Percy POV
We walked back to camp hand and hand, and I couldn't believe how happy I felt. Ever since my break up with Annabeth, I felt as though I was missing something, and now I had that missing piece. I glanced down at Nico, and couldn't hold back a smile.
"What?" Nico asked, looking a little concerned.
"Nothing, I just really happy right now." I said smile softly.
"Oh, me too." He said smiling back, cuddling into my side. I pulled him tighter against me in a side hug, loving the way he seemed to melt into my side.
"Well it's about time!" A voice behind us yelled. I turned to look over my shoulder and saw Piper standing with her hand on her hips and a small smirk on her lips. Annabeth was a few feet behind her, with a small smile, shaking her head.
"Do you realize how long he, we, the whole camp for that matter have been waiting?" Piper said in a huff.
"What do you mean?" I was confused, the whole camp? What did she mean by that?
"Oh my, do you see how clueless he is?" She said spinning around to Annabeth. Spinning back around she faced us, with a small look of annoyance. "My gods Percy, for you to finally pull your head out of your…" She began.
"Piper." Annabeth said sternly.
"Fine, for you to pull your head out of the clouds, happy?" She asked Annabeth without turning around. "and realize that poor Nico over there has been in love with you since, like the dawn of time." She yelled throwing her arms up in the air.
"He has?" I asked, surprised that Nico had remained quiet for so long. Annabeth and Piper just shook their heads.
"Yes Percy he has, now if you'd excuse us we are going to go." Annabeth said, pulling on Piper's arm to head over to her cabin.
"Clueless, he is so clueless!" Piper said to Annabeth.
"Well then." Nico said awkwardly, shifting from foot to foot.
"I will never understand children of Aphrodite." I said, shaking my head, heading to my cabin.
"Me neither." Nico said, chuckling quietly.
"So when she says the dawn of time, how long would that be anyway?" I asked, as we walked into my cabin.
"Oh, well umm, not long after I met you I guess." He said turning red and ducking his head. When did he become so adorable. "I know that sounds strange but…" He began again, but I had already smashed our lips together silencing whatever he had been about to say. We stood there oblivious to the world for what felt like forever, but eventually the need for oxygen became too great to continue.
"Oh." Nico said, once more turning red and he began to bite his lip. I just chuckled.
"Oh is right." I said with a small smirk and a wink. "So what do you wanna do now? I asked turning to look into his black eyes. That seemed to twinkle as though filled with little stars, and I couldn't understand how I had never realized how beautiful he was.
"Um well we could watch a movie." He said, shuffling his feet, turning to look at the ground.
"Awesome! What should we watch?" I said spinning to begin digging through some of the DVDs I had. "Hmmm, how about this?" I asked, holding up the Lion King.
"Perfect." He said, smiling. I went to put it in, before joining him on my bed. His head leaned against my shoulder, and he once more snuggled into my side. I wrapped my arm around his waist and rested my head on his shoulder. I'm not sure when we fell asleep, but all I know is it was the best night of sleep I had, had in a long time.