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Dear Leo,
This is the second time I am writing a letter to you.
I don’t know for how long I will write letters to you. Probably till I am not okay. And I may be never okay.
Me and Piper went on a quest to Florida near the Bermuda Triangle,
the Sea of Monsters. We thought you might be there.
We have only been on one quest to find you and everyone is already telling me to give up.
Frank.
Percy.
Annabeth.
And even Piper.
She’s losing hope.
But I am not.
I can’t.
We were there for 3 weeks. It was horrible.
I will not tell you about the quest because I am going to tell you that when I see you, face to face. Because I know that I’ll see you again.
I have to.
Chiron was telling us that maybe we should only go on one more quest.
He has started giving me pamphlets for schools in California.
He thinks I am still dating Piper.
News flash: I am not.
I just hate it. I hate how everyone thinks you’re gone when I know that you’re not. I know that you are alive.
You’re Leo.
You don’t give up that easily and you can’t die like this.
You can’t go without knowing what I think about you,
how I feel about you.
I have imagined the moment when I see you again a hundred times.
But I can’t do that if you don’t come back.
Like, why can’t you come back, you asshole?
Seriously.
You just had to die such a heroic death.
You always joked that you didn’t want to die a heroic death because then people start kinda worshipping you and you also didn’t like being the centre of attention.
And you hate that.
But you did.
And you are the centre of attention.
At least for me.
But I won’t say thanks and I won’t think of your death like a noble sacrifice.
Because no, it wasn’t.
It was suicide attempt and you know it.
I know it.
So when I see you again I’ll make sure that you go to therapy.
That’s the 3rd thing I’ll do.
The first thing will be hugging you.
2nd,
I’ll tell you about how I feel about you.
Then you’re going to therapy.
Then we'll just talk, like the way we use to. I miss you Leo.
But I’ll wait for you, Repair Boy.
Know that Lightning Boy will wait for you for however long you take.
By
Jason Grace