If anyone was wondering why they don't have a cheer coach,,,,, idfk take it up with my lawyer.

New cover for Femi-Nico ahhh

TW: blood (from a fight)

Monday at practice I came in a couple minutes before it started. Will sat in the splits in front of the bleachers, writing in his notebook of cheer plans. A couple other people were talking, stretching and goofing off across the gym. Kayla was talking to Drew, who was here for some reason.

"Hey, Nico!" Kayla said, waving at me.

I waved at the two girls. Drew acknowledged me with a nod of her head. She was wearing another off her skin showing but fashionable outfits, her pale arms stomach exposed, which Kayla seemed to take notice to. I walked up to Will, set my bag on the bleachers, and kissed him on the cheek.

"Hey," I said.

Will turned, apparently noticing me for the first time.

"Nico! Hi!" Will exclaimed.

"What's Drew doing here?" I asked.

"Not sure. Presumably speaking to Kayla," Will said.

I rolled my eyes, "Wow, Will thanks for that, I couldn't have guessed."

Will patted my knee, "always here to help."

I laughed and stretched next to him. "What are you doing?" I asked.

"I'm working on our next routine for Finals. I'll probably have you guys run through a couple ideas," Will said.

"Wonderful," I said sarcastically. Will is my boyfriend and my best friend, but he is very strict when it comes to cheerleading. If the routine wasn't run through perfectly we had to do it again. Staying at practice late to perfect something was common.

Will stood up and clapped his hands, "Alright guys, time to start practice!"

As expected, the new routine was done over and over and over again. It was harder than the other ones, which made sense, seeing that it was for the Finals.

"Brother...please... I haven;t had a drink of water in ten thousand days..." Kayla gasped, dramatically reaching out to Will, then collapsing to the floor.

"Oh my goodness, get up," Will said, nudging his dead sister.

"Water," Kayla croaked.

Will rolled his eyes, "Fine, everyone, go get water."

Kayla popped up and rushed for her bottle. We all followed eagerly grabbing out water. Percy chugged his, water dripping off his chin. Jason stared at him, a look of concern on his face.

"You good bro?" he asked.

"Fuckin' thirsty," Percy muttered.

"Damn," Piper said, wiggling her brows.

Percy poured the rest of the water on Piper's head. She shrieked, her bangs stuck to her forehead. Drew, who had been hanging out on the bleachers this whole time laughed, taking pictures of her sister. Piper glared, and grabbed her bottle, and stomped up the bleachers. Drews eyes widened, a look of horror across her face.

"No no no!" Drew yelled, "My hair-" too late.

Piper's ice cold water spilled from her hydro flask and onto the half-asain girls head.

All was quiet for a moment, water dripping off Drew's dark hair, her make-up ruined. Then all hell broke lose.

"YOU BITCH!" Drew yelled, lunging for Piper.

Piper yeeted away. Kayla passed Drew her bottle. Drew tossed water at Piper, but missed, and the liquid splashed onto Katie and Alex.

"Whoops," she laughed.

Alex squirted Drew with water, then took another sip. Then they pulled a 75 oz water bottle from her bag.

"Water war," she said, before dumping half the contents on Leo's head.

Water began being splashed all over, soaking their uniforms so it stuck tight to people's skin, goosebumps rising on their arms. I stood to the side, watching the war unfold in front of me.

"What in the world," Will laughed, coming up behind me.

"War is no laughing matter," I said.

"So I guess this isn't something to laugh at," Will said. Before I could ask what he meant by that, I felt what he meant.

Cold.

I felt cold wet water dripping down my face and down my neck. "WILL!" I whipped around to look at him. He was clutching his side laughing, and I glared. While he was still leaning over I got an ice cube from my bottle and slipped it down his shirt.

He wasn't laughing after that.

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My hair was still damp as I sat in Math class. Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays we wore our cheer uniforms, but today I was wearing regular clothes, thanks to my boyfriend dumping water on me. Most of the cheerleaders were, actually, except Annabeth and Will, who had spares for some reason.

Imagine being responsible.

I could feel eyes on me as I sat there, and I didn't want to turn around to see who had a problem with me. When class ended I tried to get out as quick as possible, but I was stopped by my good friend Dylan.

"What do you want?" I asked, glaring at him.

"Still wearing girl clothes I see," Dylan said, eyeing my skirt. It was a black skirt with chains I'd bought from Yesstyle last month.

"Clothes have no gender," I replied, "And if that's all you had to say, I'm going."

"Drew broke up with me," Dylan began.

"Why's that my problem."

"It's your fault! You're influencing her with you gay shit!" Dylan said.

I rolled my eyes, "What in the world. Stop blaming me for your problems. Drew was pansexual before me."

"It was hot when she was into girls and dating me! But she wasn't supposed to leave me for a girl! She was just supposed to make out with them and shit, then come and-"
I cut Dylan off, "Listen, I don't want to hear you fetishsizing Drew or anyone. It's not my fault Drew left you. It's your fault for being a creep."

Dylan's face turned an ugly shade of red, and he pulled his lip back, revealing his to white, to straight teeth.

"You're going to regret saying that," he sneered.

"I never regret saying the truth," I replied, taking off my earrings and pocketing them.

As expected, Dylans fist went flying towards my face, which I easily dogged out of the way from. Last time Dylan and I had fought, his goons did the work for hum, plus my back was turned. He didn't really know how I could fight, and it's a shame that he was going to find out how. Not.

I let Dylan swing at me a couple times before I decided I was bored with this scuffle. A small crowd had gathered, so it would be fun to kick his stupid ass in front of them. With my hand adorned with rings, I swung, my fist hitting straight at my target; his creepily straight teeth. I always felt like they needed rearranging.

Dylan howled and stumbled back clutching his mouth in pain. Blood dripped from between his fingers, blood droplets on the floor, blood glistening on my silver rings.

I might've made a terrible mistake.

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I sat in the office waiting for the principal to see me. The nurses had taken my clothes and rings and put them in a plastic bag, because apparently I wasn't allowed to wear blood stained clothes at school.

I was now wearing school loaned sweatpants, my pe shirt, and one of WIll's sweatshirts that I stole from him and for some reason had in my backpack. THe room felt grossly quiet, the only sound was the ticking of the clock and the typing of the front desk lady. The woman looked up and me.

"Alright, the principal will see you now. First door to your left down the hall."

I got up and followed her directions, entering the open door of the office. Our principal, Zeus, didn't even look up.

"Close the door and sit down."

I shut the door then nervously plopped down on the hard plastic chair. Principal Zeus's office was drably decorated with a potted plant in one corner, and gray curtains on the windows that were drawn. His desk was gray and had his large computer on it, paper work, and a little candy dispenser shaped like a hula dancer.

"Nico di Angelo," he said.

"Yes that is my name," I answered.

Zeus glowered at me for what felt like eternity before breaking out into a huge smile.

"Hades kid, right? You look just like him! Got his attitude too," Zeus said gleefully.

I stared at the bearded man, unsure what to say, "We've met before."

Zeus squinted at me, "Have we?"

"Yeah like last week when you brought Alex Fierro to our cheer practice," I said.

Zeus frowned, "We have a cheer team? Are you the captain?"

"No, Will Solace is."

"Apollo's kid??"
"Uh, yes? Why do you know everyone's dad's?"
Zeus chuckled and leaned back, "I know everyone! And I've got a memory like an elephant. But your pops and I go wayyy back."

Why is this man the principal of our school?

"Anyway, you got into a fight today with... Dylan. It says you broke his nose and knocked 3 teeth out in one punch. Impressive. Er- I mean, please don't punch your classmates."

"I'll try."
"Did you throw the first punch? And were others involved."

"I didn't throw the first punch. Technically others were involved? Not like in the fight, but basically it was about-"

"I don't need to know what it was about, thank you. I'm going to call and tell your parents what happened. You may leave."

Zeus shooed me away as I stood and left the office. When I left, Will was outside waiting for me.

"Nico!" Will hugged me tightly,"Are you okay?"

"I'm fine," I replied, patting him on the back.

"What happened? All I heard is you and Dylan got in a fight!"
I explained what happened and he scowled.

"I can't believe that people actually act like that," he sighed, "C'mon we better get to class."

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I was a little bit scared to go home. I dragged my feet up the walkway, and came through the door as quietly as possible. Sadly, I was not quiet enough.

"Nico," my dad said from where he sat in the living room.

"Yes?"

"Would you care to explain why I got a call from Zeus today?"

"...Not really."

"Nico. I don't want another call from Zeus. I cannot stand that man. There's a reason why Persephone takes you to teacher conferences and not me."

I smirked, "Yes Father."

I left the living room and went to my bedroom. I passed Hazel's room and saw her sitting there on her bed, clutching a stuffed animal watching her TV. I hadn't hung out with Hazel one on one in awhile, so I knocked on her door. She looked up and smiled.

"Hey Nico," she said, "Do you need something?"

"Can I watch with you?"

Hazel beamed, "Sure!"

I sat on the bed with her and turned to the TV. We didn't talk about boyfriends, school, or cheer. We just watched together, laughing at the show, just like old times.

1,815 words

Shorter than usual, but I hope you liked it!
Also I'm going to be updating YCSIMH less because the plan was to finish this before YCSIMH and at the rate I'm going YCSIMH will be done first.