Hell no!

Chapter 14 Party at Piper's (Nico)

I woke up because of another nightmare. Luckily it wasn't a really bad one, so when Hazel came in, it was because she came to wake me up. We took a shower and got dressed. Downstairs mom had made us grilled cheese, one of our favourites, and we all ate together. Then we got to the bus and quickly sat down, as we were a little late. Then we waited for Piper and Annabeth and we talked about the afternoon. That is, until Hazel told the girls about tomorrow.

''So what are you going to do this weekend?'' Piper asked.

''Tomorrow morning we're going to Bi's grave to collect the flowers so they can place the gravestone on Monday. And Frank is going to teach me some archery in the afternoon.'' Hazel said. When I said nothing, she decided to answer for me. ''And Nico is going to Will tomorrow afternoon.''

''Hazel!'' I said loudly, elbowing her.

''Hey, it's true!'' she said jokingly.

''Okay, but still!'' Annabeth and Piper looked at each other and then at me.

''So you've got a date?'' Annabeth asked me.

''No, we're just hanging out and watching HTTYD.'' I said. They talked about it for a while more, to my annoyance, but when we got at school, they luckily dropped the subject.

Our first double period was Science, and the teacher was explaining about endotherm and exotherm reactions. At lunch we talked about this afternoon, and when Percy, Jason and Will sat down with us, I didn't really have a problem with it. At least not anymore. I even made civil conversation with Will. When they left for basketball practise, Will had told me, we, all ten of us, went to study hall. Lou and Katie wanted to know why I was polite to Will, and I said we'd found some common grounds. I didn't tell them all about it, but they went along with it. They were just dumbfounded and looked at me in awe.

During study hour I made my homework, so I won't have to do it this weekend. I also copied the notes for Biology from Annabeth and then gave them back to her.

After study hour we had Physics, and Lou and Katie had told us about that teacher, Mr. T., that you could do almost everything in his classes, and that he would just let everyone do what they wanted to do, as long as you stayed in the room. You could just talk with others, or make homework, which nearly no one ever did apparently, or you could do some Physics experiment. I tried to make some Physics homework, but it was not quiet enough, so I just talked with Annabeth and Frank. We decided to do the balloon and air resistance experiment. It was fun and we handed it in, so Mr. T. could grade it, so we could see if it was sufficient enough for exams.

Then we walked to our locker and waited for the other seven to come. When they were there, we walked to the bus. In the bus Lou and Katie started telling the Stolls mainly, to not disrupt or destroy Piper's home and to just behave. We got out near Piper's home and she let us in. Lou and Katie were surprised that she lived in such a big house with only her father. We went to the back yard, where her dad was waiting, and had put up some things for the afternoon. He kissed Piper on the head and then went inside, so we could hang out without parents overhearing us.

''That's your dad?'' Cecil asked. Piper nodded, seemingly a little nervous.

''He seems familiar somehow. Does that even make sense?'' Lou asked.

''Uhm, yeah that makes sense. My dad is quite famous,'' Piper said nervously. ''Which is also why I don't like telling people my last name. I've had people who only wanted to be friends with me because of my dad. So I don't like telling people that Tristan McLean is my father…''

''Hey, we understand,'' Katie said in an understanding voice.

''But it is very cool that your father is the Tristan McLean!'' Travis said. Piper nodded awkwardly.

''Well, let's not talk about that now,'' Annabeth said, and Piper looked at her gratefully. We all got something to drink. Then the Stolls proposed to play Truth or Dare. We all agreed, but Katie went over some rules first.

''Okay, Truth or Dare it is. But,'' she said threating to the guys, ''no questions about their old school, or about the shooting. None, understood?'' They nodded and me and the girls looked at her gratefully. Then we started.

''Okay, Hazel,'' Connor said. ''Truth or Dare?''

''Dare.'' She said, as she'd heard about the brutal truths, but also dares, the Stolls had asked in the past.

Connor thought about it for a second and then grinned wickedly. ''I dare you to kiss Frank!'' Hazel blushed and leaned over to Frank and kissed him on the cheek. We all cheered. They looked so cute together!

Then Hazel choose Piper, and Piper ended up confessing that she indeed likes Jason. What a surprise! We all laughed as we all saw it. Piper then choose Lou, and she had to slap Cecil. And to make him feel better, she then kissed him on the cheek she'd slapped.

''I'll never understand women,'' Cecil muttered, while we were laughing.

Lou choose Katie, and when she choose Truth, Lou grinned wickedly. ''Who do you have a crush on, Katie?'' Katie got red, really, really red. The she muttered ''Travis'' and he got red as well. Katie choose me, and asked me if I had a crush. I don't so I said I don't have a crush at the moment. This meant I didn't have to tell them I'm gay, so I was very glad.

I then asked Frank, and he said Truth, so I made him tell us he likes Hazel. Wow shocker! Frank choose Travis, and when he choose Dare, we all, except Katie, yelled to him he had to kiss Katie. He turned red and kissed her on the cheek. Both of them looked like tomatoes now. Then he asked Cecil, and he was dared to send a weird photo to his parents. So he took a photo of all of us with our tongues stuck out and sent it to his parents. A minute later he got a reply, 'Seems like you guys are having fun over there!' and when he told us the reply, we all laughed, well, I smiled...

We continued playing for a while, until Tristan came outside to prepare the barbecue. Most of us helped, not the Stolls, they were just telling jokes, and we started eating about 45 minutes later. The food was really good, and we all ate a lot of meat, except Piper, who's vegetarian, so she only ate the veggie sticks and bread, salad and fruit. We all had a good time, and Piper's dad made some jokes with us. Lou concluded that Tristan McLean is just like all others, an ordinary father who loves his daughter. At the end of the evening Travis and Connor's mother picked up them, Lou, Katie, Cecil and Frank while me, Hazel and Annabeth were going to walk home. We first walked past Annabeth's home, and then me and Hazel walked back.

''So are you excited for tomorrow afternoon?'' she asked me while walking.

''Haze!''

''Just asking about your 'hanging out', big bro. And I want you to tell me everything about it tomorrow evening!'' she did the air quotations while saying 'hanging out', real mature, Haze!

''And I want you to tell me all about your date with Frank tomorrow evening, but you're probably not going to tell me everything about your date your new boyfriend, so…''

''First of, he's not my boyfriend! –''

''Yet!''

'' – Second, we're just hanging out and he's going to teach me archery.''

''So it's a date!'' I shot back.

''You're impossible, Neeks!'' We talked for a while longer, and when we walked into our house, mom asked us how our evening had been.

''We hung out with our new friends, and it was really fun,'' I answered.

''Yeah, and we played Truth or Dare and we ate barbecue with Tristan. The others were really surprised that Piper's dad is Tristan McLean, but they got over it in no time and we had a blast!'' Hazel finished.

''And how was that Truth or Dare?'' dad asked.

''We promised not to tell anyone, except the ten of us. Sorry, dad!'' Hazel joked.

After a while me and Hazel started yawning and we went upstairs to go to bed. Mom and dad had told us to be awake tomorrow at half past nine, because we were going to the churchyard at ten. So we went straight to bed and I fell asleep quickly.

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AN2: Again I have re-read and checked the entire chapter for errors, no matter how small.