Chapter Text
January 5th, 2002
12:14 pm
Great Creek Middle School
"Nico DiAngelo, will you marry me?" Will looked up at his best friend as they both giggled.
"It is a pretty fancy skull ring."
Nico took the ring. "Now we're engaged, bro."
"If we're engaged, then Percy and Jason are an old married couple."
"True."
And they both went on to seventh grade lunch.
October 18th, 2007
9:44 pm
Di Angelo Household
Nico worriedly rubbed the skull ring Will had given him five years ago. What if he didn't understand? This was weird. What would all of those jokes mean now? 'My Fiancé' is not something you would say to someone you're not dating, especially if only one guy is straight. He paced the floor until his friend popped in the room.
"Yo. Your mom told me you were in here and to just come right in."
Don't freak out, di Angelo. Just come out and say it. 'I like boys.' No, that's not right. 'I'm gay.' Not that either. 'I'm a homosexual. ' Nope.
"Uh, Nico?"
"Men excite me."
WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?
"Shoot, I'm sorry, I mean, this is really awkward, like, don't hate me, God, I don't know, what I'm trying to say is that I'm-"
"Pansexual."
"What?"
"I'm pansexual."
"Really?" Nico was shocked.
"Yeah. And you are?"
"Gay."
"Hi Gay, I'm Will."
"Shut up."
"Okay, fine. Do you, like,"
"Have a crush on you? No. Do you like me like that?"
"God no. I wouldn't suck your dick unless you paid me."
"Well I don't have any money and if so, I wouldn't spend it on that." Nico laughed.
"Then it's settled." Will held up Nico's ring. "Our marriage will be dull and lifeless."
"Agreed."
November 26th, 2015
11:24 pm
Marigold Tavern
"Ah yes, we are sooooo in love," Will drunkenly giggled as he sloppily kissed Nico's cheek. “I got ‘im the ring and eveeeeerything.” Nico stared at the other guys.
“We are trying to hit on them! Be serious, Solace.” He turned around and tried to laugh it off, but the two men were gone.
“See what you’ve done? You’ve scared them off.”
“Come on, Nico. Lighten up an’ drink fer a change. We can get an Uber.”
“Fine.” He sighed. Turning back to the bartender, he gave the “I’ll have a Balkan 176 proof vodka.”
“A shot?”
“Just keep them coming. I’ll tell you when to stop.”
Will looked appalled. “Holyshitwhat? You tryin' to, like," He snapped his fingers, trying to find the word. "...die or something?”
“What? It’s not that bad.”
“Not that bad?” He continued. “It’s like, the BADDEST DRINK EVER!”
“I’ll be fine.”
November 27th, 2015
12:13 am
Inside a Car
“Will. Will. Will. Will. Will. Will. Will.” Nico hit his friend’s face repeatedly.
“Whazzup? Whatwedoin?”
“Are we…. drunk?”
“Duuuuuuuh.”
The two got dropped off at the corner leading up to the apartment complex. The lights of the shops were blinding, and lines of people littered the block. Black Friday was in full swing.
“Heyyyyyy dork, guess what?” Will yawned.
“What?” Nico shot back.
“Chicken Butt.”
The blond burst out laughing and Nico found himself pulling Will off the ground.
“Y’know, we’re almost home but like a bit more so we should walk ‘relse Jason’s gonna be piiiiiiiiiissed to have me home drunk before ‘e comes.”
Suddenly, from all the wear and tear, Nico’s eleven-year-old ‘engagement ring’ broke in half and fell into the grate in the ground.
“God DAMNIIIIT!” He yelled.
“Huh?” Will looked up from the dirty ground he was laying on.
“Dude we’re not engaged anymore.”
“But we’re gonna have a spring wedding an’ all of that shit.”
Nico chuckled. “Yeeaaah.”
And then a drunk Will had a drunk idea which could not end very well.
“NICOIHAVEANIDEAANDITSBRILLIANT!!!!!
Let’s get engaged again.”
“Yessssss we should man It’s a perfect plan.”
November 27th, 2015
1:09 am
The Park
“HELLO I’M WILLIAM MATTHEW SOLACE AND I HAVE SOMETHIN’ TO SAY.”
Will ran onto the stage and grabbed the microphone from the stand where a woman was singing and playing guitar in the pavilion. The park was beautifully lit with lanterns and the majority of the people in the audience had multiple shopping bags The entire park looked confused as the tan adolescent stole the show (literally). He was screaming now, pointing at Nico as he continued to talk over rising protest..
“YA SEE THAT BOY OVER THERE? THE EMO ONE? WELL I WOULD LIKE TO ENGAGE WITH HIM RIGHT NOW!” He knelt down and held out the ring. “NICO WILL YOU TAKE IT?”
“HELL YEAH!” Nico ran up and shoved the $1,060 ring onto his finger. Will whooped as the intoxicated duo made their way up to the apartment complex and into the elevator. While the elevator began to move to the eighth floor, Nico slammed the stop button and looked up at his ‘fiancé’.
“We should have sex since we’re engaged and we couldn’t do it when we first got engaged when were like, twelve, riiiight?”
“Yes!” Will shouted. “Another great idea. We are on FIRE tonight!”
“Soooooo should we like make out right now?”
“YEAH!”
Nico leapt into Will’s arms and pushed his lips on Will’s; he clumsily wrapped his arms around the blond while feeling the other boy’s breath against his face. His arms were tightly grasping Will’s shirt, desperate to see it off.
“Will’s lips are so fucking moist,” He thought. “How much chapstick does he use?”
He relished in the kissing ability of the taller boy, although they both smelt strongly of alcohol. Nico’s mop of messy hair was infiltrated by WIll’s hands running through them while Nico held himself up. Will kept a tight grasp on Nico as they broke only for a minute to unlock and lock again the door to Will’s apartment and to the bedroom, shutting the door quickly and excitedly.
November 27th, 2015
10:52 am
Solace Residence
Will woke up with the biggest hangover. He groaned as he stretched and checked his phone.
Text from: Lou Ellen
Congrats guys!!!!!! I always knew. I better be the maid of honor though! (JK but seriously don’t pick Cecil over me at least)
Text from: Percy Jackson
Don’t you dare hurt him, but still, nice job bro. Happy 4 u two.
Text from: Jason Grace
mess with my small son and it won’t be pretty
Text from: Reyna Avilla Ramirez-Arellano
u fuck up, i fuck u up.
Confused, he checked his facebook.
Huh, that’s strange. Someone changed his status to engaged. That’s only a joke between him and…..
“Nico?” He yelled. His best friend was naked in his bed. He was naked in his bed.
That’s when he saw it in his pictures. The phone dropped out of his hand.
“SHIT.” He shouted as his cry woke the former emo child. With a strange mixture of hangover and horror, Nico realized the same thing.
“Did we fuck?”
“Oh, we did more than that.”
“...What?”
Will stayed silent.
“Will, what did we do?”
Will held up Nico’s left hand.
“We just got engaged.”