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had my doubts but i let them out
“Is it still a secret if I know about it?”
“From everyone else, yes.”
Nico di Angelo has been living in the Jackson apartment for two years now. Sally got him into school and he shared a room with Percy Jackson, his half brother. Percy would take him to school and they both made sure Paul Blofis, Sally’s fiance, would never lay a hand on her.
Nico di Angelo owes his life to Sally Jackson. It’s no surprise that she’s the first person he ever comes out to.
“Hey, I’m proud of you.”
“Thanks Sally.”
It’s been a rough couple of months. Percy Jackson, her actual son, has gone missing. Nico wasn’t trying to replace Percy, but he’s stuck by Sally. Nico needs to make sure that Sally is okay. Whoever took Percy could take her.
Nico couldn’t stand the thought of having another family member be taken. Besides Hazel, who nobody knows about, he only has Sally. She’s become the mother he cannot forget, the mother he could've had.
“Why did you come out?”
“I needed to.”
Nico di Angelo has been terrified in disclosing his identity. He can remember family, his mother’s family, being ripped from his childhood home for homosexuality. Uncles and cousins who he never got to see again. WWII ripped his large family apart, forcing his mother to move him and Bianca to America during the height of it all.
Nico knows this isn’t WWII. Nico knows that Sally is accepting of Percy’s pansexuality. Nico knows that he’d be accepted here and now. Sally is a test run, the first person he’s ever come out too. And, with Sally on board about not telling it to anyone, he sighs a sigh of relief.
“Do you want to go to Pride? I’m happy to take you, Percy and Rachel.”
“I’m not ready yet.”
This is just one step to coming out. He still has loads of people to come out to, people he cares about. Nico knows how the world is and how it was. He’s not ready for that commitment.
Though, he knows that when he is, Sally and Percy will be standing on his side. Hopefully, others will be too.