Lindsay Weir & Jason Grace
"No, I signed myself up," he said, then let it trail off as he tried to put the reason he was here into words.
"I had a girlfriend, for a while. I liked her a lot. Her name was Piper, she was a daughter of Aphrodite. But things didn't work out. I mean, we're still friends, but she didn't like how I was gone all the time, and I guess I can understand that."
He had obligations that he couldn't ignore, but that didn't make his absence any better for Piper.
"And I guess I'm just...well, lonely. And I wanted to meet more people."