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Disclaimer: Es Obvio! (That's "it's obvious" in Spanish, I'm in Spanish 1)

Piper's POV

I don't know why I did it.

I mean, obviously I've wanted to kiss him for a very long time, and I thought I had.

But, it was fake. I felt cheated, helpless and pitiful.

So, I had to see what the real thing felt like.

But on my way to the guest house, I realized that only a few people would be able to explain this whole 'growing up' and 'maturing' concept to me.

"Annabeth, wait!" I called, jogging to catch up with her.

She stopped and turned around.

"Hey, Piper."

She seemed so cool and collected all the time. I mean, she seemed strong, and even thought she was sad when Percy left, she seemed monotonous and in her own world, but yet she was still present in front of me.

"Hi, um, I don't know how to ask this…" I said, now curious as to why I needed love advice, being that I was a child of Aphrodite.

"You need to know what to do about Jason." she replied.

Hey, she was bound to know a couple of things. She was a child of Athena.

"Um, yeah."

"I was in a sort of similar situation with Percy. When we were fifteen, I kissed him and he literally went missing for three weeks. I was so stressed, and very angry when he got back. I mean, he'd been with a beautiful Titan's daughter, and he could've stayed with her, but he didn't. And I wasn't grateful that he was even back at the time."

"Wait, what?"

"He was on Ogygia. With Calypso. And he came back. And I felt like hating him. But I couldn't bring myself to. Now, is that not similar about how you feel with Jason?" she asked.

"I don't want to hate Jason. I don't really get what you're saying."

"No, no," she shook her head "of course you don't hate Jason, or even want to. But you feel like he could belong somewhere else, somewhere where he could've been in safer, better hands."

It suddenly mad sense.

"So," she continued "you just keep telling yourself this: "he came back for something, didn't he?" And just know that "something" is you."

Jason's POV

I don't know why she did it.

I mean, it was good, and I really had wanted to kiss her since I got to know her.

I mean, actually got to know her.

I thought I was going to hurt her, pulling her in and stuff like that.

I mean she'd get her feelings hurt by someone who she thought she'd known for months, who turned out to really have just showed up.

I don't know, and I don't like taking chances. If I took a chance with her, I wanted it to be a sure chance, not one that would go down the drains.

"Hey, man. I know you've been having problems, and you seem really sad, but just go with what feels right." Percy said from behind me, offering up some random but great advice.

I thought about it, "go with what feels right." But what felt right? I wanted to be with Piper, but I didn't want to hurt her.

I mean, she obviously wanted to be with me, but I don't know.

I was having an awful lot shoved on me, for a guy who was just regaining his memory.

So, I could choose to abandon the people who knew me, and who remembered me, and someone who I'd just met.

Who said you couldn't have the best of both worlds?

I couldn't think anymore.

I had somewhere to be.

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