Born Never To Break

THREE

LIA

It's been two weeks since I've been in Mrs. Stoll's house, and I have to say, I'm starting to quite like her. She reminds me of my mom; sweet, but strict when she has to be. She also plays alot of pranks on me, which I have no problem with, because I play pranks on her too. In fact, she corrects me if I didn't do a prank right.

Till now, I got hit by the classics; pie in the face, whoopie cushion, etc. So when I woke up in the morning today, I expected what I saw to be one of her pranks.

I rolled out of bed and went to the bathroom to brush my teeth, when I heard a creak. I thought it was just Mrs. Stoll pranking me, so I didn't check. I finished brushing and when I came out, what I saw made me freeze in mid-yawn.

Two boys, who looked exactly the same, except one was shorter, were standing in my room, and scanning all my stuff. When they saw me, they froze too. I don't know how long we stood like that, but we kept standing like that untill Mrs. Stoll came in my room and froze too. There must've been a freezing spell in me room, like seriously. After a few hours, (mere seconds really, it just felt hours long) Mrs. Stoll said, "I see you three have already met."

Mrs. Stoll told me to change and come to breakfeast, while she took the boys out of the room. I did what she said, and when I came to the dining table, it looked like I just missed a small argument.

The boys and Mrs. Stoll looked miffed and annoyed, and one of the boys glared at me when I sat down. "So... Lia...." one of the boys said. "You know my name?" I asked. "I suppose Mrs. Stoll already introduced me." I looked at Mrs. Stoll, who was looking down at her pancakes.

"Yeah... Mrs. Stoll did... " one of them said. "Lia," Mrs. Stoll said, "this is Travis and Connor, my sons." She didnt point who is who so my first thought was that the names were of no use as I dont know who was who(they were that similar) and my second thought was, sons? So I voiced it.

"Sons? You mean the ones who left to protect you?" I asked, confused. The boys' expression softened a little when they heard the word 'protect', but one of them was still glaring at me.

"Yes, Lia, those same ones." "But then how come-" "We're here?" One of the boys interrupted me. "Because we aren't as dead beat as Mrs. Stoll might've said." This made Mrs. Stoll get up with a jerk, and walk away, muttering, "After all i do..." I glared at them and said, "That was mean. She never said you were dead beat. What made you think that?"

One of them gave me a guilty look, but the other one was still glaring at me. "And what's your deal? You are glaring at me like I stole all your stuff and left behind a 'sucker' note." I said, pointing to the guy glaring at me. "Also, can you clarify who is who? Because for the life of me, I can't differentiate between the two of you." I said.

"Okay look." They both stood up. "I dont know why it is so hard to see, but I'm Travis," said the tall guy, "The tall guy. and this is Conner." "The cooler guy." The other one interrupted, grinning at his brother. "More like the cornier one." Travis, the tallie grinned back.

I smiled at them and was going to introduce myself, but I remembered that Mrs. Stoll already had introduced me. "So.... What did Mrs. Stoll say 'bout me?" I asked the boys.

That got the shorter one, Conner, to start glaring at me again. Travis answered, "Nothing much really, just your name and that you were adopted." "And how come you guys are here? She said you ran away to protect her. What are you doing here?" I asked. "Well,"Travis said" it's going to be hard to explain, but.." "We could just take her there." Connor said. "Explain it to her on the way." "Whoa.. wait. You are not taking me anywhere without an explanation." I said.

Just when they were going to tell me, Mrs. Stoll walked in and plopped herself on the table.

"Boys, I know this is hard to take in but please try. I've been lonely for quite a few years now and i wanted some company." "It's okay mom, we get it." said Travis. "Right now, can we talk to Lia? We'd like to get to know her better. " Mrs Stoll smiled and waved towards my- I mean the stoll's room. we sat there and Connor closed the door.

"Okay, so, how do we start?" Travis mused. "Aha! So Lia, do you know about.. umm.. Greek Gods? Greek mythology? "He asked. "Umm... I guess I know a little becaue of this book my mom used to read to me when I was younger." I replied, glancing at the book on my bed. "Okay great. Now, do you know that in the stories, the gods used to have kids with mortals?" I nodded, and said,"yeah, the're called deligods? No, demigods, but how is all this related to where you want to take me?"

"He's getting there." Connor muttered. "Yeah so these demigods," Travis continued, "have, like special powers depending on their godly parent, yeah? And these powers cause all kinds of greek monsters to go after them. Now, as hard as this is to believe, the gods still exist. And so do their demigod children. The gods have their palace on Mt. Olympus, which, currently is on the empire state building."

"Wait, so you're saying that the greek gods are real? They're not myths? And they live on the freaking Empire state building!? " I asked, shocked. How is that not on the news yet? Dont people know that they have a freaking mountain above their heads as they walk under the empre state?

"Yes, Lia, now let me finish." Travis says, looking a little miffed 'cause I interrupted him. "Well, now me and Connor, we're demidods. And we live in a camp called camp half blood, where demigods and heroes train. I know that there is alot I'm not explaining to you, but you'll understand everything if you agree to go where we are taking you. Now, as I said that demigods attract monsters, our camp director, Chiron, sensed alot of monster activity around here. As this is our house, we came to check it out, and we have reason to believe that you-" he was cut-off by a scream, and a loud roar outside the room.

We ran outside and to see what it was and we saw-

*cliffhanger!!!*

Just kidding, I wanted to see(read) your reactions. Anyway-

A large, cow/man thing, which had cornered Mrs. Stoll in the kitchen. All I did was scream when I saw the thing, and it turned to look at me with its beady black eyes. Then it charged.

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Okay, cliffhanger for realz coz I luv u guys! See u in the nxt chapter!
-Teamleorulz (because it does :) )

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