Ocean Drift -Percy Jackson / Heroes of Olympus fan fiction-

Chapter 1: School

Before we start I'm just going to say this: yes I'm an Australian so some stuff will be spelt differently from what your used to, Lol ok that's it!

And with out further ado...

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Aubrey's pov
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It was still cold...

After being sent out for lunch in the cold weather, my fingers were still numb, the heater was on full blast but it was so old and broken it was like a tiny candle, I remembered at the start of the year when me and a few kids I had met made a joke during history, saying that it probably cost fifty shells, after having learned that shells were the first form of money.

I sighed, the teacher was going through maths and it was just about killing me, it seemed the same for everyone else as well. For the millionth time this team I checked the school logo, I was still at the same school, it was a miracle for me to survive three full terms, of course I did have a better reason to try harder; my mum had promised that if I did well this year we wouldn't have to move away again. It happened every year, ever since I was eight years old she made us move from apartment to apartment, state to state, and now at the age of 15 years she still thinks I'm too young to understand why, I've tried to sneak it out of her when I was younger but she always changed the subject, but the schools were always the same schools with strict teachers and other troubled students all wearing the same blue, green or grey uniforms and plain concrete buildings.

"Ok class that's the end of school, everyone please stand behind your chairs and wait for the bell to ring." The teacher who's name I had already forgotten said and I rolled my eyes, one for my friends, Ava, was already heading towards the door. "Hey, you can't go until the bell r-"

The bell rung.

"Whoops looks like it just did, bye!" Ava walked out of the room with a cheerful smile and both hands up showing her finger... Just one.

She looked like she was about to say something but stopped herself, like most teachers at these schools they easily give up and normally let us get away with small things.

I sighed and shuffled out the room following the swarm of other students down the narrow and overcrowded hallway hallway, ending up at my locker like every other ordinary day...

I opened up my locker, it was unlocked like always, I was too lazy to remember it, ever after being here for a year, inside was very wet paint coating everything a light green, my bags my books, I could her laughter from other students and swallowed the lump of anger in my throat, my hands began to shake and from past experiences I knew that was bad, I curled my fists and tried to hide my anger.

It didn't work, the emergency sprinklers on the roof went off, drenching everyone, kids screamed in fright over the alarm that was set off because of the water, kids ran out of the building in the panic and teachers soon followed, the girls I knew had put the pair in where screaming, calling me a freak and complaining about their hair as they ran, one girl from that particular group just stood there, without looking at her I could feel her glaring daggers into my back before finally turning away, out of the corner of my eye I could see her disappearing in a blur of now not so perfect brown hair.

I didn't mind the cold water, it was refreshing and easily calmed my nerves about being expelled... But there's no way that that would happen, they can't link this to me and most evidence would be gone by the time the water went, it might even give us a day off so everything can dry. But that was wishful thinking, and this is reality the school would have to burn down for us to have a day off.

I blinked and quickly hurried out the building with my paint speckled and soaking bag and tried to hide a smile as I saw all the teachers trying to explain the the firefighters that the alarm must have been set of by accident.