Origami hearts

Chapter 2: Not The First Time.

Sooo, here's the second chapter, uhm, yeah...

POV: Percy

It was 3rd lesson, three and a half hours since I found the heart, and I couldn't get it out of my mind. I stared out the window, I couldn't concentrate on the book they we were reading, something about a killing mockingbird, yeah I think that was it. It's not like I was purposely ignoring the monotone voice that was meant to teach us English. Besides the words kept floating of the page anyway so listening didn't really make a difference, I balled my fists in frustration, out of the corner of my eye I saw Annabeth glance worriedly at me. I sighed, I couldn't deal with this. My thoughts wandered to the note I received, who the hell sent it? It was probably some prank the Stoll's were playing. I felt a pain in my hand, I hadn't realised I still had my fists balled, my nails started to dig into my palm, I stared at my upturned hand.

"Jackson, is your hand more interesting than the lesson?" I looked up to see the forest green eyes of Ms Carlson, her salt and pepper braids framed her withered face. She stared at me, waiting for an answer.

"S...s...sorry, I just, I can't." Stumbling over the words as I tried to form a coherent sentence but I just couldn't. I grabbed my bags an walked out, I didn't mean, or even want to cause a scene, I just wanted to breathe. Ignoring the calls of my teacher. I couldn't think clearly, my mind was swirling with thoughts. I sprinted out out of the halls and made my way toward the school courtyard, I flung the door open panting heavily. I walked through the courtyard passed the out door tables, and towards the car park. I walked to the school gate, take a left, I remembered the secret area Nico showed me a month earlier. I needed to talk to him badly. Over the years we started to grow really close, we met on the beach and the strange but beautiful friendship, which Annabeth did not approve of, blossomed. I started to think of all the great times we had, it made me smile, come to think of it, if I didn't have Annabeth I would probably dat-woahh slow down Percy, first of all I am so not gay. Second, it's not like Nico would like me in the first place. I shook my head. And waited for the ghost king to come out of the lesson, absent-mindedly toyed with the paper heart...

About an hour later the ghost king turned up. And boy did he look like a ghost. "Hey Neeks, you okay?" I looked up and smiled, he nodded back and pulled himself on the wall we sat in a comfortable silence before he piped up,

"What's that?" His voice hoarse, he coughed, "sorry, got a cold..." He was cut off by a violent fit of coughing, I patted him on the back a look of concern painted my face. I could see it now, he looked more, if it was possible, paler than usual and the shadows under his eyes were more profound, my eyes wandered to his lips, they looked really kissable... He cleared his throat, I hadn't realised I was staring, I shook my head for the second time today, what is up with me? I tried to shake it off with a laugh but it didn't fool Nico.

"I found it in my locker, I was, uh, hoping if you could help me figure who it was" I could feel the blush spread through my cheeks like wildfire. Why was I like this? It was only Nico.

"It looks like a love letter." He started to inspect the heart, I could felt the corner of my mouth quirk up, well duh. I looked at him, and he smiled, one of his rare genuine smiles, which then made me smile, there was something in his eyes, some hidden emotion, that I couldn't make out. My phone rang, it made us both jump, I felt how close we were. We were both leaning in. No, It's just a happy accident; we were trying to get a better look at the note...My mind spiralled out of control, making up excuses to why we were both just leaning in, I pulled my phone out of my pocket and the caller ID screen popped up, it read: Annie <3 :). I glanced at Nico, he was bright red, he caught me looking and we both grinned. I remembered that it wasn't the first time we've nearly kissed. I looked back at the vibrating phone, ignoring it was just going to make Annabeth call me even more.

"You should answer, she'll get mad." Nico pointed out.

"Mmmmmmm, you're right, besides, I need to explain for walking out of class anyway."

Nico did an over the top gasp "You walked out of class? Tut-tut-tut." He made a waging motion with his finger, and we both giggled.

"I'll explain later, but I have to deal with her..." I moved my head to the still vibrating phone, seriously why is it still vibrating it should go to voicemail by now. I shimmied of the wall and held 5 fingers up to Nico signalling I'd be back in five minutes. He nodded and pulled a book out his bag, I walked a few steps before answering the call to my girlfriend

'PERCY? OH MY GODS, WHERE ARE YOU? WHY DID YOU WALK OUT? LIKE SERIOUSLY, WHY? TELL ME.' The voice through the phone crackled, thank god we don't have good reception in school, or else my ear would've been defend by Annie's screaming.

"A nice hello would suffice," I paused waiting for an answer, since there was none I continued, "before you say anything, I couldn't concentrate, and the words floated off the page..." I mumbled the last part because I half expected, half hoped she would say it's okay, I understand blah,blah,blah, but that wasn't the case. I fact she was almost silent, all I could hear was the scratching of a pen, and a locker code being keyed in. "Annie? Annabeth? ANNABETH are you listening?"

'Sure, course, Uh-huh, hmmmmm.' Great. She wasn't listening. I knew that tone of voice where she would concentrate on one thing, and not actually acknowledge you.

"Okay then. Cya." I clicked the end call button, huffed once made my way back to the wall.

sooo is it any good, please point out any mistakes I may have made, I think it's going alright, is it going alright? I do have a few little twists in the plot, but you'll have to read on, ooooooh mysterious, okay BYE!