Late Friday night Annabeth sighed and set her phone down beside her bed. She had texted her friend Wes three hours ago and he still hadn't replied. It wasn't like him, usually he texted back right away. Samantha layed down and closed her eyes, but they flew back open when she heard something move outside her window. She sat up and turned on her lamp. Annabeth jumped as the window started to slide open. She was just about to scream when her best friend Piper climbed into her room. Her face was red and strands of hair clung to her face. Annabeth gasped. Piper almost never cried. She slid off her bed and hugged her friend. "Piper, what happened? What's wrong?" She asked. The crying girl looked up at Annabeth, her eyes filled with fear and brokenness. Annabeth wanted cry now too, but she wouldn't. She'd stay strong for Piper.
"It's... it's" She began. "It's Leo, he's dead." She blurted. Annabeth gasped and forbidden tears sprung to her eyes.
"No, it can't be. No," she stated.
"But it is. I was just going to see him, he said he had something for me. And when I got there, he was crumpled on the floor, bleeding and his eyes stared right through me." Piper broke down sobbing.
"I'm sorry," Annabeth said through her tears. It didn't sound like the right thing to say, but she knew that no words could ever heal or match the amount of pain and horror that Piper was feeling right now. Leo and Piper had been close ever since they went to that dreadful school and first quest together. Annabeth couldn't imagine what it would have been like to find her best friend lying on the floor, dead.
Piper reached into her backpack and pulled out a package of chocolate covered blueberries. She offered a few to Annabeth. She smiled and ate them. Then her vision went black and her world was silent.
Piper wiped her eyes with the sleeve of her faded red sweatshirt and dropped Annabeth out the window. After climbing out the window herself, she picked up the unconscious girl and walked to her car. The night was quiet and a little cold. Fall was coming upon them quickly. When Piper reached her car, she threw Annabeth across the back seat. The determined girl quickly drove Annabeth away from her home and out of her sleeping neighborhood. She kept driving until she came to a clearing. Piper hoisted Annabeth over her shoulder and walked into the shadows casted by a huge building which loomed over them. Piper sighed as she looked up at the abandoned building, memories racing through her mind. As she carried Annabeth up the stairs, she could almost see her younger self running up these same stairs with her dad. They would laugh and race each other to the top. The two of them came here almost everyday until one day he got famous and all but disappeared from her life. Piper knew that Annabeth had had a part in that and this was her revenge. When she finally got to floor 14 she turned and walked down a hallway. The glass over the windows had long since broken and now a cool breeze drifted in. Piper set her "friend" down and went to check on the other parts of her plan.