Paisley POV

"What about this one?" I ask, twirling around so they can see.

I as trying on what they thought might be nice for me to wear tonight. Nico said to dress casually, and not to stress too much about it.

"Hmm."Aphrodite thinks, standing up and forcing me to turn so my back was to her. "Well, blue is a nice colour on you."

Thanks. All the other things I've worn are blue too.

"And the shorts suit you as well. Not too short though." Piper comments, nodding.

Thalia had no input into it. I wouldn't either, but Aphrodite flipped when she heard that I was going on my first date. Yes, it's my first date. But I'm fifteen. My brother said that I'm too young for a boyfriend. He doesn't trust me with any boy that's not Dad, him, Percy, Harry or my old friend Oliver. I've told him about Nico, but they've never met via Skype.

"Cool. I have these hee-" Aphrodite starts.

"No. I'm wearing my jandals." I say getting the black and white striped shoes from my bag.

"But-"

"Thank you for your help, Mother." Piper says, shooing her Mum out the door.

"O-okay then. Do you have-"

And the door shut.

At precisely six o'clock, someone knocked on the room door. I rushed to pull up the shoulder of the top which I wore unbuttoned over a black tank.

"Just a second!" I shout, tugging on my blue and black satchel carrying my crap phone that only decides to work if I hit it hard enough against something, my almost empty wallet (The money earnt by working occasionally at the pools) and my allergy thingy that I never bothered to learn the name of.

I ran over to the door, ignoring the grins from the girls, and opened the door. I tried putting on my jandals at the same time,but the door hit my foot.

"Ah crap!" i say, hopping about and holding onto my foot and it's aching toe.

Nico laughed.

I roll my eyes and put my shoes on.

"Ready to go?" He asks me, leading me out into the hall.

"Yeah. Bye guy's." I say towards the almost shut door before closing it completely.

"Have fun!"

"Be safe!"

"Don't do anything stupid!"

"Use protecti- Ouch!"

"Thalia! She's fifteen for gods sake!"

"So..." Nico says as we begin going down the stairs. I'm glad he remembered my fear of lifts. My brother once trapped me in a lift with a cockroach when I was four. Hence my fear of elevators and cockroaches. They couldn't get me out for a few hours because after he trapped me in, it malfunctioned.

Devil child, I tell you. But he was my brother all the same.

"So... Where are we going?" I ask as we get up to floor two, two away from ground level.

"Can't say." Nico replies, refusing to give me answers and make my curiosity die away for now.

''Why not?" I ask.

"It's a surprise."

"Why is it a surprise?"

"I don't know."

"Why the heck don't you know?"

"You're getting annoying now."

"I know, that's the point."

"What-"

"Shh." I say, "You're being annoying."

Nico gives me a look, and I grin knowing that I have achieved annoying him well.

"Sorry." I say as we reach the last step into the lobby. I turn to face Nico, because he refuses to tell me where we are going.

"C'mon." He says, grabbing my hand and dragging me out the hotel.

The air was humid and warm for winter, but then again, it's California. The sun was beginning to set, which reminded me of this morning when I showed Nico the sunrise. I had looked at it yesterday morning because I was bored and wanted something to do. Naturally, I climbed up to the roof. You know. Like normal people do.

I notice that he's taking me past a park that we went through today, but Sally didn't let us stop at.

"The park?" I ask, raising an eyebrow. The trees lined the edges of the field and were basically saying to me "CLIMB ME! CLIMB ME!"

"Well, yeah. I know how much you like tree's and I thought it wouldn't be a bad idea." He shrugs off a black backpack. I don't know how I didn't notice it before.

"I can see you eyeing up those tree's like they're a celebrity." Nico says, pushing me towards a small, and hardly worth my climbing skills, tree.

"Can I?" I ask, feeling as though I'm sort of ditching him.

"Yeah. Can I join you?" Nico asks awkwardly, which I found cute. He was shifting from foot to foot and his hands were stuffed in his back pockets. His gaze avoided mine, but that was understandable.

"Yeah. Make sure you can keep up!" I say, grinning as he did and sprinting to the furthest, and tallest tree. Much better than the puny one he saw before.

I latch on to the tree, like a koala and begin climbing in what my brother described as monkey like. I was apparently fast and squirmed around the branches like no bodies business.

Halfway up, I notice Nico's not following me. Instead, he's standing at the bottom and looking up at me.

"C'mon slow poke." I tease, sitting on the branch carefully.

"How do you climb it?" He asks me. What? He's never climbed a tree before?

And I ask exactly that.

"I have, just I fell off and broke my arm." He says, as I begin to climb down. After we're on the same level, I begin to show him.

"Basically, you just hold onto anything that can keep up your weight and use it as a ladder." I say, "See there's a hole in the tree? You can use that as a place to put your foot or hand and pull yourself up from there." I point out.

Nico does what I say, but stops.

"Keep going. Hold onto branches and bits of the tree that look alright." I say, picking up his backpack which he had taken to the bottom of the tree.

"You're doing great!" I shout up to Nico as I secure the bag on my back. I climb after him and soon catch up.

"How long have you been tree climbing?" Nico asks as if it's a sport.

"Since I was strong enough. Not even that. My brother's used to push me up the tree and I would hold on." I say, sitting down on a relatively strong branch that looked able to hold a few people. It was thick, and would easily support the two of us. I scooch back and away from the trunk before removing the backpack.

Nico finally gets to the branch and looks down. "Its a bit high."

"We're fine." I assure, taking out the box which I assume has food. "Sit."

Nico copies my position, one leg on either side of the big branch, and leans against the trunk. He opens his hands and arms for the box and bag, "Pass it here." he says, "It's a secret."

I look at him strangely before handing him the box. He flipped open the lid and handed over a lettuce sandwich.

I don't get the word sandwich. I mean. Sand. Witch. Is it sand? Or is it a witch? Which Witch is Which?

English these days, I'm telling you.

"Sorry for the lack of creativity." Nico says, putting the box back into the bag.

"No problemo." I say, as the air begins to cool only slightly. I mean, its colder than before but there's still no need for a jacket. "Why do you think they called it a sandwich?" I ask, looking bck and forth from the food in my hands to Nico, who bursts out laughing.

"How was it?" Great.

"Did you kiss?" Yes.

"Look at her face! She's love-struck!" No crap.

"Aww." What?

I stumbled into the room, blindly kicking off my jandals, not knowing where they landed. I shrug off the flannel shirt and giggle.

"So?" Piper prods, "Was it good?"

I nod and smile at her, stretching my cheeks amost painfully. They're starting to ache from how much I'm smiling.

"Go shower and change into Pj's and we can talk in the morning." Annabeth beams.

After we got down from the tree, with a lot of help from me, he kissed me. It was wonderful. I would be lying if I said it was my first kiss, because it wasn't, but it was better than the first. I was thirteen and frankly, very stupid. It was with my best friend, who left the day after.

Great right?

Anyways, never heard from the bestie, but it was really awkward.

This time there was a lot of blushing. Like, a lot. Last time he ran to his mother's car. So I'd say that this time it was much better.

After showering and getting into my over sized shirt that belonged to one of my many brothers and basketball shorts, I climb into bed still sporting what should be the biggest smile ever worn by a human.

A/N

Hey everybody! I had to walk around two beaches and a lake to look at rocks for science. Fun. And then I got a really bad headache that felt like someone was trying to hammer their way out of my head and I drank three water bottles so... PANADOL DOESNT WORK ON ME! Anyways, so I went home sick and missed last period. Thank gods that my mother was next door in the hospital with my grandad to get him a check up. He was released last week on Thursday because he had surgery in his tummy!

I got a haircut and the teeny tiny curls that were growing have been cut off! Now I'm stuck with my boring pin straight hair...

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