{sorry this is like the third time I've published this chapter, something weird is going on with my phone and Wattpad keeps messing up.}

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"Hey, Hades," Will greeted as Nico's father opened the door, "is Nico home?"

"Yes, he's upstairs in his room, I believe," Hades replied, stepping aside and inviting Will inside.

"Thank you!" Will smiled widely, making his way upstairs. He made his way through the dark halls, already having a basic format of their house, and swiftly knocked on Nico's closed door.

"Come in," he heard, muffled through the door, but when Will tried to open it, he found he couldn't.

"It's locked," he replied. After a second, the door swung open, revealing Nico in all his goth glory. Will smiled widely, but Nico simply turned back and walked over to sit back down on his bed, picking up his binder to continue his homework, and Will registered Someone New by Hozier playing on Nico's laptop, and smiled, he really did like that song.

"Friendly as ever, I see," Will commented, his smile not wavering as he closed the door and dropped his book bag in front of Nico's bed.

"Sorry," Nico mumbled, blushing. Will looked over at Nico as he sat next to him, seeing the insecurity written in his face.

"No, it's okay," Will said, "I wouldn't change you for the world, Neeks."

A small quirk of his lips was enough to make Will celebrate a small victory in the back of his mind, as it wasn't often Nico smiled.

"So, how far have you gotten," Will asked, looking at the paper, covered in Nico's neat handwriting, and Will smiled, they would get done with this history project in no time.

Nico shrugged, handing he binder over to Will.

"I don't know, the summary is almost done, but it's probably terrible. I'm not really good with writing english." Will hummed, reading over it.

"Yeah," he started, "there are a few grammar and spelling errors, but other than that your doing pretty good. Especially since you've started learning english only two years ago. Though, you are also kind of getting of topic."

"Yeah," Nico sighed, taking the binder back as Will handed it to him, "anyway, what about the power point? Also I got a poster board thing, so we can start on that today, if you want."

"Sounds great," Will said, reaching into his bag and pulling out his laptop, "and for the power point, I got stuck on the third slide, I wasn't really sure what to put there. I tried e-mailing the teacher, but she's too old, I'm positive she doesn't understand technology." As his screen turned on, he saw his Instagram pop up, and he quickly formed an idea.

"Do you have an Instagram?" Nico glanced at him, twirling his pencil in his hand absently.

"Yeah, Percy and Jason made me get one when I moved here."

"What is it?" Will asked, clicking on the search page.

"Uh, Nico.di.angel I think, Jason created it, an I never bothered to change it, even though he knows I hate it when he calls me angle," he pouted, and Will smiled.

"Ten followers? Zero posts? I expected more than that, at least." Nico shrugged again.

"I never go on it, I also have a Snapchat, but I'm pretty sure I have three followers on that. And I never go on that either." Nico glanced at his phone as it lit up, informing him that Will-Sunshine-boii- had followed him on Instagram, and he turned his phone over so he wouldn't be desracted by it.

"Can we take a picture?" Will asked, grabbing his phone from his bag and setting his laptop aside.

"Of what?" Nico questioned, and Will snorted.

"Us?" Nico blushed.

"Oh, uh, sure, I guess," will smiled his infamous smile, and held his phone up, scooting closer to Nico.

"Say cheese!" He said, and Nico rolled his eyes. He didn't smile as Will snapped the picture, but Will didn't mind, he seemed excited to just be taking a picture with Nico as it was, "Do you mind if I post this?"

Nico hesitated before he shrugged (he seemed to enjoy doing that).

"I guess not." Will hummed happily.

"I'll do it later, we need to work now," he sighed, putting his phone aside and pulling his laptop back to his lap.

"You have three thousand followers?" Nico asked in disbelief.

"Yeah," Will smiled at him.

"How is that even possible?"

"I don't know, I'm just a very social person," Nico scoffed, and Will laughed, clicking off of Instagram and opening the power point, both working in silence.

After hours of working, the occasional friendly banter, Will stood up, stretching his hands above his head.

"I should probably get going," Will sighed, looked over at Nico with a smile.

"See you later," Nico said.

"Can I have a hug goodbye~" Will teased, and Nico's nose scrunched, making Will laugh, "joking. Bye, Neeks."

"Bye," Nico replied, putting his laptop on his desk, and Will left.

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Later that night, Will posted the picture of him and Nico, and Nico was notified, as he was tagged in it.

Nico opened the notification, and saw that over a hundered likes in less then three minutes. He hummed, and tossed his phone on his bed, going to the bathroom to take a shower.

When he walked back into his room, he saw his phone was blowing up, and he frowned.

It was notifications from Will's post, saying people commented on a photo he was tagged in.

He opened it, and read the first comment.

Ew.

Nico's frown only deepened, what was that supposed to mean? His eyes scanned the page, reading more comments.

What the hell

Haha is this a joke

Another friend out of pity, I see

The sacrifices one makes to be nice

Burn it with fire

It looks like a chick

Lol it could be in a horror movie

Looks like some ones stuck in their emo phase lol

Ew is he anorexic

Why the hell is he so pale, does he not go out side, lol

He looks like he would murder some one

Jeez why so much black?

Eeeewwwww

Jesus don't scare me like this Will

Why are you hanging out with him

He looks scary tbh

Is he emo

I bet he cuts lol

Lol Will obviously hates this guy, look at the caption.

Nico frowned, scrolled up.

Nico

That was the caption, a red heart emoji by his name, but it wasn't uncommon for Will to use that one, and a skull emoji as well.

Nico frowned, he wasn't sure how that meant Will hates him, so he went through a few of his other pictures, looking at the captions.

They're were paragaphs under each and every picture, long thoughtful paragraphs under pictures of him and his friends, saying how they made his life better or how he loved them and was so thankful they were in his life.

Nico felt tears well in his eyes, did Will hate him? Was he just his friend out of pity?

Nico went back up to the picture, typing out his own comment.

Delete this photo.

And almost instantly, more comments flooded in.

OH MY GOD IS THAT HIM?

He has an Instagram?

Why does an emo have an Instagram? It's not like anyone's going to follow him lmao

Jesus he literally has no followers

Nico's breath picked up as people started following him, and he got multiple direct messages.

Dude, are you emo?

Why do you have an Instagram? Lol

Yo dude, you cut? Haha

Eat a burger man

Why do you dress like that?

No offense but your vibe is freaky haha

Lol dude when you gonna end it?

Emos like you like attention right, that's why you look like that

Nico started crying as more and more messages were sent to him, and he anxiously chucked his phone across the room.

"Nico?" Hades asked, knocking on his door, not waiting for a response as he opened it.

"Nico, what's wrong?" He asked, walking over and sitting next to Nico.

"Why do people hate me so much," Nico sobbed, bringing his knees to his chest and hugging himself, crying into his knees.

"What are you talking about? Who hates you?"

"Over three thousand people, apparently," he cried angrily. It was only then that Hades seemed to notice Nico's phone going off constantly, and he quickly went to retrieve it, scrolling through the notifications, and glared at the phone.

"Why is this happening? Why are they saying these things?"

"W- Will posted a picture, and he has over three thousand followers and- and," he started crying again.

"Show me," Hades ordered, handing Nico the phone. Nico nodded, sniffling as he pulled it up, and handed the phone back to Hades.

"I- I tried to tell- tell him to delete it, but it only made things worse," he cried.

"Why didn't he delete it if you told him to?" Hades demanded, and Nico sniffled.

"I don't think he saw it yet, because of all the other comments he's getting."

"I'm calling Naomi," Hades said, grabbing his own phone and typing the digits, Nico scrolling through the comments, tears welling as he saw them. But Hades took the phone from his hands, turning it off and stuffing it in his back pocket, but Nico had already started sobbing again, loud and clear as he repeated the comments in his head.

"Where's your son?" Hades asked into the phone angrily.

"Excuse me?"

"Tell your som to delete the picture he has of Nico on his social media."

"Yes, hold on," there was a distant shout of 'William' and a one sided conversation. "What picture do you have of Nico on social media? Delete it. Hades said he wants it deleted."

"Has he not been getting these notifications?" Hades asked, and Naomi repeated the question to Will.

"He says he hasn't been on his phone since he posted it, he normally ignores them until the notifications die down. He's going to get his phone from his room right now," and after a couple of minutes, "he says it's deleted, and that he's sorry." Hades pulled Nico's phone from his pocket, only to see notifications still coming through.

"Nico, why are you still receiving these? The picture was deleted." Hades handed Nico the phone, as if to prove his point, and Nico saw that he now had over two thousand followers, a sob escaping him, and he quickly covered his mouth with his hand.

"Th-they're direct messages," he explained, his inbox now reaching a thousand new messages, his eyes glassy with tears.

"How do you make them stop?" Hades asked.

"I- I'm not sure, I'm sure there's some way."

"The settings," came Will's voice through the phone, "there's a way to turn them off if you go to the settings." But Nico shook his head.

"How do I delete my account?" he asked instead, Hades repeating the question, and he turned it on speaker so Nico could hear as Will told him instructions, but then Nico started getting notifications from snapchat, saying people were adding him, since both his Instagram and Snapchat were the same.

"Come on," he whined, tears continually rolling down his cheeks.

"What happened?" Will asked.

"They're adding me on Snapchat now," he ignores the red boxes and blue arrows, indicating that people are trying to contact him.

"I'm really sorry, Nico, I didn't know this would happen." Instead of having to deal with it, Nico simply turned off his phone, setting it aside, and curling in on himself.

"Make it stop," he sobbed, "Please, please, make it stop."

"Nico, are you alright?" Hades took his phone, putting it to his ear and telling Will he would call back later.

Than, he held Nico as he cried, and Nico couldn't help but repeat the comments over and over in his head.

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Ah, poor Nico.

Hey, if anyone is interested I really want to do a collab oneshot. You can private message me if you want and we can work out the details there, but I was thinking we could write the story through private message on Wattpad and both people write it out in a chapter when it's done and tag the other person- I just think it'd be great to connect with other peole and learn new writing skills and possibly make a new friend :3 so yeah, just give me a message if your interested <3 (Also if you do, and you don't know what to send me to bring it up or what ever -bc I never know how to just start a conversation rip- just send the word Collab and I'll know your interested :))

Also sorry for mistakes I'm exhausted so I'm going to sleep now~

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