Be Aware (Demon! Percy Jackson)

Olly Olly Oxen Free

Nico:

My mom doesn't me accept as her kid.

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Bianca:

Mom has gone to check out an apartment. It was about 7. Hazel just got up.

"Where's Nico?" She asked me.

"Sleeping, I assume." I told her.

"Odd." She said. "He's usually up by 6. Whatever. Breakfast isn't for an hour anyway."

I got dressed. Grey almost kind of a crop top, with a black skull, some black jeans, green combat boots, my green hat, skull ring, and arrow bracelet.

45 minutes go by. Nico hasn't stepped out of his room.

"Should we?" I asked Hazel.

"If breakfast is in 15 minutes, yeah." She told me and we silently open the door and to our surprise, Nico had been awake. Laying in bed. Fully dressed and everything.

But he was silently crying.

Being he hasn't seen us, we close the door again. Me, worried as fuck. You don't cry like that if you had a nightmare. Something had to of happened before we woke up.

"What would do that, though?" Hazel asked me. "It's not like he's sensitive. Because he's anything but most of the time."

"I have no idea." I said. "They wouldve woken everyone up if Percy asked. He's the leader of Camp. So nobody close died. Stress?"

"No." Hazel said. "If anything, he shouldn't be stressed. Maybe a little. Nothing bad, though. Just the typical day to day stuff. Not at risk of death... Did your mom talk to him before she left?"

"I think." I told her. "I think she just told him she was leaving, though. That's what she usually does. But I mean, Nico... He doesn't have a lot of fears. Doesn't cry over nightmares or anything like that. And that looked like a depressed crying. Not a scared kind of thing, or stress or anything. Maybe somebody said something they shouldn't have?"

So we call Dad. He was awake, happy to see us. Didn't ask how I was here. Just went with it.

"What's up?" Dad asked us. "Usually Nico the one to call if anyone."

"Did you talk with him this morning?" I asked Dad. "He's not exactly okay at the moment."

"No." He told me. "I haven't for a few days. What's wrong?"

"We dont know." Hazel explained. "We didn't know he was awake until we peeked in and saw him crying. We don't know what would do that. Because nobody died in the last 9 hours. It's not stress. Somebody had to say or do something to him. Thought maybe you'd know."

"I have no idea." He told us. "Sorry. Wish I could help."

Then it hit me.

"The outfit Nico was wearing..." I said. "It's classified as a girls outfit, isn't it?"

"Yeah." Hazel told me. "It is. Why?"

"If Mom saw that..." I said. "Assuming he was wearing that when she told him she was leaving, she'd ask what the fuck he's wearing, why he's wearing such a thing, and probably do everything but take it off for him."

"Why?" Hazel asked.

"Very straight mind." I explained. "Girls are girls. They do girl thing. They like guys. Guys are guys. They do guy things. They like girls. End of story. No overlap. I'm surprised she didn't freak out when she found out he was with Percy."