It's no mystery that the little hybrid known as Thalia loved to do many things. She loved to bake and cook with her mom, follow her big sister around and learn what older girls do, and of course, cheer for her brother at all his sporting events! The latter was certainly one of her most favorite of those. There seemed to be nothing better in her mind than jumping around and following what the older girls did when they did their routines during the school games!Well, that is until she met Alecto. He had the prettiest hair EVER and all she wanted to do when she first met him was play with his hair for the rest of her days. "That's something else I could put on my list!" she exclaimed while sitting on her bed. Thalia was busy making herself a 'What to do' list for when she was older. So far she had written down baker, interviewer -- though she wasn't sure if that was the right way to put it -- cheerleader, and down she scribbled down hair dresser. "Yes yes... those things seem like they are best! Maybe I could be all of them...?" she mused quietly to herself. "Naaaah.: she said, shaking her head after deciding that being a jack of all trades and a master of none wasn't what she wanted to do with her life.
Looking at the list again, she used her pencil to scratch out baker and interviewer. As much as she loved to bake, it got too hot or took too much patience sometimes. And even though she was a pro at asking a million questions and annoying people -- at least her big sister -- enough to get the answers she was looking for, she thought that asking the same questions over and over to different people could also get pretty repetitive and boring.
That left two things on her list. Two things that she thought she could enjoy very much. Cheer leading and hair dresser. If there were two things that she would want to do in life, those would be them! They both involved making others feel good about themselves! Cheer leading was a happy, bouncy, exciting thing! Hair dressing was giving someone something they wanted. Something they wanted to make themself feel good about who they were and how they looked! That was something the freshling loved. Making others feel so good about themselves!
"Oh man! How hard is this going to be to pick?!" she exclaimed, flopping backwards on her bed. "I don't know that I can actually pick what I want to do out of these two. I wonder... I wonder if I can do both. I know a lot of adults do more than one job. Maybe I can be a stylish hair dresser by day, and a rogue cheer leader by games!" Throwing the paper in the air, the girl grinned happily. Yes. Yes That was what she wanted to do with her life! She was going to make others feel good about themselves!
