A/N: Here's the next chapter, and a big thanks to KittyKofficial for asking for more Lou, because I love Lou just as much as you guys (she's so sassilicious!) and I do plan on including her a lot more in the next few chapters! (Also, a huge thanks to everyone who's leaving reviews! Although I can't respond to them right now due to errors, I promise I will respond to them when this problem is fixed.)

As always, here's the texting guide;

Bold = Nico

Italics = Will

Underlined = Lou

6

Will

The second Will walked in the door, he breathed a sigh of relief. Thankfully, there was no one around. Maybe Dad is still asleep, Will thought, not quite believing his luck. Creeping up the stairs, Will made it safely to his room and closed his bedroom door, resting his forehead against the door and letting out the breath he'd been holding. Safe.

"Young man, where do you think you've been?"

Will jumped and spun around, but let out a relieved breath when he noticed it was only Lou. "Oh, Lou, it's just you. You scared me for a second."

Lou, who had her arms crossed and was giving Will a stern look, raised an eyebrow. "Will, details. Now."

Noticing how serious his friend looked, Will held up his hands. "Okay, okay."

They sat down on Will's bed, and Lou immediately grabbed one of his (ironically) sun-shaped pillows. "Okay, bae, tell me everything. And don't you dare leave anything out!"

Sighing, Will also grabbed a pillow and hugged it to his chest. "Well... nothing really happened. But...we did kinda... sleep together..."

"WHAT?!" Lou's shout practically rocked the house, and Will quickly clamped a hand over her mouth. "Lou! Shh! You'll wake my dad!"

She slapped his hand away. "Sorry. But go back to the part about you sleeping together?!"

Will winced. "Ugh, maybe I should've phrased it better..."

"Will, you didn't, like..." Lou made a few weird gestures, "you know with him, did you?"

Will made a face, his cheeks bright red. "Ewww, Lou, no!"

Lou let out a breath. "Good, because if some sassy little Italian deflowered my baby Will, I was gonna have to kick his ass."

"Nothing like... that happened," Will stressed, blushing redder. 'I just fell asleep on him. That was it. And there might've been a little... cuddling.Unintentional cuddling!" he added when Lou opened her mouth with a glint in her eye. She closed it, looking slightly disappointed. "So there's no dirty details?"

"No. I fell asleep on him, I woke up, I ate lunch, I left. End of story."

Lou frowned. "But I thought you wanted something? I heard from Silena, who heard from Piper McLean, who heard from her boyfriend, Jason Grace, that you wanted a manga from him or something?"

"Jason Grace?" Will asked, confused. "How would he know about that?"

"Apparently he's, like, Nico's best friend."

"Oh," Will said, frowning. "But yes, I did want a manga, but when we woke up, everything was pretty hectic. His older sister took a picture of our, erm, unintentional cuddling, and threatened to post it on Facebook, and there was a lot of rapid-fire yelling in Italian, and then she locked herself in her room, and then I went to the kitchen because I was starving, but there was, like, no food, because apparently no one in Nico's family is gifted with cooking, and the topic of food made me notice how thin Nico is—seriously, have you seen him?—and of course I went all doctor on him, and then his dad showed up, and..." Will took a deep breath. "And let me tell you, that man is like... like... a Greek god or something! I tell you, the whole family is fucking gorgeous! It's unsettling!"

Lou patted Will's shoulder soothingly. "Calm down, babe. So basically what I'm hearing is; the whole date was for nothing?"

Will groaned and buried his face in his pillow.

"Oh, I'm not helping, am I? I'll just go. Text me when you feel better, okay? I'll try to talk to Jason Grace and see what I can do, okay?"

"Okay," Will agreed, his voice muffled by the pillow. "Thanks, Lou."

A while later, Will had sufficiently calmed himself down, and was able to pull his head away from the pillow it'd been in for the last ten minutes.Might as well take a shower, Will thought, sighing and stretching. I smell like Nico. And while that wasn't necessarily a bad thing—in fact, Nico smelled rather nice, actually; like rosemary and something almost like a sugar cookie—it brought up feelings Will definitely didn't want to think about just then, especially since he still had to figure out a way to get the manga.

But right as Will was pulling his sweater over his head, his phone buzzed with a new text. He tossed the sweater on his bed and picked up his phone to see a text from none other than Nico di Angelo himself.

12:47 PM - You forgot your manga, sunshine~

Will stiffened. Oh gods, oh gods, oh gods. Okay, calm down, Will. Calm down and respond. He took a deep breath and turned back to his phone.

12:49 PM - I know

12:50 PM - Well I guess there's only one thing we can do, isn't there?

Um, what's that? Will typed, slightly afraid.

12:51 PM - Um, what's that?

12:52 PM - You'll have to come over and get it.

Will stared down at the screen for several seconds. Then he proceeded to fall back on the bed. He threw the phone to the opposite end and stared at it like it was a snake about to bite him. "Did he just ask me out?" he murmured to himself, throwing an arm over his eyes. "That sounded a lot like he was asking me out. Again."

A loud, insistent beeping made him jump, and Will picked up his phone and clicked "accept" without even thinking. The FaceTime call pended for about three seconds before Will actually read the caller ID. He scrambled to press end, but three more seconds, and it was too late. Nico raised an eyebrow at Will. "You look flustered, sunshine. Are you..." Nico stopped mid-sentence as his eyes flicked downwards. "Solace..." he said slowly, his cheeks tinged pink, "why are you not wearing a shirt?"

Will squealed and dropped his phone, covering his bare chest with his hands even though the Italian could no longer see him. "Shit, shit, shit, shit," Will panicked, grabbing for the sweater he'd dropped on the bed. He slid it over his head and took a deep breath before grabbing the phone again. He met Nico's eyes, his own cheeks pink. 'Let's pretend that never happened, okay?"

"Um, sure..." Nico said slowly. "Anyway, I only called because you didn't respond. I was worried, Solace." His teasing tone was back, and Will couldn't help but be slightly annoyed, aside from being flustered, of course.

"Nico, I'm coming over to your house tomorrow, and I'm taking that manga."

"Fine," Nico said, smirking. "Come get it, Solace."

Will blushed slightly at Nico's thick, flirty tone (made even thicker and flirtier by his Italian accent) before Nico was hanging up and Will found himself looking at a blank screen.

Picking up his phone, unable to form coherent thoughts, Will texted the one person he could think of.

1:04 PM - Lou, come over. I need you

It took only a second for her reply to pop up on the screen.

1:04 PM - Be right there.

A/N: No translations for this chapter, but I did deliver on the Lou/Will interactions! Hope you guys liked the chapter! :)