Bianca-

After Sally hit like 8 months her and Poseidon actually moved out up to Aitkin (announce it below with syllables and I'll let you know who's right when they comment. Anyone from Minnesota is automatically disqualified before we start).

So the place was ours.

And at winter break I got Amelia's address. She lived in North Branch and I drove there. Good thing she was home. I wonder if her and Tommy got married. They wouldve been a really good couple together. She's like 90 now, so...

She actually had like a perfect memory. She looked at me and of course I'm a little older and everything. We stayed in contact until my mom died. We wrote. She knew about the Lotus Casino. Didn't know I was out until now.

It took her a minute.

"I know you." She said and let me in.

I recognized Tommy right away.

Called them getting married and living together until death. He's a year younger. Their grandchildren were here. And one great grandchildren. From ages 2-22. And their kids, too. Family reunion I guess.

They both pull me in a separate room.

"You look so familar..." It was bugging her. "But like... Why can't I think?"

"It could be a god." Tommy was... Tommy.

"We don't know any of the gods, Tommy." She said.

I'm waiting for them to figure it out.

"You seem like you should be older..." Tommy said. "But you are familiar."

"We have met, right?" Amelia asked me. "You're not like here to sell stuff or whatever."

"We've met, yeah." I said. "While back."

Like 80 years back.

I was 13 when Nico was born. But in Lotus I barely aged and he just grew and grew and grew until we were two years apart. I was 14, he was 12.

Whatever works, right?

"Okay..." He says. "Who have we both met in the last like 20 years..."

She asked the first letter of my name.

"B." I answered.

"We never knew many B's." Tommy told her. "Brandon was taken away, Bianca is in the Casino, Butch is dead, were related to the rest and they're here."

I'm just like waiting for them to figure out I got out. Well that I was taken out.

Same difference.

I got out by being taken out.

That's what I meant.

They both sit down, looking at me. Trying to figure of out.

Twenty minutes later. After looking at photos, contemplating some things, debating if its actually physically possible to leave the Lotus.

"Bianca?"

"Ding-Ding-Ding." I said. "We have a winner. Only took you 25 minutes."

"Well we didn't know it was possible to leave the Lotus Casino." Amelia told me. "You're looking young. What did you do?"

"You don't age or you do but like you slowly age in the Lotus Casino." I told them. "I walked out of there 14 years old."

"You've been back for 6 years and haven't come visit yet?" Tommy asked.

"Not really." I said. "One, I'm only 18. 2, I died a month after being pulled out and for whatever reason woke up in a Camp Half-Blood cabin, 17 years old. So its only been a year, I didn't know if you guys lived in the US, or if you were even alive, and its been busy as hell. I fought a war last summer. Had a few months off which were still really busy, a friend of mine got stabbed and actually lived, and then moved out here 8ish months ago. I just found out you guys were here. In the state."

They understood that.

"How's Nico doing?" Amelia asked me. "I still have the baby photos you sent me. Hanging up."

"Really good, actually." I told them. "His aging went a bit faster than mine. We're not 12 years apart, were 2 years apart. But he's still younger, so that worked out."

They are both pansexual. They have dates many genders. I know they have. I remember quite a few of Amelia's boyfriends and girlfriend and gender-neutral-Friends. Same goes for Tommy.

Of course they want photos. The only ones I have are of all of us or like Him and Percy.

So I take out my phone and show them a recent one of him. It was him and Percy in their room. The night we moved in. We helped them unpack and they helped us.

"Question." Tommy said.

"What one is he?" Amelia asked.

"The one with shorter hair and darker clothes." I said.

"Usually when somebody has dark clothes their hair isn't short, its usually longer..." Amelia commented. "But the dude next to him has longer hair and is more colorful... What the fuck even?"

"It throws me off, too." I told them. "But the more colorful one is trans. Before hand trans."

"That explain something."

I was there for maybe an hour before I decided I should probably head back before the others get too worried. I told them I'd be gone two hours at tops. If traffic is bad, which my luck it will be, I'll barely hit that two hour mark.

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Nico-

It was Percy's and my night to make food. We trade off every other day who makes all the meals.

When Bianca left we did set a timer. She had 5 minutes.

"What should we make...." Percy said as he looked in the cupboards. "Hm... Some corn on the cob?"

"That sounds really good." I commented. "With some jojo's and buffalo wings. Mild."

"That sounds amazing." He agreed and we started off with putting the corn on the cob in the water to boil because its raining and we can't grill it. Then putting the jojo's in the deep fryer and the wings in the oven with the sauce slowly warming itself which will be applied onto the wings.

Three minutes later Bianca returned.

"With two minutes to spare." I told her.

"Traffic." She said. "Blame traffic."

Or not.