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Complicated

Complicated is the star word of the story, it will be repeated numerous times for effect

Number 2

Percy Jackson's point of view

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Uh. This is an assignment for well..not school. Therapy. 

*in background* this is technically an assignment right? Paul?

*Paul, distracted, rocking a baby in his chair* Sure, hey, do you have your sister's blanket? No? Okay.

Percy clears his throat. 

Anyways. Assignment. Right. This is a recording on my point of view on life. Be prepared, whoever is listening to this. It's....

Percy looks off into a window. He sighs before continuing. The recording picks up a scratchy sound, his breath caught in his throat like the sound bytes in the grooves of the tape.

Well, it's complicated.

I know, I know. Demigod and all that. Psychiatrist is no stranger to this so we shouldn't have any heart attacks. 

I hope.

A wince

Lets go to the root of this shall we?

*muttering* Oh my gods i sound like Chiron. Okay, focus, focus. 

12 years old. 

Wait no- Before then

I suppose around 6 i can remember. Life wasn't perfect. It never is. But i could already tell from my skewed perception of the world that it wasn't quite right. 

My step dad wasn't my real dad. Dads weren't supposed to hurt you, but i didn't know that then. Not until i was 10 at least.

Just kind of thought i sucked as a kid. I thought i was bad, you know. I failed classes, i couldnt read basic words without staring until my eyes were red and i was ostracized in school for being the stupid kid with the stupid name that got in fights that weren't his.  Maybe that's where it all started.

Yeah. That's probably where.

Another sigh

I saw things. 

People ten feet tall. People with fangs. People with one eye. I saw dogs that weren't dogs. Things with wings i still dont even know what they are.

And that just made it worse. 

It wasn't until 12 that i learned that this was  normal. 

And.. I don't know. I couldn't accept it. 

With Gabe still in my life, I just thought everything I did was still so screwed up that anything else piled on top of it I would just... 

A laugh

I don't know what i thought. Nothing was right. 

But it was all there in my face just like Gabe and the kids at school that it was real. It was real. it was so so real. 

I got to camp and by then,

Life wasn't great. But it didn't suck and i felt like i wasn't the bad kid anymore.

Until i was. 

*quietly* speed it up Percy

A whole quest with my to be girlfriend and best mate for life cleared up everything for a while. I didn't mind being the hero. You know, until I actually had to be the hero.