Rey pov

I honestly wish I brought a thicker coat. This time it was the earliest onset of autumn but it felt like being cut on the skin cold as ice. It was far too windy and most of the leaves began to fall. I guess I was too careless that I didn't notice that the last minute.

"Good grief...how long is that girl going to take?"

I found myself unable to stop the words on my mouth as I stared blankly at the shut and very much locked wooden door of my friend's house which I've been knocking at for around ten minutes.

I began to knock again probably not hiding the irritation as the thuds violently caused the door to vibrate.

I almost felt like breaking it down myself.

Not long after I heard drowsy footsteps that came to answer the door.

A familiar girl with bedhead blonde hair and half shut blue eyed answered rubbing her eyes, still in her flimsy unicorn pajamas.

"You've gotta be kidding me..."

I ended saying as I gazed at her who was certainly going to get me late for morning assembly unless I ditch her which I'm very much contemplating.

"Rey...that you? it's so early and why are you in uniform? Doesn't the break end tomorrow?"

The blonde says yawning whilst I could only reply with a groan, grabbing the sandwich I packed for her to eat along the way walking to school as I put my hand on her shoulder tight in grip in irritation.

"No. Thea, it's very much today. We have school today."

I emphasized hardening my tone as I watched her expression almost comedically turn sour. Her drowsy blue eyes began spurring awake as if I just announced she was being executed today as her plush drooling lips shut and opened, gasping curse words.

"Y-you're kidding right, Rey?"

She asks me almost a frantic yell as I gazed at her wide blue eyes desperately hoping what I said wasn't true.

She held my shoulders in a harsh grip frantically as my own body stood still as a rock.

I gave her a wry smile copying a benevolent buddha.

"No, I'm not. See you at school."

I said as I turned my back. Yup, let's just ditch her.

"Hey! Where are you going?"

I heard Thea yell from behind me.

"To school."

I said to her with a salute, my face hardened with a blank smile. I began to walk away ignoring whatever she was saying by sounding it out with bird noises like I was meditating.

What a peaceful sound...

Only for a forceful push behind to get me off balance shoving my face on the pavement with a reverberating thud.

"Let's go!"

The says with a half dressed uniform that almost seemed indecent I couldn't help but chuckle.

"Good grief...Get yourself together. Anais and Marianne are probably already waiting at the school gate."

I told her as pushed her off of me and brushed my uniform off.

Without a word I casually continued walking with her following behind me fiddling with her coat buttons.

At the corner of my eye, I saw a familiar hulking figure gazing focusedly on the dazed blonde behind me.

When the hulking figure, the cyclops, met my gaze I gave it a sarcastic smile as I watched it fade,running away.

I still could hardly believe it. Things like this now existed in this world. Then again truthfully I'm the one who's not supposed to exist in this world...

With those thoughts, I found myself dozing off.

...

I was once someone who read a book about a boy who was born to struggle but chose to survive even if he didn't have a choice.

I first found it childish that book which I got as a casual exchange gift and threw it at the corner of my room.

But when hard times fell, somehow I found that book I threw away and found myself enamoured with it.

That book was Percy Jackson...

A world where the gods and dangerous monsters as well as demi gods that couldn't catch a break existed...

After my life began spiraling downward chipping away every part of me...that me died..

That's the rest of what I remembered. Iived four years forgetting that past life but then at four years old I first saw past the mist... a monster...

A creature with violent eyes and sharp teeth and wings like an eagle...

...

I snapped out of my thoughts when I heard the school bell ring. Without me noticing I found myself outside the gate of a wide school and a familiar face running towards me and Thea.

"What took you two so long! You barely made the bell ! Let me bet Thea overslept again! "

A girl with shoulder length dark brown hair greeted nonchalantly sipping the straw of the milk box in her hand.

"Good morning to you too, Marianne."

Thea pouted with a fist raised in the air and a visible blue vein pumping and expressing her mood.

"Jeez, just get an alarm clock already, Thea."

Marianne sighed as Thea lunged at her which I casually ignored, entering the school gates.

Somehow I've been living in this world hyper aware that this was supposed to be a book a fiction. But here it was now my reality.

After a month of dilemma , I ended with one answer.

It is what it is.

Asides from questioning existence I somehow passed ten years like this.

"Rey! Come on! I heard the new teacher Mrs. Dodds is super strict! She'll throw a fit if we're late!"

Thea calls out racing past me looking ragged with Marianne panting beside her from their little fight.

"Yeah, yeah. Before class starts you should get to restroom. You two look like dump diving racoons."

I tell them straightforwardly.

Still I never denied it, this was good. After losing everything in my past life, this normalcy that somehow returned to me was everything that I fought hard to never lose again.

I've never met any of the main cast. I'd rather not. They could solve the otherworldly problems without my help. They don't need my interference.

Little did I know or maybe just ignored it but that was blatantly foolish.

There was more to this second chance of life than I wanted.

...

Today's class was starting off pretty boring. At the least it was a lecture instead of a pop quiz. The very thought brought a shiver to my spine.

The new teacher was less strict than I imagined. Right now, she was teaching that dreaded subject mathematics on the board without a care that some knuckleheads were asleep.

She seemed to be in her late forties, grey hair tied in a bun as she smiled at me when I met her gaze which I awkwardly turned away from.

Either way despite the boredom, it was rather tranquil. Little did I know that would be the last bit of tranquility I would feel for years that if I could I would have relished every moment like it was my last meal.

Suddenly that silence was shattered as a ragged pale blonde boy in uniform entered the room heaving as if he ran all the way to school.

Under the bare minimum of sunlight his shoulder length hair shone under the fluorescent lights of the classrom hiding his face.

"You're late. I'm assuming you're the new student."

The teacher says continuing to write on the board.

Somehow at that moment, I continued to boredly gaze at that boy sometimes I wish I just looked away.

He raised his head his deep yet bright eyes that were as if a storm in the rain lulling me to sleep met mine as we stood locked in gaze for a few seconds as if time stood still just then.

He smiled and I forced myself to look away. I couldn't deny it I found him rather pretty. My cheeks were blushing slightly but I shook it off.

He gave an awkward laugh as he went to the middle of the board.

"I'm Jace Klawthorne. It's nice to meet you."

Jace...says as he slowly walks around the classroom to find a seat but my eyes fixed on him then he somehow found an empty seat beside me.

As he gave me that polite smile, I knew he was trouble.

He smelled like a demigod. A strong one and it wasn't any good.

Right at this moment I sensed more monsters that I've seen in my life.

This damned arsehole changed my life forever and I didn't know if I was happy or absolutely furious.