West Ora Academy: It Starts Here

Ch. 6 Augustus

Augustus' P.O.V.

I sat in the shadow realm trying to calm my anger. I can't believe she humiliated me like that in front of everyone during the first week, just because I slept with her roommate. She's blowing it way out of proportion. That chick, although hot, was not worth all this.

'Think less with your d*ck.' Sombra laughed at me.

'Be less of a d*ck.' I retorted.

'You'll be fine, just be a man and go talk to her.' Sombra was right as usual.

I pulled her shadow door forward watching her slip a shirt over head. She's too damn beautiful to be shifting into her siren that causes her to lose her clothes. Some as.shole is going to watch her like a sick perv.

"Sorry, you had said you were done." Ares apparently is that sick perv today. I felt my blood boil with Bane's phoenix fire inside me.

"It's fine. I was done. It's just a bra Arie, don't freak out on me." She shoved his shoulder lightly. Is she flirting with him?

"I'm not freaking out. I just don't want to disrespect you, Nova."

Yeah, right, and the sky is purple.

"You never disrespect me, Arie." She gave him a small smile. Her eyes held a sort of adoration for him and it only made me angrier. What the hell?

"Nova…" Ares paused for no damn reason. "You love him, don't you?"

Love him? Love who?

"I think so, but I don't think I really knew it until today." She looked sad as she said those words.

Who are they talking about?

The shadow closed off to me at that moment. Ares had shut the shadows off around them. He had clearly felt me watching. Who were they talking about? Who does Nova love?! The anger only rose in me further and I'm not even sure what I'm mad about anymore.

I let the shadows race out of me. This was the best place to release them without hurting anything or anyone. Feeling them leave me, helped calm the sudden surge of rage I had felt. Bane finished calming me with his fire in my chest. I took some deep breaths before reemerging on campus.

I saw Jesse in the distance with some tall guy. I've seen him around before. I think he's from the north colony. Dallas or something. What are they doing? I started walking towards them, following them down the path. A group of girls blocked them from view for a moment and when they moved they were gone. Where'd they go?

I walked to the spot I'd lost them, turning all around to see if I could spot them again. I noticed something in the shadows and realized it was them. They were hiding amongst the darkness. I had Sombra remove the cover, finding one of Derrick's hands up her shirt and the other around her neck.

My arms instantly flamed, and I had to remind myself that I couldn't fight him here. I need to take him to the arena and beat the living shi.t out of him.

"You might want to cover them back up, before anyone else sees." Gabriel's voice came from beside me.

I quickly covered them back up, not wanting anyone to witness the sight. What I really wanted to do was tear them apart. I stepped forward to do just that, but Gabriel grabbed my arm.

"That's not a good idea, Auggie. She'll hate you forever. You'll set her spiraling into a rebellion and choosing someone even worse to be with her. You need to be by her side because she's going to need someone soon, and at the rate you're going, you won't be able to be there for her." He warned me.

I tsked my teeth knowing better than to argue against what Gabriel sees. What is Jesse thinking? That Darius looks like an ass. How dare he have his hand around her neck like that, in between buildings too. She at least deserves to be in a room. I just want to tear that as.shole in two.

"Come with me. You can help me prep for my next class to keep yourself busy." Gabriel told me, leading the way before I could deny him.

I stared at the spot I knew Jesse was in one last time before following him towards the seer building. It was decently sized, but not nearly as large as the other class buildings, having the smallest population. The building was made completely of glass with intricate gold lace metal around. The stars were permanently reflected on the glass whether they were out or not.

This was actually my first time inside this building. Ares always came here alone. I'd never bothered going in, even though Ares had gone in the fire building with me before, just to see my class last year. I sighed realizing that I really haven't been paying Jesse and Ares enough attention in my quest to wet my d*ck so often.

I need to cut back, I'm missing too much around me.

"Here, place one on each desk."

He handed me a stack of papers as he made his way to the chalkboard. He wrote his message on the board as I sat the papers in the desks.

"So what exactly do you teach them in this class?" I asked curiously, flipping the paper in my hand.

"To surmise, in terms you can understand, I teach them to make sense of what they see. Basically how to interpret the visions they have, because they aren't always clear. Ares' dad was actually the one who taught me how to do that. Percy was a great guy."

Sometimes I forget that Gabriel was old enough to remember meeting Percy. Everyone always says how great of a guy he was. It gets kind of annoying to hear. My dad is just as great, he died that day too. He just has a phoenix so he was able to come back, but he still sacrificed himself the same way Percy did. No one ever says anything about that.

"So I hear." I said, forgetting to cut back on the bitter tone.

"You know, he really loved you like his own. He'd play with you and Ares just the same. In fact, a few times I confused who he was holding because of how similarly he treated you both. He never wanted either of you to feel excluded or less loved than the other." He informed me, filling in gaps I didn't know.

Mom speaks about him sometimes, but she gets so emotional that she changes the subject quickly, not wanting to give in to her emotions. Dad says some things sometimes, but he never did like Percy all that much to begin with. Topher didn't know him that well either so he doesn't have much to say. Uncle Emerson and aunt Tally are the only ones that speak about him the most. They don't visit too much, with 10 kids; they keep pretty busy. Their oldest is in Jesse's grade, but there won't be another one here for a couple of years more.

I know we have an uncle Kellan but he's practically non-existent with the amount of times we see him. I know it hurts mom that she doesn't see her family often, even though she won't admit it. She hates to appear weak and being sad, to her, means being weak to your emotions. None of us really show our emotions that well. Dad tried to help make us normal, but there's only so much he can do as one of three parents. At least we know how to deal with our feelings, and not just push them down like mom.

"I didn't know any of that, so thanks… I guess. Percy's like this god, everyone loves him and worships him for his sacrifice, but I don't know the guy. No one really talks about him and how he was or what he liked." I admitted because if I can't be honest with Gabriel, who can I be honest with?

"That makes sense. I know it was really hard on your mom. I'll be sure to share more Percy stories with you guys. Although I don't have too many." He promised me, and I think I was actually excited to learn about Percy, who felt more like a myth than an actual person at this point.

Who really are you Percy?