There's something liberating about sitting on a dirty bathroom floor with your ex-fiancés new fiancé, crying.

When I let Annabeth in, she sat down heavily on the floor opposite me, our feet almost touching, but not. She kept her face in her knees, her arms wrapped around her legs.

"How could I not have known?" She kept muttering. "We lost contact when she moved to America, when both you guys moved to America." She hiccuped. "It was great at first, but it lost the coolness, I guess, when we realized we were in the same country but still ages apart, it just... we only spoke about once a month. I didn't even know you guys were in New York,"

'Yeah... we moved here when Bianca turned 18, she took me with her. I finished high school here,' I took out my phone and typed a response to her.

"Jesus." Annabeth sighed, and rested her head against the cubicle wall. "When was the funeral," I shrugged and looked at my lap.

'I was in hospital when it happened, I think' I typed quickly.

"Sheesh. I wonder why Thalia didn't tell me?" I felt a heart attack coming on. My heart beat heavily against my chest as I thought about why.

'She's looking for her family. She told me she's stopped using the Internet so she wouldn't have known... I guess I forgot about her with my mind on other things,'

"That's okay... I'll tell her," I nod and sigh, wrapping my arms around myself. "When I asked Percy if I could meet you, I didn't expect it to go like this. Small world, huh?" I nod. Small word.

Eventually we calm down, and when Annabeth stands up and stretches, I yawn. "Come on, let's get back to our stupid loved ones," I nod. She helps me up and we walk out. I get a few suggestive glances from a couple of men walking into the bathroom, and I roll my eyes. If only they knew I was gay. Total mind fuck. A guy can actually be alone with a girl and not hit on her! What's this?

We find Percy and Will in the same spot, staring at eachother. I'm not sure if Will is glaring at Percy, or if he's just looking at him. I don't think I want to know.

"So what have you boys been talking about?"

"Oh, you know. This and that," Will vaguely waves his hand. I tap his shoulder and nod at him, as if to say 'I'm sorry I didn't let you in'. He shakes his head. 'It's fine,'

"I think we should go home, Perce."

"Good call," Percy slips out of the booth and nods at us. "Well this was awkward and depressing, we should do it again. I'll text you," With a final wave, they leave, and it's just Will and I now.

"Come on, I'll take you home," He grabs my hand and tugs me, forcing me to stand up. Will's smile is soft, almost hesitant. But it's still genuine.

When we reach my apartment, Will kisses me outside. "I've got to go, I'll text you tomorrow, okay?" I nod, but hold up a finger. Wait.

I bring out my phone and he chuckles. "It's your voice box," I wish it wasn't.

'I'm sorry about today,'

"Hey, don't worry. You can always come to me, or not come to me, if there's a problem,"

'You can too,'

"Thanks," Will leans down and kisses me slowly, just as the apartment front doors open and a tall brunette walks out. She stares at us as we move aside.

"You will not catch gay, if you're so frightened," Will huffs and crosses his arms. The girl snorts and shakes her head.

"I was just thinking how cute you guys are. I just moved here, my name's Reyna,"

"I'm Will, this is Nico,"

"I live in this building, what about you? Isn't it illegal to be loitering or whatever,"

"Yeah, he lives here," Will. You are so freaking chill. She could be an axe murderer.

"Could you point me towards the closest supermarket? I need to do some shopping?" I shrug and point down the road we just came. "Thanks, see you around,"

"Well she seemed nice, but a little intimidating, see you, Neeks," He kissed my cheek, even in the light snow, his lips are warm.

The next day, Hazel comes over. She's dressed in black jeans that look actually ironed and a nice looking purple shirt. She seems nervous.

"What if he hates me? What if he never wants to see me? He only ejaculated into my mother once, he probably doesn't even remember my mother!"

'Did you just say 'ejaculated into my mother?''

"Oh. That does sound gross," She shivered a little and made a face of disgust. "Forget I said that,"

When there's a knock on my door, Hazel freezes. "Ohmygods," She whispers. "Don't answer it," I raise an eyebrow. I raise my phone to her face and she rolls her eyes. "Well you don't have to answer it. Pretend you're not home,"

I shake my head and walk to the door. I'm still in my pyjamas. When I open the door, I find the girl that was out the front yesterday. Is she stalking me? What the hell?

But, the tall girl's eyes open in surprise and she raises an eyebrow. "You're that guy from yesterday, right?" I nod. "I was just wondering if you have box cutters," I shake my head. Hazel appears next to me. "I have an army knife switch blade thingy," Both my eyebrows shoot up, and she shrugs. "What? My boyfriend is in the army and he heard I was going to New York. He told me to take it,"

"How the hell did you get on the plane with it?"

"I bought it here," Hazel answered the other girl. She dips her hands into her back jean pocket and pulls out the knife. "Keep it. I'm pretty sure it's illegal to carry it anyways,"

"Just a bit, anyways I'm Reyna, apparently your new neighbour. See you around," She nods and smiles. My father appears behind Reyna, giving Hazel a fright. It's as if he stepped out of the shadows.

Reyna side steps my father and shuts the door behind herself. My father nods at me. "Hello, son. I can't stay for long. I have a flight in five hours to Hawaii, and I have to head back to the office to sign some paperwork. Everything alright here? Do I need to call Ceb and get you anything?" I shake my head and he nods. "Who's your friend, here, Nico? I'm glad you're being more social, although," He leans forward. "I thought you were gay,"

I actually take a step back and scowl and my dad just laughs. "Hi, sir. I'm Hazel. Levesque. You probably don't remember my mother,"My father looks over Hazel. "Please tell me you know who your father is, and it's not me,"

"I'm afraid I can't do that,"

"I remember Marie. She was a lovely girl." My dad looks at me, then Hazel. "You are her spitting image,"

"Thankyou. She said I have your personality, sometimes," Hazel's voice is soft, and my dad takes a breath in. "Because I'm your daughter,"

"Oh. Did you know about this?" My dad asks me, and I just shrug. "Well. It's lovely to meet you, Hazel."

"Before I say anything more, I just wanted to tell you I don't want anything. I just wanted to make that clear. All I wanted was to meet my father,"

"Oh,"

"If you don't believe me, I have a DNA test here and everything," She digs it out of her pocket and hands it to him.

"Oh, well. I don't suppose you want to come back to my office with me? I'd love to get to know you?" I, for one, am shocked. I think Hazel is too, because her eyes glide over to me. I shrug. Sheesh. I shrug so much lately.

"That would be amazing,"

"Are you coming, Nico or staying?" I take out my phone and quickly type up.

'I have a date with someone. Sorry,'

"You do? Anyone special?"

'My doctor,'

"Your doctor?!" My dad looks skeptical.

'We've been dating for the last two or three weeks, dad,'

"Oh. Well have fun," They are gone, with a grin from Hazel to me. She mouths thankyou as they leave. I hear my father ask where she goes to school.

Well. That was an anti-climax, by far.

My flight to LA rolls around, and Will and I drive to the airport together. Will pouts the whole time.

"I don't wanna go! My brother's will just hound me about you," When we come to a red light, I quickly write down a response to him. He snorts. "One. I will not tell your deepest darkest secrets, because you don't have any, as far as I'm aware. Two. I don't even have a dick pic of you,"

I smile, as the light turns green, and shrug.

"I'll text you when I land. You better text me when you land too," I nod and wave my hand. Will's flight is an hour after mine, so I board my plane early. Will showers my face in kisses before I leave. "I'll miss you. I already do," I roll my eyes. Sap. I walk through the doors, the final stage that Will can't pass, and mouth that I'll miss him too.

I freaking hate planes. I remember that's one major thing Percy and I had in common. I'm a ground baby, Percy's a sea baby. Will, jesus, he seemed extremely excited to catch a plane. He says the sun looks amazing from up in the sky. Pfft.

When I land, my father is there to pick me up. It's Christmas eve. My father seems distressed about something that he won't tell me. When we pull up at my cousin's house, my dad turns to me.

"Okay, son. I need to tell you something before we go in. Two things. Everyone will be different around you. I told them that you don't talk anymore, so they know that, but well... something happened. I should probably be the one to tell you. Your cousin, Thalia, found her mum and dad," I nod. That's exciting.

I know that Thalia isn't my real cousin. She was dropped at my aunts house when she was a baby, with a note. That's all we know.

So, she found her family. She's always wanted to know.

"And it turns out I have a brother. She did a lot of research into our family after she found out who her dad is. Her dad is my brother, who I didn't know existed. My family gave us all up for adoption when we were two, apparently,"

Oh. Okay well that sucks.

"So your grandparents aren't your actual biological parents. That would have been nice to know, to be honest. Anyway. The real thing is-" There was a knock on the window next to me, and I turn to see Thalia looking at me through the glass.

"Did you tell him yet?" My father shakes his head with a sigh.

"I think I'll leave that up to you, I can't deal with this," I open the car door and hop out. "I'm going to park the car in the garage,"

"Okay, short stack. You and I will be sharing a room, from now on until you leave. Yay!" I raise an eyebrow. "You're probably wondering what your dad was going to tell you?" I nod.

"My dad is this guy named Zeus, well he renamed himself because they are weird like that, anyway, he has a brother named Don," I roll my hands to continue, and we stop walking at her lawn.

"His real name is Donald," Like Percy's dad. What a coincidence. "You may be thinking, oh. Jesus. What a coincidence. Exactly like Percy's dad. Yeah. Exactly like Percy's dad. I'm so, so, so, sorry Nico, I hate to break it to you, but you dated your cousin. Small world, huh?" I put a hand to my stomach. I can feel my stomach churning.

I feel sick. I think I'm going to be sick. Ohmygods Thalia I think I'm going to be sick. I think she notices, because she rushes me inside and into the bathroom, shooting past her adoptive parents and grandparents.

I actually throw up. I don't know what the usual response is, when you find out that you slept with your cousin, but I felt sick. Very sick.

"Oh, Nico, I'm sorry," She holds my hair back. I think I may be crying, I'm not sure.

I feel so, so, so sick.

"It's okay. Cough it up. It's just one dramatic occurrence after another, apparently," I shake my head. I feel so gross. I feel dirty. I don't think I can look Percy in the face ever again. What would mama think? What would Bianca think? What does the family think?

"Just so you know, the family don't think you slept with him. I doubt they know guys can sleep together. I think they assumed you are doing the whole virgin until marriage thing, because they think you're some cutie 10 year old still," I groan. That only makes it slightly better.

"Come on, have you finished?" I stare at all my airplane food now sitting in the toilet, and I throw up one more time, just for good measure. "Okay. Now you're done?" I nod and groan. She helps me up and wipes my face, then washes my face with soap a little. She leans up and sniffs my face. "Okay, you're good," I just want to go home and lie with Will in my bed or his and sleep. Ohmygod what about Will?! How will I ever look him in the face again?!

"Come on, time to say hi to our non-biological but still terrifyingly nice grandparents," I groan and sit on the tiled floor. "Hey, I heard about Bianca," I look away from her. "I'm not upset that you didn't tell me, by the way. I just miss her," I nod and shrug. "So this whole non-talking thing, it's legit?" I nod and stare at my shoes. Before she can say anything else, there's a knock on the door.

"Nico, honey? Are you alright?" It's my aunt, and she sounds hesitant to talk to me. I stare at the big brown wooded door for a bit, until I hear her husband tell her I can't answer. Thalia sighs.

"Welcome back to the family drama, Neeks,"

Well that escalated quickly. I finished this literally two weeks ago, uploaded it to my docs but then didn't post it. I have absolutely no idea why, and I haven't even edited the thing.

R&R please!

(Also anyone who watched Haikyuu PLEASE TELL ME YOU HAVE WATCHED THE LATEST EPISODE OH MY GOD SHOOT ME WTF)(If you haven't oh well tell me how your life is going :))

Next chapter will be the final one or the one after that, depends how long I want to stretch this whole not talking thing, as well as mental issues and all that. I start school tomorrow (totally different schedule to you Eurpoean/American folks, I start term one in January haha) so don't expect an update until at least another two weeks.

Have fun everybody, and au lieu de Finding Dory coming out soon, be kind to one another ;)