Five Days til Christmas

Nico's POV

When I opened my eyes, it took me a second to realise that that I wasn't hugging a teddy bear. I opened my eyes wider, doing a double take, almost screaming with joy. It wasn't surprising but it was ice and sweet.

"Nico?" Will opened his eyes. "What's wrong love?"

I put my head back down on his chest and snuggled closer. "Nothing." I giggle and kiss him on the lips.

"Woah." Wills pulls back slowly and loving. "Someones in a good mood. Got any plans today?"

"I don't think so." I tell him.

"Wanna go practice some training? I feel like doing something productive today." Will says taking hold of my hands with his.

"Okay, that would be fun." I tell him.

"Yeah. Let's stay here a bit longer though, it's so cold." Will says.

We spent the whole day at the practice arena. I tried to show Will my new sword skill, the one I I'm still learning to do. "It's where you hit the top of the sword straight down like you're trying to split it in half, but what it does is it vibrate the entire sword and stuff. I'm still working on it though." I tell Will.

"That sounds pretty cool." He says, not looking at me.

"Thank you." I whisper.

Right now, Will is off to the side talking to some of the others that I don't really know. Then I see two certain people catch my eye. "Percy! Jason!" I run over to them.

Percy's wearing his armour, and has riptide out. Jason is wearing the same basic thing and has his sword. "Hey Nico. You practicing today?" Jason asks me.

"Yeah. You guys wanna practice together?" I asked him.

"Um. Yeah. It wouldn't hurt." Percy tells me.

I look at Jason. "Sure. I haven't really done any practice lately."

"Cool."

It was like one of those battle scenes where everyone stands back and it was intensely quiet. Then it was like a full on star wars jedi fight. Jason hit me first, which meant Percy wasn't in yet, and I blocked.

I held my sword there until Jason pulled back. Not yet. Not yet. Not yet. Now. We both jumped back. I hit from the side, he blocked, placing the tip of his sword on the ground. I jumped back, and he hit, I blocked. It went back and forth until I took hanging left and he was hanging right.

` I aimed for his right, ready to hit, but at the last second, I changed to slide knocked him down as I hit him with the flat side of my sword on his armour.

He smiled as he fell. "That was awesome bro!" He was on his back now.

I gave him my hand. "Here."

"What was that?" Jason asked.

"I don't know?" I told him "I just made it up."

"Well that was cool." Jason said.

Percy walked over next to Jason and looked surprised also. "That was cool. What was that move?"

"I'm not sure yet." I smiled.

"Well, you have to teach me that later." Percy said.

"Hey, um Nico, Will looks mad," Jason says before taking Percy's hand and running off.

I turn and Wills walking towards me.

"Where were you? I was looking for you." Will tells me.

"I was practicing with Jason." I tell him.

"You should've told me that then. I was worried." He said.

"You were?"

"Well, if you're talking to someone about your boyfriend and about to introduce him and then turn around to see that he's not actually not there, wouldn't you freak out?" He told me.

"Oh…" I blushed. "I'm sorry. I thought you were just interested in them so I just went with Percy and Jason. Sorry." I smiled.

"It's okay. When I told them, it was you, they said you looked pretty cool." Will said, grabbing my hands and leading me back to his new friends.

After the little incident at the arena, we decided to skip lunch and go to my cabin. "Wanna watch some movies?" I ask him. "I got some new movies the other day."

"Okay, whatcha got?" Will sits next to me by the fire as I flip through a book of movies that I have.

I flip to the last page. "Here are the new movies I got. Zootopia, Secret Life of Pets, Finding Dory, and Train to Busan."

"What's Train to Busan?" Will asks me.

"It's a Korean horror film. It's like a zombie movie, on a train, to Busan which is a city. It's pretty straight forward." I laugh.

Will laughs also. "That sounds creepy but it sounds pretty good. Let's watch it. Have you seen it yet?" Will stands up and sits on the sofa.

I take out the disk from the book and place it in the x-box. "Not yet. But I hear it's pretty good."

"I'm pretty sure it's good if you're here." Will flirted.

I giggled. "Shut up." I kissed him "Lets watch."

I sat next to him and pressed play. When the title came on, I got up and went over to the hallway where the microwave was to make some popcorn. I brought back the bowl and people were boarding the train. "Miss anything?" I hand him the bowl.

"Nothing important." He kisses my cheek.

"Coolio."

We were silent most of the movie, with most of it being intense and making us tense up. When it was finished, we put on Finding Dory to make him feel better, since he was scared.

"Hey Nico?" Will asked me.

"Yeah?"
"I love you." Will said, holding me hand.

I rested my head on his shoulder again. "I love you, too."

"Yay." Will said. He got up and walked over to the tree.

"What are you doing?" I asked him. I got up and followed him.

He got on his knees and reached for a present. "I got a few presents for you, and I sorta want you to open it now." He had in his hands a long rectangular box in golden wrapping and with a black ribbon on top. "Open it now?"

"Now?" I asked.

Will sat down and crossed his legs. "Yeah. I want you to open it now."

I took off the black bow and put it on Will's head. "Haha." I opened the box. "Woah." I pulled out a golden metal rose. "It's so pretty."

"It took a while to find a nice present. But as soon as I saw this, I knew it was perfect. Do you like it?" Will asked with a huge smiled on his face.

"Of course I do!" I jumped on him and kissed him. "I love it."

"Good, cause I wasn't so sure about giving that one in front of everyone else." Will laughed.

"What do you mean?" I asked, still sitting on his lap.

"Well, I just wanted it a be a special moment with the two of us." Will laughed. "Don't worry. I still have another present for you."

I got off his lap. "I love this but I, like, have no idea where to put this."

Will stood up and grabbed the wrapping. "Why not leave it in the tree for now?" Will joked.

I placed it in the tree, with the gold flower poking out. "I think I like that."

Will came from behind me and hugged me. "Yeah, that's nice."

We walked back to the sofa. and continued to watch Finding Dory until we fell asleep on the sofa, under the blanket with the fireplace. It was peaceful.