It wasn't the first time I'd been camping, but this time if was different, we found ourselves in a swampy clearing, with soda cans and wrappers on the ground. We had decided to take turns sleeping. Percy volunteered to take the first watch.
I went straight to sleep and started dreaming.
In my dream, I was me. The same girl who'd just fallen asleep in sweat-soaked, filthy clothes. I found myself in a fairly long corridor with benches positioned on the right-hand side.

This place was vaguely familiar to me, I'd probably walked its halls a thousand times, but I couldn't remember where the hell I was.

I continued to visit, there were numerous doors all on the left-hand side, but from what I could see the inside was all white as if I didn't know the contents. I noticed a wooden staircase that looked quite old and went down.

I looked around, it was the lowest floor of the place and I realized that I was in a school and not just any school, it was the school where I had spent my second grade, I had been admitted there just after my father's death or rather my uncle had forced me to go there.

At that time, if I remembered correctly, I was a little vagabond as the teachers would say, constantly getting into mischief and having no friends, I'd arrived halfway through the year and had also begun to realize that the only family that really mattered to me would never come back, so I saw life in gray.

I heard rapid footsteps, and I saw myself walking by, not the current me but the me of five years ago, in the little school uniform I was wearing. I realized it wasn't a dream, but a memory.

I was walking with my head down towards the principal's office, if I remember correctly, because a few days before I'd punched another student in the face and had to be referred to a school psychologist. I followed myself, and there was really no difference with reality, the same walls, the same sounds, everything transcribed to perfection. My past self stopped just before the corridor where the office was.

"I'm sorry, but I can't accept this, we'll both have to find a solution," said a female voice in the office.

It was Sally Jackson's voice, which at the time I didn't know, and I realized it was that day, it was the day I met Percy Jackson. His mother had come to enroll him in a new school, but there were difficulties at registration, because of a drawing, if what I've been told is correct.

The me from the past hid behind the wall, trying to see what was going on, and I saw him. A young boy with black hair and a sad look on his face, my past self kept staring at him, why? I'll tell you, I thought when I saw him that he was like me, all alone.

My past self turned to leave, I must have said to myself something like, 'something must have happened, better come back later.' But it didn't go as planned. I saw Percy silently rise from his seat and run towards the old me. He arrived at my level in the corridor and said:

"Hey, what are you doing here?"

The former me didn't answer him and went on her way, but Percy was relentless.

"Hello, I'm talking to you."

"It's not, you're business, get lost,"I said angrily.. Seeing me from the outside confirmed one thing, was really horrible back then, saying that he hadn't done anything to me.

"Me, I'm Percy, Percy Jackson and who are you?"

You tell someone to get lost and he introduces himself, for me that was unheard of. I don't think I felt like answering, the look on my face, but I said anyway:

"Kassandra Knight, but they call me Kassi or KC."

Percy instantly moved closer to me.

"You go to this school Kassi?" He asked.

"Yes, so I'm the one who should be asking you what you're doing here." I said rather haughtily.

"My mom came to enroll me here, but I don't want to go?"

I understood him, I too had been forced to come here and therefore abandon everyone I knew at my old school so I sympathized with his pain in a way.

"Why?"

"I think she wants to get rid of me." He said simply, but his face was so sad, he looked like he was going to cry. If it hadn't been a memory, I would have hugged him.

"Same here, my uncle also put me in this school to get rid of me, no such luck."

"Why would he want to get rid of you? "

"My father, he died not long ago and..." I stopped directly for a good minute and light tears began to appear near my eyes.

The memory of his death was still fresh in my mind at the time, and crying was all I had left. Percy, on the other hand, didn't stay in shock for long and approached the little me, without even touching me.

"Are you all right?" He looked around, searching for someone. "Are you hurt anywhere? Do you want me to call an adult?

Before he'd even said that I'd leaned against the wall in deep sadness. Yes, I remember why I had to meet a school psychologist, to talk about this event, because afterwards I had become much more aggressive and agitated.

"Leave me alone, I'd rather be on my own, I told you to piss off."

I hated crying in front of strangers, especially boys my age, kids could be cruel to each other.

As if by pure chance, that's when the bell rang. All the classes would come out and see the crazy little girl who'd hit others for nothing and was now crying for nothing. But it never happened, Percy did the most amazing thing I'd ever seen in my life at that moment.

"Come on, we don't have to stay here." He took me by the arm and lifted me off the ground. "I'm not leaving you here, okay?"

I hadn't even complied, why? Until now I couldn't answer you. Percy and Mini-Me passed the management office, slowed down so as not to attract the attention of the two adults in the room and headed outside. Everything was exactly as it had been five years ago, yeah, nothing had changed.

I decided to follow them, to follow myself. How would you put it?

I found myself outside, Percy was standing next to his mother's old blue car, which I'd loved as a child, but they'd had to sell to pay the rent when I was ten, since the Jackson family only enjoyed driving around in the infamous Gabe's Camaro.

Percy brought me up behind this car and I saw myself crying all the tears of my little body.

"Tha... Thanks for doing this," I said to Percy between sobs.
He looked embarrassed, probably not knowing what to say to the girl crying next to him. We stood there for a few minutes until the bell rang again to give the other students time to get back to their classes.

Mini-Me took in the silence between us, "Why?"

Percy looked at me with a surprised face, as if it should be obvious for me to know the answer.

"I thought you didn't want strangers to see you cry and I wouldn't want to cry in front of lots of strangers either so...I got you out of there."

"You're a stranger too, you know."

"No, we've both introduced ourselves before, you're Kassi and I'm Percy." He pointed to himself with his hand.

In a way he wasn't wrong, we weren't total strangers anymore, so knowing each other's names was already a start. Percy sat down next to me and repeated his request:
"Is there anyone you'd like me to call? Don't you have any friends or even someone who would know how to help you?"

"No I don't have any friends and no one to help me, I'm all alone in the world!" I screamed in his face.

How could it not hurt to hear that come out of my mouth, I didn't even realize all the people I had around me at the time, my uncle, Aunt Carmen, Marcus. Percy sat next to me he didn't even flinch at the fact that I'd yelled at him.

"So I'm willing to be your friend and stay here because If you think you're alone in this world then now it's you and me against the world , okay?"

For a child, he was talking surprisingly seriously, I could see it on my face, I was completely shocked, I never thought I'd hear that coming out of someone's mouth, especially someone I'd just met. Tears welled up in my eyes at the sight of these memories, and I didn't even know you could cry in dreams.

"Percy! Percy, where are you!" a female voice approached us, Sally Jackson. Seeing the concern on her face again, I remembered why I love her so much, that it was for her that we were going to hell and not for Zeus's stupid lightning bolt.

She approached Percy, who stood up when he heard his mother's voice.

"Percy, I've been so worried. Why are you outside?" she had regained her composure and took her son in her arms.

"Mom I want to go," he began." I want to go to that school."

His mother looked surprised. "Why do you change your mind so quickly Percy?"

He pointed to mini me hiding behind the car, "She's my friend and I can't leave her all alone."

I came out of my hiding place with my head down, thinking I might have gotten the boy into trouble, but in fact I hadn't. Sally Jackson approached me with all her benevolence and got down to my level.
"Honey, are you all right? What's your name?"

"My name is Kassandra but I prefer Kassi or K.C, ma'am."

"So it's true you're my son's friend?"

"Ye...yes," my voice was very hesitant.

"Thank you." I lifted my head and saw him smile at me, "At least he won't be left all alone now."

Percy touched his mother's shoulder so that she noticed him and took her aside, they said something to each other that I never got to hear, Sally laughed as Percy looked embarrassed then Percy moved closer to me and said:

"Would you like to stay together today?"

I only nodded in agreement, and he took me by the arm and we headed back to school. I never went to see the school principal that day, in fact I never went to see the school psychologist either, but that day I vowed to protect Percy as much as he had helped me.

It was probably my fondest memory.

I was about to follow myself to see what happened next, when all of a sudden, everything changed.

"That, yes that's why you're so loyal to him. For a reason as trivial as this."

It was the voice not the one that had helped me get into the half-blood camp, but the one that had made my blood run cold during the capture-the-flag game.

"Jackson will sooner or later push you aside, when you know the truth, he won't be on your side and he'll betray you, leave this little girl romance and join me, strike the perfidious gods, Κασσάνδρα"

"Who are you!" I shouted "What truth are you talking about and how dare you say Percy will betray me!"

"Perhaps the time has not yet come your fate is still too unstable, just like you." The voice laughed, a laugh that sounded like an echo getting farther and farther away.

Before I could even move, the landscape of my once-bright dream turned dark, and before I knew it I was falling into an abyss of darkness.

I woke up, day had dawned.

it's quite a short chapter compared to the other, but I love doing little chapters half flashback half dream you may have noticed but the scene is taken from the tv series I really loved the little flashback of Percy and I took the liberty of integrating it into the story and on that it's all for the reader to get this far, take care of your furtur.