Chapter 2
I woke up to the feeling of sunlight shinning in my face. I opened my eyes, yawned, and sat up. I looked around but didn't see Nico anywhere. I got confused and wondered if last night had just been a dream until I heard some rustling from the bushes in front of me and saw Nico coming out of them carrying three full water bottles. He looked at me and smiled when he saw I was awake.
"Hey you ready to get going?" He asked.
"Sure." I answered sleepily.
"We'll probably be heading into town so if you want to you can get changed into casual clothes." He stated hesitantly.
"K, I'll be down by the river if you need me." I said. I got up, folded my blanket, stuffed it into my bag, and headed down to the river with it in my hand. It took me acouple minutes to make it to the river but I made it. I finished filling up my water bottles and started to get ready. I changed into some blue skinny jeans and a sky blue shirt and put on my converse. I brushed my hair and headed back to our campsite. When I got back there everything was back to the way we had found it. Nico was standing in the middle of the clearing and smiled when I came into view.
"Come on let's head out now." He stated. We walked through the forest for hours until we came across a town called Victor, Montana. We walked down its streets and headed into a cozy little restaurant. We sat down at a table and a 15-year-old waitress came to our table and smiled at us.
"Hello I am Carly and I'll be your waitress this morning have you seen anything you would like for breakfast?" She asked pretty much only talking to Nico the whole time while batting her eyelashes flirtatiously. My jealousy flared.
"I'm still figuring it out, what about you Thalia?" He asked, looking at me the whole time. The waitress looked - actually it was more like a glare when she saw me - at me tiredly and I got more jealous. I pushed all that jealously down and spoke when I calmed down.
"I'll have some chocolate chip waffles and some milk please." I answered sweetly, smiling, holding back the urge to strike her with lightning. She barely even nodded before she looked back at Nico flirtatiously.
"I'm sorry I didn't quite catch your name what was it?" She asked innocently and it took all my strength not to groan out loudly right there and to keep a calm face.
"I'm Nico, Nico Di Angelo and this is Thalia Grace." He stated formally.
"Oh Thalia, that's...cute," She answered disrespectively and meanly. I heard lightning rumble overhead and I smiled internally, she just insulted a powerful god and didn't even know it, "Ohhh Nico I love that name it's amazing and it fits you perfectly." She stated seductively. You don't even know him so how do you know if it fits him or not, all you've done is stare at his hot body and flirt with him, you don't know anything about him! I almost shouted out but I held my tongue so I wouldn't embarrass myself and just sat there quietly, seething inside.
"I actually think the name Thalia is a lovely name but every person has different opinions, likes, and dislikes." Nico stated matter-of-factly and I smiled gloatingly at her while she glared back at me. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a women who must be the manager glaring at Carly and I decided to point that out so she would leave.
"Ummm, it looks like your manager is about to come over here so if I were you I would get Nico's order in before you get fired." I stated, tempted to add that that would be a wonderful thing to happen anyway, but didn't. She glared at me and turned to Nico.
"So have you decided what you want yet?" She asked seductively and he nodded.
"I'll take chocolate chip waffles with milk as well." He stated. She nodded and walked back to the kitchen where her manager was seething. Let all your anger out on her and fire her so I'll never see her rude and ugly face again! I screamed hopefully in my head but knew that wouldn't happen. Nico looked at me oddly.
"What?" I asked, confused.
"Are you ok?" He asked.
"Yea why do you ask?" I wondered, confused.
"You have an evil glint in your eyes that's only there when you think something mischievous." He stated.
"I'm not thinking anything mischievous." I lied. I'm not, as long as you don't count the waitress getting fired and leaving as mischievous.
"Ok..." He stated resigned, looking out the window. I looked over at the kitchen and saw the manager reprimanding Carly while she cowered down to her and I smiled victoriously. I looked back at Nico to see him still staring out the window into the forest and I studied his features. His hair was jet black and his eyes were like looking into the depth of a dark empty hole but behind them there was a sweet, smart, and sensitive boy who would help anybody or befriend anybody if he could. His tan skin matched his dark personality but still hinted at a nice personality. Oh top of it all he was gorgeous, but that is not why I love -yes I said love- him, I love him because of how funny, sweet, nice, cheerful, smart, skilled, and caring he is. As if he sensed me staring at him he looked at me and I quickly looked away, a blush forming on my cheeks. He looked at me for a little while longer than turned back to the window and his thoughts. Acouple minutes later Carly came back with our breakfast setting my plate in front of me, with a side of glares, and Nico's in front of him, with a bucket of batting eyelashes and flirting to go with it.
"Here's your waffles and milk, is there anything else you want?" She asked. My jealousy and anger flared so much that I almost broke the plate when I was cutting my waffle.
"No thank you, what about you Thalia?" He answered politely.
"Nothing else, thank you very much." I pushed out as nicely as I could. She smiled gloatingly at me when Nico wasn't looking. I wanted to strike her with lightning so badly but I knew that Nico would be mad at me if I did that and would ask why I did and that would lead to me telling him I love him which would lead to another question which would lead to how I quit the hunters and the reason why so with a quiet and defeated sigh I slumped in my chair and shoved my next bite into my mouth, not caring who was looking.
"So where do you go to school?" She asked, pretty much still ignoring me.
"Oh I don't go to school, I don't stay in school long enough anyway so I don't go, I just travel around a lot." He stated, taking a bite of his waffles.
"Ohhh, a bad boy and a traveler? That's impressive." She said, flirtatiously.
"Yea I guess so, if you think that way." He stated, shrugging.
"It is amazing and so brave and interesting." She stated seductively, moving her hand closer to his. My jealousy flared even more and right as her hand move an inch closer I gave her a small but very painful electric shock.
"Ouch!" She yelped, grabbing her hand.
"What happened?" Nico asked, concerned. I almost groaned, why did he have to be so caring to everybody he meets?
"Nothing just electrocuted myself, that's all." She stated calmly, putting her hand back to where it had moved before on the table.
"Oh ok." He answered, turning back to his plate.
"So do you lift weights or something because you look so sstrrronnngggg." She stated, dragging out the 'strong', and grabbing his upper arm.
"Not really I just run and stuff like that." He answered calmly, as if he didn't mind about her hands on him and that was the final straw for me. I looked around and saw a bell sitting on the counter. I short-circuited it with my powers so it would ding. Carly looked over at it then turned back to Nico all innocently.
"I'll be right back don't go anywhere." She stated flirtatiously. He nodded and she went into the kitchen. Right as she went through the door Nico looked at me and started to eat again. Is he absolutely oblivious or something? I screamed in my head. I finished up my food and looked at the clock; it was 9:35 a.m. I stood up and Nico looked up at me.
"Where are you going?" He asked confused.
'I'm going to go head down the street and buy some things; you can stay here and finish your waffles if you want." I stated. And with your new girlfriend that you just met less than an hour ago and don't even know anything about her except for her name I said angrily in my head.
"No I'll come too." He stated, standing up and putting money on the table.
"Don't you want to stay here and eat and talk with the waitress?" I asked, confused.
"No I'm, full anyway and she probably won't mind anyway." He stated and I snorted, "What?"
"Nothing, let's just go." I answered, smiling and grabbing onto his hand. I walked towards the door, opened it, and walked out into the morning air.