A/N: This is my new Solangelo AU. It was inspired by an aesthetic post I saw on tumblr. I will put a link to it at the end of the fic
"Nico. Nico, wake up."
"Mmh? Ugh, hm."
"Nico, we're gonna be late."
"I don't care. I never wanna get up. Leave me to die." Nico muttered into his pillow. His sister rolled her eyes.
"Get up. We're leaving soon." Hazel whispered. "If you don't get up now, I swear I'll pull you off." Nico just gripped his pillow tighter. Hazel sighed and pretended to crack her knuckles, prompting him to sit up.
"I'm up, I'm up!" Nico insisted, sitting up.
"Grab your stuff. If we leave now we can make it. 20 minutes early." She muttered to him. He nodded drowsily and stood up, stumbling on his tired legs. Hazel giggled and left the room to go change out of her pajamas. Nico changes out of his pajamas put on a pair of black jeans, his favorite Ramones shirt, and his bomber jacket. He hopped out of the room as he tried to pull on his shoes, walk, and drag his luggage behind him simultaneously. Hazel came out of their dad's room.
"I left a note on dad's nightstand to tell him where we went." She explained. He nodded. "You have your phone?" Nico patted his shirt pocket.
"Check."
"Charger?"
"Check."
"Books?"
"Check."
"Laptop? Laptop charger? Laptop case?"
"Check, check, and check."
"Good, let's go." Hazel said. They rolled their luggage down the steps and outside, where their very old, and very tired driver waited. They climbed in the backseat and the three of them set off. Their driver left them in front of their school, tiredly waving as they walked away. Hazel pulled Nico by the wrist to make him hurry. They darted down the hallway and into a classroom. They were the first there besides their teacher, Mr. Brunner, or, as he had them call him, Chiron, and his teaching assistant, Argus, who never spoke much but was notoriously watchful.
"Take a seat." He told them. They sat in the back of the room. They started whispering about the trip.
"Aren't you excited?" Hazel asked, smiling.
"I guess, but I don't know..." Nico trailed off.
"Is this about... Him?" She took Nico's silence as a conformation. "Nico, c'mon, really?"
"Hazel, I can't stand him!" Nico insisted.
"You sure it's just that?" Hazel asked, smirking. It wasn't.
"Yes." No. "Yes, it's just that." No, it wasn't 'just that'. "I can't stand him, Hazel! Everything he says makes me angry!" Now that was true.
"Maybe if you just ignored him, you'd save yourself, and everyone else, some irritation." Hazel reasoned. Nico rolled his eyes and leaned back, crossing his arms immaturely. Hazel rolled her eyes at her brother and opened the smaller of her two bags, a purple drawstring bag with golden lettering and a golden symbol from her summer camp. She pulled out a bag of bugles chips. She opened it and offered some to Nico.
"You know me so well." Nico laughed, taking a handful. His sister laughed along and ate with him. Jason was the next to arrive. He entered and sat down by them, immediately taking a handful of bugles without so much as a "hello."
"Rude." Nico muttered jokingly.
"Sorry, I'm just-"
"Not a morning person?" Hazel asked. Jason nodded. She pulled out a thermos and handed it to him. "It's coffee. It taste horrifically sweet but it wakes you up. Don't take much, you don't wanna crash too hard." Jason carefully poured himself a capful and choked it down, nearly gagged immediately after pulling the cap's edge from his lips.
"Eck! What is that?" Jason asked, using all of his will power to withhold his arsenal of curses.
"Coffee. Well mostly." Nico said, smiling. "Last January, during exams, I had a late night studying before a hard exam, and I slept in. We were running late, and I was moving like a zombie."
"So I poured everything with caffeine that was in the kitchen at the time into a thermos half filled with coffee, shook it up, and had him drink it." Hazel said.
"I was awake all morning. And all afternoon. I don't think I slept for weeks." Nico said, trying to think back to that past January.
"These are the exact same ingredients?" Jason asked, gulping down water.
"Oh, no. We tested this method out a couple of times. This was just the one that worked best. The first one kept me up for way to long." Nico said seriously.
"We've got a lot of free time." Hazel shrugged. Jason just stared at them for a few seconds before they both laughed.
"We're kidding." Nico said. Jason sighed with relief. "It's just coffee, some lukewarm coca cola, and a shit ton of sugar." Jason rolled his eyes. They heard the door shut and turned to look. Stood there was Will Solace, glaring daggers as his sister, Kayla, tried to drag him away. Nico narrowed his eyes at the blonde, wanting to run over there and punch him in the face, or do something else, he wasn't completely certain. Jason looked just as pissed off.
"Don't tell me you hate him now too?" Hazel asked, clearly annoyed.
"Enemies by association. He and Neeks are enemies so there for so are he and I." Jason explained. Nico rolled his eyes. We aren't exactly enemies, Nico thought. He thinks we are, so I pretend to think so too due to my crippling awkwardness and inability to have a civil conversation without wanting to kiss him or punch him in the nose.
"Jason stop staring, you look creepy." Nico said, although he couldn't exactly judge. He was always sneaking glances at the blonde, but, luckily, he'd never been caught. Lou Ellen was the last to show up. She had her short, colored hair knotted and sticking up in places. Her backpack was half open, and she was in a white tank top and blue pajama pants. She was apologizing, saying she slept in, but, in truth, she'd been told an earlier time, as she was notoriously late and forgetful. Chiron had the RV parked out front. In all honesty, it wasn't even an RV. It was an old beaten up school bus with the seats removed. In place of the seats were a pair of bunk beds and three single beds at the back. The bunk beds could be folded away to save space. Four of the peeling three seater bus seats had stayed, but two were turned so that there were two pairs of seats facing each other, two of them against with their backs against each other. Between each pair of seats was a table that was bolted to the ground. On the left side of the front of the bus there was a counter top with a sink and a small portable fridge. Chrion had been working on the bus for the past three years with the help of a few of his past classes, including Jason's and Percy's. Most of the money came out of his own pocket, but some came from students volunteering to organize bake sales and raising money to help.
"Girls on one side and boys on the other." Chiron said as they clambered onto the bus. He proceeded to discuss who would be the first to drive with Argus while the students chose their beds.
"Shotgun the single bed!" Jason shouted, running and jumping on the single bed that was on the left side of the bus. Hazel quietly dropped her drawstring bag on the single bed on the right side. Kayla and Lou Ellen didn't seem to mind, as they knew each other well through Will, and both preferred to bunk together than have to share a bunk with a stranger. Of course, that left with Nico bunking with Will. Great. Just Peachy. Nico turned and looked and the much taller blonde.
"I'll take the top bunk, I'd hit my head from the bottom." Will muttered to no one in particular. He seemed to be actively ignoring the fact that he was bunking with Nico. Nico was going to say something in response, but thought better, dumping his backpack on the bottom bunk and stuffing his luggage under it. Will wedged his luggage in the space between the countertop and the side of the bed. Nico joined Hazel and Jason in the back of the bus on the latter's bed. Chiron took the weel, and Argus took the bed in the back. He pulled a curtain in front of it closed and went to sleep, resting for when it's his turn to drive.
"Jason, you're dead." Nico said when he plopped down on his bed. Jason's eyes widened in realization.
"Oh."
"Yep."
"Sorry." He muttered sheepishly.
"Maybe it'll be good for you. Maybe you'll learn to deal with each other like human beings." Hazel said. She pulled a box of Pocky out of her seemingly bottomless bag of snacks. "Pocky anyone? Will?" She held it out to Will, who reached over and took a packet out of the box.
"Thanks." He said, flashing a dazzling smile that made Nico's heart do somersaults in his stomach.
"Your welcome." Hazel said. Will walked to the front of the bus and sat at the table with his sister and friend.
"Fraternizing with the enemy." Jason whispered fiercely. Hazel rolled her eyes. I'd fraternize with that enemy. Daily. Nico thought.
"Grow up, Jason." Hazel said. "They're highschool rivals, not the leaders of warring countries."
"Kids, we're going to get gas for the road then we'll be on the road for a few hours. We'll arrive soon." Chiron said from the front of the bus. "I can see you're all rather tired, so I suggest you sleep while we go so you're all energized when we arrive." Everyone muttered in agreement and made their way to their beds. Hazel pulled the curtains on the windows closed, and she climbed onto her bed. Nico pulled a blue wool blanket out of his bag. Hazel smiled at him fondly, know that he couldn't sleep without the blanket his held in his hands. He heard Will scoff as he climbed up the ladder to the top bunk.
"Do you have a problem?" Nico asked, dropping the blanket on his bunk.
"Nothing, nothing." Will said, smirking. Nico resisted the urge to flip him off and climbed onto the bed. He pushed his backpack onto the ground beside the bed and closed curtains. He rolled over, hugging the blanket to his chest. It felt soft and smelled like home. He nearly immediately fell asleep.
Nico's nap was short lived. He was woken up by the sound of tossing and turning above him. He pulled the curtain away slight.
"Could you be quiet?" Nico hissed quietly.
"I'm sorry that not all of us have the luxury of a magical baby blanket." Will muttered back. If you wanted to, you could always come down here and join me. Nico thought.
"It's not-" Nico stopped and took a deep breath. He rolled over and shut his eyes tightly. It wasn't long before the tossing and turning started again. Nico groaned and banged on the bottom of the bunk above him with the side of his fist.
"Stop it." Will muttered.
"Why should I?" Nico asked.
"You're gonna break my fucking bed!" Will hissed. I can think of other ways to break the bed, Nico thought, but it wouldn't be the bed that was fucking.
"I don't think you need my help to break it." Nico muttered instead.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Will asked, clearly pissed.
"Nothing, nothing." Nico muttered, mostly just to annoy Will. Will grumbled something inaudibly and tried to sleep. Needless to say, neither of them slept much.
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