Dreams of Demigods

Chapter 3

Allison's POV 3

When I got into the car, my dad asked me how my day had been. My dad was about 6'1", and he had dark hair. He had grown up here in New York, and he liked to play sports, especially baseball. Like every other day, I responded with "Fine". On the way home, my dad and I talked about my upcoming tests, and then about the Yankee's, our favorite team. Even though I couldn't hit a baseball to save my life, I still liked the sport. Sometimes on the weekends, my dad and I would play catch in the street with a Yankee's ball from Target. We lived in a nice neighborhood on the Upper West Side on a street that didn't get much traffic, so we usually didn't have to worry about cars.

When my dad parked the car in front of our brownstone, I grabbed my backpack and got out of the car. My dad unlocked the door and I walked inside. I saw my step-mom in the kitchen, starting at dinner. After I was born, my birth mom left my dad and me, and a year later my dad and step-mom got married. When I was two, my dad and step-mom had a girl, my step-sister, Laura. Laura was two years younger than me, and we got along pretty well most of the time, even though we fought. We went to the same elementary school, but she got out earlier than I did because she was in second grade and I was in fourth.

After school, I did the same thing pretty much every day. I ate a snack, did my homework, and watched TV until it was time for dinner. After dinner, I played a board game with my family and got ready to go to bed. After showering and brushing my teeth, I read until 9:00. I had always loved to read, and I was one of the best readers in my class. Sometimes the words got jumbled together, which made it hard to read, but that didn't stop me. It was time to go to bed, so I turned off my lamp and went to sleep.