A/N - This one's shorter... but I hope you like it! It's kind of just a filler chapter to go between the first chapter and the next one, in which stuff actually happens and Mel actually might meet Percy! (that's either in the next chapter or the one after that). Enjoy! Review! Read more! Reading is good. But you already know that, don't you? =)

Two: Life goes on

Ancient Mythology quickly became Nico, Addi, Carter and Sadie's favourite class. The four of them also became good friends with Selena, Richard, Louis and Maura, the other members of the class. They spent the first few weeks learning about Norse mythology, which was apparently Louis's favourite.

One weekend, about six weeks into school, Sadie and Carter were wandering around, enjoying the fact that they didn't have to try to save the world anytime soon. They walked past a cemetery, and Sadie looked over the fence, probably hoping to see Anubis.

They saw him.

They also saw a girl who was dressed in black, with black hair and pale skin who had her arms around him. She looked suspiciously like –

"Addi," whispered Sadie. "Carter, that's Addi. And Anubis!"

"It might not be them," suggested Carter reasonably. "It could just be some weird kids who look like them."

Sadie shook her head. "I'm sure that it's them. I'd recognize Anubis anywhere," Sadie said. She blushed. "And look at the charm bracelet the girl is wearing – I've never seen anyone else with that combination of charms."

Carter looked at the bracelet. He recognized it as Addi's immediately – there was a sun shaped charm next to a jackal charm and Sadie was right, there was probably no one else in the world with those two charms next to each other on a bracelet. Carter grabbed Sadie's hand and led her to a nearby McDonald's. They ordered food and then when their food was ready they sat down at a table near the window. At a table not far away, Carter could see a boy with messy black hair, pale skin and black eyes wearing all black who was sitting across from a boy with black hair and green eyes.

"Sadie, isn't that Nico?" said Carter.

Sadie glanced over her shoulder. "Yeah, and that boy who picks Nico and Addi up sometimes – Percy."

So it was definitely Addi that we saw earlier, thought Carter. She and Nico are never far apart. While they were eating, Addi wandered into the McDonald's. She ordered a chocolate shake and then walked over to where Percy and Nico were sitting.

"Hey, boys! I thought you two usually went to nicer places on your dates," said Addi. She smiled and the boys laughed.

"We do," Nico replied. "And we had plans tonight. But you just had to get in trouble, didn't you?"

"Yep," answered Addi. "It was pretty much unavoidable. Thanks for coming to pick me up, Percy."

"Any time, sis," Percy said. Nico threw him an angry look and muttered something about how it wasn't fair that she got to spend time with her boyfriend and he didn't. The two boys stood up and the three of them left.

"That was -," began Carter.

"Weird," finished Sadie.

"I was going to say confusing," Carter said.

Sadie shrugged. "That too."

"Are Nico and Percy dating?" asked Carter.

"It seems like it," Sadie replied. "That kind of explains that death glare that Nico gives Addi every time she mentions Percy… or the fact that Percy's dating someone."

"Do you think that maybe that's why they moved?" suggested Carter.

"What? So that Nico could be closer to his boyfriend?" asked Sadie.

Carter shook his head. "No. What if he was bullied or something and so when he was starting high school they moved?"

"All the way across the country?" said Sadie skeptically.

Carter shrugged. "They have some connection to Mr. Blowfis. Addi said that's why they're at Goode."

"Maybe we're over thinking this," Sadie suggested. "Maybe they're telling the truth and you're just trying to fill in the parts of the story we haven't heard yet."

"Perhaps," said Carter.

"I wonder if Addi even knows who Anubis is," Sadie said, completely changing the subject.

"I'm sure she's aware of the fact that Anubis is an Ancient Egyptian god," Carter said reasonably.

"You know that that isn't what I meant!" exclaimed Sadie.

"Addi's pretty smart," Carter said. "She probably knows who she's dating."

Sadie frowned. "I don't want to think about it like that."

"You wouldn't," said Carter with a laugh.

When they got home, Percy and Nico both ran to the couch. Nico turned on the TV and put in a movie.

"Hercules? You both hate that movie!" Addi commented when she saw what movie Nico had chosen.

Nico and Percy both shrugged.

Addi walked to her room and flopped onto the bed. She rolled to one side and looked at the pictures that were lined up on a shelf next to the window. There was a picture of Percy and Nico from camp, a picture of Addi with her little brother, several pictures of Addi with her favourite cousin, a picture of Percy and Annabeth from when they were dating that she had stolen from Percy, a picture of their Ancient Mythology class after they had acted out one of the Norse myths – so half of the class were still dressed in their costumes, pictures of Addi and Mel from every major event they'd attended together in the last three years (there were a lot of those) and a few pictures of Addi and Anubis.

Addi was tired, but she wasn't planning to fall asleep until 10:30 when she was planning to kick Percy out of the apartment whether the movie was over or not. For a while, she talked to her sister on the phone, but eventually nearly fell asleep.

When her clock told her that it was 10:30, she walked into the living room to see that Nico had fallen asleep during the movie.

"I'll carry him to his room," Percy said quietly. He picked up his boyfriend and was about to carry him to his bedroom, but Addi stopped him.

"You should know, Mellie's planning to visit soon. She wouldn't tell me when, but try to be aware of the fact that she might just appear at your door sometime within the next few weeks," Addi told him. "Hopefully she won't just appear inside like I do sometimes – we wouldn't want her scaring anyone."

"So I finally get to meet my other sister?"

"Yep!"

Then Percy walked to Nico's room, carefully placed him on the bed, pulled the covers over him and then kissed his forehead.

"You two are too cute," said Addi from the doorway.

Percy rolled his eyes and left their apartment after saying goodnight to his sister.

Sadie was more bothered than she should've been by the fact that Addi appeared to be dating Anubis. She knew it was silly, especially since he was about 5000 years old and she was only 14. Then again, Addi was 17 – only three years older than Sadie.

I bet she doesn't even know he's a god, thought Sadie. I'll talk to her about it on Monday.