CHAPTER 4
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NICO MEETS THE CLINGY GROVER
The car ride to this military school was long and awkward. But that was alright with Nico. He was intrude of the outside world. He realized after being shut from the world for 2 months in the hotel that he actually miss the city outside. But something was different. Washington DC changed and there were buildings that were there that weren't before. Surely, in such a short time, they couldn't possibly build something quickly in 2 months? Nico frowned at the thought but quickly dismissed it, most likely he'd missed it when he was still out in the world.
Nico soon fell asleep later and was awoken by a shake from Bianca. "Wake up, Nico! Bianca called shaking her zombie of a brother awake, "We're here!" Nico opened his eyes to a bright eye Bianca. Her floppy green cap was lopsided on her head and it looked as if she drooled a little on the side of her mouth. Nico grinned at the sight. "What are you smiling at?" Bianca questioned. "Look at your face Bee," Nico laughed. "The drooling princess!" And Nico doubled up laughing even more. Bianca flushed and wiped her mouth on her sleeves. She was about to scold at Nico when the lawyer spoke, "Children. You two do not have an eternity to play around. Your new school awaits you."
Bianca and Nico stopped what they were doing and stared the lawyer. Wordlessly, they stooped out of the car and into the sunshine again. Their luggage was being carried into the school building by some student assistants. None of them said hi, they just simply walked up the stairs and into the building. Nico's gazed followed them and then he took in the view of his new school. It was old looking, with crack walls and worn down paint. Even the door looked dusty. The windows that had the view of the classroom were musty and filled with cobwebs. But for some odd reason, Nico liked it. That was until his eyes rested on a man. He had short gray hair with a clean shaven head, and he was wearing a black military suit. The weird thing was that he had 2 different eye colors – brown and blue and automatically, Nico disliked him.
"Welcome to Titan Military School," the man greeted," I am your principal, Dr. Thorn. It is pleasures to have you two join my school." He didn't sounded please of having them here, he sounded as if it were the last thing that made him please. "Please, come this way." And with that, Dr. Thorn turned around and opened the door into the school. Bianca grabbed Nico's hand and he tightened his hand in her's. He turned around to look for the lawyer, but the lawyer was gone.
Dr. Thorne had shown them the main entry hall leading to the office, classrooms, or dormitories. It was a two story building. There were two stairs cases. Each one on the opposite ends of the school. The right side of the top floor were the girls, the left were the boys. Breakfast started at 7am to 8 am, classes were at 8:05am to 9:05am strictly. There were 6 classes in all, but after 3rd it was the boy's lunch. After 4th was the girl's lunch. Study hall is to be used from 5pm to 7pm. Bed time was strictly at 8pm. Nico thought the rules was rather harsh, but he said nothing.
As soon as Nico was dismissed into his dormitory, he was pounced upon a guy 3 ages older than him. "Sorry! Hi, I'm Grover Underwood. It's nice to meet you!" Grover greeted a little breathlessly. "Um...hi," Nico responded, "I'm Nico di Angelo." Grover was awfully close and Nico was all up against the door. He squeezed past Grover and flopped onto his bed, ignoring Grover's speech. He was glad it Saturday meaning no class. The moving day and getting use to the fact he no longer lived in the Lotus Hotel was a big chunk to swallow. Nico was lost in thought when Grover poked him. "There's a dance later today. Are you going?" Nico sighed and then turned over to look at Grover, "No. I've heard nothing about it."
"Well you should come!"
"Why?"
"Cause…uhm there would be girls!"
Nico raised his eyebrow. As far as he was concerned, he never wanted to date. Girls were icky. "I don't like girls."
"Then there will be ca – food!"
Grover was what Nico considered demented. He thought Grover was going to say can. What's so interesting about cans? "I can eat in lunch."
"Aw, come on! It'd be fun!"
"I'll think about it."
"Great!" And with that Grover left him alone. Nico sighed and pushed himself up. He was tired but he can't sleep now. He twisted his head to look at his luggage. Then he found himself later lost playing Mythomagic. He was going to have Zeus fight off with Poseidon when there was a cough. Nico looked up to see Grover smiling shyly at him. Nico found that creepy. "What cha playing?" Grover queried.
"Mythomagic," Nico retorted, "You wouldn't understand it."
"Mythomagic? I love that game! Who's your favorite god?"
Nico looked up surprised. He wouldn't think a guy like Grover would be interested in a kid's game. "I don't have a favorite really. They're all awesome."
Grover grinned, "Wise thing to say."
Nico was about to question what he meant by that, but an older boy walked in the room interrupting him mid-sentence. He looked about 17. Really old. "Dance starts in 5 minutes. Head on down to the gym." He didn't say anything else, but he turned around walked away. This place is weird, Nico thought. Grover looked back at where the 17 year old went and back at Nico. "Have you decided that you're going?" Nico frowned, "I don't want to be there alone."
"I'll be there!"
"I'm talking about wanting to go with my sister. Not you."
A look of hurt flashed Grover's face, "Oh…alright. If that's what you want." Grover started t saunter off toward he door when Nico cried, "Wait!"
"Yes?"
"I'll...go with you."
"Really?"
Nico didn't reply but stood up and held the door open gesturing for them to go. Grover grinned and they headed down into the gym.
The gym was filled with the color red and black. Everyone was dancing or playing pranks. There groups of teenage girls going around putting make up on helpless boys. Nico cringed at that. All thoughts evaporated when he saw Bianca on the bleachers. He grinned and ran towards her. "Bianca!" Nico shouted. Bianca looked up bewildered from her thoughts. Her green hat was covering her eyes. "Nico. I didn't think you'd be here."
"Oh, Grover convinced me."
"Who?"
"He's right over –" But Grover was gone.
"Ugh, you brought that Mythomell with you?"
"It's Mythomagic. And yes. I'll get bored here."
"Nico, it's a dance. Not a play house."
"So?"
"You can't just always bring that with you!"
"Yes I can!" Nico got angry. Bianca was always bossing him around. It just irritated him. He just wanted a bit of freedom. He turned his head one way to ignore Bianca when he saw Grover was with friends. One was a dark hair sea green eyes, the girl next to him was kind of pretty, blond hair and gray eyes. He never saw blond hair and gray eyes before and that amused him. The other girl was in black with heavy mascara. He liked the color, not the style. He was going to comment when Bianca said something, "You're so childlish Nico."
"Am not!"
"You brought a board game to a dance!"
"I can do whatever I want!"
Bianca didn't get a chance to reply though. Dr. Thorn was standing by her. "Having trouble, my dear children?"
I spent a long time on this one..I hope it isn't a disappointment. I tried to stick extremely close to the books. And I hope I got it. Please please review. And I promise, the next chapter will get more interesting. As for now, please review.