"Nico?" Jason asked before walking into the empty room of his room mate. He had just come home from a party at Percy's house. He noticed right away that the room was deserted. 'He must have gone for a walk' he thought, jeez that dude could be creepy sometimes; taking walks out in the scary city at night. Jason was about to walk out of the room when he noticed a note duct-taped to the desk in the far corner of the room. He sighed and walked over to the desk flicking on the light. The little dude picked odd places to put things, like notes for example. The thing that Jason didn't think of was that maybe Nico didn't want him to see it. The note read:
'Hey Jason, I just needed some air, y'know time to think things through. Not bad things… just things, it's been a hard day and I just needed to get out. But if you insist on finding me I'm in that big park at the end of the street, y'know the one with the trees I used to be afraid of with cuts in them that made names, and I thought that they were going to get up and hurt us because so many people hurt them… I know too much info. But yeah you probably won't be back from your parties until later but I'm just thinking ahead. So yeah, bye.
~Nico'
Jason grabbed his coat and his phone but not his keys, he wasn't drunk but he was a careful guy. He stepped out into the cold 4am air and zipped his jacket up to the top looking like a nerd with his nose tucked into the neck of the coat, but Jason never cared about others opinion which made him fairly popular. He turned into the wrought iron gates of the park and was faced with a path lined by trees looking scarred and ghostly in the moonlight, Jason understood why the little boy inside of Nico was afraid of the trees. He walked along the path thinking Nico would have stayed away from the trees and not varied from the path. But he walked for what seemed like hours and the sun was bleeding color into the sky. When he heard a quiet noises, crying, it seemed like so he followed it to under an old oak tree where a scrunched up black figure sat, earphones plugged but still crying. The first drops of rain fell as Jason sat down beside his friend. Nico was still oblivious to the blond boy beside him. There was noise coming out of the earphones because Nico tended to play his music on highest possible volume. The noise was hard to hear but as Jason strained to hear the voice echoing in the sobbing boys ears, it sounded like 'I believe the world is burning to the ground oh well I guess we're going to find out' 'oh Nico' Jason thought and lightly pushed the boy's shoulder. He looked up frightened and his eyes were filled with sadness and tears. Jason reached up to the sides of Nico's head and gently pulled out his ear buds and turned off his black mp3 player.
"Hey Nico." He said evenly.
"We need to talk, so if you could stop crying for a sec that'd be good." He put in with an awkward half smile, as the younger boy sniffled to a stop with his tears.
The droplets started spouting from the sky.
"He wasn't lying Jason." Nico said looking into the blue eyes with unexpected relief from getting it off of his chest.
"I don't care Nico." Jason said in a big brotherly way.
"Still bros?" Nico asked looking at his feet.
"Still bros." Jason replied.