Life's Complicatios

Thailia's family

Thalia Pov

"That's it for today. Pack up your bags and head home. You have a test tomorrow so remember to study for it tonight." Mr Brunner, our Mathematics as well as Greek teacher, said as he wheeled his wheelchair out from behind the teacher's desk to in front of the first row of tables.

By the way, I'm Thalia Grace, though I find it ironic that I feel that sharing my surname with a certain someone is disgraceful....

In school, I'm considered by many to be the 'toughest girl ever to be seen'. I hate that, but I can't help it. Not many people, no, only four people whom I trust knows about why I'm always cold to everyone, why I always act tough and cool.

As I said, I had about ten to twenty friends, only four people knew about my secrets. It wasn't a big group, but it was already the greatest number of friends I actually have throughout my entire life. When I first came to this school, I thought people would be scared of me like the past two schools I went to, and I would be alone again.

At that time, I was desperate for help, though I never showed it. Loneliness from throughout my life at that time had made me cold towards everyone, thinking that no one wants to be with me and help me, and yet secretly hoping desperately that someone would prove me wrong.

That was three years ago. Now, I'm really, really extremely glad and happy that someone had proved me wrong. I can't really ask for anything more, considering the fact that having even one friend that I could rely on already seemed like the best gift I could ever receive. And I did get more than I hoped for. Now, I had three who I could rely on. I said three as the fourth one who knew my secrets was none other than my brother, Jason Grace.

He was actually the reason why I wanted to come to half-blood school. I wanted to monitor him. I felt more at comfort when I could keep an eye on him when he is going through his everyday life. Another reason, though a less important one was that many people that came out from the school had successful careers and are currently millionaires or even billionaires, thus I came here for the same thing.

Unlike other schools, half-blood school accepts students from age twelve to twenty, so as you can imagine, it is obviously larger, way larger than other typical schools.

Well, back to the topic at hand, I not only had three friends whom I could rely on, I also had my own group of friends like Silena, Katie, the Stoll brothers, Charlie and a few others...though of course the three were who I considered my best friends. Seriously, they are the reason why I'm still able to live in this World and not commit suicide.

Well, the first was Grover. He's...well.... lets just say he is the silliest and most clumsy person you would be able to find in the whole entire World. That's the good part about him. He acts so silly sometimes that I would laugh my guts out! There was once, he ran into a wall while blustering about him and Juniper not liking each other when we teased him. It was hilarious! He also tried to comfort me when I felt down. Though sometimes it doesn't really work, I am grateful for him.

Nico, though he has his own personal problems like me, is always around to help me through my times of depression. Most of the time anyway. He always stood by me and comfort me like Grover, just that he was more successful.

He's usually quiet though, and thank the Gods for that, as because of that, he was an extremely good listener, and knew when to talk and what words to use.

The third person...I think you can already guess who it is. Well, in case you are so dull not to be able to guess whom it is, it's Percy. Truth be told, I don't really know much about his personal problems. Actually, I'm not even sure whether he has any. He always seems to be cheerful, always laughing away as though he did not have a care in the World...but still, whenever I look at him, I have this nagging suspicion that he does have his own problems, though I'm not sure where that feeling comes from.