Nico nodded. "Next summer is going to be even worse, if I don't do something about it." Nico would rather be spending time doing something fun than having to worry about his father's plans.
"He does not even try to know me." Nico's father was more obsessed with trying to get his family back on top and abusing his children to even think about them. "If he really did know me, then he would know that I would rather be doing herbology, then sitting behind a desk for eight hours a day." Both Nico and Bella loved the out doors more than the indoors. "Not that it is going to help, as soon as I turned 17 I am ending the engagement. He may think that he can control me, but he has another thing coming." Nico downed a shot of alcohol and asked for another. "You are not your father, Gabe. Nor should you be punished for his free will." Nico did not associate himself with the feeling that he was better than somebody else.