Close Your Eyes (Percico)

One Normal Night

Percy

The next day was my class of students that I think are afraid of the other art professor here because I've had all of them for at least 6 classes, and I only offer 9. They supported me going to America, but they were ecstatic when I turned out to be their professor again this year. They missed me.

It was a class of like 7 people. A work day for them. So I was going around, giving them tips or suggestions being they had a reference literally right in front of them.

"Percy, was ist das?" One of my students, Tyche asked me. She's sweet.

Percy, what is that?

"Was?" I asked in return, not realizing I never told them about Nico and I. They never asked about America outside of a few things.

What?

"An dienen Ringfinger," she pointed out, and suddenly everyone saw it. "Was ist es für? Hast du einen Freund jetzt?"

On your ring finger. Was is it for? Do you have a boyfriend now?

"...ja." I remarked after a minute, thinking they knew. "Eure kennen das, stimmt? Das ist nicht neues Informationen. Ich habe zu alle meinen Klassen dieses Semester dass gesagt."

...yeah. You guys knew that, right? That's not new information. I told all of my classes that this semester.

"Uh... Nein." Will told me as their attentions left their project completely. "Was passiert? Du hast zu uns nicht gesagt. Wer ist er?"

Uh.... No. What happened? You didn't tell us. Who is he?

"Ist es Herr Hochë?" Fiona asked because this class used to be bent on getting Klaus Hochë and me together for years. We were both openly into guys and single. He's... I think he's a few years younger than I am. 34? I'm not sure. We went out for a drink once and yeah. Nothing romantic. Others were invited and never showed.

Is it Mr. Hochë?

"Nein." I was clear about that. I shook my head. "Er kommt aus Amerika. Na... technisch kommt er aus Italien. Aber, er ist nett. Willt euch am Morgen er zutreffen? Eure hört sehr Neugierig."

No. He's from America. Well... Technically, he's from Italy. But he's nice. Do you guys want to meet him tomorrow? You all sound curious.

"Ja!"

So the rest of class I got to talk about who is now my fiance and it was weird, but I liked it. The students told me about their love lives and Maris' daughter was dropped off by her boyfriend. I love her daughter so much. The dad didn't leave, I promise. He was involved as much as he could be, but he got into an accident. It wasn't his fault. That was a few months ago. She just started dating this guy three weeks ago or something. They were friends beforehand.

I shit you not I was there when this kid was born a year and a half ago. I'm the kids godfather. Normally I'm not that close with my students but she came to me when she was having troubles when she was a freshman and she didn't know how to handle life because she was abused her whole life until she got out and she thought it'd be amazing but it wasn't as she expected and yeah.

They got back to working when Klaus sneaked in, though. He's the other art professor. And the person the students used to be bent on me hooking up with. He speaks very good English. Did a study abroad a few times, I believe.

Marie, the little girl was starting to get loud, though, so I stepped outside of the class as we talked.

"I didn't realize you had a kid." Klaus remarked. "I mean, we haven't spoken much since you've come back. What happened?"