I was reviewing my math lesson in my head when the door opened. I couldn't hear the door open but I could feel a rush of air burst through the door as it opened. Our teacher, Mr. Underwood walked over to the person standing there - Mrs. Weber, our nurse. They began talking and pointing to me. I shrugged and returned to staring out the window, what I had been doing ever since I entered this room. The lesson was on learning how to talk but I don't want to learn how to talk, I just want to be me, the kid without hearing. Mrs. Weber gave me a sad look then left. Mr. Underwood walked over to me.

Emily, please pack your bags.

I nodded and began packing my bags. When I was done he turned to the class.

Everyone, Mrs. Weber will be getting your subsitute teacher for the class. Emily and I have to discuss things.

And with that he took my arm and led me out of the room with everyone giving me jealous looks. He led me to the middle of the hallway before he began his lecture for not paying attention.

Emily it pains me to tell you this but I am afraid it must be done. Your mother is dead.
What?
Your mother has just died. She was hit by another car and swerved off the road and crashed into a building. The impact killed her.

I shook my head, the tears welled into my eyes and spilled out. Mr. Underwood held me softly, letting me cry into his shirt. My breathing increased and my heart was beating faster than it was supposed to and all I wanted to do was die and meet my mom. I found myself clutching his shirt, never wanting to go. I had no father because my mom said he died trying to get to the hospital and she never had a picture of him to show me what he looked like. I felt him pull my hand out, fitting his hand inside mine. I knew what he was going to do, spell things out for me. Like Helen Keller, a women who had gotten the same diease as me and had become blind and deaf unlike me. I was just deaf.

Call me Grover.

I nodded, still crying but my heart rate had decreased and so did my breathing. I pulled away from him and my eyes widen. There staring directly at me was the ugliest thing in the world. It had eight heads, all leathery and diamond shaped. Mr. Under - I mean Grover must have noticed because with his hand traveling to a pocket on his jeans as he turned around slowly, pulling out what seemed to be pipes made out of reeds. He pulled the to his lips and vines erupted from the ground, tying the thing to the ground. It's shark like teeth snapped at the vines but they seemed to move out of the way before the ugly thing could break them. One vine started to move towards the ceiling light and the vine broke it causing a minor fire to start on the thing. It exploded into green slime which got on me. Ugh! Grover looked at me and took my arm. I squirmed out of his grip and stared at him.

Who are you?
I will explain everything on the way.
On the way where?
To a special camp for kids like you. Kids with dyslexia and ADHD.

I stared at him as he took my arm again and began running to the door.

So far I have found out that my father is in fact not dead but is a Greek god, floating somewhere happily in Olympus which is in the Empire State Biuliding on a special floor - the 600th floor. Great. My dad had the power to save my mom and could have saved her but let her die, just great. We were traveling cross country to the magical camp that was just beyond the rainbow. In the pot of gold and poof we will be in a magical world where everyone is happy and there is no war, wonderful. We had walked probably twenty miles so far. Just 1,999,980 more miles to go.
'If the gods are listening kill me, kill me now,' I thought.

When do we rest?
In a few hours.

Ten miles, four hills, three hours and no camp.

Grover, get an ability and transport us there.
Funny, Emily, funny.

Elven miles, nine hills, seven hours, five trees and still no camp.

Grover, rent a plane for me. I'm gonna die, literally.
Fine. You want a way to get to camp faster.
Yes!
Grow wings and fly.

Fifteen miles, ten hills, nine trees, eight hours and still no camp!

Grover, I think a few hours has passed now.
All right, we'll rest for ten minutes.

I sat down and relaxed for that short ten minutes.
One mile, three hills and no camp. Sleep find me!
I fell down, my legs weak from exaustion. Darkness surounded me an I fel into a deep sleep.

I woke up, a hand pushing me rapidly. I threw my hands up to show I was awake and got up, not wanting to. Grover was standing there holding a bottle of water. I stared at the water.

Where did you get that?
Emily we're at camp!

I stared at him. His eyes were dead serious. I looked around and noticed we were in a white room that smelt of medicine. He helped me out of the bed I was currently in.

How did we get here so fast?
Thank Apollo. He was hanging around, looking for Aphrodite and he saw us. Offered a ride and here we are.
Cool! You did tell him I would have said thanks, didn't you?
Yeah.

I walked out of the room, Grover following at a distance. A boy with sea green eyes and black unruly hair walked over and said something to me. I bit my lip.

Who's that?
Percy, son of Posiedon.
Cool! So he doesn't know I'm deaf?
Yes. Actually no one knows you are deaf.
Are you going to tell them?
No.
Why not?
Because I want to see how people look when they are confused.
Okay.

He smiled and looked at Percy who was staring at us looking very confused. He said something to me again but I didn't answer. Instead I skipped off with Grover giving me a tour of the camp. I understood what Grover meant because when we were at the sword arena the Ares kids were trying to tell me something but I just shrugged and left them looking at me confused, exchanging confused glances at each other. I silently laughed. Grover finally showed me the cabins, signing which God or Goddess the belong to.

Lunch.

We both looked at each other and I realized Grover didn't leave my side to go out and eat. We took off, feeling the rush of air on our faces. People gave us weird looks as we ran. Grover's class wasn't my favourite class but he was my best friend, in and out of school so we did this often, racing each other, having the best fun possible. We made it to the dining pavilion.

I won.
No I did.
I won.
How about we both won.
Yeah, we both won.

And with that we sat down and waited for lunch to begin