Nothing Left To Say (Percico)

#20. Part 2: Round And Around

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Chapter 20; Part 2 : Round And Around

~All along it was a fever
A cold sweat hot-headed believer
I threw my hands in the air, said, "Show me something,"
He said, "If you dare, come a little closer."
Round and around and around and around we go
Oh now, tell me now, tell me now, tell me now you know.
Not really sure how to feel about it.
Something in the way you move
Makes me feel like I can't live without you.
It takes me all the way.
I want you to stay
It's not much of a life you're living
It's not just something you take-it's given
The reason I hold on
'Cause I need this hole gone
Funny you're the broken one but I'm the only one who needed saving
'Cause when you never see the light it's hard to know which one of us is caving.
Not really sure how to feel about it.
Something in the way you move
Makes me feel like I can't live without you.
It takes me all the way.
I want you to stay,
Stay.
I want you to stay.~

NICO POV

Then I felt his breath on my face, his eyes getting closer to mine, as he leaned in...

Hell yeah I was panicking. My heart was racing, beating a thousand times a minute, trying to escape my ribcage. My breath hitched and then stopped all together. My palms were sweaty. My eyes were bugging out of my head, and my body didn't seem to know what to do in this situation, so it froze entirely. Yet even after all of that, my mind seemed to shut down as soon as I felt Percy's warm breath on my lips. My body relaxed underneath him as the scent of the sea invaded my nose, my mind swirling with happiness, and my eyes fluttered closed. His nose touched mine and my body reacted with the contact. When the hell was he gonna move those cute pink lips to mine?

And then he moved, his breath now fanning across my mouth. His thumb was absentmindedly stroking my cheek. I could feel him, not an inch away-

"HEY, PERCY! ARE YOU IN THERE, MAN?!"

We instantly sprang apart from each other as if the other contained a fatal disease. Not a second later, Leo struts in holding a folded sheet of paper.

"I hope you weren't busy, Percy, because- Oh, hey, Nico." He nodded his head towards me in acknowledgement. "So, as I was saying, RaRa Reyna sent me over to give you this message. It pretty much just says that the quest with the hydra invasion wasn't going too smoothly and they might need you on standby if you accept and blah, blah, blah... Oh! And you have the next shift on training duty!"

Percy seemed to hesitate for a moment, then came back to reality, taking the piece of rolled up parchment paper from Leo's outstretched hand. All the while I was trying my hardest not to shrink away and die in a hole. My face was most likely the colour of the pomegranates I eat. Oh, gods... Am I even breathing? Breathe, Nico, breathe!

"Uh, yeah! Sure, man." The son of Poseidon replied after a short pause. "Whenever Reyna needs me, I'll be up for it. And as for the training duty, I'll be there. Thanks, buddy."

Leo saluted as he stepped out of the cabin door. "'Tis but my job, dude! Valdez saves the day!"

Once the door clicked shut, my breath hitched as Percy turned to me. It was only him and I again. My heart beat picked up and I stared at the ground, not able to meet his eyes. What was he gonna say? Reject me? Say the almost kiss was a mistake? Was he even going to kiss me at all? I peeked underneath my eyelashes and saw Percy nervously scratching the back of his neck. Why hasn't he yelled at me yet? Is he.... blushing? Even if he was, I would never be the cause of it. It was probably the embarrassment of almost being caught by a friend in an awkward position with another guy. Yeah, that must be it. Sounds legit.