Jamie Hamilton And The Lost Soul

01. I win the record for the weirdest person ever

Listen up, I never wanted to be a demigod in the first place. I didn't even want to be the daughter of somebody I never even knew my whole life. You see where I'm going with this?

Despite everything crazy that happened to me, I guess I could tell you. But I think I should start everything from the beginning, so you don't get confused.

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My name is Jamie Hamilton. I'm twelve years old, and I go to Liberty Academy. Its a pretty nice school once you get used to it. The only problem there, is the people. Tons and tons of bullies in their little gangs, with their names like "The Skull Crushers" or "The Throat Rippers" or something stupid like that.

You'd think their the cool kids at first and everyone else are just losers. You're wrong. Most of these guys are pretty unpopular, but they seem to have an okay rep. Even though everyone just sees them beating up the shorter kids. The thing going on was if you were tall, you were popular. And if you were small, you would be considered a total loser and would have to be beat up by idiots until you magically grew a couple inches taller. I lost my friend to that rule once, she grew at least three inches in a week so she was taken to the dark side. I never hanged out with her again.

A couple weeks later, I befriended with Noah. He has this curly golden brown hair that always falls into his blue eyes, and is sadly crippled. Whenever he takes one step forward on his crunches he winced in pain, like every step made a chill go up his spine. But he always said that he was okay.

Today our Latin class was at a Greek mythology museum. Our Latin teacher, Mr.Brunner guided us along the many vases lined in their glass cases. Mr.Brunner might sound like a totally boring teacher, but to me he's like a complete hero. Every week he would bring in his Greek and Roman armour, making us write down as many Greek heroes that we could think of and their godly parent or parents. He has a nicely cut beard and goes around in a mechanical wheelchair. I heard he used to teach a bunch of different schools, which explains why he came here in the middle of the year when our old teacher supposedly lost her mind.

We stared at some old pottery made thousands of years ago. Hannah Gilman kept on blabbing like a idiot. I kept on telling her to shut up and I received stern looks from Mrs.Dodds, she's one of those angry math teachers, and of course she absolutely loved Hannah.

I glared at her and went back to listening to Mr.Brunner.

"Can anyone tell me who this resembles?" said Mr.Brunner pointing to a vase featuring baby Hercules destroying the snakes.

My hand shot up from the crowd of kids.

"Yes Miss Hamilton?"

Kids around me snickered.

"That's Hercules strangling the snakes that Hera sent to kill him sir." I said remembering our last pop quiz.

"Correct. And why did Hera want to kill him?" said Mr.Brunner.

"Because she was jealous that Zeus married a mortal named Alkmene. So Hera sent two snakes to try to kill Hercules. But then instead of killing him, Hercules strangled the snakes with his bare hands." I said.

"I don't even care about this stuff. Why should we be learning it?" I knew right away Hannah said this.

Mr.Brunner raised an eyebrow at Hannah."Miss Hamilton, could you please answer Miss Gilman's question?" He said.

Hannah's face turned bright red, like the colour of a strawberry. I heard a couple of her stupid friends chuckle.

"I...don't know sir." I said.

"Well you are in fact correct that Hera had absolutely disliked Zeus marrying a simple mortal, and having a child together. She immediately sent two snakes in an attempt to kill the young Hercules, but Hercules strangled the snakes which meant for Hera that she failed. The young hero grew older, and was trained by the wise centaur, Chiron. One day he met a young woman, and they had children. Hera then cursed Hercules to go completely berserk, and he killed his children and his wife. From our earlier classes, we have learned about the twelve labours Hercules had done. Now, let's move on." said Mr.Brunner.