Legend Series AU

Chapter 1-Day

June has been my best friend for as long as I can remember, we do EVERYTHING together. We have sleepovers every weekend, all of our birthday parties are together even though we are a month apart. We share clothes, we share food at lunch, our brothers are kind of friends too.

The best part is, we live so close I can just walk to her house whenever I want to! But right now, I'm sad. I haven't seen June in a week and I miss her more than I can express with my words. The last time I saw her was at our joint 8 year old birthday party. Everyone was happy then. Everyone is not happy now. June's parents are dead. So I decided to take initiative.

Now here I am, knocking on her door and ringing her doorbell in hopes she will answer and let me cheer her up. My brother, John and my mom, (who's belly is the size of like 1 million watermelons) helped me make some soup and pick out some flowers.

I had a whole plan on what I was gonna say, but as soon as I hear the door handle click and I see June's tear stained face, I drop my flowers, jump over my soup and run up to her. She looks relieved to see me and hugs me back immediately.

We stand there for a few minutes in the doorway, just hugging then my mom comes up to the door. June let's go of me and runs over to my mom, hugging her leg. She begins crying and my moms face looks so sad.

"Oh, sweetie." she says sighing, she reaches down and picks June up like she does when I'm upset. "Let's go inside" June clings to her and when we get in we all sit down on the couch.

June mumbles something into my moms neck so quietly that she has to ask her to repeat it. "Metias hasn't come out of his room since they died. I'm worried about him"

My mom makes a face and then leans down to ask June, "Have you been eating enough?"

"Yes" June answers. "There's plenty of food in the house. I'm just worried about Metias, I don't  know if he is eating, he won't let me in." My mom sets June down next to me.

"I'm going to go up and check on him ok?" She gives a small smile and walks away. June snuggles closer to me. I hug her again. I really hope she gets happy soon.

We hear noises coming from upstairs and I hear my mom say, "It's Daniel's mom. Honey you have to come out. I want to help you." Then we hear a door click and and my mom comes back down the stairs with Metias. His face looks horrible. It looks shallow and sunken in and his eyes are empty.

He sits down next to June and she gets as close to him as possible. He wraps his arm around her and sniffles. I know he's already 18 but right now he looks my age.

We all sit in silence for a few minutes then I decide to ask if June wants to come over for a sleepover since it's Friday. "I'll help cheer you up some more" I say and smile at her.

She musters a small smile for me in return. "That sounds great"

After that June and I go outside to play because my mom said she wants to talk to Metias. The window is open and I catch a few words of their conversation. something like "get better" and a word I don't know "custody" June seems to know what it is because her face darkens. She's always been better at words than me.

One week later

I'm on the playground with June at school today. Over the past week she seems to be getting better. She came back to school after we went over to her house and she's talking more and more. Sometimes I still see her cry but I always hug her and make it better.

But today she seems as sad as she was a week ago. No maybe not sad, just empty and feelingless. I ask her what's wrong and she replies with something I don't understand.

"Metias got full custody of me today. I should be happy, I love him more than anything but it just makes their deaths real, ya know? Like now they are really, actually gone." I shake my head.

"What does custody mean?"

"It means that he's like my parent now. You know how your mom is responsible for you and John? Well now Metias is responsible for me like that."

" Ohhh I get it now, he's like your new parent and you're sad because he feels like a replacement"

"Exactly"

"Well don't be too sad June! I'll always be here to hug you!" She smiles and we do hug, until the end of recess.

AN—So I decided to change up the timeline a bit, June's parents die when she is 8. This story will mostly fit the original timeline but I am probably going to change small minor details here and there. In my AU both June and Day are normal kids, not super geniuses and they've been friends forever.

Hope you guys like it❤️❤️