A Blast from the Past

The Aquarium Gets Rated No Stars. Not Even One.

Chapter 8

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Percy's POV

Mrs. Tamato squinted at the paper I handed her suspiciously, with surprise alight in her eyes. I had never been the best student, but when I am literally handed a sheet of paper that asks you questions like 'one plus one', or 'is this shape a square or a circle,' how could I not turn it in under 5 minutes?

The kids in my class held certain jealousy in their eyes. It was to be expected. First graders loved attention and I took away their spotlight no matter how hard I tried to give it to them. If she was here, Annabeth would have laughed at the thought of me being labeled as the 'smart kid.'

At first, I thought school would be a complete waste of time, that was until I really started to think about it. The idea came to me in a daydream that I was sucked into during a lesson.

"...Thalia stepped forward and did something very weird. She snapped her fingers. The sound was sharp and loud. Maybe it was just my imagination, but I felt a gust of wind ripple out from her hand, across the room. It washed over all of us, making the banners on the wall."

Oh but we're not visitors, Thalia had told the teacher, years ago if I recalled right.

"The women blinked, like someone had just woken her from a trance."

"...asked in a low voice, 'How did you do that finger-snap thing?'"

'"You mean the Mist? Hasn't Chiron shown you how to do that yet?'"

Well, years have come and gone and Chiron still hasn't shown me how to manipulate the Mist, but seeing Hazel in action and hearing her talk about it gave me a pretty good idea.

From what I had gathered, the easiest way to manipulate the Mist was to show someone what they desired. Well, in a first-grade classroom, it wasn't very hard to find something that my classmates desired.

Attention, little kids, I swear to the gods, will do anything for attention. So I started simple. I practiced by making the correct answer pop into their brains. By doing this, I learned how to manipulate their thoughts so there Thalia, I didn't need Chiron to teach me.

I smiled to myself shaking my head, it was hilarious now to think I was jealous of Thalia and the respected leadership Annabeth and Grover gave to her.

Although, I can't exactly say I've matured though. But you try not being entertained watching your teacher try to solve the mystery of the random exploding water bottles. It's really too bad they banned water bottles from the classroom ever since, but its fun whet someone forgets.

Mrs. Tamato handed me a coloring sheet and told me I could go sit down. Sitting down at my group table, I debated if I should actually color the paper, scribble on it just because, or find something else I could do, most likely something Travis and Conner Stoll would approve of.

I looked over that the kid next to me who was trying his very hardest to figure out how to read the instructions. Tapping him on the shoulder, I read it to him causing him to give a bright smile of thanks.

Sure, I had dyslexia but dyslexia doesn't make you unable to read, just harder. And of course, it's possible to overcome your dyslexia by reading more so obviously I've been gotten better.

I jumped at the sound of the door slamming having not been aware of my surroundings. Thousands of thoughts spun in my head at the sight of the purposely walking AP who started a conversation with Mrs. Tamato. Surely they couldn't have found out I started the food fight in the cafeteria when we had tacos. Sadly, it wasn't a dam food fight seeing we weren't present at a dam but I did see some wearing a dam T-shirt which made me snicker.