Chapter Ten: Luke
I felt like I was drunk. I have not, I repeat, have not ever been drunk before, but if I ever get drunk, I bet this is what it would feel like. I just got hugged by Charlotte Thalia Grace. I'm on cloud nine. Or maybe cloud infinity. I wonder what it'll feel like when she kisses me...(Luke! T.M.I.)
"Luke!" Noah snapped his fingers in front of my face and I jolted back, almost falling off the bench.
"Someone's lovestruck," Noah said, smirking.
"No- no! I'm not in love!" I protested, feeling my face heating up.
"You had that dopey look on your face. The one that Ash always has when she looks at me," Noah replied. Noah was like the older brother I never had, but like all older brothers, sometimes he was a pain in the butt.
"Hey guys!" It was Jake Stoll. He was thirteen, and looked like his father, Travis, with dirty blond curls, but he had his mother, Katie's, hazel eyes, the color of leaves. His younger brother, Xander looked exactly like him, but his older sister, Bridget, looked like their mom.
"Hey Jake," I said, smiling at the younger boy. Jake has a great sense of humor, and is a great prankster. He is pretty fun to hang around, and he loved to humiliate girls, which was something that we both had in common.
"Hi Jacob," Noah said. He has this odd quirk that he loves to call people their full names if he doesn't like their nickname.
Jake frowned at his full name, but quickly brightened up when his best friend, Ben Grace, appeared next to him. Ben was Char's little brother. He could be snobby and stuck up when he didn't like you, but he was usually pretty nice.
"Hi Ben," I said awkwardly. We didn't exactly have the best relationship, but we were friends. Kind of. He had his mom's dirt brown hair, and his dad's sparkling sky blue eyes.
"Luke," he sneered at me, and I gave him a glare back.
"Ahem," Noah cleared his throat, making the situation even more awkward.
"So guys, what's up?" Jake asked, trying to clear up the awkwardness.
Noah, being Noah, decided to be funny, but acted like an idiot instead. "Up is a movie about a old man, and a little boy, and how they-"
"Blah, blah, blah," Ben said, cutting Noah off. He received a glare instead, but ignored it, launching into a bragfest. (Ben's nice. Kind of. Well, stop being so mean to him, and he'll be nice to you!)
"So, my grandfather, Jupiter, ruler of Olympus, and the skies, decided that he was going to give me a cross between an Imperial Gold and Celestial Bronze sword," Ben bragged, in a condescending tone.
"Sorry Grace, but I already have one," I said, pulling out my sword, ωκεανός (Ocean). I don't mean to brag, but Ben Grace is a huge bragger, and it's fun seeing his expression when you're better than him at something. Quick story about my sword: When I was twelve I wanted a sword, so Poseidon asked Uncle Tyson to make me a cool sword, and here it is now. When I don't need it, it transforms into a phone. And, I can use the phone since the Hephaestus cabin invented a jammer signal so monsters can't find the cell phone signals. Win-win!
Ben glared at me, and stormed off, dragging Jake along with him.
"Nice job man." Noah high fived me, and I smirked, happy for today.