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winter break.
one of the best times of year. playing in the snow. building snowmen. oh, and of course. going to a random boarding school to answer a distress call from your goat-human friend.
here i was, in the car, with my dad. annabeth called me the last day of the semester, and asked if i wanted to come with her, thalia, and percy on an extraction mission.
grover sent us a distress call. i got my dad to pick me up from the campus, and we drove for four hours to maine. well, it was either the extraction mission or going to another award ceremony with my dad.
the choice was easy.
unfortunately, my dad had a hard time processing the fact that i didn't want to go to the award ceremony.
you see, anthony edward stark, ceo of stark industries, genius, billionaire, and major playboy, was my father. he was going to be presented the apogee award tomorrow in vegas. and i did not want to go.
"why not?!" my dad whined. "it's supposed to be 'us against the world'."
we were currently parked in front of westover hall waiting for percy, annabeth, and thalia to get here. i was playing call of duty on my phone, with my feet up on the dash in his audi. through the aux, acdc (back in black) was playing.
westover hall looked like an evil knight's castle. it was all black stone, with towers and slit windows and a big set of wooden double doors. it stood on a snowy cliff overlooking this big frosty forest on one side and the gray churning ocean on the other.
i looked up from the game for a few seconds to give my dad a glance.
"emotional blackmail!" i exclaimed at his statement.
"just tell me why you don't want to come?" he complained.
"you're kidding me."
"what?"
"are you even going to collect the award, or are you going to be doing something cough someone cough else? huh?" i asked him, shooting someone in the game. "besides, i hate vegas," i muttered, remembering my last trip there. it involved a zoo truck, letting a zebra loose, and a creepy hotel that knew my shampoo and jumbled my brain.
