No Strings Attached

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After the movie everyone went back to their respective cabins except for Piper, the person who gets to pick the movie is also the one that has to clean up. I stayed behind too, helping her tidy up the space before eventually stepping outside into the cool evening air. It was around one o'clock, so way past curfew.

Once outside she asked me what I wanted to talk about, "well it's actually not that important. We can drop it." I said while scratching the back of my neck.

"Come on Y/N, just tell me. It seemed urgent to you earlier today," she placed her hand on my shoulder, I'm pretty sure she used charmspeak because I started talking before I even realized it.

"Fine, but you can't laugh. And you definitely can't tell anyone else about this, okay?" I took a deep breath before I continued, "I've just been thinking a lot lately, with the giants rising and trying to wake Gaea, I feel like another war is coming. And, well, I barely made it out okay from the last one. I was in the infirmary for weeks, and I'm afraid that I maybe won't make it out of this one at all."

Piper was about to say something but I continued, "But that's not even what I'm the most worried about. There is still so incredibly much that I still want to do. I mean, for fucks sake, I'm still a virgin. I haven't even had a boyfriend yet! I know it's not what I should be worried about, but I am."

"Hey, that's okay! It's okay to worry about that sort of stuff. It's more than normal! You're gonna get through this war Y/N, I know you will. You're one of the toughest girls I know, even though your own shadow could probably scare you," we both laughed before she continued, "Besides, if you want a boyfriend, you totally could! If you'd stop being so oblivious all the time you'd realize half the camp has a crush on you!"

"First of all, thanks, I really needed to hear that to be honest. Second, do we go to the same camp? Because I'm pretty sure that's not true, at all. And it just doesn't seem like a good idea to me to get a boyfriend, even though I want to. If I let myself fall in love with someone and something happens to them, I don't know if I would be able to move forward from that."

"Well then don't get a boyfriend, but if there's still stuff" she said it while wiggling her eyebrows at me causing me to chuckle," you want to do, you can. You don't necessarily need a boyfriend to do that."

"I know, but that just isn't really my thing you know. I don't want to sleep around. I mean, there's nothing wrong with that, but it's just not something that I would do."

"Well you don't have to do that, there are other options," I raised a brow a her, not really following where this was going, "What do you mean?" I asked her.

"Do you know what friends with benefits are?" She said it like she was asking me what my favorite food was, I felt my cheeks heat up and nodded at her, "well, that way you could have all the benefits of having a boyfriend, without actually having a boyfriend. You could still do stuff, but there'd be no emotional strings attached."

We stood in silence for a moment while I considered it, that would be the perfect solution, but who would I ask? What if they said no? How awkward would that be?

"It's just an idea of course, sleep a night on it. There are lots of guys here that would be up for that, especially with you." With that she patted me on the back and walked off to her cabin with a cheerful "night!"

I decided to sleep on it for a night and headed back to my cabin too.

Leo's POV:

All I wanted to do is grab my jacket, stupid me had forgotten it in the big house after I hurried away to hide the tent in my pants. With that taken care of, I just wanted to go and grab my jacket.

What I didn't mean to do was listen in on an incredibly private conversation between Piper and my best friend, Y/N.

I also didn't want to let the idea nestle itself into my head, being friends with benefits with Y/N. But I couldn't help it, the idea was already there and I couldn't get it out of my head. Besides, she said it herself, she doesn't want a boyfriend. And even if she did, I doubt it would be me. But this is something I might be able to pull off.

No strings attached, but I would still get Y/N? The thought alone made me stomach do a somersault. I made up my mind and decided I had to ask her, if I didn't, I know I'd regret it.

Worst case scenario? She'd never speak to me again. But I decided to push that thought away. From her conversation with Piper it seemed like she was fairly open to the idea, so what could it hurt to try.

No strings attached; those three words would have a bigger impact on my life than I realized in that moment.