Khloe's POV:I let out a sigh of relief as we entered back into Nico's warm room.The rest of the blood collection went by quickly and luckily without any other sort of incident.Although Nico had been quieter than usual ever since the incident with Samuel happened.I wasn't really too sure why, but I could tell that he wasn't mad at me about anything so that eased any major worry that I had about the subject.Still, the silence was off-putting and caused me to mirror it ever since it began.I slowly made my way over to the foot of the bed as Nico headed straight for the closet.

Nico's POV:The halls of the castle were silent and empty, as they 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 to. Not to mention that she was taking exceptionally long to fall asleep and stay asleep.I turned my chair so that I was facing her.She was sitting in

Nico's POV: Khloe has been.... better since our little conversation. It took a couple 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. Now I was worried about something that wasn't supposed to happen for years. I guess that aspect of things made me understand more about Khloe felt about this whole situation. She knew that she couldn't run from the inevitable, and well, now neither can I. It's not like I could just back out of what I said, that would just make her start worrying all over again. ill have to figure

Nicos POV:Khloe 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.Not because she was taking a long time, but because I already knew full well that she had already changed.I 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.Insecurities that I still didn't understand why she had.I leaned back, setting my arms on the bed for support.I 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 he