Disclaimer:

Me now own Marie Antoinette for use of her quote. Or Reyna and Jason and Octavian. So basically, me no own HoH. : ) PEACE!

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Word:

Cake

Quote:

Let them eat Cake.

Prompt:

A long distance relationship ain't easy.

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He hasn't come back to visit once.

They're all disappointed, especially Gwen and Dakota, but Reyna felt like there were twenty-two daggers stabbed into her, one by one. Like when Julius Caesar died.

He missed her seventeenth birthday, her seventeenth Christmas.

It was a Wednesday, so she bought a slice of cake.

It was a tradition of sorts, between her and Jason to eat it on Wednesday. It was chocolate, of course, his favorite.

She topped it off with a candle and blew on it.

"Yippee," she muttered with no real enthusiasm.

Apparently it was their one year "not relationship but still kind of" anniversary.

As in the last time he had been home. Well, technically it was a year and eight months.

It wasn't her idea to celebrate it, but Dakota jokingly brought it up, and it stuck ever since.

So, she was pretty much doing this for the sake of it. After all, why try and go against instinct?

She leaned against the white wall of her villa.

She was… depressed, to put it simply.

Not like cutting depressed, but depressed.

You see, they were secretly dating, but Jason never cut off the relationship. So, they were in the sort of in-between stage that only Reyna knew about.

When she goes out, she feels normal, besides how hollow the world seems to be. But that's normal right? Everyone feels like the world is hollow, with no hopes.

Oh gosh, she thinks. Maybe I am going crazy.

But it's not because of Jason. She's sure. She lives in solitude, and sometimes it gets so lonely she thinks that there's not hope. Then she catches herself thinking that way and thinks about the good things in life.

But the thing is, she's not happy. The only times she was happy was when she was small, on Circe's island with Hylla sitting next to her trying to teach her how to braid her hair. Then there was Jason, who made her laugh in the most stressful of times. But Hylla's not here anymore, and he isn't either.

They've moved on.

So has she, at least she thinks in her mind. No one suspects she sees him at night, even though he isn't appearing as much. No one suspects-

"Praetor Reyna, there's a senate meeting."

"I'll be there as soon as I can"

She turns around and looks at the door. There's a little girl, maybe seven. Reyna feels small smile tug on her lips. She's moving on.

She's called Julia, and how she got away from Terminus was a mystery, but she was a cutie.

"Okay then… bye Praetor Reyna!" Said Julia, smiling nervously.

Reyna sent a nod in her direction still smiling. She quickly finishes her cake and whistles for Aurum and Argentum. When they come, she pets them and walks out of the door, with her dogs trailing behind her.

As she passes over from the border of the city, her smiling face quickly turns into a mask of stone.

She takes her seat on the podium and looks around. Frank is seated on the chair next to her, and she asks him what they think's going on.

"How would I know?" He replies with a playful look on his face.

Reyna gives a casual shrug and calls the meeting to order.

"What are we gathered here for?" Asks Reyna.

Octavian opens his mouth to speak, (as usual, even if he's gotten better) but then, as if on cue, a messenger runs in.

"Camp Half Blood's coming! They Iris messaged us this morning. The one year anniversary of the Giant war." He says while panting.

Reyna raised one of her eyebrows. She didn't know they were coming over.

The one month anniversary of the Giant war was celebrated in Camp half Blood, but Reyna didn't attend. She claimed that she had too much work to do, repairing the destroyed building from the war.

But she guessed she couldn't have gotten away from Jason. That boy stuck to you like a flea on a lion's skin.

"When are they coming?" Asked Reyna.

After a dramatic pause, the messenger said, "In a week."

Then the senate dissolved into chaos. They barely had enough time to prepare.

But Reyna calmly sat back in her chair as she ran a thought through her mind.

She was going to see him again.

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AN:

Hiiii! Sorry for the long wait. It's the second last week of school, so busy days. Plus, there's also writer's block. But this chapter has 871+/- words, so ENJOY! By the way, one of my goals is to write a long book, so I figured out that if I wrote a page a day, I would get to 365 pages in a year. It's a miracle! Ish.