Nico's POV: The halls of the castle were silent and empty, as the should be at this time of the night. That dreaded meeting went on way too long as they usually did, leaving me tired and in a bad mood.Luckily it was the last one for a while, finally giving me the ability to tend to other things in my life. I paused once I reached my door, wondering if Khloe was asleep in there. She better be, it would be unhealthy for her if she wasn't. I know that she has difficulty sleeping without me, but maybe the safety of my room was enough to get her to sleep. Being as late as it was, maybe exhaustion alone would have put her to sleep.

Nico's POV: Khloe's mood hasn't changed for a couple of days. She still just been ridiculously quiet and avoidant. Normally I would just think that this was something that would just blow over, or that she would get over whatever was bothering her. But it was still evident, even more so than before. And I was becoming more and more worried about her. She wasn't even eating all of her food during any of the meals and would eat slowly as if she was forcing herself too. Not to mention that she was taking exceptionally longer to fall asleep and stay asleep. I turned my chair so that I was facing her. She was sitting in her signature spot on the window sill. Not drawing, not re

Nico's POV:31Khloe has been.... better since our little conversation.15It took a few days but she's almost back to how she was before.Which was nice but it almost felt as if she just passed her worry about the subject onto me.175Now I was worrying about something that wasn't supposed to happen for years.39I guess that aspect of things made me understand more about Khloe felt about this whole situation.2She knew that she couldn't run from the inevitable, and well, now neither can I.66It's not like I could just back out of what I said, that would just make her start worrying all over again.

Nico's POV52Khloe has been in the bathroom a lot longer than necessary. Even I knew that it didn't take a girl this long to put on a dress, and I was beginning to become impatient.37Not because she was taking a long time, but because I already knew full well that she had already changed.17I knew that she was probably just looking herself over, finding something that she was insecure about and second-guessing her dress choice because of it.15Insecurities that I still didn't understand why she had.248I leaned back, setting my arms on the bed for support.8I mostly just hoped that she wouldn't chicken out on showing it to me because of them. I wasn't going to let those ridiculous thoughts of hers stay in her head once she showed me.17

Nico's POV:28I leaned into the cold spray of the shower, my mind wildly buzzing from the event that had happened only moments before.587What. The. Hell.196I had a lot of questions flying through my head but those three words summed them all up pretty well.19What the hell did I just do?121Why did I just do it?90Why with her?431These questions kept repeating themselves in my head, even though I already knew the answer to all of them.37I knew the answers but part of me didn't want to know them.66But regardless of what I wanted the answers were as clear as day.6Frankly put, it was just because of her.26It was because I r