A/N: Skate Park Au is a bit misleading, because most of this does not, in fact, have anything to do with a skate park, but this has been in my head for a month since my friend's birthday when we went to hang at Van's skate park to play DDR and air hockey. I saw a bunch of little kids on skateboards and BMX bikes doing alot better than some of the older guys. So I decided to write this. I was gonna have it up on Wednesday, but I realized that this weekend is Percico weekend, so I procrastinated and decided to finish it later. Just in time.

The summer after Nico's tenth birthday, his mother uproots him and his sister all the way across an ocean to a different continent, a different country, and a different city. He was not happy to be leaving everything he knew for far away New York City. At first Bianca wasn't either, but her favor was bought with the promise of being enrolled in an all girls roller derby league. Nico sucks it up, packs his own favorite pair of roller blades, and goes willingly.

A week later he is riding up and down the ramps of the skate park situated right next to the roller derby rink that Bianca's roller derby team, the Hunters, hold practice in every evening of the summer. It is then, on the concrete between the quarter pipe and the mini ramp that he runs into eleven year old Percy Jackson – literally. The older boy went speeding through on his skateboard, and Nico didn't even see him coming before he was knocked over with enough force to have him skid two feet, snapping the already frayed strap on his left knee pad, and leaving a huge bloody gash on the calf of his left leg.

"Oh are you okay? I didn't see you, I'm sorry." The boy helped him into a sitting position, then saw the cut on his leg and hissed in sympathy. "You're bleeding and that looks like it hurts. Let me help you, my mom has a first aid kit so we can fix you up," He blabbered while tugging at the laces of one of the smaller boy's roller blades as Nico undid the other and pulling the younger boys arm over his shoulder to help him to his feet, "My name is Percy. What's your name?"

"I'm Nico," Nico replied with a small grin as he inspected the boy who was helping him. Percy was several inches taller than him, with dark brown hair, bright green eyes, and a large grin.

They limped together over to a group of benches wear both of their mothers were sitting. Percy's mom was the first one to see them. His mother stood up and asked, "Percy, what happened? What did you do to this poor boy?"

"I kinda didn't see him and knocked him over," he answered his mom while sitting Nico on the bench.

She turned to Nico, "Oh, Sweetie, are you okay? Here, let's clean you up." She rummaged through her purse and pulled out a pack of tissues, Band-Aids, and Neosporin and started to bandage him up.

"I'm okay," the youngest boy answered in a small voice. He was about to open his mouth and talk more but was interrupted.

"Nico, bambino, are you okay? What happened, you're bleeding?" Nico's mother, Maria, came over to him.

"I'm fine, Mama," Nico replied in Italian. That made his mother smile, before she gave him a pointed look.

"Nico, you're supposed to speak English," She ran her fingers through the shaggy curls of his bangs that were poking out from under his helmet before turning to the other mother present. "Thank you for taking care of him, I'm Maria di Angelo, and this is my son Nico. My daughter Bianca is practicing with the Hunters, but will be out in about fifteen minutes. We just moved from Italy."

Percy's mom smiled at them, "My name is Sally Jackson and this is—"

"I'm Percy!"

Sally glares at Percy a little before continuing, "...My son Percy. It's nice to meet you, which part of Italy are you from?"

The two women continue to talk, while Percy starts to get Nico's attention. "You really came from Italy? How old are you? Is that why you talk kinda funny?" Percy started to bombard Nico with questions and Nico started laughing.

"Slow down, I can't answer them all at once," Nico giggled at him, "We did live in Italy, I'm ten years old, and I talk funny because I speak Italian better."

The boys continued to chatter and laugh with each other until their moms had to drag them away, but they promised to meet at the skate park again the next day.


The two boys did meet each other the next day, and every day for that summer. Within a few days, they were spending every second together after they realized they only lived a block and a half away from each other.

Summer days consisted of video games, swimming, and racing each other with Nico on his roller blades and Percy on his skate board. Occasionally Nico would try to teach Percy how to use roller blades and Percy would try to teach Nico how to ride his skate board. Percy was actually pretty good at roller blading, but he still fell all the time and dragged Nico down with him.

"You're doing it on purpose now!" Nico giggled. They were rolling around in the grass next to the path that they were skating on. Percy had landed on top of the smaller boy, who was now trying to push the older boy off of him.

"I did not, I just slipped and you were in the way!" Percy laughed back. With a few more pushes and chuckles, Nico stopped struggling and went relaxed on his back with the heavy weight of Percy across his chest. Slowly, the older boy got up to his knees, then grabbed the younger boy and hauled him back up to his feet. "Come on, let's race again," Percy sped off down the side walk. Nico chased after him laughing.

At the end of the summer, when Bianca is sorting through all of her school supplies because she's thirteen and going into seventh grade convinced that she needs to be organized so she can get into college, Nico is rushing to get his stuff cleaned up so he could meet Percy. She turned to her brother and said, "I think it's funny that you didn't even want to move here from Italy, but now that you and Percy are best friends you won't go back for anything."

Nico just groaned at her and sped out the door. He heard her laughter follow him until he was halfway down the street.


The next three years go much the same way, with the two boys growing closer and spending every possible minute with each other. Nothing really started to change until they crashed Bianca's slumber party.

Nico was thirteen, tall, and lanky, though he would never be as tall as Percy, and they were both bored on the night that Bianca was celebrating her sixteenth birthday with her best friends from the Hunters. Eavesdropping had been Percy's idea, because at fourteen, he was told he should be curious about girls and he wanted to know why he should be curious. As for Nico, he was curious for why Percy was curious. They managed to stay undetected on the stairs for quite some time listening to the group of girls gossiping in the living room about Thalia kissing Luke Castellan behind the cafeteria after school and him picking her up during practice.

They do end up getting caught, but luckily it's by Bianca as she ran up to her room for a new shade of nail polish. She just shook her head and quietly shooed them off to Nico's room, because even though she may have acted like she was always annoyed by her little brother and his best friend, she really wasn't.

It didn't take very long for them to start discussing their observations. "I don't get it; all they were talking about was kissing. Are we supposed to want to kiss people?" Nico asks. He had lost quite a bit of his accent over the years.

"I don't know, I've never thought about kissing before," Percy answered with a confused expression.

"So you've never kissed any one?"

"No, have you?" Nico shook his head just as perplexed as the other boy and Percy continued, "Is there anyone you would want to kiss? Like maybe Hazel?" Hazel was a girl around their age who was a member of the Hunters.

"EW no, I don't want to kiss Hazel. That would be weird."

Percy laughed at the face the younger boy made at his suggestion. "Well what about someone else? Would you kiss me?"

The thought of kissing Percy made him feel funny, like the previous year when they all made a trip to Coney Island and Nico was finally tall enough to ride the roller coaster. It gave him the same feeling he got while waiting in line, a mixture of anxious, excited, and just a little scared. "I don't know, maybe if it's you I wouldn't mind kissing."

"I don't think I would mind kissing you either," Nico looked away from Percy's red cheeks as he felt his heat up also. "Do you want to try it?"

He turned back to face Percy, "Try what?" he asks.

Percy smiled and gave a small laugh, "Kissing."

"Oh, okay," Nico nodded and moved closer so that they were sitting across from each other on Nico's bed cross legged. They both leaned in slowly and met in the middle, just gently holding their lips together with their eyes closed. Nico's stomach swooped like it did on the first drop of a roller coaster. The kiss didn't last more than ten seconds before they pulled away from each other and locked eyes. Something silent passed between them that made them both lean forward and press their lips together again, a little firmer than the first time.

That was the first time Nico di Angelo kissed Percy Jackson, but it wouldn't be the last.


The first month, everything felt different in their relationship. The atmosphere around them would change quickly and they would feel shy. The two would be playing video games on the floor of one of their bedrooms, and Nico started laughing at how Percy is losing the game. Percy would grin at Nico, stroke his hand across Nico's cheek, and lean in tentatively to kiss Nico softly.

The younger boy was surprised by it at first, but always leaned in for a second kiss. He started to expect and enjoy the swoop of his stomach and the fluttery feeling in his chest whenever Percy touched him. Within weeks, he was leaning into kiss Percy at random times when they were alone as well. He would answer the door for Percy, and if his mother and sister were not in the hall, he would place his hands on Percy's shoulders to haul himself up on his toes to kiss him before dragging him into his bedroom for more kisses. If they didn't have that privacy right away, he would grab the older boy's hand as soon as the door was open and commence the dragging to his room, barely giving Percy enough time to wave at whoever was preventing their smooches before the door was shut. Nico would then drape his wrists on his shoulders and clasp his hands on the back of his neck to pull him down into a firm kiss. Those always made Percy laugh.

They were comfortable for another month before Percy brought something up. This time, they were sitting on Percy's bed beating each other up on Super Smash Bros.

"Come on! That's just a flesh wound!" Percy shouted as his character, Falco was hit across the screen by Samus, who was under Nico's control.

Nico laughed at the other boy as he claimed his victory, "I won, now pay up!" Nico teased him; he puckered up his lips and made kissing noises at the other boy.

The older boy just laughed at the younger one's ridiculous face, "Alright, come here lover boy!" he mimicked a girl and batted his eyes. This caused Nico to snort as they both started rolling around and giggling.

When they had both calmed down, Percy leaned over Nico to give him a soft peck on the lips. He stayed hovering over him for a few seconds before he sat on his knees and tentatively asked, "Hey, Nico?"

Nico sat up and looked at Percy, "Yeah?"

Percy hesitated before he answered, "If I wanted to try something, would you let me?"

"Yeah, what do you want to try?" Nico answered, he had complete trust in Percy.

"Umm… well… It's a kind of kissing that I heard about. I thought we could try it." Percy was blushing and it made Nico feel light when ever Percy did that.

Nico nodded, "Okay, what do we do?"

"I'll show you," Percy moved closer until he was kneeling in front of the younger boy. "When I kiss you, just keep your mouth open a little." Nico opened his mouth really wide and raised his eyebrows at the older boy. "A little less," Percy chuckled and placed his hand on Nico's chin to guide his mouth closed until his lips were only slightly parted.

He left his hand there as he moved in to kiss him. Nico closed his eyes and enjoyed the feeling of his stomach swooping and fluttering as Percy kissed him, but was surprised out of his enjoyment when he felt something warm and slightly wet brush past his lips and teeth. He pulled back in surprise and curved a finger over his bottom lip that Percy's tongue had touched, "Did you just put your tongue in my mouth?"

"Did you like it?" Percy asked in return. Nico dropped his hand and regarded Percy. Did he like it? He didn't really know, it wasn't bad but he was so surprised by it that he didn't think about whether he liked it or not.

"Do it again." He leaned forward, and this time was ready when Percy slipped his tongue into his mouth. Another sensation of heat was rushing through his body along with the usual swooping and fluttering of his stomach. It made it hard for him to breathe, and he panted slightly when they finally pulled away from each other. "I think I do," he whispered.

"Good. Now you try." They both leaned forward, and this time Nico was the one to stick his tongue into Percy's mouth. When he wiggled his tongue around a little, Percy curved his tongue gently up against Nico's, making the younger boy gasp and repeat the action.

It felt like an eternity before they pulled away again, both panting and grinning like idiots. "What kind of kiss did you say this was again?" Nico asked while trying to catch his breath.

Percy, breathing heavily and grinning like an idiot, answered coolly, "French kissing. Or I heard making out, too." So that's what people mean when they say that. Nico decided that he really liked kissing Percy, no matter what kind of kiss it was. They continued to make out, completely forgetting about the game that was still playing Nico's victory screen.


That night, after Nico floated home still sporting the silly grin, he dreamt about Percy's tongue in his mouth.

In his dream, they are both sitting shirtless on Percy's bed. This time, Nico shivers more when actions of earlier that day are repeated in his dream. Nico ran his hands down Percy's sides and around to the small of his back and Percy's fingertips traced the bumps down Nico's spine. Without the fabric in the way, the feeling of flesh on flesh made the heat that Nico felt before burn brighter, hotter, and more intensely than before.

When Nico woke up the next morning, his underwear and pajama bottoms were sticky and slightly damp. He can't stop thinking about his dream when he takes a shower. The warm water running down his back reminded him of the dream feeling of Percy's fingers tracing his skin. Soon enough, he leaned against the tiled wall with one hand wrapped around himself and Percy in his head.

That's the first time he realized he was falling in love with Percy.

A/N: This is my first time writing about kissing and sexual topics, and I do want more practice, so if this gets a positive response I will write a second part with actual smut (and a hell of a lot more plot). So please let me know if you like it.