Leo: say it..

Me: no I don't wanna

Hazel: say it or i leave the story

Me: ugh fine I own nothing but the plot and all the characters and anything else you recognize belongs to Rick Riordan

༺༻ chapter one ༺༻

"Ok it's fine you can do this! It's fine everything's ok you can do this just breathe" Hazel Levesque muttered to herself as she paced around the Hades cabin.

Hazel was about to iris message Frank Zhang, one of her best friends and major crush. Her and Frank had been friends for a while and during their quest to defeat Gaea together, along with the rest of the seven, Hazel realized she had strong feelings for Frank and that she maybe even wanted to be more than friends. Maybe it was when frank saved her and Percy from the gorgons, or maybe it was when she saw how much more confident Frank was after mars claimed him, if she was being honest with herself she wasn't sure when she began to fall for her best friend, just that it had happened and that she could only hope he felt the same. "Ok let's do this" Hazel said, tossing a gold drachma in the fountain in the corner of her cabin and shaking herself out of her thoughts.

"O, Iris, goddess of the rainbow, accept my offering and show me Frank Zhang." She said, as Frank's image materialized in front of her.

"Oh! Hazel hi! How are you? Is everything ok?" Frank asked, slightly startled.

"Oh! Uh yeah, e-everythings fine so, um, how have you been lately?" She stuttered anxiously.

"Oh, um, im ok-k i guess can't complain." He says laughing akwardly.

"H-how about you?" He asked nervously.

"I-im pretty good. So what have you been up to? Also I think you're really handsome. WAIT!" Hazel said, her face turning bright pink.

" Not a lot, just a lot of training" Frank replied, completely oblivious to what Hazel had just said.

"H-hazel a-are you ok? Why is your face so pink? Do you need me to get Annabeth or Piper?" he asked, concerned.

"What!? Oh- he no um everything's- everythings just fine." Hazel said, slightly relieved but also disappointed.

"Ok so um what did you wanna talk to me abou-" Frank started asking.

"FRANK I MISS YOU" Hazel interrupted, looking down at her feet.

"Wh-? W-ow o-ok um I missed you too actually…." he replied mumbling towards the end.

"Wait.. really!?" she asked, her head snapping back up their eyes meeting. "Maybe we could meet somewhere sometime soon then?"

"Huh? Oh yeah that would be nice!" Frank replied as his image shimmered in front of Hazel. "I heard the strawberry fields are really nice for a picnic so maybe Saturday for lunch i'll make up a picnic basket and yea…?" Frank suggested.

"Oh! Ok! That would be nice! So I'll see you saturday!" Hazel replied as Frank's image faded away. "Oh my gods im going out with Frank, this is so exciting! But what will I wear? Oh! I bet Piper can help!" she thought to herself as she started walking towards the aphrodite cabin.

"PIPER I NEED YOUR HELP!" Hazel shouted bursting into the Aphrodite cabin.

"WHAT!? WHAT'S WRONG!? IS SOMEBODY HURT!? WHAT DID PERCY DO THIS TIME??" Piper asked, concerned that percy had gotten into yet more trouble and had injured himself and others.

"What?? Oh no nothing's wrong! Actually everythings really great!" Hazel responded.

"Wait so no one's dying?"

"Nope"

"No quest?"

Surprisingly no"

"Oh. well that's good at least"

" yup"

Wait so then why did you burst in here yelling like that?" Piper asked her friend.

"Oh! I'm going on a date with Frank on Saturday and I have nothing to wear and I was hoping you could help! If you're busy though that's fine!" Hazel replied to her concerned friend and preparing for the explosion that was about to happen.

"WAIT REALLY!? OH MY GODS THIS IS EXCITING! HAVE YOU TOLD HIM H-" Piper exclaimed.

"Not so loud please? I haven't told Frank yet. I don't need the whole camp knowing before he does!" Hazel said, clamping a hand over her overly excited friend.

"Sorry! It's just this is so exciting! You've had such a huge crush on Frank for so long and you're FINALLY going out with him! This is amazing! Have you told Annabeth yet?" Piper asked.

"No not yet I came straight here but even then I think she's visiting Percy and his family." Hazel replied.

"Ooh yeah that's right I forgot. Well we, sorry, you can tell her all about it when she gets back! So you said you needed help picking an outfit to wear? Well you came to the right place! Let's get you all dressed up and looking nice! Thankfully you're already beautiful and have perfect skin so maybe just a bit of eyeshadow…" Piper rambled off leading hazel towards the back of the cabin where all the aphrodite girls kept clothes just for this reason.

༺༻ time skip༺༻

That Saturday, Hazel goes down to the strawberry fields wearing a long white, open back dress with light blue flowers and princess sleeves. Once she gets there she finds Frank there wearing a gray pullover cardigan and dark blue skinny jeans and the picnic, made with sandwiches, fresh fruit, pastries, and soda all laid out on a red gingham blanket. "Wow Frank! This- this is wow! Did you make all of this?" Hazel asked.

"Uh yeah i actually am not half bad at baking and really enjoy it actually." Frank replied, scratching the back of his neck nervously. "Do you like it?"

"Like it? I Love it! Frank, this is amazing!" Hazel replied " I didn't know you could bake like this!" hazel said, sighing as she bit into a croissant with butter and fresh strawberry jam on it.

"Oh uh thanks! Not a lot of people know that about me. What about you? What's something you like to do that people don't know about or expect you to do?"

"Me? Oh i don't really have anything" she replied nervously

"Oh c'mon everyone has something"

"Well actually….."

"Yes?"

"Sometimes I like to sing. But usually when I'm in my cabin by myself." she replied, laughing awkwardly.

"Really?"

"Yeah but again only when i'm by myself i don't want to deal with people like Drew making horrible comments and stuff right now"

"Understandable"

"Hey Frank, can I tell you something?" Hazel asked, getting nervous.

" um yeah…. Is everything ok?" Frank asked, getting anxious. " Did I say something? Oh gods i did didn't? I'm so sorry I shouldn't have pushed you to answer the question. I'm so, so sorr-'' Frank said, starting to ramble.

"I LIKE YOU FRANK ZHANG!" Hazel shouted, interrupting him.

"Wait what?"

" I said , I like you, a lot actually. I have for a long time i just haven't said anything because i thought you didn't feel the same" she said looking down at her plate.

"Wow um ok i-i really like you to hazel and i didnt say anything for kind of the same reason as you, i thought you didn't feel the same way and i didnt want to ruin what we did have.." he told Hazel scratching his neck anxiously.

"Wait really!?" she exclaimed, her eyes snapping up to meet him.

"Uh- y-yeah oh-!" he said as hazel tackles him in a hug. He closes his eyes as he gives her a hug almost as hard and when he opens them he sees her amber gold eyes staring up at her and kisses her suddenly, pulling back as he sees her open her eyes wide. " oh god i'm sorry i shouldn't have done that oh my gods im sorry im so sorry i should have asked first i should ha-" he says getting interrupted when hazel kisses him back just as hard. "Woah" he says, slightly shocked. "So…" Frank started.

"Yes?" Hazel replied patiently.

"I guess this means we're officially a couple?" Frank asks, starting to grin.

"I guess so" Hazel says, smiling.

"Should we go tell Piper now? I saw her spying on us earlier and then ran when I saw her so she's probably dying in her cabin right now." Frank said chuckling

"not yet i love her to pieces but i don't think me or my eardrums could take it right now" she said giggling.

"Should we just lay here then for right now and enjoy the quiet then?" he asked.

"Yeah, that sounds nice" she said, smiling.