When did Aaron and Lena break up?
I know that Nazeera tells Juliette in Restore Me that it was 8 months ago, but that doesn’t really seem right to me.
Because in Defy Me, there’s a flashback to when Aaron had just become the commander of Sector 45. His father calls him into his office, and that’s where he meets Juliette, who was supposed to be sent to prison afterward. Aaron tells his father that he broke things off with Lena the week before.
Then Juliette spends 264 days in prison, which is already almost 9 months—possibly even starting a few days after that scene. And after that, let’s say she spends a month living at the base, a month at Omega Point, and another month hiding out with the rebels and preparing for the war at base
And in Restore Me, if I remember correctly, it had been 17 or 18 days since she fought Anderson when she talked to Nazeera.
So altogether, that makes it about 3 and a half months. Meaning that more than a year should have passed since Aaron met his father in his office and told him that he had broken up with Lena.
So why did Nazeera say 8 months?
Honestly, I think maybe Lena didn’t want to accept the breakup for the first few months and refused to acknowledge that they were actually over. Maybe she didn’t tell anyone because she was hoping she could somehow get Aaron back.
And Aaron isn’t exactly the kind of person who would go around telling the other kids, “Yeah, Lena and I broke up.”
So maybe the news of their breakup took a few months to spread.
What do you think