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Pretending to be over the death of Jason was better than nothing.

She had to pretend she was fine. She can't hold on to the past. After all, this was her final year at high school before going to college.

New Rome University was out of the question. Too many memories of Jason, of what the two used to have. Or at least that Hera made her believe the two had something of a relationship. It was all so confusing for her, even after the death of Jason.

But she doesn't want to forget about him either. He was everything to her, in a sense. She's who she believed to have loved with all her heart and had even pushed for it because Hera had twisted those memories in her. Her mother, Aphrodite, was no help either so she was definitely out of the question.

Now she wasn't so sure what was real whenever she was around you. She befriended you at the beginning of her senior year when she and her father officially moved back to Oklahoma, albeit thanks to Triumvirate Holding filing legal papers against her father, which rendered them losing everything except her grandfather's house.

So she held onto you and pretended that she was fine with the rumors of her father and the legal issues she had to deal with. Pretend that she was happy, always smiling and joking like nothing hurt. Because she wanted to pretend she was fine, especially when she started to loosen up around you.

"Because pretending was better than nothing," Piper told you, leaning her shoulders against yours.

The two of you were hanging out at her grandfather's house, preparing for finals week. Little effort was being made by Piper as she was just too tired to do anything. Her eyes wandered off the page and her pencil remained stuck at the first line of her paper.

"Can we just not study? I don't even understand half the things that I'm reading." She said, shutting the book with a loud *bang*.