Goth! Nico/ Surfer! Percy AU Part 4!
Just a little thingy about Nico talking about what happened with Jason and Leo - I added some more valgrace for you @neo-kid-funk! I hope you enjoy it! 💕💕
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
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“Oh my god, he was flirting with you”.
Nico rolled his eyes at his friend. Leo hadn’t been there he couldn’t know that - it had been weird, sure, but that didn’t mean it must have been flirting, right?
The only thing Nico was sure of was that whatever that conversation he had had with Percy that afternoon had been, even just thinking about it was making butterflies fly like crazy in his stomach.
“For the umpteenth time, Leo, he was not flirting with me”.
Leo got up from where he was lying on the floor with his head on Jason’s lap just to fix Nico with the most judgemental look ever.
“Let me teach you how to surf”, he said, making air quotes with his fingers. “That definitely sounds like flirting to me”.
“Yeah, ‘cause you’re such an expert in flirting, aren’t you?”
It was Leo’s turn to roll his eyes at him.
“I know we all love talking about me, but somehow I’m not the main topic right now”, he said. “Also, I am the one with a boyfriend here, Goth-boy, so…”.
Nico scowled at him. God, he hated his friends.
It wasn’t not like he hadn’t expected the teasing that would come from telling them everything, but somehow Leo always managed to go beyond his expectations for how annoying he could be.
Nico hated how he couldn’t help but think that what he was saying made sense, couldn’t help the hot burning of hope growing inside him; he hated it, he could not allow himself to hope for real just to end up disappointed in the end.
Maybe Percy was just the kind of person who went around asking people if he could teach them how to surf? Maybe it was his way of showing off? It wasn’t like Nico knew him well enough to know this.
I know he loves the Little Mermaid though, his brain very usefully reminded him. I know he looked so embarrassed when I told him I don’t want to learn how to surf.
And I know he smiled at me when I told him I would look at him.
The last thought made his face burn. He didn’t even know how he had managed to recount the whole conversation to his friends without dying of embarrassment.
The more he thought about it the more the whole conversation with Percy sounded weirder and weirder if he removed the chance that it was indeed flirting. His heart jumped in his chest at the thought.
“Come on, Leo”, Jason stepped in. He wrapped his arms around Leo’s middle and pulled him to lay against his chest, resting his head on top of his.
Nico wasn’t jealous of them in any way, but he still felt his insides twisting around in a knot at the sight. He wondered how it would feel to have Percy’s arms around himself like that, if they too would fit together so well.
Don’t be ridiculous, Nico. You barely know the guy.
“Nico”, Jason said, pulling him out of his thoughts. “We’re not saying he was one hundred percent flirting with you - but really, he does sound interested in you at least in some measure”.
Nico hated how reasonable he made it sound. It was easier to get lost in the banter with Leo, but Jason was so pragmatic it was impossible to respond back to him.
“Also, you said he smiled at you when you told him-”
“Please don’t say it out loud”, Nico pleaded, cringing at himself. He still thought that burying himself under the ground somewhere could be his best option out of this,
Jason smiled at him, Leo laughed.
“Well”, Leo said. “One thing’s for sure - at least you were definitely flirting with him”.
“I’m going to kill you, Valdez”.
“You can’t! That would make Jason sad”, Leo replied. “Also, you know you love me, Goth-boy”.
Nico hated that he was right after all.
Jason was looking at them with a fond look in his eyes.
“I wasn’t flirting”, Nico mumbled in the end. “I just- I just happened to say that. I wasn’t really thinking”.
Percy made his mind go blank, free from any thought that wasn’t about how handsome he was, how Nico wanted him to keep smiling at him, and how much he wanted to get to know him. Really, all Nico had been thinking about was that he didn’t want Percy to leave, that he wanted that moment to last for as long as possible.
He let himself fall on the floor, lying down with his arms open. Biting on his lip rings had become a nervous habit, and he found himself doing it again as he stared up at the ceiling.
“Even if you weren’t thinking, it was still a pretty flirty thing to say”, Leo said. “And you said he looked pleased at that - so really, it’s a win-win situation”.
“Leo is right”, Jason added. “As awkward as it might have been, it sounds like all in all it was good. You talked to him for a while, you flirted, he seemed interested in you - so, what is it that’s making you being negative about it?”
Nico hid his face in the palms of his hands. He wanted to scream.
“I don’t know”, he pushed out through his dry throat.
Maybe it seemed too good to be true? Maybe he was afraid that even if Percy really was interested in him now he wouldn’t be anymore once he would get to really know him? Maybe he was just too embarrassed. Or maybe he simply wasn’t used to things going his way. He really didn’t know.
He suddenly felt two warm presences around him. He moved his hands away to see Jason sitting close to him with a hand on his shoulder, and Leo laying down next to him with his head resting on Nico’s side.
“You have this horrible habit of self sabotaging yourself, man”, Leo said.
Jason nodded. “You’re allowed to have good things, Nico”.
Oh Nico hated his friends.
“Shut up”, he said, hiding behind his hands again.
“Just talk to him again next time”, Jason said.
“Flirt with him again”, Leo added.
“See what happens”.
“And anyway you’re both so bad at flirting you must be made for each other”.
Nico blindly reached out to hit Leo on the head, and smiled when he got an offended ‘ouch’ in response.
Maybe he did love his friends after all.
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