A Sea's Revenge [Percy Jackson]

I. Meeting Keaton

I. Meeting Keaton

I sat on the dock with my feet dangling in the water.

Another day of helping my mother out. You see my mom and I have lived out in this shitty town my entire life. Apparently my mom's own mother 'got around' with others and had a few more kids. And my real father fell for her half-sister. My mom said that he stayed back in the life she wanted to leave so much. He apparently has a family now with about four kids- two older and two younger than me. They both met up again at a party and drank a little creating me. Now I have to help her out by getting as many jobs as I can find. I was just fired from Dairy Queen and am working for some orchard. I just basically pick apples on the weekends and carry stuff. 

Whatever can help us afford this house of the lake.

I am mistaken as a guy all the time. Mostly because I am flat chested and built more of a guy. The fact that I am into girls doesn't help either but my few friends accept me. Oh- and my name is pretty much throwing everyone off. 

Keaton. Keaton fucking Chase. I mean why Keaton? Every time I think of it I assume that my mom was drinking and playing Majora's Mask. Or playing way to much Pokemon and didn't want to name me something that I would be made fun of. I mean being a singer in my school's glee club already puts me at the bottom of the charts- but being named Keaton? Why not name me something else? But then again she said that one of her half-brothers was named Keaton. And that when I was born I reminded him.

Said that he was in some kind of war and was lost. And that she barely talked about him. 

I am going to be a junior when school starts up again and hated being like this. It is unfair! I mean my mom's family had shut her out or something. We never visit my grandfather and I don't want to be near my grandmother. The closest thing to family is my aunt Thalia. But even she isn't related to me. And sometimes some guy named Nico will come with her like once or twice a year. 

I wish that my mom didn't lose her job. She owned a company but went bankrupt quickly. My dream is to move to New York and join Broadway. There I would start doing plays and be able to help my mom out with her living conditions. Time after time I have told her to start dating some guy. That she shouldn't be trying to make sure that I am healthy every minute of the damn day. 

I told myself to get a scholarship so she wouldn't have to pay for colleges. And try and stay out of the hospital every once in awhile.

You see for some strange reason many people or things attack. Apparently when I was a baby I almost died because something broke into the house. My mom is friends with a man named Apollo who luckily healed me- and I laugh and joke that he saved my voice. Sometimes he might actually visit and see how I am doing.

My mom got mad that last year he dropped by school and saw how my glee club was doing. I remember that he drove me home and she was screaming at him. And he joked saying, "Annie you can't threaten your own god!"

I moved some of my black hair out of my face. By the way NEVER get your hair to your shoulders. Mostly because you still look like an emo guy. I am growing my hair out longer so I don't get mistaken as easily. Just about every time I close my eyes I remember being pushed around and called a "lady-man" or something. 

"Keaton! Dinner!" I heard a yell. I looked down at my reflection before getting myself up and running at a slow pace to the house. It needed a lot more work but it was still nice. It was a small cottage with two rooms. 

The driveway leading up is just a bunch of rocks leading up to a porch. Once you step inside then you are greeted with a laundry room to the side, and a crossroad of hallways. Going straight you lead to the living room which also has our table in it, and then the kitchen and a way to the side porch. If you go back up that hallway then you are met back to where you began. If you continue forward you are met with my mom's room, my room, and also a small bathroom and a closet. It wasn't the greatest place but it supported us both. 

Annabeth Chase- my mother. She was wearing an old orange shirt with letters that were half peeled off. She was wearing shorts and held two plates in her hands. She placed them down at the table and both had burgers on them. We both know that she didn't make them as there is our local burger place about twenty minutes away and she was gone the last forty minutes. Put two and two together and you get this. 

"Mom, looks good." I nodded as I took my seat across from her. 

She smiled lightly, "Thank you Keaton. So how is that music of yours coming along?"

"Great, great. I know this year we will win at nationals and I am practicing some songs that I think would do our group well. I really want you to be able to go to sectionals with us this year. I mean I know you have to work and stuff but it would mean a lot. When school starts I will ask her when they are so we can plan accordingly and you can make it." she still had that weird knot in her stomach knowing her mother wouldn't be able to show again.

"Good idea it is always best to plan ahead. So, have you been thinking of seeing anyone this year? I mean you spend a lot of time with that show choir so I imagine that there is some girl in it." it was clear that she wasn't very comfortable with this situation. She has made it clear that she always loves me but doesn't know what to say all the time. Like one time she pointed to a girl and asked me on a scale of 1-10 how hot she was.

The suck-ish part was that it was the new algebra teacher for freshman year. And I gave her a 10. And then my mom told me to talk to her, and I had to awkwardly flirt with her. Then my mom figured out who she was and made me apologize. We both agreed that it never happened that night. 

"Um, nah. High school isn't where I am looking for someone." truth be told that there is a girl that I like. But no way would she ever like me back. We both compete for solos a lot and she is pretty. But last time I checked she is straight.

"Right, so do you want to watch a movie? Or go out and do something?" 

Truth be told- I wanted to sleep. I have to work again tomorrow and wake up early. And I wanted to start more on singing tomorrow. "Sorry, I just want to sleep. We can hang out some other time, alright? Love you mom."

I slowly waved and went to the other room. I switched to some PJs and jumped on my bed. It was pretty light out considering it wasn't even eight yet. I then let my eyes slowly close to sleep hoping that school would start sooner. So training can start more.

But turns out I guess I shouldn't have wished this hard to go to nationals. Because a lot of things will complicate my life even more there. And it all will start with the man that helped bring the life named Keaton Chase into this world.

Oh, and some crazy adventure is on the way too. And some love dramas or something like it. 

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*Very much like other stories, yet has a glee twist to it. Keep reading for more? And I wanted LGBT characters in this go and Percabeth is more then likely to be endgame. Ok? Good.