Chapter 1

I stared out the window of my mother's bright blue convertible. "Mom, are we almost there?" I asked for the hundredth time.
She sighed. "Josie, please stop asking! It'll be another ten minutes." I groaned dramatically.
My brother Ben stirred in his car seat next to me. Slowly he sat up and rubbed his eyes. His movement woke Genevieve and soon enough their chatter, screams, and random loud singing were enough to drive me crazy.
Finally we arrived. "Well, here we are! Welcome to Providence!" Mom announced brightly, although I failed to see anything bright about the situation. I let it pass, though, because I knew that mom was just trying to forget the fact that my dad had passed away just last year. Genny and Ben could forget that quite easily, but I had been very close to him and only Mom felt the lots harder than I did.
Pushing those thoughts away, I stared up at our new house. Now that I took a good look, it was actually pretty sweet. There was an awesome attic loft room I could just see myself sleeping in.
We walked inside as Mom gave us a "tour". In addition to my bedroom, there was actually a basement workshop that my mom had added especially for me. I never knew she cared so much!
Once we had brought all our boxes in from the moving truck, we all collapsed on our beds, too exhausted to do anything but sleep.
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About a week later, school started. I woke up dreading the first day. After a quick bowl of cereal I raced up the street to the bus stop. There was already a girl there about my age. She stated at me for a few seconds, then finally spoke. "Nice hair!"
"Thanks..." I mumbled and day on the curb to wait. I heard the girl muttering to herself behind me. "Hmmm, haven't seen the blue hair, I'll ignore it for now. Not very social, so couldn't be Aphrodite or Demeter... Maybe Dionysus? No... not Mr D, that's just weird..." Somehow I knew she was talking about me. Maybe the "blue hair" was a clue? * Stop, Josie, don't go all sarcastic or you'll have even less friends. * S the his screeched to a half in front if me and I sighed and climbed on. The girl got on beind me and we bumpily speed off towards catastrophe.