Thalia Grace:
It's been two weeks. Two damn weeks, and I can't get the damn pictures out of my head! They just won't leave my mind. Why wouldn't he tell me? I thought we were friends. Why would he keep this from me? I swear if any one of those guys lays a finger on Leo again I will make sure their six feet under.
'Thalia breathe,' I tell myself over and over again, but it's not helping. I feel like I'm choking. I feel like air won't reach my lungs. I'm not even the one being bullied and I'm probably freaking out more than he is. No one messes with my friends and gets away with it. If I don't do something soon I might explode. I need get away from this school. I had to stay after to make sure not one of those guys picked on Leo, and I'm not ready to go home. I have too much steam to blow off. I put in my head phones and start blasting Three Days Grace. I start singing the lyrics because it always seems to make me feel better.
"So what if you can see
The darkest side of me
No one will ever change this
Animal I have become"
I continue to sing and walk around. I end up walking into the woods without really realizing it, but whatever. I like walking around the woods and it's really pretty because of the snow on the ground. I find a place to sit and just get lost in the music. After a while I start to sing really loudly and start to dance. I was jumping around like I was singing at a concert. Once I was done with my mini concert I turned my iPod off, but it's actually really hard when you're laughing uncontrollably. I heard a crunch of leaves behind me and I turned around, but I didn't see anyone.
"Having fun?" A familiar voice asked me, but I didn't know who it was. I stopped laughing and look around for where the voice came from, but when I heard this persons laugh I knew exactly who it was. Unfortunately it was my best friend.
"Nico what are you doing here?" I ask him. I still can't see him. He just loves to hide in the shadows I swear he's just like a ghost.
"I'm just trying to have some fun. What about you Thalia? It is freezing and you're sitting out here in the woods, what's wrong with you? You could seriously get sick." He told me as if I didn't know. I swear he gets on my nerves so easily.
"And so could you, and I'm just here wandering around." He finally showed himself. Yeah he tells me I could get sick when all he's wearing is jeans and a Green Day t-shirt. Ugh boys.
"Oh you're just wandering around? So that wasn't you that was just dancing and singing around?" He's smirking at me. I glare at him and go to walk past him. Gods, like I said he can really get on my nerves even though he's my best friend. I feel like he lives to bother me.
"I'm not in the mood for this Nico." I told him walking back the way I came. Guess what he did? He followed me, like he always does. It's always the same thing: I'm not in a good mood, Nico bothers me, I walk away, and he follows me, then last but not least I explode and start yelling at him. I don't get it, if it's the same thing every time why don't we change it? Trust me, we've tried. It just happens to be the same thing every time, but I mean I like the fact that I can get everything out easily like that, but I don't like exploding on him all the time, especially since he just sits there and takes it, and just waits until I'm done, then comes up to me and give me a hug. This doesn't happen a lot, just when I have a lot to deal with or I'm really stressed, which isn't often. I'm trying really hard not to yell at him and I know he can tell when I'm really stressed.
He pulls me into a hug and I cry. Normally I would never admit to anyone that I cried, but I did.
When I finish, Nico asks what got me so worked up, and I told him all about what happened to Leo and about those boys bullying him. I really want to get revenge on those boys for ever laying a finger on Leo, but Nico reminds me that I can't fight his battles for him which makes me feel worse because he's right. I can't even help my friend. After hearing Nico say that I cry even more. Why can't I help him? Why were those boys picking on him anyway?
As those questions run through my head as Nico was saying soothing words while I continue to cry my heart out. Nico just sits there and listens to me ramble on and on about it. I'd definitely be dead without this kid. I mean I know I have Annabeth, Percy, Jason, Piper and even Leo, but, I don't know, Nico just gets me. He understands how I'm feeling without having me say it. He understands when I just need to get something out of my system, or when I need someone to talk to, or if I need advice, or most of all if I just need a hug like I do right now. I just need him to hug me and listen to what I have to say and I know he will do that for me.
It's at this moment I realize that what I'm feeling is more then what a best friend should be feeling, and the worst part of that is that I like that feeling, but I can never tell him.