Hell no!

Chapter 11 Talking (Will)

I woke up thinking about what had happened yesterday. Nico had really acted weird about his sister Bianca, and very protective of both his sisters. The weirdest thing, I've never seen Bianca, but she seems familiar. She looked maybe a year older than Nico on that picture on his computer, but I haven't seen her at school. Or maybe she's older than she looks and she's in college. But why does she seem so familiar? Maybe I've seen her around the city or something?

I got out of my warm bed and opened the curtains. The sun shone brightly into my room and I smiled. Another sunny morning! I looked at the clock. It was still early, so I walked to my computer. My screensaver is a picture of me and Michael, when I was 5 and he was 3, it was taken just a week before the accident. I didn't even know Percy and Jason back then. I smiled sadly at the picture, in which we were both smiling, while I tried to remember that day.

The four of us were going to the beach. It was a sunny day and Michael and I were very excited. But just when we left the beach, another car hit us and we flipped a couple of times. Me and dad weren't very hurt, but Michael had a big piece of glass in his face and mom, who was pregnant, had glass in her stomach. We were driven to the hospital in an ambulance, which I had found extremely cool. In the hospital they tried to save Michael, but he died about an hour after we'd gotten there, and dad was crying. I remember that very well, because my father nearly never cries. They were able to save mom, but it had been very hard to do, and because of the accident her unborn daughter had died. I didn't understand that all when I was five, but I understood that Michael was dead and that my baby sister who was still in my mother's belly had died as well. Mom and dad were very sad for a long time, and held me close for a long time. They had named my baby sister, who'd died 4 weeks before due date, Kayla, and both Michael and Kayla were buried in a churchyard close to our old home. I remember that the funeral was short and that they were buried in tiny coffins. It was very sad, and my grandparents were there, and I nearly never see them. They live in England and hate to come to the US. After the accident we moved to our new house, and I got a big room all to myself. After a while they got less sad all the time. And I still miss Michael, and, even though I never met her, also Kayla. Mom and dad didn't want another child, which I can understand. They did, from then on, spoil me a lot.

But I never had the courage to tell my friends about Michael and Kayla. They had seen the screensaver of me and Michael, but they thought it was my cousin, and I've never corrected them, which I should have done…

But now I was just playing a game on my computer. I had no idea what it was about, but I needed a distraction. Then I heard my mom yelling from downstairs that I needed to come eat breakfast, so I got up from behind my computer and got dressed. Then I walked downstairs and sat down next to my dad, who was here this morning, and mom put a plate with toast and eggs and bacon in front of me. It didn't happen much that all three of us were home in the morning to eat breakfast together, but I was happy that we did eat all together sometimes.

After breakfast I went to the bus and sat down with Percy and Jason. I told them about yesterday in the bus, that Piper and Annabeth seemed to like them, and they talked about that the rest of the trip to school.

Our first period was social studies, which basically means we are all talking together all lesson, but Mr. H. doesn't really care about that. So I was talking with Jason and Percy all lesson.

''– Yeah, and she's coming over Saturday afternoon to work on the project. And now I've also got Annabeth's number. How about you and Piper Jason?''

''She's coming over today, and we're going to work on English. I should ask her number, though.'' he responded.

''How 'bout you, Will?'' Percy asked.

''Well, I was at Nico's yesterday, but it was kind of weird. We got out of the bus and inside he got us cupcakes. Those cupcakes were seriously the best I've ever had! Anyhow, he was silent all the while and I just felt kinda awkward. We went to his room, and I saw his screensaver, a picture of him smiling with a girl he said was his sister Bianca. I don't know why, but she looked very familiar, although I have no idea why. When I asked about her he got mad and I quickly said we'd better work on English and then he calmed down. After an hour working his mom got home and I went home.''

''He was mad at you because you were curious for a picture? Yeah, that's kinda weird.'' Percy said.

''Oh, and I also said I just want to be friends with them. Don't know if he believed me, though…''

We talked until the bell sounded and made our way to Science. I don't really like the subject, but our teacher is okay. She's kinda funny and talks about a lot of things except Science for half the class. Mrs. H. was talking about her pet sheep she had when she was younger today. It was fun to listen to.

After Science, we went to the cafeteria. After getting lunch, we sat down with Nico and his friends again.

''Nico, I still don't have your number, and we need to talk stuff for our English project.''

He looked at me and told me to give him my phone. I gave it to him, and he put in his number in my phone. I looked and saw he'd put in:

Nico di Angelo

That sounds Italian or something, so cool!

''Thanks, Nico, I'll text you so you've got my number too.''

''Okay, whatever.'' When he said that, his sister elbowed him and hissed something to him, so he continued. ''Thanks.'' He said to me. ''Okay, happy now Haze?'' he said to her and she smiled.

After lunch we had Economics, which was super boring. I whispered half the class with my friends about sports and other stuff, until our teacher, Mrs. Dotts, got really annoyed with us and told us that if we weren't quiet, she'd give us detention. So we stay quiet for the rest of the hour, and when it's finished, we speed out of there, towards Physics.

Mr. T. is okay, but not really the easiest teacher. He can't really control us and most of the time he just lets us study and ask questions. We all talk a lot then and sometimes we do some homework or experiments. Today we were experimenting with a balloon, which was fun. Then Jason started drawing on the balloon, which looked funny, to say at the least, if not idiotic. Percy put the balloon under his shirt and pretended to be pregnant, to which we, and a lot of others in the room, laughed really loudly. Even Mr. T. laughed, before telling us that that wasn't really Physics.

After the class, we went to the bus, with Piper, who was going to Jason's to work on English. Jason seemed a little nervous, but I'm sure that'll pass. He'll probably relax when Thalia comes home and tells him Piper is a nice girl. Percy was joking about some teacher, but I wasn't really paying attention. I was thinking about what to text to Nico, and how not to make a complete idiot of myself again.

I got out at the stop near my house and said goodbye to the guys and Piper. I walked around back and walked into the kitchen. I grabbed a cookie from the plate and got a glass of tropical juice, my favourite. Then I walked upstairs and started with my Physics homework. After finishing it I made my Economics homework, I really don't want Mrs. Dotts to give me detention, I get out my phone.

I get to WhatsApp and see that Jason has sent me a message.

Jason: Hey, Will, me and Pipes are working really hard on this project for English. Thals said she likes Piper and winked at me. What does she mean with that?

I rolled my eyes and replied.

Me: Jase, it means she thinks you like her and she likes you and that you two could make a cute couple, duh! ;)

After a couple of minutes he replied.

Jason: Oh, okay, eh…

Me: You're an idiot. You should ask her out some time, dummy! But I gotta go, srry. See ya tomorrow! ;P

I scrolled to new messages and typed a message for Nico.

Me: Hey Nico. This is my number. Will.

I got a reply pretty fast.

Nico: OK

Me: What r u doing?

Nico: Homework, duh!

Stupid Will, you should make a better impression! I facepalmed.

Me: Eh, yeah, just finished and just talked with Jase. He said he was working on English with Piper

Nico: She told me.

Me: So how's it going with Hazel?

Too late I realized my mistake, so I quickly sent another text.

Me: And Frank?

Nico: Stop hitting on my sister!

Me: I'm not

I hesitated for a while, not knowing what to say next.

Nico: Good, 'cause I don't want you with her.

Me: Okay… Well, I'm going to watch some tv and then go down for dinner

Nico: What series?

Fuck! I should have thought of that. If I say Dragons, he'll probably laugh at me. Damn!

Nico: You there?

Me: Eh, yeah, I'm watching DreamWorks Dragons, but that's kinda stupid, I guess…

Nico: Cool, I watch that too.

Me: Maybe we can watch together sometime?

Nico: Eh, sure, whatever.

Cool, he wants to hang out some time!

Then I thought, Shit, what do I do now?

AN: Super sorry I haven't updated for almost 2 weeks! I was busy at first, because of my birthday, and I had terrible headaches.

I've also been on a trip with school last week and I forgot to post the day before leaving...

So I'll be posting 3 chapters at once now to make up for being absent for about 2 weeks!

Hope you like them! :)

AN2: Again, checked and corrected. Hope I got all my previous mistakes!