Chapter 12

Nico POV

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Will, Hazel, Lou Ellen and I stood waving, watching Dad's black limousine drive away. Today was a fun day spent with everyone. My face was still a little pink after all of the jokes that the others made at Will and I's expense, but it was all in good fun. I glanced quickly at Will, who was standing at my side, looking off into the distance in thought. I thought I heard him mutter something like "future dad-in-law," but that could've been my imagination.

Lou Ellen was the first to turn around and announced "well, this has been fun and all, but I've been away from my job for so long now that i'm surprised I haven't been fired. Have a nice day!" And walked back into the shop.

It was getting kind of late and I was convinced that my professors were trying to kill me with the amount of homework I had received earlier, so we all decided to go back to Will's room to try to study, but we all knew that no actual studying would get done, just talking.

I feel like Will and Hazel are the first two friends I've ever made, aside from Bianca. That thought sobers me a little and I can tell that Hazel and Will notice, but, thankfully, neither of them comments on it.

We make it back to Will's room and I look around. The room is the same as Percy and I's, but instead of blue and black, all of Will's stuff is yellow and his roommate, Cecil, seemed to like orange. I felt like I needed a pair of sunglasses just to look at the room, it was so bright. Cecil was out at practice for some sport, Exy (is my obsession with The Foxhole Court showing yet?), and wouldn't be back for a while now.

I was a little nervous to be in Will's room for the first time, but it's not like anything was gonna happen, and Hazel was at my side the whole time. We set down our stuff to look like we were about to study, and immediately abandoned them in favor of a bowl of chips sitting between the three of us and talking. I was laughing more now than I think I had in the past year combined, and I had only known these two for a few days.

I wanted to get to know my new sister, I wanted to be someone she could count on, someone she could trust, but I wasn't exactly the best in social situations so I didn't know how to do that. But this wasn't a matter of replacing Bianca like some would assume. I didn't quite know how to explain it yet.

And I wanted to get to know Will because I was fascinated by him, the way he seemed to light up a room when he walked in and how it looked like actual sunshine when he smiled. He was a bright contrast to my dark life, and I wanted to know how he did it. Plus, you know, that little insignificant crush that I may or may not definitely have on him because he was just an amazing person overall…

Anyways, change of topics, we were having a good time there. Me and hazel had a bizarre amount of things in common, but you wouldn't be able to tell from looking at us. And she kept looking between Will and I and looking like she was about to ask something before I shot her death glares so she knew not to bring it up, and she did the same thing when Will or I tried to bring up Frank.

It was well past midnight by the time we were all tired, and Cecil had come back a while ago, looked at us, and then put headphones on and went to sleep. I was so tired that I was considering just falling asleep where I was on the ground, and the others looked the same. trying to end the night on a happy note, hazel commented "I better not have any more secret siblings that you're not telling me about," and I froze.