Jason's POV
Today was the day. I was going to confess my feelings to Leo. To be honest I hadn't realized that I thought of him romantically. I simply thought that he was my best friend and it was normal to feel this way towards him.
I was wrong.
~Flashback~
Nico had tried multiple times asking if I had loved him and I said I did. "Yes Nico, I love Leo. Because he's my best friend! You can love your friends!"
"Jason, I've seen the way you look at him. Believe me, I've literally looked at Percy like that for years. And every single time you look at him your eyes light up, and then you have that goofy smile on your face." Nico stated it like it was the most obvious thing in the world. I rolled my eyes. "Again he's my best friend, and I look at him like a normal person okay?" Nico burst out laughing. He laughed, and tears made their way down his face. I glared at him as he continued to laugh. "Oh my gods, I can't breathe," he said wiping the tears off his face.
"You are literally so oblivious to your own feelings, you know that Grace?" I said nothing. "Well say what you want but literally everyone can see you like Leo," Nico said with a smirk. "What?! N-No I just- he's my best friend okay?" But I couldn't help thinking about what he said. Was what he said really true? Was the way I looked at him not... normal? I shook my head, there were so many feelings and emotions in my head that I couldn't sort out and it made me frustrated. Why are feelings so weird? "If you finally fess up and admit your feelings let me know," Nico said as he walked away to the dining hall, leaving me alone with my thoughts.
~End of Flashback~
Then I started paying attention to how I looked at him and I noticed that every time I was with him I got this feeling that was so hard to explain. It was like every time I was with him I felt insanely happy, that I couldn't stop smiling whenever he was with me. No matter what mood I was in he would always make it feel better. Just one of his charming smiles could make everything go away. It was amazing, he was amazing.
I also noticed that my eyes would somehow always make their way to Leo, just out of habit. I would find my eyes on him, look away, just to look at him again. Then the other day Leo had wanted me to see his new invention (which he must have been very proud of because he doesn't let anyone near them at all) and he grabbed my hand dragging me to his cabin, and my face had felt like it was on fire. And I couldn't help but think about how nice our intertwined hands felt. He was super excited and then I thought about how cute he was when he was all excited and bouncy. And how his brown eyes were really pretty and I could just melt right into them.
Then I realized, with a bunch of help from Nico (and when Percy teased me about it), that I was head over heels for my best friend.
That I was head over heels for Leo freaking Valdez.
I knocked on Nico's cabin and after a couple of seconds he opened the door. "Hey can I talk to you for a second?" "Yeah sure, but do you want me to get Percy out for a minute?" Nico said looking back into his cabin. "Noooo I wanna stay too!" Percy whined. "He's fine. I just need some advice ASAP." He opened the door fully and motioned me to come in. I sat on a chair near the bed and Nico went to go sit on the bed with Percy. "So I possibly wanna try confessing, to... well you know but I don't really know how to do it. I mean what if I mess up our friendship and make everything all awkward? Or even worse what if he hates me?" I sighed already regretting just thinking about confessing.
"Dude, Leo could never hate you, and besides I think you guys would be kinda cute." I could tell that Percy was being genuine about what he said about me and Leo being cute, instead of just saying it to make me feel better, but I still questioned whether or not I should tell him. Maybe I should just not? "Come on, you should at least try," Percy said. I sighed. "Fine, just tell me how to do it." Nico and Percy exchanged looks. "Well?" I said. "Well we don't know!" Percy nodded his head in agreement to Nico's statement.
"Oh I see, so since you guys haven't convinced your love for each other yet, you wouldn't know." Nico and Percy both looked away from each other. Both of their faces were so red, a fire truck would be jealous. "What? I-I don't know what you're talking about," Percy said quietly, as he attempted to cover his face, which somehow got even redder than it was before. Nico grabbed a pillow and buried his face into it, attempting to hide his blush. "Gosh, do have to be so annoying Grace?!" Nico buried his face even deeper into the pillow and me and Percy both laughed at this. "Okay well I'm gonna go now, and I'll leave you two alone." I looked at the both of them and smirked before walking out of the cabin.
After leaving the cabin I wasn't sure what to do. Should I go seek out advice somewhere else or should I just try and wing it? I was already near Leo's cabin. I sighed as I went up to the cabin and knocked. Nyssa, another one of the Hephaestus children, opened the door. "Oh hi Jason! You here to see Leo?" I nodded and Nyssa smiled and let me in. I went to this room and knocked on the door.
After a couple seconds Leo opened the door and smiled. "Hi Jay! What's up?" I was about to say something but nothing came out. The words I was about to say felt like they had been shoved down my throat, so I stayed silent.
And now the nervousness was kicking in.
I rubbed the back of my neck and smiled awkwardly and Leo let me in and gestured me to sit down. Out of the corner of my eyes I saw him looking at me with a puzzled expression on his face. I was so embarrassed, I just sat there trying to talk but being unable to. "Jay?" Leo sat next to me. "What's wrong?"
I wanted to tell him. But all my words were stuck in my throat.
"Is it something bad?" Leo asked. He sounded slightly worried, and he had his eyes fixed on me and it took everything in me not to blush even more than I already was. "No, no. It's not it's just....uh... hard to tell you. Yeah that's all."
He walked over to his machine, picked up his wrench, and started working on his machine. "Okay, if it's that hard to tell me I'll just stay over here and then, you can tell me?" Yeah, I can do this. He's not looking at me which took off a little bit of pressure off me. "Okay, I know that you're my best friend, but recently-" Leo turned around his eyes with a look of worry and maybe shock? "Wait, just please tell me it's not something like you don't want to be my friend anymore...because I couldn't live with that... B-But whatever makes you happy." I was so confused right now. And this was not the time for more confusion. "Wait, no, that's not what I was saying at all." He let out a sigh of relief. "Okay, you really scared me for a second. But go on, I'm listening."
You can do this. Just tell him and get it over with.
"So basically what I'm trying to say is that recently I've noticed something. Well mostly Percy and Nico shoved it in my face and made me realize how I felt but-" I stopped. I was stalling and I knew it. Come on Jason get it over with!! "What I'm trying to say is that I like you, but I didn't want to tell you because I know you don't like me like that but-"
I felt a pair of soft lips press against mine, which effectively shut me up. His lips were soft and I could taste a hint of vanilla and maybe tacos? Well I could see Leo tasting like tacos I mean he east them all the time. We went apart for air and I could see Leo blushing. "Sorry, I don't know what I was thinking." Leo mumbled. He fidgeted with his curly brown hair, which he usually did when he was nervous.
"That was amazing..." I said. I could still taste the taste of Leo's lips. Leo looked up at me. "R-Really? Well I mean... I would've continued if it didn't hurt standing on my tippy toes." I burst out laughing. Oh my gods this boy is adorable. "Hey cut that out, or else!" He tried to pout, but this being Leo he could rarely manage a straight face. "Or else what?" His face when completely red when I had said that and he pretended to be mad and stomp away but I grabbed his hand and pulled him close.
"Or else I'm gonna pick you up and kiss you again, duh." It literally took all of my guts to say that. It also took guts not to blush right after.
He looked at me and then he looked back at the floor. "Well, I mean, I wouldn't mind that." Gosh I literally can't even begin to explain how cute he was. I picked him up and passionately pressed my lips on his, and now I felt so proud of myself for confessing because if I didn't I would be here kissing my crush.
Kissing Leo Freaking Valdez.
Authors note: um this is like the first time ever I wrote a fanfic like this so um yeah 😂
and also sorry I didn't know how to end it lol
Well that's all for now byeee 💙
