UnTamed [Book 3]

We're Going Home

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Chapter Quote:
"I can't tell you just how wonderful she is. I don't want you to know. I don't want any one to know."
~This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Chapter 38: We're Going Home

Luke

"I can't believe my big brother is married!" Silena exclaimed. "You two are going to be so happy together!"

"You'll be married soon though," Hallie chimed in. "Yours and Derek's wedding is in two months."

"I know, it's so surreal but I can't wait! And then yours and Bradley's, have you decided a date yet?"

"No, we're still figuring it out." Hallie turned to Luke. Scrunching her eyebrows, she asked, "Are you okay? You looked dazed."

"Yeah," he replied with a smile. "Just taking this all in. I never thought I'd marry the girl of my dreams."

He felt someone wrap their arms around his shoulders. "You weren't getting rid of me that easily Sharkboy."

He twisted around in his chair to kiss Bryn, his new wife. "I'm glad. Come here."

Luke pulled Bryn into his lap. She laughed. They'd officially been together for six years and they couldn't be happier. They'd certainly had their fights and their disagreements, but nothing could come between them.

"With the way these two are acting, we're going to have little Lukyn's running around sooner rather than later," Brady remarked, walking up to the table. Bryn and Luke hastily pulled out of their kiss.

"Then you'll be an uncle," Luke said.

"I'd be the better uncle."

"You would not," Bradley argued. "I'm obviously the more fun one."

"You're definitely the blonder one."

"At least I'm not the dumber one."

"I'm not dumber!"

"Yes you are."

"Boys, please don't argue on my wedding day," Bryn said, raising her eyebrows at them. They shut up but glared at each other.

"There's the newlyweds," Percy Jackson announced, walking up to the group with Annabeth on his arm. He smiled at them. "I'm so proud right now."

"Hey dad," Luke said with a grin.

"Here, we wanted to give you a gift," Annabeth said, handing them a beautifully wrapped gift. Luke let Bryn have the honor of unwrapping it. He smiled when he saw it was pictures of him and Bryn throughout their years, from their first photo together to their engagement photo. "It's to remind you of everything you've been through so that whenever your marriage hits a rough patch, which it undoubtedly will as every marriage does, you will remember that you can get through it."

"I mean, you survived Tartarus together so if you two could survive that, you'll survive anything, but still, just a reminder," Percy added. Luke and Bryn hugged the Jacksons but something was nagging Luke in the back of his mind. At first he couldn't figure it out. It wasn't until Bryn mentioned their time in Tartarus that it hit him.

"How did you survive that? You died," Luke stated, staring at her.

Bryn cocked her head. "What do you mean how did I survive? You were there. How can you not remember?"

He blinked, the slow realization coming over him. "This isn't real. This is a dream."

"You like what you see, Mr. Jackson?" a voice queried. He turned around to see who it was. A woman with blonde hair and blue eyes approached him. She was beyond beautiful but she still had nothing on Bryn.