"Uh, Nico?" Piper squinted at the phone screen she held in front of her.
"Yeah?"
She began to read. "Hey, it's Will (your uber driver). You said coffee sounded good? How about Saturday at 10?"
"Oh, good." Nico plucked the phone from Piper's hand and started to text back. "This is who I got."
"Got for what?" Annabeth, who was leaning so far back in a beanbag chair Piper thought her back would snap, asked.
"The song."
"You got some rando to sing with you?" Annabeth asked. "Instead of, like, and actual singer?"
"Well, I made him sing for me first," Nico insisted, his brows furrowing. "He had a good voice."
"Are you sure you weren't blinded by love?" Piper asked. "Or in this case, deafened by love?"
"I didn't even ask him! I was just going to text him the stuff; he was the one who suggested we go on a coffee date for it!"
"So then you admit it is a date," Jason threw in from the other side of the room.
Nico shrugged.
"Okay, I think you just brought up the song thing because you wanted to go on a date with a hot guy. Please at least tell me he's hot," Percy chimed in.
Nico smiled elusively. "It wasn't because of that. But, you know, if I can take out two birds with one stone, that's not a downside."
"Oh my god," Piper muttered.
"Come on, you guys. I know what I'm doing. His voice was good; it'll sound nice in the part I wrote. Just trust me."
"Every time you say that, something horrible happens," Jason pointed out.
Nico scowled. "Not every time."
"It feels like it," Annabeth muttered. "But okay, fine. If you want to sing it with your new boyfriend, go for it. Who knows, maybe he'll actually be good."
"He will," Nico insisted. "And he's not my boyfriend!"
A/N Sorry for the short chapter, I'll try to get the next one up pretty soon to make up for it. Also tbm is killing me (I'm ignoring it for this fic though). Thank you for reading!