Then I Was Alone (Percy Jackson)

Chapter Eight

Leo

My exact words were "do you want to go out for dinner?"

Not my wisest choice of words. Because he's, he was cute, and maybe I liked him.

But for fucks sake, Leo, it's like 6 hours after reuniting with him. You just found out he was gay. You have 3 years to catch up on. Just relax.

He did a double take and answered before I could clarify what I was initially trying to do. Just go and eat dinner. Nothing like romantic or sexual about it.

Winston smiled at me after he realized what I said and kind of let off a small giggle.

"Yeah," Winston agreed to the date anyways. "That sounds like a lot of fun. Come on, I know the perfect place that won't kill your wallet!"

And then we were holding hands as he walked me to this place down the road. A little American place. Like it has bar food but it's not a bar because there's no alcohol. Instead they serve variations of punch and pop. They have a physical bar there, though. We opted for a booth, though.

After getting our menus, it was mostly silent. But like this was natural to him and it amazed me. The whole flirting thing I can do. But like making a move when you're dating is where I get really nervous and suck at doing it first.

Here we are, though. Loosely holding hands, mostly by the intertwining of our fingers, in a restaurant.

Let me tell you, though. This dude could fucking eat. I thought Frank ate a lot of food.

I was wrong.

But he was really smooth, and it made me really flustered. I took the bus with him because Percy lives in the same neighborhood that he was staying in. And so it makes sense. Everyone was still at Percy's.

This bitch kissed my cheek as a goodbye, telling me he had a lot of fun.

I texted, making sure the others were still there before I got there. They were waiting.

I literally screamed.

"What happened?" Of course, Piper wanted to know.

"So the dude who like dragged me away," I explained to them. "His name is Winston. We were friends when I was with my last foster family. His cousin was getting married, he didn't trust his sister. I wouldn't either when it came to clothes. But like I found out that he was gay and he lives with his aunt because his parents were kind of yours, Percy, and he was fine with it. I had to describe camp to him without telling him about the gods and that was hard..apparently he fucking knew I was bi. I guess he knew when we were younger."

I paused for a moment.

"But after lunch, it was getting late and I was hungry. So I was going to ask him if he wanted to get some food. If he wanted to eat. And it came out like I was asking him out, by accident, and before I could correct myself he accepted it. And then we went to this really cool non-alcoholic bar and he was smooth as shit and it was frustrating as hell because he was socially awkward when we were younger and not me."

My friends. My closest friends.

They laughed at me.

Suddenly I got a text.

Winston 😘: Hey, I added my number into your phone. What are you doing next Saturday from 6-whenever you pass out? 😘

Why is he so good at this? It's slowly killing me from the inside out. Just kill me now.

"Did he text you?" Jason knew this look as well as I fucking knew it.

I choked out a yes.

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Winston