Hi everyone,
I hope you enjoy my three part story. Two things before you read:

1. Never went to and American Highschool and my knowledge of the egg test is pretty much that one Buffy episode
2. Everyone apart from Hazel and Frank is the same age in this version.

Have fun and for those of you who are reading this on the day of publication happy day of peace and understanding to everyone.

PART 1

Nico usually didn´t hate school. Most of the time it was quite entertaining, mostly because of his friends. Nico lost track of how many times Percy made a fool of himself in front of the whole class, Leo accidentally blew up one of the fancy physics or chemistry tools and Jason fell off his chair because he was leaning too far backwards to flirt with his now girlfriend Piper. But today Nico forgot about those parts of his school life. The only reason he hadn´t killed his friends yet was probably because he still was in shock. Of course, in his sex ed class there had to be more guys than girls, of course, he had to have the only teacher with a modern attitude towards all family constellations and of course, he had to be teamed up with Will fucking Solace. Not that there wasn´t enough UST between them since the last very drunk incident at Jason´s Halloween party.

"Jason if you don´t stop laughing, I won´t sleep until I have fried your egg in a pan." Nico added his famous death glare to the threat. Jason stopped laughing and pulled his egg protectively to his chest.

"You wouldn´t dare to destroy Egbert." Jason was now stroking his egg tenderly.

"Okay, that's even for you a little cheesy, Grace." Annabeth looked annoyed at Percy, who still laughed and now started to bang his fist on the table. She grabbed their egg and put it on her tray "Percy you nearly destroyed our egg, and I am not going to fail this simple test." Her boyfriend finally stopped laughing and shot her an apologetic look.

"If you guys ever decide to have a family, I would keep the baby away from Percy for the first couple of months." Piper stole one of Jason´s fries while he was still paying attention to their egg.

"Hey, I would be careful if it is an actual human being. But towards this egg, I have some difficulties building paternal affection. I hope these eggs are fresh because otherwise, we all have a smelly problem at the end of the week."

"Pah let´s not focus on that right now, let´s continue making fun of Nico."

"Why would you make fun of Nico?" Hazel shot Leo a questioning look.

"Why are you two so late?" Leo asked instead of answering. Hazel and Frank shared a look and simultaneously started blushing.

"Hazel, seriously, don´t tell me you made out with your boyfriend in school." Nico focused on his sister.

"Technically it wasn´t in school," Frank muttered, put his tray on the table and sat down. Hazel followed his example.

"Nico is just jealous because he hasn´t a boyfriend to make out with," whispered Percy to Jason, who started giggling like a teenage girl. The next moment Percy was hit on the head with a chemistry book.

"What were you saying, Jackson?"

"Oh, come on Nico, you´re just pissed because you don´t have somebody you could snog senseless behind the gym." Nico´s answer was just a growl.

"Back to the topic, why were you making fun of my beloved brother?"

"Oh, we started the egg test in our sex ed today and Nico is raising his lovely egg with his crush Will." Piper filled Hazel and Frank in. Both started grinning widely.

"I don´t have a crush on Solace."

"Oh, please you can´t fool me, Nico. I saw you two at Halloween." Nico´s cheeks were slowly changing to the colour of tomatoes.

"Nico, want to tell us what happened on Halloween?" Leo was practically dancing on his chair.

"Nope.", Nico focused on his sandwich again, totally ignoring his giggling friends. Suddenly they all turned silent, and Nico looked up, just to regret his decision instantly. All his friends were staring at Will Solace who was smiling widely. Nico could feel the stupid butterflies stirring in his belly.

"Hey Solace, could you tell us what happened between you and Nico at my Halloween party?"

"That's it, Grace, I´m going to have Egbert for breakfast tomorrow." Nico snapped and grabbed the egg.

"No, stop I´m so sorry. Please, Nico. I owe you two Happy Meals.", Jason begged and tried to get his egg back.

"Five and two McFlurrys."

"Fine." Jason sighed relieved after he got his egg back.

"You still eat Happy Meals?" Will was still a little red on his cheeks, but way less than Nico probably.

"Yeah, I kind of collect the toys." Nico shrugged. He had no problem admitting his pretty big Happy Meal toy collection. After all, he had way more embarrassing secrets and habits.

"That's cool. Could I talk to you about our egg for a minute?"

"Yeah, sure. I finished my sandwich anyway and I have enough of these idiots for one break." Nico shot one last glare at his friends, picked up his bag and followed Will.

"Don´t go behind the gym.", Leo shouted behind them and made some kissing sounds.

"How much would I get for killing someone?"

"How am I supposed to know that I want to study medicine, not law."

"I think it would be worth it." Will started laughing and Nico noticed for the thousands time how adorable that sounded.

"So", Will stopped and got their egg out of his shirt pocket "I don´t know about you but I seriously don´t want to fail this test including our presentation." Nico, who avoided looking at Will suddenly stared directly into his face.

"Which presentation?"

"Seriously Nico are you even paying attention in our lessons? Every group got one subject connected to parenthood and other related topics." Nico hadn´t paid any attention after the teacher teamed him up with Will.

"So, what is our subject?"

"In-vitro fertilization."

"I literally didn´t understand one word."

"It means that an egg is fertilised by sperm outside the body and inside a glass."

"Gee, thanks Wikipedia."

"Oh, shut up, di Angelo. So, we should talk about who cares about our little egg and when?"

"As long as you don´t want to give it a funny name like Egbert."

"Please it´s just an egg."

"We should try to split up the classes and we should pick classes where most of the people attend our sex ed class."

"Why that?"

"Because other people could want to destroy our egg. I might have done that to other people in the past."

"Nico, if somebody destroys our egg, because of that, you owe me at least two of your favourite happy meal figures." Will chuckled when he saw Nico´s expression.

"I think we should put our egg in a safe."

After that, they compared their timetable and settled on who looked after their egg and when. They also agreed to meet up at Wills's house on Wednesday to prepare their presentation. After that they separated and Nico had to hurry to reach his history class in time. Right in time he slipped into the classroom and sat down next to Percy. At least Leo and Jason weren´t in this class.

"So how was it behind the gym? Did you actually kiss him senseless?"

"Shut up, Percy. I don´t have a crush on Will."

"Yeah, and I am Arielle."

"Which subject did you get for your presentation?"

"The development of the foetus in the first three months. Annabeth already has like ten books from the library. We´re going to start today, so we´re finished on Friday." Percy already looked exhausted without starting yet.

"Will and I are going to meet up on Wednesday." Nico bit his tongue when he saw Percy´s dirty grin.

"At home is way more romantic than behind the gym I have to admit. What happened at that party Nico?"

"Nice try Jackson. Now shut up, I´m trying to pay attention."

During the rest of the lesson, Nico learned a lot about the triggering moments before the First World War. Nevertheless, he was pretty glad when the school bell ended the lesson. Percy hit his head on the table and mumbled something about missing Annabeth´s explanations. Nico grabbed him by his shoulder and dragged him towards their last lesson for the day. In front of their chemistry classroom, they met Piper and Annabeth.

"Wise girl I missed you so much."

"Please you just missed my explanations during your lesson." Annabeth grinned at Percy´s sheepish expression.

"So, Nico how did it go with your crush?", at least Piper asked decently, so nobody could hear it except for him and her.

"Piper, how much did you see at the party?"

"I saw you two making out.", Piper brought back memories of butterflies, the taste of alcohol and peppermint and the feeling of Wills's skin under his fingertips. Nico buried his face in his hands.

"Shit."

"What´s the deal between you two? Are you just too shy or why aren´t you guys going out? I mean you are kind of perfect for each other and I think even Leo can see the UST between you."

"The thing is, I was really drunk and he was even drunker. I don´t remember much and I don´t know how much he remembers. We never talked about it and now it´s just awkward. After all, it happened like three weeks ago."

"You didn´t seem that drunk. But I guess I can understand the problem. But you two should really talk about it. Are you meeting because of your presentation this week?"

"Yes, on Wednesday and your comments about gyms don´t make it easier by the way." Piper snorted and walked into their classroom.

Relived Nico left accompanied by Hazel the school and started going home. He already finished his history homework in chemistry and Will took the first day of looking after their egg, which meant he would sleep in the Solace fridge tonight. Hazel was humming next to him.

"Making out with Frank during lunch break, who are you and what have you done with my little sister?"

"You know I´m not usually like that, but Frank and I hadn´t had one private moment in two weeks, because he had to help his grandma so much and I was studying even more. So, it seemed like a pretty awesome idea. What is going on between you and Mr. Solace?"

"Oh, please is the only thing you can talk about with me is my, by the way not existing, love life?"

"It´s love then." Nico facepalmed himself after that comment.

"Okay, I may have been crushing on him for a couple of months. It is just since he stood up in the middle of lunch break and announced that he broke up with his boyfriend and that it is not worth hiding relationships just because one´s afraid of the reaction, I couldn´t get him out of my head. I mean speaking of someone who hasn´t come out to the wide mass that was pretty impressive."

"You know there is nothing wrong with being gay."

"I know that, but I am just not feeling ready to come out to the school. I think I´m still in shock about Dad's reaction." Hazel started giggling and Nico glared at her.

"Oh, come on Nico it was so funny."

"Maybe for you."

Coming out to his dad and his stepmother had turned out completely different than Nico had imagined it. Hazel had sat next to him for moral support and held his sweaty hand. Persephone had just started giggling and shot a triumphant look towards his dad. I believe you owe me money, she had said. His Dad just had sighted and had asked: Couldn´t you just have waited another week to come out? It turned out his parents were betting on when he would come out of the closet. Nico was flabbergasted about the reaction. After all, he had already packed a bag and had planned to flee to Jason´s house, when things went really bad. Come on Nico it was pretty obvious, you never brought home a girl, nor talked about one. Plus, you were talking about Percy the whole time since you were twelve. His Dad had explained. Well, I have been over Percy for over two years now, just for your information. After that, the talk was more like a walk in the park.

"What happened between you and Mr. Solace?" Nico decided to walk a little faster. The sooner he was home, the better.

Nico could smell Pizza when he opened the door. His parents were sitting at the table, cutting four pizzas into pieces. His father was still wearing his business suit, but without a tie and his stepmother had already loosened up her hair, so it fell down her shoulders.

"Okay why do you want to bribe us with pizza?", Nico couldn´t remember the last time they had ordered food, nor the last time they had eaten directly when he and Hazel came from school.

"Don´t be so suspicious, there is no special reason. It´s just we were not feeling like cooking today." his father handed him one of the pizzas with what looked like tuna and onions.

"How was school today, Nico?"

"Fine."

"Please don´t share all the details with us," said Persephone sarcastically and turned to Hazel.

"My day was pretty interesting, we started drawing portraits in arts today and I got a B+ on my essay in English."

"What was that about again?"

"The scarlet letter. Nico started the egg test today in sex ed." Hazel didn´t even blink when Nico kicked her under the table. His father started laughing.

"I can´t believe you actually get graded for taking care of an egg. Parenthood is way more complicated than taking care of an egg. So where is your egg then?"

"Will has it today." The second time today Nico bit his tongue. Couldn´t he just have said my partner has it?

"Will?"

"Will is Nico´s partner for the week."

His parents just shared a look.

"Would you please stop looking at me like that? My class has a shortage of girls and Miss Dare is quite liberal on the whole family arrangement thing." But his father and his stepmother were still exchanging suspicious looks. Nico focused on his tuna pizza while Hazel continued to talk about her day. Later, after Nico finished the rest of his homework and was lying exhausted on his bed just staring at the ceiling, Hazel came into his room and fell on his bed.

"I seriously envy you, that you are almost finished with high school."

"What do you mean by almost finished, I still have nearly two years left."

"That's one less than I have."

"And after that is college, which isn´t better."

"Screw College, I´ll live of Dad's fortune."

"Seriously Hazel what happened to you?" Nico sat up and looked at his sister, who was now giggling.

"I am kidding Nico, come on loosen up." Nico got off his bed and pulled Hazel up with him.

"Want to come to McDonalds with me?"

"Seriously we had pizza 90 Minutes ago. How can you be hungry again?"

"It´s all the studying. I need brain food."

"Since when do you study a lot?" Hazel followed him down the stairs and put on her shoes, while Nico grabbed his Jacket.

"I always do my homework, that's more than other people do. Anyway, the main reason is, they have the Minions now in the happy meal and I tried to get Bob's fucking rat like three times, but it was always sold out."

"Are you going to take those toys with you in your grave?"

"Probably."

They reached McDonalds and while Hazel only got a chocolate milkshake, Nico grinned triumphantly when he finally had every toy from the minion's collection. He sat down next to his sister, who was already slurping her milkshake.

"There might have been a different reason why I was behind the gym today." Hazel's face was surprisingly serious.

"What are you talking about?"

"I told you Frank never had time for us for nearly two weeks. I kind of got worried."

"You know Frank is crazy about you and he knows if he cheats on you or breaks your heart, he has to face me. I might not be big enough to give his face serious damage but I am pretty sure I can kick him in the butt."

"Anyway, I asked him today and he told me he was helping his grandma sort out the cellar."

"See no trouble in…", Nico stopped because he saw a familiar mob of blonde hair coming through the McDonald's door. He was being dragged into the restaurant by a little maybe seven-year-old boy. Hazel turned around and started giggling when she saw who had entered.

"Fuck, Hazel we´re leaving." Nico already started packing his remaining chicken wings into the bag.

"But I am not finished yet."

"I am not kidding, if I have to, I will leave you here."

"So much to the brother-sister thing. Calm down Nico, you could ask how your egg is doing."

"You´re so funny sometimes." It was too late to escape now, Will had already spotted him. The two boys ordered their food and Will led the younger boy directly to Nico´s and Hazel´s table.

"Fancy meeting you here." Will put down his tray with salad and what looked like a milkshake "This is my brother Austin. Austin these are Nico and Hazel."

"Hey Austin, how are you?" Hazel tried to get the little boy's attention, but he had already started playing with his toy.

"I never met a person who eats salad at McDonalds." Nico threw a disgusted look at Wills's salad.

"Will always forces me to get the fruits with my Happy Meal. He says I have to eat one healthy thing at McDonalds." Austin started eating a slice of apple with a distasteful expression on his face.

"Yeah, that sounds like Will."

"Oi Austin at least I take you here and pay for your food, remember Kayla always refuses."

"Wait Kayla is your sister? We´re in the same music class."

"Same father different mum. Isn´t it the same with you two, Hazel?"

"Yup. Nico is probably dying to ask how your egg is doing."

"You read my mind so well." Nico rolled his eyes at his sister.

"Oh, you don´t need to be worried, I found a nice place in our fridge for it." Will gave him a broad smile. Nico could hear Hazel had finished her milkshake.

"Okay, I guess I see you tomorrow, bye Austin." Nico and Hazel got up waved one last time at Will and his brother and started walking back home.

"That was so awkward." Nico covered his face in his hands.

"I think you did fine. Plus, I didn´t know Will had so many siblings."

"Neither did I."

"See you get to know the guy you have a massive crush on."

"Just shut up, Hazel."