Chapter 4: Movie Night
Percy POV
I am so glad the weekend was here. College is killer. As soon as I walked into Luke's house, I throw myself onto the sofa. "Hey. Get your lazy ass off my couch, and help us get everything ready before people show up." Luke yells from the kitchen.
"UGHHHHHHHHH" I grab a pillow and slam it on my face.
"Get up Percy." Annabeth says as she pulls the pillow from my hand and put it back on the sofa. She then walks toward the stairs. "I mean it Perce. Everyone will get here in a few minutes."
"So get your lazy ass up!" Luke adds.
"FINE!" I slowly get up and follow Annabeth up the stairs to get more blankets and pillows, while Luke finishes making popcorn and getting other food ready. We go to the closet and Annabeth grabs all the pillows, while I grab the blankets.
When we get downstairs there's a lot of chatter going on. 'Everyone must be here.' I think, but as we get to the living room, I notice a new person. I just shrug, and drop all the blankets onto the floor. "Hey Perce, Annabeth. We are just waiting on Hazel. She had to go with Nico for a little bit." Frank tell us. I nod, and head to the kitchen to see if Luke needs help.
"Need help?" I ask.
"If you can take the chips, I got the popcorn." Luke says. We then head to back to where everyone else is.
"Luke, sis says she won't get here till about 10." Jason tells Luke. He grunts to let Jason know that he was listening. I walk over to the new guy after I put the chips on the table. "So I've never seen you around before."
"Yeah. I just moved here this week. I'm Will." He runs his hand through his hair.
"Percy."
"I heard that some of you guys were in college. It's nice to actually see that you kept in touch with them." Will waves his hand as to show who he was talking about.
"Well even if we didn't wait to keep in touch with the younger ones, we wouldn't be able to. Luke and Cecil and brothers. Luke is dating Jason's sister. Rach and Annabeth are sisters with anything but blood. And I'm dating Annabeth, so we all see each other on a regular basis." It looks like Will was going to say something else, but then Nico throws up the front door and storms in. Everyone falls silent looking at Nico.
Will POV
Some angry kid barges in. He is dark, and I don't mean his skin. More like his aura, and what he is wearing. His is deathly pale. Horribly skinny. His hair and eyes are black, with bags under his eyes. His cloths don't help him look anymore alive. Black skinny jeans, a few sizes to big black shirt with a skull on it, and an aviator jacket that looks like it's from World War II which is also too big for him. He looks ready to kill something or someone. He starts to walk over to the group, and everyone gets out of his way. It's almost like if you touch him, you will drop over dead right there. "You must have a death wish if you think you can just date my sister." He says. His voice is no louder than whisper, but that just makes it scarier. It also has a hint of an accent too.
Frank looks like he's about to pee himself from how frighten he is. Which would be funny if this was any other situation. I mean, Frank is bigger and could probably take the kid, let alone Jason, Percy, or Luke. The kid all of a sudden grabs Frank by his shirt and that's when I notice the dude is small. Around 5'4", but that didn't make him any less intimidating. I feel sorry for Frank.
Before anything could get really out of hand, Hazel walks in and glares at this new dude. I don't know who is scarier. Hazel normally has a very sweet smiling face on, but new get on her bad side I guess. "Let him go. I can date whoever I want." Her voice is calm, but has an underline deadly hint to it. The dude doesn't look like he is going to let go anytime soon, but Jason puts his hand on the other persons. Without saying anything, Frank is finally released. "If you do anything to hurt her, I will personally put you six feet under." Frank nods wildly at that.
The tension is still in the air, but not as bad. "So … who's ready to watch a movie now?" Annabeth finally says. All around people either say "yeah" or just nod. She gets up and turns the TV on, getting it all set up to watch someone. I wasn't really paying attention to what was picked. "Are you staying Nico?" Percy asks.
Nico looks over to us, then turns away not answering Percy's question at all. He turns to Hazel. "Text me when you are done. I'll come pick you up, okay?" She makes a humming noise letting him know she heard. Then Nico walks out the door without saying anything else. Jason sighs and runs his hand through his hair.
I look around to see if what just happened strange or not, but everyone seems use to this, and goes about what they were doing. "Um … who was that?" I finally asked.
"That is Nico." Lou says. "He's a little … hard to get along with."
"He didn't have to ignore me." Percy mumbles, and walks away.
"A LITTLE hard to get along with? Try more like impossible." Leo seems to just show up. I blink. 'How can you be friends with someone who clearly hates everyone here?' I though.
"He doesn't hate us." Jason says a little angry, as if he read my thoughts. I lightly blush. Jason sighs again. "He's just had a tough life. Don't take it to personal."
After watching a movie, Thalia showed up. Instead of watching another movie, Rachel went and brought out some games for everyone to play. While we play, I finally asked a questions that's been on my mind for a while now. "So I know how some of you know each other, but how did you all became friends?"
Annabeth was the first to say anything. "Well as you probably know, I'm dating Percy. Luke is my childhood friend, and he is dating Thalia, which is Jason sister. Cecil is Luke's brother. Rach and I are partially sister. Jason and Thalia are Nico's cousin, and Percy and I knew him sense he was 10. Hazel is his half-sister, and she is dating Frank. Jason's best friend is Leo, and Leo is dating Calypo. While Piper is dating Jason. Calypo and Piper and adopted sisters. Renya is pretty much Nico's sister without blood. And last but not least, Lou Ellen pulled a prank with Cecil in middle school." My head started to hurt while she was explaining. Everyone is intertwined some way or another. I kind of wished I didn't ask. "So you've known each other pretty much most of your lives. That must be nice." I finally said once my head stopped pounding. Annabeth just shrugged.
"Well it was nice hanging with everyone, but we are going to bounce." Leo said as he and Calypo got up. After that others started to head out. Soon it was just Hazel, Jason, Luke, Thalia, and I left. Luke and Thalia went upstairs leaving us and a mess in the living room.
"Do you need a ride?" Jason asked looking at Hazel.
"No. Nico says he is on his way. Should be here in a few minutes." Hazel said after looking at her phone. Then Jason turned to me and asked. I chew my lip for a second, and then finally nodded.
"Alright. We will leave once Nico gets here." Jason says getting up and stretching.
