Right after Nico had finished getting ready there came a soft knock on his door. Upon opening it he saw Percy who offered a wide smile and said, "Ready to go then?"

"Yep," Nico replied, grabbing the key to his dorm and phone, leaving the room. "So what will we be doing?"

"Going to meet up with some friends of mine," said Percy heading out of the dorms.

"Cool so where are we meeting with them?" Nico asked him.

"Well Annabeth and Rachel will meet us outside of the girls dorms and the others by a stream in the woods," Percy informed him.

"A stream?" Nico asked.

"Yep, don't tell me you're nervous," Percy teased.

"Not at all," Nico said with a partial grimace.

Percy was about to ask a question when he was cut off by Annabeth, holding a picnic basket, and a redheaded girl, with a blanket, running up and saying hi.

"So who's this cutie?" the redhead, Nico assumed this was Rachel, asked poking Nico's cheek.

Annabeth laughed and answered, "This is Nico and careful you wouldn't want to make Octavian jealous."

Rachel just stuck her tongue out and said, "He'll get over it."

"Yeah after he murders all of Nico's stuffed animals, remember what he did to my panda pillow pet?" Percy replied and smiled.

Rachel and Annabeth both laughed at that while Nico just stood there staring blankly at them. Rachel noticed and said "Oh sorry about that anyways I'm Rachel Dare, nice to meet you."

Nico smiled and said, "Nice to meet you too, like Annabeth said I'm Nico."

Rachel suddenly turned to Annabeth and said, verging on fangirling, "You're going to have to end up with this one soon or might actually dump Tavy for him. He's just so adorable!"

Nico blushed at that and even more so when Percy slung an arm around his shoulders and said, "But what if I'm the one that wants to end up with him?"

"Nope because he's mine," Annabeth said hip bumping Percy away and replacing his arm with hers.

Nico blushed and got up his nerve then smirked and said, "Who's to say who I want to end up with though?"

"What are you trying to say? You don't want to end up with me?" Percy asked with puppy dog eyes.

"I never said that," Nico replied with a wink.

"Ha I beat you Annabeth!" Percy said teasingly.

"I never said that I either," Nico stated and laughed along with Rachel at Percy's distraught look.

"Let's get to the stream before Percy starts crying," Annabeth said teasing Percy right back. Though they all nodded and started walking to the spot where they would meet up.

"Want me to carry that for you?" Nico asked Annabeth when they had walked a few steps.

"Sure thanks Nico," Annabeth said smiling.

"So why isn't Grover walking with us?" Rachel asked after a minute and Nico remembered Percy mentioning that Grover was his roommate.

"Why do you think? He's spending time with Juniper of course, what else does he do?" Percy replied rolling his eyes.

"They're still meeting up with us though, right?" Rachel inquired.

"Of course Juniper would hate to miss hanging out with us," Annabeth said in reply.

"True she does love us," Rachel said.

"So is she Grover's girlfriend?" Nico asked in the dark on the matter.

"Yeah they're that couple that's been together longer than anyone can remember, but them of course, and will stay that way forever," Percy said.

"Oh that's cool," Nico said.

"Yep I have no idea how they can stay with one person that long," Rachel said.

"What would Octavian say to that?" Annabeth teased.

"Oh hush and stop bringing him up geez," Rachel said, as they entered the woods.

"So how much longer is it from here?" Nico asked.

"Excited to get there?" Annabeth asked.

"Sure and curious as well," Nico replied.

"Not much longer only a few minutes," Percy informed him.

They walked in silence the rest of the way in silence, which only lasted five minutes. After that they came into a small clearing with a steady moving stream cutting it in two. Already there was a blonde haired boy whom Rachel, dropping the blanket, ran up to and hugged. "I take it that's Octavian?" Nico guessed.

"The one and only," Annabeth replied.

It looked like he was about to come over and say hello when Rachel pulled him behind the trees and held up a finger to them indicating that it would only be a minute. "I wonder what they're talking about this time," Percy said.

"They go off like that to talk?" Nico inquired.

"Yeah it's quite weird, you would expect them to do something else," Annabeth said.

Percy and Nico nodded at that. Then Percy walked over and picked up the discarded blanket and set spread it out on the ground. Following him, Annabeth and Nico sat down as well then Annabeth opened up the basket which she had taken back from Nico. Sitting in companionable silence Nico was almost tempted to start twiddling his fingers when Rachel poked her head out of the trees and gestured someone to come and when both Percy and Annabeth stood up, Rachel pointed at Percy and shook her head then pointed at Annabeth and nodded. Once Annabeth left it got a bit awkward until Percy said "So..."

"Yeah..." Nico said.

"Can I ask you something?" Percy asked.

"You just did," Nico smirked.

"Alright then but really can I?" Percy said.

"Sure," Nico answered.

"Promise to tell the truth?" Percy said.

"Of course," Nico replied.

"Sorry if it offends you in advance," Percy said.

"It's cool just ask," Nico said getting impatient.

Percy waited a couple seconds and blurted out, "Are you gay?"

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A/N: Sorry I just had to cliffhanger it! Too tempting! I mean the answer is pretty obvious but still xD anyway I'll pick up right here next chapter, see you then lovelies

xRose