Nico's Freaked Out

Nico had drifted to sleep while he was immersed in his thoughts. The sound of the horn woke him up. He had this weird nightmare of a faceless girl and two guys fighting over him. He tried to forget it.

He sat at the table where he was alone, because he was the only kid of Hades. Piper saw that he was alone and walked towards his table.

'Hi' she said, 'feeling good? You looked like you have woken up from your funeral coffin'

'Just a little bit drowsy and by the way in the Hades cabin there are blood red velvet coffins instead of beds.' Nico said as Piper laughed.

'Hey, Piper!' called a voice. Nico looked around to the voice and saw that she's the same girl he'd seen earlier with shiny black hair and all.

She came over and sat right next to Nico. He almost choked on his half eaten cheeseburger. Piper looked like she's having a seizure, with uncontrollable giggles.

'Drew and those wannabes are so light headed that they make me throw up on my own food for the stuff they talk about, it's just YUK!' said the girl.

Piper was still struggling with her giggles to reply so she just nodded.

'So, aren't you going to introduce me to your nice, cute little friend over here' she pointed at Nico and asked.

'Umm, this is Nico do Angelo, son of Hades,' Piper told the girl who grinned. 'and this is Jade Cruiz, one of my sisters.' She managed to say between her newly produced giggles.

Nico gave Piper this look which said 'get on with it, I'm just amused,' but it did not help.

Nico and Jade waited until Piper's giggles are over.

'So, I've heard a lot about you from my fellow cabin mates.' She gave an involuntary look towards Drew. 'They said you are this cute little guy who likes to wear black and helped to bring peace to Camp Half Blood and Camp Jupiter' Nico felt flattered but he did not show it.

'Jade is this famous businessman's daughter, she came just two days before, just after Jason left Camp Half Blood, Oh, and she's fourteen too' said Piper.

Nico just nodded and smiled at Piper. There was this lump stuck in his throat, near his trachea. He couldn't talk or even do anything. He was afraid he might get embarrassed in front of Jade. Actually he was nervous, something he doesn't feel normally except to the parts where he's in front of Percy.

Jade has already finished her food. She just ate an apple and a slice of pizza. She reached and kissed Nico's cheek and got up. She hugged Piper and made her way to her cabin.

Nico had his mouth open with a really stupid look on his face. She had actually kissed him, she had said he's cute, the kid of Hades, the person who didn't approve of physical contact at all, he didn't seem to mind that right now. The person whom everyone feared, who could raise skeletons and zombies from the ground, him, Nico di Angelo