Dear Diary,
Ugh! I HATE HER SO MUCH!!! Why did she have to come back here!!! She needs to make up her mind: Brother Ares or Brother Hephaestus? Damn, this is just pissing me off.
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Diary, sorry, I tossed you across the room, it wasn’t your fault that she’s a B.
Oh no, that’s not what I really mean, but why?
Dad called in again today. I need to tell him the truth.
What my aunt said the other day hurt me deeply. Why did I let her in again? I know she doesn’t mean to be hurtful.
“Zeus is not your father.”
Father, Mother, Family…
Why am I so angry? I’m snapping at everyone! I don’t know why.
Looking over at my weapons by the window.
I actually picked up my sword today; I haven’t touched it in a while. It felt good to hold it. I thought about when Father (Pallas) gave it to me and how hard I had to work to be favored enough for him to ask the ironworker to make it for me. The hilt curved around my hand. I could fight smoothly with it. The memory of Achel, my sparring partner, and how many times I sliced him and his hits on me…he had this laugh that made me so angry. He would make fun of me and say that I was only his sparring partner because I was the smallest of the four of us, and that he was always going to beat me. Well, till I beat him. “Who’s laughing now,” I said as I stood over his throat, blade in his face. I extended my hand to him once he yielded to my strength and skill. That day, my first father saw I was a warrior. And he had the sword forged for me.
I sat on my balcony wall and looked down on Olympus.
Oh, how you have changed, Olympus. Oh, how you have changed. Achel, my friend, I miss you. Well, the sun is setting, and I need to get to patrol before the others come for me.
Sorry I was so angry earlier. I just hate it when someone hurts my family, foster or blood.
My, how much I love them with all my heart!
I keep wondering about family lately. Like, what does that even mean to a goddess…so I looked it up on my phone.
“Siri, definition of family.”
The word family means so many things to so many different people. According to Siri: (n) a group consisting of parents and children living in a household. (N) all the ascendance of a common ancestor…(adj) a group of related things design to be suitable for children and adults.
Well, that sure helps me. Okay, I’m just going to leave that right here.
[This Diary entry is a flashback to the weeks before we moved down the mountain]
Nikki Crump-Hansted is a professionally trained actress from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She’s been writing short stories and telling tall tales since she was very young. Nikki is currently one of the original Gods of the Pantheon. She not only writes for the Goddess Nike, but also does her voice, as well as the voices for many of the characters she has written in the blog. Follow her on Twitter @CrumpHansted
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