PJO/HoO one-shots, short stories, and other random stuff

SOLANGELO! Short story #1

A/N: If you are actually reading this fanfiction, then thank you for reading it and hope you enjoy it. This is part one of a short story, and I'm actually kinda proud of it because it's my first short story. I would have posted it earlier but I had loads of work- but now I have less so I was finally able to finish it!

Anyways, let's go Solangelo!

Nico POV

Flustered. That's how I started the day.

Why, you ask? 

Well, Percy thought it would be a great idea to startle me when I came out of my cabin, which led to me accidentally shadow-travelling to the Apollo cabin. After spending ages in the dark aesthetic of the Hades cabin, the bright light of the Apollo cabin was blinding, which left me quite annoyed. Oh, and flustered. Very. Not just because of the light though. The other reason I was flustered was because of Will Solace.

It was just my luck that I had to end up at the Apollo cabin, of all places.

No one knew about my secret crush on that sunshine boy, and I was not keen on anyone finding out. It had been about 2 months since the war against Gaia, and I'd spent a significant amount of time with Will. I had never even imagined falling for Solace, of all people, but there was something about the demigod that made skeletal butterflies flutter in my stomach every time he so much as touched me.

Will was still asleep, his light snores giving me the weirdest urge to do something I'd never, ever, never, ever, never, never, never, ever, never done with someone I liked that way (before assuming what that something is- please remember that Nico is 14). However, I had, and I still do have, a reputation to keep. Anyways, I was about to leave quickly, before I outwardly displayed any more of my emotions, but I heard Will stirring from his sleep. 

Pull yourself together di Angelo. It's just Will. Calm down. You're not an emotional naive 10-year-old anymore. Don't do anything stupid.

Will half-opened his eyes and his face seemed to light up when he saw me. Why? I had absolutely no clue. Why would anyone be thrilled to see me, the gloom-and-doom son of Hades? I didn't think any normal person would actually want to be around me, other than the ones I knew well, like Percy or Annabeth. Then again, Will always struck me as being...well, definitely not normal.

"Neeks, didn't see you come in there. Good morning." He said, while stifling a yawn.

"'Morning Solace, and don't call me 'Neeks'."

"Sure, I won't, Neeks."

I rolled my eyes. Will made it a point to annoy me like that- and he still does. I was mainly annoyed at myself because I'd come to like the nickname, not that I was going to tell him that (or ever will tell him that, you tell him that and you can be sure you'll wake up in the underworld- This means you, Wattpad readers).

Will, half-asleep, tried to get out of the bed- but being the adorable dork he is, he rolled off the bed and ended up sprawled on the floor. He got up and brushed some of his bright hair out of his eyes, grinning sheepishly. He asked, "So, how long have you been up?"

I raised an eyebrow. "About an hour and a half. I was reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire." After the war, Annabeth had made it a point to make me read a bunch of modern books, by authors like Suzanne Collins, Rick Riordan and stuff. I'm still reading them for two reasons; one, they are actually quite interesting and two, Annabeth talks about them with such intense passion that I am honestly a little scared that if I don't read all of them, she will cause me pain. A lot of pain.

"That sounds cool", Will said, his blue eyes shining and his hair slightly ruffled. I still don't understand how he manages to feel so good in the morning. As a Hades kid, one of the reasons I choose to spend a lot of time in the the shadows is because it really dampens my mood when I wake up in the morning and see the sun flaunt it's shine like it passed a test that everyone else flunked. I mean, I know he's a son of Apollo, the sunshiny morning is his natural habitat and whatnot, but come on, he literally just rolled out of bed and looked so perfect.

That's when I realised, I wasn't going to be able to hide my feelings about him much longer. I was going to blurt them out to him today. I just knew I would. OH GODS...

"Hey, do you mind giving me a minute to change, and brush my teeth- because, you know, hygiene- and then we can...uh, I dunno, do something?" Will said, breaking me out of my reverie. I nodded. Will cares about good hygiene.

I was so going to tell him today...

"Yeah, sure. Meet you outside, I have to IM Hazel quickly. See you..." I replied while leaving the cabin, thinking about how much I hated and loved those weird skeletal butterflies at the same time...

~End of Part 1~