Nico

"What exactly do you do in a Honeymoon?" Nico asked, even though he didn't want to.

"I'm not really sure," Thalia admitted, "But I think it's like a vacation you take to spend more money."

"Why?"

"I don't know! I'm not a grown up. They do weird things."

"Well," Jason interrupted, "Where are we going for our Honeymoon?"

Nico smacked his head, "Don't ask! We already got married and that's all we agreed to play."

"Yeah, but, I want to know what this Honeymoon is. Please Nico!" Jason pouted.

"It'll be fun," Bianca reassured, "I promise." Why on Earth would he want to keep playing such a pointless game. At least in playing pirates, you learn how to fight with swords which was pretty cool, but what was the point of this game? He was about to refuse when he made the mistake of looking at his friend a.k.a his husband, who was pleading silently with wide puppy dog eyes and how could Nico say no?

He sighed, "I guess if I have to."

"Now we have to figure out where to have your honeymoon," Thalia mumbled to herself as she thought of something.

"Oh, I know!" Hazel grinned, " They could go to the beach! We can set up the sandbox to be the beach and our pool for the ocean!"

"That's a great idea Haze!" Thalia praised her and turned to the couple, "You two stay here and we'll get you when we have everything ready."

"Okay," Jason nodded, looking excited at the thought of how their honeymoon was going to be. Nico rolled his eyes at him. The girls left the house and got the beach ready for Jason and Nico.

"While we're waiting, make me a sandwich," Jason ordered as he made himself comfy on the miniature sofa and propped his feet up on the miniature coffee table. Really, everything here was mini.

"Why do I have to do it?" Nico argued.

"Isn't the wife supposed to do what the husband says?"

"No. My mom was watching this show and the wife was bossing around her husband so you have to do what I say," Nico shoved Jason's feet off the furniture, "And I say to get that lazy bum off the couch and make me a sandwich." He sounded so demanding for a little kid and Jason jumped up and hurried to the fake kitchen and started 'making' a sandwich. Maybe playing this wasn't so bad.

"Here," Jason brought him a plastic sandwich. Nico studied it for a second.

"Does it have tomato?" he asked.

"No," Jason responded then added quickly, "Did you want some?"

"No, it looks good." Then he pretended to eat it.

"By the way, I didn't make you a sandwich because you told me to," Jason said defiantly.

"Really?"

"Yep, I wanted to."

Nico snorted, "Sure Jase. You wanted to." Before Jason could start arguing, Thalia came in, a towel tucked under her arm like she was trying to impersonate a butler.

"Mr. and Mrs. Grace, you can come out now," she vowed and propped the door open for them. Nico was a bit hesitant to step out and follow her but Jason gave him a gentle nudge and he had no choice but to come along.

As they got closer to their 'vacation spot', Nico noticed that there were two beach chairs with an umbrella propped up to give them shade. The girls had moved their wadding pool as close as they could to the sandbox and had filled it up with water. He felt Jason take his hand.

"What are you doing?" he asked.

"Holding your hand," Jason answered, nonchalantly.

"Why?"

"Because we're supposed to be married, right? So we should act like it." His friend was taking this game too seriously but Nico indulged him since he didn't feel like arguing anyway.

"Guys!" Bianca motioned them to sit on the chairs, "Sit here and act like you're having the best time of your lives."

"And we'll be the butlers," Hazel beamed. They took a seat as instructed.

"So if you're the butlers, does that mean we get to boss you around?" Jason asked hopefully.

"Yeah, but only what we want to do," Bianca answered.

"Aw, then what's the point?" Nico whined, "I wanted Hazel to throw mud at you!"

Hazel put her hands on her hips, "I would never do that to her!" Before Bianca could thank her, she added, " Mud would get under my nails and it's so annoying trying to clean them afterwards. If I had gloves then maybe..."

"Okay," his older sister interrupted, "We don't have gloves, but we have juice boxes." She handed one to each of the boys.

"Hm, this isn't so bad." Jason commented, "It's kinda relaxing."

"Okay, now you have to talk about how much you love each other," Thalia added as she stood beside her brother.

Nico spit out his apple juice in surprise, the blood already rushing to his cheeks, "Why?!"

"Because I said so," Thalia said like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"I'll go first," Jason volunteered, ignoring the glare Nico was throwing his way, and cleared his throat, " Nico, did I ever tell you how pretty you are?"

"Aw," The Di Angelo sisters cooed. Nico so did not want to have a conversation like this. Mostly because he never had someone call him pretty before. He wasn't sure if he should go along with it.

"Uh, no, actually. But I don't think we should-" Before he could continue, Jason cut him off and kept talking anyway.

"You are prettier than Mrs. O'leary," he said, referring to Percy's dog. Even though that it was their green-eyed friend's pet, it seemed like she had taken a liking to Nico the last time she visited. "I would rather spend more time with you than my Xbox." Jason continued.

"Whoa, there," Nico stopped him, " You don't have to go that far." The Xbox was maybe the most precious thing that Jason had. He'd spend hours playing nonstop whenever he, Bianca and Hazel left to their own house and even when they did sleep over, Jason would try to get him to play too, even though Nico was terrible and got the command buttons mixed up.

"Really guys?" Thalia shook her head, "You don't know the first thing about love."

"Yeah," Bianca agreed, "You're supposed to talk about how you would do anything for each other and how you'll always be by each other's side."

"And ride into the sunset on a trusty steed to your happily ever after!" Hazel finished as she threw her hands over her head for emphasis. Jason and Nico stared blankly at them.

"You've been watching too many movies," Jason commented. "Who says all that stuff? And where am I supposed to get a horse?"

"We are not 'riding into the sunset on a trusty steed'," Nico stated. He caught Hazel pouting but that was not going to change his mind.

"Whatever," Jason rolled his eyes, "We're on vacation and I'm going to have fun!" With that, he jumped into the wadding pool with everything on. Nico got splashed a bit. The water was so cold! Was Jason crazy?!

"Jason!" Thalia scolded, "Get out of there! Mom's going to be mad. You got your clothes wet!"

"I don't need another mom, Thals!" he retorted and stuck his tongue out. Nico just watched his blond friend and his sister bicker, smiling because when they fought, it was very entertaining. His sisters and him knew better than to intervene in their little quarrel. They've learned from experience that no matter what they said or did, Thalia and Jason would keep on arguing until it died down on its own.

"Who's on their Honeymoon? You or me?" Jason asked and that made Nico's face go red again. Really, it was embarrassing. Did he have to say things like that all the time?

"You're not a very good husband," Thalia claimed.

"Yeah I am! I made him a sandwich!"

"Well, while you're in the pool, having fun, Nico is sitting alone. You don't leave your wife alone while you're at your honeymoon." Jason glared at his sister one more time before getting out the pool and making his way towards Nico. His clothes were soaking and his sneakers were making squishing noises.

"Whoa! Don't come any closer, Jase," Nico warned, "I don't want to get wet."

"But, Nico! It'll be fun! Come on. Jump in with me and we'll both have fun!"

"No."

"Please?"

"I said no!" Jason's shoulders slumped and he was about to turn back when something suddenly came to him and a wide smile appeared on his face. Nico figured that it wasn't good.

"Come here, Nico!" Jason spread his arms out, "Give me a hug!" Before the other boy could make a run for it, he was brought into a very tight, very wet hug.

"I'm...going to...kill you!" Nico gasped. Their sisters weren't any help either. It looked like they gave up on trying to make this a romantic event and were just giggling among themselves at Nico's discomfort.

"Let's go for a swim!" Jason announced. Wrapping his arms around Nico's waist, Jason ran towards the make-believe 'ocean', without giving Nico enough time to escape from his hold.

Bianca, Thalia and Hazel burst out laughing like it was the funniest thing in the world. The splash they had created practically left the water level half as full as it had started with. Nico wasn't really paying attention to that, though. The water wasn't cold. It was freezing! How could Jason stand it?

Speaking of that blond jerk, Nico was well aware of him. His chest was pressed up against Nico's back, laughing at the 'fun' they were having. Nico would've elbowed him from behind, but he was too busy hugging himself, trying to stop shaking.

"Are you cold?" Jason had stopped laughing.

"Yeah a-and you're d-d-d-dead," Nico couldn't stop his teeth from chattering. Then he felt arms encase him again and Jason rest his chin on his shoulders. The water didn't feel so cold anymore.

"I guess that makes me a bad husband, huh?" he asked. Before Nico could agree with him, a voice screamed their names from the back door.

"Kids!" Ms. Grace called, "It's snack time! Get your butts over here!" She went quickly back inside, having not paid attention to the fact that both of the boys were sitting in the wading pool.

"Yay!" Hazel cheered, "I love snacks! I'm so hungry. Let's go inside!"

"Alright, Haze. Calm down," Bianca said, "First we should get Jason and Nico out of the pool."

"And it's the perfect time to move on to the next part of the game," Thalia added. Everyone turned their attention to her.

"There's more?" Nico asked regrettably.

"Yep," The oldest of the kids smiled, "Since we skipped around, we're moving on to meeting the parents."

"We're going to tell our moms we're all family now!" Hazel shouted with joy. Unlike her, Nico wasn't feeling the excitement. When was this game over?

So they're going to talk to their moms about their game. I'm excited to write about that. I can already picture them teasing Jason and Nico and just playing around about the whole thing.

-Angela R.