Authors Notes:

It's the same story I wrote before but with sooooo much more too it.

This story including more that'll I post after I write them follow the books story line, same things happening, only with it centered around Nico and that the Stolls are his brothers and Will Solace is his best friend since they were kids.

It just came to me out of the blue and I realized there was so much more to the story I had written perviously that wasn't put down. I hope chu guys like this story as much as I did writing it. Enjoy.

~Katie :)

Life before Uncle Al, calling someone Alto just sounded too formal to a seven year old, found him and his sister Bianca was hazy.

Nico remembered bits and pieces of it. Racing B home from school, always convinced that he was faster than his elder sister of two years. Always arguing with his friends, trying to convince them that the Posidion myth-o-magic card was the best. Mom holding his hand every night until he fell asleep to help him see that even the darkness wasn't so bad when you were surrounded by the ones you loved . . . Mom?

Nico couldn't remember much about her. He was surprised he remembered that memory at all.

The little Italian remembered going into this hotel, the Lotus Hotel, he always thought it was a family vacation. Bianca and him would bicker, who could blame them all siblings do? But B always took care of him and looked after him like his guardian angelo know matter what.

Every night she'd sing the lullaby Mom used to.

Tu sei il mio soldatino

(You're my little soldier)

La ragione per cui vivo

(The reason I live.)

Non ti scordar di me

(Don't forget me.)

Io veglierò su di te.

(I'm watching over you.)

He had always thought that this was a family vacation, that Mom would join them at any minute.

The next thing he knew was

Uncle Al taking them away . . .

Nico didn't understand why but he couldn't stop looking out the window. The sensible part of his brain was scolding him, saying how he was just driving these roads no more than a month ago and there was nothing to see. But Nico kept looking from window to window, turning around in his seat to make sure he could see everything. Taking what he saw in like it was the first time. That's what it felt to little Neeks. Nico's adorable curiousness and pointing things out to Bianca just in case she missed it only earned a laugh from his sibling. What neither of them knew was that Nico's senses were right, everything seemed so interesting and new because it was new. Well, to them it was. They hadn't stepped foot outside in seventy years.

Authors Note:

Sworry this chapter was so short.

I'll try and make them longer. I just thought within those 3 paragraphs it was loaded enough and thought I wouldn't be as good if I kept writing from there. I'll try and make my chapters longer than that next time. *smiles brightly and huggles chu all.* I'm sworry me bunnies and cupcakes. Here, *holds out a plate of blue cookies.* Have one. :)

Let's try for . . . Seven hearts and three reviews before the next chapter is up. :)

All my love ~Katie :)

P.S. This chapter title was named after the song Memories by

Panic! At the Disco.