Favors (Percico AU)

Chapter 12

Chapter 12 (Nico's POV)

"Call me when you're done" my dad said as I got out of the car. "Okay" I shut the door and walked in the building. The grouchy woman behind the counter glared at me as I made my way to the elevator. I got my phone and looked at the text Percy sent me, '8th floor, room 825.' I was a little unnerved going through Percy's apartment building by myself, but I eventually made it to his door.

He answered with his usual smile. "Hey, come in." I walked in and set my backpack on the table. "So what do you want to start with?" I asked. He hummed, "I don't want to read anything and Math gives me a headache." I began to pull things out of my backpack, "okay, we will do our History paper."

"Can we do a little Italian?" he asked. "Um, we have no words yet."

"I know but that doesn't mean you can't teach me something." I plugged my laptop into the wall, "Okay. Fine. We will do a few of Italian things after we get our homework done." He groaned "Fine."

We took out the information we collected for the History paper and worked on that for about two hours. Percy would stop and goof off and I would try to keep him focused.

The next thing we had was Math. We did the problems on the sheet and I tried to keep Percy from quitting before it was done. He was very difficult when he wanted to be.

After another hour of math, I made Percy read his English book for twenty minuets. He objected that strongly but he had to. "I hate reading. In twenty minutes I would read like half a page." I rolled my eyes, "You can read faster than that."

"No I can't." he argued.

"How do you usually read school books then?"

"I listen to the audio book." I sighed, "Okay, listen to the next chapter, but I want you read along with it." Percy frowned, "Why?"

"It will help you. Just do it so we can move on." He grumbled but he still did it. I couldn't believe I got him to do it.

I read my book and constantly checked to make sure he was paying attention to the words and not getting distracted. Percy was ADHD so it was important I checked on him from time to time. He took the ear buds out of his ears. "Okay, I've finished chapter 10. Is that all?"

"Yeah, that's it. You still wanna do some Italian?" He thought for a moment, "yea. But can we take a break first? I think my brain has melted." I smiled slightly, "Yeah, what do you want to do?" Percy looked down at the table, "I'm hungry. Are you?" I nodded, "Yeah. I didn't have lunch." Percy got up and I followed him to the kitchen.

"Let's see, we got hot dogs, yogurt, we can make a sandwich with chips?"

"Sandwich and chips sounds good." Percy got out ham, cheese and other stuff. He turned to the counter and got the bread and chips. "Barbecue or regular?"

"Barbecue" I said and got out four pieces of bread. We made our sandwiches and went into the living room. Percy turned on the TV and we watched Criminal Minds. We kinda got carried way with the TV and watched it for about 2 hours.

"Are we going to do some Italian? I need to be home soon." Percy looked at the clock and sighed, "Yeah." He turned off the TV and we returned to the table.

"I guess I can teach you random things." I didn't have a guide on what phrases to say so I picked a random one, "Merry Christmas, is Buon Natale."

"Buon Natale" he repeated.

"Yeah, if you want to write it down that would be fine." He got out a piece of paper and wrote down the greeting. "Uh, thank you, is grazie." Percy said it and after a few times, he got it right and wrote that down. I tried to think of another one but my brain wasn't really thinking about words, it was focused on Percy.

It annoyed me so much. Percy was looking at me again. I looked over at him; his eyes portrayed a look of conflict. "Please repeat" I said, not taking my eyes off him. "Is per favore ripetere." He looked confused, "what?"

"Por- favro- piretede."

"Por favor ripetere" he said. I shook my head. "Roll the R. Favorrrrre."

"Favorrre" he didn't roll the R, he just dragged the sound out. "Like a cat purr rrrrrr. But don't drag it out too much."

He tried again, but failed. I placed two fingers under his chin at the top of his windpipe. I wanted to feel the vibrations when he did it. "Try again rrrrrrr."

"Rrrrrr. Favore." His voice was quite, his face was only inches from mine. I looked into his green eyes, and leaned in. Our lips connected and my body immediately tingled. His lips tasted like barbecue and moved slowly with mine.

My hand moved from his chin to his cheek, and the other on his neck. His hands rested on top of mine. I slowly pulled away and met his eyes quickly before looking down. I had kissed Percy Jackson. I felt like curling up in a little ball in a dark corner. "I'm sorry" I said quietly. I started put my notes in a pile to leave.

"Don't be sorry" he said. I thought I was going to cry. I kissed Percy Jackson and now he knows. He knows everything. "Nico I like you." I stopped and looked at him, "don't try to make me feel better."

"I'm not. I've been trying to tell you for days now. I really do like you."

I didn't know what to think. There was no way he liked me. No possible way. "It's true Nico. Please believe me."

I looked at the floor, "I've been in love with you since I was 13." I whispered, "If this is a joke it's a very cruel one."

"Why would you think it a joke?" I could hear the frown in his voice. He stood up, "Nico, I really do like you. I wouldn't joke about that."

I looked at him and I could see the hurt in his eyes. "I like you too Percy." I was allowing this to happen. I couldn't believe it. He smiled, "so, would you like to go on a date...with me?" I nodded, "yeah. I would." His smile widened and he made a little nervous laugh.

I stepped closer and, ignoring the voice in my head, I kissed him again. It took my breath away. Percy pulled me closer and the kiss deepened. It was the best thing that could've happened that day.

Was it good? Again, I wrote the whole story, I just have to edit it. So updates might be quicker. But it is Christmas so be nice to me.

Did I do the kiss right? Please tell me. Feedback is important.