Free Me
A/N An idea I have I guess just trying stuff out lol.
DISCLAIMER I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING
Chapter 4
"Okay Nico, so you're my roommate right? Is there like a way I can perhaps convince you to dorm with someone else." Nico, my presumed roommate looked at me with pity.
The boy in front of me didn't look dangerous like the rest of the students that attended Argo. My first impression about Nico was that his hands were ice cold. He was ghostly pale, which kind of scared me. As if he never went out in the sun. On his head was messy black hair that covered his dark brown eyes. He gave off an ancient aura, even though he couldn't be older than me. Deep down I could sense he had a deep sadness within himself, his eyes had bags as if he hadn't slept in days.
"Well I would honor your request but I can't. I'm a transfer student so I don't have the luxury nor option to change roommates unless you kill me or something." His eyes looked accusingly at me. He trusted me as much as I trusted him, which was very little.
"Okay. Well, why do you need all these electronics with you? I thought students were banned from having their personal electronics with them." I noticed his helpers started to place a desktop on his desk. They started to set up four huge monitors on the wall then proceeded to connect them to his desktop. Another man came from the hallway and started to bring in Nico's gaming consoles.
"Well my father doesn't like to the break rules, but it's kind of violating our rights to take away our stuff. Plus I'm pretty sure this school monitors all our internet activity, so they're basically violating our privacy. Plus I follow my own rules." Nico turned around and started to organize some of his things. He messily threw all his extra clothing into his wardrobe and emptied his suitcase which was full of shoes onto the floor.
It seemed that Nico was a spoiled brat, but in reality he wasn't. He had humility, he didn't flaunt all of his expensive technology in Percy's face. His wardrobe was full of black clothes. Scratch that, I think he believes black is the only color in existence. I stood there analyzing his form. He was wearing a black aviator's jacket. Underneath his unzipped jacket was a skull t-shirt that hugged his torso and chest very well. He was wearing black skinny jeans with black slip on toms. He had a fashion sense that was for sure.
Nico knew I was standing there just staring at him. "Can I help you" Nico said as he turned around. I was at a loss for words.
"You think I can use your technology too? Like when you aren't using it." Nico moved his hand to his chin and took on a thinking face. I don't know if he did that purposely, to show emphasis or to spite me.
Nico was done thinking and just nodded and resumed messily organizing his clothes and his bed. The moving guys were there for about an hour until they finally lugged in all of Nico's stuff.
While my side of the room looked simple with some posters here and there. Nico's side of the room looked exquisite. His monitors, desktop, and gaming consoles were shinning bright with all types and colors of LED lights. The default desk the school gave us was pushed aside as if nothing. In its place was a regal black wooden desk. More items littered his side of the room things such as an extra mini fridge, personal toaster, and a microwave. The min fridge fit perfectly under his elevated dorm bed. The old mattress that the school had provided, was taken away and presumably burned to ashes. As if his desktop wasn't enough, he had his personal laptop on his bed that also shined brightly with LED Lights. Nico was very colorful when it came to other things that weren't his clothes.
I kept looking back and forth between my side and his side of the shared dorm room. One was simple and boring while the other showed personality and excitement. You can guess which one was mine. Breaking me out of my comparison of the room was the door opening.
I recognized the teenager that was opening the door. It was the front desk douche. I hadn't really taken his physical features because he was behind a computer screen ignoring me the whole time. He was a tall scrawny kid with blonde hair and blue eyes. He was extremely pale, almost as pale as Nico. Hanging over his shoulder were clothes on hangers. In his other hand were two belts wrapped around his wrist with two boxes of shoes.
"Salutations, I'm Octavian, the room advisor for this specific hallway. What I have given you is your school uniform, belt, tie, shoes and all. The clothes are kind of wrinkled, because quite frankly, I don't care about items that don't belong to me. Anyways I welcome you to the Argo Reformatory. Any complaints please do not come to me. You can rot in Tartarus with your complaints." And as simple as that, he left without another word. His speech sounded rehearsed and he said it as quickly as possible to get back to his boring life.
Nico looked at the uniform with disgust. He picked up the white dress shirt with the ends of his fingertips, as if the clothes themselves were poisonous. I mirrored his disgust. This was going to be torture. When I ripped the plastic covering off the clothes, I realized that this had to be the single most uncomfortable attire to wear at any school.
They had given both Nico and I five white dress shirts, five khaki colored chinos, a crimson colored tie, a brown belt, brown loafers, and to top it all off a scratchy crimson blazer. I decided that staring at the clothing would do remotely nothing, so I quickly stuffed the abomination into my messy wardrobe. Nico did the same.
"They want us to wear "that" during the week? Are they crazy?" Nico said out loud. When he realized he had said it out loud, he blushed a little bit.
"I know right, I'd rather do my time in juvenile detention than wear that." Nico looked at me wide eyed. I had let it slip that I was delinquent and a criminal. But soon after Nico burst out into laughter.
"You should've seen your face. You looked scared when you told me that you were sentenced to juvenile detention. But instead you came here." Nico once again started to bust out into laughter. However, I wasn't really pleased with his teasing. So I decided to change the subject.
"Why are you at this reformatory anyways?" With that, the laughter completely died. Nico tensed and I could tell he was withdrawing himself emotionally from me.
After some time he responded. "My sister Bianca was murdered by someone in cold blood. Law enforcement didn't have any leads, so the case went cold. I decided I would take matters into my own hands, to find out who her murderer was. I scoured through the internet finding articles to see if there were any clues. Anything I found was scarce and irrelevant. So I had to hack into the local police department's servers and I succeeded." I looked at him shocked. He actually hacked the law enforcement's servers to find evidence or anything that resembled it in his sister's case, what a guy.
"You what-" I coughed out. I was still in utter shock. At such a young age he was capable of doing that. All for his sister.
"You heard me correctly Percy. I hacked into their servers and got into my sister's case. I scoured through their reports, but they were pretty vague. They singled out some suspects. So I decided to interview them in person. Of course they wouldn't want to talk to me, since I was a mere child. But I was very persuasive. After torturing the second suspect, police enforcement caught me. So it was either here or prison." Nico was more dangerous than he looked. But for some odd reason I had a strong belief he wouldn't hurt me.
"Did you ever get the information out of any of them?" Nico shook his head. I could tell not knowing his sister's murderer was eating away at his conscience. He wanted closure and he was going to get it one way or another.
"He's still out there. Walking free, knowing he's gotten away with taking someone so beautiful like my sister." Nico was balling his fist, his anger barely contained.
"Don't worry Nico, once you get out of here you'll find whoever he or she is and I want to help." Nico stopped balling his fist and looked at me.
"You would really help me?" Nico was looking at me doubtfully. Like I wasn't going to go through with my word.
"I promise. Plus when I get out of here it will most likely be a stupid reason which led to me being kicked out. Not because I completed their course." At my response both I and Nico laughed.
Shortly after that Nico and I exchanged our schedules to see if we had any classes together. Sadly we didn't have the same interests, which led to most of our schedule being entirely different. I had more physically demanding courses, while Nico had more tech savvy classes, especially since he was so good at technology. The only class we had together was P.E.
"So after P.E we meet up here and we'll do some research on your sister's case? I know it won't be easy, but we have a year to do it. That way once we're out, you and I will be ready." Helping Nico out was something I actually wanted to do. I didn't know Nico for long but his sister's death was weighing heavily on his heart. I had a strong urge to take off that burden from him. But it wasn't a physical burden it was emotional.
Deciding our mood was a little dark I decided to change the subject. "So how about we play some games on your console. I'm not really good at it, but I learn pretty quickly. Soon I'll be the one kicking your butt at your own games." Nico scoffed as if I had just insulted him. I was bluffing, I was terrible at games. But I do learn fast.
"Nice joke Percy. You're going to learn that the Ghost King is feared in every single game. And that's because I dominate at everything." Nico turned on his gaming system and tossed me his spare controller. I had no idea what game we were playing, but Nico had a nasty smirk on his face. I could tell he was ready to kick my butt.
As we were waiting for the gaming console to load the game Nico offered me some of his fries from the happy meal he had gotten before he arrived at Argo Reformatory. I grabbed some of the fries with pleasure. Soon after Nico and I were laughing it all away playing games. It was one of my best nights ever and that was because Nico was someone genuine and loyal. Someone I could rely on.
A/N I know this chapter was rather short. But I promise the next one is definitely going to be longer. Nico and Percy have seemed to become the best of friends in only a day. That's because they are going to need each other to survive at the Argo Reformatory. Bianca's case is actually all interconnected with the Argo Reformatory. There I told you, but I won't spoil it further. Percy is going to run into trouble soon, but he's going to have friends to back him up. So expect next chapter for me introduce some more characters. Argo Reformatory is one whole big mystery, wait till the end to find out :) It's going to be a rocky ride so I hope you have your seatbelts on and get ready for the ride.
Also In the next chapter it's going to be the first day of classes for everyone at the Argo. You're going to find out who really runs the Argo Reformatory both the management and the little dirty behind the scenes heirarchy the student have created.
P.S Ghost King is Nico's hacker and gamer tag name. Just so you know.
