Legends of Olympus: Awakening

chapter 2 Archie

chapter 2
Archie

Archie was used to teachers telling him to shut up... well he was used to everybody telling him to shut up. It wasn't only because he talked constantly but also because he was extremely LOUD! ; his talking was loud, his laughing was loud, his shouting managed to be unusually loud and even his whispering was loud. But it wasn't his fault he had ADHD, keeping quiet just wasn't possible. His older Sister Megan on the other hand no longer tells him to shut up she just results to punching him.

Mrs Green, Archie's English teacher, was glaring at him from the other side of his table. She had black hair tied back in a ponytail and was probably in her mid 30's. She was wearing a white shirt with a black woman's blazer and long black skirt. Archie was slumped back in his chair, his ginger hair scruffy and wild. He was wearing a blue hoodie with an assassins creed t-shirt and dark blue jeans.

Mrs Green was in the middle of telling him to be quiet and shut up when Archie laughed

"Miss I didn't say anything... you sure you don't need your hearing tested ?" the thing is he actually hadn't said anything, yes he wasn't listening, but he was just sitting there and he didn't hear anyone else say anything either.

Mrs Greens face turned bright red with rage, she glared at him and said
" you're walking on thin ice young man" she snarled
Archie couldn't be bothered with this so he replied, politely " but Miss the floor isn't made out of ice... it's made of weird plasticy stuff so don't you mean, you're walking on thin plasticy stuff... Miss?"

Mrs Green looked as if she had just eaten an extra spicy chicken burrito covered in chilli sauce. Her arm shot in the direction of the class room door then she screamed one vicious word "OUT!" and Archie grinned.

After Archie was shouted at one million times and given an after School detention he was finally allowed to leave . He made his way to the play ground. The play ground was split into three areas. First there is the benches which are located in the left corner of the play ground next to the cafeteria. Then there is the centre play ground which is.. you guessed it.. in the centre. This is where people will just stand around talking and during gym class it's where you would play tennis. Then finally there's the shelter where people go when it's raining and being in the State of New York, it rains a fair amount.

Archie didn't hang out in either of these places, he was a wonderer. He would go wherever he felt like going, on a particular day, and as he didn't have any proper friends apart from his family. Meaning most of the time he would wonder alone.
Archie scanned the play ground, people were everywhere. There were people huddled in groups, others sitting on benches chatting amongst themselves, some running, some screaming, even running and screaming. Archie huffed and thought " just another average day at Izac Academy high school "

Then he noticed Pearl, she was sitting down on the small hill which over looked the centre playground. She had her knees pulled up and her chin resting on top with her right hand out gripping the grass next to her. Pearl was very pretty, she had a friendly and sweet face, tropical blue eyes and gorgeous red flowing hair. But Archie didn't see her like that, she was like a sister, she was family. He had known her for... well he couldn't remember a time he didn't know her. Pearl was sixteen, two years older than Archie and his cousin Rosie, but younger than his sister Megan who was seventeen.

Archie saw a tear trickle down her face and wondered what was wrong, he was about to make his way over when he realised...... he realised where she was sitting and where her hand was. He realised what today was...... the day they went from 5 to 4... the day 'he' disappeared... it had been a year today. She was sitting where they would sit every day, and her hand was gripping the grass where he used to sit beside her. Archie's heart sank, and he lowered his head thinking how much he missed him, but only for a second, he forced his head back up and made eye contact with her. He raised his arm and made a hand gesture, by putting his middle finger and thumb together making a circle, it meant 'you ok?' She saw the gesture and raised her hand to reply when his view was blocked by two buff looking seniors to the right, and two cheerleading looking girls to the left. All four of them had black sunglasses on and the two guys had the red and black school basketball jackets on, with the schools blue IZ logo on the right shoulder. The guy on the right had black shaven hair and the one on the left had short blonde hair. The girls just wore expensive white skirts and tank tops. one had blonde hair tied back in a pony tail and the other had long flowing brunet hair.

Archie sighed "look, if you want my lunch money I'm broke, if you want to beat me up I warn you I know karate, and if you just feel like picking on some 14 year old, you're wasting your time as I would most likely out smart you because by the looks of things you spend more time worrying about your makeup and shooting balls through a hoop, than using your brains! And I'm not just talking about the girls when I say makeup!" Tilting his head to the side grinning.

The four of them looked at each other and smiled, the girl with the flowing hair said " you're a fiery little fish aren't you?" The guy with the black hair laughed "ha yeah fiery like his hair."
Archie sighed again and said " wow.. so original man, you should give yourself a pat on the back?" the guy grinned until he realised Archie was mocking him, which took him a while to figure out because his head was most likely filled with bricks.

Archie huffed " look I'm in the middle of doing something and I could think of a billion different things I would rather be doing right now, and watching paint dry is one of them, so whatever you're going to do, could you hurry up and get on with it ?"

The girl with the ponytail smiled wickedly and hissed " If you insist? "

That's when Pearl came storming over "hey, what's going on over here? " she ran up beside Archie. Just as Pearl took her place next to him the girl with the ponytail opened her mouth and two large fangs erupted from her gums, sticking out at Them like white deadly swords. The girl hissed and Archie took a step back, Pearl putting herself between him and 'Goldie-fangs'!

" Well that's new" muttered Archie.