Moving On

The Guidance Counciler

Principal's POV

I was walking around the school inspecting classrooms and how the class was acting and how the teacher treated their students.

Then all of a sudden I heard a so full of despair and sorrow that I felt the need to curl up in a ball in the middle of the classroom I was currently in and start bawling my eyes out.

As I looked around to the students in the class, they all had expressions of pity on and were facing in the direction of the horrible cry.

I quickly stood up from my seat and took off running to the sound of the horrid cry.

I keep running until I found my self running to Paul Blowfis's class.

Mr.Blowfis was a great man and I certainly had no issues with him.

As far as I know he was a kind hearted man and a husband as well, so he possibly couldn't have been the factor of this cry, could he?

I opened the door and right before my eyes I see that Perseus Jackson was who the heart-breaking cry belonged to and Nico Di Angelo and Thalia Grace glaring at another student so hard that I shivered at the look of it.

"WHAT IS GOING ON HERE" I end up screaming

Each eye has turned to me except for Mr.Jackson's for he was to busy sobbing.

"I'm sorry Mr.Gender but we were just learning about Edgar Allen Poe" Mr.Blowfis answered

"Then why is Mr.Jackson crying?" I ask him.

I know Perseus well because he usually gets sent to my office and gets plenty of detention.

He usually wasn't one to show his emotion, to me he was depressed. I remember before he went missing, he used to always prank Mr.Swartz, the science teacher.

Nowadays he doesn't do anything like pranking or get into any kind of trouble anymore.

"It's just that I went through something this past summer and this poem reminded me of it." Mr.Jackson said to me.

He had stopped crying but his eyes were still red and puffy.

"Now, Mr.Jackson, do you think you will be alright?" I asked him.

"Yeah, I guess so" He answered shrugging.

"Percy, I would like to see you in my office. Mr.Blofis please continue with your class, and Percy put your things in your locker before you see me."

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After a few moments when I got in my office, Percy stepped in.

"Percy, I understand you told me that you went through something over summer."

"Yes Mr.Gender"

"What kind of thing, a death, a traumatic experience, be specific"

"It's kind of a bit of everything, you see... Well... I'm not really comfortable talking about it"

"Mr.Jackson, I suggest you go see the guidance councilor and when you're willing to tell me what happened we could call your mother and the guidance councilor if it makes you more comfortable."

"Alright, I'll go to the guidance councilor but when I'm ready I'm bring my mom and my cousins and friends"

"How many will there be?"

"The people that would help me and went through that summer with me! Okay then!"

Then he left my office roughly, I always wonder what has that child gone through.

He looks like he's been through a war.