hurt?"
"He couldn't even get a punch in."
"Well that's good but I still could have handled myself." I said sipping my iced coffee.
"You might not always need protection but I still would like to help out every once in a while and besides he deserved what he got." He said looking directly at me.
"Agreed. You're cute when you're worried." Where the hell did that come from.
3) He hates fish (the food).
We went out to dinner to celebrate my dad's birthday. He said I could take someone if I wanted to. My parents and I are on better terms now. They even thought they were a little too harsh with the Prom problem (hey, it's alliteration) so to make up for it, I got to bring a guest.
I took Percy (he looked really handsome in his polo, FYI).
It was this really fancy place that only sold fish dishes and really fancy desserts (my dad's favorite type of food) but each dish cost like thirty to fifty dollars. Percy ordered the Bronzino. He didn't realize it was fish when ordering.
Me: "Why aren't you eating your meal? Don't you like it?" (I was whispering).
Percy: "I didn't realize it was fish."
Me: "You don't like fish?"
Percy (turning his head towards me): "Of course I like fish. I just don't like to eat them."
Me: "Why not? Its delicious." (I had eaten a bite of his Bronzino. I can't eat too much because
then I would have thrown up, a side effect of cancer).
Percy: "If you could talk to them, you wouldn't be saying that."
Let's just say I left the fish conversation at that. That was yesterday. I'm still afraid to ask what he meant.
4) He never knew his dad.
We were in deep conversation about our families. We should have been studying. I was talking about how my dad just totally forgot about my mom when marrying Helen. I also told him about my two monsters, I'm sorry brothers (I still love them though).
Percy surprised me with talking about his family which I thought he wasn't going to do. His mom used to be married to a guy named Gabe (or smelly Gabe as Percy used to call him). He turned out to be a despicable man but luckily he mysteriously disappeared one day without a trace.
Percy also told me that Gabe was so horrible one night (I am pretty sure he hit Percy) and Percy decided to run away (making sure his mom was away on business, of course). That was when Percy was twelve. He was only away for a week but when he came home, that's when he found out Gabe had gone and his mother was cleaning the apartment. She got back from her trip early.
I also told Percy I ran away when I was seven, right after my mom died. It wasn't anything like Percy's great escape. I was just gone for a few days and I didn't even leave the town I used to live in, in Virginia.
I asked him what happened to his biological father.
"I never knew him and nor will I ever want to. Any man that thinks it's okay to leave my mother alone with a child, will not get my forgiveness."
5) He can't have any non blue desserts and breakfast (unless it's the apocalypse, then he would have to settle for normal food).
I found this out about two hours ago. I was having breakfast at Percy's (at his request). We were having Sally's famous pancakes.
A plate slide in front of me, two pancakes nice golden brown and steaming. I took a bite. They melted in my mouth. I drizzled syrup over them. Then all of a sudden Percy cried out.
"I can't eat this. They're not blue." Percy stood up from his chair.
Sally came back into the room hearing this. " I told you we were out of blue food coloring yesterday. I told you to buy some more when you were getting milk and eggs. You eat them and you like them or you can make them yourself next time."
At this point I was ready to eat Percy's pancakes even if it was going to make me throw up, they were that good.
Percy walked straight out the door. Sally and me shared a look and ten minutes later, Percy came back with a bag. He silently went to the cabinets and grabbed out the ingredients for pancakes.
He quickly made them and added what he bought, blue food coloring.
Never get between Percy and his blue food. It's not pretty.
Wait! I forgot one. There are actually six things I learned about Percy.
6) He drools in his sleep.
How I found this one out will be our secret.
Thanks for listening,
Annabeth Chase
Sorry for the filler type chapter but you got more Percy:) I hope you liked this one. This week I read the Maze Runner trilogy, it was so good. I would recomend this book series to any one who is looking for more books to read. Death Cure (the last book) was my favorite out of the three. Anyways, today (for any of you Max Ride fans) I just found out that instead of the Maximum Ride movie, they're making the books into a webseries on youtube. I am so excited for this, I hope it comes out early in 2015.
I will post next Sunday. Adios!
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