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Ψ 𝐌𝐲 𝐌𝐨𝐦 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐇𝐢𝐦 Ψ

After my panic attack, they had to inform my mom and the god for a dad wherever he is I didn't care about me. They had to inform my mom and I knew she wasn't going to be happy, and I was right. She came to camp or what she could see of it. I saw her at the entrance as Damien walked beside me and she ran over and hugged me.

At that moment I don't know why I started crying, but I was. I hadn't seen my mom for a bit but even then, my mom was my world. I held her as some tears escaped my eyes and she pulled away and held my face.

"What happened! Why didn't you tell me sooner!" She shouted as I laughed at her reaction.

I could be denying, and she might be screaming why I wasn't dying correctly.

"It's okay, Damien took care of me. It was just a lot of stress but I'm okay ma." I tried to explain, she just nodded and hugged me again.

Damien smiled at me, and I smiled back at him and told my mom "I've made a lot of friends here...they're all great. I mean...the unnerving feeling about my dad is still over my head but...they've helped me get through it. They understand it."

She smiled and kissed my forehead and told me "Seems like you are having fun from what Damien has told me."

I was confused and turned my head to Damien as he looked away and whistled a tune as I groaned and shook my head turning back to my mom.

"Nothing weird mom. Everything has been great." She stared at me, and she pointed out "a boy was mentioned."

I looked at Damien as he ran off and I told her "Nothing is going on like that. I promise."

My mom held my hands and kissed them telling me "Please just don't do anything irrational alright? Boys are...awful."

But as she said that to me, I saw in the corner of my eyes Luke looking at my mom and I, he smiled at me, and I heard a snapping and looked back at my mom.

"What are you looking at?" She asked a little pissed and I frowned.

"Nothing mom, I thought...I saw something, but I promise I won't do anything irresponsible. Not like I would, I'm this close to beating teen pregnancy."

She slapped the side of my head with some force, and I winced rubbing my head as she hugged me, and I hugged her back.

"I trust you. And...I'm gonna see that boy one day. Promise?"

Luke still stood there as I held my mom; I smiled and rubbed my mom's back and nodded.

"I promise." I whispered back.

After saying goodbye to my mom I had made my way inside camp again and saw Luke standing there with his arms crossed as he walked beside me. We walked over to the lake and stood there together.

"Your mom looks like you." He mentioned it and I looked up at him as he looked down at me.

"You take after your mom more. That's great." He added with a soft chuckle.

I blushed at his words and tried to think of what to say "makes me happy that I don't seem like my dad. That would be worse for me."

We laughed together and I played with my hands in front of me and explained "she wants to meet you..."

I watched his eyebrows raise and he looked away from me and he chewed on his bottom lip as I tried to wait for his answer now thinking it may have been a bad idea to mention that my mom wanted to meet him, so a pit started to form in my stomach, and I began overthinking and I felt like throwing-

"Okay." He spoke.

My mind stopped racing and I looked up at him and he looked down at me and he turned his body to face me, so I only felt appropriate to do the same and he looked off into the distance then back at me.

"If you don't want to or feel forced it's fine because I know you and your mom. I don't know how you feel, and I don't even know what I'm saying anymore because I've never had gone through this and now, I'm rambling which is what I do when I freak out-"

But before I could finish, he shut my mouth with his hand, and I glared at him, and he smirked slowly pulling his hand away.

"Take a breath, and it's fine. I know how much your mom means to you; I'll do it." I felt that bubble in my stomach as he said that.

"Really?" I asked and he nodded and patted my shoulder "Just calm down and stop freaking out" He laughed out and I shoved him, and he suddenly lost his balance on the dock.

I panicked and went and grabbed his arm, but I really should have reevaluated how tall he was versus me, and our weights. I lost my balance too, he grabbed me and pulled me against his chest, and we fell in the water together.

When the water began to clear up, he grabbed my arms as I held his shoulders and we swam up and took some breaths, once reaching the surface.

"Second time this has happened." He breathed out and I nodded in agreement.

We both laughed in the water as he suddenly asked, "now seeing your mom, I never did ask how you found out about being a Demi-God?"

I looked at him and tried to keep the water out of my mouth and shrugged "I don't even know. I just saw this spider lady thing an Arachne as Damien put it. It tried to attack me on a school trip but the whole bathroom began flooding and water attacked her. I passed out after that, not sure what happened."

As if dissecting my words he was in his thoughts "yeah it called me a Demi-God. I'm not really sure. It's kinda blurry. Then hours later Damien showed up and that's how we ended up here."

"How did you stop that Arachne again?" He asked, confused.

I laughed out "as if I could stop it, the room flooded, and water went everywhere. I'm still not sure on the details like I said."

Luke just stared at me in shock, and I swam over trying to grab hold of the edge of the dock. Once lifting myself onto the dock I began turning around to find Luke.

But he was nowhere to be seen.

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What happened to Luke!?