MINOR SPOILERS FOR TRIALS OF APOLLO. PROCEED WITH CAUTION.
"Does anyone know I'm coming with you?" I asked.
"I'm not seeing how that matters." Nico mumbled, looking down at my phone. I'd let him borrow it to use GPS.
"Fine." I pouted. "If you don't want to talk about that, then I'll have to try something else." I smiled innocently before continuing. "So….do you… oh, I don't know. Have a crush on anyone perhaps?" I said. We were sitting in a McDonalds, two blocks from my house. I couldn't help but bring Nico to a McDonalds, because of how he summoned the dead with happy meals in The Battle of the Labyrinth. It was most ironic that he actually did get a happy meal. Or…should I say…. an unhappy meal. (And now I hate myself for making that joke.)
Nico looked up.
"A crush… on anyone?" he asked.
"Yes. Like…I don't know… maybe… perhaps… any demigods that you wouldn't mind making out passionately with?" I asked.
"Uh…" Nico looked around, perhaps trying to find a way out of this conversation. "A crush? Like… liking someone?" I nodded furiously at this question. "Like… liking a demigod…" I nodded again. He leaned closer. "You do know I'm over Percy…. Right?" I laughed.
"Of course I know that you're over Percy. I meant someone else." Nico paused for a moment.
"Why should I tell you?" he asked, leaning back to his original posture and resuming his fiddling around with my phone.
"Because… I'll start guessing if you don't tell me. Besides. I want to know if my ships could be real. If my OTP is canon." Nico scrunched up his eyebrows in confusion and muttered something to himself.
"Hmm?" I asked.
"Nothing. I just didn't know that you wanted your boats to have cannons." He said. I smiled wider than I already had before.
"Are… you kidding with me. Or do you actually not know what ships are?" I asked.
"I'm kidding around with you. I'm not ignorant enough to start a 'friendship' with a fangirl without knowing that a ship is a relationship." Nico made air quotes when saying friendship. That hurt, but only a little.
"So…" I crossed my fingers. "You… aren't denying that you have a crush. In fact, you've been steering the conversation away from that. Which proves that you do." I pointed out.
"So?" Nico said. I sighed in frustration.
"Do you or do you not want to have children with Will Solace?" I asked. Nico's knee banged against the cheap table.
"How do you know about that. ToA still hasn't come out." He said.
"What?!" I screeched.
"Shhhhit. Be quiet." Nico leaned over and put his hand over my mouth.
"Mhhherggg." I said, then bit down hard on his hand. He yelped and dropped it, before looking around. We'd chosen a table in the back and the place was nearly empty, but Nico apparently put McDonald's patron's opinions in the highest regard.
Once the coast was apparently clear he hissed, "Well?" I gave a confused look.
"Well… what?" I asked.
"How do you know about me and Will?" he asked. I squealed in response. He gave me a dirty look because of the amount of noise I'd made.
"So it's canon. Solangelo is canon?" I said. Nico's face went slack.
"Solangelo?" he asked.
"Your ship name."
"How do you know that…" he paused, not wanting to say it. "that… Solangelo is real."
"BOO made it obvious. 'Doctor's order's'? I mean, come on, you made it easy." Nico groaned.
"We're that obvious?" he asked. I nodded sympathetically. He groaned again.
Hi guys! Sorry for not updating for more than half a year (closer to an entire year than not)
I had a bit of writer's block with this story. I wasn't sure where i wanted it to go, even though i have a basic plot sketch of the entire story. ToA fixed that, it appears, but i really need feedback on this chapter. I don't know if making solangelo canon in this universe is a good idea because... well, my original plan was for a relationship between the narrator and nico...
Could you guys tell me what you think?
