Hey guys! I am soooo sorry that I haven't been on lately, it's been pretty crazy for me! I know you've all waited a really really long time and I'm getting your reviews but I only have enough time in between classes to check them, not to write anything! So, here's a chapter dedicated to every single person who waited to get this chapter!
Prompt: Days
"Hey Piper. It's Jason. You probably guessed that from my voice but... uh... Gods. I don't know how I'm supposed to say this. I know it probably shouldn't be said over a phone call. Well... it's more of a voice mail really... but uh... I'll- I mean I guess I can come to Camp Half-Blood to see you. Just you. Only you. I have some... uh... things that I need to tell you. If you get this message, great. If you don't because you're ignoring me... you'll be surprised?. Uh... Well.. Bye Piper."
So this is what I come back to after archery. Are you kidding me? To make things worse, my siblings were in the cabin and my cell was on speaker. You've got to be joking.
"Jason Grace?" Drew says from her bunk. Her dark hair is tied back into a tight pony tail and she smirks as she replies her lip gloss. Remind me again how I'm related to her? She walks over to me, her hips swaying back and forth with attitude as she walks. "Jason Grace is coming back from New Rome to see... you?" She asks. Her eyes looked like fire as she stared at me. I guess she still had a thing for my boyfriend. If I could still call him my boyfriend.
I took a deep breath and stood up from my bed. "That's right Drew. Have a problem with that?" I asked, with just as much attitude as she had. She scowled at me and walked away. Ha. And she thinks that she's all that.
After my little.. uh, confrontation with Drew, it was a little too quiet in Cabin 10. Whenever I walked in my siblings would just sit there and study my expression, like I had something wrong with me. I didn't like that... at all. It wasn't until a few days after I got that phone call that I noticed what my siblings were wondering. One of my half-sisters, Alice, came up to me one night after dinner. "Hey Piper." She greeted me. Alice was kind of new to the cabin. She was the youngest one there, and I kind of took pity on her. The Aphrodite cabin was scary for me when I was 15, I can only imagine how an 11 year old feels.
"What's up Alice?" I asked. Alice looked around really quick with her bright blue eyes. Her blonde hair was bouncing around in curls as she turned her head left and right.
"How long's it been since you heard from him?" She whispered. We were in the middle of the cabin area, so I brought us into the cabin, which was empty, and sat her down on my bed. I had no clue what she was talking about. Him? Who's him? Did she tell me a secret or something when I wasn't paying attention? Then it hit me. Oh yes... it hit me like a train. Jason.
"I've only gotten that voicemail from Jason, Alice. You know that. You were there with everybody else when I listened to it." I told her. I was being honest, too. I hadn't heard from Jason since that night. I was actually kind of glad to hear his voice. After he didn't show up, I started wondering if it was all just a huge joke or something. I started thinking that he only asked me out after our first quest so that he could get all kinds of dirt on me, so he could blackmail me. For all I knew, he was secretly dating Drew behind me back, and she asked him to do that. All of these thoughts started whizzing through my head. That's when Alice spoke up.
"No Piper. I overheard Drew telling Emily that Jason sent you all kinds of letters. Letters telling you why he's coming or what he's gotta tell you or something." Alice said. I seriously doubt that Alice knew the importance of what she had said. We spent about ten minutes tearing apart the cabin for those letters, then putting it back together again. Our search came up with nothing. Maybe there were no letters after all. Maybe Drew knew that Alice was listening, and made up some story about those love letters Jason was sending me.
I waited days and days for Jason to come. He never did though. Until...
1 Year Later
After I turned 21, my life finally seemed normal. I was leaving Camp, going to live in New York City, and never looking back. Okay, maybe I'll look back once or twice a month, just to make sure everything's alright. My bags were packed and I had the key to my new apartment in my hand. I loaded all of my bags- which, if I may add, were not many- into the car that Chiron sent for me, and said my good-byes to everybody.
A few tears and goodbyes later, I was leaving, on my way to New York City. The car ride was painful. I kept looking into the sky through the windshield. I know I should've known better; Jason hadn't come in over a year. Or was it a year now? I couldn't remember. Fine. I'll admit it. I guess I was still half expecting him to show up in the sky one day, lift me into the air and carry me away. Like that was ever going to happen.
When the car came to a stop, the driver turned to me. He looked like a normal person. Two eyes, a nose, two ears, and a mouth... though I could sense that he was magical. "This is your stop ma'am." He said. He opened up the driver side door and got out. I opened up my door and got out, needing to stretch my stiff limbs. I opened up the truck and got my bags out. I carried my bags up 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 flights of stairs.
When I reached my apartment, I was panting. Next time, I thought, I'm totally taking the elevator. I searched my pockets for my keys and pulled them out. Unlocking the door, I realized that there was noise coming from inside my apartment. Maybe it was someone just coming to clean up? No. I think that's my job. I opened the door slowly, my hands ready to reach for my dagger at a moments notice.
"Piper!" A male voice screamed. What? Who was in my apartment? It was obviously someone who knows me. I couldn't see over the amount of bags in my hands, so I kind of had no idea who was making the noise.
"Who's there? I can't see you!" I said, annoyance in my voice. I heard footsteps coming closer and closer, and finally, the bags were taken out of my hands and placed on the floor. When I looked up, none other than Jason Grace stood in front of me, a goofy smile on his face.
"Jason?" I asked, because I wasn't sure if I was hallucinating or not. When he nodded shyly, I attacked him in a hug.
"I missed you so much, Piper. I wish I could've come sooner." He mumbled when he hugged me back.
"So why didn't you." I asked, pulling away from the hug. Jason caught my hands and held onto them. Just like old times, I thought. His hands still had that soft feeling to them, but they still felt different, like I was holding hands with someone I knew once, but forgot about.
"I told you, Piper. I always said why. When I poured my heart and soul into those letters-" He started, but I cut him off.
"You did send me letters?" I asked, my eyes wide with shock.
"Of course I did," Jason said, "I sent you a letter every day. Every. Single. Day. My hands went stiff from writing so much. At one point, Reyna tried to stop me from writing the letters. She said something like it was 'unhealthy' for me to write to someone who doesn't..." He trailed off. He dropped my hands and looked down at his feet.
"Doesn't what Jason?" I asked.
"Doesn't love me back." He said to me. He looked up at me sheepishly and frowned. I was in awe. Doesn't love him back? I waited for over a year for him to come carry me away into the sunset, and here he was thinking I didn't love him back. He's insane.
"You're crazy. I waited for over a year for you Jason. I trained and I practiced more and more each day, trying to forget about you. I waited for something to give me some sign that you were still out there, still okay, but nothing ever came. I never... never stopped thinking about you. No. Scratch that. I never stopped loving you, Jason Grace." He didn't hesitate. He just kissed me, right there, in the middle of my apartment. We didn't let go for several minutes. All i really knew then, was that I didn't car how many days I waited for Jason to come to me. All I really knew was that he would be mine in the end.
Again you guys, I'm really really really really sorry that I didn't update!
I DON'T OWN PJO OR HOO!
~Becca!
