♫ Care- Conan Gray ⋆｡°✩₊ °✦ ‧ ‧ ₊ ˚✧₊ °✦

leo still cared, no matter what he told himself. he always would.

you guys have known each other since childhood. you met in a foster home, having clicked instantly. you guys ran away together, always being inseparable. you were there to confront him when his mother passed, he was there for whatever you needed.

when you guys got to camp, you were still best of friends. you spent most of the day together, usually only leaving each other to hang out with your own friends.

one day while you guys were hanging out in the strawberry fields, he kissed you. it was totally random, unplanned, and even he was shocked afterwards. but you kissed back. he confessed his feelings shortly after. and you guys began dating.

you guys dated for around a year, it had gone pretty well. it was the same as before just… better somehow. he made jokes, you laughed. he made problems, you fixed them. he made things for you, you spent time with him. the perfect duo.

it was almost as if you guys gave parts of yourselves to each other. he gave you his humor, his interests, his idiotic jokes that were special to him. his darkest secrets and feelings. you gave him a lot of you, too. personality, love, wisdom. you were sure you’d be together forever.

until last summer.

it was pretty hard to explain, honestly. you guys grew distant out of nowhere. pretty much at the same time. neither of you were really sure what happened, but you agreed a break was needed and just didn’t speak after that.

both bring year rounders at camp, you were forced to see each other quite a bit. of course, you didn’t talk, you each had your own lives. both of you apparently thought it was better, you felt like strangers. but there would always be parts of you guys that belonged to each other. and it sucked.

leo tried to move on. he dated an aphrodite girl for all of 3 days before realizing he couldn’t do it any longer. he feared he’d never be able to love again. and he forced himself to think it had nothing to do with you, though he knew he’d always care no matter what.

you, on the other hand, was doing pretty well. you managed to kinda move on, though you still stayed stuck on him sometimes. maybe that’s why you were giving no attention to Marco, a boy from the Demeter cabin that was trying to get at you.

leo hated that he was going after you. yeah, he wasn’t even speaking to you but it still bugged him. it’s not like he wanted you back or anything, he just liked lingering in the past sometimes. so did you. he also liked knowing you weren’t attached, but it triggered him. he didn’t know why.

and gods, did marco piss him off. you were with somebody. who wasn’t him. and you were happy? he didn’t realize you guys weren’t dating.

you both felt weird about each other, though. you stayed missing each other. not as lovers, but as friends. after all, you were lifelong friends.

today, you guys were put in a team as a duo activity to mark the first day back at camp. obviously, you two never left. it was pretty awkward at first. but then… it went back to normal surprisingly. it’s like nothing every happened. not lover type but best friend type of back to normal. now it’s been hours into the tour for the new demigods.

“dude! during this winter here, i had made this contraption that made my entire cabin warm. gods, was that the time of my life!!” he said as he fidgeted with some parts of scraps in his hands, looking up at you.

gods, you’d just missed your best friend.