Instinct & Understanding// [Percy Jackson OC]// Book 3

{Chapter One}

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"Stuck in the middle and I'm just about to/ Figure it out without you
And I'm done sitting home without you/ Fuck I'm going out without you"
- WIthout You (Avicii, ft. Sandro Cavazza)

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DIDN'T THINK IT COULD GET WORSE

"Hello, we'd like to see a birth certificate." Arya smiled, at the nice looking lady behind the desk.

As the lady shot a smile at the two young girls standing in front of the counter, Arya could feel herself anxiously shifting her weight from her toes and her heels. She needed this to work. This was her last hope.

To say that Arya had been attempting to fit almost sixteen years of life into the last six months was an understatement. The fifteen year old daughter of Poseidon had not only made a promise to Charles Bekendorf and Chiron during the summer, she had also made a promise to herself that she would try new things and attempt to have as much fun as she could as a teenager, before the evil Titan Lord Kronos raised his army for a war that Arya was fated to be a key player in.

The first thing she tried was school. Chiron had set up Thalia and Annabeth into a boarding school in New York, one not that far from camp. Arya asked to go as well. But the teenager regretted that decision almost as quickly as she made it.

The school was not co-ed, so she was stuck with all girls, which she wouldn't have minded if they were all half-bloods. But instead they were mortal girls who Arya learned were even more petty than Aphrodites daughters. Arya had also come to the realization why demigods always complained about sitting still in a classroom. It drove her crazy to have to sit quietly and still in a chair for an hour and listen to someone ramble on and over complicate everything they talked about. Arya had never seen her ADHD as a bad thing, until she was forced into a classroom every day, multiple times a day. The third problem with school was the lack of trust the adults had with the students. Arya grew up in an environment where she was treated as an equal rather than an inferior, so the sudden switch came as something of culture shock for the girl. Especially the fact that they weren't allowed to leave.

Between Aryas ADHD, Cabin fever, and maturity. Her temper remained on high alert at all times, and on the multiple occasions that Annabeth wasn't with her, she would lose it.

It was safe to say that Arya got pulled out of school within the first month. Which she didn't complain about, there were much better things that she could be doing with her time.

By the beginning of October, Arya was spending her weeks at camp and her weekends with Percy. The days flew by. The teenager would spend her weeks at camp doing a number of things. Training, harder than ever. She had pushed herself so hard in this category that Chiron had run out of drills to teach her, something that had never happened in his life.