WN(169-17)Hair pt.3

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Wills POV
I nearly finished the song, still blushing, still scared about what my cabin mates will say, still probably pink-headed, but nobody talked. Did everybody actually see him, and his pink hair? Will they beat me up? Oh no, will they beat him up? I won't let them beat him up, they'll have to beat me up instead. Oh my gods, wait a second, wasn't his hair pink too? Doesn't that mean... no, he couldn't like me. He probably saw some other girl. He's probably straight. Gods, I hope they didn't see me looking at him.

All of a sudden, the song is over and I'm left to sit up in front of everyone, waiting for them to punch my lights out. I might as well be dead meat, they probably saw us. Gods, his hair. I just want to run my fingers through his hair. A few moments after I finished, everybody started clapping and whooping, pounding me on the back. My cabin ran up to me and started demanding I tell them who I saw. I'm too surprised to be upset, until I realize that I have to find him and resolve all of this. I run out of the crowd while they stick around the fire, hoping to find him, when I run into a black-haired girl, probably that hades girl that came in a while ago. She looks at me and sneers, but then looks interested.

"Did you see him?"

"The boy?"

"Oh gods," she said, starting to get up.

"Wait, where did he go?" That's when she looked up and saw my hair.

"Wait- you, huh? But when, Wait. Okay. Do you like him?" She stuttered, confused. I blush and look down as I reply.

"Of course i do," and then I say to myself, "He's beautiful." I guess she heard, because she snorted and said

"Gross. Okay, I'll take you to him, but did anybody else see him? This is important,"

"Uhm, I don't think so. I really hope not," I look down again, still embarrassed. She jumps up without another word, helps me up, and then starts heading to cabin 13. I then remember that there's another kid in the Hades cabin. I look at the girl, but since she isn't facing me I can't compare her features to what I saw from him. I stay silent and just wait until we get there to see.

As we approach the door, I see a short, dark skinned girl walk out of the cabin, probably 16 or so. I've seen her a couple of times around camp. She walks up to the other girl who dragged me here and says,

"He's not doing well, he told me to leave at least 5 times- oh, wait, does he," she says, pointing to me. I guess neither of them saw me turn BRIGHT PINK right before I sang.

"Yeah, let me through," says the girl with the dark hair, and she pulls me into the cabin. It's surprisingly cold in there, more so than it is outside.

My heart pounds as I look around the dark room and my eyes fall upon a tiny looking, black haired boy sitting on a bed. His face is opposite of me and the girl, and I can hear sniffling and then a faint,

"Go away, Reyna. Don't tell me anything, I don't want to know." Reyna leaves me by the door and heads over to him, crouching down and touching his shoulder. I feel a little jealous, but then I remember that they're probably siblings. I twiddle my fingers and my heart races. Look at him over there, crying, and I'm doing nothing to stop it but stand here awkwardly and play with my hands. I hear something and turn around to see the short girl looking over at him in the doorway, a sad look on her face.

"Nico, you may want to turn around," Reyna (presumably) said.

"Reyna, why do I even-" he stopped mid sentence, turned around to see me. Holy gods, he is so skinny and pale. He really needs some food. But he is so hot, I pray I don't look stupid just standing here. I offer him a small smile but then look down at my hands, embarrassed still.

He gasps and then turns to Reyna, and they seem to have a short conversation that composed of only facial expressions. She then turns around and goes out the door, closing it behind her. Well shoot, I'm left alone with him. I look back at him to see his face and hair have gone completely pink, staring straight at me with his big, tired looking, but beautiful eyes. I try to talk, but all that comes out is,
"H-hi um uh s-so I-I'm not wait, uh-"

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