And now for the moment death breath has been waiting for
Percy was blue with envy.
First, Ares goes up to the stage and starts making out with who he thought was Xeris. Now Dionysus is dancing with the real Xeris.
What should a secret boyfriend do to get some time with his secret girlfriend already? He thought. He was jealous and bothered.
So bothered that Annabeth had to go talk to him.
"Percy, what's the problem? You haven't spoken to me since you went out to guard Xeris,"
Percy stayed silent.
"Are you angry with me?" Annabeth asked.
Percy still stayed silent.
"Percy, talk to me already!" Annabeth begged.
Xeris shot him a look. Now Percy had to talk to Annabeth.
"Why haven't you asked me to dance with you? I've been waiting all night!" Percy said with a forced smile.
"Really? Ok then, m'lady, let's dance!"
"Hey Xeris, how about we try one of those dances where we switch partners like every twenty seconds?" Percy suggested.
"We need a third couple," Xeris answered. She knew what he was thinking. Not literally, btw.
I was just standing nearby.
"I heard something about dancing? Nico could totally join in!" Will Solace said.
"Yes. You and Nico could totally join in," I said.
"I said only Nico can join in. Hey, you're Nico's therapist right? Nico, dance with Crysta." Will said.
"NO!" We both said.
"We can't do that. It would be—"
"Awkward." I suggested .
"Difficult," Nico seconded.
"Weird," I finished.
"Oh, I get it. You two don't care about me."
Of course he was going to play that card. He's Nico's boyfriend, he should know that Nico hates drama.
"Why would you say that?" Nico asked grimly.
He had tears in his eyes. "If you cared about me, then you would dance with Christine." Will said.
My full name isn't Christine. It's Crystanabecca.
"Fine, I'll dance with Crysta. But you owe me for this!" Nico said.
"You know he doesn't have—" I started. Will looked at me in a way that if I said no one more time…
"Fine. DJ, play The More I See!"
That song involves a lot of spinning.
We were first with our original partners; Me with Nico, Annabeth with Percy, and Xeris with Dioscuri.
For twenty seconds.
We; spun to the left, spun to the right, spun in and out, repeat sequence. Then I decided to have a little fun and spun Nico to Percy and signaled everybody else to move away from them.
That was literally the funniest thing I've ever done.
Nico caught Percy's shoulders. Then he realized who he was with. He froze.
All he did for like thirty seconds was look into Percy's eyes. I told the DJ to change the song to How Deep Is Your Love.
Xeris told me later that she manipulated the Mist to make Nico look like her, because I could not be-leive what happened next.
Nico was just about to leave when Percy pulled him back.
He danced with so much passion and love that I changed the song to Magic. Nico looked as if he was going to die of happiness.
Because, why not?
Every time Nico wanted to go, Percy pulled him back to his chest. The dance drew for so long I changed the song, like, four times. Namely; For The First Time In Forever, Anjanna Anjanni, A Million Dreams, and Never Enough.
Then Percy lifted him like a ballerina
Nico really wanted to explode now, but he decided fainting was enough, then proceeded to pass out cold on the floor as if he shadow traveled to all the states of three different countries.
The lights went out, but I could see. Xeris gave me night vision.
Xeris hauled Nico off the ground, which was somehow easy with her super god strength, and laid in his place. Then the lights came back on.
Let me tell you; I'm sure if Nico hadn't blacked out sooner, and Annabeth wasn't there, Percy would've kissed Nico thinking he was Xeris, and Xeris would've either fainted or burst out laughing, and Nico would have died.