Amnesia

Chapter 4

Hey guys! School is over for now, so I'm definitely going to have more time for writing which is pretty exciting. I need those comments, so if you're reading this then please tell me what parts you like or don't like. Also, I'm going to try to keep the plot going, the entire book isn't going to be that one conversation, I promise! Bye😜
-V

Nico POV
I don't know what to do. What are you supposed to do, exactly, when the guy that was basically your sexual awakening and the person you hate was crying and you don't know if they're okay-physically or mentally? Not exactly my ideal way to start the day.

He still hasn't answered, and his staring starts to make me uncomfortable and awkward. I don't know I don't know Idont'tknowIdon'tknowIdon'tknow.

"Percy?"

Gods, my voice is so uncertain. I hate that with my entire soul. I've lost the fake bravado I pretended to have when I approached him.

Percy POV
He calls my name again, losing his confidence.

"Yeah."

I just said yeah. I can't believe I just said 'yeah' after blubbering and whipping snot all over myself. He probably thinks I'm a lunatic. I shake off my despair and try to smile. It probably looks like a grimace.

"Yeah, um, Annabeth and I just broke up last night. So, uh, just getting all that stuff out."

Nico's eyes slightly widen, but after a second he regains himself, so maybe it was just me.

"I was wondering what that dummy did to deserve your wrath."

I start to smile, and he sort of blushes. I don't know why though.

"Yeah, I probably should've been nicer. I guess it looks like I was avenging my father's death or something, I say with a laugh.

He chuckles and blushes yet again. He freezes, and then he says something that I couldn't have predicted if I was the Oracle of Delphie.

"Did you have a weird dream last night? I know that's a weird question, but that's why I was looking for you." He pauses for a moment,"There was a really strange beast, and it ate you. You didn't look like you were doing anything to stop it, and I know dreams can be weird, so, uh, yeah."

I stare at him in wonder. I don't know how he knows. How is it possible? I know that dreams are weird for demigods, but I never thought this would happen.

"Yeah, actually," I say. "I did."

It's the strangest thing, but sometimes the strangest of things are the most probable in my life.

Nico POV
Percy looks surprised, but just shrugs it off. He's so nonchalant about it. I don't really know what I was expecting actually. A humungous gasp and him clutching his chest near his heart? Not exactly, but more than just 'Yeah, I did.'

"Are you okay, though? The dream ended before I saw you, uh- it ended before you-before you, um. . . Died," I say.

He shrugs, "As good as I can be after a breakup, you know?" Percy smiles one of those tilted smirks of his, looking like he's going to cause more trouble than the average Stoll brother.

It's hard to describe what he looks like. A dorky smile and you want to pretend it's the realest smile ever smiled after a terrible joke with a terrible (pun)ch line that's so bad that you have to laugh. But it's too forced. It's genuinely fake, with hints of reality shining past a door blocking the view of it. Because there wasn't a terrible joke, it was a weird boy telling a heartbroken one that he saw him die in a dream the night he broke up with the girl he's loved since he was twelve.

But the smile becomes more real after a moment, and that dorkish evil smile is adorable- no not adorable. What am I thinking? Percy is the one guy I can't have, and one that I most definitely don't want, right?

I remember I'm talking to him and blurt out a response.

"Actually, I don't really." I say. That was the wrong thing. I shouldn't have said that, and his little 'oh' just proves it. Dam.

"Oh, yeah, you've never really had a girlfriend, have you?"He asks. (I know that Percy knows Nico's not straight in the books, but I want to torture you guys. Sorry not sorry)

I die inside. Of course I've never had a girlfriend, Percy. Ya know why, Percy? I'm gay, you dumbass.

"No, not really. Sorry, Percy, I should go. I promised Jason I'd eat breakfast with him." A stupid excuse, really, since Percy is going to go to breakfast.

(Time skipparoo to breakfast about some amount of time later)

"Hey, Nico. What's up? I haven't seen you in a while." Jason and I made an agreement a while ago that I would eat breakfast with him once or twice every two weeks because he was "concerned about me." I had no choice, really.

I shrug my shoulders in response to Jason's questions. I don't know what else I'm supposed to say.

The rules for tables have become less strict since the war and all that, so all of the Seven that stay at Camp Half-Blood are sitting together. So basically it's just Jason and Percy sitting across from Piper and Annabeth. Hazel and Frank are at Camp Jupiter with Reyna, and Leo still hasn't been found yet. No one knows where he is, but Cabin 9 is working on some beacon thing to try and track him down.

I'm very obviously the fifth wheel at this table. I sit down next Jason. Percy is the first one to say anything since my appearance grounded the conversation to a halt.

"Okay, so, guys I was wondering if you guys would want to have a Disney movie marathon?" When they all nod their heads, Percy continues,"Obviously Finding Nemo, Pocahontas, Hercules, Dumbo, Beauty and the Beast. All of it!" He grins and spreads his arms in question.

Everyone nods their heads and adds suggestions, but I don't think they realize that they're not going to be able to watch six movies from 6pm-1am. I start to feel uncomfortable because I'm obviously not invited, so I just focus on my waffles.

"Are there any movies you want to watch, Nico?"

"Nico?" Piper's voice jerks me from my train of thought. Did she just ask me if I wanted to watch any movies? Is she implying that I'm going to be there?

"Huh?" is the only response I give.

"Nico, are there any movies you want to watch? You haven't said anything, so we want to make sure that you like at least some of the movies," Jason clarifies.

"Um. . .I'm invited?" I still don't believe that they'd want me there. Why would they? Im not exactly the prime candidate for a movie marathon.

"Of course," Percy says. "Why wouldn't we want you there?"