As the door to his room closed Nico smiled to himself. He turned into the hall and headed for Room 118.

Last night was the first time he'd been able to talk to Percy, and they'd seemed to connect really well. They had talked for hours. Percy was just like Nico, and if Percy Jackson didn't have his life figured out Nico had nothing to worry about it.

His phone vibrated in his pocket, and Nico flipped it open. It looked like it was 20 years old but it was the only model Leo and Annabeth had managed to convert to Celestial Bronze.

Reyna: Hey. took off + we have ur camera. check facebook!

Nico smiled. His camera had gone missing in the middle of the party, and if Reyna had posted something on Facebook, it had to be good.

When he got to the room, he had to knock on the door a few times before Rachel started swearing.

"Nico get the damn door!"

"Rachel, for the last fucking time, I'm not Nico," someone said as they opened the door.

Connor Stoll stood in the doorway in his neon orange jeans and suspenders from last night, his shirt untucked.

"Oh, hey Nico! Please tell me you're here to take her back."

Nico frowned. "Uh, hey Connor. This isn't your room right?"

"No... I think it's Percy's and that girl's room?

"Yeah, Sarah. Where is she?"

Connor rolled his eyes. "Travis kicked me out of our room so they could hump like Zeus when Hera's gone."

Nico grinned. "Really?"

Conner grinned too, but with a bit of impishness behind it. "Yeah. I can't wait until Percy finds out."

"I'll be there to see that." Nico laughed.

There was a retching noise and something hit water. Weak coughing followed.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh," Rachel groaned.

Connor made a face. "Want to grab breakfast?"

"Yeah, let's go."

"So I saw you drag Percy out last night," Connor said after he had eaten all the pancakes and bacon the place had. "I thought he was straight." He smiled at Nico and eyed the potatoes and eggs on Nico's plate.

Nico rolled his eyes and pushed his food to Connor.

"He is. He got really drunk and managed to piss off Reyna, so he just needed somewhere to pass out."

"Yeah, more like someone to pass out on," Connor said, grinning around the eggs.

And that's exactly when Leo had to show up.

"Hey Nico you stud! Percy and you hooked up?" He laughed clapping him on the back. "Nice!

Connor pointed at Leo. "I knew it!" he shouted, some of his eggs falling out of his stuffed mouth.

Nico dropped his head into his hands. "Gods guys! Percy's straight!"

"Oh, come on Nico! Spill!" Connor said.

"Nothing happened!"

"Leo, he said nothing happened, do you think he'd lie?" Frank said behind Nico. He was holding a plate filled with potatoes and jellied toast.

Leo glared at Nico from across the table as Frank sat down to Nico's left.

"Fine!" Leo whined, throwing up his hands. "Did anyone do something stupid last night?!"

Nico snorted. "Ask Travis about that. I'm gonna get Rachel."

It took Nico twenty minutes to get Rachel to their room, and as soon as they got there she bolted for the bathroom.

Nico looked around. Percy wasn't there anymore, but there was a note on the nightstand. The handwriting was terrible and Nico had trouble with a few words.

Hey Nico, had to leave, late for the flight. Great talking to you. IM me sometime, - Percy.

Nico smiled. He hated to admit it, but Rachel was right when she said he'd needed to stop avoiding Percy. Everything seemed better, especially after he'd found out about Percy's second half.

Last Night...

Percy looked up at the stars. "...But she saw Reyna. So I guess this is how it's supposed to be."

Nico started up, the perfect segway into what he wanted to know. "If she really saw Reyna, who did you see Percy?"

The man to his right froze. Percy glanced at Nico out of the corner of his eye, but turned until he was facing Nico.

Nico swallowed. Percy was actually looking at him. Not avoiding him. Holy shit.

He clenched one of his fists until the edge of a sketch tore. His palms felt clammy, and his feet were turned in so his toes were overlapping.

Nico was so nervous, he knew Percy could tell. He looked away from Percy as fast as he could.

"It wasn't you."

Nico turned back. "What?"

"It wasn't you," Percy told Nico again, turning away and looking at his empty rum bottle.

Something inside Nico fell apart. His stomach felt too full, while his lungs screamed for air.

"Hey you want to go inside? I, uh, like this song," Percy said quickly.

Nico looked back at the tent. Uptown Funk drifted out into the night. He smiled, and he felt all of the jittery feelings he had leave. He wouldn't be with Percy. All of the hopes he had fell apart and were left with a growing energy in his chest.

It wasn't meant to be, a god said it! He could move on, without any regret.

"Yeah. Let's go."

When they got in the tent, the last lines were playing to Uptown Funk.

"Hey look who it is! Come on guys!" Leo shouted as they got to the tables. "You missed our dance off!

"AND I TOTES WON!" Rachel whooped, holding up a nearly empty bottle of gin. The dance floor cheered in agreement.

"It was a tie!" Leo protested. Calypso rolled her eyes and grabbed him by the tie, pulling him into a kiss.

The song changed, and a new beat hit their eardrums.

"I love this song!" Hazel squealed. "Come on guys!

Nico smiled and grabbed Percy's hand. "Come on Percy!"

"Oh don't you dare look back

Just keep your eyes on me."

I said, "You're holding back, "

She said, "Shut up and dance with me!"

This woman is my destiny

She said, "Ooh-ooh-hoo,

Shut up and dance with me."

MWAHAHAHAHAHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaa... ha! hah... yeh :D
Okay I need to explain this. If you want the explanation, I wrote one up, but I didn't want it to take up so much fucking room. I put it on my Tumblr, and NO I'm not using this as a way to get people to go to my tumblr, you can block me if you want after you read it. idc.

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*************If anyone is confused, PERCY SAW NICO. He is lying big time! Percy and Nico will end up together, but I am an evil, evil writer.*****************

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Catch you on the flippity flop!