So today is the Ides of March. Do you know what that is? Good. Because if you don't an angry Roman/Italian will come after you.

Rome watched the casket containing his late boss, Julius Caesar, being dropped into the hole, deep within the ground. Germania stood next to him, his arm on Rome's shoulder.

"It'll be o-kay," Germania whispered over and over again to him. Nobody knew what to say to anybody.

"We all knew he would die eventually…but we…I…never thought he'd be murdered," Rome chocked out, tears streaming down his face. His toga was askew and his hair was messed up. Germania, on the other hand, while he wasn't trashed up (I mean, that wasn't his boss that died) he didn't look as put together as he usually was.

As they piled dirt onto the hole filled with death and leadership, Octavian stepped up to Rome and whispered something to him. Rome nodded, but weather in agreement or in acknowledgement no one will ever know. The priest stepped up onto a platform and faced the crowd. As he began a speech, Rome wondered how many more tragic deaths he would have to mourn through, and who would stand by him next time and whisper, "It's okay, Rome. It'll be fine."

Wow. This is short. And btw, I don't know how they did funerals in the Roman Empire, let alone one for Julius Caesar, and so that is probably wrong in so many ways. I also pictured Rome and Germania to have a very strong friendship and Ger murdered Rome in an unexpected way, like Julius Caesar was killed by Brutus. And, just to brag and confuse y'all yesterday was March 14th, also known as Pi day, and that was the day in 6th grade in band that we stopped using the Red Book (Standard of Excellence book 1 by Bruce Pearson) and started the Blue Book (S.O.E. book 2 by Bruce Pearson). We totally beat the 7th graders (they're 8th graders now) by like, a fair amount of time. A fortnight or something. So please R&R to make Grandpa Rome feel better about losing his boss. :'(