Jellybeans
Hate or be hated. That was how the food chain worked for people like Nico. People who were gay, people who had a crush on their best friend, their only friend. Someone who felt inhuman, unwanted, even useless. In his jellybean bag of a world there was only one jelly bean. It was blue and straight and even had a girlfriend. That jellybean was Percy Jackson. Nico was the one black jelly bean. The one that tasted like black licorice. The one no one wanted. The one no one needed.