Parker's POV-

Two days earlier

"Parker, its time for school!" Mom yells at my door. I groan as I roll over and I get up.

"Why do I have to go today? Aunt Hannah and Aunt Gia are visiting us today," I say to her as I open my door.

"Because you want to show off your smart abilities," Mom says.

"If he has any," Camren, my younger sister says.

"Cam, don't say that about your brother!" Mom says scoldingly. Dad sidles up next to Mom and he picks her up. She screams and she punches him. He immediately drops her and she says, "Seriously Hunter? Why did you scare me?"

"Oops," he says with a mischievous look in his eyes. "Come on kiddo. You have to get ready to look nice for your friends."

"Look nice?" I ask. "I was planning on wearing sweats today."

"You always wear sweats," Camren says to me.

"Don't you ever want to impress some ladies?" Dad asks me while wiggling his eyebrows.

"Dad!" I say and my face heats up. Mom just shakes her head while hitting him slightly on the arm.

"Hunter, why do you always have to be like that?" Mom asks Dad and he rolls his eyes.

"Because some day, our little boy will have his own wife and little babies and maybe he likes someone," Dad explains.

"Hunter." Mom sighs while rubbing her for head. "I don't know how I ever loved you," she says while smiling at him.

"Oh you still love me and you know it," he says while I walk downstairs. I grab a green apple and I take a bite out of it. I eat the rest and go get dressed in some black sweatpants and a hoodie. I brush my teeth and hair with a blue hairbrush. For some reason, Mom always buys a blue hairbrush muttering, "Good times, good times."

I walk back downstairs and Camren hands me a glass of milk. I drink it all in one big gulp and put it in the sink. Soon, its almost time for the bus to come. I grab my stuff and head outside with Camren. Our cousins, Grey and Andromeda are already in our driveway since they live right next door. "Hey guys," Andromeda says to us.

"Hey," Camren says to her.

"Can you wait for Aunt Gia, Uncle Declan, Aunt Hannah, and Uncle Jeremiah to come?" Grey asks quietly.

He is usually quiet and shy, even around his cousins. I'll have to make him more outgoing. "I surely can't wait," I tell him. A honk makes us look at the front of the driveway. A big yellow bus sits in front of us, the bus driver glaring at us.

"Oops," Andromeda says and I smile. We walk onto the bus and I sit with my best friend, Jane Wells. Her purple hair looks so natural even though I know its dyed.

"Hey," she says to me. "How are you doing?"

"Eh," I say, "OK even though my best friends are coming from far away."

"Yay!" she says. "I can't wait to see Reilly again!"

She has met the Prescott's and the Woodley's and of course, befriended the girls. She is my only friend. Well, my only mortal friend. Yes, I said mortal. The Prescott's and Woodley's are half-bloods while my cousins and I are legacies children. "I always have fun when they come," I say.

"They are a little. . . rambunctious though," she says. I haven't told her that they are Greek half-bloods yet.

"Well, my family is known for that," I tell her. "They were raised to be. . . heroes of sorts," I say, thinking of all the stories Mom has told me about her past.

"That's cool," Jane says. "So, what prank are we going to pull today?"

Brandon di Angelo, my cousin of sorts, has shown Jane and I the life we were attended to love: prankers. "I haven't figured that out yet," I say. "You come up with it today."

"OK," she says, looking out the window, probably in thought. We stop at a bus stop and Brandon and Amber di Angelo walk on the bus. They sit in the seat next to us.

"What are we going to do today?" Brandon asks and Amber looks at me.

"Jane is thinking of something," I say, pointing to Jane.

"Ah, let the prodigy think of something. Good," Brandon says.

"I got it!" Jane exclaims and the bus driver glares at the four of us.

"Well, tell us," Brandon says to her.

She reaches across me and Amber and Brandon get as close as they can without sticking their heads in the isle. She whispers, "The upside down classroom."

"What is that?" Amber asks loudly.

"Shh!" Jane says. "We turn everything in the classroom upside down. Duh."

"Ooh!" I say. "Great idea! We'll go before when the breakfast people go and head to our TA and do it."

The school people that put us four in the same TA was not thinking straight. They've had us for many years and still don't know how to separate us. "Good idea. But someone will have to stall the teacher," Amber says.

"I will," I volunteer.

"How?" Brandon says.

"My good looks," I say seriously. My friends all just laugh at me.

"What good looks?" Jane asks rolling her eyes.

"That hurts," I say, looking down. That especially hurt from her because she is my best friend and I might have a teensy tiny little crush on her. What am I kidding? I like her yet she doesn't know. No one does. Jane pats my back and I clear my throat. "I'll still do it."

"OK," Brandon says.

"If I whistle, the teacher might come in. When I snap my fingers, run out of the room because she doesn't buy my stalling. When you guys are done, slip out of the room and after a few seconds, come around the corner talking like everything is normal," I say. They nod as soon as we pull into the parking lot of the school.

"Breakfast may go," the bus driver says. Jane, Amber, Brandon, and I get up and walk down the isle. I shoot a look at Camren, Grey, and Meda. Camren glares at me while my cousins smile at me. We get off of the bus and soon, I feel a tap on my back.

I turn around and see Camren, Grey, and Meda. "What are you doing here?" I ask.

"Helping you," Grey says. Grey, my rule following cousin.

"Help us?" Jane asks.

"Of course," Meda says.

"We never get to do anything with you guys so we thought it was time for us to join in," Camren says.

"Fine," I say to Camren. "Are you sure though?"

"Yes," she says and walks ahead. OK then. We all walk into the school and head to our TA. I don't know how but we all have the same TA. I think our parents had something to do with it.

"Hey dude," someone says to me but I ignore them. We keep on walking forward. The school for some reason allows the students to walk around the building before school starts.

"Students, where are you going?" a teacher asks us. "You have a pass to go down to the office." And that ladies and gentlemen is Mrs. Harved, our TA teacher.

"Um, OK," I say. She hands me the pass and we turn around, going to the office.

"They don't need you Miss Wells," Mrs. Harved says.

"I don't care," she calls back waving behind her. I hear a sigh from behind us as my cousins and I walk to the office. Jane holds the door open for all of us and we walk in.

"-be here soon," someone says while we walk in.

"Hey guys!" a girl says to us and I immediately recognize her.

"Reilly?" I ask, staring at my friends from Camp Jupiter and Camp Half-Blood. "What are you guys doing here so soon?"
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