Now the chapter that many of you guys are anticipating…
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
-Mahatma Gandhi
Reyna cries inside of Luke strong arms. She can't believe that they know where she lives. She knows she hasn't done anything wrong but she still can't shake the feeling that she must've done something. She hasn't been near Camp Jupiter for 14 years!
"It's okay," Luke whispers.
She wraps her arms around Luke's neck as if he's a life boat that Reyna is desperately to hold on. "I'm not even sure if it'll be okay," she confesses.
Luke releases his grip on her and looks at her with his index finger affectionately stroking her jaw line. "Think happy," he tells her. Reyna looks at Luke's crystal like blue eyes. He's actually quite handsome. Think happy, she thinks.
"I can't."
"I'll help you," he assures her.
"Jason!" A male sings.
Jason groans as he rolls on his bed.
"Gracie, get your butt up!" Another male yells.
"Shut up!" Jason yells.
"Make me," male one says.
"Out!" Jason orders as he sits up from his bed and pulls away the blue sheets.
"We got mail," Bobby says like he's a robot.
Dakota shrugs. "It's not as bad as his singing," he comments.
"Rude." Bobby swaps Dakota's arm.
"Ouch!" Dakota rubs his arm.
"Jace, we'll have breakfast ready," Bobby says as he pinches Dakota's ear.
"You guys wait!" Jason says as he gets up.
"I knew you would," Bobby winks and leaves as he's still pinching Dakota's ear.
"Let him go," Jason orders.
Bobby pouts as he says, "Fine" and walks finally leaves with Dakota trailing behind him.
Jason shakes his head and makes his bed. He looks around the rooms and makes sure everything is in check. The room has light gray walls with a dark gray stripe running through the middle of the walls, a blue cover bed with dark wood as a backboard, two night stands made of metal that has small holes in the metal with pictures and a lamp, a large window on the opposite side of the doorway with light blue silk sheets, a gray flat screen TV on glass TV unit with DVDs, Wii, Playstation, Xbox and video games on the shelf, and a small slide open closet with a large mirror next to it near the exit. Jason sits on his bed and open his drawer where he finds a small oval shape locket made of gold. He opens it and he sees the picture of him and Reyna smiling as they have their arms around each other on a hill.
Jason feels his heart sink. "I miss you," he says as he looks at the picture of the two of them. "I hope you're happy wherever you are," he whispers as he feels his eyes start to water.
Alison wakes up and stretches. She sits up and realizes that she's still in her clothes. She gets out of bed and changes into her pjs because if her mom sees that she's still in her clothes she'll have a fit.
"Let's see what I have clean," she jokes. She goes inside her closet and scans her pjs. She grabs a long-sleeve blue and white stripe shirt, and a checker color blue and white shirt. She dresses and heads to the bathroom where she brushes her teeth. She leaves the bathroom and heads downstairs.
Alison finds Luke and her mom sitting on the table. She's a bit in shock that Luke's here, but Luke has been a close father figure to her ever since she was a little kid.
"Luke!" She squeals. Alison never squeals but Luke is an exception.
"Alice!" Luke exclaims as he gets up from his chair as he opens his arms as Alison runs into them.
"How are you?" She asks as she pulls away from Luke.
"Fine," he says as he messes up her hair with his hand. Sure, Alison loves him to death but she hates it when he messes up her hair.
She finally looks at her mom and sees that her obsidian eyes seems like a mirror that has cracks. Around Reyna's eyes, she sees that they're slightly puffy. What's wrong? she wants to ask. Reyna blinks and Alison sees that her eyes have return to their usual hard self.
"Anything new, Goldilocks?" Luke teases.
A small growl escapes from the bottom of Alison's throat, but not as threatening but messing with him as Luke already know. He raises his hands as if he just arrested. "Hands up," she says in a officers tone.
"I should make breakfast," Reyna announces as she gets up from her chair and heads towards the kitchen.
"I'm sorry," Luke apologizes.
"Anything you say or do will be used against you during court," Alison dramatically says. Luke laughs.
"I can totally imagine your mom acting like that," he says between laughs.
"I heard that," Reyna says from the kitchen.
Alison scans the room and sees a purple envelope. "What's this?"
Luke sees Alison look at the floor as she sees the purple envelope. He feel that get a mini heart attack and tries not to freak out. He looks at Reyna and sees that she looks that she's about to break down in tears.
"That's mine," Luke answers as he gets the envelope from the floor without looking at its detail.
"Why did you bring it here?" Alison asks. Just like your mother, he thinks.
"It's this…" he drifts off.
"Cooking recipe that Luke sent to this company and that's probably the reply because it looked like he had a mini heart attack when he came," Reyna says. Great, just great.
"Really?" Alison asks. Luke has known Alison her whole life and he knows she ain't buying it.
"I'm notorious for my blueberry pancakes," Luke cockily says as he digs dirt from under his fingernails.
"My mom does blueberry pancakes," Alison says in a tone that seems to be challenging him.
"Between me and your mom, I'm the winner," Luke says as he props his hands behind his back.
"Sweety, he's just afraid to loose," Reyna playfully says.
"I did not just get denied about my pancaking skill," Luke says, hurt.
"Dang!" Alison exclaims and moves her hand rapidly like she touch something hot.
He narrows his eyes on Reyna and she does the same thing. "It's on," he dangerously says.
"Bring it," Reyna says.
"Are you in cloud 9, Gracie?" Bobby asks.
"Alright," Jason says as he puts away the pocket. He grabs a shirt from the closet and puts it on. He walks down the peach color hallway, past the living room and into the kitchen. The kitchen is large with white tiles, light brown color cabinets, marble countertops with appliances, a gray color stove with a view to the backyard, a dish washer on the far left, and a fridge to the right.
Bobby and Dakota sit on the countertops as they wait for Jason.
"About time," Bobby says.
"Is it my fault that my best buds get up early?" Jason asks.
"It's all our faults," Dakota says. Yesterday at night, the trio had gone out where Dakota almost got arrested on the beach because he was running around like a hooligan, Bobby tried avoiding a lady who turned out being a cougar, and Jason tried to avoid glares from men when their girlfriends looked at him in awe.
"That lady wanted some sugar," Jason teases Bobby.
Bobby scowls but comes up with a smart comeback, "I wouldn't say the same thing because those guys wanted to show you the color purple."
"You guys are such big babies," Dakota complains.
"We had to prevent the police officers to not take you to the police station," Bobby frowns.
"I, at least, stick to girls that are my age," he shot back.
"Quit it," Jason tells them. He sometimes wonder why he has them as roommates. Oh, yeah, they're my best friends.
"I'm hungry," Dakota complains.
"I'll grab scramble eggs," Bobby says as he plops off the countertop and goes to the fridge and grabs a carton of eggs.
"Grab the bacon," Jason tells Bobby.
Dakota grabs a loaf of bread—to make toast—from the cabinet and 3 packets of Kool-Aid. Jason glares at him in a, Put that down, expression that says he is not happy about it. "Do you want me to try wine?" He innocently asks.
"No," he quickly says and shakes his head.
"He still goes on a sugar high," Bobby chimes in.
"Whatever," Dakota says.
After the scramble eggs, bacon and toast are done, the boys serve themselves and go to the dining room. The dining room is large with a rectangular shape dark wood table with a white cloth in top of it, peach color walls, and a screen door at the end of the room that leads to the backyard.
"What's that?" Dakota asks as he first sits down. He grabs the 3 purple envelopes on the table and examines them. He sees SPQR in gold lettering along with an eagle.
"From the legion," Bobby says in awe. He takes a bite from his toast and reaches for his envelope.
"I hope they don't want us to go on a quest," Jason says.
His two friends chuckle. "Even though we won't admit it, we're to old for that now," Dakota says but with a slight ting of sadness.
"You miss the hectic life of a demigod?" Bobby teases.
"Well, we sometimes have to fight monsters when they come but that quickly turns into a pain in the buns," Dakota says.
"We could've stayed in New Rome," Jason says. Dakota and Bobby sheepishly grin. Jason knows exactly why his friend don't want to go back to New—they don't want Jason to be depress because that was the last time he ever saw her. Jason appreciates what they're doing for him, but he doesn't want his friends to sacrifice their happiness for New Rome and be stuck with him.
"It's not that," Bobby says.
"Then?" Jason asks.
"We couldn't let you go," Dakota says.
"Even though you're annoying at times," Bobby says.
"Gee, I feel loved," Jason sarcastically says.
Dakota hands Jason his envelope and tells them "We can open them after we eat."
Bobby and Jason sit at the table and slowly brings the food to their mouths. "Screw it," Dakota says and shoves his mouth with food. His friends laugh and shove their mouths with food.
Reyna and Luke are next to each other as they're making blueberry pancakes. Personally, Reyna thinks this is silly about this contest. But, from the corner of her eye, she can see Alison really amuse. Alison smiles from cheek to cheek and Reyna starts to think if she has glue on her face.
Reyna flips the pancake and grabs a plate. She slides the pancake on a plate that already has 2 of them. Luke flips the pancake and does the same thing that Reyna did.
Luke takes his pancakes and puts them in front of Alison as Alison sits on the table. "Am I the food critic?" She asks.
"Who knows their food any better than you?" He teases.
Reyna smiles and takes her pancakes in places them in front of Alison. "Taste," she tells her.
Alison grabs her fork and knife and slices a piece of Luke's batch of pancakes and stuff it in her mouth. Her blue eyes pop open and she swallows. "That's good," she congrats.
"As always," he says and bows.
"Whatever," Reyna says under her breath and crosses her arms.
Alison slices a piece of Reyna's pancakes and Reyna feels that she's at the edge of her seat. She eats the slice. "That's good," she says.
"Which is better?" Luke mysteriously asks.
"Mom has more blueberry so I think she's the winner," Alison says.
"Yes!" Reyna exclaims as her hands shoots up to the air.
Luke puts his head down from defeat. "Just great," he says.
Reyna laughs. She catches herself off guard. She feels happy. The only thing that can ruin Reyna being happy is the letter. She's a bit surprise that Luke hasn't question her to tell him what kind of letter it is. Reyna doesn't want to open it. She wants to tear it apart and forget that it was ever mysteriously sent to her door.
"What time is it?" Luke asks. Reyna breaks away from her thoughts.
"What?" Reyna asks, confuse.
"It's around ten," Alison answers.
"I don't know about you but I'm going to feast," Luke says and takes the fork and knife from Alison's hand and slices a piece of pancake for himself. "This is delicious," he says with his mouth full of blueberry pancake.
Reyna smiles and notices something. She leans forward into her chair with her elbows the back of the chair. "Whose pancake did you taste?" She asks him.
Luke stares down at the pancake he just tasted ans realizes that it belongs to Reyna. "I mean, this is the worst pancake I have ever tasted," he says as crumbs escape Luke's mouth.
Alison laughs. "Admit it," she tells him.
"Whatever," Luke says.
Reyna returns to the kitchen and comes back with two sets of forks and knives. She hands the a set to Alison and Reyna sits with Luke and Alison and together they enjoy the pancake.
Between eating pancakes and talking, Luke, Alison and Reyna laugh together. Alison can't help but look at this in a family perspective. Every since she was small she always imagined having breakfast with her dad and even though Luke wasn't her dad she considers him her dad. For example, when Reyna was sometimes busy doing her homework for law school, Luke would sometimes take Alison for ice cream and those were the moments she cherishes with Luke.
"Remember when Steve Earl got his head shaved and tattooed his wife's name and they ended up divorcing, and she ended up trying to bleach his head one night to loosen up the ink," Luke says between laugh. Alison's mom laughs and slightly smiles. Alison loves seeing her smile.
"I remember his mug shot of white eyebrows and albino skin," Reyna says.
"Sad thing that the bleach didn't work," Luke says not looking sorry at all.
"I remember those groupies that were all over you and Beckendorf when you two had to investigate a strip club," Reyna says.
"Woah, Luke, I didn't know you had it in you," Alison says in fake awe.
"It could've been worse," Luke reminds.
"Meaning Beckendorf jizzing in his pants," Reyna seriously says but quickly laughs. Luke and Alison join into the laughter.
"I still wonder what Beck told Silena on why he jizzed in his pants," Luke says as he wipes his eyes from laughing so hard.
"I'm guessing it took a long time to take away the stench on the pants," Alison assumes.
"Yes," he answers.
"Mom, I can still go over to Jean's house right?" Alison asks.
"Sure, what are her parents names?" Reyna asks.
"Her dad's name is Fai and I forgot what her mom's name is," Alison says. She honestly does not know the name of Jean's mom.
"Alright," Reyna says.
"I'll go upstairs and get ready then," Alison says and gets up from her chair.
"Alright, Goldilocks," Luke says.
"Shut up," she says and head upstairs.
Jason grabs his envelopes and feels his hand slightly shaking.
"Together?" Dakota asks.
"Together," Jason and Bobby repeat.
"One," Dakota says,
"Two," Bobby says.
"Three," Jason says. The trio rip open their envelopes and slowly pulls out the letter.
Reyna sits on her chair with her hands in her hair. "Where's the envelope?" She asks him and drops her hands.
Luke hands her the envelope. "You're not ready to open it," he tells her.
"Why?" She asks.
"I don't know why that envelope is causing you so much stress."
"It just brings back memories," she confesses.
Luke sighs and put his hand on top of hers. "Like?"
"I'm not ready to talk about it," she tells him. Luke takes his other hands and puts it on the same hand that he holds Reyna's hand. With his thumb, he circles Reyna's back hands. She feels a rush of relief.
"It feels a bit odd," she confesses.
"Why?"
"I haven't had touched a hand other than my daughter for the last 14 years."
"I haven't held a girl's hand in a while," he teases. Reyna clicks her tongue and Luke laughs.
"According to you, when will I be ready?" She asks.
"When you feel mentally happy, when you say happy things, and when you actually feel happy," he says.
"How can I achieve that?" She asks.
"Doing something happy," he says, grinning.
"What do you suggest?" She pulls her hands away.
"We can take a walk to the park," he suggests.
"Is this an invitation?" Reyna curiously asks.
"Well, you need to be mentally ready to read it."
"True," she agrees.
"So?"
"Fine."
Alison goes to her room and walks to her closet. She chooses a pair a white and blue stripe long-sleeve shirt, burgundy pants, and her normal Converse.
She grabs her phone from her the bed and dials Jean's number:
"Hello?"
"I can still come over right?"
"Yeah," Jean nervously says.
"Is there something wrong?"
"No, not at all."
"Okay?"
"I'll see you soon."
"Alright."
"Bye."
"Bye."
Alison hangs up and goes to the bathroom.
"Potty break," she tells herself.
"I should go get ready," Reyna says as she pulls a strand of hair behind her ear.
"Okay," Luke says.
Reyna gets up and walks to her room. She opens her closet and begins to asses what she's going to wear. Finally, she chooses dark blue jeans, a beige color button down shirt, and lavender color flats. Reyna walks to the bathroom and looks at herself and decides to tuck in her shirt. She brushes her hair and ties it into her normal braid. Reyna leans into the mirror as she examines her face. She gently touches her face with the tips of her fingers and sees that her eyes are still puffy.
At the corner corner of Reyna's eye, she spots her make-up kit that she hardly ever use. She reaches out to grab t but when she's halfway there she stops and starts to hesitate; she rarely ever uses make-up, but her puffy eyes bother her. She grabs the kit and looks at it.
The make-up kit is small with pink silk on the outside with a golden zipper across the square shape kit. Silena gave the make-up kit to Reyna last Christmas and Reyna barely touches unless it involves moving it to one place to another.
Reyna slowly unzips the zipper and grabs a black brush.
Alison goes downstairs and finds Luke sitting down on the table.
"Where's my mom?" Alison asks.
"She went upstairs and getting dressed," Luke answers.
"Oh." In Luke's hand, Alison sees the purple envelope she saw earlier. "What that?" She asks as she points at it.
"This? It's just a letter that I got."
"I know that it's a letter."
"Yeah," Luke says and his eyes wander around the room and not on Alison. She understand that Luke doesn't want to talk about the letter. But why?
"Are you going somewhere with my mom?"
"We're going to get some fresh air."
"Meaning?" She curiously asks.
"At the park."
"Just so you know, agree with whatever my mom says when she's mad."
Luke laughs and says "I'm well aware of it."
Now the hard question. "Why was my mom crying earlier?"
"I don't know what you're talking about," Luke says as he looks up at the ceiling.
"Cut it out," Alison says.
"It was just allergies," he explains.
Aliosn crosses her arms. "Allergies?"
"You know how your mom is…" he drifts off.
She knows that if she keeps asking Luke what was wrong with her mom, Luke will say that she just had allergies. "Okay?"
"Goldilocks, how's school?" He asks as he smirks.
"It's fine."
"How about those two girls?"
"They haven't done anything wrong." If you don't count the coffee incident and when me and Mackenzie bumped into each other.
"Are you happy at school?"
"Yup," she sprightly says.
"You sure?" Luke raises an eyebrow.
"Yup," she assures. Honestly, Alison is happy at school but it's what Mackenzie does at school that ruins her mood.
She hears her mom go down the stairs and she and Luke turns to see Reyna's grand entrance.
Reyna walks downstairs. She finish applying blush to her cheeks, lip balm, and mascara. She looks beautiful and looks natural.
Alison wolf whistles. Reyna glares at Alison and Alison simply smirks. "You finally wear a bit of a make-up."
"Now you have to wear."
Alison defiantly shakes her head and sticks out her tongue from disgust. "No," she says and cringes.
"She has a point," Luke tells Alison.
"No," Alison says.
Luke laughs and gave a sympathetic shrug at Reyna that means I tried.
"Should I take you to Jean's house?"
"Yup," she says.
Reyna walks outside to the car and Alison and Luke soon follow.
Before Luke goes outside, he examines the purple envelope. He sees an eagle with the words "SPQR" on it. The symbols look very familiar to Luke. Where have I seen them?
He grabs the envelope and heads out.
Alison is the front of Jean's house. Jean's house is two stories with the outside white, red color Mansford style roof, stairs that lead to the front door entrance and a small porch, and a big front lawn full of flowers and trees.
"Is Jean there?" Reyna asks.
Alison nods and looks out the window. She sees Jean peep her head out the window from behind a black curtain and hurries outside. Jean has on light blue jeans and a light orange shirt with the word "Love" in gold lettering, and moccasins. She waves.
"That's me," Alison says as she starts to head out of the car.
"Don't do anything I wouldn't do," Luke warns.
"Alright," she says. You're worst than my own mother, and that's a hard thing to do.
"Be safe," her mom says.
"Bye," Alison says.
"Bye, Sport," Luke says. Alison gets out of the car and walks to Jean.
"What up, Zhang Attack?" Alison teases.
Jean rolls her dark eyes. "Are you still on that?"
"Absolutely."
"Come inside," Jean says and steps aside for Alison to come inside.
"Okay," Alison says and marches inside.
Reyna sees her daughter get inside Jean's house. She zips off.
"Where shall we go?" she asks.
Luke chuckles.
"What?" she demands.
"Who uses 'shall' now a days?"
Reyna moves one of her hands from the steering wheel and slaps Luke on the arm. "Ouch!"
"You deserve an Oscar award for that," she comments.
"Thank," he sarcastically said.
"Where shall we go?" Reyna repeats.
"Do you have bread with you?"
"We just ate pancakes a while ago!" Reyna exclaims.
Luke raises an eyebrow and says "Who says I want to eat the bread?"
"What else can you do with bread?"
"Drive to the store so we can get the bread," he tells her.
"Why?"
"You'll see."
"See what?"
"The future."
"The future on what I want to do with the bread."
"Fine," Reyna mutters.
"Thank you," he politely says.
The inside of Jean's house has beige color walls, dark wood floors with a small lanterns hanging from the ceiling. The living room has a large portrait in Chinese handwriting, red color sofas, a small glass coffee table, a large black plasma TV, and a glass cabinet full of Chinese porcelain dolls.
"Can you read Chinese?" Alison asks.
"Sort of," Jean confesses.
"Oh," she says.
"Can you speak in another language?" Jean asks.
"Yeah," she says.
"What?"
"Latin, Spanish and a bit of Greek."
"I can talk Latin, French and French Canadian, and a tad of Chinese."
"Isn't French and French Canadian the same thing?"
"There wouldn't be two names for it."
"True."
"Fai, fix that tie! You look messy like raccoon after its gone through dumpster diving," a woman says.
"Grandma," a male complains.
"Frank, fix your tie."
"Yes dear."
A heavy Chinese man appear with white skin and dark eyes with a buzz cut haircut. He has on a black suit with a red tie that is messily tied. With the Chinese man is a woman with coco color skin, frizzy light brown hair tied into a bun but her bangs drape from her forehead, and golden color eyes. She has on a sky blue dress that falls to her knees with straps and a heart shape neckline, a white belt around her small waist, a small pearl necklace around her neck, and white high heels with straps. Finally, an elderly old women with a cane. She has white crinkly skin, black hair but the roots are gray tied into a tight bun, a white short sleeve dress with a dark blue shawl on top of her. She tightly grips her bamboo cane and looks at Alison with interest.
"What's your name?" She asks.
Alison stands up straight and approaches the old woman. "My name is Alison," she introduces.
"You can call me Mrs. Zhang," Mrs. Zhang says.
"Okay," Alison says.
"My name is Hazel," Hazel says and briefly hugs her.
Alison looks at Frank and sees that he's awkwardly looking at her until his wife, Hazel, nudges him. "Frank. Frank Zhang." He holds out his hand and Alison firmly shakes it.
"Umm, I'll go take Alison to my room," Jean says and grabs Alison's hand as she take her up the stairs. Alison turns back and she sees that Mrs. Zhang is still looking at her with the same interest.
"Does she remind you of—" Frank says before his wife interrupts him.
"Thalia," Hazel whispers. Hazel looks at her mother-in-law and sees that she's in deep concentration. "Is there something wrong?" She asks.
"Nothing my child. Jean's friend strikes me as a strong independent young woman. The force is strong with this one."
"Are you feeling okay? Do you want to stay?" Frank asks. As much as he loves his grandmother, he doesn't want her to go because she'll embarrass him.
Mrs. Zhang smiles and snaps, "I am. I can't say much about you and the Chinese food."
Frank grunts and Mrs. Zhang smiles from a battle she has just won.
Hazel knows well that after all these years happily married to Frank and living with his grandmother to not get into there arguments. "We're leaving," she says.
Mrs. Zhang looks at Hazel and takes her hands. Mrs. Zhang knows that Hazel has grown into a beautiful young mother and a great warrior in the battlefield. "I'm staying," she tells her.
"Why?" Hazel asks. Hazel hears in the background that Frank is fist pumping.
"I'll pop in later," she tells her. That Alison girl interests me.
Reyna is at a small pond with Luke. She's sitting next to Luke on a bench under a big tree. Earlier, she and Luke bought a loaf of break and it turns out Luke wanted it to throw it at the birds.
She throws a piece of bread at the pigeon and laughs. "How is that possible?"
Luke shrugs. "Birds will do anything to get a piece of bread."
"I didn't know they were willing to attack a baby!"
"I didn't know that either."
"But that's just plain weird."
"Are you happy?" Luke asks.
"Yes," she honestly tells him.
"Are you thinking of happy thought?"
"Does a baby being attacked by pigeons count?"
"I guess," he shrugs.
"Yup," she says.
Luke takes out the purple envelope and gives it to Reyna. "I think your ready."
Reyna takes the envelope and doesn't feel sad about it anymore. She rips it open and pulls out the letter.
Jason's envelope reads:
"Dear Jason Grace,
You are invited to celebrate 15 years on the battle between the gods and Mother Earth. The reunion will be held at Camp Jupiter with all Greek and Roman guest invited to celebrate and retell the tales of our time on the great battlefield. We hope to see you soon.
Signed,
The Roman Legion"
"It's reunion," Bobby realizes.
"I know," Jason says. Behind the letter is a small card the reads:
"Location: Camp Jupiter
When: Around 4 o'clock in the afternoon.
Clothing: Preferably suits and dresses, but normal wear is accepted.
Take this card with you when you go at the entrance."
"Do you think everyone got the letter?" Bobby asks.
"Yes," Dakota answers.
Jason feels a bump in his throat from what he's about to say. "Do you think she got a letter?"
"If Mercury did his job," Dakota says.
"So, I might see her again," Jason says as his serious face breaks into a smile.
"Yeah," Bobby says.
I can't wait to see you again. He kisses the card as if it's her.
But Bobby has to ruin the moment when he says "Don't kiss that peace of paper too hard."
"Shut it, Bobby," Dakota says and slaps him on the arm.
"Maybe I'll go away for you can read it," Luke suggest and gets up.
"Yeah," Reyna agrees. Luke walks away and gets closer to the birds as he throws pieces of bread.
Reyna reads:
Dear Reyna daughter of Bellona,
You are invited to attend a reunion with the people who fought on the battlefield on that day. No one can forget the courage and strength you summoned to lead the Roman soldiers. The Romans never forget when good has been done to them. You are the guest of honor and you can bring any guest that you wish.
Signed,
The Roman Legion SPQR
Lupa"
Reyna feels a bit shock that she's the guest of honor. She's more in shock when she sees Lupa's paw-print on the letter—Lupa hardly ever does that.
Behind the letter is a card with the location and time. Luke comes back and sits me to her. Reyna approaches Luke and leans her had onto his shoulder. She doesn't know if she should go.
I don't want to see you, Jason.
I'm sorry for no flashbacks. I'll probably do flashbacks that Jason remembers. The locket means something!
By the way, in genetics it is possible for a blonde baby's hair to turn black—I If I remember correctly.
I didn't bother to check the grammar because I'm about to go to school. I'll check it when I get back!