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After finding out, Persephone has been really excited. She hasn’t seen them since she was 10 and she missed Callie. When Persephone found out, she had been reading a book,
Change, By Alexander Hamette, one of her favorite authors. She was waiting for her parents just to admit that they were going. She had been trying to get them to admit for a while now. Meanwhile, she sat on her fluffy bean bag listening to musicals, particularly, Hamilton.
‘Well they better hurry up because I want to start packing’, thought the teen crossly as she bounced her leg on the floor. Small bits of anxiety and worry seeped into her when she started to think about how she found out. Her parents, Sakura and Adrian had been talking loudly, so they probably wanted Persephone and Alexios to hear, though Akito was at his friends’ house.
Her door creaks open and her eyes fly to her door. A middle-aged man stood at the frame, his blond hair hung over his tired grey eyes.
“We have a surprise! We are-”
“Going to Greece in 3 days” Persephone finishes for him, waving her hand at him in dismissal. She had underlining distrust of her father after the Incident. Even after all these years.
“Yes we are, do you need help packing?”
“No” I don’t need help from you, father, thought Persephone bitterly, her hand all of a sudden aching from her scar.
Her father sighed in disappointment, as he left the room, not before a blue streak darted into the room.
“Hey Blue, how are you?” Persephone asked the small Russian Blue kitten, who in return jumped up onto her lap purring softly. She was always an affectionate kitten.
“Ready for your first trip?” a meow in response, “I am taking that as a yes, now get off furball, I will start packing,”
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A pile of orange and purple shirts soon formed on her bed, all having the words Camp Half-Blood, Long Island Sound with the black pegasus or Camp Jupiter, SPQR with a wreath around it. She was a big PJO fan.
“Okay I have my Greek half-blood shirts, where are the rest of my camp clothes?” muttered Persephone as she sifted through all her colorful clothes.
“Bingo”
Persephone pulled out a blue box, corners worn and ripped from all the time she used it.
She slowly took off the top, revealing her worn and loved shirts,
I have not used you for 3 years, I have missed you thought Persephone as she pulled out a blue duffel bag,
She gently put it down on her bed, worn edges, telling a history of travel.
Persephone opened the light blue bag, the rubber linings stretching. She patted out the plastic sheet on the bottom and started folding her clothes, her garments for the waist down on the right side while the top half on the left.
“Do you need help, Persephone? I already packed for Kita, your father is helping Alexios” Persephone’s mother, or Haha as everyone called her, walked in. Her long-sleeved sweater flowed down her arms as she walked inside Persephone’s room with grace and regality that Persephone would never have.
Haha looks like she is floating, thought Persephone as she gave her mother a small bow.
“Konichiwa Haha,”
“Konichiwa Persephone” Sakura replies when she bows to her daughter,
“How is packing going? Are you almost done?”
“Yes, I am done” she made a tada motion with her hands as she points toward the blue duffel bag on her bed. Her mother moved through her room, toward her bed, opening her duffel bag and shifted through it.
“That is great Persephone, get Blue’s carrier and toys, and then rest up, we are leaving soon and you know how hard it is to get used to the Greek time difference, we don’t want a repeat of last time,” Persephone’s mother said softly as she closed the bag. Persephone shuddered, it was terrible.
Persephone quickly darted out of her room, avoiding the door, her footsteps echoing through the hallway as she neared the bathroom,
I still don’t understand why we keep the carrier in the bathroom, litter box I understand but carrier? Persephone mentally grumbled as she grabbed the navy blur carrier from behind the toilet. Persephone grunts as she starts to drag the heavy carrier back to her room, the carrier making screeching sound across the wooden floorboards.
“Got it,” Persephone grunts as she flops down the metal and plastic container on her rug. She dramatically falls down on her bean bag,
“Am I free from this strenuous labor?”
“Yes, you are free for now, your father and I have to go and pick up Kita, don’t do anything stupid” Her mother chuckles at Persephone’s flair, she rose to her feet, gliding through her daughter’s room and out. Leaving the teen to close her eyes and curl up, letting her mind drift for a while before eventually going into a snooze.
