Helene

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You sigh, the look on Nancy face infuriates you but you know he's right you don't want to get expelled again your halfway through the year you could at least try to stick it out. At least for your mom. She'd be disappointed if you didn't at least try to stick it out. 

But not before giving Nancy another glare. 

Grover pulls Percy back into his seat. 

Percy looks at you. Wondering if you really don't want to pursue her. You sigh than yell back at Nancy. 

"He's right you're not worth a second of my time. Your just pathetic." 

You sit back down and try to ignore her the rest of the ride. 

Finally, you arrive at the museum. Mr. Burnner leads the tour. 

He rides up front in his wheelchair, guiding you through big echoing galleries.

They were filled with huge marble statue and glass cases holding ancient documents and black and orange crumbling pottery. 

It blew your mind that this stuff had survived for two thousand, or maybe three thousand years. 

He gathered everyone around a towering stone column with this hige spinx on top. He explained that it was a grave marker, a stele, for a girl about your age. He told you about the carvings on the sides. You were trying to listen because what he was saying was actually pretty interesting Percy seemed to be paying attention too. 

But everyone around you our talking and goofing off, and it's impossible to hear anything.

"Ugh, can't you just shut up?" You tell a group of people talking way to much. 

They just ignore you and Mrs. Dodds shakes her head and glareaat you. There the ones talking. You think exasperated. 

Percy trys to shut them up too but Mrs. Dodds just gives him the evil eye. Mrs. Dodds was the other teacher chaperone, she was this little math teacher from Georgia and she hated your guts. She always wore this black leather even though she was in her sixties. The way she glared at you she looked mean enough to drive a Harley into your locker. He had started reaching at Yancy about halfway through the year when your last math teacher had had a nervous breakdown. 

From her very first day she had adored Nancy Bobofit and despised you and Percy. She would always talk to you like you were five. She would point her crooked finger at you and get much too close to your face and say "Now, honey" in a really sweet voice. And you knew you were going to get after school detention for a month. 

One time after she had made you erase all the answers out of old math book workbooks until midnight you told Grover "I don't think Mrs. Dodds is human" and he replied very seriously looking me right in the eye, "You're absouluty right." 


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