I wore black, a black lace dress over a black silk under dress. My shoes were high heels and black too. My brown hair was curled and my grass green eyes were looking at the two graves right next to each other. I got up when they said I could and placed a white rose on each grave.

"May Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase rest in peace" the man said. We stood up and I almost ran into a girl with choppy brown hair.

"Oh sorry… Piper?" I asked the girl. She looked up at me and smiled. She had a black shirt and a black skirt on.

"Hi Katie" she said. She seemed sad.

"What's wrong?" I asked her. I walked next to her where ever she was going.

"I'm kind of homeless" she told me. I stopped.

"Live with me" I said before I could process anything. Reyna had moved out and next door because she wanted her own place, we were still close friends and she came over constantly along with Travis, Jason, and Leo. Annabeth and Percy used to live diagonal from us, we were all childhood friends. She looked at me and smiled then hugged me.

"Of course" she said. We walked back to my apartment with Reyna and we all caught up, we tried to be happy for Percy and Annabeth, but we seemed to not be able to do that so we tried to pretend. The boys had left before us, they walked also. Since Percy and Annabeth died in a car crash we didn't take one, to honor them.

"Piper I have an extra room you can use, Leo and Travis live together on the other side of them is Jason, remember him" Reyna said. We entered the building and went to my apartment first, Travis and Leo were watching a football game and Jason was most likely in his apartment.

"GUYS! Leo stop talking about how much you want to see Reyna naked!" I yelled at them. Leo blushed and Reyna started laughing.

"I was not" he said. Travis joined in laughing, I rolled my eyes, when we were little he would always play pranks on me and my sister Miranda and his brother Connor would help him. Connor now lives in Florida hitting on every girl he sees and my sister Miranda lives in Paris, she's a chef at some restaurant.

"Piper's going to live with me, her parents made her way to angry with them so she moved out and yeah…" I explained. "Piper, do you have any other clothes or any personal belongings?" I asked her, she looked down at her clothes and shook her head.

"No, I heard they died and grabbed black clothes before I left, this is all I have and they don't want to see me" she told me, I nodded.

"Come here I'll show you the room and we only have one bathroom…." I rambled on about everything. Travis finally had enough, he covered his hand over my mouth.

"Katie, can you stop being so… Katie" He said. I grabbed his hand and flipped him over.

"No" I said, sternly. He sighed and got up. Piper got comfortable in her room and told me she'd try to get a good job, she went to a good college and can have good jobs in the fashion department.

We went to the coffee shop below our apartment complex. Since it was NYC this wasn't very uncommon. We sat in our usual place, on the couch and two chairs they had to the left side of the shop. I saw Jason's blonde head and knew he had gotten his usual.

"Hey Jase, remember Piper?" Leo said as he sat on one of the chairs. I sat next to Piper and Jason. Travis sat on the other side of me and Reyna sat in the other chair we had.

"Yeah… looking good" he said. She smiled at him.

"Thank you, you too" she complimented.

"Piper and Jason sitting in a tree, K-" Leo stated singing before he was cut off.

"Leo, your 22, stop acting like my nephew" I interrupted him. Travis started chuckling with everyone else next to me, my nephew was currently 4 and I had told Piper that on the way back from the funeral so that would explain why she was laughing too. Leo started to pout.

"So now's not the time to bring up the prom story?" Travis asked.

"Shut up, shut up, shut up!" he told him. Reyna smiled to Piper not knowing what to he was talking about.

"So he took Kathy Tress, Will's sister, to prom and he had some bad food before that and still went even though he was feeling sick and they had a great time and everything and they started making out, he started feeling sick again and just pushed it off, then-" Reyna started.

"SHUT UP!" Leo yelled, earning attention from the other 9 people in the room.

"So he started not feeling well and puked all over himself and Kathy!" Jason finished we all burst out laughing, I feel over on Travis's lap from the laughing.

"So what do you guys do for a living?" Piper asked us. She was holding a cup of hot chocolate since it was early winter.

"I'm a firefighter" Travis said. He did that because his mother died in a fire and he swore to help other people with fire and stuff like that when he got older.

"I write for the New York Times" I told her. I always loved writing, it helped me get my feelings out.

"I'm a teacher" Reyna said. She liked taking control of the kids but was also kind to them.

"I'm a stripper" Leo said. Piper laughed. We stared at her.

"Why are you laughing?" we asked. She stopped and looked at me.

"That was a joke right?" she asked. I shook my head.

"No, he's really a stripper Piper" I said, serious. She looked at Leo.

"We're joking, he's a mechanic" Reyna finally said.

"I'm an actor" Jason said. Piper looked interested, her father was an actor and her mom was a model/actress/singer.

"Really?" she asked. He nodded.

"Well, not a big shot actor like your parents, but I'm working my way up" he said. Rachel, who was also a good friend of ours and Percy and Annabeth, came up to us and took our order since she worked there.

"What would you like?" she asked us as she leaned on Reyna's chair lazily.

"Esspresso" Leo said really fast, like he had a sugar rush.

"You don't need another one" Rachel said but wrote it down on her notepad anyway. She took the rest of our orders and went off, she was still wearing black like the rest of us.

Piper and I walked into our apartment and we were about the same size so I let her borrow some of my clothes for everything. We entered our rooms at the same time, then came back out at the same time to see what we just did then we waved our hand in the same direction at the same time and shrugged and went into our rooms.

Once I woke up I got out of bed and to the shower, it was something I didn't process, I just did it. I finally became awake when I was in the warm water of the shower. Once I did everything I needed I went to my closet and got dressed and all that.

"Piper?! Going to work, I'll be back at three!" I yelled to her.

"Mmmmhh" she groaned in response. I left my apartment and Reyna did the same, the school she worked at was next to my office so we walked there together.

"So how's the grading doing? I mean a seventh grade math teacher must grade a lot of work right?" I asked her. She sighed.

"Grading so much stuff and being so instructive makes me feel like Donald Trump on Celeb. Apprentince" she complained. I laughed.

"Right, 'cause you're an old demanding man" I said sarcastically. She snorted.

"You know it" we both laughed.

"See ya later Kates" she said as she went to the school steps. I walked a few more paces and walked into my building, I walked to my office and finished writing a story about a big murder case that was going on, my boss, Malcolm, also Annabeth's brother came in my door just as I finished writing it.

"How's the case going?" he asked. I filled him in and gave him the report. He nodded and approved it, he was running it in tomorrows paper.

"Piper!" I yelled as I collapsed on the couch in our apartment. She came out of her room and looked super happy.

"What is it?" I asked her, suspicious. She grinned.

"I got a job, working for Ralph Loren!" she squealed. "I'm getting an okay pay, but I'll start working next week!" she finished. I guess she did have a good college degree.