Mortals meet Demigods

Stephanie Martin- Tratie (NM)

Stephanie POV

I was walking around my classroom making sure no one was cheating on the test, when I noticed two of my students passing notes. ‘Typical.’ I thought. ‘Mischief maker Travis Stoll is trying to cheat off sweet Katie Gardner.’ I marched forward and stole the note before it could get back to Travis. I gave them scolding looks and unfolded the note, preparing to read it to the class, as was the custom in my classroom. Only, I found it was in a different language. I looked startled at Katie, “What does this say? It’s not in English.” She looked confused, I showed her the note, still holding it, and she realized, “Oh, you’re right, it’s not. He tricked me. I’m sorry, it’s in Greek, which is the language we can read the most easily. If you want, you can try putting it into google Translate, but I’m not reading it.” I was shocked, I never knew that they could read Greek the easiest, and Katie had never spoken so rudely.

So, determined to uphold the consequences of note passing, I walked to my computer, asked a tech nerd to change the keyboard to Greek, and copied the messages into the translator box thingie. I was stunned by what I found, but waited until everyone had finished their test before reading them out loud. When the last person had turned their test, scantron, and cover sheet into the fourth period basket, I stood up with my translated copy of their notes.

“Excuse me, but I caught two people passing notes during the test and I will now read them out loud to the class.

(Bold- Katie, Italics- Travis)

Hey, Kit-Kat, when are we going back to camp? Connor wants to know.

I don’t know, Trav, stop bothering me during the test. We’ll talk about this at home.

Ok, but Andy and TJ won’t leave us alone for longer than 5 minutes, and this is supposed to be a surprise for them.

Fine, we are leaving Friday and won’t be returning until after the solstice. Mom wants us there because she and your dad have a gift or something for the kids, but won’t be available until the day after.

Yay! Can we get prank supplies on the way there? Connor said that he was running low, and I haven’t pulled a prank since the summer! You know Kit-Kat… our anniversary is the day after the solstice.

Fine, we can get supplies, but only if you share with Andy. Of course I remember. It’s only our 5th wedding anniversary.

Yeah I’ll share with her. Well, I was thinking… why don’t we ask Ciranda to watch the kids and maybe we could go out to dinner?

Awww! Of course! But… do you mind if we go to the Giant War cemetery first? I want to leave flowers on everyone’s gravestones and see where my siblings’ headstones are… I haven’t been yet, I didn’t even go to the shroud burning ceremony.

Yeah, I’ll take you.

Thank you. I love you Travis Stoll.”

I looked at the two. Apparently they had been married 5 years, had kids, and had been in a war.

Then it occurred to me. The gods had said that the most previous war was called The Giant War. Could they be? They stood up, and Katie said, “We know you just figured out the Giant War comment ment. And yes, we are demigods. I am Katie Stoll, previously Katie Gardiner, daughter of Demeter, survivor of two wars and wife of Travis Stoll. And he is Travis Stoll, son of Hermes, brother- not twin- to Connor Stoll, survivor of two wars, guy who wanted to rob a candy store during the Titan War, and husband of me. Our kids, as you can guess are Andy, or Andromeda, and TJ, or Travis Jr. Also, Travis has everybody’s wallets. Hand ‘em back, Trav.” Travis pouted, but did as she asked. Then, turned to us and said, “Now, we out! Adios Bitchez!” And they walked out.