A/N: So I'm glad all of you like this story so far! It makes me happy that you like how I'm going with this story. I don't plan on making this long, but you never know. This might get its own mind.

I know I have other stories, too, that I'm not finish, but it makes me feel...I don't know. I just need something new once in a while, you know?

Disclaimer: I would laugh at you if you actually think I own PJO.

"Well, this was oddly fun," I confessed as we stared walking back to my cabin. The sun was setting and I had to go back to my cabin for dinner. My siblings would send a search party if they thought I was missing.

"More fun than I expected," Nico admitted. We were in front if the cabin now. I turned to face Nico, pondering.

"So how am I gonna do this? Hug you goodbye? Say goodbye? Kiss you on the cheek goodbye?" I asked in a joking matter. It was suppose to sound like a joking matter, but I actually wanted to know how people do this. We were still in that awkward stage, but I think we got passed that a bit.

"Let's go with the say goodbye choice," Nico said with the same joking tone I used.

"Hugging goodbye it is," I said purposely trying to annoy him. I threw my arms around him and laughed when he was frozen in his place. "It would help if you hugged me back," I advised him.

It took seconds before he hugged me back. Friends do this all the time. I see Annabeth hugging Percy and Thalia. I see girls hugging their girlfriends. So it's okay for me to hug the son of Hades.

I pulled back and smiled at him. He smiled back at me and it was the biggest smile I ever saw on him.

"You are a very strange daughter of Athena," he teased.

"I get it, Di Angelo. I'm not normal," I said lightheartedly.

"And I'm not normal," he agreed.

"Bye, Nico," I told him. He didn't say anything back but smiled at me again and waved before walking away. I opened the door to find all my siblings already staring at me. Everyone was here, even Annabeth, which was a shocker 'cause she always spends time with herPercy.

"So," Riegan started casually. "Where have you been?" he questioned.

For some odd reason, I found this amusing. It reminded me how parents were suppose to act all protectiveness of their daughter. Not your siblings. Never the less, I loved how they all cared about me.

"I've been out," I answered. I casually walked towards my bed and grabbed the bag under it. I pulled a silver brush out and started brushing my long blonde hair.

My siblings didn't take their eyes off me.

"She's brushing her hair..." Riegan said in disbelief.

"She came back late," Lilia commented.

"No, I didn't. I came back right on time," I replied calmly.

"You came back before we went to dinner, who were you with?" she asked curiously. My siblings leaned in with anticipation. I crossed my arms.

"That's none of your business," I smirked slightly. Oh, the perks of having a life. You can scare your siblings by acting like you're hiding a big secret.

Lilia's eyes widened a bit and Riegan's jaw dropped. The others had a similar shocked expression. It was a shocker if you think about it. I told all of them almost everything. I could trust them all, and they knew that.

Now, I could mess with them.

Who doesn't have a life, now? I mentally asked.

"She's finally a teenager!" Riegan said with rejoice. It took all of my restraint not to roll my eyes. He looked at me before picking me off the ground in a tight embrace. I laughed at his silly actions.

I was irritated at him, too. Oh. So I wasn't a teenager before?

"We're bound to know someday so you might as well save us the trouble of finding out," Malcolm said. He was one of my protective brothers. Pretty much all of them were.

"Annabeth knows him," I pointed out and all their heads snapped in her direction. She burrowed her eyebrows and started to think.

"I know a lot of people," she reminded me.

"Well, he's Percy's cousin," I hinted and a light bulb went off her head. No, I'm serious. I could actually see her face lit up. It looked so real it freaked me out a little.

"Nico Di Angelo," she answered and I nodded my head. All of their jaws dropped except for Annabeth. She winked at me for some unknown reason.

"You're friends with the son of Hades?" Riegan exclaimed shocked. He made it sound like I was doing the worst thing possible. I shrugged my shoulders thinking it wasn't that bad.

"Well, you see Arabelle, we don't think you should be friends with him," Lilia said gently. I placed both of my hands on my hips and shifted my weight.

"Why not?" I asked her with a challenging gleam in my eyes.

"Because he's the son of Hades!" Riegan said like it was obvious.

"Annabeth's was friends with a son of Poseidon," I told him.

"And look how well that turned out," he replied.

"What are you—Oh." I said understand it better. I looked at all my siblings who were smart enough to stay quiet. I might be the youngest one, but I'm as stubborn as the rest of my siblings.

Of course, this forbidness thing didn't help a bit. It's like a teenage instinct or something. You know when you parents tell you to not do this, but you do it anyways? Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.

Rebellious was something that I know Percy had.

Maybe he rubbed it off of me because now I was more determined to be friends with Nico.

I won't let my siblings take someone who might be important in my life away.

There's no way in hell I'm going to let them.

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