WAIT, THIS HAS BEEN EDITED!
Hey , hey, hey! I actually do have reasons to why I have been a little late. Sex scandal... blah blah blah. Rumors... blah blah blah blah. And getting to the point someone is spreading rumors about me (not the sex scandal, that's something else, thank god) and yeah... No more personal stuff, I'm updating!
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Mystery99: Maybe it was because I was lacking sleep. ;p
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Evelynyamine: Well, they aren't suppose to... Do they? I AM JUST VERY EMOTIONAL! hehe... Sorry for being immature, you're right...
This will be very short.
OH! I FORGOT! I DO NOT OWN PERCY JACKSON! I WOULD NOT WANT THE PRESSURE ANYWAYS! I LOVE THIS SERIES THOUGH. AND UM, I'M NOT GONNA DO THIS AGAIN.
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Tyson fell asleep half way through Monopoly. Paul could hardly blame him, it was a long game. He had heard it had to do with "playing correctly" or whatever, but this game was taking forever.
Paul heard murmuring from Percy's room while packing up the distressed game board with Sally. Tyson was still asleep on the couch. Soon after, a boy came out with Percy. The boy was tall, skinny, and pale. He was holding a slice of Sally's ever so famous blue-iced birthday cake. He looked so... sick. Paul could see the longing in Sally's face. She wanted to baby him very badly.
Paul stood up, ready for an introduction to this skinny, black-haired boy. Just because a boy no older than thirteen comes out of where doesn't mean you have to be rude about it. He stuck out his hand, waiting for the boy's icy touch. It came soon after.
"My name is Paul Blofis. What is yours?" Paul said, careful to not be impolite.
"He's Nico di Angelo," Percy said, the same time as the boy said, "Nico. Just Nico."
"Seriously, Percy?" Nico di Angelo said. "I just go by Nico, by the way, Paul."
"Okay," Paul said, mouth quirking into a half-smile. "What is your relation to Percy, Nico?"
"We are friends," Nico said.
At the same time, Percy said, "We are cousins."
"Again, Percy? Really, really?" Nico said.
By this time Paul and Percy were laughing. Hard. Like, holding their bellies laughing, the kind you can only do in certain company.
Sally walked over and the laughing ceased. "What are you big men talking about."
At the mention of big men Percy began laughing again. "Nico is hardly big or a man. Me either, really. But let's be fair, he has no shot in the big men contest."
"Percy," Sally said, giving him a pointed look. He stopped very quickly with his laughing-rant (probably part of his ADHD).
"How nice it is to see you, Nico," Sally said, facing their unexpected guest. "I wish you would come more often."
"I-I try when I can, Mrs. Jackson," Nico said, his mouth in a light smile.
"I have to know, how did you get up here without going through the front?" Paul unwaveringly asked.
"He actually did go up the fire escape this time," Percy said.
"Aha! Your father didn't disappear down the fire escape. I knew it!" Paul said, guffawing.
"Well, I just wanted to introduce," Percy said, picking up Nico's white, boney arm and dragging him to his room. "Much to talk about, you know?!"
"I knew it!" Paul said to Sally. She did not look impressed. "So what is his story?"
"Who, Nico?" Sally asked as if it was a the most preposterous thing in the world to ask.
"Yes, Nico."
"He's had a hard life. Nico is what you would call a wondering orphan. Just a hard life that's all."
It most certainly did not seem all, but Paul decided to drop it. "He's a homeless orphan? Why don't you adopt him."
"He would not much appreciate it. Plus, he probably doesn't have all the papers." The last part was muffled and whispered but Paul still heard it.
"What?!"
"Just drop it, okay?"
And he did because he loved Sally, even though he wanted to know so badly his insides hurt just thinking about it.
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Paul did not see poor, skinny Nico again until the next year, which he learned was normal for Percy's cosin, which it itself was odd. A twelve-year-old wondering orphan. By the time he did see Nico he knew what-who he was. But that's another story for another time.
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