What They Said About Contact

Chapter 11: Like Record On Repeat

Jason POV

Even before I got electrocuted, I was already having a rotten day.

 I woke up in the back seat of a bus, not sure where I was, holding hands with a girl I didn't know. That wasn't necessarily the rotten part. The girl was sort of cute, but I couldn't figure out who she was or what we were doing holding hands. I sat up and rubbed my eyes, trying to think.

My head was pounding— I  must have hit it hard. I tried to think back... to the last thing I remembered...

A pair of sea-green eyes and black hair flash before him.

The girl squeezed my hand, "Jason, are you okay?"

I looked at her, my throat felt dry but at least I could speak. "Percy?"

The girl frowned at me. "I'm Piper, Jason, you know that. Why are you—"

I forcefully ripped my hand away from her. "Where's Percy?" I demanded, my eyes wild and demanding, hungering for a familiar face; for my girlfriend's presence. "What am I doing here?"

"Jason?" someone else called my name and I turned towards the guy that had said my name as if we were friends. I seriously didn't know any of them; so why did they act as if we were familiar with one another? "What's wrong, man?"

"I—" I'd meant to ask about myself, something, anything but I can only draw back to one point. "Where's Percy? Who're you?"

The girl who called herself Piper frowned and tried to take my hand again. But I pulled back as if she was meant to burn me. "Who's Percy?" she looked at the Hispanic boy that seemed to know me. "Do you know him, Leo?"

"Who?" the boy called Leo raised an eyebrow, his leg never stopped in it's jiggling. "This Percy guy? No, I don't know him."

"No," I protested. "Percy's a girl. She's my girlfriend. What did you do to her?"

"Girlfriend?" Piper asked, her eyes flashed with hurt. "But I'm your girlfriend! Jason... you're acting strange today."

"I don't even know you," I snapped. "Don't touch me!" I all but snarl when Piper tried to hold my hand.

"What's wrong, man, seriously? You're freaking us out, dude. Everyone knows that you and Piper have been going out for the past few weeks—" Leo was interrupted by the man in front of the bus. "Aw—man!" he whined. "I miss the chance for a perfect prank."

Leo turned back to me, ignoring the coach's orders for us to shut up."Hey, you're making it up by sharing your worksheet with mine okay? I lost mine in a prank a few days ago."

"I don't know," I said. "I really don't know anymore."

I didn't know anything but my name and another name: Percy.

And the fact that I wanted to see her now.

I may have lost my  memory, but I definitely didn't lost my gut instinct. The moment I threw myself off the cliff to catch Piper, I knew that I could somehow survive the fall. And it turns out, I  can fly. For any other guy, they would've enjoyed having a pretty girl clinging to them but I didn't enjoy it in the least bit.

It felt wrong. The good thing I got out of it was that I managed to save Piper's life and remember a moment from the time I had spent with Percy.

But things went haywire the moment  Piper and I landed on ground again. Coach Hedge got captured by the ventis and we're going to die. Then the one of the ventis blasted my shoe off and would have smite me but my body was sturdy enough to withstand the electrocution.