Darkness's Flower: Pulling It Together

Chapter 23: Thought It Was Over

~Lilly~

"Lillian, I have loved you since I first looked at you! I have loved you every single possible moment of every single day! I care about you more than anything! You didn't even let me finish! I almost got over you because I thought you weren't important!" Nico was screaming.

"See? You don't care, Nico! I knew it, but I just wouldn't give up on you and the fact of love! I still love you no matter what! But if you don't, then we can't keep doing this! I'm done, Nico di Angelo, with you!" I screamed.

"Fine!"

I turned around to started walking away. But I turned back to Nico. We came towards each other at the same time. Nico put his arms around my neck and I put my hands on his face. We kissed each other, hard, at the same time. Then we broke apart and I turned.

I started sobbing as I ran out of the infirmary, down to see Annabeth. She saw me and I practically threw myself at her.

"Lilly! Oh my gods! What's wrong with you?!" Annabeth asked.

"I-and-he-and-" I couldn't finish.

I started sobbing as she hugged me tightly. "Everything will be okay, Lilly! Let's go find Piper and everyone else, okay?"

She had to pull me along with her as we went to the Aphrodite cabin. I heard a scream from far behind. Nico. That made me cry even harder, which I didn't think was possible. We walked right in and Annabeth pulled me down beside Piper.

"Lilly! What happened? Well, first of all, I do forgive you for what happened with Jason. I kinda suspected it, but I honestly don't care at the moment. Now, what happened?" Piper asked.

I couldn't even look at her. Annabeth took over. "She won't tell me! I know it has something to do with-"

"Oh, no. Don't tell me you got in a huge fight!"

I could barely nod my head. "It...we might be...be...be done!"

I screamed a sob and cried into Annabeth's shoulder. "It's okay, Lilly. We know that's not true."

"But it is! I said I was done with him! I just dumped Nico di Angelo! I'm in love with him, and I had to mess it all up!" I could barely speak.

"Lilly, he's gonna want to see you and talk to you, you know that!" Piper was trying to use her charmspeak.

"No, he won't! He won't ever want to see me again! I can't do this, Piper! He probably hates me now!"

"Lillian West, Nico doesn't hate you! We both know he's probably crying as hard as you are, maybe even harder! You're the most important thing in his life and he doesn't want to lose you. Not even for a short moment."

"Okay."

I quickly left and went to my cabin. I laid in bed for a week without doing anything, except constantly thinking about Nico and crying my eyes out. I have never cried any harder in my life.

Ash finally made me get up and go outside. Well first, she made me take a shower and put on clean clothes. I had on a pair of shorts and a black t-shirt that had a white skull on it with a pink bow on the head.

I walked out, the bright afternoon sun burning my eyes. I saw a dark figure walking up towards the mess hall, just like we were. It was, of course, Nico.

I tried to ignore him, but I kept staring. He was in a black t-shirt with a white skull on the front and dark jeans with rips in the knees. His hair was sticking up in multiple directions, but he still looked like the handsomest guy I know.

I walked past him, then stopped, taking in the scene in front of me. Someone bumped into me from behind. I looked back.

"Sorry," Nico mumbled, not looking at me. "Lillian."

"Nico." I turned and a tear ran down my face.

I didn't eat anything, then went to The Fort. I grabbed the pillow Nico uses and hugged it tightly, sobbing silently into it. Then he appeared. Yeah, Nico.

He stared at me. "I'm sorry. I didn't know you were here."

"I didn't know you were coming down here," I replied, still bawling into the pillow.

He stared at me awkwardly. "So, uh..."

"I love you," I whispered, barely able to hear.

He walked towards me, his dark eyes bloodshot. "What?"

I looked up at him. "I love you."

He heard me this time and plopped down beside me. "I love you too, Lillian Michelle West. I always have and I always will."

A tear ran down his pale face, making me cry even harder. Nico smiled at me and put his arms around me.

"I'm sorry! I didn't mean that at all!" I cried.

"I know. I didn't either. Can I finish now without us screaming at each other?" Nico asked.

"Yes."

He didn't let go of me. "Bella tried using her charmspeak on me to think you weren't important, but I overpowered it because you totally are important. Especially to me."