Disclaimer: I don't own Percy Jackson and the Olympians or Heroes of Olympus.

Note: So, according to the Camp Half-Blood wikia database, Rick Riordan has released the information that Will is about Nico's age, which is awesome. That means I don't have to deal with either of them being hesitant about an age difference. That also means that I can put them in the same grade.

Warning: slash, demigods on caffeine, and a girl with a hopeless crush

"I cannot believe you managed to talk me into this." Nico grumbled, sighing as Will showed him how to open his locker. With a nod at his boyfriend, Nico stored what he didn't need at the moment inside.

"I'm surprised you agreed, too." Will said, beaming. "You would miss me, though."

"I don't know, it might have been nice not to hear you saying 'Doctor's Orders' every time I don't eat or sleep as much as you think I should." Nico mused, hiding a smirk at Will's pout.

"Hey, eating better and sleeping more has made you way healthier than you were." Will argued, looking at Nico and seeing the evidence. The bags under Nico's eyes had finally faded away, his skin was gaining its natural olive tone again, and his body looked less like a skeleton.

"You're just trying to make me fat." Nico laughed, shoving Will lightly as they consulted the map of the school and made their way to their first class.

"No, McDonald's will do that for me." Will teased, both amused and slightly frustrated at his boyfriend's 'addiction' to the fast food chain.

"I ate nothing but fast food during the nomadic period of my life," Nico argued with an air of having said this before. "It was only when I started following your nutrition advice that I started gaining weight."

"Oh, poor you, you're not malnourished anymore." A voice suddenly piped up from behind them. They turned to see Cecil, Son of Hermes, and Lou Ellen, Daughter of Hecate.

"Hey, I didn't know you guys go here." Nico said, nodding in greeting. The four of them had become friends when they came across each other trying to sabotage the Roman camp during the war, though Nico was closer to Jason, Reyna, and Will.

"Yup!" Lou Ellen said excitedly, causing Nico to glance at the coffee cup in her hands. A demigod on a caffeine rush…this could be entertaining. "We're both freshman, so we won't be in your classes, but we can eat lunch together and join the same clubs and-"

"And we're going to go now, before her head explodes." Cesil cut in, looking worriedly at his friend. "Good luck in your first class!"

"You too!" Will called back, glancing at his boyfriend with wink. "Want to bet how long it takes before those two make one of their teachers have a nervous breakdown?"

"Both of them or just Lou Ellen?" Nico pondered, theorizing that if Will was only talking about one of them, it would probably happen within a day. However, if Cesil had to be involved in the breakdown, their teachers might last until the next day.

They were about to carry on their conversation, but then the bell rang, and they walked inside the classroom, sitting at the desks on the far side of the room next to the windows.

Nico sighed, full of trepidation. This was the first time he had attended school since he and Bianca were at Westover Hall when he was ten. Hopefully it would be different.

Across the room, a young girl stared with wide eyes at the two boys, already crushing hard on one of them.

The one she was staring at had short pitch black hair, and deep brown eyes. He was kind of pale, but he had a body that definitely made up for it. He was wearing a dark gray t-shirt and black straight-legged jeans, with combat boots and a weird skull ring on his finger.

The boy he was sitting next to was cute, she supposed, with bright blonde hair and warm blue eyes. He had tan skin, and laugh lines. He was dressed in shorts and an orange t-shirt. He looked like any other Californian surfer dude, and she disliked him immediately.

She was considering introducing herself to the dark-haired one after class, but something captured her attention.

The two boys were holding hands.

Review please! I'll probably update within the next few days.