NICO

I stood outside Thalia's door in an apartment complex which looked like it had seen better days. The walls were scattered with areas which lacked paint and I wasn't sure I wanted to know what exactly stained the carpets. The door was secluded; the only other door on that floor was at the other side of the stairs and a wall blocked their line of vision.

I took a deep breath and rang the doorbell. Behind the door I could just make out the sound of someone coming to the door and suddenly it swung open. Before me stood a blond haired, blue eyed kid who bared no resemblance what so ever to Thalia, for a second I thought I had come to the wrong house.

"Hello, can I help you?" The boy asked.

"Oh, uhm, Yes, I was just looking for Thalia Grace?"

"And who should I tell her is looking for her?" he enquired,

"Nico Di Angelo." I responded

"Son to Pluto Di Angelo?" he asked with a raised eyebrow.

I nodded and he stepped aside for me to enter. "I'll go get her." He answered as he walked down a corridor.

The apartment was small but snug. I stood in the middle of the living room with the chairs and the television. A couple of feet away, in open plan, was the kitchen and a little table with four chairs tucked under it.

"What do you want?" Thalia's voice came from behind me.

I swirled around and had to restrain myself from leering at her. She was wearing a shirt which showed of her belly and still managed to hug her chest at the same time. On her bottom half she wore very low riding sweat pants which hung around her waist perfectly. I nearly groaned out loud and I could feel my cock twitch. One wrong move from her or one wrong thought from me and I would be going to boner land.

I cleared my throat, "I came to apologise profusely; I really didn't mean to offend you today, I just thought it would be a good experience for you and it would also mean that I had a date for the business dinner party tonight. By the way, I don't ever take "piece of ass" dates to business occasions." I held her gaze waiting for her answer.

"Did you ask you on a date? If he did better say yes, he's HOT" came another girls voice from behind me."

"Shut up piper" Thalia said,

"Hey!" Jason exclaimed

But the girl just laughed and walked up to me. "Hi I'm Piper, This doofus's girlfriend." She held her hand out.

I smiled at her, "Hello, I'm Nico. Thalia's colleague who is, in fact, trying to get her to accompany me to a very important dinner date tonight." I said returning my gaze to Thalia who glared at me.

Piper looked at Thalia with a fake appalled look. "Go with him! Go with him! Go with him! Go with him!" she chanted over and over again. She elbowed Jason in the stomach and he started chanting as well. Soon there were two fifteen year olds screaming at the top of their lungs. I laughed at first and soon joined in their brilliant plan.

"Go with me! Go with me!" I chanted as well.

Thalia had her hands on her ears but once I started chanting, it looked like she was about to explode. "Alright! I'll go to the stupid dinner with you, all of you just shut up!"

We all cheered and I hi-fived Jason and Piper. Suddenly Thalia's face fell, "But I can't leave Jason and Piper here unsupervised."

My face fell for a moment, then I had an idea, "You can bring them to my place."

She looked at me like I was crazy, "Oh sure, I should leave them unsupervised in your house. That's an even better idea"

I rolled my eyes, "My dad's right hand man is there for a while checking up on me and the business. He raised me so I trust him with my life and he's a very old fashioned kind of guy, he'll make sure they're on their best behaviour while we're out."

I waggled my eyebrows at the two teens who blushed furiously, Thalia tried to find another argument but Piper cut her off, "Oh for God's sake Thalia! Don't be such a prude, look at him; he looks like something right off a throne in the high heavens. If he isn't a keeper, I don't know what is!"

I smirked at Thalia who was glaring at Piper with slightly pink cheeks, "I have to hand it to the girl, she speaks the truth." I winked at Thalia and hi-fived Piper.

Jason just rolled his eyes and moved closer to Piper. "Piper, it isn't all about looks" Thalia tried to scold her, but she just rolled her eyes. "Right, just because I'm fifteen doesn't mean I don't know what twenty three year olds think. Remember Silena is twenty three" she said in a sing song voice.

I chuckled as I noticed Thalia's blush deepen. "Alright, I'll grab my stuff and get ready at your house so we can drop them off and I can meet this mentor of yours."

I fist pumped and high-fived Piper and winked at Jason who just blushed as he held onto Pipers hand.

Once Thalia was gone, Jason let go of Piper's hand and directed me towards a chair. Once I was snug he gave me a stern look, "How old are you?" he asked

I wasn't expecting that, "Twenty five,"

Jason nodded, "I'm sure you don't want to die at the age of twenty five, so don't hurt Thalia."

I nodded, now that I was expecting "But we aren't even dating,"

"That won't be for very long. I can almost taste the sexual tension between you two" Piper interrupted Jason before he could talk.

I blushed, was my attraction to her that obvious, that even a fifteen year old girl could tell? I inwardly groaned at the thought. Jason gave me a stern glare which I guess counted as a warning.

When Thalia came back out, I had to keep my eyes away so that my obvious attraction wasn't even more obvious. She hadn't changed anything except now she held a large bag and on her feet were some flip flops. "Okay I'm good to go."

Piper and Jason grabbed their school bags, to do homework I assumed, and made their way down the stairs. I walked out, with Thalia hot on my trail and stood waiting for her as she locked the door.

I looked away as she placed the key in the lock, but she dropped the key and I turned to watch her as she bent down to pick the key up. Because of how low her sweatpants were, I caught a glimpse of her lacy red thong and myself control went out the window and all the inappropriate things I wanted to do with her came flooding back in.

I removed my jacket to try and hide the erection that was beginning to form as Thalia and I walked down the stairs chatting about our tastes in music and movies. It was nice just hanging out outside the office but the fact that I was so disturbingly attracted to her was going to make this difficult.

Jason and Piper stood at the base of the stairs talking intently and they suddenly stopped and smiled when they saw us. "What were you guys talking about?" she asked.

"Nothing" they said simultaneously. I immediately translated that to real speak and it meant, "Something we don't want you to know about"

I smirked at them and said a sarcastic, "Right, I believe that"

Piper stuck her tongue out at me, and Jason just rolled his eyes. I brought out my keys and opened the doors to my black range rover. Jason and Piper crawled into the back seat, while Thalia rode shut gun beside me.

The ride to my house took us about twenty minutes which I spent playing a supervised version of twenty questions with Jason and Piper, while Thalia just laughed at our antics. I really liked Jason and I saw us being great friends, we both liked the same football team, the same soccer team, and the same basketball team.

Once we arrived at my apartment complex I showed them up to my flat.

"Whoa Dude nice pad!" Jason shouted as he walked through my large living room.

The main tones were, grey and black with hints of white. My house looked like a very sophisticated and modern flat without all the creepy bachelor cliché's. Everything was a large open space and there was a sitting room area with three long couches which all faced the television area. A coffee table stood in the middle of the couches and on it were some books, papers and remote controls

The television was a large 72 inch flat screen that had the most amazing surround sound system money can buy. Below it on the wall was my collection of movies and cd's.

On the other side of the wood panelled floors was a dining table, given to me by my father, made of obsidian and platinum. And the kitchen looked exactly like a restaurant's kitchen except it was smaller. There was a window which meant you could look into the kitchen and talk to people, but you couldn't go in unless you used the door. Beneath that window was a space and a bar where I kept my expensive wine and other spirits. There were also bar stools so it looked like a bar and restaurant. I walked over the threshold and down the corridor towards Chiron, my mentor's room.

My knock resounded through the corridor and I heard him make his way towards the door. "Ah, Nico, I wasn't expecting you back so soon. What brings you back this early?" he asked, smiling at me.

"I'm going for an impromptu dinner and I invited a colleague of mine as a date. Unfortunately, she has a fifteen year old brother who she can't leave unsupervised, and his girlfriend is staying over so she thought it would be irresponsible to leave them alone." I rolled my eyes, "Teenagers you know how they are." He cracked a grin and gave me a knowing look. My response was a blush as I ran my fingers through my hair. "Anyway, I thought you could help babysit for a while we attended the dinner. We don't have to leave till seven thirty but we'll be gone till pretty late."

He nodded, "Let me meet the children," I gave him a wide smile as I enveloped him in a hug and thanked him profusely.

"I now introduce, Chiron!" I announced as I returned into the living room to find Piper and Jason lounging on the couch flipping through channels. Their heads snapped towards us and they both stood up.

Thalia also stood up to introduce herself but I stepped in, "Chiron, this is Thalia my colleague." And that is her brother Jason, and his girlfriend Piper."

Chiron shook their hands and smiled warmly at them. "Please make yourselves at home, have the children eaten?"

"No, and I'm really hungry" Jason frowned and rubbed his stomach. Piper nudged him but I just laughed. "What would you like to eat Jason?" I asked him,

"Honestly, I was feeling in that four seasons pizza mood…" he turned to see Pipers frown waiting for him, "But anything Piper wants is absolutely fine!" he finished

She smiled triumphantly in my direction, "What do you have Nico?"

"I have pasta, lasagne, pizza, sandwiches, French fries, sausages, ham, beef, eggs, meat, truffles, strawberries, turkey, chicken…" I would have continued but Piper held up her hands,

"Okay, Okay, I'll have lasagne! Jeeze talk about an overload." She said rolling her eyes.

I laughed and dropped my coat as I walked into the kitchen. "Thalia, could you come help me in here?" I asked. Honestly, I didn't really need help; I just wanted it to hasten up the process.

I opened the door for her and gave her a smile, "Ladies first,"

She scoffed and rolled her eyes but entered anyway. "Wow, this is a really nice kitchen. It looks like something out of a restaurant," she held a thoughtful look, "well a mini version anyway."

I smirked and walked over to the refrigerator to begin bringing out the ingredients.

"I'll have you know my kitchen skills are very limited so if I burn your house down, you're to blame." She said leaning on the table.

"I'll try to remember that." I laughed, "Okay, now, the raw lasagne is in the cupboard behind you, could you help me get it down?"

I turned away from her to get the rest of the ingredients and when I turned back round Thalia was on the tips of her toes, stretching towards the cupboard trying to grab the box with the tips of her fingers. What she didn't know is that she was giving me a complete view of her black lacy bra and her torso.

I momentarily lost control of myself as I walked towards her and then wrapped my arms around her waist to lift her up. The contact was mind blowing and her feel of her body against mine was almost enough to strip me of all self-control.

I heard her inhale sharply and once I saw her hand wrap around the pasta, I loosened my grip on her and she slid back down against my body till her feet touched the floor. We stood there for what felt like hours, without any space between us. We were so close that I could feel her heart beat on my chest.

I looked down into her eyes and leaned closer, she leaned closer as well. My eyes drifted to her lips and her arms went round my neck. Our mouths were so close that I could feel her breath against mine and it was intoxicating me. I didn't know how far this would go before it ended, but I was almost a hundred percent sure that if we kissed it intensified the heat of the fire which was blazing through my body, I wouldn't be able to stop till I had my release.

About a tenth of a second before our lips met, the doorbell rang and we flew apart.