Winter Solace(Mark of Athena fan fiction)

Chapter 1-What's Up With Me?

Hey guys! I'm just going to start the story with The Lost Hero and then I will timeskip to The Mark of Athena.

Chapter 1

Winter's POV

Life in school wasn't much. It is a place where I feel like I don't belong. Everything here is light, and I'm the only shadow. But there's this place where I do belong in school, where I can be myself with a violin.

The music room.

I set my violin case on the floor and opened it, getting out my violin. First, it wasn't actually mine. It was my dad's. He gave it as a gift to my mother, which was actually a farewell gift.  Well, of course, I haven't even met the douche yet. I have absolutey no idea whether I should be grateful for his giftor extremely irritated. I mean, who gives a farewell gift when you don't even care about the person or people you're gonna give it to?!

I started to play "The Flight of the Bumblebee" and felt like nothing else mattered.

Music is the reason I'm alive right now. I don't care if I'm an outcast in school. As long as there's music, my life is complete.

Go ahead, take my money, take my brother away, take my mom's life, but you do not take my music, or my violin for that matter.

Everything felt nice, until I felt someone's gaze on me.

I stopped playing and looked at the door, noticing someone staring at me. I set my violin on a chair and walked to the door. I opened it and let him in.

Call me weird all you want but he was staring at me. I'm curious on knowing what he wants.

"Who are you?" I asked him.

"I am known as Prince Charming here." He winked at me.

"And I'm not going to be your Snow White." I rolled my eyes. "What do you want?" I asked him. "And you didn't answer my first question properly yet."

"Fine. Only for you." He smirked at me. I raised an eyebrow, waiting for an answer. "My name is Dylan. And you are?"

"I'm Winter. Winter Solace." I answered him, folding my arms across my chest.

"Okay, Winter. Nice music there." He said. He went to my violin and held it.

"Hey watch it, prince." I said running to him and snatching my violin from him. "This," I held out my violin. "Is off limits."

"I'm sorry but I didn't see a sign that said, "Off Limits"." He smirked at me.

"It doesn't need one. Stop messing with other people's stuff." I glared at him.

"Calm down." He said and walked to me. "I gotta go. I wouldn't want to be late for class." He said dismissively and went to the door. The moment his hand reached the doorknob, he said,"I suggest that you'd do the same."

He opened the door but I spoke. "Did I scare you? I'm sorry, I'm just--"

"No. You didn't. I like you." He said.

With that, he got out of the room and walked out, closing the door in the process.

Did he just say he liked me? No. He's just messing with me.

"I should learn to not assume things." I shook my head. "And learn to stop talking to myself." I blinked. "I just did it again." I said in realization. "You've got to be kidding me." I sighed, displeased with myself.

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I sat on a bench, doodling something. The actual definition is: trying to do something in life.

"Hey, Snow White." Who would call my attention other than Dylan. My eyes widened and I hid my sketchpad.

"Hey, what's up?" I asked, tucking a strand of hair behind my ear.

"The sky?" He sarcastically said, smirking proudly at his reply. I rolled my eyes. "I notice that you like to roll your eyes. Some habit of yours?" He asked.

"Why do you care?" I asked him. He chuckled and sat beside me. I frowned. "What's so funny? I'm sure I didn't say anything funny."

"You entertain me, Winter." The way he says my name... it seems like he is used to saying it.

"What's so entertaining about me?" I asked him.

He shrugged and instead changed the topic. "Are you aware about the field trip tomorrow?"

I raised my eyebrows at him. "Off to where?" I asked him.

"Off to the Grand Canyon." He said. "Are you coming?" He raised an eyebrow.

"Only if you are." I said. "I thought that if I was just going to be an outcast, it would just be a waste of time."

"Yeah, I know the feeling." He said. That's when he stood up. "I gotta go. See you tomorrow, Winter." He ran away, like he was in a hurry. There's something strange about this guy. He's always in a hurry.

In a blink of an eye, a girl sat beside me. She had brown hair and is really beautiful. It's like she had "GIRL GOALS" written on her forehead.

"Hi, I'm Piper." The girl said. She was probably about my age and looked nice.

"I'm Winter." I introduced.

She smiled at me. "Cool name." She complimented.

"Thanks. But I find the name weird." I positioned my foot on tiptoes and put my palms on the edge of the seat, just beside my lap. It's also known as "Hey, I'm awkward." position.

"Can you join us in our group, tomorrow in the bus?" She asked. I would say no, but something was telling me that I should.

"Sure. I mean, why not?" I smiled. "Who are you guys anyway?" I asked them. Just a few feet away from us, there were two boys walking up to us.

"That's them." She looked at what I was staring at. "The blonde dude, also known as my boyfriend, is Jason. And the scrawny one beside him is Leo."

"Hi." Jason extended his hand towards me.

"I'm Winter." I shook his hand and then there was a spark, like I was electricified. I flinched and got back my hand back quickly.

"Are you okay? You looked like you had a one-second heart attack there." Leo said.

I placed my hand back on the edge of the seat, playing cool. "No. I'm fine." I gave an assuring smile but I was still forcing back the pain in my hand.

"Okay." Jason didn't seem like he believed me. He frowned as he looked at my hand. I think he also felt that he just released electricity. What's up with that?

"Winter?" Piper called out. I turned my head to her. "You have a car right?" She asked me. I nodded. "Can I borrow it?"

"Of course." I replied quickly. Why am I allowing her to borrow my car? I haven't lend my car to others, especially strangers. What's up with me? With these people, I feel like there's something strange, like we all have something in common, or more, like we are related in a way. It's weird because I feel like there's a connection between us four.

And that is yet to be found out.