hard feelings. | alabaster & jolene
—closed starter for @jolellyfish
it was a new location in the labyrinth, and it was surprisingly nice. he also heard that it was also extremely popular among both greek and roman demigods, and difficult to get a reservation less than two months in advance, so he wondered how lydia managed to get one so that quickly. he really hoped it wasn’t by charmspeaking. according to lydia, the owner was a child of hestia, and it showed in the warm and cozy ambience of the restaurant, which was impressive considering that it was underground and in what used to be a prison for a minotaur.
it was just—lydia was a girl from camp half-blood that tripped and fell in the labyrinth, and she was also a daughter of aphrodite, and she really couldn’t have known, so alabaster couldn’t really have blamed her, could he? it had been a while since he had gone on a date, and basil had given him a look when al had met up with camp jupiter that morning, and so when lydia thanked him profusely and insisted on setting him up with someone from new athens al said yes. but when he sat down at the table and realized that the person lydia had in mind was jolene, he wondered how this was his life and why this week had to be the week from hell.
he couldn’t blame lydia. but honestly. what the fuck.
he felt a small pang in his chest because, honestly, jolene looked nice, and it was good that she was planning to move on, right? the faster they both moved on, the faster they could both become friends again, and alabaster missed the days when it was just him, basil, and jolene hanging out at camp jupiter. “listen, jo,“ he said to finally break the silence. "i don’t expect you to stay---or i could leave if you’d prefer?”