I had been in a very peaceful sleep until someone went ahead and shook me awake. I had thought it was Percy, so, I ignored it. Then, I noticed the freezing cold hand on my shoulder and I bolted upright. I grabbed the blanket and wrapped my now incredibly cold body in it. Once I was at least semi warm, I looked up and found brown eyes staring at me with an amused smirk. I was confused and then I remembered last night.

"Morning.” Nico said as he crashed back onto his insanely messy bunk.

"Why am I up before the sun?” I asked as I looked out a window.

"We have to leave at sunrise and that will be in thirty minutes. Wake me in twenty.” Nico then closed his eyes and proceeded to go back to bed.

"Why am I up early if you’re just going back to sleep?” I asked him and he rolled over to look at me.

"Don’t girls take forever to get ready?”

“No! That is a stereotype. The only reason I’m never on time is because sleep is my favorite pastime.” I told him and slid back under the covers.

"Well, excuse me. The Aphrodite’s take forever, Hazel does, Annabeth does-”

"Did your sister?”

"I already told you, Hazel takes-”

"No. I mean your other sister.” Okay, I admit, I was probably taking two hundred steps over the line but it was too late now.

"I don’t have another sister.”

“Yes, you do.”

“Is this part of your Apollo blessing because if it is, I’m gonna kill him.”

“No, it isn’t part of my blessings. Truth be told, I don’t think of the Apollo one as a blessing.”

“Her name was Bianca. I saw her last when I was ten and she had just joined the Hunters. I don’t remember much from when she was around. I just remember what she looks like. Her dark long hair and brown eyes that always helped when the nightmares would come around. Her olive skin that held a warm glow when she was happy and a cold dimness when she was sad. Sometimes, I wish that I didn’t remember her at all. Maybe it would make being a child of Hades easier.”

“She sounds wonderful.”

“Bianca was. She was an amazing and strong person.” Another ghost smile appeared but this one was more sad than the others.

“Uh. I think we should start getting ready.” I said before I asked how she died. He’ll tell me when he truly wants to.

“Yeah. We don’t need Chiron barging into our cabins. Shoot! If Chiron notices your absence in your cabin and finds you in here, he’ll go crazy.”

“Chill. We’ll just have to be dressed and ready to go before he checks up.”

After Nico and I had gotten dressed, he took me on a walk. It was still dark out, so, everyone was asleep. He took me to the shore and we walked just above where the waves came in. We walked in a peaceful silence for a while until the wind shifted and I started to shake.

“Do you want my jacket?” Nico asked but I hesitated.

“Are you sure?”

“The cold doesn’t bother me. It bothers you though.” He slid off his aviator and put it around my shoulders. I instantly snuggled closer to the warm fabric. It smelled of vanilla and lavender.

“Thanks.”

“No problem. I understand. Where I used to go to school, the winters where constant blizzards and being snowed in. I hated it.” I smiled and laughed lightly wrapping the jacket tighter around my body. I was suddenly pulled from the camp.

I saw a boy and a girl probably a few years older. They both had olive skin and black hair. The girl seemed to be yelling but the boy wasn’t paying attention. He was going through a stack of cards.

The same two kids were sitting alone in the corner of a gym as people danced around them. I looked from them and saw Percy and Annabeth. I realized that Nico had the same black hair and olive skin as the young boy. The boy was Nico.

Percy was fighting a mutation of animals as Nico and the girl stood back. The girl was horrified but Nico seemed in awe but not of the monster, of Percy. The monster, which I later noticed to be a manticore, jumped over Percy and Annabeth tackled it. The manticore jumped off a cliff taking Annabeth with it.

I stumbled back and went through the images I just saw. The girl must be Bianca.

"Nico. Who found you and brought you here?” I asked scared of the answer.

"Annabeth, Percy, and Thalia.” That’s the answer I was scared of.

"What was the first monster you saw Percy fight?”

"A manticore…?” He was becoming confused and so was I.

"Did this happen to be at a dance or around the time of a dance?”

"How…?”

"I had a vision. I saw you and Bianca the day you found out you were demigods.”

“This blessing thing just gets better and better, doesn’t it?” Nico asked sarcastically.

"Try being on the other side of things.”

"Nah, I’m good.”

"I am not amused.”

We were silent again until I started laughing. Nico stopped walking and looked at me. To be honest, I don’t know why I was laughing. We were just walking and then my mind started to drift and I think I voluntarily saw a vision of the past. I saw Percy and Annabeth in a bubble underwater kissing and above them were every camper. I guess they shoved Percabeth in.

“What’s so funny?” Nico asked when I had calmed down.

"When Percy and Annabeth had their first kiss, where they underwater? And did the campers throw them in there?”

“It was their second. The campers threw them in because they finally did kiss. You have no idea how bad the campers wanted Percabeth together. And then Jiper then Caleo - which is still under investigation. How’d you know?”

"Vision. Why aren’t you in any of them?”

"Cause I’m the outcast.”

"Please! I was the outcast back in my old school. They still made a ship name for me and one of my current enemies, used to be friend, Zach. Now we hate each others guts.”

"Why?”

"It doesn’t matter.”

"C’mon. You can tell me.”

"You won’t, like, disown me or anything, right?”

"I don’t even think I can disown you, so, no.”

"My mom used to have this boyfriend and when around her, he was the sweetest guy ever. Then, when my mom left, he was cruel and abusive both physically and verbally. He would take his anger out on me and I - I would take it because it was better than him taking it out on my mom. One day, I told Zach because it was becoming too hard to take on alone. Zach laughed in my face saying that I had deserved it. I slapped him and broke down. He’d gotten mad and told the whole school. They laughed and pointed starting rumors and saying that I was just looking for attention. When my mom’s boyfriend found out, he tried to kill me. That’s when people believed the story but Zach never felt sorry.” I wiped the last remaining tears from my face and looked away ashamed.

"Sky. It’s over now. Zach can’t hurt you unless you let him.”

"Why aren’t you trying to tell me things will get better, that it’s okay. That’s what everyone does and I hate it.”

"I hated it too. When Bianca died, everyone wanted to help me feel better but it only made the pain worse.”

"Finally someone who understands!” I said jokingly and he laughed. For the first time, Nico di Angelo laughed.

"Come on. We have to leave soon.”

So, we walked. We walked past the pavillion, the training arena, the cabins, and then to Thalia’s tree. Chiron was waiting patiently along with Jason, Piper, Annabeth, the Stolls, Hazel, and the guy I saw next to Hazel at the meeting, Frank. Just, no Percy. I looked towards Annabeth who just had a pained and sad expression and looked away. Why wasn’t Percy here? To be honest, I couldn’t help but feel disappointed and kind of abandon.

“Don’t worry. I’ll kick Percy’s butt for not being here when I find him.” Jason whispered and Piper nodded her head in agreement.

“I’ll set boobie-traps in his cabin for you.” Travis added and I let out a laugh before turning to Chiron.