A/N: This is my first FanFic story. I love Percy Jackson! (I don't own Percy Jackson or any of the other characters.) Ann Ylita was based off my best friend, who is in LOVE with Nico (Also not mine.) Nico's trip is based off of my trip to my Grandparent's boat, but not everything that happens to Nico happened to me. The story takes place somewhere else, but it is a real place. I hop you enjoy it! This is for you Ann!

Day 1

Nico:

Just to clear things up this is not a Diary or a journal. In fact I wouldn't be doing this unless Chiron had made me, just like he made me go on this stupid trip. "Writing will help your dyslexia," he had said, but do I really want to help my dyslexia? I just want to get rid of it not help it get worse. Stupid Demigod Syndrome. And the "vacation." I don't exactly call a five-day road trip that has already taken six a "vacation." More like torture in disguise. Being the Son of Hades has its down sides, literally, and not being able to ride in an airplane is one of them. (PUN!) So the only way I can safely get from Manhattan, New York to I-Have-No-Idea-Where, Washington is by car. At first I thought the Prius was cool, but now I hate it. Plus since I'm the youngest I have the backseat. So I'm stuck traveling to Washington with Percy and Annabeth, where we will be staying for the next month. Percy told me that his dad gave him a boat on the Snake River. Basically to get there you drive to the middle of nowhere, go straight then hang a left. So, basically the only reason I am writing is because I have nothing left to do. My iPod is dead along with my DS and I forgot to bring both of their chargers. I tried looking out the window, but the Washington desert looks the same. We're in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by wheat fields, and Annabeth and Percy are fighting.

"You have the map!"

"But you're driving!"

"I have never been here in my life, how do you expect me to know the way?"

"I'm telling you though! You just don't listen!"

"Well, your telling me wrong because-"

"DON'T CALL ME DUMB PERCY!"

"I need to use the bathroom." I piped up to end the argument, kind of. Well, it did.

Annabeth turned on me. "Seriously, Nico. This is kind of a bad time."

"Wull…"

"We could stand to stop." Percy said, deliberately not looking at Annabeth. "I could ask for directions."
Annabeth snorted and stared out the window, ready to strangle any innocent jackalope that wandered to near.

Ten grueling minutes later we stopped in the small town of Washtucna. The one and only shop in town that we stopped at only had one bathroom for both men and women. Just as we were heading in I saw a family, mother and three kids, go in. They took FOREVER. I shifted my weight from one foot to the other, back and forth, back and forth. I could hear kids screaming and the mother yelling to stop messing with the towel dispenser and not to throw soap. Percy came around the corner and nodded at me. I nodded back. We waited in silence for a bit then Percy said, totally relaxed, "They've been in there a while."

"Yes." I growled.

"Oops. Sorry."

Finally the door opened.

Afterward I wandered through the store, wondering what to buy at this rest stoppish thing. I went to buy a Coke, but Annabeth stopped me.

"No."

I ended up with Ice Cream instead. Percy told us to go to the car, he would get directions, and so Annabeth and I sat in the car in awkward silence. She was still in bite-you-head-off mode so I didn't say anything.

"We're on the right track like I told you , Annabeth." Percy gloated when he returned, with a Coke. I laughed.

"Shut up, both of you." Annabeth sulked. She doesn't like to be wrong.

45 minutes later we drove over a bowtie shaped bridge that reminded me of pasta, then down a steep dirt road. A rock bounced up and chipped the windshield. Haha Prius.

"Crap!" Percy also added a string of words that I will not include. Keeping it G. Or at least PG. "First Blackjack, now this!" He threw his hands in the air, angrily.

Bwahaha! In yours faces Priuses! I know what you're thinking, if a piece of paper could think. I don't completely hate the Prius, well… But you try sitting in a car for six days straight, all day , all night, and not hate it. But you're just a piece of paper, so you wouldn't understand.

We drove down the driveway and into a parking lot, where we had a pretty cool view of the river and mountains and cliffs. There were lots of birds flying everywhere. We parked facing the docks. It was Annabeth who saved us momentarily from the certain peril of unpacking.

"Let's go for a swim. I need to cool off, in more than one way." She added venomously glaring at me.

Percy absolutely loved the idea, being Poseidon's son and all. "Sure. We can take the Sea Doo down to the park on the Palouse."

That's how we ended up at the Park. Now, I don't exactly enjoy swimming in lakes and rivers. Pools are ok, at least they have filters and are usually no more than six feet deep. Lakes are different. It's just like swimming in million year old pee and I don't even want to know about the toddlers. So there I am standing in ankle-deep water (Only because Percy teased me about staying on the beach, "Baby!" ha had called me, and I can't just let him tease me) with my life jacket still on , because I forgot to take it off after the Sea Doo ride, when this incredibly hot girl shows up. She was wearing a black and white striped tankini and her long auburn hair was pulled back in a ponytail. She had side-swept bangs and a nice tan. 'Wow' I thought. Then she saw me, so I had to go say hi… because she was the only other teenager my age, duh.

"Hey." I said.

"Hi" She said back.

After a moments pause I said "My name's Nico. Nico Di Angelo."

She nodded. "I'm Ann. Ann Ylita."

"Sweet."

Ann giggled a bit then asked, "Are you scared of drowning in ankle-deep water?"

Oops. "Oh… uh… no. I just was on a Sea Doo and I just… er…" I fumbled to get the jacket off.

Ann smiled warmly. "I was kidding. Can you swim?"

"Uh. Yeah." I said trying to be all macho like after the embarrassment.

"Race ya!" Ann yelled plunging into the water.

I lost obviously. And I lost badly. Ann is a pretty fast swimmer. After we got out the buoys we treaded water and talked.

"You on vacation?" she asked me.

"Yeah, you?"

"No." she said. "I live here."

"No way. Awesome."

"Not really. My parents work for KOA, which owns this place. I usually have to work in the Kampstore or restaurant as a waitress or in the kitchen. I love it here when I'm off though."

Our conversation was cut short by Percy and Annabeth coming up from somewhere under the water and saying it was time to go. I said goodbye to Ann and we went to go unpack.

Unpacking wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. And after we went to the diner for dinner (he he.) Ann was working the register and she waved. After dinner we went for a walk on what is called the Breakwater. It's like a really long dock that shows boats that they need to slow down. We were pretty tired from riding in a car all day (imagine that) so we went to bed early after that.