Camp Legacy

“Hey Alexis,” I hear Life say walking up keeping distance between us. I don’t blame her.

“Hi,” I say keeping focus.

“This is Tommy. He is new, and a son of Ares.”

“Cool,” I say as I stab a dummy. I flip over it, and slash it in the back. I don’t even look at the kid. I don’t care for Ares, and his children. All them are rude, and ignorant.

They leave without another word.

I wipe the sweat off my forehead. My sword disappears into the shadows. I walk down to the pavilion to get lunch. I always go late because everybody always want to cheer me up, and it’s annoying. I hear the conch horn ring for dinner. Wow. I guess I wasn’t paying attention to the time. I grab a plate, and get my food. I take a seat at the head of the table.

I hear footsteps behind me, and turn around swallowing a piece of my potatoes. He has black hair, and silverish eyes. I must admit, his eyes are really pretty. I haven’t seen him around camp. Maybe he is new? I don’t know. I don’t care either. I turn back around, finishing off my potatoes.

“Hey um. Where’s the Ares table?” the kid asks.

I turn around. The boy’s face goes pale.

“Over there,” I say pointing at a table. “Why do you look like you’ve seen a ghost.”

“Oh. It’s nothing. Hey, aren’t you the girl Life introduced me to?”

“Maybe. I don’t know. I wasn’t paying attention.”

“That was sorta obvious,” he says.

“Don’t push it,” I command.

“Push what?”

“My buttons. I already have enough problems. I don’t want one more,” I say turning back around to finish off my potatoes.

"I'm Tommy by the way," he adds.

"Cool," I say boringly.

He walks off to grab food. I hear lots of talking, and murmuring. I guess we weren’t alone when we “talked”.
My friends join me at our table. They are surprised to see me here just as everybody else is. I almost always come late.

I see Life staring at Tommy. She likes em'. I know it.

I get up, and dump the rest of my food into the fire.

I catch Tommy looking my way. He looks away immediately he notices me looking at him. He looked like he was analyzing me.

I leave the pavilion not caring about Chiron's announcements.

I head back to my cabin. I stayed with Uncle Nico one night then moved into my own.

I shadow traveled home, and got some of my clothes. I grabbed a picture of when I was born. My dad is kneeling by the hospital bed, and my mom is holding me. They look so happy; both of them were crying.

I miss them. I remember the fun times when dad would teach me how to steal cookies from the cookie jar without mom knowing. Then mom would yell at him for teaching me. I remember training with the both of them. Those weren't the best of times. Both of them would pressure me, and wouldn’t go easy. I would have to battle both of them at once. They wouldn’t go full on, but they wouldn’t go to easy. It was somewhere between medium, and hard. Up until the day I woke up at the place where I met the other legacies, my parents both trained me after school for four hours each day. On the weekends we would train on Saturdays. On Sundays we would do fun things like going to the park, or going bowling. I miss those days.

I push those memories to the back of my mind, and think about the day I met the others. That was the day, I got called down to the office. It was ten minutes till school was over. I had been told my mom, and dad died in a car crash. I didn’t believe it. Not one bit. My mom, and dad barely ever drove anywhere. Hell, I don’t even think my mom has a driver's license. Anyways. Some lady talked to me about a boarding school, and how I would go there. She said it was free, and that we would go now. I tried to resist, but she made me go with her. I fell asleep on the way there. Then I met Kolton, Love, Christian, Life, Tess, Sergio, and Forest. I’m glad I met them.

I hear a knock at the door. I walk over, and open it. It’s Uncle Nico.

"I thought you might be here," he says.

"Yeah," I reply walking over to the couch.”So what do you want?”

“I wanted to check up on you. See if you are alright.”

“Why wouldn’t I be,” I say holding back the sadness in my voice.

“I just thought...Yeah. Nevermind. Uhh. Capture the flag is starting soon, so if you wanna join just go to the amphitheater.”

“Okay. I’ll be there,” I reply.

He gets up, and walks out the door. I get up, and follow him. This should be fun.

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