HE LIKES A GIRL | LUKE CASTELLAN

c h a p t e r | 2

"AND SHE LAUGHED at my joke! For the first time, Luke! drew laughed at it!" Benson stated happily to Luke who felt like he was getting his heart stomped on then placed back in,

But Luke put on a facade, smiling back at his bestfriend as they picked strawberries, "I'm impressed, man. Maybe she is interested in you." Luke smiled feeding into his bestfriends delusions, despite how much it hurt his heart to do so.

as Benson beamed at his friends words.

Mister.D who sat in the side feild eating strawberries while drinking a coke sighing with eye roll at the annoying teen Demi-gods, especially 'dukes' obvious attraction towards 'Henson' who doesn't even have a clue.

"No talking Henson and Duke! Just like your annoying father's annoying and utterly stupid." Mister.D shouted, the last part he grumbled with a eye roll, only for a news paper to fall out of the sky and hit him over the head and for the sun to brighten a bit more and burn him quickly making him groan annoyed cursing both the gods Hermes and Apollo, who were somewhere else laughing.

As Luke and Benson snorted at the scene, smiling at one another with an amused look.

"What's it like being your dad's favorite child, Ben?" Asked after two minutes of comfortable silence between them, as they picked strawberries.

Benson smiled with a shrug, "well my dad cares about all me and my half siblings yeah, but he says I've always been his favorite, mostly because I look more like him then my mom, and my other siblings,...and I guess he kinda sees himself in me" benson said softly, the sun beamed over him, providing warmers for benson and...Luke too, only because Apollo saw how fond his son was of 'Hermes boy' who was way to fond of Benson.

Luke smiled nodding at his best friends words fondly,

"I know it gets too much, ben. I know it's really overwhelming sometimes, I mean I get overwhelmed and tired of being the perfect son head councilor of hades. And you? You're his favorite son, the head councilor, the best archer, the best doctor at the infirmary. If you need anyone to lean onto other then Clarisse, I'm here. I'm your best friend, Ben. Come to me." Luke spoke firmly as benson nodded with a smile.

The reason Benson didn't go to Luke in the first place is because he thought Luke had to much on his plate too, he thought he would just burden Luke with his problems, so that's when Benson got close to Clarisse,

When he found her crying in the woods, on a rock, because one of the Aphrodite girls told her there's no way in hells Ares would choose her over his other sons, Clarisse' other brothers.

Benson comforted her, let her vent and tell her problems to him, and in return he told hers his too, they became like siblings after that, Clarisse depending heavily on Benson, and she would admit she was closer to him and saw him more of a older brother then her real half brothers,

Despite there fathers being the polar opposites, and despising each other greatly, Clarisse and Benson saw past that,

Clarisse was benson' little sister, always.

Benson was broke out of his thoughts, as Luke was broke out of his trance of admiring benson by Mr.D' groan of annoyance.

"Henson! Duke! Take the strawberry baskets back to camp! Stop standing there like idiots! And talking like saps! It's givin' me a headache!" Mister.D groaned dramatically as Benson chuckled picking up his basket and walking away quickly,

Luke quickly grabbed his strawberry basket and passed by Mister.D who looked at him with furrowed brows, "your obvious, Luke. It's a surprise Benson hasn't even noticed your obvious attraction towards him. Everyone even his own father along with yours can see it." Mister.D stated bluntly, making Luke blush deeply

"Then again the sun is probably frying that poor boys head just like it does his father." Mister.D snorted

And he was back Luke with a sigh and an eye roll, walking away leaving a laughing Mister.D.

MARINA SPEAKS!
soo... the act 1 will take place BEFORE Percy comes to camp, the act 2 will be when Percy comes in and everything happens ..💕