Sorry for time but I was sort of creatively drained and this chapter took a bit longer to write- hopefully this chapter makes up for it. It was based off an idea from a Guest. And I know this isn't completely the entire idea, but it sort of just spun off and I didn't want to go back and change it.

Bang. Bang. Bang.

"You know Nico," Will commented, not bothering to look up from his anatomy textbook, "every time you do that you're killing brain cells."

Nico continued to bang his head on the desk. It was their free period, but they had also just received news from the student council. The Homecoming dance plans were coming underway and it would go on just as planned.

"I think you're making a dent in that desk," Will said when he glanced up at Nico, "People are starting to stare Nico."

"Let them stare," Nico mumbled, "They've stared for years."

"Fine," Will said as he tried to change the subject, "You do realize you're going to be going whether you want to or not right?"

"Unfortunately," Nico answered, "though who will be the one forcing me to go is unknown."

"My bet's on Piper," Will said.

Nico looked up at Will mournfully, "Mine is on Jason and Percy."

Moments later Jason and Percy waltzed over, both looking very suspicious. Jason wrapped an arm around Nico's shoulder. Both of them had insane grins on their faces.

"Soooo…" Percy said drawing out the word, "Are you guys going to homecoming?"

Nico glared up at Percy's smiling face, but Percy didn't react negatively, he just raised his eyebrows questioningly.

"There's no way in hell I'm going," Nico grumbled.

Jason fake gasped, placing his hand lightly on his chest.

"Such strong words for such a small person," Jason joked.

Nico tried to take a swing at Jason, but before he could, Will enveloped him in a hug.

"Please go. For me?" Will breathed in his ear.

Nico obviously accepted by this point, mostly because Will hugging him had addled his brain.


By the next day they were standing in line to buy tickets. Will was bouncing on the balls of his feet, while Nico stood there silently beside him, arms crossed and head down. Selling the tickets unfortunately, was Drew Tanaka, vice president of the senior class. She made the characters from Mean Girls look like sweethearts.

"What can I get for you hun?" Drew smiled and asked Will, completely ignoring Nico.

"One set of couples tickets," Will said, the money in hand.

"Okay," Drew said, looking down at her list of names and flipping through until she found Will's, "and who else?"

"Nico di Angelo," Will answered.

A strained smile crossed Drew's face, "I'm sorry hun but that's not allowed. Couples tickets are for one boy and one girl."

"That's unfair though," Will complained, "Nico and I are a couple, so we should be able to buy couples tickets."

Drew's smile finally dissipated, "Look here Solace, you gays are not interrupting my homecoming with your pride and your rainbow flags. Keep that for the parades."

Little did Drew realize, but during her little speech Piper, the senior class' President, had walked up behind her. And boy did Piper look pissed.

"What. Do you think. You are doing?" Piper asked in a tense voice, glaring at Drew.

Drew shrank away just a tad, but just as quickly stood up to face Piper.

"They can't get the couples tickets. It's in the rules," Drew argued.

"And you can't treat them like this, so I hereby relieve you of your position as vice president," Piper said, her head raised high.

Drew's face turned a nasty shade of red as she sputtered out a few words, "What-? But- you- you can't do that!"

"Yes I can," Piper retorted, "It's in the rules."

A small cheer rang out through the small crowd of students that had gathered. They were glad to finally rid the student government of the worm known as Drew Tanaka.

Piper turned to Will and Nico with a little smile, "Your tickets are on the house."


Before they realized it, Homecoming was upon them, and Nico showed up to Will's house in a short little limo. Will ran out the door, a scared look on his face.

"Run while you can!" he shouted at Nico, who was halfway out of the car.

Nico looked concerned as Will shoved him back in the car and jumped in beside him. As Will told the driver, Jules-Albert, to step on it Nico asked him what was going on. Will pointed back at his front door where his mother stood with a camera. Nico started chuckling as Will began to relax.

"Once she starts taking pictures she never stops," Will said, shuddering.

Their car was swarmed as their friends came to meet them and drag them inside. Most of the time they stood in a little mob on the edge of the dance floor, half dancing and half talking. At one point Percy and Annabeth disappeared, and when Percy returned, his face was covered in lipstick and a crazy grin.

Too soon Piper climbed onto the stage clutching an envelope. The microphone squeaked as she stepped up to it. The sound that came through the speakers however, was not Piper's voice.

'The cow says moo.'

"Valdez!" she yelled into it, her voice sounding like that of Darth Vader.

Leo jumped from the spot where he was laughing his ass off. He quickly ran up to the stage to fix the mic as Piper stared him down. Once he, Leo scrambled off the stage and back to the Stolls.

"And your Homecoming king and queen are…" Piper said, ripping open the envelope and pulling out the slip of paper inside. Her eyebrows rose in a little surprise, but a smile was spread across her face, "William Solace and Nico di Angelo!"

A cheer echoed throughout the room. Stunned, the awkward pair made their way to the front of the room and up onto the stage, although Nico was dragged up for the most part. Off to the side a small group surrounding Drew looked angry, and one even looked as though he was going to be sick. Drew just narrowed her eyes and sneered at the couple.

The rest of the room looked so happy that it was believable the vote was fair, although knowing Percy and Jason it was possible either way. Said people were off to the side of the stage making jokes.

"So who wears the queen's crown?" Percy joked as Jason chuckled beside him.

One of Will and Nico's close friends, Lou Ellen, walked out with two cheap, plastic king's crowns on a little pillow. She was beaming as Piper took the crowns and placed them on Will and Nico's heads. After a couple of awkward seconds just standing there, Nico looked up at Will.

"Um… Should we be dancing? Maybe?" Nico said softly, shuffling uncomfortably on his feet.

"Sure thing Sunshine," Will said, a wide smile on his face.

Will took Nico's hand and pulled him out onto the empty dance floors. Other than a few wolf whistles coming from where Leo and the Stolls were, it was mostly silent. Jason handed the DJ a five dollar bill and Percy passed him a note with a song, not that Will or Nico noticed any of this. They were focused only on each other.

Then the song began to play. It took a few moments for it to click, but when it did Nico couldn't help but blush a little. They swayed lightly to the beat, arms wrapped around each other.

"This is my favorite song," Nico whispered.

"I know," Will grinned, "I showed you the movie remember? We must have been what? Ten at the time?"

"Right after Bi..." Nico choked on his answer.

"This song perfectly describes my feelings, Nico," Will said as he began to sing softly. "You'll be in my heart, no matter what they say, you'll be here in my heart, always. Why can't they understand the way we feel?..."

Nico picked up here, "They just don't trust what they can't explain, I know we're different but deep inside us we're not that different at all…"

At the last word they leaned in for a kiss.

Eek! Fluff! I think you guys needed fluff. Gay pride ftw! Suck it Drew! Cookies for whoever can guess the song- and extra if you get the movie. No cheating. Suggestions for the next chapter(s)?
Btw- I will be off for a while because I'm going to Disney for my birthday. ^w^