“Do you like him?” Bianca asked with wide eyes.

“W-what? No, of course not!” Nico sputtered out.

“Oh my gods you do, don’t you?!” she jumped up and down, clapping.

“So you aren’t mad?” Nico asked her quietly.

“No, of course not! I’m just so happy that you’re finally branching out and talking to people outside of Aunt Eleni and me! I actually thought for a while that it would never happen,” she said excitedly and hugged him tightly.

He just chuckled, not bothering to comment on the fact that she had just said that it seemed impossible for him to find anyone because honestly he had thought it himself. “Shall we go back in and grab our aunt then?” he asked her offering her his arm.

“Why, of course, brother dearest,” she said accepting his arm and allowing him to lead her into the dorm room.

“Ready to go look around the campus a bit more, Aunt Eleni?” Nico asked her.

She looked up from what she was looking at and said, “Of course dear.”

“Okay,” he said as he lead them back outside. “Where did you guys want to go next?”

“What about the lake or the various streams connected to it?” Bianca suggested.

“Sure,” Nico said leading them that way. As he came upon the stream that Percy had brought him to his second day here, when he had the picnic with the others, he saw three girls with chestnut brown hair, though their shades were slightly different, and they had varying heights. Standing a little apart from them was what looked like their parents. “Juniper?” Nico asked experimentally.

The girl in the middle turned to look at him and smiled, “Hey Nico!” She went over and hugged him, while the other two followed behind curiously.

“So this is the scholarship boy then?” the oldest one asked of her younger sister.

“Yes and he just so happens to have a name,” Juniper replied.

“And that would be?” the oldest sister asked.

“Calypso this is my friend, Nico, and Nico this is my sister, Calypso,” Juniper said with a roll of her eyes. “While I’m at it, this is my sister Laurel.”

“Nice to meet you guys,” Nico said with a nod and smile towards them.  

As they were talking they hadn’t noticed but the three girl’s parents walked up to them. “Hello,” the woman smiled.

‘HI,” Eleni replied.

“My name is Lily Reed and this is my husband Ash, and of course these three are my girls; Calypso, Juniper, and Laurel,” she said to Eleni, extending her hand.

“It’s good to make your acquaintance. My name is Eleni di Angelo and these are my niece and nephew, Bianca and Nico,” Eleni taking her hand and giving it a small shake.

“Juniper!” someone cried out in the distance, Nico could have sworn he knew that voice from somewhere. His suspicion was confirmed a minute later when Grover was seen exiting the forest and heading over to them with what looked to be his parents behind him.

“Hey Grover,” Juniper greeted him smiling, while the rest of her family all exchanged greetings with him and his family, leaving the di Angelos to stand there looking on at them.

Mrs. Reed seemed to remember that they were there first and looked over then said, “Well continuing the earlier introductions these are the Hedges, Mellie and Gleeson and their son, Grover. And these are the di Angelo’s Eleni and her niece and nephew, Bianca and Nico.”

“Nice to meet you,” Mrs. Hedge greeted them with a smile.

“Nice to meet you as well,” Eleni replied.

Nico was standing there in confusion as the adults went to talking and Juniper and Grover went off somewhere. He could have sworn that Grover’s last name was Underwood he would have to ask Percy about that later. Lost in thought he didn’t even realize that Bianca and Calypso had also slunk away from the group and Laurel was trying to get his attention. Blinking he zoned back to the conversation he asked Laurel, “Sorry what was that you were saying?”

Laurel giggled a bit at his reaction and said, “I was just asking how you liked the school so far.”

“Oh it’s really nice. I like it a lot,” he replied blushing.

“That’s good.”

“Yeah.”

“Nico,” his aunt said cutting into the awkward silence that had just fallen between him and Laurel.

“Yes, aunt?” he replied.

“Where did your sister go?”

“Er… I have no idea.”

“Um she went somewhere with my sister,” Laurel told them.

“Thank you dear,” Eleni said.

“You’re welcome,” Laurel said.

“Well shall we go off without her for a while then?” Eleni asked turning her attention to Nico.

“What if she comes back her looking for us?” he asked her.

“She has a phone.”

“Then let’s go I guess,” Nico said with a shrug and led his aunt out of the woods and towards another area of the school.

“Where are we going now?”

“I’m going to show you the sports areas and club rooms.”

“Have you joined anything yet?”

“I’ve gone to anime meeting so far and I really liked it so I think I’m going to only do that this year. Maybe next year I’ll branch out a little more,” as he said that they made it to the room that held the anime club meetings.

“It’s nice,” his aunt said seeing all the posters for various animes and all the other trinkets that were set about the room that represented an anime or some aspect of the Japanese culture.

“Yeah I really like it,” he replied as they left the room, and he gestured to all the other rooms stating to which club they belonged.

“Can we go look at the sports areas now?” Eleni asked.

“Sure, follow me,” he said and led her to the lacrosse field.

“It’s quite big isn’t it?”

“Very much so,” he said as he led her away and showed her the other fields and stadiums, ending with the pool deck.

“I wish that my school had, had a pool when I was your age,” his aunt said once they reached it.

“You wanted to be a swimmer?” he asked his aunt, curious.

“Yes, I loved swimming when I was your age. I still do,” she replied.

Before Nico reply, someone beat him to it, “Because swimming is awesome of course.”

His aunt laughed at that and said, “Hello, it was Percy right?”

“Correct,” Percy said smiling at Nico when he turned around to look at him.

“Jerk,” Annabeth said running up to them, out of breath, and punched Percy in the arm.

“Whatever do you mean, Annabeth?” Percy said with a grin.

“You know exactly what. You completely ditched me with the parents and younger siblings, who are on their way over here by the way.” Then she looked up and blushed, “Hello.”

“Hi,” Eleni laughed. As Mr. and Mrs. Jackson came up with Tyson and Malcolm along with two other adults.

“Oh hello Eleni and Nico,” Mrs. Jackson greeted.

“Hi again Mrs. Jackson,” Nico said smiling, while his aunt said hello.

“Hello,” one of the adults, a male, said. “I’m Frederick Chase and this is my wife Athena, my daughter Annabeth, and my son Malcolm.”

“Nice to meet you I’m Eleni di Angelo and this is my nephew, Nico,” Eleni replied. After that the adults lapsed into a conversation while Nico, Annabeth, and Percy went off to the side a bit to the side.

“So I thought your sister was here?” Percy questioned.

“I do but she went off with one of the Reed sisters a while ago,” Nico informed him.

“Which one?” Annabeth asked him.

“Calypso.”

“Oh cool, think we’ll still get to meet her?” Annabeth asked.

“I already did,” Percy said, sticking his tongue out at Annabeth.

“He did? No fair!” Annabeth whined.

“Sorry,” Nico said chuckling. “Would you like me to call her to see if she’ll come and meet you?”

“Yes please!” Annabeth said excitedly.

“Okay,” he laughed and pulled out his phone, dialing his sister.

“Hello?” she answered on the third ring.

“Hey B, where are you?” he asked her.

“Checking out the archery range,” she told him.

“Oh cool, would you mind coming over to the pool if it’s no trouble?” he asked her.

“Sure it’s no problem. I’m on my way,” she told him and hung up.

“She’s on her way,” Nico told them.

“Yes!” Annabeth fist-pumped.

The two boys laughed at her and a few minutes later Bianca walked up with a smile on her face. “Neeks!” she shouted, just to make him mad by the looks of it as he was obviously turned towards her.

“Bianca! Why?” he asked dramatically.

“Because it’s my job to torture you of course!” she said with a smirk.

“Neeks? Nickname accepted,” Annabeth said.

“See what you do?” Nico gestured to Annabeth and shook his head in disappointment at his sister. Which made the other three laugh and him give them a playful glare in return.

“Well who was it that wanted to meet me?” Bianca asked.

“That would me,” Annabeth said.

“Well nice to meet you then, I’m Bianca di Angelo.”

“Nice to meet you too, I’m Annabeth Chase.”

It looked like they were about to say more when Bianca’s phone started ringing. She looked down at the caller id and rolled her eyes. “I should take this,” she said and walked a bit away from them.

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A/N: So I decided to tweak the story since that was what more people commented for on my Author's Note. The chapters I changed were 6, 8, and 9. I hope you like the new direction that this story is going in now, don't forget to comment about what you thought!

xRose