The crowd applauded, most of them stood up and the hall erupted into a long thunderous cheers as the players of their university entered the court beaming at their classmates with pride.

The star player was in front of everyone else and he was waving arrogantly at the fangirls in the front row, but after a matter of time, his eyes were cast upon a guy who had deep pools of sea green almost the replica of the sea's color if you took your time to count the colors in his eyes, framing the enchanting orbs were a mop of unruly dark hair that fitted nicely with his pale, creamy white complexion. Luke Castellan blew a kiss at his ex who was staring at him disapprovingly.

"He always does that. I don't know why he always do that? If he thinks it's appealing, it's like pouring acid into my eyes. He's so self-conceited," Percy grunted as he gave the blonde an exaggerated eye roll, making sure that he could see it even from a distance.

"Don't worry, he'll learn. . . in a very very long period of time," Annabeth told him, she was beside her best friend reading something from her phone, concentrating so hard with the crowd everywhere around her flipping out.

"You're seriously doing that even in here?"

"What? It's a new article, I need to be updated all the time," she muttered distantly as she scrolled down to another page.

"He might be weirded out by us," Percy gritted out, emphasizing every word with irritation.

"He? Who? Who're you talking about?"

"You know who I'm talking about. Gods, he's so hot right now. It's Tuesday, so he's wearing his aviator jacket," Percy said dreamily as he turned his gaze to look at the back row where he stared at the guy in all black except the aviator jacket that hung loosely around him. He had been crushing over Nico di Angelo for years now.

Nico di Angelo was a member of a very rich and old italian family, with the famous Hades di Angelo as his father who was a CEO to several companies that were earning big time when the talk is about profits. He had a hard time gaining friends who wouldn't stick their noses into his money but he managed to find his place with a guy named Jason Grace and Will Solace who were the big nerds of the school. This highly influenced Nico because they were bonding for years since elementary and he became a die hard fan of nerdy things himself.

He knew better than to flash his collectibles (or whatever a nerd could boast about) and always hid with his two best friends somewhere in the school grounds whenever it was lunch break so Percy never really had a chance to have a proper move on him and whenever he tried to when they have free time in their classes he eyes were always glued to the phone of his and hides in a dark corner in the classroom.

His friends never really see why Percy had a crush on 'the creepy loner dude in the class' but he was always defensive about it. To him, Nico wasn't a guy who has an altar of star wars collectibles or the guy who could do nothing better than to watch marathons in holidays, to Percy, Nico was perfect.

He was infatuated to the guy just one week after entering high school.

To Percy, Nico's vulnerability was utterly cute and purely adorable. The way he would squirm and blush when the teacher would compliment his consistent A+ grades in class, he acknowledged how Nico knew better than to boast in front of the class. He admired the way Nico always tried to defend his friends whenever they were being bullied and looked down on. He admired the way that he didn't want any attention at all to be directed to him even though he came from a powerful family who has it all. In today's world, some like Nico who's filthy rich but isn't a jerk and doesn't look like it at all. . . he was hard to come by.

For Percy, Nico was everything.

He was ready to confess to the introvert after he realized that he liked Nico, but he was abruptly placed on the top of the school's food chain when Luke asked him out in the cafeteria making sure that everyone was watching.

Percy found it hard to deny the athlete in front of so many people knowing that he would be in trouble if he did that kind of thing, he said yes.

Therefore, it immensely delayed Percy's plan of confessing to his crush. He dated Luke for a while until he told him that they weren't working at all. Luke became a mess of a screaming outraged teenager for minutes until he stormed out of the scene.

After the news broke out and spread like wildfire in the whole campus, Percy became famous because a big portion of the guys in their school targeted him, knowing that being his boyfriend would prove that they were better than Luke and gain popularity.

After months, the issue about him and Luke finally eased yet he found himself being the center of attraction again by befriending the cool kids.

First of, it was Annabeth Chase who approached him, she knew that he needed comfort about his break up with Luke. She told him that they used to be siblings in everything but blood, but then, Luke became one of the jocks who were big assholes. Annabeth became popular because of being the top of every class and having enough beauty to engage herself as being the president of the school government.

Then, it was Piper McLean who befriended him. It was only easy since she was best friends with Annabeth. Piper was a beauty to behold. Although, his father's name was known all around the campus for being an A-list actor, she made a name for herself in their school, his dad's name was just a bonus.

There was also Leo who was the president of the Arts & Crafts Club, earning him countless of connections because his club was one of the most influential clubs in the school. He also coordinated every event that their school has that made him the center of attraction in every single one.

Percy became like their youngest sibling in the group. His beauty was what made guys drool over for him. He managed to become close to every teacher there is, even Ares who was a hell of a grumpy guy to encounter. His father was a known name, contributing a big share to every facility there is that the school has. His mother, Sally Jackson, managed to be have the spotlight all to herself without meaning to whenever the teachers were invited to the school, her name was known all around.

This should have been a blessing for him. But at some point, they made it harder for him to connect with Nico.

Shaking his head, he tried to focus on the game and watched as Luke made a rebound again.

One last thought crossed his mind though. He would get Nico all to himself this schoolyear.