Soul Mates (Jercy)

Chapter 4: I Want You!

Jason spent the next couple of days looking like a zombie. It was Leo who brought him out of it with a cold beer and a cheesy grin at a party on a Saturday night. He wandered around for a while, until the beer kicked in and there was someone flirting with him and he didn't know their name. Nico, he thought. The boy seemed overly drunk. Plus Jason couldn't shake the feeling that someone was watching him. But through the night he flirted, and laughed and hung out. When the night finally ended, he was hanging on to Frank like his life depended on it, and maybe it did at this point. Frank seemed to be fine with it, especially since he had to head back home with Hazel. Maybe it was better Jason was with Frank because Hazel was pissed off Jason had been with Nico but They'd only been kissing for a little bit! She didn't seem to believe him. 

So maybe he'd had too much to drink, and maybe he had made out with Nico for a little longer than he needed to, but he really didn't care, because it was fun, and it took his mind off his soul mate. Or, the prospect of one. He hated how his soul mate was so close, yet so far. He whined against Frank's shoulder. When the tall boy finally left him in his house with a goodnight and a warning to not oversleep, Jason passed out on the couch. 

He overslept. Really, seriously overslept. It was about three in the afternoon when he woke up again. His head throbbed, his body ached, adn his phone was dinging over and over again. He groaned. His throat felt stuffed with cotton. Maybe drinking so much had been a bad idea. He rubbed his eyes, carefully sitting up. What had happened? He remembered very little. He remembered soft lips on his own, which made him blush. Who had he kissed? HOpefully not Leo. He'd never hear the end of it from Hazel and Frank...He touched his lips gently. He picked up his phone. 

Soul Mate: hey. i saw you last night at the party. 

di angelo? really? 

i mean, sure the kid is cute...

Jason frowned. Had he made out with Nico? But the more pressing issue was, had he met his soul mate while he was there!? 

You: Hey! I'm so sorry...I just, I got super drunk last night. I didn't realize...If it makes you feel any better I imagined he was you? 

Soul Mate: impossible. 

So his soul mate was someone he wouldn't want to kiss? That was an odd notion. 

You: Really? 

Soul Mate: you'd think the great jason grace would be smart enough to figure out who i am by now

You: You think I'm smart? 

And now they were back. He was on the phone again, talking, joking, for hours and hours until his sister came home and they made themselves dinner and talked until one of them fell asleep. 

And Jason didn't have a single dream for the rest of the night. 

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"Bro, you were like, all over him!" Leo was laughing beside Jason as they headed through the halls of the school. Jasin blushed. 

"Oi, don't be a prick. My Soul Mate saw, apparently." 

Leo winced to himself. He bit his lip. "Yowza. Damn, man, if Frank had caught me kissing someone-"

"Hazel would've saved your sorry ass." Jason deadpanned.

Leo got a dreamy smile on his face. "Yeah, she's awesome like that..."

JAson rolled his eyes. "I'm going to class, dork." He high fived Leo and walked off down the hall towards his science class. 

It wasn't until lunch that anything truly exciting happened. And that was Percy Jackson getitng into a shouting match with Nico di Angelo. 

"Are you really that fucking sick?! Can't keep your hands off him for ten minutes!" 

"PErcy, calm down! What the fuck!" 

"I let you sleep in the same bed as me!" 

Nico stared at Percy for a while. Jason literally watched the storm brewing in the the younger boy's face. 

"You suggest I raped you!?" 

Percy's own eyes widened. A hint of doubt. Flash of pain and refret. Then rage again.  "No! Dumbass, you're just...You're a faggot and you never told me!"

"Like you're any better! At least I have the courage to kiss Jason!" 

That's when the first punch was thrown. Percy aimed for Nico's jaw, but the smaller boy was quicker than PErcy and delivered a series of kicks to his stomach and groin area. Percy went down easily. Nico walked away, hands shoved deep in his pockets, eyes on the ground. Jason stared at him as he went. Then he ran up to Percy. 

"Man, that was just depressing." 

Percy was unconcious. Jason rolled his eyes and lifted him up, walking towards the clinic. 

What had that meant? "At least I have the courage to kiss Jason?" Why did Percy want to kiss him! They hated each other, right? He glared down at the unconcious boy in his arms and knocked on the clinic door. When given permission to enter, he immediately set PErcy down. Damn, he was heavy...He sighed. "He got into a fight in the cafeteria with Nico di Angelo. Took a few hits and then fell down." 

The nurse looked at Jason, then nodded. "Alright. Nico di Angelo you say?" 

Fights were pretty common at their school. It wasn't the best school in the world, but it also wasn't terrible. Alemans was the middle grounds between a poor and a rich school. 

"Did he hit his head on a table?" The nurse asked. Jason blinked. Had he?

"Maybe. I don't think so." He frowned at Percy. HIs mind was still reeling. Why had Percy punched Nico? Or, tried to. Over him? Percy hated Jason...didn't he? 

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The bus ride home offered no more answers, though as usual the fields were pretty. Jason  stared at the treeline as they approached his house. Who was his Soul Mate? That was a question he usually contemplated on this drive. It was almost fourty five minutes of quiet, what else would he do? It was the tenth of June. He rubbed his eyes. School was getting out soon. So much shit was happening it was unbelievable.

Maybe Percy Jackson was his soul mate...