New Year’s Day
in which: leo valdez has always been pathetically in love with you, and he finally confesses on a porch at a frat party
fratboy!leo valdez x daughter of athena!reader
warnings: language, use of y/n
requested: yes/no
a/n: english is not my first language, so sorry if there’s any typos!! :)
leo was sitting on the couch, holding a half-empty paper cup in his hand, observing all the people at the party. his friends, people he didn’t even know, and people he had seen two or three times in college and greeted with a head nod. but you weren’t there. or at least he hadn’t seen you yet.
his best friend, jason, flopped onto the couch.
“why are you here alone?” he asked.
“this party sucks,”
“you haven’t seen y/n, huh?”
leo looked at jason. he had lipstick marks on his cheeks and neck.
“someone had a good time,” leo said, pointing to jason’s face.
“shut up.”
leo sighed and looked at the front again. everyone was dancing to the music, happy, joyful. some holding onto someone’s waist, some not. some kissing someone, some not. some probably fucking someone on the rooms upstairs, some not.
“she said she’d be here,”
“maybe she is,” jason reassured, “but you haven’t seen her yet.”
“the house is not that big,” he chuckled.
“piper said she’s here.”
“maybe she left.”
“for the gods’ sakes leo,” jason hid his face in his palms. “go search the girl, you are not doing anything sitting here.”
jason got up and walked towards piper again. leo took a sip out of his cup. he drummed with his fingers in his left thigh.
he was waiting for you. waiting for a text, a call. something. waiting for you to suddenly sit down next to him and tell him (at last) you love him.
you two met at camp. chiron told you to show him around and you got closer after that. you were always together.
leo saw his phone screen lit up. it was a text. from you.
“porch :)”, it read. he smiled and got up.
jason winked at him from the distance, and something told leo jason already knew you were outside.
he opened the door slowly, and saw you facing away. he approached you, quietly.
“so…” you faced him, “good evening.”
“good evening.” he leaned against the fence, like you, by your side. “i thought you wouldn’t come.”
“and miss percy doing karaoke drunk? hell no.” leo laughed. “also, it’s new year’s eve. i wasn’t going to rot in my room the whole night, evidently.”
the chill air of the night brushed through your hair. leo was low-key staring at you, but could he help it?
you fell into a comfortable silence, just enjoying each other’s presence. you rested your head on leo’s shoulder, feeling his body warmth.
you could hear the before loud music now faint, the only sound that mattered to you being leo’s calm breathing. he could hear his own heartbeat going faster, and prayed to his father you couldn’t feel it.
“i heard you were going out with a boy,” he said. you looked at him. “what was his name… lucas?”
you laughed, “luke. no, no, i’m not going out with him, we’re just friends. maybe just study buddies.”
then something crossed your mind.
“are you going out with someone?”
you mentally prayed to your mother that he wasn’t.
ever since camp, you’ve had a crush on leo. when late at night you helped him with summer homework. when you reassured him after a bad nightmare. when he forced you to help him with his inventions. when your lives were so miserable you didn’t have time to think about feelings. and now, that your lives were remotely normal and you did have time to think about relationships, it would suck to know some other girl was faster than you.
“no”, he said, and you breathed out even though you didn’t know you were holding it, “i’m not dating anyone.”
“would you like to?” you asked, hoping for him to take the hint.
you heard cheering inside the house, clapping and the music got louder. you checked the time in your phone. 0:00, January 1st.
“happy new year leo,” you smiled sweetly at him, his eyes darted from your eyes to your lips.
“happy new year. and i would love to,” he said. “to date someone. well… not someone, you. i want to date y…”
you cut him off by kissing him. he hesitated a few seconds, but then he kissed you back, placing his hands in your waist. you placed yours in his neck, gently touching his curls.
you felt his smile on the kiss. you imagined your first kiss differently, but this was perfect.
now, you didn’t have to save the world. to risk your lives everyday. so you could dedicate entirely to love each other properly.
on the distance, you heard everyone shouting.
“to new beginnings!”
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