"Seriously Perce, Who eats ice-cream during winter?" Nico groaned, stumbling as Percy dragged him to the Ice-cream parlour.
"Everybody! It's never too cold for ice-cream!" Percy grins enthusiatically, a grin that always made Nico's insides turn to jelly.
The grounds were covered with white snow that sparkled like glitter, it was like a huge white blanket that covered the city. People were walking around wearing hats, scarves and gloves, others were trying not to slip on the ice.
They arrived at the ice-cream parlour and walked in; there was a suprisingly large amount of people (couples mainly), queuing up for ice-cream.
After taking 10 long years to choose an ice cream flavour, they both finally found seats at the back of the parlour, were no one could see them. Percy settled for a mint flavoured ice cream with chocolate sauce squirted all over the top and sprinkles of all different colours. Rainbow sprinkles... Nico had the same as he was too lazy to choose one for himself.
"You know.." Nico began, swirling his spoon around the bowl, "We really shoudn't be eating ice cream in this weather."
Percy raised one eyebrow, a smirk forming on his lips. Lips that Nico wanted to instantly crash against his, but was too frightened to make the first move, because it was always Percy that made the first move.
"Your starting to sound like an old worry guts, you are" he teased, scooping up a spoonful of ice cream and shoving it in his mouth.
All Nico would do is shake his exasperatedly, but really, the way Percy acted like a child was kind of cute yet annoying at the same time. Nico continued eating his ice cream, enojying the cold moments of mint seep through his tongue and savouring the taste.
He noticed Percy looking at him with an odd grin on his face.
"What?" Nico asked.
Percy bought his chair up closer to Nico's, so their faces where inches away from each other. He then decided to lean in and dragged his tongue up the side of Nico's face.
Nico's eyes widened, as he stared horror-struck at Percy.
"D-Did you just lick chocolate sauce of me? By the gods, do people actually do that?!"
"Mhm, I-"
The rest of his sentence was lost as Nico crashed his lips against Percy's, unable to resist that seaweed brain look on his face. Percy was taken aback but then he felt him responding; they spent a few moments chastely licking each other's tongues, then curling them up against each other and their mouths ended up moving in perfect synch. Nico's hands found their way up to Percy's hair and Percy's found theirs under Nico's shirt. It didn't take magic to cause sparks.
'How did his hands manage to get under there?' Nico thought.
Percy didn't mean to, but he ended up biting Nico's bottom lip and a small groan escaped Nico's mouth making Percy's heart twist is pleasure and affection for the boy.
"Mommy, look!" They heard a squeal that made them break apart away from each other.
A little girl about the age of seven had caught them, which made Nico flush. There was a gleam in her eyes and a big toothy grin as she stood pointing at them. Thankfully, the girl's mother hadn't seen them snogging to their hearts content; she just shook her head and apologized.
Once they were gone, Percy leaned up against his chair, running his hands through his ruffled dark hair.
"Woah there Nico, where did that come from?" he chuckled affectionately.
Nico flushed, then took half a spoonful of ice-cream that was mixed with the saltiness of Percy's lips.
He didn't notice a couple of girls around the age of 16 that had entered the parlour; one of them wore a headscarf and was fully covered and dressed. She must have been muslim; Nico supposed. The other two were wearing tight jeans and ugg boots, along with fur lined leather coats and large gold earrings to match. They had curly hair; one had black and the other red. They must have been rich with all the bling they owned. The black headed girl suddenly seemed to take an interest at Percy, she nudged both of her friends and the three of them giggled for a bit and talked before she decided to strut over to their table, dragging the red headed girl with her.
"Hi" the red headed girl said; her voice was squeaky and poisonously sweet.
"Uh Hi? Can we help you?" Percy asked.
"Well, my friend here thinks your really cute and she wants your number." she replied, without the hint of embarrassment.
Nico was outraged; his face turned a deep shade of magenta. They had no right to talk about his Percy like that! How dare they!? How could they just waltz up here and tell Percy that he was cute without even any hint of emabrrassment? Under the table, Nico's fists curled.
Percy looked taken aback and puzzled.
"Uh-excuse me?" he said cautiously, as if he had not heard them the first time.
"My friend here wants your number" the girl repeated.
The black headed girl nodded her head and said, "Hi, I'm Leah"
Percy cleared his throat, "Percy. And no sorry, you can't"
Leah looked suprised; Nico unclenched his fists.
"No?" she said.
"Nope. Sorry haha I'm already with someone" Percy grinned.
He reached towards Nico's hands and interwined their fingers together, making Nico's insides bubble with joy.
The two girls stood staring at their hands with unreadable expressions, then simultanously said , "Oh"
"Sorry..uhm, yeah. Hope he makes you happy.." Leah said.
"Yeah, He does, thanks" Percy responded fondly.
"Right. Erm..yeah. Bye"
With that, they both walked off, their hair danicing behind them as they went to tell the news to their other friend. The muslim girl just shrugged, said something and smiled over at Percy and Nico.
"Well..that was awkward" Percy said, not taking his fingers way from Nico's but kept twirling them together.
"Yeah" Nico breathed.
"You done?" Percy asked, licking his spoon.
"Yeah, we should go" Nico agreed.
They threw their plastic bowls away, and made their way out. Nico pulled on his black skull imprinted gloves. The cold wintery air hit them as they stepped outside onto the icy streets;he caught sight of the girls sitting by the window sill, each sipping a mug of hot chocolate. Percy flashed them his superstar grin and slung an arm around Nico, pulling his boyfriend close to gather warmth.
"So.." he said casually, "I've got a movie planned for us back in my apartment, care to join me ghost boy?"
Nico smirked, then punched Percy in the gut.
"Ow! What was that for?" he complained, though there was no anger in his voice.
"Don't ever call me that again, Percy. And yes, I would" Nico smirked.
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Let's just say they didn't really catch all the film, as they spent most of their time cuddled up on the sofa, kissing to their hearts content, as nobody else was around.
