Remember Me For Centuries

I groan and roll over in my bed, picking up my pillow and holding it over my ears.
My first thought is, ‘Who the hades is singing in my room?’

“Hey baby, I think I wanna marry you”

I throw the pillow off my face and turn my head to see Grovers caller ID flashing on my phone. I will never understand that boy. I mean what kind of teenager is awake at 8:30 in the morning! I reach across and decline the call. It can’t be that important at 8:30 in the morning.

I roll back over in bed and I’m about to fall back asleep when my mom burst through my bedroom door.

“Percy! Get up!” she says ripping my blanket off of me “Grover’s on the phone”

“Good morning to you too” I grumble, rubbing my eyes trying to wake myself up.

“Morning, now answer the poor boy, he sounds like he’s having some sort of attack. I’m taking Tyson out to the park for a bit, Okay?”

She chucks the phone at me and turns to walk out of the room.

“Yeah, see you later” I say picking up the phone

She turns around at the door and smiles at me.

“See you later”

When she’s left I put the phone to my ear.

“Percy?” he says breathlessly

“What?” I ask “This better be good”

“One million hits” He practically shouts “You have one million hits”

“What? Grover you're making no sense”

That's when Annabeth charged into my room. Her hair flying behind her in a messy ponytail. Wearing… her pyjamas. What the hades is going on?

“Have you seen it?” she demanded taking a seat at my desk and opening my laptop .
“No… Annabeth what's going on?”

“Come here” she said while typing.

I walked over and stood behind her chair the phone still held up to my ear. She was on Youtube. When the video loaded I froze. It was me… And Thalia, Frank and Hazel. I was singing. It was the band. We were on Youtube. I could hear Grover celebrating on the other end of the phone, Annabeth was looking at me with the biggest grin on her face. I leaned on Annabeth’s chair for support.

“One million people have watched this” she breathed.

One million…

So… I’m Percy Jackson. And that… was the story of the day I started on the road to
fame and fortune, but I’m here to tell you about how I got to that day…

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It all started about 17 years ago when a young teenage girl, Sally Jackson, met a guy called Phillip Olympiad. At first they hardly knew each other existed, until they were paired together in class at school, they started going out, fell in love, and then a year later- poof!…Sally’s pregnant. I know… cliche right? But that’s actually what happened. When Sally told Phillip he freaked, you see Phil was ‘destined for greatness’ and didn’t really want to be tied down. So he left. Then Sally’s parents freaked to because… Their daughter was ’16 and pregnant’. They were disappointed in her and offered her an ultimatum, Get rid of the baby or get lost. Sally chose ‘get lost’ and used her savings to get a place to stay, got a job and a few months later, I arrived.

For the first few years it was just me and my Mom. Then when I was about 5 she met this guy at work- Gabe. He was alright, to begin with. Then when I was about 8 my Mom fell pregnant. That's when Gabe started going downhill. Don’t get me wrong, he was ever a particularly nice person and i never liked him but before he just ignored my existence, but when mom fell pregnant, he started telling me I wasn't wanted… that I was a waste of space… that no one loves me, but I never said anything to my mom. She was happy, and that's all that mattered. They got married a few weeks after they found out about the pregnancy. We moved to an apartment in Manhattan. That's when I met Annabeth Chase.

At first she was just the really annoying blonde girl that lived in the apartment upstairs, but as we started to get to know each other better, she became my best friend. Annabeth has Blonde curly hair and stormy grey eyes. She was originally from California, where she lived with her dad, stepmom and her little twin brothers, until she was 7 when she ran away. Her mom, Athena, took her in after that and she's lived with her and her older half brother Malcolm ever since. Athena is my moms best friend… but she hates me. We don’t really know why but… I think it has something to do with the time I broke this glass owl thing that was in her living room, apparently it was worth like 70,000 dollars but in my defense I was probably doing her a favour, it was even uglier than Gabe… I didn't even think that was possible.

When I was 10 I met my cousins, the children of my father's older brother Zacharius Olympiad, Thalia and Jason Grace.

Annabeth, Thalia and I have been really close ever since. Jason doesn't really hang out with us, he has his own friends. Thalia has short Black hair and is kind of emo-don't tell her I said that. Then Jason has short blonde hair and… well… he’s so… organised. I really don’t know how to explain him. You wouldn't even know they were siblings if they didn't have the exact same eye colour, Electric blue. It’s scary how blue they are.

We were in Central Park one day sat under a big pine tree, we call it Thalia’s tree because she was the one that found it when she was about 6… It was her escape from family problems… anyway, when we saw a boy about our age being picked on and pushed around, by a guy about 3 years older than me.
The guy being pushed around had crutches, he just let them kick and shove him. I ran over and punched the ‘bully’ in the face, he ran away crying. We found out the guy with crutches was called Grover Underwood, He was the next to join our little friend group.

At 11 I met my cousins Nico Di Angelo, Bianca Di Angelo and their half sister Hazel Levesque. They are the children of my father's younger brother, Henry Olympiad. Bianca’s the oldest, the same age as me, with dark brown hair and brown eyes, Nico is the second oldest but only by a few months. He has Black hair and brown eyes… He is also a little bit emo- again don’t tell him I said that. Hazel… she’s my baby cousin and if anyone ever hurts her… I’ll hurt them. She’s so innocent, With her dark skin, big bushy brown hair and golden eyes. She’s honestly like my baby sister.

At 12 I was diagnosed with ADHD and Dyslexia.

At 13 my dad tried to reach out to me. I told him to take a hike.

The last person to join our friend group was Frank Zhang, the same age as me. He was born in Canada but his grandmother’s Chinese. He’s a baby faced goofball with cropped black hair and brown eyes. His mom’s in the army, so they moved around a lot. A few years ago Frank decided to move in with his grandmother in Manhattan. He doesn't see his mom much but she visits whenever she can.
Now before we get to the story, I have to explain some things, first I’ll tell you a bit about my little brother… Tyson. He was born a few months after we moved into our new flat. Tyson was a perfectly happy baby… but as he got older we noticed things. He didn't like it when his routine was changed, he would cry for hours… He would stare at you, and he couldn't use a knife or fork, catch a ball or walk. My mom took him to the doctors and he was diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome. Gabe flipped when he found out… blames my mom. Idiot.

Second thing I need to explain is my dad… and his brothers. Well, they’re extremely rich. They own 3 of the biggest companies in the world… Zeus Airways, Poseidon Cruise Lines and Hades Underground. My father owns Poseidon, and that's what people call him, so my dad’s the king of sea. Fun. Thalia’s father Is Zeus and Nico, Bianca and Hazel's father is Hades. Thalia, Jason, Bianca, Nico and Hazel all live with their dad’s and stepmom's because their mom’s aren't ‘suitable parents’. We all took our mom’s last name because, well, we don’t like our dad’s.

Now, to the story…

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