Sounds Of War

Semi-Serious Talks and Other Stuff

AN: Hello my Tiny Zombies!!! I'm sorry I haven't updated in a couple days, my creative juices haven't been flowing properly. I also got sick 🤒 But I'm getting better!! It's shorter than usual but I hope you guys like this chapter! ~ Raven 🙃

Percy:

The rest of the day was absolutely wonderful. We watched movies all day and cuddled on my couch. It was awesome to feel so comfortable around someone and just feel... ok. We had even fallen asleep a couple times. I thoroughly enjoyed myself. Towards the end we mostly talked. It was around eleven thirty when he decided to go home.

"Can you come back tomorrow?" I said not wanting him to leave. I had really enjoyed his company.

"After work. I promise." He smiled at me. I was almost tempted to ask him if he wanted to spend the night, but I thought that was too forward. He waved and left.

Bleh. Now I had to go back inside my lonely apartment by myself. I locked up and went to my room. With nothing else better to do, I laid in my bed and tried to sleep.

I couldn't. My mind was still so awake. I couldn't fall asleep. I just got into a new relationship! Wait, are we in a relationship now? Are we dating? I don't fucking know. We had managed to talk about the most random things on earth but not whether or not we're a couple. We really are stupid.

I hope he says we are though. I really like him a lot. The way I feel around him is so... different. He makes me feel happy, I haven't felt like this in a while. My friends make me happy but in a different way. I don't even know if hapoy is really what I'm feeling. Maybe a better word would be eased or maybe even relief. Either way its a positive feeling. Everyone has that one person in their life that brightens their mood when ever that person is around. I didn't think I'd ever find another person like that. Then Frank came along, that goofy Asian-Canadian.

I really need to go to sleep.

Ok think about boring things. The news, laundromat, newspapers, school, beige. Beige is a boring color. Beige. Beige newspapers inside of a laundromat. A beige school. Does that counting sheep thing really work? I'm gonna try it. But with beige sheep. Counting beige sheep. One beige sheep. Two beige sheep. Three beige sheep...

The next day

Frank came over around threeish.
We sat in my living room again.

"Can we talk?" I asked nervously. I don't want him to feel like I'm pushing him to start anything, you know?

"Sure, what about?" He asked.

I opened my mouth but nothing came out. This seemed so much easier last night. Why is that things always seem hardest right before you're about to do them!? I looked at Frank, he smiled and nodded, "You can talk to me about anything." It's strange how just a few words can be so comforting.

I drew in a deep breath then after want seemed like forever, blurted out, "So, are we dating now or what?"

"I don't know. I wouldn't mind it. Do you want to?" He asked uncertainly. Ok, I felt better. I wasn't the only one unsure of what our relationship was.

"Yeah, I do." I smiled at him. We hugged and then settled down on the couch. The rest of the day was all cuddling and American Horror Story.

Frank was barely watching it though. He said it was too creepy. So he spent the majority of the day with his face buried in my shoulder, which was weird because he's taller than me but we made it work.

I tried to be as calm as possible, but I was was mentally screaming, "OH MY FUCKING GOD! I HAVE A BOYFRIEND!! A FUCKING ADORABLE ONE TOO!!!" Well, shit. I'm just getting more and more sappy as time goes on. Still vulgar, but sappy at the same time.

~

Jason:

Ok, it's really obvious that me and Leo both like Nico a lot. So, I think if we're gonna keep this civilized, we need to talk about it.

I walked out into the living room, empty. Leo was probably in the kitchen.

"Leo! C'mere! I need to talk to you!" I shouted in the direction of the kitchen.

"Uno momento, mi hermano!" Leo shouted back. I can't speak Spanish fluently but I understood that. He's never called me "brother" before. Him calling me that just made me more apprehensive about talking to him. If things go bad I could lose the closest thing I've ever had to a brother. And that would be horrible. Very, very horrible. I've lost enough people in my life and I do not want to add Leo to that list.

A moment later he walked out of the kitchen with two sandwiches. He sat down on the couch and handed one to me.

"Thanks." I smiled at him half-heartedly. I wasn't in a very "smiley" mood.

"No problem. What did you want to talk about about?" He said before beginning to eat his sandwich.

"Nico. It's very obvious we both like him. I think it would be good if we talked about how we want to go about the situation and sort out our feelings." I said nervously and very fast. I feel so... weird. "Sort out our feelings" where the hell had that come from!? Geez, I need to think about exactly what I'm gonna say before I say it.

Leo choked on his sandwich. After he calmed down he incredulously asked, "Why?!" Leo isn't really one about his emotions.

"Because, I don't want to let it get in the way of our friendship. You call me your brother. We're best friends. I wouldn't want to lose that." I felt sappy but I had to get my point across.

His response was, "Dude, you're so sappy." I knew it. "But, I do appreciate it. I'm proud to call you my brother by heart and I respect you for doing this. It won't come between us. I know I never really said it but," he started mumbling, "You're kinda important to me." Wow. That was actually nice and not sarcastic at all. Completely unlike Leo. He's usually nice, don't get me wrong, but really, REALLY sarcastic. Then he did the weirdest thing ever, he hugged me. Not like a bro hug or side hug, but an actual, real, hug.

"You're important to me too." I said squeezing him tightly.

Then he said as he released me, "Maybe we should set up rules or something?"

Then after five minutes of talking, we made a couple rules on how to act towards each other around Nico.

1. No Sabotage (making the other look bad in front of Nico)

2. No hogging Nico (I was guilty of this one *laughs*)

I'm really glad we had the talk. Not just because of the rules, but it also gave me a chance to see how close I really am to Leo. We really do act like brothers sometimes.

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Nico:

Today was the day I get my chance to impress them. Leo had texted me and told me to bring a couple of my songs. I gathered a couple of my best songs that I had written down and and shoved them into a folder. I'm so fucking nervous. I don't even know how I'm supposed to dress. I'm just gonna go for "nice but casual and awkwardly Nico at the same time" Black skinny jeans and a nice black shirt along with my aviators jacket. I look ok.

Not only was I trying to impress the band, but I was also trying to impress Jason and Leo. Bleh. It's so weird liking more than one person. Two amazingly talented and handsome guys and I can't decide which one I like more (then again I haven't known them that long, it will probably get easier the more I get to know them). I'm supposed to be at practice by four.  It's time to leave. (And because I'm going by myself I can take my motorcycle!!)

The whole way there I was contemplating how the afternoon would play out. It could go one of two ways: one being that they love my music and we all get along great and we decide to start working together, two being they decide my music sucks and and end up hating me. (Ok, maybe I was being a little bit melodramatic but I was kinda freaking out at the time.)

I had finally arrived and with all my self conscious thoughts still running through my mind I hopped off of my bike and walked into the apartment building. This was it.

AN: Blech. It feels so short. Sorry if it's sucky, I'm not at my best right now. Lemme know what you guys think!
~Raven 🙃