One can't really blame Nico di Angelo. Percy Jackson was indeed one of the hottest guys at camp, and sometimes Nico thought he was well aware of that as well. He might not be prancing around like the kids from the Aphrodite cabin, but still. He always dressed in perfect fitted clothes, and even the usual orange Camp Half-blood shirt looked like the latest fashion on him. The beautiful blue green eyes hiding under that black hair made Nico's legs turn into jelly whenever he happened to pass him.

Not that it had always been like this. No, a few years back Nico didn't even look at the guy twice, unless for a reason to smack him or at least wanting to. But that was then and this is now, and the last year Nico had started to feel something growing inside him, some feelings that he didn't really was familiar with. And they seemed to be about Percy all the time.

It annoyed him that Percy seemed to be so perfect. He wasn't an awkward boy anymore, he had turned into a man and that man was hot. Beautiful. Perfect. Nico wanted more than anything to taste those perfect lips. Smell his scent more up close. His naked skin pressed against his. Feeling a mixture of their sweat and bodies together in a lovely, amazing bliss.

But Nico had almost giving up. Once upon a time, maybe Percy talked to him a lot and maybe that they had some kind of friendship going on. But not now, no. Now the only thing that mattered was training and keeping the camp from falling apart. Not that it was any real danger now with Kronos long time dead and gone, and the threat level went from deadly to possible maybe a broken toe from sword fighting accidents. But Percy felt that he needed to be here and take care of things, make sure half-bloods were properly trained in case of another threat like the old ones, and new prophecies that had to be taken cared of was also on the top on his to-do-list. When he didn't spent time with that, Nico saw him spending the rest of the day with Annabeth Chase, that blonde traitor who Nico had confessed his new feelings for Percy to, and that at first acted like a faithful friend to him. But it had been a long time since Annabeth talked to him now, and Nico saw her acting like a giggly school girl close to the boy. Nico didn't like it, it was just like the old days. And maybe they'd been dating but they had been broken up for ages now. Nico didn't believe any of them still had feelings for each other, or maybe that was just his wishes.

Now Nico was as usual standing by the woods, trying to not be seen by the others, while he had the perfect view. Percy was down by the beach and if Nico wasn't mistaken, he was just about to go swimming. Nico felt a tingling sensation in his lower regions. If only he had the courage to go down there as well, and jump into the ocean together with him, being as close as ever. All of a sudden he heard giggles behind him and spin around, just to see a few of the tree nymphs watching him from their trees, hands covering their mouths now so that he wouldn't hear them giggling.

"Oh shut up." He told them and they vanished into leaf and thin air. Quickly he turned his head again to see if Percy was still in the water, but to his disappoint, Percy seemed to be up and dressed already.

"Now look what you did." He spitted out, to no one really, considering the nymphs were long gone and Nico wasn't sure if they could hear him when in tree form.

"What are you doing here?"

Nico froze. Without him noticing, one of the new kids from the Apollo cabin, Dexter, showed up, followed by Travis and Connor Stoll from the Hermes cabin. They had huge grins on their almost identical faces and Nico wished he could vanish into thin air like the tree nymphs had just did.

"Yeah." Connor said, and put an arm around Nico's shoulders. "Old Nico in the woods, what a surprise. Something interesting in here today?"

"Trying to catch a tree nymph? That's difficult." Travis said, blinking at his brothers. Dexter looked at all of them and sighed.

"I'm bored already. I thought we were checking out those old tunnels."

"Oh we are." Connor said, but then he looked at Nico again. "But first…" he gave Nico another huge grin. "What is it that is so important to look at?"

"Yeah tell us Nico." Travis said, and gave him a curious look.

Nico felt cold. How was he going to be able to get out of this?