Alannah's P.O.V

"Let's dance in style
Let us dance for a while
Heaven can wait, we're only watching the skies
Hoping for the best But expecting the worst
Are you gonna drop the bomb or not?
Forever young I wanna be forever young"

My best friend Grace and I sang along to Forever Young (One Direction version of course). We did this kind of thing all the time. Randomly select a song from one of our i-pods and sing along to it as we walked home from school. Its was entertaining to see all of the locals look at us as if we were freaks. They didn't know how right they were.

Grace paused the i-pod. "How excited are you for tomorrow?" she asked.

"Incredibly, I can't wait for camp" I said. She rolled her eyes. "What?" I asked. "Nothing," she replied quickly. "WHAT!" I demanded.

"Yeah cause that's the reason you're excited," she said. What was she going on about? She saw my puzzled expression. "You're joshing right? Fine. I know you are excited to see Nico."

I tried to protest, but she cut me off.

"Don't even try to deny it. You love him!" "Do not!" I said. "Yupppppp! You're in love!"

I knew she wasn't going to stop so I sighed, "Fine." She smirked. "I mean who wouldn't love him? He's just so hot!" I defended.

"I'm not judging you! You guys are adorable together. One of you has to man up and ask the other out. Its probably going to be you."

"Why do I have to man up?" I asked.

"Cause Nico never will. I have to get home. Seriously though, you guys just need to get together already. I'll see you tomorrow!" she called back to me.

"Remember, my dad is driving me tomorrow!" I said.

"I know. Percy and I are probably just gonna get a cab or something. Maybe my mom's gonna bring us," she said.

"Make some cookies!" I yelled. "Blue?" she asked.

"Was that a serious question?" I asked.

"Sorry. So blue cookies. I'll see you tomorrow. You better not leave me waiting, the naiads are going to try to teach me basket weaving. Again!" she growled.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know! I won't be late again." She waved and began walking away. I turned and moved towards my front door thinking about what she said. Was I only excited for camp to see Nico? No. I see him from time to time. He visits me occasionally. Grace met him a while after I did. She started going to camp after the Titan war, two years ago. Poseidon revealed that he and Sally actually had another kid, and she was raised in the under water kingdom of Poseidon. He kept her there for her own protection. In case Thalia or Percy (this was before Thalia became a tree, then woke up from being a tree, then joined the hunters, also before Bianca and Nico came along) died, so that she could be the child of the prophecy, and reach the age sixteen. Anyway, I've been going to Camp Half-Blood since I was eleven. I met Nico when I was twelve, during the war. He and I have actually become really good friends since then. He stays at camp more than he did before. Now that he has his own cabin, he stays for pretty much the whole summer. Sometimes he shadow travels to somewhere else. Leaving camp. Breaking the rules. Being a bad ass. That's what makes him hot. Duh.

"Dad, I'm home!" I called as I stepped through my front door. No reply. That's odd. He's always home waiting for me. You see, it used to just be me and my dad. That was before my step-mom came along. Now I have two half-brothers too. The house is never as quiet as it used to be. Except for when I get home from school. My step-mom's at work, my brothers are at soccer practice, and my dad's in his study, reading. I didn't think anything of my dad ignoring me, he was probable busy with work or reading and didn't hear me, I just ran upstairs to my room.

I screamed when I open my door. I can hear my dad laughing from downstairs. That's why he didn't reply, he didn't want me to know we had company. I took a seat on my bed next to one of my best friends, Nico di Angelo. He was staring at the photos on my wall. I could feel my face going red. I had pictures of all of the people that were close to me, but I couldn't help but wonder what he thought about the pictures of himself on my wall. The pictures of he, Grace and I laughing, singing, dancing, and just fooling around and being stupid.

"So, what are you doing here?" I ask him.

"I've got some top secret Demi-god information", I wanted to laugh at his tone, but he looked me straight in the eye and I knew he was serious. I got lost in his eyes for a while before I came up with a response.

"Well, what is it?"

"I've been having these dreams, and you're in them."

"What kind of dreams?" I ask him. He blushes. Wait,why would he blush? Oh, now I see it. I then add "Demigod dreams, right? So what happens to me?"

"I see you locked up. Unconscious. It's kind of scary."

"So you came here to see if I was okay?"

"Yeah, just wanted to make sure that you hadn't been kidnapped, and to tell you to be careful so that you won't be."

"Don't worry, Nico. I think I'll be okay for another day." He smiled. I hugged him before he went to my window.

"See you tomorrow," I wave. "See you," he smiles and climbs onto my fire escape. He turns back around and says, "by the way, that's a nice picture," he pointed at one of he, Grace, and I at camp. He had an arm around each of us, but my head was resting on his shoulder and he was looking at me. He smirked at my blushing and left. That boy will be the death of me... I can see it now. I sat on the bed. This boy was so infuriating! But I couldn't deny the feelings I had for him, no matter how much I wanted to. It would just make everything so awkward between us. Honestly I valued his friendship more than his love. But what if it worked out? NO! Now I'm letting Grace get to me about us being perfect for each other blah, blah, blah. I was so wrapped up in my thoughts I didn't hear the window open. I didn't hear the slow footsteps making there way towards me. I didn't hear it until it was too late. I turned at the last second only catching a glimpse of the face behind me before I was out cold. I couldn't even force out the scream stuck in my throat. A/N: Goldie again! Garce wrote the mushy gushy stuff in this chapter, so some credit goes to her! Anyway, her chapter will be coming soon. I just realized that I forgot to tell you guys that each of us writes a chapter in our own point of view (and when it comes to other people's point of view, we write together). Also, we have the next two and a half chapters done, so it shouldn't be long before we post them.

A/N: Hey it's Goldie again! I'll probably be posting all of these, since Garce is new to fanfiction and she doesn't know how. Anyway, I wrote the majority of this chapter (Garce wrote the mushy stuff) and Garce's chapter should be coming soon (we finished it, we are just editing it).