{1} They Say That Love Is Forever (Nico Di Angelo)

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚃𝚑𝚛𝚎𝚎

Nico's POV

Of course! You would think after helping defeat Kronos and Gaia, everyone would be ok with me being here. They were, for like, a month, but after me and Will broke up and it caused Will to leave, everyone hates me.
Of course, I'd hate me too.

I was just sitting in the woods, when some kids from ares up and decided "hey lets go torture the weird ghost kid." And all the sudden, i was being pelted with paint balls. And now I'm walking back to my cabin looking like a colorful assortment of balloons.

I walked in the door to see a girl sitting on one of the bunks. My bunk.

She looked around my age. She had long black hair with blue tips. She had a emo/scene hair cut too. She was wearing a pair of ratty black jeans and a long sleeve red t shirt. She had her head in her hands and was crying.

"Umm, who are you?" I asked.

She looked up at me, a look of fear on her face. Her eyes were red and puffy but also dark..probably because of the smudged eyeliner. "I-im sorry. I wasn't trying to invade your privacy i-" she started.

Thats when Percy and Annabeth ran in, breathing heavily.

"Oh my gods!" Annabeth exclaimed. "There you are, euphoria! We've been looking everywhere since you ran off!"

The girl, euphoria, just hung her head. "I-im sorry. I just needed to be alone a-and...please dont hurt me" she started crying again. Annabeth tried to step towards her but she flinched and got that look of fear again.

I couldn't watch this. This girl had clearly been through a lot. "Guys, what's going on? Who is she? What is she doing here?" Then I turned to Euphoria. "Are you relatively okay?" I asked her. I knew she wasn't "okay" so thats why i said relatively.

She looked at me and slowly shook her head yes. I stared at her for a moment. She has the brightest green eyes...but in them was so much pain. It saddened me.

"Shes new. Not taking the news too well. After Charon told her she was a demigod, well she ran off. Guess she found your cabin a suitable hiding place." Annabeth said.

I looked at Annabeth. "Well of course she isn't taking it well. No one ever does." I said, a little harsh.

"Hey, dont be mad at Annabeth" Percy interjected.

I just sighed and looked at euphoria. "Do you want to continue your tour?" I asked her.

She thought for a moment. "This is real isn't it? Im not actually going crazy?" She asked.

I nodded. "Its real."

"Ok. Ill do the tour. C-can you do it? Can you explain everything to me?" She asked me.

Dang. Im not one for getting in with camp affairs. But looking at the hope in her eyes, it made me feel something. So i agreed.

"By the way, call me Ephy if that's easier than saying Euphoria." She said. "No one else does, but if you want to, you may."