Day 1

Nico woke up with a groan as his phone started vibrating next to his head. Picking it up he answered the call without checking the caller ID. "Hello?"

"Where the hell did you go last night?!" Lou exclaimed.

Sighing he replied, "I don't want to talk about it."

"Mhmm," she said and hung up.

Questioning why she did that he curled farther into his blanket, trying to get back to sleep. He had just fallen asleep when Lou Ellen slammed his door open and walked over to him. "Why are you here?"

"Because you're going to tell me what happened!"

"But I don't wanna."

"You're going to have to talk about it at some point."

"Not if I become a burrito," he said rolling in his blankets to wrap himself like one would a burrito. "Burritos don't have to talk about their problems."

"This one does," she said pulling his blankets off, knocking him off the bed in the process.

He got up, sat down on his bed, and glared at her and she smiled innocently, shrugging. "This doesn't make me wanna talk anymore than a minute ago, less actually."

"Pwease."

"No."

"Come on!"

"Not gonna happen."

"Nico!"

"Yes?"

"Tell me!"

"Ergh."

"Don't make that noise at me, just tell me!"

"Never!"

"You're so frustrating!"

"Thank you."

"That wasn't a compliment."

"I'm gonna take it as one."

"You're such a child."

"His name is Percy."

"Just tell m- wait what?"

"I said his name is Percy."

"Who though?"

"My soulmate."

"Wait you're gay?"

"Apparently."

"Well... I've always wanted a gay best friend."

"Not funny," he said glaring at her.

"I know I'm sorry, boo," she said sitting next to him and giving him a hug.

He returned the hug gratefully. "Maybe."

"It'll be fine you'll get over it and become more comfortable with him given time."

"Oh no, I don't care. He does," Nico said, his eyes gleaming with unshed tears.

"Don't cry, if he doesn't like you then it's not worth it!"

"I'm not crying! I just have a branch in my eye."

"Let's go get you some breakfast."

"Okay," he sighed and followed her out of his room and down the stairs.

~*~*~*~

Lou had left about an hour ago and now Nico was contemplating texting Percy, but he didn't want to freak the boy out anymore. Sighing he buried his head into his pillow and stayed like that for a minute before flipping over. He grabbed his phone unlocked it and clicked compose a new message, putting Percy as the recipient. He stared at the screen for a few moments, trying to think of something to say, before throwing back on to his nightstand. He repeated this a few times before he abruptly stood up and left his room.

He made his way downstairs to see what his sister was doing. When he reached the living room he found her lying on the couch watching Netflix. Deciding to mess with her he went over and sat on her stomach.

Groaning she pushed him off of her and onto the floor. "Ouch," he complained though it hadn't hurt at all.

"Shouldn't have sat on me then, fatty," she said, pausing her show.

"Rude!" he exclaimed, pouting he crossed his arms across his chest.

"And sitting on people isn't?"

"Of course not! It's perfectly acceptable."

"Maybe in your universe, but not mine."

"Well I'm sorry your universe isn't as fun as mine," he said with finality and stuck his tongue out at her.

"Did you come down here just to act like a toddler or was there actually a purpose?" Bianca asked rolling her eyes.

"No reason, just wanted to hang out with you."

"Okay, so how are you?"

"I'm tired of people being so worried about it; you, mom, dad, Hazel, and Lou. No doubt Thalia will be as well once she finds out."

"Sorry. Well wanna come up on the couch and watch Psych with me?"

"You know that's right."

"Nice," she said laughing.

"I try my best," he said climbing on the couch and lying down on the opposite side.

That was how Nico spent the rest of the afternoon before his parents called them to dinner.

~*~*~*~

After dinner he went up to his room and was getting into pajamas when his mom came into the room. "Mom! Knock before you come in!" he exclaimed, blushing as she laughed at him.

"Oh please it's nothing I haven't seen before, boo," she said.

"Stop calling me that," he groaned. The nickname had come from when he insisted on being called the Ghost King from when he was four up until he turned nine.

"That's not going to happen sorry," she smiled at her son. "So I know you don't want me to ask, but I'm going to anyways. How are you?"

"If you were anyone else, I'd get mad. Consider yourself lucky," he said and threw a fake glare at her but with a thin smile. "Honestly I don't know."

"It'll be okay, boo. He'll come around with time," she said.

"What if he doesn't? I only met him that one time and we haven't talked since."

"It was only last night there's still time. If anything just message him first. He might be having the same problem you are as we speak."

"I have no idea what to say though mom."

"Just start with a simple hello."

"Alright, thanks," he said and smiled at her.

"That's what I'm here for," Maria said pulling him into a hug and kissing his forehead. "I love you, mio caro."

"I love you too, mama."

"I'll be in my room if you need to talk anymore."

"Alright," he nodded as she left the room. Sighing he decided that he might as well text Percy. He did what his mother told him and just texted a simple Hi.

After that not wanting to stress about it any more he got one his school books and started studying for his finals on Tuesday. After a minute he got a text, after he had a mini-heart attack he looked at his phone. Sighing Nico saw it was just Thalia and decided to answer her later, going back to studying.

Five minutes later he got another text and he was going to just ignore it but something made him pick up his phone and look at it. When he did it took all he had not to drop it. It was from Percy.

With his heart thundering in his chest he opened the text.

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A/N: I'm sorry this took forever to get done! And I just wanna say thank you to 31blackroses without whom this chapter probably would not have happened. So I hope you like it!

xRose