Fates - a pernico tale

Chapter 4 - Beginning Of Confusion?

Percy's POV

"WATCH OUT!" someone screamed. It was too late because something had already knocked me off my feet.

"Ouch, that hurt" I whined holding my currently Frisbee- bashed head.

I looked up to see an pair of grey orbs that were currently holding an amused look. I held the hands that were held out for me and I got on to my feet in a second. The daughter of Athena stood with a hand on her hip, as beautiful as ever with a smirk. Her perfect golden hair was in a ponytail and few curls fell framed her pretty face. She was dressed in the usual orange camp tee and grey booty shorts that brought out her eyes.

I looked away as I became aware that I had been staring at her but then I realized that I was her boyfriend and could 'always' check her out

"You need to be more aware of your surroundings seaweed brain."

I winced at the nickname. Sure it was cute but I didn't want to be in that type of a relationship with Annabeth. Look I'm not gonna deny that I didn't LIKE her in a romantic way in the beginning but that feeling -the sparks are just not there anymore. Feeling more confused than ever I grabbed her head suddenly and gave her a very intense kiss.

I felt nothing.

I glanced at Annabeth who was blushing but still there was a frown on her face.

"Percy, if that's what you really wanted then you could've come to cabin 8 right?" She said.

I shrugged a little and smiled awkwardly.

"Where's Nico?", I asked randomly

Of all the things I could've said to break the ice, why him?

I mentally slapped myself and decided to somehow silently sneak away from the place.

"Wait Percy! Even Hazel has been looking for him. It's been a while since he disappeared but he was supposed to visit camp half blood this month", she said looking genuinely concerned.

Hearing her words I felt more tensed than ever. Giving her a quick peck I jogged out of the place before she could reply.

I'm pretty sure that he hates me for what happened to Bianca.

Poor kid. He thinks that 'he' was the reason for her death. Everyone had given up trying to make him understand that it wasn't his fault. Zoe, Thalia, Grover and I were there and if anyone had to take responsibility then it was me because I had promised him.

And I broke that promise.

He had been through a lot that no kid at that age must've gone through. I remembered the olive - skinned happy and talkative 10- year old Nico, the one who fantasized about mythomagic and action cards who didn't have a care in the world and wondered how he had changed.

No big surprise bout that though ; life had always been tough for him; his mom his sister were dead, people were scared of the son of Hades while Hades seemed to always give him workload. Heck I was eighteen and I had no idea that Romans existed while he was an ambassador at camp Jupiter at age fourteen.

He was now what you could call 'emo' minus the cutting and listening to death metal part. (A/N: no offense to emo people; you guys seem cool)

Did he have a girlfriend?

He could really get a lot of girls with that bad boy look. Plus he was hot and I'm sure that he had a bit of abs under all his dark clothing. WAIT! Did I just call another guy 'hot'??!! Eww Annabeth and piper must've been rubbing off their girl germs on me.

Since when was I getting so worked up about what he thought of me. Plus Annabeth was right- none of us, even those at camp Jupiter hadn't seen him in a while. He was a big trouble magnet, that is after me.

But then Why did I have this feeling that something bad was gonna happen to him?