"Yes, because everyone bleeds Ice Cream and Sprinkles..." {Open :)}

"I hate it here!" Louise shouted at the sky. "I hate it! Send me back! Strip me of whatever godless power or will I've been given, and send me home!"

The sky said nothing back. It hardly ever did. That was a gift given to Zeus kids. Louise was a washed up child of Janus, nothing special, nothing brilliant. She didn't even get her own Cabin. People like Louise got shoved into Hera's Cabin. And Hera loved having all these dirty, homeless kids running around her Cabin, oh yes.

Yeah Right.

Louise kicked at the ground, yet achieved nothing but grains of the salty sand in her converse. The sea air whipped Louise's dark hair around. Her face stung as the white grains of the demon sand hit her face, pounding against her old scars. Louise ran a swift hand through her hair.

"I want to go home! Don't you understand?" she shouted at the Sea God this time. (Once again, no answer, reserved for Posideon's kids, etc.) "I don't belong here! You can't make me into a Daughter of Janus, no one can turn me into one of his! So what, I'm a bit persuasive when it comes to making choices! That's nothing! I belong at home, with Mom, and Dad, and Bobby! Not here!" Louise removed her sword from her back, where they crossed each other in their sheaths. She stabbed them both into the ground. Louise had been here for a week, and all she got was grief. Oh yeah, some parents, well they didn't want their kids to leave, but the kids did the noble thing and left. Oh yeah, that kid? He killed a minolion, or whatever they were called. You see her? Yeah, her boyfriend's on a quest, and she's worried sick.

Did none of them understand anything? Wanting to stay with her parents didn't make Louise childish. It made her human. Not wanting to fight monsters didn't make her a coward. It made her sane. Not having to worry about her godless boyfriend on a quest made Louise relieved. But it didn't relieve her enough.

Because she was still here. In Long Island New York. Wearing a stupid,

Idiotic,

Hopeless,

Orange,

T-shirt.

Louise put her face in her hands, and slid to the ground at the water's edge. Life wasn't all cupcakes and roses and happy faces. Not for Louise. She lost her family. Not for Janus. He sided with Kronos, and lost his family too.

The sky rumbled overhead. Great. Rain. Louise's day couldn't get any worse.

I saw a girl screaming her head off at the sky and sea. I'm not sure if she saw me staring, but just in case. "Um, hey," I said quietly. I didn't know if she would get mad at Me for watching, but I guess my ADHD was kicking in and I couldn't look away.