Chapter 2:

Nico woke up as usual, with his alarm clock. He decided not to get his instant coffee, but everything else went as usual. The normal teases from Percy, the same conversation, the same hour and a half to get ready, not the same outfit but it was pretty close.

Nico hadn't realized the time. it actually only took him an hour to get ready. It must be the lack of coffee. He shrugs and heads to the shop early, walking slower than usual. He ended up about thirty minutes earlier than he normally does.

Will was standing behind the register. "Wow, you're here early," he comments. "I know, it's awful," Nico says, "I'll just take a black coffee." "Alright there Edge Lord," Will says sarcastically, the corner of his mouth quirking up. "'Edge Lord'? Really?," Nico says, unamused. "Well, going off of your outfit, yeah. Really," Will says going over to get Nico's coffee. Nico looks at his outfit, he hasn't realized that he was wearing all black. Whoops?

Will comes back with the coffee. "There you go~," he says cheerfully, sliding the cup acrossed the counter. He sees that the blonde wrote something on the side, but Nico ignores it for right now. "Piper said she invited you to lunch, you still coming?," he asks taking a sip of the bitterly sweet coffee in his hand. Will nodded, giving one of his signature smiles. "Cool, do you have directions?," Nico asks, raising an eyebrow at the boys lack of words.

"Yeah, I think. I'll just look for the only emo on campus," Will teases, leaning against the counter. Nico rolls his eyes, "I'll text you the place, just don't get lost." The boy starts walking away and out the door. Nico was down the street before he realizes what that entire conversation was about. He groans inwardly, wondering why he was so nice the the guy who was the exact opposite of him. Then he realized he didn't have Will's number, which was a slight problem.

The next thing that crossed Nico's mind was the message that Will wrote on his cup. Curious, he turned it around and read the message carefully. It was written in a thick sharpy but the penmanship was perfect.

Have a good day, try not to be too emo :)

~ Will

Nico rolled his eyes, smiling a bit. He decided to go back and give the boy his number because he needed to text Will the location later.

Will was smirking when Nico finally reentered the shop. "Yeah yeah, I know. I'm an idiot," Nico says with a scowl, walking up to the counter. "What ya need, death boy?" Will asks, leaning up against the counter. " 'Death boy? Really? That's all you could come up with?," Nico questions, shoving his free hand into his hoodie pocket. Will just smirks, a twinkel in his eyes.

"Anyways, my tired ass mind forgot that I don't even have your number. So, I decided to give you mine because I feel like it," Nico says tiredly, handing Will a peice of paper, Will took it and disappeared without a word. He came back with a freshly baked muffin. "You look hungry," he explains, "this ones on the house."

Nico leaves again with a nod. He was halfway to his classes, ear buds in, when his phone started to ring. He didn't even bother checking to see who it was, just answrred it by the press of a button on his ear buds. "Hello, you have reached NASA. If you have spotted an alien, please seek mental help immediatly," Nico says sarcastically in a monotone voice. He took a bite of his chocolate chip muffin Will gave him.

"ha ha, very funny Nico," Will says, equally sarcastic, from the other end, "I was just making sure this is actually your number." Nico scoffed, "and why wouldn't I give you my number? I told you I was already half out of it and I didnt feel like asking you for yours. Aren't you still in the shop anyway?"

"Nope, on my way to class actually," Will's voice replied. "Oh, me too," Nico says, then takes another bite of the muffin. He had to admit it was pretty good. "Oh, I know," Will says with a breathy laugh. "Stalker much. Seriously, that gives off the wrong vibes," Nico says, rolling his eyes despite knowing Will couldn't see it.

Will's laugh soundes from the other side, something that sounded like th e sunlight breaking through on a cloudy day. It was warm and makes you feel a bit better about yourself knowing you caused that beautiful sound. Nico couldn't have helped but laugh along, the effect of the laugh catching quickly.

"I'm almost to class, text me later ok?," Will says once the laughger died down. "Alright, see you around," Nico says and quickly ended the call. He sighs, shoving the rest of the muffin in his mouth before walking into the building.

It was lunch time, and Nico was heading toward their nornal spot. He pulled out his phone and quickly texted Will explaining where they were. He didn't check of Will replied.

Ten minutes later, Nico hears someone call his name.Nico turns and sees a mop of blonde hair bobbing towards him, a boy was connected to rhe hair and Nico woukd recgonize that smile any where. "Here comes the new addition," Nico says, taking a bite of his apple. Everyone looks over to watch Will come over.

"Everyone, this is Will," Piper says gesturing to the blonde, "Will, this is everyone." Will said hi, sitting by Nico while taking the boys apple. Nico just rolled his eyes and said nothing. "I'm Annabeth," Annabeth says, smiling, "this is my boyfriend, Percy, his husband, Jason, my wife and Jason's girlfriens, Piper, that's Hazel, our child, and Hazel's boyfreind, Frank who is our pet, then Leo and his girlfriend Calypso, our daughter's freinds. I'm assuming you already know Nico, since, ya know, you stole his apple, staryes eating it, and hes the first person you called to."

Will didn't look one bit lost, which Nico had to applaud because even he was lost. "Nice to meet you all," Will says, sounding genuine.

The others asked him questions, saying if he was going to be part of the group they had to find out everything. Will didn't look uncomfortable, thankfully. But Nico found out that his full name is William Solace, he's theor age, he's bisexual (that was good because the Gays travel in packs and everyone there was a part of the lgbtq community), he perfered dogs over cats (Nico couldn't agree on that), he was a major in the medical field, and some other pretty mich useless things.

As lunch was finishing Will got up. "I have class across campus, I need to head over now," He explains to the group. Everyone says their goodbye's and once Will was out of ear shot they all turned and looked at Nico. "...what?," Nico asks confused, "do i have something on my face?"

Piper shook her head, "I think we just found you a boyfreind," she says.