Nico
I decided to take Thalia to the park first. We passed by a lot of people on our way there. Some girls even glared at Thalia as we passed by. She, of course, ignored them all.
When we got there, we decided to sit on a bench looking at the pond.
"How did you become general?" she asked me out of nowhere.
"A monster attacked me at the market one day when I was thirteen. Percy was there to see me pulverize the monster into oblivion. Then Percy learned that both my mother and sister had died in a fire that took out my entire town. He took me in to go meet the king. Some years later, they were looking for two new generals. The king recommended us and here we are today."
"So how did you get so good?"
"Practice."
"That's it?"
"Pretty much."
"No one ever taught you?"
"Well, the king did provide Percy and I some instructors, obviously." She was silent for a bit.
"So how did you get so good?" I asked her, curious.
"Practice."
"Really?"
"Yep," she said, popping the 'p'.
"What do you think your mother and half sister said when they saw that you were gone?" She laughed before answering.
"They were probably furious. I can't imagine them having to do their own chores for once." I chuckled at that. From what Thalia's told me, they seem to be total snobs.
"If you hated it there so much, why did you stay?"
"I had to wait until I had a decent plan. I also felt kind of bad for my mother. From what my father told me, she used to be nice and caring. But now all she cares about is herself and her daughter."
"But you're her daughter too."
"I wish I wasn't."
"If you weren't, then you would've never been born."
"I guess you're right."
"I know." I said. She shoved me a little. I shoved her back gently. She got a wicked smile and shoved me hard off the bench. I immediately jumped back up and wrestled her to the ground. We were rolling around trying to get the upper hand. We were laughing as we rolled dangerously close to the pond. We narrowly avoided falling into it.
I finally pinned her to the ground underneath us. We were both breathing heavily. I was hovering over her, smiling. She was also smiling and flipped us over. She was now on top of me. We sat there for a minute, looking at each other.
"Inconsiderate kids!" an older person yelled at us. We quickly got up and started walking somewhere else.
"Let's go get ice cream!" I screamed as we passed by the ice cream shop.
"Your such a child!" she told me as I draged her to the door of the ice cream shop. We walked up to the lady at the counter.
"Hi, what can I get you two?"
"Can I get one scoop of rocky rode and one of vanilla?" I tell her.
"Sure. And you?" she asked Thalia.
"The same," she replies.
"Awwwwwww. How cute! You two even get the same ice cream!" she squealed. I quickly realized that she thought that Thalia and I were a couple.
"Oh! We're not a couple," Thalia states. I can't help but to be a little disappointed.
"Oh please! You can't fool me! You dress similarly, you came in here holding hands," she said referring to how I dragged her in here by her hand, "and you guys even ordered the same thing! If you're not a couple now, then you'll soon be," she said as she handed us our ice cream. Thalia and I just blushed as I paid for our ice cream before Thalia could.
"Why didn't you let me pay?" she whined as we sat down on another bench.
"Because, what kind of gentleman would I be if I let you pay?" I said jokingly.
"One that lets me pay," she mumbled. I chuckled at her comment.
"This is really good ice cream," I tell her between spoonfuls of ice cream. She just laughs at me.
"What?" I asked her.
"You're such a kid!" she told me for the second time.
"You know you love me!" I tell her.
"Yeah right!" she said while laughing.
"Nice to know you care Thals!" I say, pretending to be hurt.
"Awww, is little Nicky sad now?" she said in her baby voice.
"Do you want me to tackle you to the ground again?" I ask her. She just smirked.
"I could totally take you!"
"Yeah right! Don't you remember how I pinned you down?" She turned a little red at that. I smirked.
"Is little Thalia getting embarrassed about getting her butt whooped?"
"Am not!"
"Am too!"
"Am not!"
"Am too!" I say in a sing song voice. That's when Thalia decided to tackle me to the ground.
After another intense wrestling match with Thalia, I decided to take her to eat.
"What do you want to eat?" I ask her.
"How do you feel about pizza?"
"I think 'Why are we still here let's go!'" I say, taking her arm and running to the amazing pizza shop by the beach, which wasn't very far from the park.
We entered the pizza shop out of breath from running the whole way there. The pizza shop was buzzing with people sitting at the circular red tables. The booths were also red. We chose a booth by a window and sat, waiting for someone to take our order.
"Do you know what you want to eat?" I ask her.
"A large meat lovers pizza!" I smile at her suggestion.
"Or course!" A while later, a waitress came to take our order. We placed it, Thalia getting a Dr. Pepper, me getting Coke, and of course ordering one large meat lovers pizza.
"So how do you like this place so far?" I ask her as we were waiting for our food.
"I love it here! It's amazing." We sat in a comfortable silence for a while until our food came.
"How is it that you know where all of the amazing places for food are? Oh wait, don't answer that," she said to me after taking her first bite of the pizza.
After we left the pizza restaurant, I took Thalia down to the beach. We sat around, talking, until the sunset.
"This sunset is amazing Nico, thanks."
"No problem." I looked over to Thalia, who looked even more breathtaking than the sun set. The light was hitting her perfectly. She looked gorgeous. So this is where I curse my impulsiveness. I leaned over and kissed her. She pulled away quickly, her eyes wide in surprise.
"I-I'm so-" I was cut off by her kissing me. I was so surprised and happy at the same time. When air became neccessary, we pulled away. She was blushing a deep red.
"Miss Thalia!" a messenger yelled. He looked out of breath from running.
"I'm sorry to interupt, but Sir Luke has come back!"
"What?" she yelled in surprise. She got up and ran. So that's how Thalia Grace left me on the beach for some other guy.
Thalia
I was dashing at top speed to go see Luke. I momentarily forgot that Nico was still there. All I knew was that Luke, my best friend, has come back. I was running at top speed to the castle, where I knew he would most likely be in. I burst through the door, out of breath. I spotted Luke immediately and hugged him tightly.
"Luke! I knew that you would come back!" I yelled as I held him tightly.
"Thalia, I thought about what you said, and I found myself agreeing with you." Now I know what your thinking, 'But Thalia, he's just tricking you.' I looked him in the eyes and saw the sincerity. I had a feeling the Hermes had something to do with this. I let him go after a while of holding him tightly.
"Thalia, where is Nico?" the king asked me. Just then, I heard the door slam, and Nico went up to his room. My eyes widen. I completely left Nico on the beach after we kissed. I feel horrible now. I ran up to his room and pounded on his door.
"Nico!" No answer.
"Nico!" Still no answer.
"I'm so sorry! I don't know why I left you but I did! I'm sorry!" I tried to explain myself, but still, there was no answer at the door. He didn't make a sound. So I resigned to my room, thinking about how much of an awful person I was.
The next morning, my eyes were bloodshot from the lack of sleep I got. I lazily got up and dressed for the day. I went downstairs to find that Nico also had bloodshot eyes. He didn't even acknowledge me when I set across from him. I missed when he would greet me tiredly. I missed when we talked. I missed us. But I just had to ruin it by running to Luke when he came back. How could I be so stupid?
Weeks passed, Nico still wouldn't talk to me. He would make no indication that he even noticed my presence. So I too became silent. I wouldn't talk much, I wouldn't eat as much, I wouldn't do anything but think about what I had did. Nico haunted my nights, my dreams.
I was informed of another battle that was going to take place. At the battle meeting, Annabeth provided another battle plan, using Luke as a source of information about the enemy. I sat through it and left the second it was over. The battle was to be led by Percy and Jason. Nico, Frank, Annabeth and I would be at the front of the battle as well.
The battle day came very soon. I knew that I would no longer have Nico to watch my back for me. That thought scared me a little. With Nico, I knew that someone had my back. I would just be out there, on my own. Luke was also fighting in this battle, but I couldn't count on him to watch my back the same way Nico did.
The battle was huge. I was striking down enemies as fast as I could. I would occasionally glance at Nico who had no problem whatsoever. I was doing pretty well. The enemy had brought in archers after they began to lose. There were many monsters that had been in the fight as well.
They were being led by someone new. Someone I didn't recognize. He seemed to be a skilled fighter and leader, though.
I was being surrounded by enemies on all sides. I was attacking and blocking, trying to get out of the circle they had formed around me. Then, I saw Nico. He was running towards me. He was trying to break through the circle, but the monsters kept coming. I had just killed another monster when I felt a sharp pain in my side. I looked down and found an arrow buried in my side. The last thing I saw before I blacked out was Nico running to my side.
The first thing I saw when I woke up was Nico. He was staring at me. When he saw that I had woken up, he asked me, "Are you feeling alright?"
"Yeah," I replied. My side was a little sore, but I definitely felt fine. They probably fed me ambrosia or nectar.
"That's good," he said. We sat in silence before I started to drift off again. When I woke up, he wasn't there.
When they finally let me out of the infirmary, I went straight to the castle. I grabbed my stuff and went to the training grounds. The training day wasn't anything out of the ordinary. I didn't know what I expected from Nico. He still didn't speak a word to me though.
During dinner, the king made an announcement.
"We are going to hold a ball for Nico to find a wife!" he said cheerfully. I nearly choked on my food. Nico was going to have to find a wife? There was talk of planning for the ball for the rest of dinner. Nico, however, was silent through the whole thing. When we finished dinner, I rushed up to my room for another sleepless night.