My kind of Love / Luke Castellan (on hold)

ii: my shit love life

ELOISE

My eyes flutter open. The pounding in my head gets worse when I try to sit up. I look around to see the worried faces of my friends and half-siblings.

"She's awake." Penny one of my half-siblings says

"How are you feeling?" Clarisse asks worried

"I'm fine. Just a headache."

"What happened?" Silena asks

"It was just a nightmare." I tell them

They wait for me to elaborate but when they realize that I won't, they change the subject.

"You know, Luke brought you here." Silena teases

"More like carried her in here, very romantically." Penny adds

Clarisse starts laughing hysterically

"What's so funny?" I ask her embarrassed

"You're blushing." She points out

I hide my face in my hands.

Making them laugh even more.

"It's not funny..." I say but before I can end my sentence a knock on the door interrupts me

Luke's head peaks through the door.

I realize it and start immediately blushing even harder making the girls laugh even more.

"I wanted to see if you're alright." He says now fully standing in the room next to Clarisse

"I'm fine." I tell him making his worried face disappears with a sigh of relief

"We need to go, I'm hungry and I can't miss breakfast." Silena quickly says and all the other girls agree with her

They all take their belongings and scurry out of the room. Before Clarisse gets out of the room she sends me a knowing wink. Luckily Luke is facing me so he doesn't see it.

"What happened yesterday?" He asks, his tone is soft and his words are filled with worry again

"It was just a nightmare." I try to sound cool about it but halfway my voice breaks making him look not convinced with my answer

"Are you sure?" He asks carefully as if I'm about to burst into tears

I know that if something leaves my mouth, then it will not be convincing enough for him to believe me. So I just nod, hoping he will change the subject or even leave.

"I wonder whose kid he is." Luke says pointing at a bed where a blonde haired boy is laying

I didn't even notice him.

"I don't know, I'm not good in guessing things like that."

"I thought my mother will be Iris or Demeter." I add

"Really?" He asks chuckling and I nod

"Who did you thought will be your father?"

"No idea, but I hoped I will have some cool abilities." That makes me laugh a little bit

"Yeah, me too. The Demeter kids seemed so nice and cool, I always wanted to be one of them."

"Are you not happy to be an Aphrodite kid?" He's now is seating himself on a chair next to my bed

"No that's not what I mean. The first time I came here I was 12, I wasn't liked in school because of my father, so that's why I wanted to be one of the fun kids. At first I thought that Aphrodite kids were a bunch of snobby kids, but the Demeter kids had just something about them. They seemed to be fun around."

"But after I got claimed and got to know my siblings, I realized that I was really wrong about all of them." I add

"I get it, I love all my siblings but I always wished to be someone's else son."

I don't asks why.

I can see it in his eyes that he doesn't want me asking him.

We sit there in silence for a few minutes, before Chiron comes in the room with a satyr named Grover.

"Eloise, you should go have some breakfast to get energy for the day."

"Luke, you too" he adds

I get out of bed, still in my Pyjamas.

When I get out of bed I feel dizzy making me stumble, but before I fall Luke catches me by my arm pulling me into his chest.

"Eloise you should rest the day in bed in your cabin. I don't want seeing you at any activities today. Understood?" I nod

Luke and I exit the infirmary, him still holding on to my arm for me to not fall.

He leads us to cabin 10.

He opens the door for us to enter.

I look around to see my empty cabin. My siblings are already at breakfast.

"You go change, I will wait. You're still clearly dizzy and no one wants you fainting. So I'll take you to breakfast."

"Okay" my voice is barely a whisper

My throat is dry, I'm hungry and feel like total shit.

I take denim shorts and a yellow top. Since the second year I attended this Camp, I decided that I don't want to wear the same shirt everyday so since then I mostly never have that ugly shirt on.

I get out of the bathroom. My hair in a bun but still my bangs framing my face perfectly. I have a tight grip on the doorway to steady myself.

Luke looks up and rushes towards me. His one hand rests on my back and the other grips my arm.

We make our way towards the Mess Hall.

We walk in silence, but not the uncomfortable one. More the relaxing one.

When we arrive, Luke takes me to my cabin table and helps me sit down.

"Thank you." I tell him sincerely

He nods before walking away to his cabin table.

"Wow, Eloise finding a boyfriend wasn't on my bingo list of 2005." Brody Gray, one of my half siblings says chuckling

"Right. I'm proud of you." Penelope adds

"Yeah, me too." Silena says

"First of all, Luke's not my boyfriend. Second of all your guys faith in my love life is disappointing."

"What love life?" Brody says now fully laughing his ass off

"He has a point." Silena sides with him

Brody is now laughing even more.

I want to say something, but suddenly a loud noise makes me look at the floor where Brody is now laying while still laughing.

After breakfast and the offering Penelope and Brody help me get to our cabin.

I then quickly change into my pajamas again before laying down in my bed.

My thoughts are filled with what Brody said.

Is my love life really none existent?

I mean the last time I kissed a boy was when I was 14. It was my first kiss that I will forever regret.

But then my mind wanders to Luke.

Everyone knows that he's attractive.

Even some of my siblings have a crush on him.

But do I?

I don't think so.