Chapter 3

"He has his mother's smile," Hermes said lovingly. The words kept repeating itself in Charisse's mind. So until now he still loves her, huh? It felt like she just had been slapped. Her attention turned to the closed window; she shouldn't have felt like this.

But he just kissed you. No. She should put those things aside and focus her attention to Luke. Yes, that's the right thing to do. To not to lose herself to Hermes.

"He has your smile, Charisse." They looked in each other's eyes for a minute until Luke yawned.

"Mom?" Luke said warily. "Why is Winged Guy with us?"

"Oh…"Charisse traded off. "Umm…"

"There's no use of hiding it, Charisse. He'll find it out enough sooner or later." Hermes was right. Luke would find it out no matter how much she tried to hide it. And she failed.

"So you're my Daddy? Yay!" Luke said excitedly as Hermes carried him in his back.

"So where do you want to go?" Hermes asked. Charisse haven't seen Hermes this so much happy before. Nostalgia…nostalgia was the right word. He looked as if all of the problems have left him. As if reality has finally turned into fantasy.

"Careful." Charisse said, smiling. "I have a suggestion though; how about let's go to the Temple of Hermes?"

Hermes smirked at that. "Sure. Why not?"

"Cool! C'mon! Mom, Dad!" Luke jumped and ran off ahead of the two Olympians.

Both watched Luke as he entered the temple, smiling. When Hermes said, "Let's go."

Hermes extended his hands to Charisse's. For a moment, Charisse's held her breath and together they walked hand in hand, unaware of things that would soon happen later on.

"Wow!" Luke said once he entered the Temple of Hermes. A large Caduceus greeted him. "It's George and Martha!"

Charisse panicked. "Luke-!"

"It's alright, Char." Hermes reassured her. Luckily, there are only few people inside.

Then Hermes's phone went off. Hermes sighed. Charisse's eyes got wide. The phone glowed bluish light, he extended the antenna and two snakes slithered-George and Martha. They were the size of earthworms. Hermes pressed the red button.

"George and Martha!" Luke exclaimed. "How are you?"

Hello, Luke, George said in a raspy male voice.

George! A female voice said. My lady's here.

Hello, my lady. Both of the snakes said. How are you?

"I'm fine, George. Martha." Charisse said, smiling.

Lord Zeus won't like that, Martha said, you know he'll go berserk if you do that, right?

Hermes sighed. "I know."

"Mom? Why are George and Martha calling you my lady?" Luke asked in wonder. "And who's Zeus?"

Because-George started.

"Quiet!" Hermes commanded. "He doesn't know."

Charisse lurched forward until she was eye level with Luke, "I'll explain everything when you grow up." she stroked her hair in such a manner that Hermes had to focus his way somewhere else.

It was simple. She said it simply. But it wasn't that simple to do.

A/N: I know it's short. Thank you for the reviews! It did me great. This is for Charmes4Ever and to all of my new readers. I hope you liked this chapter.:) I hope this suites your expectation though I'm not quite satisfied with my writing. Still, read and review!

I might not update 'till Monday because we have scheduled test this week...

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