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"Well I guess we can now go on to the next memory, how about he watch at random instead of in order." Zeus insisted and everyone nodded. I sighed and groaned, hopefully they don't find out about the whole thing.
"How about we watch the time they were in juvie?" Somebody said and I groaned, but they played it anyways.
They police officers lightly shoved us anorexic freaks into the small sized cell.
"First thing in that sentence being 'us anorexic freaks' kinda hurts." Summer said, shoving me slightly and I shrugged.
"We were to be honest, like the average for that age was at least past 90 pounds and I think the heaviest was 76 pounds." I laughed and they nodded.
"Well am I the only one not shocked about this?" Becky asked with a raised eyebrow. She was the smartest out of all of us about making good choices. Our power in influencing people is to powerful.
"Nope. This was bound to happen. Anyone's parents gonna bail us out?" I asked and they all shook their heads. "And my mom isn't home until Sunday evening." I grumbled and we all sighed, slumping against the walls.
"Well you think there'd be any powdered heroin in the walls?" Parker asked hopefully with a chuckle and we all laughed.
"We all wish. But I think we'd be in here a lot longer and we all know all of our parents would kill us." Sophia laughed and we did too.
"Come on, can't act like we'd rather be at our homes." Summer smirked and we all laughed, nodding. It seemed sad to agree but it's true. We sat in silence for a little bit, and the screen seemed to fast forward to the next talking part.
"Well we're in here so might as well tell each other stuff." Becky insisted, making eye contact with everyone, but when her gaze hit me, we stared for a second before looking away, blushing.
"Becky has a point, we all know each and every one of us has it bad, we just don't talk about it." Sophia mumbled.
"Well Becky, you brought it up, I think you should start." I smirked at her, and she chuckled.
"I walked into that one. Well, I guess I self harmed about a month ago." Becky said tightly, and pulled up her shirt slightly, showing us the cuts on her sides. We all nodded at her, telling her to keep talking. "And my parents are filing for divorce." She said hesitantly.
"Becky, it's okay. It's probably better off this way." Sophia said, hugging Becky tightly and she nodded. No tears were shed though, we were sad but none of us would put down our guards. We've spent years building our walls and we only let each other look over our walls.
"Summer, your turn." Becky said, nudging her slightly.
"My big brother died a few weeks ago." Summer said, covering her face. We hugged her tightly. Her brother was 6 years older than her, but he ran away at 16. "He overdosed when the police was about to arrest him." She explained and we only hugged her tighter. "Sophia?"
"My parents started dealing with others for sex trafficking me. They sell me." Sophia said in a hushed tone. We started to hug her. We didn't need to say words to help each other, we were all broken beyond repair anyways. "A few years ago, when I was 6." She said.
"I'm going to get your parents fucking arrested." I growled angrily. And they didn't say anything, when I'm mad, I'm mad, they learned to not mess with me.
"They did it to get food in our stomachs." Sophia mumbled and I sighed, relaxing. "Parker?" She asked, looking at him expectedly.
"I, um, have cancer." He said, and suddenly we all started yelling, not at him, but at whatever god did this to him.
"You don't deserve this!" "Fuck god!" "You're gonna make it through this." These were things we all said, and there was more but it was all blocked out.
"And my dad started hitting my mom. My mom started cheating on my dad again and both of them like to hit me. I think they need a new punching bag, I'm getting a little torn." He chuckled, but none of us did, we took abuse very seriously.
"Well, clearly not as much anymore." Parker laughed and so did we.
"Yeah, when did that change?" Summer asked curiously.
"I think the years of drugs and abuse and shit killed our brain cells." Becky stated and we all agreed. Everybody looked at us as if we were idiots, and it was kinda embarrassing. I hate my memories being broadcasted.
"Percy?" Parker asked and I sighed. I stayed quiet about a lot, and now that I realize it, it's a bad habit. Maybe I should stop lying. Who am I kidding, lying has saved my ass to many times. But they deserve the truth after they gave their truths.
"When I was 5, Gabe raped me for the first time, he still does it." I said, and they started shaking me like I was crazy.
"Why wouldn't you tell us?!" Parker growler angrily. I flinched slightly, and he sighed. He's bigger than me, shut up brain.
"Because I was afraid of how you guys would react." I said nervously. Nobody spoke, they expected me to say more. "I, I probably shouldn't say this." I chuckled nervously.
"Oh no! This is when I admitted, you know. You guys told my mom!" I huffed and they shrugged.
"You told the police about my parents." Sophia said back and I shrugged.
"Fair enough. Wait, does the video just pause when we start talking?" I asked curiously. Everybody looked at me like I was an idiot, even Gabe, who was already almost forgotten, except by Artemis, who glared daggers at him.
"I, um, eh, started to, um, sell myself." I whispered. And this is when the tears started to fall. We were done with the lives we were living. "My mom needed the money desperately, we were about to get evicted, Gabe was spending more and more money and I did what I had to." I explained, tears running down my face.
"You can't do that anymore, Perce, please say you will stop." Parker said, his eyes glistening with tears, and the girls had the same expressions.
"Only if Sophie will." I teased lightheartedly. The mood didn't raise very much, but smiles existed.
"Fine." Sophia smiled and we all hugged.
"Well, that's the end of the interesting part." I shrugged and everyone looked at me.
"You fucking dumbass." Jason said and slapped me, before hugging me tightly.
"Um, Jase dude I don't remember the name of, he doesn't handle getting his very well." Parker said pointedly and Jason quickly apologized to me.
"It's fine, Parker stop trying to make them feel guilty over everything." I laughed, throwing my shoe at Parker, and it hit him in the nose.
"You mother fucker." He laughed as blood started to trail down his nose.
"Anyone think I'll survive the fall off of Olympus." I chuckled nervously and started to run away from Parker. Stupid fast runner. He tackled me very quickly, and sat on me.
"Suck my dick Jackson." Parker laughed.
"You wish." I laughed and shoved him off of me.
"No Percy, you wish." Sophia laughed and me and I groaned.
"Parker, this was why. This is why I said nothing to them." I laughed and he did too. I glared at the girls who were laughing their asses off. "Hey, it's getting kind of late, we should head to bed." I said and yawned. It's 11 at night.
"Or we can take your other friends out drinking." Becky insisted and I shrugged, looking at them.
"Sure!" Leo said excitedly.
"I like that one, what's his name?" Summer asked me, looking at Leo.
"Oooo someone's got a crush. His name is Leo." I said to her, and she punched me lightly.
"I'm down if Pipers coming." Jason said and Piper nodded. "Hazel, Frank?" Jason asked and they shrugged.
"Sure." They said. Gosh darn they were so cute together. "Nico?" Hazel asked and he nodded.
"You guys are not allowed to drink." My mother said, talking to Parker, Summer, Sophia, Becky and I.
"Mom, trust us. Remember, this is what just happened, I'm still making memories and we speak, and you want me to have good ones, right." I said and she sighed, rubbing her head, and waved us off.
"Way to guilt trip your mother Percy." Becky said, elbowing my ribs aggressively. I sighed.
"I'm sorry mom, I know that was a dumb thing to say, but you know what they say, what the hell." I smiled at the end and she did too.
"Go have some fun."
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