I stand at the top of half blood hill. One of the only places at camp were the nosies lights and sounds dont put me in overload, with the amound of impulsive ADHD demigods here it usually gets quite noisy.

Slowly i sit facing the forest and trees outside of camp, i shut my eyes and start counting backwards from 10 and feeling the grass under my fingers. Normaly when i feel im about to have a overload I trudge my way up to thalias tree. But today it was to late i caught it to far through and was already crying as i ran up the hill. I could feel the stares burning holes into my back as i sprinted up here, the voices wispering about me may have been shouted on a magaphone.

I knew that shortly will would be told about his 'crazy lunatic boyfriend' and he would Be hurrying up the hill once again. When i first came to camp i was told that everyone was like me for once, no more judges and onlookers. And surely i thought they cant be more judgey then people when they see a little italian boy in the 1930's crying at a doctors office, kicking and flaying his legs around because everything was to much and to there. But the person who told me that at camp was wrong. Everyone still judged if you were different to them. If you wernt loud impulsive and a bad speller you were considered a outcasts by most cabins. It also didnt help that i was one of the big 3 and my fauther was the most outcasted god of all.

I could feel more tears running down my face and my breathing was getting harder and harder to control, suddnly my calming safe space was feeling horrible, i felt as if i was trapped and couldnt move. Like the grass was crawling up my fingers and setting me in stone. The birds chirping and flying above made me nauseous with sound. I couldnt foucus or hear anything besides the wind whiring and trying to swallow me hole.

Suddenly i felt a hand grasp my back and i shot up. My tears made it hard for me to identify the stranger and my reasoning was far away from me.

so i ran.

I ran down the treee past the boarder and into the forst, i didnt care that the monsters could smell me now, i just needed to get away. But the further i ran into the woods the more i wanted to go back the tress physically felt like they were cloasing in on me and i couldnt breath.

i couldnt breath

i couldnt breath

the last thing i rember was turning around and spying a figure infront of me and then facepalnting into them

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The sun burned its way into my eyelids before i could properly relise what was happering. I was back on half blood hill. But this time the grass wasnt trying to hold me captive and the birds seem to have disappeared. Suddnly i noticed another figure next to me. The same one that must have carried me back up the hill, i turned my head around slolwy was came eye to eye with Will. I heaved a sigh of relif then after a moment became heavy embarrassmed. I had ran down the hill and risked my life beacuse of my boyfriend. I fell into wills arms amd the tears began to trickle down my face again. "Hey its okay Nico your safe with me, im sorry I frightened you before but one of the ares campers told me you freaked out at a activity and ran up here crying." All i could do was nod. "Was it a overload again?" Will asked politely and asking for a answer. I sat up wiping the tears of the the sleave of my shirt. "Im sorry Will i really am." Was all i could get before the waterworks came again. Will looked shocked for a moment before wrapping his arms around me securing me in a hug. "Its ok my love we'll get through this theres nothing to be sorry about."