Once againI do not own either book series

Percy

It was a while later when our mom returned home from work, my sister and I looked at each other with smiles as we stood up to go and greet her. I reached the door first and turned the knob, pulling it open.

"Mom, you're home," I said as I looked at her from the door as she was getting something from her purse.

She looked up at us with a smile that reaches her blue eyes. The three of us looked a lot alike with our dark hair and colored eyes, except hers was curly whereas mine and Laney were wavy. I didn't see what happened next as I was shoved aside by my sister, we were both close to out mom, but she was closer. My guess was that since they were both girls it was just a natural bond between them like with us being twins. The two of them came back towards the room with Laney in her arms, I was pulled into a hug once I got close enough. I felt her ruffle my hair as I was backed into the bedroom.

"I missed you both so much." She said, her voice sounding a bit strained.

"We missed you to mom," I told her, putting my arms around her.

Soon we were in a relaxed state, we went on to tell her how our school year had gone while she told us a run down version of how things had been here.

"Anyways, I got your report cards and you both did so well. I'm so proud of you." She told us, I could tell she wanted to say some more things.

"What did we get? Did we pass or did we pass?" Laney asked, she always passed while I barely got by.

We were both dyslexic but she always had it much easier with the reading then I did, sometimes I didn't think it was fair but other times I was glad she was doing better than me. One of us needed to get out this dump when we were older and if it couldn't be me then it needed to be her.

"Well Laney you did really well this year, all B's and C's." I looked down at this, I had gotten all D's then. It had gotten me passed before, so it would again this year. "And Percy you got some C's and two B's.

" I looked up again at her, I didn't believe it. "I did?" I asked.

"I told you if you just asked for help you'd get it," Laney said as with grin.

"Yes you did, but I'm not done."

What else was there to tell? We both got good grades on our report cards and they were accepting us back next year, weren't they? Was she going to tell us some bad news? Had I done something to get us kicked out again, it wouldn't have been the first time.

"Gabe said there was enough money left over so we get to go to Montauk." I heard a gasp as I gasped.

"Really?" We asked in unison.

That beach was the place where our mom met our dad, it was a special place to us.

"Of course, now why don't you both start packing? I promised Gabe I'd make him double layer bean dip for the weekend." She said, getting up and ruining our excited moment by mentioning that jerk.

"Alright mom, we'll start packing," Laney promised, she sounded a bit annoyed but I couldn't blame her.

"Why are you even still with him? Haven't you saved up enough so we can leave him?" I asked, my voice rose slightly.

"Percy, don't be so loud." My mom said before she went on, "I can't right now Percy, you have to understand if I could I would. But I'm doing this for you both, so you can both be safe." She choked up a bit.

"But mom, we are safe. We've always been safe with you." Laney pipped up.

"We don't need him, mom we could just pack up as much stuff as we can and not come back. Please." I begged it didn't take a genius to see that she was scared of him. Sometimes he even scared me and Laney.

"We can't Percy, maybe when you're older you'll understand." She said backing up towards the door. "I'm going to go make sure I have everything ready for us to leave, you two get packed."

She said before leaving us in silence. I kicked the desk and then stomped around in pain as I held my foot.

"I don't care what she says, we have to get her to leave him. We have all that money saved up in –" I was cut off by Laney.

"Never say it out loud, he could be listening." She quietly hissed at me, "But I agree, we could take it with us while we pack so that there's no reason she can say no."

I nodded both out of agreement and because I knew if I said it out loud, he would rip apart the only thing we had from out dad. When were born we had been given these sea animal dolls, mine was a shark while hers was a dolphin. After Gabe had started to ask us for money she had come up with the bright idea to cut it open and stuff the money in there. Two years now and we had a good couple hundred between us.