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▪︎ 21.

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Percy was never the type to dilly-dally things. If he could, he would act on them, trying to get rid of the problem as soon as possible by solving it. He never saw the purpose of procrastination or running around in circles.

Yet, he paced around his room, waiting for an owl to flutter through his window, bearing an answer to his letter than he sent to Eliza. Everytime he thought of her, his heart would speed up – just for a few seconds – before he took a deep breath, steadying himself.

If Percy had ever found any of his siblings, sneaking away at a given chance to meet their lover, he was sure that he would frown and disregard them. But, as seconds flew by becoming minutes, minutes flowing by becoming hours, he couldn't help but do the same.

After finally having enough of pacing around, he sat down and opened one of his previous year's textbooks to atleast take his mind off of it. Although it was of no use, because every five minutes or less, he looked out of the window, hoping for something but being heavily disappointed.

Around thirty minutes or so, there was hard tapping on Percy's window. His heart beating quickly, he opened the hatch, so that it wouldn't draw too much attention, the owl came in, hooting loudly.

Tossing some owl treats, the owl flew away happily as Percy retrieved his letter.

And with a deep breath, he opened the parchment.

𝑫𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒚,

𝑨𝒓𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂 𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒆? 𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝒐𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒆𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒂𝒚 𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒓𝒆 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒎 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆.

𝑪𝒂𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒆 𝑰 𝒈𝒐𝒕 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑰 𝒄𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒖𝒑 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒅𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒐 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝑯𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒂𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒑𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓? 𝑰 𝒌𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒘𝒆'𝒅 𝒆𝒙𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒕 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒖𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒓 (𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒅, 𝒂𝒅𝒅 𝒂 𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒌) 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒂 𝒇𝒆𝒘 𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓? 𝑱𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒂 𝒇𝒆𝒘 𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒐𝒏 𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒎 𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒛𝒗𝒐𝒖𝒔? 𝑰'𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒇𝒊𝒇𝒕𝒉 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒚 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅'𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒚 𝒏𝒐𝒘, 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒎𝒆𝒆𝒕𝒔 𝒖𝒑 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒈𝒊𝒓𝒍𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒌𝒊𝒔𝒔 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒑𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒚.

𝑰'𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒂𝒔𝒌 𝒂𝒔 𝒘𝒆𝒍𝒍, 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒇𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒎𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒎𝒚 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔? 𝑺𝒆𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒚. 𝑰'𝒅 𝒂𝒔𝒌 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚'𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒔𝒐 𝒃𝒖𝒔𝒚 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑰 𝒃𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎.