Lily Whisperer at Camp

by SkyePhoenixDove 'n TimeTurner

This is a story I wrote when I was young so don't judge me, it's terribly non-canon. Basically, my character goes to Camp Half-Blood and gets obsessed with Nico Di Angelo (I know I spelt it wrong). Plot changes eventually but I'm never going to keep writing this anyway. Rated T because I'm paranoid.

20. Lily XIX

Demigod Diaries - Lily XIX

Over the next few days, Nico was always slightly distant. He let me hang out with him the way we used to (even if you could actually call it hanging out) pretending that I didn't hug him or save his life a few nights before.

But things had shifted a bit. Nico started waiting for me outside my cabin and helping me hunt and all. He wasn't much help in hiding, since I couldn't melt into the shadows like he could, but somehow I felt better when he tried to make he effort to be my friend.

The disturbing things were the never-ending pranks played on the Ares Cabin. They constantly experienced kitchen duty, cursed chariots, falling plates, loose skeleton horses, frozen cabins, moving rock walls, crazy sharks, you get my drift.

The problem was, I had a distinct feeling I knew who did all these. Someone who got teased constantly by those Ares jerks. Someone who was the victim of attempted murder.

You got that right, it was definitely Nico Di Angelo.

I didn't blame him, but Nico would definitely get in trouble for his pranks. Ordinary camper or no, he still had to obey camp rules.

Or so I thought.

A week passed. Chiron didn't say a word to him. It was pretty obvious to me, and the Ares campers probably knew too, but all everyone else just snickered at the jerks' bad luck.

I really wanted to talk to him properly, but it was difficult to hold a conversation with him. Like the next day:

ME: "...Hi! ...You waiting for me?"

NICO: "Um... yeah. Thought maybe you wanted to see me today. So... uh..."

ME: "No, it's okay! I'm just... surprised. Cause, you know, you never did that before."

NICO: "Oh, uh, sorry."

ME: "What's the occasion today?"

NICO: "Nothing, it's just... well, you always tried to stick around me so I figured that I should make things easier for you. "

ME: "So... what's up?"

NICO: "Um... we're supposed to go for breakfast."

ME: "Oh."

At which point I would, just out of habit, try to hold Nico's hand and he would, as always, flinch away like I was a fly he didn't really want to offend.

Then our cheeks would start going strawberry.

I really wanted to figure him out. I had a feeling that I might finally be his friend, but it all seemed so complicated.

Still, it's a start.