This is Who I Am

Chapter Thirty-Two

We dropped Gloria off at his owners house, and in return we got $500 as said. I kissed his furry head , Thank was him one last time and waved goodbye. Walking away I looped my arm with Anna's and we began following Grover and Percy, but at a distance.

"I heard what you told Percy. Thanks for not telling him anything." Anna gave me a soft smile.

"Like I said. It wasn't mine or Grover's story to tell. When your ready, you'll tell him. Even if you don't, that's something you should control. Not me or anyone else." Stopped and looked at her. I pulled her into a much needed hug. She pulled away. "Come on, we need to catch up before they leave us." I chuckled and together we met with the boys. Me ignoring Percy and talking to Grover, and Anna feeling bad about me ignoring Percy, so she talked to him. That's how it went for the majority of the day. We would snack on the chips and sodas form Madusa's, joke around. And Percy failing at making amends with me.

"Ivy, sorry about yesterday. I was stupid, but that was crazy!"

"Are you calling me crazy?"

"Yes. Wait! No! No. Your not crazy! The stuff you do is crazy! That came out wrong."

"It's cool Jackson. Call me or my friends crazy again and it won't be. Understand?" He nodded frantically. "Good. Now, how much longer until we get to the station."

"I don't know. Hey! Grover! How much longer until we get to the station?"

"I don't know! Anna?" Anna shook her head.

"No idea. Ivy?" I laughed.

"I was the one who started this little interrogation. I have no clue." Everyone let out a laugh.

"Well then I suppose we need to continue on." Anna said. And so we did. A few hours later we finally made it to the station; with everyone sighing in relief, we stomped exhaustedly to the ticket booth. The lady looked at us questionably but still gave us our tickets. Surprisingly the money was able to get us four train tickets and we still have some left over. Granted it's only enough to get some food, but still, food is good. Anyway, we board the train and get into a compartment. Sitting beside Anna I let out a sad sigh. The three looks at me, questions filled their eyes. Anna spoke their thoughts.

"What's wrong?" I shook my head, but told them what I was thinking, the useless and the important.

"I'm fine, just miss school and all that," Percy looked at me like I was stupid. Looking at him, I opens my mouth to tell him what I am. It will clear a bunch of confusion for him and I won't have to get mad at him every few minutes because he's shooting questions at me. "And I need to te-" I was rudely interrupted by the ticket dude, whatever they are called, who asked for our tickets. After Anna gave them to the dude he left. Percy looked at me.

"What were you going to say?" I frowned a little. Did I really want to tell him one of my biggest secrets? I felt a hand grasp mine, I knew it was Anna. Squeezing her hand I gave Grover a look, nodding his head he closed the door. My silver eyes net Percy's sea green ones.

"I need you to promise this won't leave this train. Only a few people know about this okay." He nodded. "To put it in simple terms... I'm a witch, and no, not like the Wicked Witch of the West or any of that. I'm talking about Merlin the Great witch. Bad examples but you should get the point." Percy did what Percy does best. He laughed. Then I did what I do best. I hit him upside the head. Boy did he stop laughing then. Back to being serious. "You can laugh all you want to, but I'm telling you the truth. And if you don't want to believe it then don't. I can't control that. But if I'm going to use my majic on this quest then I need to make sure I can trust you. Understand?" Again he nodded.