Hey Megan! Can you please do 47 for Jasiper? That last work was amazing, by the way. (I live for domestic Jasiper)
47. “I’m only important when you need something from me.”
“So you weren’t going to tell me you got a new girlfriend?”
Jason should have seen this conversation coming. The second he posted the picture of him at the alumni dinner with Kate, he should have anticipated the questioning, the scrutiny, the anger.
With a sigh, he nervously drums his fingers against the table. “We’re not dating, Pipes,” he says wearily. “She’s just a friend.”
Piper’s quiet reply is, “Bobby said you guys are dating. It’s just really insulting and hurtful and honestly rude for me to find out through Bobby.”
Fuck. “Bobby is wrong. I definitely would know if I was dating Kate.” Usually, Jason would shut his mouth, plead for forgiveness, but why should he ask for forgiveness? Why is he sorry? He has nothing to hide; Kate isn’t his girlfriend. Sure, they’ve gone on dates, but he doesn’t owe Piper an explanation. She broke up with him long ago. So instead of staying silent, he asks, “Why does it matter to you, anyway? I’m genuinely curious. We agreed that we should be friends and I assumed you would be happy for me if I got into a relationship, which I’m not in one.”
The silence on the other line is deafening. After several moments, Piper says weakly, “I just thought we were close enough that you’d tell me. I thought we were friends.”
Her voice is like poison, but Jason’s drank poison before. He can swallow this, too. “We are friends, but you can’t keep stringing me along.”
“Stringing you along?” Piper repeats. “What are you talking about?”
“Gods, Pipes.” Jason runs a hand through his hair and he can feel his throat burning as he takes every punch of hers, like always. “Yes, we’re friends because you decided to be. We have sex when you decide to. I can’t keep waiting around for you. I need to try and find my own happiness.”
The hurt is clear in Piper’s voice when she asks, “What exactly are you insinuating, Jason?”
He decides to swallow the poison. “I’m only important when you need something from me.”
Jason only feels the burn when he hears a quiet click and the line goes dead.
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