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Hello, I'm Percy Jackson, but if you are reading this than you probably already know that, you might be wondering how did me and Leo get into this situation? In a school theatre trying for the casting of a musical, well that's easy!
"Mr Jackson, Mr Valdez, thank you for coming to my office" me and Leo are looking at eachother while we sit on the seats of the office that smelt like some weird jungle place with all the plants in different coloured pots, both confused about why we were called in Mrs Jones office, who's Mrs Jones? Her name is Rosita Jones and she is the new principal of the school, a lovely woman with medium length brown hair and some scars on her arms and face, people whisper she was victim of a car crash and barely survived, her son? Harold Jones, one of the techies of the theatre club, me and Leo have a bet on if he is secretly a kid of Mr D or not, but regardless! I'm spacing out.
"I know this is sudden and I apologise for the disruption of your lessons but while the school can be understanding as possible for your. . .special cases revolving your absences, we need something to compensate" both me and Leo look at Mrs Jones confused, I thought that we were fine, Mrs Jones is clear sighted so we thought she'd understand?
"Boys calm down, you are not in any trouble, simply you'll have to make up with extracurricular credit points, which you can get with theatre club, they are having auditions tomorrow so go there and try out"
So yea this is how we are here today, minutes away for the auditions to start, me and Leo are just preparing for what's about to happen as we get called in the auditorium along with more students, I spot Rachel in the crew of techies along with the principal's son and my eyes scan the room, falling on the theatre teacher aka the one who'll hear us all sing and decide who gets roles and who is just a background.
The first to go is some kid with black and red hair that looks around Nico's age and after him more and more go until it's Leo's turn, holy hair balls if his voice isn't good while he sings, if I didn't know it's Leo I would have never believed it "You, Mr Valdez, are perfect for Penelope" . . .and that's something I didn't expect to say the least, but now that I think about it Leo always had a more feminine voice, so it makes sense- actually about Leo now that I notice he seems tense after that, maybe stage fright? No time to think about it though as I get called on the stage, giving a thumbs up to Leo trying to reassure him and I start singing
"These waves and tides have grown in strength and size" I start singing, feeling the vibrations in the music and just focusing on those, not on all the people in that room listening, probably ready to make fun of me and call me seaweed head
"Is it nature or divine, or a blessing in disguise?" It's never a blessing is what I learnt in all the quests but that's fine, this is fine, this is just a stupid musical
"Our home's in sight, This storm's our final fight" I look at the crowd, no one really talking, not even a peep can be heard, maybe I shouldn't have done this, fuck Percy no it's okay, focus.
"There's no time to die" how many times has he and the other campers come close to death? Too many..
"Comrades! Brace for a storm!" As I sing the last line everyone starts clapping, almost like they were able to move out of hypnosis again
"We found our Odysseus! The official casting list will come out in a few days but Mr Jackson, Mr Valdez, you both were perfect!" The teacher, Mr Bob a depressed looking middle aged man that smells like failed dreams and holy moly says to everyone, finally this is over and we can go back to camp, after this I don't think I can take looking at any of them in the eyes anymore, better hope Rachel doesn't tell camp.