Based on things I've read on tumbler

Read my heart

Chapter 1 Wouldn't it be great?

"I don't get why if you're in a bar or club and a guy wants to ask you out or get your attention he'll buy you a drink, like what if you don't even like alcohol?" Piper said as she sat with her two friends in their favorite café. Annabeth nodded in agreement "I know, I mean couldn't that happen in any other setting? What about at a bookstore? I would be so much more impressed if someone offered to buy me a book, that's a better way to win my heart." She added. They both looked at Nico and smiled, it was clear that he had only half been listening as he stirred his now cold coffee as he was reading his book.

"What do you think Nico?" Piper asked fighting a grin, out of the three of them Nico was the biggest book fan and he carried a book or two wherever he went so that he would always have something to do. If any of them would love for that scenario to happen it would be him seeing as how he spent so much time in bookstores. When Nico didn't respond Annabeth threw a sugar packet at him and hit him in the middle of the forehead.

"Hey what was that for?" Nico said as he looked up from his book. "That good huh?" Piper asked nodding at the book he had been so absorbed in. Nico looked at them somewhat annoyed but they knew that he wasn't actually mad at them because deep down he was such a little softy. "What?" he asked when he noticed that they were waiting expectantly for something. Piper smiled again "We were saying how great it would be if guys tried to impress you by buying you a book at a bookstore instead of buying you a drink in a bar or club. Wouldn't you agree?"

Nico placed his bookmark between the pages he left off on and closed his book so that he could focus on his friends. "Yeah, less creepy too." Nico took a sip from his now cold coffee, he made a face but then downed the rest of it before getting up and going over to the counter to get a new drink that he could enjoy hot this time. He placed the empty cup on the counter and stood by the till to place his order.

"Hi, what can I get for you?" asked the cute blond that worked in Nico's favorite café, not that he'd ever admit to any sort of connection between the two, he tried to act like butterflies weren't having a party in his stomach when he saw that smile. "Could I get another large black coffee please?" he said, one of the things that he liked best about the blond that usually took his order was the lack of jokes about his choice of beverage to match his attire, most people took one look at him and always seemed to think that they were the first to come up with that stupid line… "To match your soul, am I right?" and there it was…

Nico turned to the person standing behind him in line, and what do you know it was the typical big guy that thinks he's a laugh riot. Just passed him Nico could see Piper and Annabeth roll their eyes, they too were sick of that line. Though Nico missed the somewhat peeved look on the cute blonds face before he replaced it with a sort of pokerfaced. Nico stared at the guy with his usual stare. "Oh hahah, did you come up with that one all on your own?" Mr. Funnyman gave him a smirk. "Let me guess you also drink it hot to remind of Hell from where you crawled up from, right?" at this point Nico could feel his eye twitching and he thought he saw Annabeth getting ready to come over to shut this guy up.

Before Nico could say anything though someone else spoke up first. "Clearly no one finds you're joke funny so if you would please stop bothering the other customers I could take your order or I'll have to ask you to leave." Nico turned and shot a surprised look at the blond, it only became more confused when the blond passed him a steaming hot cup of coffee like he had ordered without charging him for it. "Here's your coffee, have a great day." He smiled again before turning his attention back to the guy behind Nico. "Sir, are you ready to order?"

Nico was still confused as he made his way back to his table and sat down. Once he had Piper and Annabeth both leaned in closer and Nico leaned back a bit. "What?" he asked as they smiled at him. "He likes you." Piper said simply, and to clarify she nodded towards the blond behind the counter. Nico blushed and tried to act normal by opening a couple of sugar packets and adding them to his new cup of coffee. "I don't know what you mean." He said before lifting his cup to his lips. Annabeth raised an eyebrow at him and glanced past him slightly before smirking. "Oh really? Then why is he looking at you like that?"

Nico almost choked on his coffee when she said that. "W-what?!" he quickly glanced over his shoulder at the counter and saw the blond quickly turn away, this only managed to deepen the blush covering his face to the point that his ears burned. He turned back to his friends "What makes you think he was looking at me?" he didn't have that kind of luck, his luck was more of those stupid jokes like before or creepy drunk guys at the bar like his friends had been talking about earlier that always seemed to think it would be funny to send a drink his way. Piper seemed to think differently though. "Because of the way he smiles more genuinely when it's you ordering rather than that practiced customer service smile he usually has, not to mention the annoyed look that crossed his face when that creep was bothering you."

"Or how he came to your rescue before I did," Annabeth said, "Or the free drink?" she added before Nico could say something about the rescue thing. "We've seen the way he looks at you, you know." She said as she took a sip from her own drink. But Nico still wasn't buying it. "He's just a really nice guy who cares about customer service, that doesn't mean he's interested in me." To close the debate Nico flipped open his book once more and went back to reading, he ignored the way the other two rolled their eyes at him.

So in case you didn't know, I'm really bad at sticking to one thing at a time and this just came to mind and I really needed to get it out before I forgot it, so here is another new story! Yay! Anyway this probably won't be very long but again with me you never know, but I hope you enjoy. it I just needed some cute fluff so here it is, more to come.

Please let me know what you think.