Chapter Five: Twirling Ballerinas?
"Ugh. A sandwich, filled with vegetables, barely any meat." Thalia groaned, sitting down beside me.
I chuckled and rolled my eyes. "Vegetables are good for you." I noted, as I nudged her teasingly.
She pursed her lips and nonetheless, picked out the vegetables and set it aside on a napkin. I stifled a laugh, watching one of my best friend in amusement.
"Hey," Percy greeted, trailed behind my cousins and Nico, sitting down beside me. I smiled at him and nodded my head towards the other friends.
"What do you have for snacks?" Percy asked, trying to peek a look inside my lunchbox.
"Uhm," I replied before scouring for food "I have a cookie..."
"Sold!" Percy yelled, getting many eye rolling. He tossed me his banana muffin and reached for my cookie. "Here, have it."
I happily obliged and nicked off bits of the muffin and shoved it down my throat.
"Oh gosh," Nico chirped, twirled his spaghetti and placed it in his mouth "This is soooo good!"
Thalia shrugged before she grabbed Nico's fork and took a piece of his spaghetti. Before Nico can protest, she already ate the spaghetti. "Not bad, this is really good!" She exclaimed, taking Nico's container.
"Well, there goes my lunch," Nico grumbled, crossing his arms. From the corner, I see Thalia devouring the food and just smirking.
"Here, have my sandwich," She said, taking bites in between her words "Already picked out the vegetables for you."
Nico sighed and just took the half-eaten sandwich, obviously having no choice.
I chuckled, grinning. "I heard we got some new students from Miss Renner's class."
"Oh! Him, yeah," Connor snapped his fingers and nodded his head. "Yeah, he's pretty cool. He's sooo good at drawing!"
Travis nodded his head," Yeah, I mean his stick people have feet! That's royalty. He's like the Junior Picasso,"
I rolled my eyes, "I'm surprise you know who Picasso is."
It was just like my cousins to ignore me and just play with their food. Travis is like some animal who never seen food. In an instant he can devour it in minutes.
"Oh look," Travis spoke in between his swallows, "there's Nicholas!"
I switched my head to see a human copy of Percy, in some ways. In this case, his hair is slightly ruffled yet curly, coming to look sandy blonde, though leaning towards brunnete more. His eyes were greyish green but was disguised to look brown from a distant.
"Hey!" Travis whistled, calling for the boy to join us. Travis then indicated him to walk over and he looked at my cousin wearily. I laughed, knowing this happens often. He gingerly walked over, a tight smile on his face.
"Meet Nicholas!" Connor chirped, scooting a place for him.
I gave him a smile.
"Hey, Nicho-Nich-. Urg." Thalia groaned, glaring at her food "Why's your name so hard? Hey Nicky."
Nicholas' face heated red from embarrassment as he shuffled his feet. From the corners of my eyes, I saw Thalia smirking and letting out a small chuckle.
"Where d'you move from?" I asked curiously, throwing more bits of my muffin into my mouth.
Nick turned his body to look at me "From Pennsylvania,"
