Chapter 14

Will POV

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The moment his lips brushed mine was the moment that my brain stopped working. All I could think of was his hands on my face and his lips on mine. The kiss was short and sweet and seemed to last forever, but at the same time not long enough.

When he pulled back, my brain was in too poor a state to work so I just settled for looking bewildered and muttering "uh…," which I hoped would charm him enough so that he wouldn't see how my face was probably about as red as a strawberry. It didn't work.

But it wasn't just me, I could see a tinge of pink on his pale face before he realized that we was still holding my face and dropped his hand.

"Was that,,, was that okay?" He asked, and it took me a few second to realize that he was talking to me. I nodded my head violently, still staring at him, far exceeding the time limit of creepy. I finally broke my gaze away from his face and looked down, suddenly finding our shoes the most fascinating things ever, his black converse and my orange crocks (excuse your face, they were perfectly fashionable, you're the one without a sense of style).

"Because, um, if you didn't like that, maybe I was rushing things, I just thought, well, this was kind of a confession, and you looked like you were panicking, and I just really wanted to kiss you, and what if this wasn't what you wanted…" He continued rambling and I didn't know what to do so I leaned in and pressed my lips to his to reassure him.

Every time we kissed, my brain kind of went hazy and all I could think of was him, and we were both silent when I pulled away a few seconds later.

"Um… goodbye!" Nico shouted suddenly and ran out of the door, leaving me alone in my room. Well. That happened. I got changed out for bed, brushed my teeth, and got under the covers of my bed, but I couldn't stop thinking, for reasons you can probably guess. That's right, I was trying to figure out if penguins could make jokes. Just kidding, please don't hurt me.

I was elated that the person who I had had a crush on for all this time had basically told me that he likes me back and I knew that I would have to deal with the awkwardness of this all when I saw him again tomorrow, but for now I would just be happy.

Although he looked really nervous when he suddenly ran off, although if it were up to me, which it almost never is, we would never have to say goodbye. It's not like I was going to invite him inside again… definitely not that type of fanfiction. Especially not with Cecil asleep on the other side of the room.

It took a while, but eventually I bored myself to sleep by thinking of my last history class with my professor who always spoke in a monotone with a completely apathetic look on his face.

When I woke up the next morning, early as always, I was not expecting the mess I would get myself into today. Cecil was still asleep as always, so I got dressed in my shirt with a cat wearing sunglasses on it, fixed my hair, and went out to get a nice healthy breakfast.

When I got to the cafe and ordered, I looked around to see Nico sitting at one of the tables, looking halfway asleep, with a giant cup of black coffee in front of him. Oh my gods, with that amount of caffeine he would never sleep again. I walked up to his table, pulling out a chair.

"Why such a large cup of coffee?" I asked, genuinely curious as to why he was about to give himself a heart attack.

He gave me a blank look. "What do you mean? This is my normal amount." I stared at the drink for a second. This would explain why the bags under his eyes always looked big enough to carry all my schoolwork.

"So, what brings you here on such a lovely morning?" I smiled. Maybe he liked mornings too? Maybe one day we could watch the sunrise together, sunrises were always so beautiful!

He replied, looking ready for homicide, "Percy woke me up by playing Shake It Off and dancing and told me that everyone was leaving at 8 to go to the beach. I have no idea why." Then he gave me a small smile. "Wanna be my plus one?"

I immediately agreed because, hello, going to the beach with Nico? Hades yeah! Then we started talking about what it would be like and the classes we had tomorrow, and in the middle of listening to one of his stories about how his dog, Mrs. O'Leary, followed him to school one day and bit his teacher when he tried giving Nico homework, I realized that I had expected talking to him today to be a lot more awkward and I was glad that it wasn't.

I didn't realize how long we had stayed like that, talking and laughing, until he abruptly stopped in the middle of talking and looked at his phone, showing me that the time was half past 7. We both rushed out the door and back to the dorms, getting changed into our bathing suits in our respective rooms, and then met up in the hallway and walked to where Nico said Percy had told him Jason and Piper's cars would be.

We met up with the rest of the group and none of them looked even remotely surprised to see me. I saw Jason discreetly handing a smirking Piper some money when they thought we weren't looking.

Then Percy went to the front and gave everyone a huge grin. "Well, everyone, who's ready to go to the beach?"