I Like Me Better when I'm With You (COMPLETED)

Will we find the place to start?

Author's Notes: Chapter title is from Give Me Something by Jarryd James

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Will had been a student here at the University of Delphi since last year, yet, this was the first time he ate Hestia's Cookies. He felt like he had missed a lot.

"Oh my God, this is so good!" Will said after he took a first bite of the cookie.

In front of him, Nico grinned. He brushed away some hair from his forehead.

"I can't believe you've never been here before," he said, shaking his head with disbelief.

Will shrugged his shoulders. "I've passed this place a couple of times, but I just... Never been inside."

"Why?"

Will took another bite and chewed it as he thought about Nico's question. He swallowed and took a sip of the water from his glass.

"I guess I just never have a reason to come here."

There was a strange glint in Nico's eyes, and a vague smirk on his lips as he stared at Will, his head tilted a bit to the left.

"What's your reason now, then?" He asked.

"You," Will said. It took him only half a second to realize what he just said. "I mean," he paused to clear his throat. "Uhm. You were the one dragging me here, right?"

Nico chuckled and that vague smirk that was there a second ago disappeared, morphed into a small smile with a hint of amusement.

Will looked down, willing his cheeks not to blush. But when he peeked at Nico from under his eyelashes, that small smile was still there. For a split second Will wanted to taste that smiling lips with his own.

Will took another bite of the cookie. "This, is like... the best cookie I've ever had," he said, more because he needed to say something before he did anything stupid.

Nico took a bite of his own cookie. After some munching and swallowing, he hummed.

"Yeah," he said. "It is nice. But to be honest, I've tasted better cookies."

"Do you often go here?" Will said, trying not to wonder whether Nico's lips would taste like the chocolate cookies that he was eating now.

"Sometimes," Nico said, taking another bite. "Drew was the first one who told me about this place."

Hearing that name made Will's stomach lurched down. He took the last bite of the cookie in his hand. Suddenly it didn't taste as good as before.

"What?"

Will's head snapped up at Nico's question. He blinked at Nico, who stared at him with a curious look.

"Huh?" Will said.

"You look... I don't know... Suddenly you look like you just..." Nico moved his hand in a vague gesture. "Like suddenly you remember about a bad memory or something."

Will hated the fact that his face was like giving a live report of what was happening in his mind. He forced himself to smile at Nico.

"Nothing," he said. "I'm just... tired."

Nico arched an eyebrow, like he didn't really believe in Will. Will quickly grabbed his glass and took three big gulps of water from it.

"Hey," he said as he placed the glass back. "She won't get mad at me, right?"

Nico's brows shot up, he looked confused when he asked Will back.

"Mad at you? Who?"

There was a rush of heat at the back of Will's neck when he shrugged his shoulders. Will tried to school his face into a nonchalant expression.