chapter 5-I am here to study, not for drama!!!
Too tired for this. My sleep schedule has been thoroughly trashed. Here's your chapter.
CHAPTER FIVE:
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After going through all these classes I don't feel as tired as I thought I would. Seems my physiology has further been changed. Which means my stamina has increased.
I don't know how others will compete with what could eventually be near-endless stamina. It already is superhuman.
Now that I think of it when do my powers fade in. Do I get all of it or some more of it as time goes by? Food for thought.
I'm getting sidetracked here I need to get to detention and Grover already went to get the math notes that he left in our room.
I then started speedwalking to Mr. Brunner's class. On the way there I notice Henry and his friends. This leaves me wondering when Grover will get back.
I then put my attention on Henry. He walks towards me with a calm gait in his steps. He stops right in front of me and prepares himself to talk.
"So, you were telling the truth."
"I do that quite a lot…yet people are always surprised."
He gives me a scrutinizing look as I say that line. Mostly because I'm smiling ear to ear after saying that. I don't know why but that line... it felt perfect.
As if I referenced something. Anyway, I should probably get inside the classroom. I walk inside seeing Mr. Brunner writing on some Papers. He then looks up and smiles.
"Ah~, students you're here. Don't worry about me I'm currently grading some homework done by older students. Sit down, sit down."
I then walk forward to his desk and tell him how grateful I am for his help.
"Thanks, Mr.Brunner we'll be over there in the corner studying."
"Alright, well glad to be of help. I need to get back to grading these if you don't mind." He said as he turned his head towards the paper.
I then turned towards the group." Okay everyone let's go sit over there so we can study, alright."
I then walked over to a table followed by everyone else. Once we sat down I prepared to help Henry's group. I don't even know their names. I should probably ask them.
At that moment Nancy Bobofit walked into the classroom. I can't believe I forgot she had detention. Not tired my ass. I guess I'm not physically tired but mentally. I just hope she won't bother us while studying.
She then noticed us as she walked in. "Uhh, what are you doing here? Didn't you have detention with Mrs. Dodds? What with this group of yours? "
She has a lot of questions, understandable but annoying. "Well, Mr. Brunner talked to Mrs. Dodds Over my detention, don't know how he did it but he did."
Probably had a big argument with each other, which makes me thankful for Chiron, I can't remember if he already knew about her being a fury or not. "As for them, well we're going to be studying."
Henry then glared at her. "You have a problem with that or something."
I should have known that their personalities would clash with each other.
Her face then changed to a grimace. "You know what, yeah I have a problem with that."
Before they could start an argument Mr. Brunner came in and intercepted them. "Now children you should be focused on your work right now. Nancy as you have detention you will sit down and right what you did wrong and how you're gonna improve, understood."
She then grudgingly replied with a groan, " Yes Mr. Brunner, but what about Percy? He has detention too."
"Well, Percy will be serving detention a different way. He even chose his punishment, one that I approve of. He will be studying with these other groups of students for the math quiz for tomorrow."
She then glared at me, flipped her hair, and walked away, I didn't even do anything. I sighed and turned my attention to the group. This time with no interruption I'll be able to ask them their names.
"How about we introduce ourselves to each other, so we can know each other better? I'll go first, as you all know I'm Percy." This is mostly for me, as well I can barely remember anything.
The first one to respond to this was the blonde girl in the group. "Oh, well my name is Emily, and uh sorry for what happened earlier with Henry, couldn't exactly reign him in."
I gave her a little smile and responded, "Well it's nice to meet you, Emily. About what happened earlier, well that was partly my fault. It's all good."
I then turned towards the other member of the group and asked him to introduce himself.
"Well, my name is Johnathan. Nice to meet you."
I repeated what I said before but just altered it. I then saw Grover enter the room looking a bit ruffled up. I got up from my seat and asked if he was okay. "Grover you okay?"
"Yeah, why? Anyway, I was able to get all my notes for the test so we can be ready for it. I got everything from the start of the year."
The fact he kept it all together while getting to this classroom from the dorm room to this classroom is impressive. I knew I had to at least show my gratitude.
"Thanks, Grover, for doing this. I'm sure that everyone agrees with me."
They responded in the affirmative.
"Okay everyone ready, good. Let's begin."
For the next 30 minutes, we spent studying, doing homework, and enjoying ourselves with each other till we were interrupted by Nancy appearing behind us. I expected her to antagonize us but instead, she looked embarrassed.
"Hey... let me study with you." She demanded in an enforcing tone.
That threw me for a loop. If she said that with a please or if she didn't demand this so easily I would probably say yes. I'm not that easy though, at least I think I'm not. I think I can allow myself to be a little petty.
"Now I think you could say that with just a little bit more... compassion."
She gritted her teeth and looked at me in annoyance but seemed to swallow whatever retort she was gonna say, she then spoke in a soft tone, "Will you please let me study with you?"
Something weird is going on. What's the point of being soft-spoken? At the same time, she sounds genuine.
Scrutinizing her I noticed something that I didn't before because I was too focused on her emotions. She looks tired. She has bags under her eyes.
I can't help but let go of my pettiness and say yes. I should ask the group first.
"Guys, you wouldn't mind if she studied with us, right?"
They look at each other as if they were having a secret conversation. Even Grover gets in on it. They seem to have decided because
Henry then moves to speak.
"Yes, she can. As long as she doesn't cause me trouble."
She then pulls up a chair, puts her book on the table, and sits down. For the next few moments, the tension between us all.
I'm surprised Chiron Chiron hasn't noticed what just happened. I take a glance at him and see that he has a little smile on his face. Suppose that means he's okay with what happened.
As we study we get to know each other more. Nancy drops in a word here and there at times. I know now that Henry has a little brother and likes playing soccer. Emily likes reading books all the time. Johnathan on the other hand gets bored of reading books and enjoys the outdoors.
Eventually, we managed to get Nancy to loosen up. She explains that she lashes out because of issues she has at home. She never goes further on that topic.
Eventually, it's time to go as detention technically already ended and Mr.Brunner needed to lock up.
We soon get up and leave. The first of us to say something at that moment was surprisingly Nancy.
"Thanks for letting me study with you." she walks away before any of us can respond.
That was entirely out of character. Perhaps this might be the real Nancy. I then chose to respond to her.
"Let's do this again another time Nancy, okay?"
That just seemed to make her walk faster. Guess she didn't like that idea.
I then turned towards the group, " The same goes for you guys. Let's do this again. I don't mean just study but hang out."
Henry, Emily, and Johnathan look pretty happy about that.
"Yeah. Let's hang out some other time." Henry responds.
Emily and Johnathan nod in agreement.
They then said goodbye and walked away.
Me and Grover were the only ones left.
" Hey Grover, this day was weird. First, it started badly. Then in the end it changed to a good day. We made friends. It's great, right?"
"Yeah, today was a good day." He replied with a smile.
We then chose to go through the school to our dorm rooms.
MIDNIGHT- GROVER FINALLY FELL ASLEEP
I get up from the bed and open the window. I then jump out. It's time to train.
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Sorry, I couldn't get to 2,000. At least I got to 1,500 words. I had too much work to do. I had to study for my math midterm. As well as do my homework. Also on Monday, I won't be able to update because it's one of my relative's birthdays so I won't be able to write a chapter as I need to give her my full attention. Sorry, anyway hope you guys enjoyed this chapter.
*(KosOS was here)