Prompt: U should write about how they first met and they keep happening to bump into each other randomly and they decide to become friends. They become bffs then eventually they start to realize their feelings. They start to act super awkward around the other until someone (Sadie) pushes them together by locking them in a closet or something.
Or nico starts to hang out with another god and Anubis gets like super jealous and tries to pick a fight.
"Wha-? Sadie, open the door!"
Anubis glanced back at Nico behind him. The dark-haired teen is banging his fist against the door to the cleaning cupboard they're currently locked in.
Stupid Sadie, she didn't have to go to such lengths to push them together.
Anubis sighed and sat down on the floor at the other side of the tiny room, a drying mop flopping down onto his shoulder – he picked it up and threw it aside.
"I won't let you out until you've resolved whatever is happening!" Sadie shouted through the door. "I don't care if you stay in there forever, you're my friends, and I won't have you two be angry at each other even though you're best friends!"
Nico groaned, "We'll starve."
Sadie scoffed, "You'll survive a week before you die from dehydration."
"Damn it," Nico muttered.
Anubis heard Sadie's footsteps move away from the door and down the hall. He rubbed a hand against his face and sighed again.
How'd he let it get this far? It wasn't like he'd meant to start a fight with Ethan, okay maybe he'd meant it but that wasn't the point.
Anubis narrowed his eyes. Ethan Nakamura, just thinking about him made him grit his teeth. He'd so obviously been making the moves on Nico, how could he not react?
He glanced up at the other boy. Nico was still facing away from him, probably still angry.
Anubis felt his chest clench painfully. He'd hurt Nico. He'd hurt him because of how he felt about him. He shouldn't have hurt him at all. Even though it was technically Ethan he'd hurt, Nico was still furious at him.
But he'd felt such anger at seeing Nico with Ethan so many times. Nico was his best friend, not Ethan's.
Ever since they'd met at the Mythomagic event on campus, they'd bumped into each other - whether it be the cafeteria or at the library, even at the coffee shop ways off campus – they'd meet.
They started hanging out since they didn't really hang out with that many other friends. Anubis had Sadie and Carter (and occasionally Walt) but Nico didn't really hang out with anyone. He'd seen him with a couple of people sometimes, and he knew now that Nico knew many of the older college students, but not that many at his own age. Anubis had then made it his mission to hang out with Nico as much as he could.
It didn't take long for him to view the other as his best friend and Nico had told him he felt the same. He'd also told him he'd never had a best friend before, which may have made Anubis value their friendship that much more.
Over time, Anubis had started to view Nico in a different light than before. He wasn't sure when the turning point had happened, but he'd suddenly started blushing out of nowhere when Nico smiled at him, and his chest felt tight when he heard him laugh.
His feelings had slowly progressed to the point where he felt very lonely when Nico was out of town and nothing could cheer him up other than Nico returning.
Sadie had called him out on it many times and finally confronted him about his issue when Nico was visiting his dad.
"What is your problem, Anubis? You look like your pet died," Sadie had said. She never was the subtlest of people, that was one of the reasons Anubis liked her.
"I don't know. I'm just- I just wish Nico would come back."
Sadie had raised her eyebrows, then smirked. "If I didn't know any better, I'd say you like him."
"What? Don't be ridiculous. I- I don't like him…" he'd trailed off as he mulled the thought over. Did he like Nico? It would explain a lot.
"It would explain a lot," Sadie had muttered, reading his mind.
When Nico had returned from his father, he told Anubis he had gotten to know another student who lived at their campus. Enter Ethan Nakamura.
Nico started to spend a lot of time with Ethan and it made Anubis' stomach twist whenever he saw the guy.
Ethan didn't seem to notice the glaring at all and was always friendly towards Anubis. Nico had seemed to notice, though, at it didn't exactly make him happy.
Nothing major had happened until today.
Nico had been talking to Ethan during lunch, which had been okay. What was not okay was when Ethan had placed his arm around Nico's waist as he told him something and Nico had the audacity to blush.
Anger had flared up in Anubis and he'd abruptly stood up from his seat to walk over to them and tug Ethan away then pushed him back from Nico. Ethan seemed surprised at first and then confused. Nico at the other hand was shoving at Anubis and asking him what the hell his problem was.
"He's my problem!" Anubis had all but shouted, which made Nico even angrier.
Nico had pushed past him and apologized to Ethan, who didn't seem to care about Anubis' behaviour.
Sadie had then stepped in and dragged both Anubis and Nico away from the cafeteria and promptly locked them in the closet.
Anubis looked down at the ground. "I'm sorry," he tried.
Nico turned towards him, anger evident in his eyes, "You're sorry? Why did you even have to do that? What has Ethan ever done to you?!"
Anubis flinched at the other's raised voice. He looked up at the other, "I don't know. I just- I was just angry."
Nico raised an eyebrow, clearly still fuming. "You were angry. Why the hell were you angry? He didn't pick a fight, he didn't provoke you," his voice was dripping with disbelief.
Anubis shrugged.
Nico sighed and walked towards him, plopping down to sit beside him on the floor.
"We were just talking, y'know," he said.
Anubis laughed a hollow laugh, "I know." He drew his breath, this was it, he felt it coming out, "I guess I just felt jealous."
"Jealous? Why would you be jealous?" the surprise was clear in his voice.
Shit. He wasn't ready. Abort, abort!
"You started to hang out with him a lot. And I- I just wanted to hang with you too," what the hell was he saying?
"But we did hang out together," Nico started.
"I wanted you to hang out with just me!" the words slipped from his mouth before he could stop them and he looked away and squeezed his eyes shut.
Nico was silent. He tapped his fingers against the floor. "Well, I want to hang out with other people too, that doesn't mean you're not my best friend anymore. I mean, I tell you everything. No one knows me like you do, especially not Ethan."
Anubis bit his lip, "I know. I just… I don't know. It made me angry when he was so friendly and touchy with you."
"Touchy? Are you talking about earlier? That was nothing."
"You were blushing." Why did he tell him that?
Nico was so silent it made Anubis look up at him.
He was gaping at him and seemed speechless.
"What? That- that doesn't mean anything, he was just telling me something," he then blushed again as he looked away.
Anger rose in Anubis again, "It didn't seem like nothing from the way you're acting. Did he tell you he liked you or something?"
Nico turned to him and had the look on his face like he thought Anubis might be the stupidest person on the planet. "What? No. He- he told me something else."
"Then what did he tell you?"
"It wasn't important-"
"It is important. I want to know if you like him." Oh snap. That was it. He was doomed.
Nico looked at him strangely, "Why do you want to know if I like him?"
"Because I like you!"
Nico looked shocked. Anubis clamped a hand over his mouth and abruptly stood up to walk away from him. He stood facing the door, feeling his hand tremble slightly against his mouth.
He heard the other stand behind him and squeezed his eyes shut. A hand was placed on his shoulder and he tried not to flinch as Nico spoke.
"You… like me?"
Anubis couldn't say anything. He'd messed up everything.
"Hey, Anubis. Look at me…" Nico was trying to turn him around.
He let himself be turned around but kept his eyes shut. He did flinch when Nico put his arms around him and hugged him tightly.
"It's okay," Nico said.
Anubis shook his head.
"It's not okay?" Nico asked. He shook his head again. "Why is it not okay?"
Anubis shakily drew his breath, "Because I ruined everything. We can't be friends like we were before."
"Hey, don't say that. Anubis, look at me, okay," Nico tried to lift his head. Anubis reluctantly opened his eyes. Nico smiled at him and then leaned forward and kissed him.
It was just a simple press of lips and lasted a second but it made him stop shaking and gape.
Nico actually blushed and looked away, "You wanna know what Ethan said to me?"
Anubis nodded numbly.
"He said that I should confess my feelings to you," he started. "I like you, Anubis."
Anubis felt shell-shocked but heard the sound of the door unlocking clearly.
