Please tell me why I am on a big yellow school bus sat next to a boy my age? Why did the "army" force me to leave Will's grave?Why is the boy sat next to me strikingly attractive? I.WANT.ANSWERS. I twiddle with my thumbs and stare out the window at the trees passing by in slow motion it seems. Seriously could this bus go any slower? I've met people dying from the plague go faster than this! Then I really look at the guy, Black hair, Green eyes, Jawline, Tall..IS THIS PERCY JACKSON? AM I SAT NEXT TO PERCY JACKSON RIGHT NOW? I think he felt my stare because he turns to me with a sad look and says, "I am Edwin, not Percy Jackson...might want to work on not saying things out loud." I can feel the blush on my cheeks as I mumble a,"Sorry". "No need to apologize. What's your name." he says softly, great he wants to start a conversation! He looks at me expectantly and I smile and say "I'm Safiya." "Pretty name." " Yours is interesting." "Mine is awful." "I like it." "Your lying." "No, I'm not it's a nice name." He looks at me doubtfully and laughs. How is this guy so happy? This is the alien apocalypse for gods sake! "Stop smiling like that." I say in my ususal blank expression. He looks at me and eyebrow raised he says, "that's how I cope.",my face gets all confused I can feel it and I say, "strange coping mechanism." He smiled again and asks, "well Safiya, how do you cope." I sigh and pull out the picture of me and my old boyfriend,
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I grew up in an orphanage. He was the only one I was close with. I hand Edwin the picture and say, "I think of the better, simpler times." He looks at me and pulls out his own picture,
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"So you have two coping mechanisms?" I ask, he turns and sighs, "I guess." Suddenly a soldier gets up and starts going around with a metal thing, placing it on foreheads and a green or red light flashes. He gets to Edwin and he flashes red, and he gets a little red smiley face stamp, now it's my turn and the warm metal is pressed onto my head, suddenly all I see is red and I too get a red smiley face. A man comes into the bus but I'm not paying attention, I'm looking over at a girl. Her curly red hair is frizzy and covered in dirt and leaves, her eyes are a piercing green, stronger than Edwin's, she's wearing a coat that has cursive letters on it, and she's wearing jeans with paint al over them. I would've mistaken her for Rachel Dare, If Edwin hadn't already confirmed he wasn't Percy. Lastly, on her hand is a red smiley face. All of the sudden she stands and so does Edwin, grabbing my arm pulling me out of the daze I was in and dragging me off the bus into a red circle with a number in my hand.
