Adoption (Percy Jackson)(Nico di Angelo)(Percico)

Chapter Four

Nico

Somebody remind me how I got this lucky.

For nine months, nine whole fucking months, we've been together and it's been amazing and I've loved every second of it and I still have no idea how I said yes to going on that first date with him back in September. September 30.

Nine months later, here we are. We had cupcakes and crepes for breakfast. That was amazing. We were both in good moods, which was really nice. We went out for lunch. I spoiled him with Band Merch and he spoiled me with Art Stuff. And the best part, which I had no idea about, was that we went to see twenty øne piløts that night. Fucking front row, center. It was amazing.

We both got to meet Josh and Tyler.

They were amazing people.

That night was amazing, everything about it was great.

The next afternoon, Percy was in the shower, and I got a call from Hazel.

She was questioning my whole dating Percy thing. So I told her if she had problems she could come over and we could discuss like people.

Well, she showed up.

Wasn't very happy with me. Or Percy. Or us as a couple.

So she starts arguing with me and Percy's standing there, he has no idea what to do. I could tell the things she was saying was hurting him. Hazel would say things like I deserved so much better and he got lucky with me that I'm confused and there's a girl out there that could care for me so much better than Percy so on and so forth.

"Give me one good reason why!" Hazel yelled at me," why him!?"

And it was the first time I said it out loud. The reason Percy meant so much to me.

"Because he's the only person who ever gave a damn about me after my sister died!" I yelled right back at my little sister," everyone else ignored me and called me and a freak and told me I didn't belong anywhere! He was the only person that wanted me to stick around! He was the only person who tried to help me move on from her death and to help me be happy. The only person who had ever cared about me after she died. I scared everyone else off, but he was stubborn and because he was stubborn I didn't end up dead trying to bring my sister back."

And there it was.

I don't talk about Bianca. Thus, Hazel doesn't know about her.

"What?" She asked," I didn't know you when I first died, Nico."

"I know," I continued to reason," I wasn't talking about you."

And that's what shut her up.

That's what made her realize that aside just now being together, there was a story behind Percy and myself that involved somebody she would never get to meet, somebody important to me that died.

So Hazel made this 180 turn on me in what we were talking about.

"There was this girl at camp," Hazel told me.

"So? There's a lot of girls at camp."

"She wanted to see you."

"Okay. When and where?"

"Here, today," my little sister goes on," she's in the hall right now."

"Then what are you doing?" I question," let her inside."

So Hazel leaves entirely and a 17 year old girl comes inside and I almost cried.

Okay, I did cry.