Hello, everyone! Here's another installment of short, adorable Solangelo cuteness!

Campfire

"Hey Nico, where are you going?" Annabeth asked. Nico turned to where the rest of the demigods were heading to the campfire and saw the only people he really considered friends, Percy, Annabeth, Piper, Jason, and Will, waiting for him.

"Back to my cabin. You guys have fun, though. I'm just gonna-"

"Oh no," Percy cut him off, "You haven't been to a single campfire...ever, actually. For once, Nico, come with us?" Nico was about to protest, but everyone looked so hopeful that he'd come that he couldn't bare to shoot them down.

"Alright," Nico sighed, letting himself be let along. Once they got to the campfire everyone squished onto a log with Nico in between Will and Piper. The group happily roasted marshmallows and sang songs, but Nico couldn't join in. He felt out of place, just like he knew he would, which was why he never went to campfires; everyone was like family here, and he was the weird cousin who ran off to Alaska for a year.

"Hey Nico," Will said, bumping Nico's arm with his own and offering a golden brown gooey marshmallow. "You want one?"

"Nah, I'm good," Nico said. Will didn't look convinced.

"C'mon, Nico, when was the last time you had a perfectly cooked marshmallow?" Nico opened his mouth to reply when Will poked the marshmallow into Nico's mouth. Some of it smeared onto Nico's lip, but he had to admit it was really tasty. He noticed Will waiting with his "I-told-you-so" grin, and Nico sighed and nodded, admitting that yeah, it was good. Will, satisfied, handed Nico a stick with a few marshmallows on it.

Piper, who had watched the exchange, leaned over to Jason and whispered something in his ear. Jason looked at Nico, who was trying to roast a marshmallow without setting it on fire, and Will, who was good naturedly teasing Nico at his slightly blackened marshmallow, before looking back at Piper and smiling.

After the campfire Nico tried to make a quick, inconspicuous exit, but Annabeth fell in step with him on his way down the hill.

"Hey, Nico," she said.

"Huh? Oh, hi Annabeth."

"So, did you have fun at the campfire? I know Percy kind of forced you to go, and I'm sorry if you really hated it."

"No, it's fine. I had a good time," Nico admitted.

"I'm glad. Percy can be a seaweed brain sometimes, especially when it comes to other people's feelings, but he really does mean well." As they, along with the other campers, arrived at the rows of cabins Annabeth gave Nico a quick hug. "Good night, Nico."

"'Night Annabeth," Nico said. He turned and went into his own cabin, but as he changed into his pajamas he couldn't help remember the moment when Will smeared marshmallow on his face. He should have been annoyed at being covered in sticky marshmallow, but instead he'd been...well he wasn't really sure. But he hadn't really minded, especially when Will had handed him the marshmallow stick and their hands had brush-

Nico cut off his own thought and climbed into bed. If this was what he thought it was, what he feared it was, he didn't need to go through it again. After Percy...no. Nico mentally shook himself and rolled over to go to sleep, replaying the happy campfire memories again and again.