Wpov (A/N: YAY FINALLY SOME WILL POINT OF VIEW CHAPTERS!!!)

I felt terrible. Nico hadn't wanted them to know he was an orphan. I had ruined that for him.

"I think I know what it is." Lou said. "Your dating."

I let out a sigh of relief.

"And one more thing." She said, her expression turning serious.

Uh oh...

I glanced over at Nico. He looked like he was desperately hoping for someone to change the subject. I wanted to also, but I knew they would just question me later about it.

Procrastinating is bad, right? (A/N: Aaron Burr says procrastination is good.)

"Nico, where are your parents?"

"My dad left when I was born."

"And your mom?"

"She...."

"Nico, what happened to her?"

He hesitated before answering. "A car accident. Bianca too."

Lou gasped quietly, even though she was expecting it. "I'm so sorry, Nico."

"I'm fine."

Cecil still didn't seem to understand, but he didn't ask about it. I assumed he'd ask Lou Ellen or I later.

(A/N: I don't know why but I just really wanna write in bold...)

I took Nico's hand and led him to the kitchen, in which we had a small table.

Spaghetti was on the table already. We sat down and ate, but it was silent.

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Npov

After we ate, I took Percy's hand and headed back. Will wanted to go with us but I convinced him that it would be better if he stayed; Octavian wouldn't want me to bring him to the orphanage again.

We knocked on the door because it was locked. Octavian must have planned that.

I heard footsteps and Ms. Morning opened the door. Octavian was behind her, smirking.

"Oh. Nico. Percy. You're back." Ms. Morning said.

We walked in and Percy glared at Octavian as we walked by.

Ms. Morning left and we started up the stairs. Octavian followed us.

I was shaking with nervousness.

Why is he following us?

We entered our room and Octavian came in too.

"What do you want, Octavian?" I asked. But, to my surprise, he walked right past me.

He walked straight to Percy.

I darted over and placed myself in front of Percy. I wouldn't let Octavian hurt him.

"Get out of the way, Nico." Octavian growled. Percy was trembling behind me.

"No."

Octavian shoved me out of the way and grabbed Percy.

"Where did you go after you drank your hot chocolate?" Octavian asked.

"T-the park." Percy lied.

"Liar!" Octavian yelled. "What did you talk about when I left?"

"N-nothing!"

"What did you talk about?!"

Percy whimpered. I got back up and ran over.

"Stop it! You're scaring him!" I screamed.

"Get away!" Octavian yelled. "Percy, tell me what you talked about."

"Go ahead and tell him Percy. I'll be fine." I said.

"W-will asked Nico out." Percy said.

"And what did Nico say?"

"He said..."

"Tell him." I said.

"He said yes." Percy finished.

Octavian let go of Percy and turned to me. "Interesting."

I slowly backed away from Octavian. Percy looked devastated.

Octavian grabbed me by the arm and pushed me up against the wall.

"You said yes...to a guy?"

I swallowed. "Yes."

Octavian punched me and Percy screamed something and ran over. He started kicking Octavian. "STOP IT! STOP HURTING MY FRIEND!"

Percy ran downstairs.

Octavian punched me again. My nose was obviously bleeding.

Percy ran back into the room with a girl with blond hair and grey eyes. She looked deadly. I assumed this was Annabeth. She glared at Octavian. She was hiding something behind her back, I noticed.

"Stop it." She said.

"Yeah right. You're what, five? Six?" Octavian turned back to me.

"Your being a big fat bully," Annabeth said.

"How about you go back to your little dolls and play. I'm busy."

"I don't have dolls. I have legos though. I also have..." she pulled out what she was hiding behind her back. It was a watergun.

She aimed it at Octavian, but instead of water coming out, paint came out. Octavian ended up a rainbow.

Octavian howled in anger. "Why you little-"

She shot him again. It hit him in the face.

"Bad. Go in time-out. You've been a bad boy." She said.

"Argh!" Octavian yelled. He stomped away to clean off the paint, because a homophobic person like him could not be found wearing rainbow.

Annabeth stuck her tongue out at him.

Then she ran over to me. "Are you okay? Percy said you needed help."

"I'm fine. Thank you."

"I'm Annabeth Chase. Nice to meet you." She said, holding out her hand.

"Nico Di Angelo." I shook her hand. "Nice to meet you too."

She beamed at me. "I just got this new water gun. It can fire paint. I filled it with different colors so it would be rainbow. Do you like it?"

"It's amazing." I agreed.

"Percy helped me fill it earlier. I live across the street, so when he got home from school, that's what we would do. And then we would get mean people with it."

"Sounds fun." I admitted.

"Yeah, it is." She told me about some of her fights with 'mean people.'

I decided I like Annabeth.