Leo POV

Nico looked beyond pissed. It was pretty funny actually. Like, how many times do you get to see a tiny "lord of the dark" sitting in someone's lap like a berated little kid? Exactly.

I had to act like a monkey, jumping around, screeching at everything. Piper told her first kiss story, where she and Jason kissed on top of the roof. Frank was asked to tell an embarrassing story, when his grandmother pulled him out of class by the ear in grade 7. Havel had to handstand for 5 minutes, at the end of which her face was full of colour.

At the moment, Nico was having a staring contest with the floor in front of him. Percy was still hugging him like he was a koala bear. A mean-looking koala bear, that is.

It was my turn to choose someone. I looked around for the next victim. Nico looked like his situation couldn't get any worse, so being the savior of all, I chose him. "Nico, truth or dare?"

I snapped his head up and gave me a murderous look. "Truth."

I asked the question that gets asked at least once in every game.

"What's your biggest secret?"

*****

Nico POV

"Truth." I replied. I've learned my lesson from choosing dares around Percy. His warm arms were still around me, his breathing tickling my neck. You'd think I'd be happy, because my crush is basically hugging me. But, if anything, it hurt.

I waited impatiently as Leo thought of a question. "What is your biggest secret?" he said at last.

I took a deep breath. "Do I have to answer that?"

Percy gasped, making me jump. "So you do have one!"

Fuck.

I looked towards Jason, who nodded his head encouragingly as of reading my thoughts.

If I told him, what's the worse that could happen? Well, he could be completely disgusted and never want to see you again.

What about Hazel? What if she's against it? Then I might as well be dead.

I opened my mouth and froze. What if-No! No more 'what-ifs'. Just going to say it.

I got up off Percy, leaving him pouting. Taking a deep breath, I said "Well...I have a crush on someone. But this...someone is...." I trailed off, not able to say it.

I scratched the back of my neck, my mouth hanging open. I couldn't say it. Screw this, I'll just say something stupid to cover up my blubbering. There's no need to tell everyone just y-

"Nico's gay." Piper stated.

Jason whipped his head towards her. "Piper!"

"What? It's not like he was going to say it."

"But . . ."

I looked down, wide-eyed, feeling ashamed.

Annabeth walked towards me and slapped me straight across the face. Then a crack opened in the ground, swallowing all of us and killing everyone.

At least that's what happened in my head. Instead, she ruffled my hair and said, "Finally came out, huh?" She lowered her voice so no one heard her but me. "I know you like seaweed brain. I'm ok with it. I mean, I don't blame you."

I scratched my head. "Is it really that obvious?" I thought I was hiding it so well. Apparently not.

Annabeth chuckled. "Yeah, kind of. Yet, he still has no idea."

Someone punched my arm. Hard. I turned around to see a fuming Hazel, her hair fanned out behind her like fire. What...?

"Why didn't you tell me before?!"

"Because I-"

"I'm supposed to be your sister!"

"Hazel-"

"The one you tell everything to!"

"I'm sorry, I-"

"Shut up!" She embraced me in a tight hug 

I gave in and wrapped my arms around her back.

"I'm sorry Haze. I just- I thought that you'd hate me for it."

She sighed and looked at me. Her eyes softened. I found it amazing how much emotion she held in her bright golden eyes. "It's the 21st century. There's nothing wrong with it and I would never hate you. No matter what." she said firmly.

"Thank you."

Then Leo started saying the stupidest things. "Ha! I knew it!" Piper sighed, "No, you didn't."

"Pssh, yeah I did." He went on rambling, everyone else laughing.

*****

The rest of the day went by in a blur. Percy and Annabeth had to go and Frank had to go home because his curfew was getting close.

So now, it was just me, Hazel, Jason, Leo, and Piper. The three of them were staying the night so I got out the sleeping bags. so we could camp out in the living room.

When I got back, the sofas had been moved so they were facing each other, with a table on it's side to serve as a barrier between the 2 sides.

"What's this for?" I asked no one in particular.

I jumped as Leo popped up from the other side of the table and said, "It's for the fort, duh! What kind of sleepover would it be without a fort?" He got a big thin blanket and put each end over the side of the sofa and pinned them down with clothespins.

I rolled my eyes and put 2 sleeping bags on one and 3 on the other. The night was spent throwing pillows over the table to the girls side and them returning the favor. The bed sheet on top fell on us at least three times and when everyone else finally calmed down, I fell asleep only to be woken up again to Leo's snoring and mumbling, not to mention his arms all over my face.

When I pushed his arms off me, he smacked my face and muttered, still asleep, "Stop hitting me..."

"I'm not hitting you!" I hissed. "You're the one who slapped me!" I scoffed and turned around, facing away from him.

Leo kept mumbling in his sleep.

I sighed and tried to ignore him and soon my eyelids started feeling heavy and I finally fell asleep.

Here. Take this longer than usual chapter as an apology for not updating for about 2 weeks.

And as for the last chapter, I didn't mean to scare you,.That was a "might-have-been".