Gone Girl.¹

𝟬𝟬𝟭. a hole in the sky

gone girl.
━━━ chapter one

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Amaryllis Kalomiri spent her entire life on an island.

She was born in Thassos, a small quite insignificant Greek island. Not many people lived there all year round, most of them owned holiday houses or visited the grandparents during the summer holidays. Elderly people usually lived in the less populated villages, like the one where Amaryllis lived in with her mother and aunt Evaggelia. The neighbourhood in which she grew up in was deadly quiet during the winter and the only place where she'd see any children her age was school.

She never had many friends and although her mother insisted that nothing was wrong with her, sometimes Amaryllis would compare herself with the other kids and see how different she was. She didn't fit in, she never did. She spent most of her time having conversations with the older people, that ironically enough seemed to quite like her. Most of them missed their grandchildren, so when they had the opportunity to be around little Amaryllis, they spoiled her like they wanted to spoil their own blood. Cooking her favourite recipes and inviting the Kalomiri family for dinner, baking her cookies, listening to her rant about her favourite boy bands. Amaryllis was quite popular with the elderly, until, of course, the Great Incident.

She doesn't like to talk or think about it.

After the Great Incident, Amaryllis and her mother left Thassos. They sold their house back there and using the entirety of grandfather Stavros' fortune, they travelled to the United States to live with Mr Orfanidis, childhood best friend of Amaryllis' mother and her daughter's godfather. He owned a big apartment in Manhattan Island, where they'd live for a while, at least until they had enough money to find their own place. He was a nice man and a relatively good father figure to Amaryllis, even though he spent most of his day at his job and basically only interacted with her during the weekend. And her mother was happy when he was around, which was always a bonus. The young girl couldn't recall the last time her mother seemed genuinely happy, especially after they left Greece.

Strange incidents kept happening and it wasn't until Grover and Brett found Amaryllis and explained everything to her and her mother that she realised why they were happening in the first place. They took her to Camp Half Blood and her life took a drastic turn – from struggling to do math homework to learning how to fight monsters with a bow and an arrow.

She did miss the Camp a lot, but she missed her mother so much more.

Amaryllis knew time worked differently in Ogygia. One day there could be one week in the actual world and the mere thought of that was frightening. She wasn't sure for how long she had been missing, but it certainly was a year. She saw herself growing into a teenager and reach the same height as Calypso, which seemed to be an adult when Amaryllis first got to the island, but now it was obvious that she had always been a teenage girl.

Ogygia wasn't that bad. She repeated it like a mantra every single day, because her mother used to tell her to always be grateful for what she had or worse things would come. It truly wasn't that bad – it was the most beautiful place a mortal could ever see. It was a tropical heaven decorated with every possible kind of tree and plant that grows on Earth. Calypso's garden was breathtaking and just smelling all the different types of flowers could make a person feel happy and comforted. The weather was always nice, it seemed to be summer all year round. There weren't many things the two girls could do on the island, but both of them were used to their daily routine.