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His door swung open, and immediately, there was noise.
"Nico! Get up up, it's today! The trip is today! Come onnnn."
Nico let out a groan in response and drew his blanket up and over his head.
A sweet laugh ran through the room, and Nico's blankets were pulled back slightly.
Just enough for rays of light to peek through and for Nico to see a face with a wide grin plastered across it.
"Fuck off Haze."
The girl faxed offence before kissing him on the forehead and saying.
"Just get up soon, we need to leave in ten. And- oh, your suitcase is already downstairs."
Hazel then skipped out of the door.
"Please close the- fuck" He grumbled.
He struggled out of bed and stumbled to his door and swung it shut.
Nico removed his Batman pyjamas and traded them for a pair of black trousers and a knitwear jumper Hazel got him in a Halloween discount.
He jogged out of his room and narrowly avoided falling down the stairs.
Nicos' roughed up converse were situated next to a wooden cabinet,and Hazels' pair of Mary Jane's, which she had swapped to wear her cream-coloured Addidas instead.
A shout materialised from the kitchen in the voice of his step-mother. "Nico darling wait-! "
Before she could continue what she was saying, Nico was out the door, suitcase in hand, in the pouring rain.
"Fuck." He muttered.
A few feet away on a concrete driveway was his father’s car. Sat all cosy in the passenger seat was Hazel with a smug grin on her face. She met his eyes and flipped him off, bearing her teeth in a playful smile that stretched ear to ear.
" Little shit." Nico hissed as he ran to the car and pulled open the boot and tackled his suitcase inside before hastily shutting it and getting into the back of the car.
Hazel turnt around in the car and exclaimed, "Are you excited?" Nico responded appropriately by saying.
"I hate you."
"I love you too." She replied with a Cheshire-cat grin and turnt back around.
Their dad, Hades, drove off and they travelled through their well-maintained, pristine neighbourhood, to the suburbs, past the large park that most Nico's year enjoyed residing in, before they arrived at school.
Hazel gave Hades a quick hug before running out into the pounding rain and up the stairs into Pantheon School. Nico gave his dad a sullom goodbye, and then he retrieved their bags from his car.
The rain poured hard down on him as he trudged the bags up the stairs.
Once he found himself under shelter he tried to shake off the water that lingered on the leather of his jacket.
His fathers car drives off into the hazy, drab, grey of dawn.
A tall figure darted easily up the stairs and meets agin who strood behind him. Raven black hair clung to his forehead until a well-defined ,bronze hand swept it back. A sideways smile is pressed onto his face as he walked over to his "friend," Annabeth.
The name felt toxic in his mind, lucky girl, Nico thought.
He begun to walk in their direction through the doors, but before he could, Percy greeted him with a wave, and the same easy grin remained on his face.
Nico pivoted and kept his gaze down in an unsuccessful attempt at hiding his flushed face.
"Nico!" His heart jumped in his chest as he realised he recognised the southern drawl.
Walking in time beside him was Willl Solace, a guy who seemed to be in most of his lessons and would try to speak to him despite his lack of verbal contribution.
"Hi Will."
"So you're going on the trip then?" Will asked cheerily.
"Yep." Nico responded monotonous, as he pulled both Hazel's and his suitcases and tried to get to the hall as fast as possible.
"Oh cool, who are you rooming with? I think I'll probably be with Austin or Cecil."
Shit, Nico hadn't thought about that yet.
"Uh." Before he could think of a proper response to Wills question, the boys arrived at the "Amphitheatre's" doors.
Will, with an enthusiastic wave, said goodbye before walking inside and sitting near his friends.
Through the now closing door, amongst the crowd of teens Nico spotted his sister and dragged their cases through the door, toward her. She was sat next to a group of girls that he did not the name of. Fortunately, Hazel had saved him an isle spot.
Chiron, head of the school gave a speech about how they were expected to act during the duration of the trip. Nico must have failed to pay any attention cause in the next moment he had rested his head on a window on a coach. Droplets of water rolled their way down the steamed up glass.
Hazel was at his side once again and was having an animated conversation win a person on the opposite row.
Nico fished out his headphones from his pocket and plugged them into his phone.
He placed them into his ears, careful to avoid his piercings, he opened up the Apollo app and pressed play on some mid-western, "emo" music.
Some guy by the name Alex G?
Whatever it was, Nico liked the sound of it as he dozed off fixated on the melancholy weather outside.