Chapter 14

Luke had come back with all sorts of stuff to hide us from people that where looking for us, because I'm a "criminal". Jess and I went upstairs to change our looks. I decided we should makeover Jess first because she has never had to hide from the state. I dye her hair almost black with a red streak in it. I think little miss death is far opposite from little miss sunshine. Her knew attire consists of leather boots, pants, and jacket with a blood red t-shirt. Jess finds a mirror and says,

" Holy Zeus! I am a bad-butt!"

" You know you can say the word "ass"."

" No, I will not."

" Fine, just know that you sound like a moron saying "bad-butt"."

" But it makes me seem sweet and innocent."

" Well you're going to have to bust out the curse words now that you have to be someone else until we get out of here."

" Fine, bitch. How was that?"

" Not like yourself."

" Good. Your turn."

Jess busted out the blonde hair dye and said,

" You ready to be a dumb blonde."

" No."

We dyed my hair beach, not bleach blonde, and might I say it isn't horrible. I am wearing a cobalt blue polo shirt, tan shorts, and Sperry's boat shoes. Yes I looked like a preppy brat with a boat, which is good because that is not me. Jess said,

" Oh my gods! You look so cute!"

" Don't push your luck little miss sunshine."

" You need to act nicer Ren."

" No I don't."

" If your going to be someone else."

" Smart as…"

" Ahh."

" Smart alk."

At that moment I heard Luke yelling,

" Get the hell out of here you asshole!"

I ran downstairs to see what the hell is going on. I get down there and see a man in a UPS uniform with an envelope, he said,

" Luke how are you here?"

" What's it to you, you prick?"

" I didn't know that…"

" Right, like you didn't know what I went through!"

" I am just here to deliver a note to a Ren Stevens."

Now I know who he is it's Luke's dad Hermes. Clearly Hermes doesn't know what to think that Luke is alive. I said,

" I am Ren."

Hermes walked over to me and handed me the envelope and whispered to me,

" Are you the girl that Aphrodite says fell in love with my son?"

I whisper back,

" That is your son's story to tell."

And at that the god disappeared with an angered look on his face. I opened the envelope and read out loud,

" You and your friends are invited to a masquerade ball tomorrow and be prepared Prometheus."

Luke still hadn't calmed down from his dad randomly showing up and ran out of this room into the next. I said to Nico and Jess,

" Stay here."

I went after Luke who was throwing what ever he could find. I let him, he through bottles, pieces of wood , and even a file cabinet. Then he looked up at me and said,

" Why! Why did you have to get a fucking package!"

" This isn't my fault Luke! I can't help who mails shit to me!"

" He didn't do anything to help me nothing!"

" I know."

I walk toward him afraid and worried that he might shift into the person he once was. I place my hands on either side of his face and I feel the muscles relax. He closed his eyes and said,

" I'm sorry that I yelled at you."

" I know it is okay."

He opens his blue eyes and looks at the ground. His eyes widen at one of the papers below us. I look down and see it. It is a drawing that I drew when I was twelve. He bent down and picked up the pictures. His eyes raced against the papers and looked shocked after every picture he looked at. Luke said,

" Ren, what are these? And why is our faces on them?"

" I drew them when I was twelve."

" Why did yo draw these?"

" I drew what I saw in my dreams."

" You saw me? Jess? Nico?"

He started to angry and show every picture I drew as a child. The first was Luke, then Jess, and then Nico. After that there was me and Luke on the dock where we first kissed, drawn in pencil. Jess and Nico in the canoe. All four of us in the puzzle maze. And the last picture was of me floating in mid air with a thousand cuts across my body and blood streaming below me. But that wasn't the worst part it was the lifeless look in my face. Luke had tears streaming down his face and said,

" Why are you dead in this picture Ren!"

" I don't know!"

" Ren! Why didn't you tell me you where going to die?"

" I don't know if I am going to or not. They are just drawings they mean nothing."

" They mean everything! I can't live without you. And I can't bare the thought of you dying let alone so soon."

" Luke, look at the other drawings on the floor most of them didn't happen, this one won't."

" You don't know that."

" Yes, I do because I won't let it happen."

" You swear?"

" I swear with all my heart and soul."

He took a step closer to me and rested his head on mine. We stood there like that for awhile then he made the space between us lesser and lesser until it was non excitant. As I kissed him I could feel his moist tears on my cheeks and for the first time in my life I found someone I have to live for. Or he will be destroyed if I do.