Author note: thanks for the last reviews! :D and this chapter Is pretty loNg too. Also, here is already 18th so happy birthday Percy! C':
"Just... Just lets not make a big deal about it. It was just a kiss. " he said and took Nico's face in his hands and gave him a quick kiss. Nico's eyes widened, in shock. "Uh... See? Just a kiss" Leo said, but he was blushing. And a lot.
Nico blinked many times before getting what had just happened. Leo kissed him. Again. AGAIN. And this wasnt because of a dare. Probably, just to prove his point. But still.
Nico blushed. A lot. As much as Leo.
"Uh" he mumbled. Then he babbled something that actualy none of them understood.
Leo was with wide eyes, trying to figure out what he just did. Well, actually trying to figure out why he did it. He slowly let go of Nico's face. "Um" he said "Well... I think... I.. Im going to sleep since I have just proved it was just a kiss, nothing else, no reason to be akward. Good night!" He said all that fastly and went to his bed.
Nico was still kind of in shock. Then he went to his bed as well. He stared at the ceiling for a while before closing his eyes. Well... He decided he needed to talk to Hazel. About stuff. Stuff he had only talked to her. And to no one else.
Next day. It was Sunday. Nico woke up and looked around. No one else was in the room. He sighed heavily and sat up. He rubbed his eyes to wear off his sleepy face.
Someone knocked the door.
It took a whole minute for Nico to react and answer. "Come in" he said while yawning and scratching his head a little. Just an attractive view.
Hazel with her usual kind smile came inside the room.
"Hey, did I wake you up?" She asked looking at his sleepy face and messy black hair.
Nico shook his head, "Nah" he said and yawned a little again, "Sup..?"
She shrugged and sat at the edge of his bed. "You okay?"
"Why you ask?" he asked. He would usually have said 'Im never okay' but since he got to this school, he started feeling better.
"Because... " she shifted a little, now looking a bit akward. "Last night... After truth or dare, I dont know... You looked ..."
Nico interrupted with a groan. "Yeah, yeah, whatever" he mumbled.
He wanted to talk with Hazel about it but he just woke up, he was still tired, so he didnt feel like opening up or being serious right now.
Hazel just watched him, anyone could say she was concerned. "Im fine" Nico said.
She nodded, clearly not convinced. "How is Leo? Piper was worried about him, she didnt say why though"
He shrugged, "Dunno, I didnt see him today" he said. "Wait, all of this is because of Leo's dare? Gods, it was just ... Just a dare, I dont kn-"
"Nico" Hazel cut him off, intently looking at him.
Nico swallowed and looked down.
"I came here, because... Well, I dont think anyone else noticed but... But you looked confused. " she said still looking at him. "And you know it"
Nico looked up at her. "Did you tell anyone?"
"Of course not" she said shaking her head.
He nodded relieved. The thing was that Nico was clearly confused by his sexuality. And he had told Hazel about it, even before he came to this school. He had never been in a relationship, because, well, he didnt like people, people didnt like him. Though yes, he had had some small crushes. Some of them girls, the most of them boys.
"Nico, I'll be direct. " she said "Do you like Leo?"
"No" Nico answered before thinking truly about it.
"No? "
"Well, he is my friend. Thats all" he said coldly now. He stood up and got inside the bathroom.
"Nico..." Hazel complained.
"Cant I pee?!" He asked inside the bathroom.
Hazel sighed, "Okay, sorry" she said and pursed her lips, "Gotta go now, see ya at lunch for Percy's twerk"
Nico heard and door closing. He got out of the bathroom and laid back down on his bed staring at the ceiling.
"Cmon, Percy, it was your dare." Jason insisted.
"Yeah, follow the rules" Annabeth said.
"You just want to see me moving my butt" Percy said. They all chuckled.
They were at the cafeteria sitting in their usual table, waiting for Percy to do his dare. Yeah. He had to twerk and all he was doing was sitting there, trying to get away with it.
"Cmoooon" Leo said, "Girls will go crazy"
Percy smirked looking at Annabeth's face, clerly not that amused now.
"Percy" Piper said. "Do it. Get over it and do it"
He sighed, Piper had a talent for telling people what to do. No. She wasnt bossy but in the way she said the things... It was weird.
He grunted. He stood up and said "I hate you, Nico"
Nico just snickered and went on eating his food.
Percy shook his head and walked to the middle of the cafeteria. "I dont have music, oh well..."
Leo smirked and took out his ipod touch prom his pocket. "Got it!" He said and played some music.
"I hate you too!" Percy said.
He looked around, he saw people wondering what he was gonna do. The gang was waiting for him to do it with big smirks on their faces and snickering.
Percy swallowed and...
The gang bursted into big laughs, the other students were watching. Some girls drooling, another ones taking pictures. And yes, Percy was twerking.
Leo and Nico bro-fisted and laughed, for a moment forgetting what happened last night. Yeah, it was just a dare. Everything was good again.
No. Everything was not good again.
They had their moments when they were bros and everything was cool, but they also had akward moments. The week went pretty weird.
MONDAY:
Nico was at Art class.
"So" Rachel started, as always she had been arguing and laughing with Octavian. "Nico, how was Saturday's night? We wanted to go but we already had other plans" she shrugged.
"Yeah, i know, um... i guess it was okay" Nico said, still doodling, without looking up.
"just okay?"
"Yeah..." He said, raising an eyebrow.
"Is Leo a good kisser?" Octavian asked with a stupid smirk.
Nico stopped doodling, he stared at the paper, blankly. He was trying to decide to either stab Octavian with a paintbrush or interrogate him. How does he know?! who told him?!, he thought.
"Octavian!" Rachel complained and punched Octavian's arm harshly.
"Ouch" he complained rubbing his arm and looked at Nico, his smirk was back. "So? was he good?" He asked again. Not that he cared, but he just loved making people feel akward and irritated.
Nico looked up from his drawing glaring at Octavian. The blond guy swallowed. Yes. Nico could be really scary if he wanted to.
The bell rang and Nico got out of the classroom before he could say something else. He wasnt looking where he was going, he just wanted to be far from Octavian.
"Ow!" Someone Nico ran into said.
"Watch out" Nico said scowling.
He looked up. Leo. Great.
"oh... Uh.. Sorry" Nico added.
They noticed they were almost nose-to-nose again. They inmediatly stepped back. "Um, got a class" Leo said.
"Yeah" was Nico said before he quickly kept walking to his next class.
The rest of the day? Pretty akward.
TUESDAY:
Nico was at the library. Millie, the librarian, surprinsinly let him enter. She actually thanked him for making that mess the last Saturday because now she and Hedge had a date. What kind of insane person would like to go on a date with Hedge?, was all that came to Nico's mind. He just nodded and went to the bookshelves. He sat on the floor to read some greek book about Underworld - the topic he chose for his greek class project.
His phone rang. He had a message.
"shh!" the librarian said.
Nico silented it and looked at the message that was from Leo.
percy twerking on youtube, hehe
Nico chuckled quietly and replied:
you r dead man
He went on reading. He ended up just reading a short paragraph because Leo kept texting him. And he was glad about it.
Leo: oh well, i did what i had to do c:
Nico: haha, sure, percy'll be happy with that
Leo: i bet! should i hide?
Nico: probably, yeah
Leo: hmm... guess the library isnt an option now
Nico: actually im at the library
Leo: r u nuts?
Nico: hehe, u dont know?
Leo: know what?
Nico: hedge and millie r dating, we were the cupidos
Leo: LOL suree...
Nico: im not kidding
Leo: wtf? really? ._.
Nico: yeah
Leo: then millie is a psycho
Nico: thats what i thought
Leo: so what r u doin' there anyways?
Nico: researching :/
Leo: booooooring
Nico: duh -.-'
Leo: hehe, well, i'll leave ya so u can keep havin' fun
Nico: screw ya
Leo: i love u too
Nico smiled a little and rolled his eyes. He shook his head and went back to the book.
The rest of the day? at library, but no akwardness.
WEDNESDAY:
Nico only saw Leo at the morning before going to class and at night before going to sleep.
At the morning:
Percy, Leo and Nico were getting changed to go to their classes.
"Nico, man, why are some boxers of yours in my stuff?" Percy said tossing the boxers to him.
"dunno" Nico said shrugging and rasing an eyebrow.
"Probably coz we're a mess" Leo said chuckling why putting on his shirt, he looked inside his closet to look for some jeans. "Percy..."
"Yeah?"
Leo showed to him a bra, a mischievous smirk on his face. He wiggled his eyesbrows, "Seems like Annabeth forgot something"
Percy's face was bright red, "Give it to me" he said taking it away from his hands. Leo and Nico laughed.
"okay, Im done" Leo said. He grabbed his backpack and walked to the door, "See ya guys at night"
"At night?" Nico asked raising an eyebrow.
"Yeah, not going to lunch today,got some freaking work to do, i know you are gonna miss me but you'll have to deal with it" he chuckled and went away.
Nico shook his head and got ready to go to class as well.
At night:
They were brushing their teeth and Percy was already sleeping. Again. Like Saturday's night.
They both were quiet and slightly blushing, probably thinking the same. When Leo was done, he turned to the door. "Night" he said turning to him and accidentally hitting his head with the door. "Uuuhg, mierda!"
Nico turned to him, after spitting and washing his mouth. He lifted Leo's chin to look at his face better. "You are okay, just a bruise" he said and went to bed. Leo sighed and went to bed as well.
THURSDAY:
Something pretty akward and weird happened that day.
They were at gym class. Coach Hedge was making them jog around the field. Nico hated this class, mostly because the bullies of the school were in this class and they loved bugging Nico for being 'weird' and younger than them. Nico wanted to kick their asses but that'd mean detention again on the weekend. He groaned thinking he would have to stand them also tomorrow.
When they were far enough from Coach Hedge, one of the bullies pushed Nico really hard to the ground. Nico frowned, a little hurt, trying to stand up when another two kicked him. They laughed and kept jogging. They did those stupid things out of nowhere, without even having an actual reason.
Nico's body hurt a little. Specially his stomach. Those idiots had kicked his stomach and his face, which gave him a black eye and his lower lip was bleeding.
Leo saw him in distance while he was jogging. He ran to him and held out his hand to help him up. Nico took it and gasped a little when he stood up.
"You okay?" Leo asked worried.
"Do I look okay?" Nico asked frowning.
"You look ... Terrible, yeah, stupid question. Bullies again?"
Nico nodded, "Yeah, those fuckers again"
Leo pursed his lips, "Cmon" he said pulling Nico with him to talk to Coach Hedge who sent them to the infirmary.
So they went to the infirmary but noone was there. Nico winced. He sighed and sat on a chair. Leo looked puzzled, not knowing what to do.
"Maybe we should clean the blood?" Leo suggested.
"Yeah" Nico said, "I think I have a cut in the forehead also"
Leo nodded and got some gauze he saw over there. He akwardly cleaned the forehead with it. Nico let him do it, it hurt to move even a finger, so Leo -even though he didnt notice- was being a good help.
Then Leo remembered Nico's lip bleeding so he started cleaning it too. And they had the bad idea of making eye contact at that moment. They both stayed quiet. Leo kept cleaning it without breaking the gaze.
When he finnished cleaning it, without noticing, Leo ran his fingers across Nico's lips. Nico inmediatly blushed but didnt say anything.
Leo moved his hand away and cleared his throat. "Um" he ran a hand through his curls. "I think you are okay now... Or Not? Dunno... Im uh not a doctor..."
Nico shook his head, "Im better"
He nodded, smiling a little. "Good"
They both looked away feeling akward again. Why did Leo do that? neither of them knew.
FRIDAY:
Akward. All akward. Leo and Nico barely talked. They didnt kiss yesterday but they still felt weird. That eye contact they made and Leo touching Nico's lips... Yes, that definetely was weird.
It was Saturday now.
Was it weird week? Oh yeah, definitely. But nothing compared to what happened until now.
Percy and Leo were in their room.
Leo was just fidgeting with some metals. Percy was trying to study on his bed, but he got easily distracted by throwing balls of paper to Leo's head.
Nico got to the room wearing his gym black shorts, a black tank shirt and his tennis. He was all sweated. He went for a really long run.
Leo glanced at him with the corney of his eye and bit his lip. He quickly went back to his work.
Percy sighed heavily, "Nico, take a shower, you stink" Percy said and laughed a little. Nico just rolled his eyes. "Im soooo bored" Percy mumbled, "I'll go to see if any if the guys is up to do anything, see ya" he said and walked out of the room.
Nico stood there and rubbed his eyes. He should change his clothes, he really stinked. He took his shirt off and looked for another one. Leo glanced again at him. Better said, at his bare chest. He swallowed.
Then he did something really stupid. Well, maybe not.
"Thats too much" Leo mumbled. He stood up and went straight to Nico. He took his face in his hands and kind of slammed him against the wall and kissed him. He kissed him pretty roughly. Nico was shocked, really shocked. His eyes widened and his first thought was to pull him away but then... He did the opposite. He pulled Leo closer and kissed him back roughly too. This only made Leo want to keep doing it. He was trying to think reasons to why he did it, and he figured that a cute shirtless guy was definetely a turn on.
They kept making out for a long while. The kiss was rough and hungry.
Nico put his arms around Leo's waist pulling him closer and closer, Leo was pulling him against the wall and himself against Nico. He ran his hands through Nico's black thick hair. And his other hand was running across his chest.
They eventually had to pull away to take a big breath.
Both were breathless, their hair messy and their cheeks red and warm. They were staring at each other trying to understand what happened.
"Wh-what was that?" Nico mumbled, blushing more. His stomach felt funny. His thoughts were all messy. And looking at Leo just made him feel warmer and weird.
"I-I swear I dont have a freaking idea" Leo admitted, still breathless. Why did he that? He didnt know, but the fact Nico kissed him back was not only shocking, it was also awesome. "But... But i wouldnt mind if that happened again..."
"What?" Nico raised an eyebrow, catching his breath. Hell, he wouldnt mind it either.
"What you heard..."
Nico stared at Leo. Was he bi too Or...?
"Wh-What are... I mean.. I... Uh..." Nico babbled.
Leo swallowed.
"Leo, we are friends... Right?" Nico said looking at him
"Right..." Leo said "um... Nico... we are friends... But um... Could we be more like... I dunno... Friends with benefits...?" Leo asked, his cheeks were even redder if that was possible.
If he had said to be more than friends with benefits would definetely ended up confsing himself even more. Leo didnt know what was going on with him, his mind and definetely he didnt know what was going on with his heart.
And Nico felt the same. The kiss. Gods, it was awesome. He had to admit it. He looked up at Leo. He didnt know his feeling for him either, but yes, they obviously werent just friends and that was definitely more than just a kiss.
