Chapter 4

Nico's

POV

As I was walking across Camp back to my cabin, I was suddenly in a bone crushing hug.

Wheezing, I looked down to see Hazel at my side.

"I've missed you," she said in her cheerful voice, "it's been so long since we've hung out."

The reason we haven't hung out in a while is because she's been spending all her time with Frank, but I'd never tell her that.

Patting Hazel on the head, not exactly soure what to do, I just awkwardly stand there till she let's go. Looking over her shoulder I see Frank's not far behind as he sends me happy grin.

He wraps an arm around her waist and the immature part of me wants to throw up at the PDA, it being my sister only adding to the disgust factor.

Frank leans down and whispers something in her ear, her cheeks reddening immediately, and I now definitely need to find a toilet.

"Ok well," I say, backing away slowly, "I'm just going to head back to my cabin."

Hazel giggles up at Frank for a few seconds before she stops and her eyes snap to meet mine.

"Oh yeah," she says, probably just now hearing what I said, "See you later," she calls out as I'm already turning around and walking away.

On the rare chance that I ever thought about relationships, and believe me really rare, I didn't like thinking about love and emotions and all that drama, but when I did I'd look around and see all these couples, Jason and Piper, Frank and Hazel, Percy and Annabeth, I'd see them and notice how they were all practically joined at the hip.

If ever I were to date someone I'd want it to be easy, natural, I wouldn't want to always have to be next to them. That we'd be sure enough of our 'being together', as teenage drama-ish as that sounds, that we could spend time apart.

My mind immediately goes to Will, and the ghost of a smile drifts onto my face.

I haven't seen on the walk back so I'm pretty sure he's in the Apollo cabin already. I still have no idea what happened back there. I mean I know. It'd be hard not to know with all these hormonal teenagers around.

I just have no clue how to proceed and I made an oath to myself that I would never be that desperate person who demands immediate answers or that has to keep on thinking over everything that happened.

Pushing aside all these melodramatic thoughts I head into my cabin, peeling off my sweaty T-shirt.

I drop into my bunk, staring around at the empty room, well, semi empty, but I don't think the other bunks count in the way I'm thinking.

Closing my eyes I lay my arm over my eyes, slowly letting myself drift to sleep.

Will's

POV

I couldn't keep the grin off my face all through dinner. The whole time my brothers and sisters sent me looks of confusion, some of them, most of them, were looking at me like I was an alien.

I could still feel Nico's hands on me, pulling me closer. It was good, great. I loved the look on his face as we both pulled away to catch his breath.

The mix of astonishment, breathlessness, pleasure. I couldn't wait to see that look again, it sent shivers up my body just thinking about it.

The entire time through dinner I didn't see Nico, so I assumed he was back at his cabin.

As soon as everyone left the dining pavilion and headed over to amphitheater I walked in the other direction over to the cabins, ignoring weird looks I was getting for not following along with everyone else.

I walked along, a sly smile spreading across my face as I stood in front of the Hades cabin door for a second before I pushed it open.

My eyes immediately found him, lying on his bunk, his arm across his eyes. He was asleep, or at least he was.

"Nnhg," he grunted unintelligibly as he sat up, elbows behind him holding up his weight.

"Hey," he said when his eyes found mine, his voice husky with sleep.

"Hey," I said back before I headed over to his bunk and sat beside him.