Obsessed With Sleep
I wondered why someone was calling me at no-thank-you o'clock in the morning.
(At least, I assumed that it was someone calling me. Because my alarm was set to play Panic! At the Disco at a scarily loud volume at 6:30 in the morning. And since nobody was throwing pillows at me fore jerking them to consciousness by Brendon Urie's voice, it was definitely someone calling me.)
I grabbed the phone, glad it was on vibrate, and shielded my eyes from the bright light it emitted. An unfamiliar number was displayed on the screen. I answered it, bringing the phone to my ear.
"Hello?" I whispered.
"Hello." I smiled. The voice on the other end wasn't just familiar. I'd recognize it anywhere.
"Nico?" I asked to make sure. "What are you doing calling me at 3 in freaking morning?" I groaned. Don't get me wrong, I was glad to hear from him but… I really like my sleep.
"Long story. Short time to tell it. Her phone's going to die soon." Nico said. My heart slammed against my ribcage.
"Her." I said, monotone voice.
"Will Solace. If you think something's going on right now. I can assure you. I am quite gay for you." Nico scolded I hid my eyes with my hand, but a blush crept up my neck.
"You better be. Now who is this 'her' and why are you using her phone?" I mumbled through my fingers. Though I was definitely smiling. The fact that Nico would even said the word gay when describing himself showed progress.
"Her is referring to a fangirl I meT. You know, the kind that's into the books they wrote." I wanted to correct Nico when he said 'they'. He wrote something of a quarter of that last book. Yet, as always, the dork was excluding himself from the group that wrote the ten books.
"Alright. So… When are you coming back to camp half-blood? And there was a reason to making friends with such a kind of girl, I'm told." I said. Kayla rolled over in her sleep and snored. I felt a slight twinge of fear that she'd wake up. She'd never let me forget that I was talking to my boyfriend at 3 a.m.
"Yeah. There is sort of a reason…" Nico muttered. "But it's not important right now. I hardly know if it'll work."
"If 'it' won't work, then why bring her to camp?" I asked, repositioning myself so that I was leaning against the wall next to my bed. I heard Nico's sharp intake of breath, a sign that he was about to ask me how I knew that this fangirl was going to show up at camp tomorrow.
"Hmm… Well… this girl's life revolves around these books." But then Nico paused. He seemed frustrated, trying to find the right words to explain what he was thinking.
"That's a bit of an over exaggeration. But… you know what I mean. The books mean a lot to her, and so does the universe. I don't want to make assumptions here, but the characters… us, I guess. We grew up alongside her? They, we, I guess, mean a lot to her because we've always been there for her. We've stood the test of time? She's been reading these books for years and years and bringing her to camp half-blood is kind of a dream."
"I don't know why it would be her dream." I grumbled. Camp half-blood was great and I'd met so many great people, but being a demigod was hard. Like Percy Jackson once said, I didn't want to be a half-blood. "most of the time, it gets you killed in nasty, painful ways."
"Yeah… but it's been an escapism for her. And no doubt, for many of the other readers, too." I wanted to tell Nico that what just came out of his mouth was meaningful and sweet, but I don't think he would've believed it.
Besides, I had an important question.
"So… This girl is smart, yeah? Like, reads all the time smart?" I asked. Nico sighed.
"I'll bet $50 on her being a child of Athena."
Feedback would be really great...
I don't know if i wrote Will Solace in character at all, and i want to know if i did before i put this on any other websites.
I actually figured where this story is going, so hopefully that will lead to me writing it faster. But i would love input from anyone that has ideas to base a chapter off of. It would be very helpful.
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