Jump.
I could do it, you know.
Jump.
And then it would all end.
Jump.
No more Nico.
Jump.
Just an empty shell.
Jump.
I could start over.
Jump.
A new life.
Jump.
Leave this prophecy junk behind.
Jump.
Half-blood? What half-blood?
Jump.
The voices whisper to me.
Jump.
Maybe if I did, my slate could be wiped clean.
Jump.
All this pain would vanish.
Jump.
It would be easy to find friends.
Jump.
Even easier if they didn't know me.
Jump.
And I didn't know me.
Jump.
No more grudges.
Jump.
No more Percy.
Jump.
No more Rachel.
Jump.
No more camp worries.
Jump.
No more lonely Hades cabin.
Jump.
No more Nico.
Jump.
I could become someone new.
Jump.
Someone other than the real me.
Jump.
And it's not like I could miss the real me.
Jump.
If I never even knew that it existed.
Jump.
I could be some happy carefree kid.
Jump.
The kid I was before.
Jump.
And it wouldn't matter that I was born in 1925.
Jump.
And it wouldn't matter that I didn't fit in.
Jump.
And it wouldn't matter that I made some bad choices.
Jump.
And it wouldn't matter that Bianca was dead.
Jump.
And it wouldn't matter that I was insignificant little Nico.
Jump.
And it wouldn't matter that I didn't eat enough cereal.
Jump.
And it wouldn't matter that I was once turned into a dandelion.
Jump.
And I wouldn't even care that I was a nobody.
Jump.
A nothing.
Jump.
I could be a someone.
Jump.
I could do great things.
Jump.
I could be whatever I wanted to be.
Jump.
I could get all the pretty girls.
Jump.
I could be better than Percy Jackson.
Jump.
And Percy Jackson could be jealous of the new me.
Jump.
It could all be mine.
Jump.
My memories: gone.
Jump.
I'd be free.
Jump.
These chains that tie me would be cut loose.
Jump.
I'd be a changed person.
Jump.
What would it be like?
Jump.
To never remember?
Jump.
A dip.
Jump.
In the Lethe.
Jump.
I brace myself.
Jump.
One last second as Nico di Angelo.
Jump.
Before I do it.
Jump.
One…
Jump.
Two…
Jump.
Three…
Jump.
A hand grabs my wrist.
Jump.
Not letting me go.
Jump.
"No, Nico."
Jump.
Clarisse wants me to stay me.
Jump.
But I can't.
Jump.
So I must.
Jump.
I jumped.
Jump.
