SUNSHINE and DARKNESS

"And where do i go?"

Summary - Will and Nico discuss their futures after high school together.

Warnings: AU-modern settings

word count - 2,240 (just the story....not including A/N and stuff)

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They laid on the roof of Nico's house watching the night sky in the early May breeze. Laying there was one of their favorite past time. They would squint their eyes and try to find the stars. They would point at a shiny dot in the sky, only to be disappointed that it was a passing plane.

"It's the light pollution, I'm telling you," Nico huffed. His hands were resting on his stomach, a smile on his face. Will laid next to him, his hair messed up from the wind.

"I know," he agreed and sat up. "I can't wait to visit towns or go camping in places where we can actually see the stars."

"And when would that be?" Nico hummed playfully.

"Sometime soon," Will replied softly, a distant smile on his face. "Maybe when we are off in college, in between semesters. We could even go camping in during spring break next year."

"Hmm...next year would be senior year," Nico hummed as he thought about the offer. "I doubt that we would have the time and luxury to go camping."

"Why not?"

"We'll be busy applying for college and extra classes," Nico stated with a small frown. "My dad is already nagging about them, telling me to start applying early. I know that Annabeth had her applications ready at the start of her junior year and got accepted at Harvard, Yale, and NYU in November of this year."

"That's Annabeth for you," Will laughed. Annabeth was a year older than them and was going to graduate from high school by the end of this month. Will had met her through Nico, she was dating Nico's cousin Percy Jackson, and before that they were friends.

Will and Nico had met in 3rd grade when they were partnered up in their PE class. They had become close friends and remained friends ever since. Between the two, Will was more of a social butterfly, while Nico had been integrated into the cool kids club solely based on the fact that Percy Jackson and Jason Grace were actually his cousins who treated him as their younger brother.

"It's gonna be weird next year, with Percy, Annabeth, Jason, and Piper gone," Nico commented. Both boys were in their junior year, while Nico's cousins and their friends were seniors. Their graduation was just a few weeks away, on May 28.

"At least Hazel, Frank, and Leo are still with us," Will added. "You still have some of your friends."

"Hazel is my sister, I see her all the time, and by extension Frank," Nico huffed. He sat up and scooted close to Will, bumping their shoulders together. "I don't want to spend our senior year keeping Valdez under control."

Will laughed at that before turning quiet for a moment. "Leo would probably spend all of his time in the workshop," Will thought aloud, "he would work on many projects to get a scholarship to MIT."

"Really? What makes you think that?"

"It's Leo, he is a genius mechanic and a tinker," Will explained as if it was that obvious of a face. "He would go for a mechanical engineering degree, maybe something to do with robotics."

Nico hummed in amusement and came to rest his hand on his lap. Curiosity sparked within him at what Will thought their friends would do, "What about everyone else?" he asked.

"Annabeth, we all know is getting a degree in architecture," Will replied with a shrug. "So that's a given, she still didn't tell us what school she chose, but I'm guessing Harvard. It just seems like a place she would thrive in."