DRUNK

Nico stepped out of his cabin and started heading toward the armory. He had to help the new kids pick out weapons. Halfway there, he was unexpectedly sidelined by a flying thing and got beer all over his shirt. He pushed the flying thing off his chest and got up to look down at his shirt.

"What the hell were you thinking? Bitch, this is going to take a while to get out." He looked down at his sodden shirt.

The flying thing sat up. "That's not a nice thing to call a friend, Nico," Thalia slurred.

"Tha-"

"Thalia!" Annabeth yelled as she came running up to them. "There you are. Sorry, Nico."

"No, that's okay. Wha-"

"Annabeth!" Thalia exclaimed. She lurched up and tried to give Annabeth a hug, but ended up taking a nose dive toward the dirt. Luckily, Nico and Annabeth caught her before she hit the ground.

"Can you help me take her to my cabin?" Annabeth asked Nico.

"We can take her to my cabin. It's closer," Nico offered. They started dragging Thalia toward the Hades cabin.

"Oooohhhhh. The Hades cabin. Nico! You're a son of Hades. Do you live in the Hades cabin?" Thalia asked.

Nico looked over at Annabeth who shrugged. "Um, yeah. That's my cabin."

Thalia's eyes lit up. "What are you guys standing around for? Let's go." She leaped out of Nico and Annabeth's arms like she was electrocuted and went flying toward Nico's cabin.

"What's up with her?" Nico asked as they rushed to catch up.

"Don't know," Annabeth replied, a little bit out of breath. "She just showed up at my cabin with the bottle in her hand. I went to go check her cabin. She just spilled her fourth bottle on your shirt."

They caught up to Thalia at Nico's cabin. Nico went to open the door, but Thalia beat him to it, by crashing right through the door. Nico looked down at the collection of door splinters.

"I know what I'm doing next week."

"I do to. We're going to play poker and raid the camp store and shoot arrows at things."

Nico and Annabeth carefully walked into the room. Before Nico got past the threshold, he heard a loud squeal of delight.

"Nico, you're here! I've been waiting for ages." Thalia tackled Nico in a big hug and knocked him onto the ground into a pile of splinters.

"Annabeth! A little help, please," Nico yelped.

Annabeth helped pick Thalia up off the floor and walked her to the bed. Nico got up from the pile of splinters. Now he had splinters in his back and he smelled like beer. He walked over to his dresser to get a new shirt. He heard Annabeth and Thalia talking on his bed. He ripped off his shirt and dropped it on the floor. He turned around to put his new shirt on.

"Woah," Thalia said quietly. Her eyes raked up and down his chest. All the way from his six pack to his well toned biceps. "Don't you look sexy."

Nico's face reddened with embarrassment. He started to pull on his shirt, but Thalia lurched off the bed and tripped over Annabeth's foot. Nico rushed over the help her up.

"Don't do that. I like you better with your shirt off." Thalia giggled as Nico's face went bright red. Thalia patted his cheek. "You look cute when you blush." Which made Nico turn an even darker shade of red.

Laughing, Annabeth finally got up off the bed. "Come on, Thalia. It's almost time for dinner," she said as she carefully extracted Thalia from Nico.

"But I don't want to go," Thalia whined to Annabeth. "I want to stay here with Nico and have fun."

Annabeth looked behind her at Nico as she pulled Thalia out the door. "Oh, I know how much you would love to stay and have fun, but now's not the time. It's probably better if he fixed his door first. Knowing you, it might get a little out of hand." With that she turned around and walked Thalia back to the Athena cabin, leaving Nico there thinking about how he needed to fix his door and fast.