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Trees

TW: F slur
Nico's POV

I'd realized that I had a crush on Will. The feeling of my heart fluttering every time we would touch, even just the minuscule things like our shoulders brushing, was too familiar not to recognize.

Even if I'd gotten over Percy by now, I still remembered when I was hopelessly infatuated with him. But my crush on Will was different, it seemed more grounded. More genuine.

My feelings for Percy was just me being a kid and thinking he looked cool and how he had saved me from that awful school. My feelings for Will on the other hand... I'm not the best at reading myself but I think it's safe to assume it's from him going out of his way to make sure I was ok. To spend time with me.

I know I have friends who do that too, but they always have their stuff they need to deal with. Will was also the first person to realize without prompting that I needed some serious emotional comfort regularly.

He didn't press as to why I was upset, or why I was crying. He did ask if I wanted to talk, and if he got a no: he would just continue hugging me and let me cry into his shoulder.

He could also relate to me about losing my older sister. It's always better to be comforted by someone who actually knows how you feel. Who can do more then just say 'I'm sorry that happened to you'.

But I also wasn't to hasty about trying to avoid him now. I knew I needed a friend who wasn't on their way to college or only around when they could visit. Will did that for me.
I also couldn't abandon him, I'd been his shoulder to cry on a few times too. He would vent to me about how stressed he was and breakdown. It took a while for him to do this and I could tell he rarely let his emotions get the better of him around other people. He had been holding stuff in too.

I'd pretty much just shoved the idea of is being together down though. There were to many factors against me.

And for a relationship to happen in the first place I would have to tell him I was gay. The only person who even knew, was Jason. Yeah I had talked to him about it and he told me the others wouldn't care and how things were better now. But I was still scared, hate crimes were still common, and I couldn't even get married if I wanted to.

Jason was fine with that answer, he just told me that I shouldn't hide forever but only for me to come out if I was ready.

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On a Thursday when everyone else was at the campfire singing, I was going for a walk around the cabins. I walked by the Apollo cabin, thinking immediately of Will and his vibrant blue eyes that made me wonder how I ever found green eyes attractive.
Along with his slightly long blond hair that looks so fluffy, I wanted to touch it, while not crying into it.

I noticed Will was in their from the corner of my eyes, and yes I may have stopped to peek through the slightly open door. I saw that he was sweeping the floor, I remembered his younger siblings shuffling that particular chore to him.

The Apollo cabin had this weird radio thing that played almost any song ever, apparently a gift from the music god himself. I saw Will put in a song, though, I actually didn't know what kind of music he liked so I thought I might try and listen.

For the first half a minute or so it almost sounded like classical music, then a guitar joined.

Then the lyrics started with Will singing along with them, he wasn't the best singer, but his kind of dry and off tune voice fit the song.

"Slept in your room with your friends on the inside
Needed some air, so I slept on the outside." It was kind of rock, or metal, it was hard to tell. It's not something I would have expected him to listen to but I was pleasantly surprised.