Luke's POV:

After Percy had left the camp fire in order to go find Annabeth, Zoe and I were left alone, sitting side by side with our arm occasionally brushing against one another. I pretended not to notice the constant brushing of our arms, but inside it was sending electric shocks throughout my body. I didn't understand what was happening to me. I mean, was it possible that I liked Zoe? I thought back to all the time we had spent together and realised that I always had, but I just hadn't noticed it. I wondered if she had, if she knew that this whole time I've been falling for her. She probably hasn't, I mean I've seen some of the looks that she shares with Percy, Just my luck that both of the girls I fall for like him.

"Luke? Hello? Are you listening to me?" Zoe's voice snapped me out of my thoughts. I blinked and saw that Zoe had been waving her hand in front of my face, trying to get my attention.

"Um yeah, I'm listening." I replied, looking at her face which seemed to glow in the moonlight. Perhaps it was because she used to be a lieutenant of Artemis but the moonlight made her look even more perfect and more out of my league.

Zoe cracked a smile, "since you obviously weren't listening to anything I was saying I'll have to say it all again. I'm worried about Percy, he's been gone for over an hour and I think something bad has happened." Her voice expressed such a massive amount of concern and in that instant I knew my shot with her was gone. She liked Percy and there was probably nothing I could do.

"Yeah well he's probably just making out with Annabeth." I snapped at her and got up, leaving the campfire and headed into the forest.

When I was a good half hours walk into the forest I let my emotions out. "WHY? WHY DOES THIS ALWAYS HAPPEN? IT'S NOT FAIR! It's not - it's not fair…" My voice trailed off towards the end because all of the anger had been replaced with sadness and a sense of emptiness. I was alone, I always have been and I always will be. I started crying (I know so masculine (note the sarcasm.)) I was just so fed up with all of it, with Percy, with Zoe and with the fates. They had made this happen last time and they were making it happen this time.

I stayed in the forest all night. I didn't get any sleep, so when I returned to camp I was in a bit of a bad mood.

I walked into the dining pavilion and saw Zoe and Percy in a deep conversation. A part of me died seeing them like that but another part of me got into a worse mood. When Zoe and Percy saw me walking towards them Percy smiled and moved over to make room, Zoe on the other hand had some kind of emotion in her eyes. I couldn't quite pinpoint what it was but then I realised that it was hurt. I had hurt her with what I said last night. Guilt suddenly over took all of the emotions that were pumping through my veins. I felt like the worst person ever, how could I have done that to Zoe? No wonder she liked Percy, he was kind and would never lash out like I had.

"Hey." Zoe said from her seat across from mine. I nodded on response and got up to sacrifice some of my food to the gods.

When I returned to the table Percy launched into his tale about how he had gone to find Annabeth but she wasn't anywhere and he had no idea where she could be. He had already talked to Chiron and Mr D but neither of them knew where she was either. The whole way through his story I couldn't help but get a little mad but I tried to keep my emotions in check. I didn't want Percy to hate me like Zoe probably did.

"Don't worry man, we'll find her. You can count on us."

Zoe's POV:

After breakfast we all decided to go into the woods and see if Annabeth was in there. Grover decided to come with us so we split up into two groups. Luke and I would be searching together and Percy and Grover would be together.

Luke and I had been walking for about ten minutes in awkward silence so I decided to break it. "What did you mean last night? When you got all angry at me for worrying about Percy?" I asked, slightly nervous of what his response would be.

"Don't worry it's nothing and I wasn't angry." Luke tried to convince me but I knew he was lying.

"Cut the crap Luke. What happened?" He remained silent. I stopped walking "if you don't tell me than I refuse to move from this spot. I will stay here until you tell me." At first Luke thought I was just joking around but when he started walking away and noticed that I wasn't following himk he turned around and walked back towards me.

"Zoe, come on. You're being childish, it was seriously nothing!" Luke exclaimed as he tried to pull me with him but I grounded my feet and refused to move. "Two can play this game then." Luke said after about five minutes of attempting to pull me. He grabbed me by my waist and threw me over his shoulder so my face was against his back.

"Luke! Put me down!" I yelled at him whilst struggling to get free. I could feel Luke shake his head.

"Not until you let last night drop." He argued with me.

I shook my head and yelled "never!"

"Fine then, it seems like you're stuck on my shoulder for a while." Luke said and I could almost hear the smirk in his voice.

"Luke I am so going to get you back for this!" I yelled at him and went limp. I decided that there was no point in struggling, he was much stronger than me and there was pretty much nothing I could do.

Unless…

I waited for a couple of minutes, think it might have been ten but I'm not sure.

"Hey Luke, I need to use the bathroom." I said and I could almost feel the discomfort I had put him through.

But it turns out what I had thought to be discomfort was actual humour. "So what? You're going to 'go' behind a tree or something?" He cracked up laughing, "Think again Nightshade, I know you to well."

I groaned "You suck Luke, I hate you!"

Luke let out a chuckle, "that just warms my heart, thank you!" I mentally face palmed. Trust Luke to turn something like I hate you into some form of compliment.

I have now been of Luke's' back, searching in the forest for Annabeth for around three hours. My stomach was hurting from the pressure of Luke's shoulder and I was seriously uncomfortable. I wondered how Luke had managed to carry me for so long; surely his shoulder was getting sore. I think I may have fallen asleep because when I opened my eyes I was lying in a meadow. I didn't know where exactly I was but I knew we were still in the forest. I looked over to where Luke was lying down with his eyes closed. However I got the feeling that he was relaxing and that he wasn't actually asleep.

I poked him in the side and saw him smile; he opened his eyes and saw me sitting close by him. "Good, you're up when I noticed you were asleep I decided to find somewhere so you could lie down." Luke explained and I don't know why but this made me blush so I quickly looked away and tried to get back to normal.

When I was certain I wasn't blushing anymore I turned back to him and said 'thanks, your shoulder was sort of uncomfortable." Luke laughed and I joined in. We sat there in the meadow for a while, neither of us wanting to leave this place. I liked it when Luke was like this, sort of carefree and chilled not like he had been last night. I frowned remembering what had happened. I had no idea as to why Luke had acted like that when I brought up Percy and I really wanted to find out but at the moment I didn't want to ruin the happy and carefree Luke by bringing that up so I pushed those thoughts out of my head.

It was only after all of these thoughts had ran through my head did I realise that Luke was looking at me worriedly. "What's wrong? Are you okay?" He asked, he must have seen me frown.

I decided I might as well tell him the truth. I took a steady breath and said "What happened last night? I'm your best friend and you can tell me anything!" As soon as I said these words part of me wished I hadn't. Luke's smile fell and his happy face was replaced by an emotionless one.

"It's because you're my best friend that I can't tell! I don't want to ruin our friendship and I've seen the way you look at Percy so please just forget about what happened last night okay?" Luke almost yelled at me. I had no idea what he was talking about but before I could respond he got up and left me alone sitting the meadow. I was too puzzled about what he had said to do anything except sit there and think.

After what felt like ten hours but was probably only one I finally came up with the only possible solution.

Luke liked me.

AN: Hey guys! Hope you liked the chapter and all of the Zoe and Luke stuff… I just wanted to say a quick thankyou to everyone that is reading this and I hope you have an awesome Christmas! This will probably be my last update for a while because the two weeks after Christmas we are going away and I don't know if I will have internet… But I promise when I get back home I will update!

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