Percy's POV
--5 years ago--
I stood on the steps, forcing a smile, the tuxedo my mum bought me scratching at my neck. I flashed my eyes around the barren courtroom viewing the other 5 people who had bothered to attend. Crazy people, I thought to myself. Who on earth would voluntarily come to a scene as hideous as this?
I held back a groan as I heard the judge finalise the documents. My eyes fluttered over to where I saw my mum standing there, her hand enclasped in that monsters'. How could she do this to me?! To us? It took all I had right then to not march forward and rip the document in half. I was in such a daze I barely noticed when the judge ordained them, resulting in a sickening kiss. I could hardly watch.
As I stared, my faux grin still painfully imprinted on my face, I caught his eye, he gave me a wink with his beady, piggy eyes. And then proceeded to grin at me with his crooked teeth, the gold filling shining through.
I could almost imagine his face as a snake, giving one last smile of victory as it knows it has it's prey entrapped and that there's nothing it can do to stop it.
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