Maybe You Can Change Me

Alone

I sat there, waiting for her to speak. In that bright room, and I hate bright. She was taking long to write. My patience is about as big as an ant.

"Um, Dra. Avila, can we talk?" I say. It was a first, but I don't like the clicking sound the pen makes when it writes. She looks up and smiles.

"Take this," she hands me a figure she has in her desk. It was a dog with two heads, one gold and one silver.

"Argum and argantun, my lie detectors. If you lie, the golden one will bark. If you don't, the silver one will," she explains. I nod and grab them.

"Don't be nervous, I'm just trying them out," she says.

"I'm not nervous," I say. She smiles and shakes her head.

"How are you, Nico?" she asks.

"I'll live," I reply. The silver dog barks.

"How are things with you and Leo? We haven't talked about him in a while," she says.

"We're good," I say.

"What happened?" she asks. At the same time, the golden dog barked.

"What do you mean?" I ask.

"Every time we talk about him you say things are 'perfect', now you're just saying good. And that is not even true," she says. I bite my lip and look down. She was right, it wasn't good.

"Did he do something?" she asks. I quickly look up and shake my head.

"No! He would never do anything to hurt me. It's just..." I trail off.

"You can trust me, Nico," she says.

"I was...attacked two weeks ago. And...I just, um" I don't know what to say.

"Did they do something to you?" she asks. I shake my head.

"Did they hit you?" she asks. I nod and look down.

"What happened with Leo?" she asks.

"It's just, ugh whatever but don't laugh at me," I beg. She smile and motions me to go on.

"After the...incident, our friends want to be with us all the time. Everybody is waiting is waiting outside right now. And we can never be alone, and I want to be alone with him," I say.

"Of course, teenagers have needs," she says. My eyes widen and I blush.

"I don't want to do it with him right now," I say. The golden dog barks.

"Um, I just want to watch movies and cuddle with him," the golden dog barks again.

"I don't even think about it!" the golden dog once again gives me away. I glare at the dog and growl, "Dam you." I throw them on the couch and scoot away. Dra. Avila starts chuckling and writes something down.

"Don't worry, I won't tell on you," she whispers. I crack a smile and thank her.

"I think we're done here. I'm impressed, really. You never talked, and now you can barely stop," she says. "Leo is being a good influence."

"Leo is being a perfect boyfriend," and with that I leave. When I walk out, everybody is waiting for me. Jason, Piper, Annabeth, Percy, Frank, Hazel, and most importantly, Leo. They stand up and ask me how it was.

"I'm guessing I did good," I say. Leo puts his arm around my shoulders.

"Did you talk about me?" He asks. I laugh to hide the blush rushing to my face.

"You're so full of yourself," I say.

"But you love me anyways," he says, and gives me a quick peck on the lips. That resulted in Piper squealing and Jason smirking.

"You'll be called the matchmaking couple from now on," says Percy. We all laugh and are about to leave, when Dra. Avila comes up to us.

"Hello, nice to meet you. I'm Dra Avila," she says. Leo introduces everybody, saying their names and pointing.

"That's Percy, Annabeth, Jason, Piper, Hazel, Frank, and me, the supreme commander of the Argo II," he says.

"The Argo II?" asks Dra. Avila.

"His dream, don't ask," I say.

"So, I was talking with Nico and he told me about the incident. I know that you believe it's safer to be all together, but at home you should separate. If you're all together in one house, they can come and affect the house, which affects all of you," she says.

"But what if they come and they're alone?" asks Hazel.

"It's dangerous, yes. But it's even more dangerous if you're all together," she replies. I look at her and she smirks. I mouth the words 'Thank you' and she smiles as if to say 'No problem'.

"Okay, no problem. Nice to meet you Doctor," says Jason, shaking her hand. We all leave right after. Percy drops all of us at our houses, except he leaves me with Leo. We go inside, if was empty. Esperanza left for the week to check something out, a car show or whatever. "

"What do you want to do?" asks Leo.

"I don't care as long as it's with you. First time in two weeks alone," I say, laying down on the couch.

"A movie?" he asks.

"You're supposed to be creative," I say.

"Let's do matching bracelets and have ice cream and wrote a chariot across the sun," says Leo with a high pitched voice. I laugh and turn to him.

"You're something different," I say. He walks over to me and lays on top of me.

"Or we can do this," he whispers, before closing the distance between us. His lips move synchronized with mine, dam he's a good kisser. Every time is like the first, sparks fly. He pins my arms above my head. He suddenly puts his tongue in my mouth and I moan in surprise. Oops? He smiles into the kiss and pulls away.

"What was that?" he asks. I blush and hit the side of his head.

"You surprised me," I say. He chuckles.

"Then I need to surprise you more often," he says, before kissing me again. He is driving me crazy, and not only me. My little friend down there, too. And my friend gave me away. Leo smirks and picks me up bridal style. He takes me to his room and closes the door, just in case. Let's go through the checklist. Alone: check. Protection: check. Clothes off: check. My needs attended: freaking check. Now you know what happened, right? We *wink* frickle frackled.

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The next day you could easily figure out we did it, apparently. Because the first thing they all did when we met up at the mall was smirk and start laughing. How did they know? Maybe Leo's limping or my hickey. It was embarrassing may I say.

"Did you use protection?" was the first thing Hazel asked.

"Hazel!" I say.

"Let me fuss over you," she replies. I hide my face in Leo's neck while he's laughing.

"Don't worry Hazel, we did everything correctly. Now can I fuss over you? How was it last night," he winks at her. She blushes and turns to Frank who is blushing even more.

"What?!" I say. I turn to them and glare at Frank. He gulps and mutters sorry. I smile and pat him in the back.

"And don't think we don't know about you guys," says Leo to Jason and Piper.

"Or you guys," I tell Percy and Annabeth.</p>

"Can we all agree that sometimes we need alone time?" says Jason. We all make a pledge that we would only be together outside of the house. Annabeth wanted to make the pledge, so it was pretty cool.

"I pledge allegiant, to the deal, we've made on this day. To be together, only outside of house, for we need privacy. Still we protect each other, from everything and everybody that may cause us harm. And we'll attend our teenage needs"

This was going great.

For now.