Hello everyone! Here is a new chapter to this story... well two actually, because both chapters are connected together and both are fairly short. This chapter is what happens at school, so I hope you enjoy!

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A relationship begins with a physical attraction between two people. Looks grab the person's attention, but personality makes them stay. Most of humanity judge on appearance alone, it takes a little bit longer to look deep within.

Can there be more to love?


Tuesday A.M

Percy woke up to his phone ringing endlessly. He groggily sat up in his bed and rubbed his eyes. He looked to the clock on his bedside table and it read 5:45 am.

It must be her again...

Percy grabbed his phone off of the bedside table and looked at the screen.

Annabeth

Percy ignored the call, knowing she would want something from him. It stopped ringing, and then a minute later she called again. Percy groaned out loud as he swiped right to answer the call.

"What do you want?" Percy grumbled.

"Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed, huh? And why didn't you answer me the first time I called you?" Annabeth demanded.

"What do you want Annabeth?" Percy repeated his question.

"Get dressed and get in your car, I'll text you the directions," Annabeth wasted no time telling Percy what she wanted from him.

"No."

"What do you mean 'no'?" Annabeth laughed through the phone.

"I mean it was fine that I did what you asked of me yesterday because I was single, but I'm not anymore so no, I'm not going to be with you alone," Percy told her through the phone.

"Oh please, this again? Really? Why do you bother, you're just going to dump that person at the end of the week. Who is it this time?" Annabeth laughed.

"Same school as me, two years younger..." Percy answered her.

"Oh, ho ho ho, two years younger?" Annabeth giggled, finding it funny, "cute?"

Percy thought back to Nico, was he cute? He had seen Nico before, and the different facial expressions that would cross his face. When Nico was focused on his art, he was more than cute. Those dark brown eyes, so intense and focused, when his hair got in the way he would tie it up, and sometimes he would get this crease on his forehead when he was really concentrating, he was actually beautiful...

Percy had snuck into the art room gallery and watched Nico as he drew yesterday. It was a pleasant sight to behold.

"More like beautiful really..."

"More beautiful than I am...?" Annabeth asked innocently.

"I can't really compare the two of you..."

Annabeth laughed through the phone, "Oh Percy, see that's what I like about you, you're always so honest it's endearing. Well, whatever, when Sunday comes, call me."

"Why don't you just get back with my brother already," Percy huffed.

"Why do you have to say things like that? You know I hate it when you say that," her voice turned icy and then the next moment it was cheerful again, "call me when you're done playing boyfriend..."

Percy sighed heavily. It was always the same thing with Annabeth. Ever since the day he met her...

She had been his brother's; Triton, girlfriend at first. When Percy saw her, he thought she was the most beautiful girl in the world. That curly blond hair, those stormy gray eyes, that pale, soft skin, and her slim figure... She was gorgeous.

Percy had wanted to have her to himself so badly, but he couldn't betray his brother like that. That didn't stop her though.

'I know you like me...'

'I do, but you're with my brother.'

'I can easily get rid of Triton and then, I could be all yours if you say so...'

'No, that wouldn't be right...'

'Come on Percy, you know you want me.'

'Stop-'

'Hey, hey... you like me don't you?'

'I do, but... your my brother's girlfriend...'

'I like you Percy.'

Percy looked away from her.

'Let me have you...' she whispered as she leaned in and chastely pecked Percy on the lips.

Right then and there, Percy grabbed her by the back of her head and pulled her in for another kiss. As he kissed her, he felt her smile against his lips, she had won.

Over the course of a few months, Annabeth would do anything she could to get a rise from Percy. Every time they were alone, she would corner him and tease him. Eventually, she ended things with Triton and right then, Percy and Annabeth went out. They went out for a good while, and Percy had fallen in love, until she grew restless and broke things off. Now it was game that they played. Every time Annabeth wanted something to do with Percy, she would call him. Or if she wanted something to do with Triton, she would call him. She went back and forth between the two, she had them both in her hands.

Typical of her, Annabeth always did do exactly as she wanted...

Which was why Percy had decided to do his strange habit. He would go out with the first person who asked him out on Monday for an entire week, and if he didn't fall in love with that person, he broke it off. A week was perfect for Percy. Seven days to get to know the person. Just enough time to see what was in his heart for the other person, and Annabeth wouldn't grow impatient either.

Percy looked through his contacts and came across Nico's name. The raven haired boy who was stranger than Percy thought.

Percy had honestly been taken aback by Nico's sudden bluntness, 'well how about it? Do you want to go out with me Percy?' it was so unlike Nico di Angelo. The quiet, art student who kept to himself, and only had what was known two friends. He was fairly popular, mostly with the girls and a few guys as well, but it was mostly due to his looks and his art. The girls at school thought he could be their Jack Dawson.

Please let me fall in love...

He clicked on Nico's name, and sent a text message.

Morning :)

Nico di Angelo... his last name reminds me of Annabeth's name-just a little bit...

Percy's phone buzzed and he looked at his phone to see he got a text message from said boy.

I hate you for waking me up this early in the morning.

That made Percy snort, Nico sure was strange. He smirked to himself, there was apparently, more to Nico than meets the eye. He couldn't believe how different Nico the person was from Nico the person... if that made any sense. How come Nico was so different on the outside?

It's actually kinda cute the way he is in real life

Suddenly the phone rang in Percy's hand, making him blink in surprise. He swiped right to answer the call...

"Are you an idiot? Hey, you're an idiot right?" Nico spoke through the other end.

"...yes, I am an idiot... sorry," Percy laughed a bit.

"Don't you dare laugh while you're trying to apologize, how could you wake me up at this ungodly hour? And I can't go back to sleep now either, make it up to me."

"Okay, what do you want me to do?"

"I'm so annoyed right now...I just want to punch you in the arm..."

Nico did sound mad... "Do you want me to go over there right now so you can punch me in the arm?" Percy asked.

There was a moment of silence where Percy thought Nico had hung up.

"Percy?" Nico said in a serious tone.

"Yes?"

"Go to swim practice today, after school. That's how you're going to make it up to me."

"Today?"

"Yes," Nico insisted, "I'm going to be there."

"Why?"

"To get my revenge. Just watch me get my revenge today Jackson, that's what you get for waking me up for no good reason. See ya," with that Nico hung up.

Once again, Percy was met with the sound of the dial tone. It had been a while since Percy was last at a swim practice... but if Nico was going to be there, so would Percy.

He just wondered why Nico was going to be there. He wasn't on the swim team.


"Yo," Nico snuck up on Percy, who was at the vending machine getting a can of soda as the students switched classes.

"Hey," Percy turned to face him.

"Jackson, you better make good on going to swim practice." Nico started to walk the direction Percy was going, his hands behind his head.

"Di Anna- Nico, I will, don't worry..." Percy had almost slipped up and called Nico, Annabeth.

Nico glanced his way, a look of confusion on his face, "what's wrong?"

"Hm?" Percy decided to play dumb.

"Don't play dumb, you were about to call me something else... what was it?" Nico asked Percy.

Percy heaved a sigh before looking at Nico, "I was about to call you... Annabeth..."

"Why?"

"Because... she was a girl I used to go out with and... she dumped me..."

Nico remained silent and Percy thought that he had gotten angry. Percy looked at Nico to see that Nico was studying Percy's face, his dark eyes looking at Percy acutely. Then, Nico blinked and looked away.

"Well that sucks...sorry to hear that," Nico continued walking with Percy.

"Aren't you supposed to be in class?" Percy asked Nico.

"I asked my teacher if I could stay in art to work on a project and she said yes."

"Won't you lose- I don't know, track or something?"

"I have Italian and I'm all caught up... you do know I'm Italian right?" Nico teased Percy.

"Oh? I- didn't know that... so you can speak fluent Italian?" Percy felt himself start to blush but controlled it.

"Yup," Nico answered, making the "P" pop.

"Di Angelo!" A voice called from the other end of the hallway, making both Percy and Nico stop in their tracks, they turned around and saw the art teacher, Mr. Jenkins had called Nico. "Boy! Get your butt over here and get to work! That project you're working on ain't gonna draw itself!"

Mr. Jenkins was an African American man of 62 years of age, light skin, dark brown eyes, a small afro, and overall he was a really cool teacher. Probably, one of the best. He would put on vinyl records and play it out during class while students were working, all so that they could enjoy themselves. Every class of his was neither boring nor dull.

"You better not be caught in the hallway after the bell rings, you ain't got no pass now!" Mr. Jenkins warned Nico.

"I got a pass!" Nico called out.

"Yeah from last year!" Mr. Jenkins gave out a hearty laugh.

"I'll be there in a second!" Nico turned to Percy who was smiling throughout the whole exchange and was about to say something when they heard-

"One! Get your butt back here!"

Nico rolled his eyes, "I'll see you later."

"Sure."


Percy saw Nico come in, sketch pad in hand, pen and pencils in the other. It had been a long time since Percy decided to show up at practice, to say that the coach had been mad because of how many times he skipped, was an understatement. He watched Nico walk towards the bleachers and sat down, making himself comfortable.

'Just watch me get my revenge today Jackson...'

Percy shuddered as he saw Nico's dark brown eyes pierce him with an intense look. The kind of look that filled his visage whenever he started to focus on his art projects. Was this what Nico had been talking about... to get his revenge?

Nico grabbed his sketch pad and pencil, and started to sketch a bit as he waited for Percy and the rest of the team to start practice. Percy tried to get his mind off of how intense Nico looked, but it seemed an impossible task. He found his eyes wandering back to Nico, where the raven haired boy was still focused on his sketch.

Nico's tongue stuck out a bit as his eyebrows furrowed in concentration. And there was that small crease that appeared on his forehead. Percy found it hard to look away from him, but as soon as those dark eyes landed on his eyes, Percy felt himself blush a bit and looked away.

Soon some of the bleachers started to get filled with girls who came to watch the swim team practice.

"Look! There's Percy!" A girl squealed to her friend.

Soon more girls started to get excited at seeing Percy practice and that made him feel a bit nervous. He didn't like being the center of attention. Percy was called up to the platform by the coach and the squeals of the girls got even louder. He also found it hard to look in Nico's direction now, to have the younger boy stare at him so openly was intense...

'Just watch me get my revenge today Jackson.' That line kept coming back to Percy once again.

This was enough revenge as it was... Nico's scrutinizing gaze almost gluing Percy in his spot.

"Quiet!" Percy looked at Nico as his voice resonated throughout the room.

That had been enough to shut the girls up and Percy couldn't help but smile at that.

He's mine Percy allowed himself to think that.

He saw Nico go back to drawing and then the whistle blew. Percy dove straight into the water gracefully, as if he never stopped coming to practice at all. He gave that lap his all and when he emerged from the water, he could feel Nico's eyes on him as he got praise from his coach and his other teammates for his fastest time.

The girls that had been watching, were fanatical. Praising him and showering him with compliments, but Percy looked over at Nico and his heart caught in his throat.

I had always thought Nico had looked beautiful when he was fully immersed in his art...

Nico smiled at Percy with a proud look on his face, and Percy couldn't help but think that Nico's silent praise was better than any he ever got. The smile on Nico's face was amazing to look at.

Until today that is...


And there you have it! I hope you guys enjoyed it!