I agreed that I would help Luke, so I went over to the camp store, and got somethings that could work as a disguise. He had wanted me to get one of those stupid Hannah Montana wigs for him to try out, but I vedo'd that idea right away. We decided to go with a touque and a pair of sunglasses. As for the scar across his face, I had no choice but to borrow some make-up from the Aphrodite cabin ( which he wasn't too thrilled about ).
"Ok, I think this just might work, but your gonna have to try to make your voice differant." I said, walking around him, admiring my work.
"Yeah, I know. I already got that covered." He replied, trying to make his voice deeper, but failing. I just laughed.
"Your gonna have to do better then that if you want to pull this off. By the way, if I get kicked out because I'm harbouring a dead guy, it's on your head!" I said, playfully shoving him.
"Ok, ok... so where is everybody? Like Grover, or Percy?"
"Umm... Oh, Grover probably with Juniper. They're always together. Percy's visiting his mom. He'll be back tomorrow before dinner." I said with a smile.
"You and Percy, huh?"
"... Maybe..."
"Annabeth, come on. I may have been gone for a while, but even before I left camp, I could tell something might happen between the two of you."
"Ok so me and Percy are dating... so what?"
"Are you happy with him?"
I took a breath and smiled. "Yeah. Yeah, I am."
"Then I'm happy for you."
"Thanks, but can we move on from my love life now?"
"Haha, ok."
It was quiet for a few minutes. Then he dropped the question that I knew was coming.
"So... what about Thalia? I haven't seen her around camp."
"Oh... yeah, about that... umm..."
"Yeah?"
Now, I know that your always supposed to tell the truth, blah blah blah. But trust me, if you had seen his face. How it lit up when he talked about Thalia... you would've done the same thing.
"She, uh... left for a quest." He looked disapointed.
"Oh... well how long will she be gone?"
"I don't know."
He could tell there was something I wasn't telling him. It's very rare to hear me say " I don't know" because I ALWAYS know. But apparently, I was selling this lie good enough for him to drop the subject.
"So when Percy gets back to camp tomorrow, are you gonna tell him I'm back?"
I hadn't even consittered that. What was Percy going to say when he realised Luke was alive again?
He might try to kill him. Or worse. He might break up with me! He knew I had feelings for Luke before Percy. Now I had a real problem, and a hard question in my face. And for the second time, I was about to say the one sentence that no one ever heard come out of my mouth.
"I don't know"