The Poseidon Girls

Chapter 4 ~ Wilderness School

HI!!!!!!!!! Sorry this has taken soooooo long, I've been taking it exactly from the book, and believe me, a TON happens in this part. And the pic is a random selfie Cass and Coral took on the bus. So then, Alons-y!

~Coral~
Piper led us inside, introducing Cass and I to her friends Leo Valdez and Jason Grace.
"Hello! I'm Leo Valdez, Bad Boy Supreme!" A Latino-elf lookalike boy grinned at us.
"Is he always like this?" I asked. Piper.
"Afraid so. I'm Jason Grace, by the way. I'm sorry, I never caught your names?"
"Oh, I'm Cass, and this is my best friend Coral." Cass explained.
"Pleasure to meet you both." Jason smiled.
"You too." I grinned. Leo explained to us that Jason and Piper were basically dating each other (Piper whacked Leo for that).

Our first day was pretty normal for a school, but Coach Hedge, the Satyr we'd been sent to help out, was much stricter with PE classes.

The second day was more exciting: everyone was buzzing with excitement right from the start; we were going on a field trip to the Grand Canyon. We spent a lot of it helping Leo, who was in the row in front of us, build random stuff, and just talking to Jason and Piper. Well, once Jason fell asleep it was just Piper. When he woke up, that's when things started getting weird. Piper looked at her boyfriend worriedly.
"Jason, you okay?" She asked. Jason just looked confused.
"Um, I don't - " Jason's explanation was interrupted by Coach Hedge.
"All right, cupcakes, listen up!" He yelled at us.
"Stand up, Coach Hedge!" Mimi Parker called. We may not have been at the Wilderness School for long, but we knew people's names.
"I heard that!" Coach snapped. He scanned the bus, searching for Mimi. When he saw our row, he scowled even more.
"It wasn't one of us, Coach, I swear!" I promised, freaking out.
"I know that, Watson." Coach Hedge told me, and he turned away.

~Cass~
"We'll arrive in five minuets! Stay with your partner. Don't loose your worksheet. And if any of you precious little cupcakes causes any trouble I will personally send you back to campus the hard way." Coach Hedge yelled at everyone. Typical Hedge... Jason glanced nervously at Piper.
"Can he talk to us that way?" I stared at him.
"Seriously?" I asked him.
"Yes." He answered. Piper shrugged.
"Always does." She answered him.
"This is the Wilderness School," I added.
"Where kids are animals." Coral grinned. Then Coral and I added our shared line, completing the newly-extended joke.
"Just not horses or sea creatures. They're too amazing." There. The joke was complete. Piper, Leo, Coral and I laughed. Jason just stared blankly at us.
"Jason, what's wrong?" I asked him. He normally laughed with Piper, Leo, Coral and I at that. He just looked even more bewildered.
"This is some kind of mistake." He announced. "I'm not supposed to be here." Leo turned around and laughed.
"Yeah, right, Jason. We've all been framed! I didn't run away six times. Coral didn't flood an aquarium. Cass didn't power-wash the White House. Piper didn't steal a BMW." He grinned. Piper blushed.
"I didn't steal that car, Leo!" She sighed.
"Oh, I forgot, Piper." Leo smirked. "What was your story again? You 'talked' the dealer into lending it to you?" Leo raised his eyebrows in disbelief at us as usual. I hit him. "Ow! Cass!" He groaned at me. I just smiled cheekily. "Anyway," Leo started addressing Jason again. "I hope you've got your worksheet, I used mine for spit wads days ago. Why are you looking at me like that?" Leo, yet again, got sidetracked by something. Jason appeared to be giving Leo the someone-Drew-on-your-face-look the two of them had created. "Somebody draw on my face again?" Jason just kept staring at Leo.
"Hello? Earth to Jason!" Coral and I remarked. Finally, Jason spoke.
"I don't know you." He commented. Well, that was unexpected. Leo just grinned.
"Sure. I'm not your best friend. I'm his evil clone." I rolled my eyes at this comment.
"Really, Leo?" I asked.
"Yup. Really." Leo grinned at me. I face-palmed.
"Leo Valdez!" Coach Hedge yelled out from the front. "Got a problem back there?"
"Oh, now you've done it." I sighed.
"Good job, Leo!" Coral told him (sarcasm, of course). Leo just winked at us.
"Watch this." He grinned. I knew immediately he was up to something cheeky as always.
"Sorry, Coach!" Leo called out. His apology amazed me. "I was having trouble hearing you. Can you use your megaphone, please?" Coach Hedge seemed delighted to get to unclip his megaphone from his belt. However, to our surprise, as Coach Hedge kept giving orders, his voice sounded like Darth Vader. We all cracked up laughing, especially Jason. That wasn't surprising. Coach tried to give us orders again, but this time, all that came out was,
"The cow says moo!" That just brought another bought of laughter to the whole bus. Sadly, Hedge caught on, and slammed down his megaphone. "VALDEZ!" He yelled. Coral gave Leo a slow clap, while Piper was trying to hold in her giggles.
"My god, Leo. How did you do that?" She demanded. Leo produced a tiny screwdriver from his sleeve.
"I'm a special boy." He grinned.
"Clearly..." I muttered.
"Guys, seriously." Jason pleaded at us. "What am I doing here? Where are we going?" Coral and I stared at Jason in amazement. Piper's eyebrows knitted together.
"Jason, are you joking?" She asked, clearly terrified for her boyfriend.
"No, he's got amnesia. Of course he's joking, Pipes!" I grinned. Coral looked slightly skeptical about that.
"I'm not sure he is, Cass. When we met Jason yesterday, he didn't seem like someone to play jokes that good." She said. She, too, sounded nervous.
"What, you seriously think he has amnesia?"
"Well, it's a possibility. Jason, was Cass right?"
"No!" Coral smiled evilly at me. "I have no idea -" Leo then decided to cut in.
"Aw, yeah, he's joking. Piper, Cass's right. He's trying to get me back for that shaving cream on the Jell-O thing, aren't you?"
"What?!?" Coral and I asked simultaneously. Jason stared blankly at Leo.
"No, I think he's serious." Piper announced.
"I'm sorry," Jason sighed. "I don't - I can't -"
"That's it!" Coach Hedge barked. Coral groaned, and I looked at her weirdly because I had no clue what was going on. "The back row has just volunteered to clean up after lunch!" The rest of the bus cheered, while I just muttered
"Styx." Under my breath.
"There's a shocker!" Leo muttered, about the same time that I had muttered Styx. Piper kept her eyes focused on Jason.
"Did you hit your head or something? You really don't know who we are?" She asked. Jason shrugged, looking helpless.
"Huh. Maybe he does have amnesia..." I muttered.
"It's worse than that." Jason informed us. "I don't know who I am."