What I Dreamed Last Night, chapter 6

A/N: Hey, everybody! I told you, if you know, that though My Marriage Damnation is in hiatus cause I am exhausted, I will still update this story. Kudos to my reviewers: PoeTheDragonWillEatYou, Blackberry Explosion, Lexiconicy and amyheroesofolympus. I'm going to be a bit of a jerk and not acknowledge two specific reviewers, thank you. Sorry. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this chapter! A lot shorter of my usual chapters, but I guarantee it will be made up in nerdiness and fluff!


June 19th, 2014. Noon. And Percy Jackson is going to die of boredom in the school library.

Two days ago, they were assigned to work together on a project in English, and grudgingly agreed to try and be friends for Prom. However, that was a task that was easier said then done. Today, they had decided they would meet in the library to do research on the times and events of the 60's, the time era where their book took place. Though, as much as Percy wanted to be friends with her, he hated going to the library. Not because he despised books, though he did suffer from dyslexia and ADHD, he didn't mind them. No, it was the silence rule. He hated not being able to talk to his partner, and try to annoy Annabeth. It irritated him to the core.

Pushing the sleeves of his hoodie up his arm, he flicks his eyes up to Annabeth again, smirking to himself. She looked pretty damn cute when she was reading. Her hair fell in her face, especially this one long lock that she had to keep tucking behind her ear. Her nose were scrunched slightly, as she flipped pages, and her grey eyes were stormy and dark, her eyes seemingly devouring each word that was on the page. He looks at his own reference book, the words beginning to swirl in front of his face. He hated research with a burning passion. Why the hell did they have to look up this stuff? Isn't it the teacher's job to tell them what they don't know? He figures there must be a good reason for making the students go over pages and pages to find mere sentences that'll only vaguely help them with their project, but he still didn't know what the reason was yet.

"Percy, what're you looking at?"

He looks up, to see Annabeth watching him with slanted eyes, and he feels his cheeks redden. Crap. He must've dozed off again! He blinks rapidly as he scrambles for a reason, but winds up with the most intelligent sentence he's ever said: "Uh..."

"Quiet over there!" The pair look up to see the nasty old librarian, Mrs. Dodd, glaring at them underneath her spectacles. Annabeth flashes a charming smile towards the librarian, but as soon as she looks back to Percy, her eyes are as sharp as daggers. Who knew her eyes could make him want to run away and scream? He winces, gulping slightly, but out of the corner of his eye, he sees his friend enter the library, and he smiles. Excellent.

"Psst! Nico! Over here!" He whisper yells, as the boy hovers at the edge of the library. Nico Di Angelo. He was a freshman that Percy had met this year while navigating his way around the school. It had been a complete accident that he wandered into the World of Warcraft club, but when he did, Nico had been nice enough to tell him that his math class had been switched around with the World of Warcraft club, and told him the room that he was looking for. Ever since, Nico has been hovering around Percy, not exactly talking, just skulking around when he was with his friends. He didn't sit with him, but he walked with him to the bus stop, and they only talked a bit. Though, even though they didn't talk a lot, Percy could deduce something that wouldn't be plainly obvious at the sight of Nico: He was gay. You wouldn't tell by the sight of Nico. With the dark messy hair, skull and aviator's jacket, he gave off the air of an emo kid who writes poems about his feelings, or something like that. You wouldn't immediately think that this kid, this kid who wears aviator's jackets, World of Warcraft and kept his mouth shut good, that he wasn't a heterosexual. Not that Percy had a problem with it all, he just wanted him to happy, and help Nico the same way Nico had helped him.

As Nico headed their way, Annabeth flashes him a puzzled look, but Percy only gives her a weary smile, before turning to the boy who sat next to Annabeth, Scott McClain. Another member of the World of Warcraft club, Percy knew that Scott had something for Nico for awhile. Sometimes he would come along with Nico to the club when he had nothing better to do, and he's seen the way the blonde freshman had always looked at him. With something of awe and adoration. He always noted it, and had discreetly invited him to study with him and Annabeth at lunch, though he conveniently "forgot" to tell Nico that Scott would be there.

Nico, dumping his backpack on his ground, took his seat next to Percy, murmuring a quick hello, but Percy smirks as he sees Nico's cheeks flush at the sight of Scott. He immediately begins to rise, as though escaping the table, but finds Percy's hand on his wrist. Nico raises his eyebrows towards Percy, but Percy only smiles warmly, and clears his throat.

"Scott, you know Nico, right?"

Scott only nods, but Percy could see under those wire framed glasses, Scott was pleased. He still refuses to look up at Nico, but when Nico accidently locks eyes with him, their eyes don't leave. They simply stare at each other for a moment, before both their cheeks turn red, and turn away quickly. Annabeth gives Percy a questioning look as he gathers up his books to stuff it in his bag.

"Hi, Nico."

"Er...H-Hi, Scott."

"What...what did you think of that game today? J-Jasper p-put up quite a fight..."

The pair begin to talk earnestly about World of Warcraft, and Percy smirks towards the two, and begins to take Annabeth's books as well, taking both of the stacks in his hands.

"Hey, Annabeth, I think there are better reference books over there," he says in a soft whisper, putting too much emphasis on the words and winking too dramatically, "Why don't we go over there and check it out."

"No, there-"

"C'mon!" Percy grabs Annabeth's arm and yanks her to her feet, and she cries out. But quickly, Percy covers her mouth, smiling apologetically to the librarian, as he drags both of them to a table at the other end of the library. Sitting both of them down at another table, she glares at him fiercely, and he glances over at the table he had left Scott and Nico at.

"What the hell, Jackson?"

"I'm sorry," he says quickly, shaking his head, "But Nico likes Scott and I'm pretty sure Scott likes Nico, and these two don't want to admit it and they've never been alone together and this is the perfect place to have them talk privately and I didn't want to tell you the only reason I agreed to go to the library is so I could set them up and I'm really sorry-"

Annabeth reaches out and presses her index finger to Percy's lips. He stops mid-sentence, his rambling immediately stoppping as he stares at the finger, then flicking his eyes up to hers. Her face is decorated with a gentle smile, as she removes the finger and brushes back a lock of her blonde hair behind her ears.

"That's really nice of you, Percy. I didn't think you had...well, a heart."

"Er...thanks, I guess..."

"Welcome."

Her smile doesn't leave her face as they continue to do research, and Percy smiles to himself, as he opens the reference book. The lunch hour passes on swiftly, as he slowly grows more relaxed next to Annabeth. Though he's liked her for years, kinder words have never passed her lips then that before, words that were directed to him. He smiles at the nerdy pair that sat together at the other side of the library. They were adorable, he thinks to himself.

And at the end of the lunch hour, Percy meets up with Nico, and find that Nico and Scott have agreed to meet up after school to watch some movie that they had both liked. And he smiles at the younger boy, thinking to himself, 'I am good.'