Chapter 5

I couldn't stand it any more I had to leave this fire and all these people around it. I got up without a word and headed for the docks, water has always been better than fire for me. I didn't even realize that someone was following me until I heard the dock creep behind me. I grab a knife from my pocket, spin around and throw it. It goes flying for the persons' face but they grab with their hand and say,

" Ren, what are you doing?"

It was Luke, why does he care about me so much? I said,

" Luke why are you following me?"

" Answer my question first Ren."

" Trying to forget."

" What?"

" Sit down."

We sat on the dock with our feet dangling over the edge for a while before I started talking. I said,

" I was trying to forget the pain I felt when I was a child."

" What pain?"

" Being forgotten by everyone, being hated by anyone who knew me, and wondering why my mom didn't want me."

" Why would your mom not want you?"

" She died when I was a baby, she did drugs and over dosed. I always wondered why she did it, why she would risk her daughter for something so meaningless."

"When you said you were alone for a while you meant a long time didn't you?"

" I've been on my own since I was ten."

I looked down and saw that Luke's hand was bleeding from the knife I said,

" Luke you're bleeding."

" It's nothing."

" Give me your hand."

He placed his hand in mine and a surge of energy went through me and him. What does it mean? For some reason I feel attracted to him and I never felt that before. Does he feel the same? Ren stop it I need to check his hand. It looked pretty deep but not deep enough for stitches, but it needed something to catch all the blood. I rip off my sleeve and rap it around his hand with a cute little bow on top. I look up at him and he's smiling at me, but then it slowly fades and asks,

" Ren, what's that scar on your shoulder?"

I look over at my now bare shoulder and see the burn scars from the fire. I say,

" That's why I left the fire. When I was eight some other foster kids hated me and we were at a camp, then and there they pushed me into the fire. It burned off most of my skin on my left shoulder. And while I was screaming in pain they told me that I deserved to be alone because everyone I would meet would hate me as much as they did."

Luke looked stunned that something like that had even happened to me. He held my hand and said,

" Ren they were wrong about everything, you know that. And when I get the chance I will kill them myself."

" Too late. A n hour later Ares killed them."

" Ren you deserve more than anyone to have people care about you, I care about you."

" I don't deserve a friend like you Luke."

" Are you kidding Ren? I don't deserve friends, hell I don't deserve to be living right now."

" Yes, you do because you want to right your wrongs. And I can't think of a better person to be around."

In that moment Luke came close to me, I could feel his warm breath on my face. He said,

" I will always be by your side. I'm not going anywhere."

And he closed the space between us. Our lips met and I couldn't help but kiss back. I pulled away and said,

" You like me?"

" Ren I've liked you since the first day I met you."

I took his face in my hands and kissed him. Luke placed his hand on my hip and I rested one of my hands on his neck while the other was on his chest. We kissed for a while then he laughed and said,

" We better go."

" Why? I'm fine here."

" Well, I am too but listen."

I listened and all the singing had stopped. I said,

" Why do we have to go now they just finished."

" Do you want to wait in ten minutes and get eaten by harpies?"

" That doesn't sound pleasant."

" It's not."

We walked back holding hands and we see Nico and Jess talking. I push Luke behind the tree and I here Nico say,

" I'll meet you at the canoe tomorrow alright."

Jess said,

" I'll see you then."

Before Nico left Jess alone he pushed a piece of her hair behind her ear and placed a black rose in her hair. How deadly romantic.