Leico- I've Known You My Whole Life

The next morning when both the boys woke, everyone else was asleep. They looked at each other and grinned a bit. Leo spoke lowly, "We should make breakfast for our moms." Nico smiled a bit and nodded in agreement.
They moved out of the Latino's room and snuck downstairs as quietly as possible, the only time they stopped was to peek into Esperanza's room, Maria was asleep on a blow up mattress while Leo's mother was asleep on the bed. Both the boys smiled before continuing their descent downstairs.
When they were in the kitchen they ran around and pulled out a bunch of things, Leo began making pancakes while Nico pulled out some more things and began making eggs. Once they were done Leo was grinning ear to ear and Nico had a small smile plastered on his face.
Leo gave the other a sideways glance and then spoke, “Wanna go watch cartoons?”
Nico quirked an eyebrow, “Aren’t we a bit too old for cartoons?” Leo groaned a bit at the others comment, and pushed him lightly.
“Niiiiicy! It’s cartoons dude, no ones ever too old for them.” Leo began grinning, “We’ll watch Spongebob or even Pokemon, or or Bakugan!” Nico covered his face and laughed a bit before putting his hands up in defeat. They both shuffled into the living room and plopped down on the couch.
“Dude our mom’s are going to be so proud of us for making breakfast!”
“Leo, I’m hungry now..”
“We were just in the kitchen!” He pushed Nico’s face to the side and laughed a bit, he knew he was the same but it was always funny to see something like this happen to someone else.
“Oh shuddup! Don’t act like you don’t do it like at least five times a day!” Nico laughed a bit and moved to stand up, “Now do you want some breakfast too?”
Leo glanced to the side and made a slight pouty face. “Maybe.”
Nico rolled his eyes and moved to grab some breakfast for both of them, while Leo grabbed the remote and flipped the channel to Nick, as Leo suspected Spongebob was on.
When Nico returned with the food he placed a plate in Leo lap and glanced at the tv, and then he let out a small laugh. “So Spongebob was on?”
“Why wouldn’t be on? It’s usually on all day, di Angelo.”
“Oh whatever, Valdez.” he moved and sat down beside the other, they ate their food quietly, once in a while small laugh escaping both of them.
An hour passed, and by this time they were bouncing around the living room singing the Spongebob theme song, even though Nico felt completely ridiculous Leo convinced him to do it. The fits of laughter that broke out while they did so made everything much funnier. Finally Nico glanced at the tv and then his best friend, “Leo, you know how many sexual innuendos this show has?”
“You know this show relates to the seven sins?” Both the boys stared at each in complete silence. “You want to watch Pokemon, Nico?”
“Yeah.” Leo moved and reached over to the coffee table and grabbed the remote and turned the channel to Cartoon Network, and Pokemon came on. Nico grinned and stood up.
“I wanna be the very best, like no one ever was!”
Leo glanced to the side and then stood up and continued with the other, “To catch them is my real test, to train them is my cause!”
By this time the boys were basically singing in usion. “I will travel across the land searching far and wide! Each Pokemon to understand..” They were interrupted to by the sounds of their mothers clearing their throats, both their heads whipped back, and they gave them a small smile.
Esperanza spoke, “You boys realize what time it is?”
“It’s eight in the morning, mamá”
“Exactly, so why are you two up?”
“Well, me and Nico woke up, got bored so we made breakfast for all of us, then we were watching Spongebob..” He trailed off and glanced to the side as Maria yawned and finished for him.
“And now you two are watching Pokemon?”
Nico laughed a bit and shifted slightly, “Yeah. We didn’t mean to wake you guys though, sorry.”
Both the boys glanced at the floor and awaited to see what their mothers said, but they didn’t say a thing they just moved to the kitchen to see what Leo and Nico actually made for breakfast. After a few minutes Esperanza began talking to Maria, they decided to eat the food their sons so graciously made for them.
Leo blinked a few times and then nudged Nico. “So were gonna leave for that camp today?”
Nico quirked an eyebrow and shrugged lightly, “If you want, makes no difference to me.”
“I’ll take that as a yes, so ready to go pack?”
The Italian nodded lightly as they went back up to Leo’s room to pack for him, then they’d go to Nico’s house to get him packed too.
Leo shuffled through his top drawer, and began talking a mile a minute. “How long do you think it’d take to get there? Do you think those people will like us? Nico, your dads like the god of the dead, and mines like the god of fire and forge do you think that’s weird?”
Nico sighed and mumbled something before answering the Latino’s questions. “Maybe a couple of days, they’ll probably hate us it depends, and I don’t think its like too weird. But Leo how do you know our dads are gods? They could be regular people for all we know.”
“I did research last night on their names, and most demigods have things like we do, you know ADHD, ADD, things like that.” Leo paused and pursed his lips in thought for a moment, “Nico, have I told you that demigods heads are hardwired for Ancient Greek or something like that?”
Nico shook his head a bit. “No, and those are quiet interesting things, I never expected you to do research before.” Leo looked at him for a moment huffed lightly. “Awe, Leo don’t do that you’ll make yourself look cute.”
Leo began pouting, “I’m not cute, I’m manly, annd,” He smirked as he paused, Nico’s eyes widened a bit.
“Don’t you dare say it, you say it so much it’s cliche!”
Leo snorted lightly and struck a pose. “I’m Leo Valdez, Bad boy sumpere! I’m Mr. Mcshizzle!”
Nico groaned and face planted in one of Leo’s pillows and began complaining to himself. Sometimes Leo’s ego was way too big for his entire self.
After a while Leo finished packing his stuff. Clothes, wires and other mechanical things, money he had stashed away, other important things. Nico shifted and sat up a bit and smiled at the other slightly, “So my house now?”
“Course.” Both of them left Leo’s things at the door and headed out over to the di Angelo’s household, it didn’t take that long but by the time they got inside and upstairs they had talked about several things.
Once in Nico’s room Leo glanced around and scrunched up his nose slightly. There were boxes scattered everywhere and it looked like Nico began unpacking but never really finished. The raven haired boy moved to go over to his closet where he retracted a bag and then he moved towards a box and began looking through it taking things out once in a while.
It didn’t take that long for Nico to get all the things he needed but by this time Leo was deep in Nico’s fluffy blankets.
Nico raised an eyebrow and looked at his bed, then chuckled lightly. “Earth to Leo, come in Leo.”
“Leo’s dead, come back later.”
Nico laughed a bit and jumped on his bed on top of Leo, who squealed a bit and let out a small breath. “Nico!”
“You said you were dead!!”
Both of the boys laughed a bit, and then Nico moved off the other some. Leo sat up and looked at Nico with the most serious face ever, “How come you always come over to my house when you blankets are so fluffy and comfortable?”
“Your house is warmer tough.”
Leo pursed his lips for a moment and moved to the blanket away from him some as if to see how cold it was in the di Angelo’s household. “True, so you ready to go?”
Nico smiles lightly and glanced at his bag and nodded. “Yeah, let’s go.”
They grabbed Nico’s bag then went back to the Valdez’s house to grab Leo’s things, they figured if they told their moms they were leaving they would never let them leave.
They were ready to go to this Camp Half-Blood now. They stood outside of their houses and let out a small breath this was the last time they would see the homes that they practically grew up in their whole lives.
Off they went to the wonderful world of the gods. They then began walking towards the bus station.

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