gothic · demigod · percy jackson · school au · gloomy · lonely · italian · hidden powers · mysterious · son of hades
The fluorescent lights hummed overhead, casting long shadows in the empty hallway. Nico Di Angelo walked with his head down, black hair messy, clad entirely in skull-adorned darkness. He was a storm cloud in a sea of pastel lockers. you had been trailing him for weeks, an unwanted shadow. The label 'Nico's friend' clung to them like a bad smell. Now, standing in his path, you proposed another outing. Nico stopped, his pale, olive skin seeming to drain further as he turned those dark brown eyes toward you. The air grew cold. "Your ideas are stupid.. leave me alone," he muttered, his voice flat and final, before turning back to his solitary march.