Welcome To Hell (Percico)

Chapter One

Nico

We we're going to surprise Percy with a cupcake. It was his birthday, he deserved it. After this week, especially. It's been rough.

It was Grover, Thalia, Clarisse, and myself. Annabeth was trying to make things final with Percy. Which kind of broke my heart, but whatever. I'll just ignore that. It's not like I'm out as it is. I don't have the guts to tell anyone that I'm gay, much less Percy.

It was going well until she tried to kiss him, and Percy must've been pretty dense.

"What are you doing?" Percy asked as Annabeth was leaning in, her lips ready, eyes closed. He store at her like she had been crazy or something.

"Oh, you're not that dense, Seaweed Brain." Annabeth claimed as she took his hand, and he pulled it away from her. "Come on, it's not like anyone else is around. It's fine."

"I don't... No."

"Percy, babe—" she was pushing him.

"Don't call me babe." Because he didn't like that. "I'm not your babe. Just because you've had a crush on me for the past four years doesn't mean the feelings are returned. You didn't consider that, did you? You thought you'd just kiss me and it'd be happily every after, right? Because that's not how it works. Sorry. But I'm not interested, Annabeth."

That got her to back off.

Which um... We just kind of watched.

"Can I uh... Can I ask why?"

"You're the daughter of Athena," Percy said as he got up, not wanting to continue this conversation. It was awkward. "Figure it out."

And he walked away.

"So,"Clarisse remarked. "Did anyone see that coming?"

"Nope." We all remarked and went to track him down. He had gotten increasingly frustrated as we tracked him down. Needing somewhere to let it out, we found him out in the training arena. Which was empty. He was punching the crap out of a dummy. His hands wrapped.

"Why is he...?" Thalia asked.

"It's probably just build up," Grover assured us that he wasn't going to murder us if we approached him. "It's been hell for everyone this week. He got the worst of it. Everyone was yelling at him because he's kind of in charge. Annabeth just kind of pushed him off the edge. It was bound to happen sooner or later."

So we gave him a few minutes to blow off steam, and approached him when he went to get water.

"Hey guys," he seemed fine now. Which was relieving. "What's up?"

"We got you a cupcake." Thalia told him.

"Happy birthday, Jackass." Clarisse joked with him.

I still can't figure out whether or not they're friends.

"Oh, thanks." He remarked, sarcastically. But he did take it the cupcake. "How'd you poison it?"

"Cyanide," I don't know where it came from, because we don't even like talk half the time anymore. But I had to say it. "It's fine, it'll just kill you instantly."

"Hey, then I don't have to go back to school!"

"Give me some if that's the case!" Clarisse added on and we all bursted out laughing as Grover pushed Percy's hand when he went to take a bite. Shoving the frosting all over his face.

Percy just looked at the satyr.

"Why am I friends with you?"
"Oh come on, you love me."
"You have a girlfriend.
"Brotherly love."
Percy shrugged. "Fair enough."