Now playing: Fluorescent Adolescent by Arctic Monkeys.

♪—Oh, the boy’s a slag, the best you ever had—♪

Two rascals scouring the earth for entertainment—that’s what you and Leo Valdez were.

Life had general bones to pick with both of you; nothing was ever fair. Yet, that’s what you two had bonded over. It had began in a boarding school in seventh grade, Leo being tossed around in foster homes. He had managed to last in one for over a week, which was already a miracle.

For those two fateful months he was there, you two had gotten so many detentions and suspensions that they almost ran out of paper. School was just an unnecessary course for the weak minded; you mutually agreed on it. However, years later, when he got tossed around with Piper and Jason during a field trip in high school. At his new boarding school—Wilderness something—he’d discovered he was a demigod.

Conveniently, so were you.

So when he stumbled into the famous Camp Half-Blood and saw you, he wanted to faint. He was drenched from crashing a chariot into the lake (long story) and the fiery symbol of Hephaestus floating above him. As his hazel eyes met yours, his almond skin tinted with coal marks from inventions, a spark flew from his hair.

Holy smokes.