Here's the new chapter. Life sucks atm but whatever.

Hope you enjoy it.

Nico

I've been feeling uneasy ever since I opened the door. Damn it, I knew Jason would never tell me if I didn't ask. Why didn't I ask? Idiot. Also why did I ask Will to follow me, I could just ask him what he wanted to drink.

Ugh. I can't think straight. We walked to the bar by the kitchen, I turn around to face him.

"So what would you like to drink?" I asked Will.

He just stood there smiling for a good second. "Oh, umm surprise me?" He said shrugging.

I smirked "Are you sure about that?"

Then his facial looked terrified "No. I'll just have a vodka soda." He said like he knew I was going to mess him up.

I just nodded, and started making his concoction. As I lifted up my head to face him to give him his drink, our eyes locked. I was once again met with the gorgeous blue eyes that made my heart beat fast.

"Umm.." I said, starting to mumble.

"Ahem."

Will and I turned to see Percy stood there awkwardly with Grover and Luke.

"Umm, can I have three beers?" Percy asked.

"Oh," I said. "Yah sure." I crouch down to get the beers in the cooler.

"Will?" I heard Luke asked.

"Yeah, how's life Luke?" Will said sounded a little uncomfortable.

"Oh you know, I'm fine. Thalia makes sure of that." Luke replied with a chuckled.

"Here you go." I stood back up and gave them the beers.

Grover, Percy and Luke picked one up each, and then the doorbell rang.

"I'll get it." Percy said excited walking to the door.

The night had progressed, people started coming by. After I gave Will his drink, he got taken away from him, seems like everyone wanted to catch up with him. I'm a little salty that everyone seems to know him pretty well.

"Nico?" Hazel said snapping me out of my thoughts.

I turned to face her. "Yah?"

"Where are Percy and Annabeth?" She asked.

I looked around the room, I see Annabeth talking Reyna and Percy is nowhere to be seen.

"I see Annabeth but not Percy." I said.

"Frank was with him, I'll look for them." Hazel said as she got up.

Then I just stared into my drink. Not even a minute after Hazel left, someone sat in her seat. I sighed, thinking it was Jason or Leo. But when I looked up, I met with the blue eyes that consume me, and a smile that makes my stomach do backflips.

"Hey." Will said with a smile.

"Enjoying?" I asked as I took another sip of my drink.

He smirked and looked around "I guess so." He said. "It's good to see so many people are still friends after high school."

I chuckled. "You have no idea."

"How about you Nico? You never came to our school right?" Will asked.

"Oh. Yeah, I never did. I didn't even know I had cousins for a while." I slipped. Oh shit.

"What?" Will asked. "You didn't know that you had cousins."

"Ummm. Our fathers aren't exactly best bros." I said awkwardly. "Hehe."

"Okay?" Will chuckled, taking another sip from his drink.

We just sat there for a good 2 or 3 minutes not talking. I tried to sneak a look at him a few times to find out that he's been staring every time I look. I always averted his blue eyes.

I kept blushing and I can tell that I'm turning red. Ughh.

"Umm Will?" I said out of the blue, not even looking at him.

"Yeah?" He replied.

"Could you excuse me for a moment." I said and got up before he could say anything else, and rushed to the bathroom. I looked up the mirror, my face was red.

Will

"Okay." I said, right after Nico got up and left.

I sighed. He must not like me. I've been looking at it wrong have I? I just sat there, maybe I was staring too much. He was just so much different looking then he was back when I first met him.

He wasn't as pale, he didn't look so tired. He looked alive and so real, and it was just so mesmerizing. I smiled at the thought of him.

"Sorry." Nico said as he sat back down. His bangs a damped, he probably washed his face. I smiled.

"No, it's fine." I said.

"Soo…umm Will?" He started. "How's work?"

"Well, it's been a good while since I've been here. Patients have been coming and going. You know like in a bar." I said.

"No, not the same as a bar. For one, I'm not responsible for anyone's health and I don't need to spend more then 4 minutes with a customer." He said drinking from his cup.

I smiled. "That's true. Some patients are so paranoid." I said.

This is going well, we're talking sort of. I mean I am going to show an interest in him.

"So Nico, I see you're a little more tanner now." I said. Such a stupid thing to say, but I'm so nervous that I don't know what to say next.

"Oh yeah." He said, he didn't say anything else for a good 10 seconds. "I'm not a pale person, my skin color has always been tanned." He added.

I smiled, imagining him tanned. "Really?"

"Yeah, I work at night so I don't really go out in the day. Also as you said I haven't been eating well." He said.

I nodded. "But I think I'm going back to my original skin color." He added.

"I'm excited to see what you really look like." I said. Not realizing I said it out loud.

He just smiled and looked at me. Our eyes locked, I saw the brown eyes I've been dreaming about.

Then there was glass shatter. We both turned to look in the back. There stood Reyna and Malcolm and in between them was a shattered glass. Reyna didn't look so happy and Malcolm had no emotion on his face.

Then Malcolm walked away to the kitchen to clean up the glass, leaving Reyna just standing there. The tension in the room was suddenly unbearable.

"Ok guys. They just dropped a glass, no harm done." Jason interrupted the silence. "There's more food and drinks, come on guys."

Then I turned to look at Nico, "Hey, have you eaten anything?" I asked him.

He shrugged. "Not since lunch."

"Come on let's go get something to eat." I said getting up.

He sat and looked up at me and smiled, "Fine, doc."

We got our food but when we went back to our spot before we saw that Annabeth and Percy was already sitting there. We had a silent conversation we were not going to disturb them and find another place to sit.

Nico led me to the corner of the room with a table and two chairs like a café type of table set, near the balcony. He says this is where Percy likes to work in the day but when he works late nights he takes over the couch.

"Why do you have a table and chairs inside?" I asked.

"This was meant to be outside ok? It's not my fault it rained that one time and we never got around to put it back on the balcony." He said.

I just laughed. "Well, I'll put it back with you, when we finish eating." I said.

He just smiled. We sat down in front of each other, as I sat down. I got a little nervous, I can feel my heartbeat beat faster again. But I swallowed and ignore that negative voice in my head. And did my best to continue the conversation.

Turns out it was all in my head. Talking to Nico wasn't so hard after all, he looks unapproachable at first but once you got to talk to him he talks. Doesn't talk about himself a lot but he talks.

"You want a refill?" He asked.

"Oh, umm sure." I said with a smile, he returned the smile and took my cup and left.

"Hey." Leo said as he's walking towards me.

"Hi." I said. We don't know each other that well, but he's one of Jason's close friends.

"Will, right?" he asked with a friendly smile.

I nodded. "And you're Leo?" I asked.

He nodded as well. "I see you talking to ghost boy." He said.

"Ghost boy? You mean Nico." I said.

He chuckled "Yeah. I call him that cus the first time we met he was cold. Plus as you can see I'm hot af."

I smiled out of amusement. "I can see that." I said sarcastically.

Then he winked at me. Is he interested in guys?

"Don't encourage him." A female voice chimed in. It was Piper. "Nice to see you again, Will." She said.

"Hi Piper." I said. No offense but I'm not in the mood to get to know them, I want to know Nico.

"Umm Leo, Jason said he needs you." Piper said.

Leo finger gunned me and walked away, Piper just rolled his eyes.

"Sorry about him." She said.

"No, he's quite something." I said chuckling.

"You could say that." She added. "Jason actually didn't call him."

I just looked at her.

She gave me a smile. "It's just that I know that if Leo stayed you and Nico and you can't talk anymore. And well I haven't seen Nico warm up to a person so fast."

I just smiled. "Really?" I asked.

She nodded. "Took him a while to warm up to me. He's a little insecure but he's a really nice guy."

I nodded. "Thanks." I said.

"For what?" Nico came out of the blue.

Piper just smirked. "I just gave him a small piece of advice." It was silent between us three for a single second. "Ok, I'll leave you two to it." Like that she left.

"Here you go." Nico said to me as he handed me my cup. Our hands touched, his hand was cooler and it was refreshing to my warm body temp.

"Thanks." I said.

"I saw Percy and Annabeth talking." He said.

"Really? Any progress?" I asked before taking a sip of whatever concoction he made me.

He shrugged. "I already gave Percy numerous advice. He never took it once. So I guess we'll see." He said. "Although it would be nice if they finally got together." He added as he looked in the direction Annabeth and Percy was.

I smiled. "That would be nice. You had no idea who they were like back in school." I added.

"What were they like?" he asked.

"Well, they would awkward around each other on Valentine's day and such. And they would blush all the time around each other. Especially Percy, Annabeth kept her cool in front of him." I said.

Nico cracked a smile. "That does sound like them."

"I like the way you smile." I said.

Nico's smile suddenly disappeared from his face.

"I'm sorry, if that made you uncomfortable." I said feeling guilty.

He just shook his head. "No I'm sorry. I'm.." I waited patiently. "I'm not really used to compliments like that." He said cracking a bigger smile then before.

I smiled even wider. "Well, stick with me and all the compliments will be like that."

He giggled. "Maybe I will." A smile remained on his face. He looked into my eyes. He's eyes were a little distant but he was looking at me.

"Nico, you feeling ok?" Percy asked as he came by for a second.

Nico just gave him a thumb up and a smile. Percy smiled as well and mouth out to me 'Thank you.' I didn't know what that was for but he left right after that.

"So Nico, have you ever thought of learning to speak your mother tongue?" I asked.

He just laughed. "Oh my gods, I don't know. Back to that questions."

"Well, you never answered me." I said.

He just smiled, I looked around in this semi-crowded room with all of my old friends and some new ones, the air was warm and here I sat with this guy that made my heart beat fast, a guy that took my breath away, a guy that made me scrabble up my words.

Jason came by to talk a little with Nico. I took out my phone and decided to text Michael.

[Hey, Mike. A lot of people are asking about you, Jason, Percy, Thalia so many people are here even Bekendorf is here. And you know what, I'm sitting here with Nico and I'm happy I took the risk. Thanks Mike for putting up with me. We'll talk soon.]

As I send the text, I looked at Nico. He was grinning at something Jason said to him, he was glowing like an angel and I knew that I was already too deep into him. He turned to look at me and smiled.

"Will, you okay?" Jason asked.

"Hmm… yah I'm fine." I said with a smile.

This chapter is not my best work but if you guys enjoyed it then great. And yes i know they are moving slow but I like it that way, also I know there's no smut yet and any adult themes or whatever but I promise next chapter there will be improvement. Thank you always for reading! :)