Pain in my heart for your dying wish
I'll kiss your lips again
You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison, My Chemical Romance
Nico's POV
Guess what I just found out?
My ex is dating another guy. Like 4 days after we broke up.
Life's a bitch, isn't it?
I got up early and put on my jacket, the leather one Thalia got me.
Just to remember her. I'm such a sap.
I got up, drove to Luke's apartment, went to the door (Room 203) and rang the doorbell. He opened it.
"Nico di Angelo? What d'you want?"
My answer: a punch to his jaw.
It was so strong that Luke fell back and hit the doorframe. I was proud.
"What the fuck, di Angelo?" He glared.
"If you so much as make Thalia frown, I'll ensure that you're gelded." I snarled.
"What does gelded mean?"
I rolled my eyes. "It means slicing your balls off, FYI."
He turned pale. Then his face turned into this dumb expression resembling a cow's. "Why aren't you trying to geld me now?" His face turned paler.
"I'm holding back, believe me." I gritted through my teeth. "But I want Thals to be happy. And if you do that, I probably won't geld you."
"Such a reassuring thought." He said sarcastically. The side of his face was starting to bruise.
"Whatever." I turned to leave.
"You know, your ex-fiancée is a really good kisser." He called. I stopped dead in my tracks. Anger and jealousy began to bubble in the pit of my stomach.
...or that was just those tacos I had for breakfast.
Hey, they weren't spoiled!
I think.
I hope.
"What?" I squeezed out between my clenched teeth.
I felt like some monster had started clawing its way up my chest.
Maybe those tacos were bad...
"Really good. Best, actually." Luke said casually, leaning against the doorframe with a lopsided smirk.
My fist collided with his face again. Same spot too.
Luke slid to the floor and coughed. Blood squeezed out from between his lips.
He trembled to his feet and spat in my face. I carefully wiped the blood out of my eye.
"Still. I stand by it." Luke licked his lips obnoxiously.
"Luke...go fuck yourself." I hissed. He laughed, his lips red with the coughed-up blood, as I walked away.
Good shot though.
I headed down the stairs, nodding politely to the receptionist, and walked out into the sunlight in a daze.
My cell rang. "Hello?"
"Nico di Angelo? It's Silena, Silena Beckendorf. I'm one of Thalia's friends."
"You're friends with Thals?" I asked, feeling the familiar little skip of my heart at her name.
I leaned against the street sign like a good little crack dealer (you know the type!) as I glanced back at Luke Castellan's apartment.
"Yeah. You wanna get her back?"
I glanced back at Luke's place and smirked. "Hell yeah."
Luke won't know what hit him.
"Okay, listen carefully..."
Thalia's POV - 2 days later
"I am the birthday dictator, so you have to do what I say." Silena announced smugly.
I resisted the urge to sigh. Trust Silena to say that.
"So...let's play truth or dare!" She squealed, making me lose hearing in my left ear.
"Hell no. Can't we just get wasted?" I moaned.
"I'm the birthday dictator!" She screeched.
And there goes the right ear.
"Fine. What are we doing?" Anything but karaoke, anything but karaoke...
"Karaoke." Silena squealed.
I resisted the urge to throw something sharp and hard at Silena's face.
"But we have two more people coming before that happens." Silena said, sparing me from a song-related doom. For now, dun dun DUN.
"Who?" Katie asked curiously, throwing her boyfriend a look.
Travis and Connor were seeing who could hold a spoon on their nose for the longest by licking it. What were they, 5?
Annabeth and Percy were currently locked at the tonsils.
"You know, you can go into early labor sucking face like that Annie!" I yelled.
"What?" Percy pulled away with a plunger-noise.
Satisfied that I wouldn't be treated to a chorus of suction, I turned back to Silena, who was currently talking to Katie.
"-wouldn't want those two to come at the same time." Katie said.
"Who?" I asked.
"Nico and Luke." Silena said casually over her shoulder as she leaned against her husband's shoulder.
Well, fuck.
My ex-fiancé and my current boyfriend in the same room.
Delightful.
I'm doomed.
Fucking.
Doomed.
God is just fucking getting a kick out of this, isn't he?
The obnoxious doorbell-there was really a problem in the world with those; it was like an infestation-rang, and Silena hopped downstairs.
"They're here!" She cried.
So, Luke came in first. He was sporting a bruise a lovely shade of blue and purple on his cheek.
"What happened?" I watched Katie beat on the Stolls as Luke sat down next to me.
"Nico." He said. "Lucky shot."
"Doubt it." I snorted. "Nico's got pretty good aim. I know. He punched a guy who hit on me once."
Luke shrugged.
"So, what'd you do?" I asked.
"Nothing much." Luke said evasively, obviously lying.
"Whatever." I decided that it wasn't worth the energy to get him to talk to me.
Nico came in next, surveying us with his eyes-cocoa brown, I recalled against my traitorous, very dirty (as I'd just found out) mind. His gaze rested on me.
I really couldn't help the little rush that went through me.
It was hormones I tell you!
His expression hardened as Luke put an arm possessively around my shoulders.
I shrugged, making his arm fall. Luke stared.
"Umm...muscle spasm?" I offered weakly. Luke just rolled his eyes.
I felt vaguely disappointed in his reaction. Nico at least fought back.
"Now we can do karaoke!" Silena screamed like a 15-year-old hyped up on sugar and soda and crack cocaine that just snorted chocolate.
Please, somebody kill me now.
Seriously.
Kill me!
"Fine." Nico rolled his eyes, somehow making the motion look completely sexy.
Stupid, hot Nico.
My life sucks.
Really.
Fucking.
Sucks.
He set the song and positioned himself to face directly at me. I felt uncomfortable with his gaze locked on mine.
I feel the weight of silence crashing down
It brings me to my knees
Remember back to when we had it all
When you stood next to me
But with every kiss it tastes like goodbye
And I don't wanna feel like this will be the last time
I stopped breathing
My heart's not beating
Begging you on my knees
And I'll say never
Just stay forever
Will you come back to me
Just come back to me
I stole the moment
But the moment stole the breath right out of me
(Oh oh oh oh)
Regretting every second left in fear
Your ghost is haunting me
But with every kiss it tastes like goodbye
And I don't wanna break here tonight
I stopped breathing
My heart's not beating
Begging you on my knees
And I'll say never
Just stay forever
Will you come back to me
Just come back to me
I can't hold myself under, time
Can't heal everything
Try and somehow discover
Find yourself again
I stopped breathing
My heart's not beating
Begging you on my knees
And I'll say never
Just stay forever
Will you come back to me
Just come back to me
I stopped breathing
My heart's not beating
Begging you on my knees
And I'll say never
Just stay forever
Will you come back to me
Just come back to me
Nico finished in a soft voice, staring straight at me again, with a slight flush on his cheeks, looking completely sexy.
Fuck it. Singing is never happening again.
It should be banned.
There should be a law against singing.
I'm never going to sing.
Ever! Again!
"I refuse." I announced. Silena evidently was too giddy over Nico's performance because she stopped the karaoke.
I kept lifting the bottle of vodka in my hand to my lips, trying not to think about Luke, and Nico, and the way Silena and Katie were whispering suspiciously, and life.
I failed.
Epically.
Life's a bitch, isn't it?
So by this time, I was slightly inebriated.
Nico was worse than me though.
AKA completely and utterly drunk off his ass.
So I was a bit less cautious about my personal space. Meaning I sat next to Luke really, really close.
But when Luke tried to put his arm around my shoulders again, I stood up abruptly, muttered something completely stupid about air, and rushed out, aware of two pairs of eyes on me, one dark and one light.
I almost tripped going so fast down the stairs.
Or I was still sorta drunk.
When I finally reached Silena's porch-fire escape-thingy, I was actually surprised to see another person out there.
I hadn't even noticed Annabeth was missing.
"Since when do you smoke?" I asked her, my infernal curiosity getting the best of me.
Remind me to kill that part of me.
The blonde yelped and tried to hide the burning cigarette, but she decided that it was a lost cause.
"I don't." She stared at it and puffed again on the non-burning end.
"That doesn't look like nothing." I gestured to the tobacco in her mouth.
Annabeth shrugged. "I'm just so stressed out. I can't even get any energy to have se-"
"Okay, never mind." I interrupted hurriedly.
Annabeth's mouth quirked up as she leaned against the railing frame. "It's just way too much for me."
"What is?"
"College mostly, but Percy too. The Seaweed Brain won't even propose to me." She poured her troubles out, unaware that I was beyond caring at this point.
"Yep, I get it. Life sucks. Don't I know it?" I sighed, holding up a hand to stop the endless flow of yada-yada-yada.
"Oh, right." Annabeth's eyes softened. We sat in silence for a moment.
"Annabeth?" I asked. "What's love?"
My best friend whipped her head around to stare at me. "Why?"
"Just answer." I groaned. I need to know if I love Luke or Nico or both because I sure as hell can't tell.
"Love is...love is when you look at a person and you don't want to look away, just because you want to watch them. It's when you get nervous when they talk to you because you don't want to say the wrong thing." She said, issuing smoke through her lips.
Well, fuck.
I felt like I was on a boat, and I never did like water.
So I did the most natural thing.
I puked over the side of the building.
"That was a beautiful speech." I said sarcastically, wiping my mouth with the back of my hand.
"Oh my God, Thalia! Are you okay?" Annabeth grabbed my arm, which helped to steady the swaying feeling of my gut.
"Fine." I said numbly. "I should get back inside."
Annabeth nodded and scooted to the other side of the small platform.
"And Annie? You don't need to go to college again. You're the best architect ever." I went back inside without seeing her reaction.
Almost as soon as I had stepped foot in the room, Katie was yanking at my arm.
"Thals, you gotta see Silena's closet!"
She dragged me to a door in Silena's bedroom, which was deep blue with lavender accents (Thank God it wasn't pink), and threw open a door with all the grandeur of introducing a monarch, leaving her hands up to showcase it.
My expression stayed the same.
"Just look." Katie dropped her hands, annoyed, and rolled her eyes.
I relented for Katie's sake-worst mistake ever!-and peered inside. My jaw dropped.
Inside was a hallway about as large as my apartment. Ever read Breaking Dawn? By the way-horrible. It was twice as large as Alice Cullen's. And if you must know, Silena forced me to read it against my will and under the pain of torture and no chocolate for a month.
Hey, a girl can have a weakness!
Anyways, I was abruptly and rudely shoved into said freakishly-large closet by my so-called friend who is soooo getting castrated when I get out because she locked the door.
After a short interval of time, during which I planned 126 ways to brutally murder my friend (not the most pleasant activity), I heard two more voices.
Not the best voices to hear at this time either.
"I need you to get something down from the closet." Silena's sugary sweet voice sounded way too nice not to be plotting something.
"Why?" Nico's bored monotone, that somehow (impossibly) sent my heart racing-too cliché anyway-asked back.
Oh shit. Don't you dare Silena!
"Just get it down please!" Said she-demon pleaded.
"Fine." I would've bet 20 bucks Nico shrugged.
And when the door opened, Silena shoved Nico in with me.
The locking door was like a (metaphorical) gun shot.
And the barrel was pointed at me.
So yeah.
Shit fuck.
I do not own PJO.
And I live!
So, you probably want to brutally beat me into a pulp, right?
Well I did NOT expect the rush of kick-assing that school was doing to this ass. Freshman year, woohoo.
I was actually about to put the rest of the closet-scene in there, but I decided that you deserved this.
So, I'm putting some of my stories on hiatus to finish up the other ones. And I'll update less, maybe 2 weeks at the latest.
And I have no idea what to do with this story after the next chapter. So ideas? And when do you think I should end this story?
