Chapter 5

Angsty Cousins

“Percy where are you going!” I hear my mom call after me as I’m about to walk out of the door.

“To the angsty cousins!” I yell back

“Oh, Say hi to Nico and Bianca for me!” She calls when I’m about to close the door “Wait! I have some left over meatloaf from last night! Give it to Cerberus!”

“No! That dog does not need to get any bigger!” I shout closing the door behind me.

Ok, so. Angsty cousins, why you ask? Well, us cousins are split into 3 groups, angsty (Bianca, Nico and Hazel), sarcastic (Me) and the smart cousins (Thalia and Jason. I know what your thinking… Thalia? Smart? Pfft, Nah but she is. In an evil cunning way). Speaking of smart the blonde genius is behind me. No not Jason.

“Wait, Percy!” She calls running down the stairs after me while trying to pull on her jacket.

“Yes?” I ask chuckling, watching her struggle to get her arms through the jacket sleeves. “You need help there?”

“No” She says glaring at me. After about 10 seconds of struggling she finally nods her head “Yeah”

“So… are you joining me.” I ask helping her put her jacket on

“Yeah” She says smiling.

That’s when I notice she’s holding a bag. Why would she need a bag? Unless…

“Annabeth did you bring… food?” I ask calmly trying not to get my hopes up

“Yeah” She says grinning. She’s up to something. “I brought it for the love of my life…”

“Aw, Annabeth you shouldn't ha…” I say interrupting her and reaching for the bag

“Cerberus” she finishes. getting into my car

“What?” I ask sitting on the drivers seat

“Look, Percy. Do you really think I go round to your Uncle Hades house to see his kids?” she asks. I’m about to reply with a yes when she says “No don’t answer that. I don’t. I go for the dog.”

“Ok then” I say while starting up the car. “Seatbelt Annabeth”

I wait until she has it on before I drive off.

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As soon as we walked through the door Annabeth was off to find Cerberus. Which left me on my own standing in awkward silence with Nico. He’s normally a nice person but lately he's been weird. Well weirder than usual. We walked through to the living room. It’s all black with purple, weird fabric sofa’s. Nico plopped himself down on one of the large sofa’s. He got his phone out of his pocket and started scrolling through his it.

'So...' I said trying to start a conversation. I sat down next to him on the sofa. 'How've you been?'

He looked up for a second and I almost thought we were about to have a normal conversation till my hopes were shot down by his one word answer.

'Fine'

'What've you been up to?'

'Nothing' I tried to peek over his shoulder to see what he was doing on his phone but he just moved away.

'What're you doing?'

'Nothing'

'Well you've got to be doing something' This must've annoyed him since he looked up again, he was glaring at me this time though.

'Will you shu-' He was cut off by the door opening and Bianca walking in while babbling excitedly with annabeth and devil dog in tow.

“He’s so… Amazing” Bianca sighed sitting heavily down on the sofa opposite us. Annabeth sat down on the floor with Cerberus. Dam dog.

“Who” I demand sitting forward. Bianca was about to say something before Annabeth cut her off.

“Will”

“Oh, thank god I thought I was gonna have to hunt another guy down for a minute there.” I sigh dramatically leaning back.

“Oh, Shut up Percy!” Bianca exclaims shaking her head as Hazel walks in the room.

“Why’s Percy shutting up?” She asks looking between us. Bianca was about to speak but Annabeth cut her off… again.

“He’s being over protective.”

“Oh Bianca!” Hazel exclaimed looking upset “Did you tell him about…”

“No!” Bianca shouted before Hazel could finish speaking. This seemed to get Nico’s interest. He locked his phone and looked between his sisters, leaning forward. I mimicked him.

“What’s going on?” He asked

“Nothing!” Hazel squeaked.

“Hazel…” I growl threateningly

“Nothing’s wrong Percy. I’m fi…”

“She’s going on a date with Frank” Annabeth interupts. I look at her and see that Cerberus is literally sat on her. How is she not dead? Hazel’s glaring at Annabeth while Bianca’s just sat on her phone laughing.

“FRANK?!” Nico practically screams standing up.

“Yes” Hazel says

“Frank?!” Nico exclaims a bit quieter.

“Yes”

“But… Fra…”

“Yes, Nico. Frank! Got it? Good” Annabeth interrupts. What is wrong with her today? Is it that time of the month again? Because if it is… I don’t want to know.

“But Hazel! Franks… FRANK”

“Yeah, I know… that’s why I’m going on a date with him” Hazel says sassily. Who knew the little hairball had sass?
Nico flopped back down onto the sofa. There was an awkward silence. Bianca was texting someone on her phone (probably Will), Hazel was stood awkwardly her own in the middle of the room, Annabeth was laying on her back while Cerberus lay on top of her (They’re staring into each others eyes. Dam dog) and Nico was sat there in compete shock just whispering ‘Frank?’ and ‘But he’s a baby man child’. After the 15th ‘But he’s a baby man child’ I’m about to say something but Annabeth beats me to it. She stands up and walks over to Nico.

“And your an emo leprechaun but we didn’t moan at Zoe when you guys started dating” Annabeth snaps. Cerberus barks once as if to say, Hellhound approved.

“Emo leprechaun?” I ask laughing

“This has nothing to do with me and Zoe” Nico says getting defensive while glaring at Cerberus. Ignoring me completely.

“Actually…” Bianca said looking up from her phone “I need to talk to you about that little brother.”

“What?”

“Well… to put it lightly… your a crap boyfriend. Why can’t you be more… like Will”

“I’m more like Will than you think…” Nico grumbles under his breath. Meaning for no one to hear but I heard

“What’s that supposed to me…?” I ask curiously

“Come on! We’re all going to McDonalds!” exclaims Annabeth over the top of me.

Ooh… food. She knows me too well.

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Let’s just say… McDonalds makes me happy. So when I have the perfect opportunity to McFall on my McBooty I take it.

I had just taken the tray from the lady on the counter. Light was shining though the window onto the open space in front of me. It was a sign from McGod and I was sure as hell gonna McTake it. So I threw myself on the floor, everything was in slow motion. Nico stood up as he saw me, Annabeth just looked… neutral, Hazel gasped and her hand flew to her mouth while Bianca’s eyes went wide. Just as I hit the floor I screeched.

“I’VE MCFALLEN!”

No one seemed to care… except Nico. He came running over towards me and asked

“Are you ok?”

“Yeah I’m…” I was cut off

“Not you!” He snapped picking up his happy meal dusting it “Are you ok?”

“It’s a Happy Meal! I’m your cousin!” I shout

“No cousin of mine would throw himself on the floor while holding a tray of food” Nico says shaking his head and walking towards the table. “What have you become?”

Well… I won’t be doing that again.

Or will I?

Notes

Authors Note: Ok so… Happy Birthday Nico!! I know I took a while to update, It's just really busy at school right now but I'll try to keep updating.

Disclaimer: I don’t own Percy Jackson that right remains with Rick Riordan