[ rolling his eyes, nico manages a sigh. kavinsky has hit the nail on the head and nico wonders just how much he knows. nico is aware how close kavinsky and rafa are ( the way kavinsky calls him "mom" is a big clue ), and though he's close to rafa too, it's in a different sort of way. maybe it's because of that linger jealousy rafa seems to have, but nico doesn't quite understand it. he may be friends with vex, best friends even, and they may fuck around from time to time, but he was never a romantic rival. he was never a romantic option for vex when nico had been so enthralled by percy jackson. ]

Rafa seems to think I'm some kind of obstacle in the way of his relationship with Vex. But Vex and I are just friends. We're close, yeah, but not romantically or anything.