Will released a breath of air he hadn't realized he'd been holding until now. He was sitting in his bed, staring out the window into the cold night. He was exhausted. He had had midterms in most of his classes today and was pretty sure he'd failed most of them. His mind, no matter how tired he was wouldn't stop racing. Will clenched his fists and closed his eyes tight trying to stop the pounding in his head. It's just a migraine, he told himself.

Outside his room he could hear his siblings. Kayla was practicing for her Concert. Will rolled his eyes, it was one thing to practice on a key board at night but Kayla was a percussionist and therefor couldn't get away with it. Will thought about getting up and telling her to stop but he decided to let her practice in the end. After all, Kayla had put up with his crazy antics in the past. What kind of brother would he be if he didn't do the same?

In the room next to his, Austin was humming the tune to some Christmas carol Will didn't recognize. Will had to smile, no matter how mush him and his siblings might fight they were probably the only people Will knew he could fully relate with. They lived in the same house as him, went to the same school as him and had the same father as him. Will loved them but he swore to god if Kayla missed the second A flat in measure 5 one more time he was going to scream.

Will glanced at the clock.

1:26 am.

Will groaned. He wanted to sleep but he couldn't for some reason. For a little bit he had tossed and turned but quickly gave up on that and settled for gazing out of the window again. December 14, 2016. In a couple of days he'd be off for winter break but until then, he had test after test. How could school be so beneficial yet so stressful at the same time?

Finally, Will decided to go on the internet since trying to sleep was obviously useless and sitting alone thinking about life never helped anybody. His fingers automatically went to Instagram and he began scrolling through his feed. This time at night, people were mainly posting stuff like 'omg I'm still up and it's 2:00' along with complaining about just about anything a teenager can complain about. After a while they all started to look the same to Will until he came across Nico Di Angelo's account. Will couldn't hide how his heart fluttered slightly at the sight of his username. Will studied the picture closely, telling himself he would do that with any post. It was a plain black picture with a caption that just simply said 'yo'. Will stifled a laugh. Very original, he thought. He scrolled to the comments. Will recognized the user of Nico's close friend Percy Jackson saying 'Go. To. Bed. Neeks.'. Will turned his phone off. He suddenly felt like he should have just continued to toss and turn until he'd passed out.

Neeks.

That was what Percy had called him. Not Nico or dude or even bro.

Neeks.

A cute pet nickname. Calm down, will scolded himself. Nico's friends can call him by nicknames. After all, isn't that what close friends do? But another explanation kept trying to pop up in Will's mind but he kept pushing it back. A reason that would explain how close they are. A simple would that would involve coming up with cute pet names for the other person.

No.

They're just friends, Will told himself before setting his phone down and laying down. He needed to try to at least get some sleep before his next set of end of course tests arrived tomorrow. Yes, that was why Will suddenly felt deflated enough to sleep. He had just realized just how far away from done with class he was. That was it, Will repeated in his he's until he feel asleep.

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"Kayla! Will! Wake up!" Will awoke to the sound of his brother Austin yelling. Austin was probably the very definition of a morning person and, usually, so was Will.

"Sorry," Will mumbled into his pillow.

"What was that, sleepy head?" Austin said, making sure his voice was obnoxiously loud enough to wake up Will and Kayla. Will groaned.

"Fine," Will said in defeat, "I'll get up." He raised his hands in surrender to emphasize his point and, more importantly, get Austin out of his room. Austin smiled his award winning smile before leaving the room to let Will get dressed. Will climbed out of bed, lazily threw clothes on and fixed his hair before he began walking towards the kitchen or breakfast. When he got there Austin was already sitting down eating toast while reading a book. I

"Is dad at work?" Will asked his half-brother. Austin looked up from his book, apparently he didn't notice Will was there until he spoke. He nodded before he went back to reading. Thy wasn't unusual . Their dad usually left early and came home late so the Solace kids didn't really see much of him.

"Okay," Will said before getting Cheerios from the cabinet. Suddenly Kayla ran down the stairs with her back pack slung across her back and green hair pulled into a messy bun.

"The bus is coming I can see it from my window!" She exclaimed as she bolted to the door. Will dropped his Cheerios and ran for the door, grabbing his backpack as he went. Austin followed, slighter slower, while muttering about having to clean up Will's mess when they got home.

A/N: I originally wrote this on wattpad and decided to publish it here too. I wanted to make sure I said that so no one thinks I stole this. That being said, I'd appreciate it if you could maybe give me helpful criticism, thank you :)