The worlds not grey: Friendship made for magic

Juria

Juria's P.O.V

I watched Persephone and Millie pull away from my driveway and I smiled. My second year of high school and I get my first two friends. I turn and sigh. Now I have to pretend to not have five broken bones. Great. I walk in through the front door and am greated by the stench of alcohol and burnt food. A beer bottle went flying past my head and smashed into thousands of pieces on the wall. A few shards cut into my skin. I winced at the stinging pain of glass with alcohol on it lodged in my skin. I took the bigger pieces out and headed towards the kitchen. The stove was on fire and my mom was on the floor sobbing with a beer in her hand. "It's your fault!" She screeched at me. "You were there! You could have saved him!" She continued as she threw her beer at me. I dodged and started putting out the fire on the stove. She was talking about my dad. I was in the backseat when a drunk driver swerved into our lane and crashed into the front of the car. The driver and my father both died on impact. I have scars running all over my legs from the glass. It was a year ago.

I made Ramen noodles for dinner because that was all we could afford. My sister works as a waitress and I do odd jobs. We live in an abandoned house but no one knows about it but us. I fried up the noodles with some soy sauce for flavor and set the plates on the table. "Dinner!" I called out. I ate quickly and my sister took the food to her room. My mother is now known for being extremely violent at the table and has said on numerous occasions that she hates looking at both of us. I hope I see Millie and Persephone at school. My bones aches and so did my arm where the glass hit. I never wore short sleeved shirts or shorts because of all the scars and fresh wounds on my body. Dad used to talk of a guardian Angel, I hope he was right. I could really use one right now. I head to my room and start playing music. After a couple hours of relaxing my eyes shoot open. I have this uncontrollable urge to get up. I get up and my feet start moving almost on their own. I run out the door and towards the woods. I run into the woods, not know where I was going or why I was going there. The urge subsides and I head back to the house. I walk in to see my sister packing up and taking all her stuff with her. "Where are you going?!" I cried desperately. "I'm leaving. Today was my 18th birthday. I am old enough to leave and I am doing exactly that." She said spitefully. "But what about me?! I am not old enough so no one will hire me! We will starve!" I sobbed. "You will have to toughen up like I had to. Goodbye sis." She said, packing the final things into her friends car. She got in the car and they drove away. Now what?!

Millie's P.O.V

It's been forever since I painted. I'll run over to Lassy and see if she is busy or not. Seph always works works and works so she's almost never available in the afternoon on school nights. Man I'm a junior now, I feel so old. Seph got that new motorcycle and I feel like I've been neglecting my bike. She won't trust me to drive her motorcycle even though I used to ride them in the country all the time. 'Dirt bikes aren't the same as motorcycles Millie.' Blah blah blah. I grabbed my bag and shoved my mask in it. I snuck out making sure my foster parents didn't hear me. I texted Lassy that we are painting tonight and she responded with a simple 'K'. I called up Gemini.
"Hey wanna go paint tonight?" I asked him. I heard a yawn.
"Really? Millie I need my beauty sleep." He responded.
"Wow it's only 10 you wimp, meet me and Lassy under the west port bridge mkay?"
"Fine, who am I to pass up a date with two hot little ladies?"
"Shut up." I responded and I hung up. I started my journey to the West side Bridge. I choose the bridge because it's pretty clear and the route passes Juria's house. I remember Harley Quinn talking about breaking into an abandoned house to tag and finding people in it. I noticed how unkept the grass and house was. I'm a bit worried about her.

I rode into her cracked drive way and heard yelling. I pulled out my paint can and snuck to the front door. I heard glass breaking and rushed in. I saw Juria on the floor and a obviously drunk person standing above her.
"Juria come on!" I yelled. The lady standing fell back screaming at me as I helped Juria up. I helped her and walked with her leaning on my shoulder. I'm glad the woman didn't attack me, I'm almost helpless without Seph. I pulled my bike along. Juria got off me and walked.
"Where are we going?" She asked.
"Gemini has a car. You don't know him but he will take us to the hospital to get your wounds checked." I answered her.
"No! We can't go to the hospital! We have no excuse for my cuts this time! O-Or money to pay for it!" Juria complained.
"You obviously don't know my meaning of hospital." I smirked.

Juria's P.O.V

I don't know if Millie saved me, or is causing me more trouble. My mom lost it when I told her that my sister left.
"After we get you fixed up we will call Seph to tell her what happened, I'm sure she would want to know." Millie told me. She was wearing shorts. She was wearing a long army green sleeveless button up over a Relient K tank top. She had the buttons unbuttoned of course to show her band pride. I only had a few nice shirts and the only band shirt I had was a Set it Off t-shirt. She walked with some happiness in her step. I don't know how she looks so cool yet cheerful. Persephone looks mean and threatening but when she smiled at me when she saved me, her smile was absolutely beautiful. And she's anything but mean. Maybe Millie and Persephone are the guardian Angels dad talked about.

"Ok we are almost to the bridge. How bad are your injuries?" Millie asked me.
"They are just a few cuts, the bleeding stopped." I answered. She sighed.
"Ok great, we can do our painting first." She told me. Her phone started ringing and she picked it up.
"Hey Ge-... Crap.... Yeah, yeah I know.... Of course I brought my mask... Hey I have company so don't be startled when you see a rabbit.... Ok... Bye." She clicked off her phone and shoved it back in her bad.
"Who was that?" I asked.
"Gemini. He was warning me about the Joker being there." Millie said digging through her bag as we walked. She pulled out a sugar skull mask and put it on. It covered everything but her eyes, it even covered her lavender hair. She handed me a mask and I looked at it.
"What's this for?" I asked.
"The Joker tends to blackmail people with their identity, Harley Quinn is his lap dog. She's ruthless. She tricked Gemini to take off his mask. Lassy wore a simple mascaraed mask and Harley ripped it off of her. I made these mask in case I ran into them with Seph, you can borrow the rabbit one I made, they cover all your head and are hard to get pulled off." Millie filled me in.
"So you're a street artist?" I asked. She looked shocked.
"Well yeah." She answered.
"Wait, you're sugar skull? You tagged my house once." I told her. She laughed.

Millie's P.O.V

"Why hello Sugar! Isn't it nice to hear you're lovely voice?!" The Joker laughed.
"Why are you here?" I asked pulled out my spray paints and covering a area.
"Oh I just wanted to say hi to my old friends that's all!" Joker joked.
"We aren't your friends." Gemini said. The Joker stepped a bit closer to Lassy.
"So Leslie, how's the family? Is daddy treating you ok?" The Joker teased her.
"Hey, you know very well her dads dead. Stop disrespecting her and move along." Gemini said touching her shoulder.
"Oops! I forgot! Sorry Leslie. Anyway Kyle, heard you got fired. Was it something you said?" Joker pressed his buttons.
"Oh maybe you're in a bad mood because of... Well I don't know, Jasmine?" The Joker said. Gemini stepped closer getting ready to punch him. Juria was hiding behind me.
"Shut up you scumbag!" Gemini yelled.
"I know you're using poor Leslie over here to heal your broken heart, oh Sugar, when I came down here I saw poor Leslie getting her face sucked off by Kyle!" Joker said cheerfully. Man I hate his guy. I low key handed my phone to Juria and opened the contact for Seph. I hope she knows to text her to come here quick and tell her where we are. Joker keeps guards not to far so if we did anything we would be outnumbered quickly.
"Joker get lost. You'll never see my face and Gemini and Lassy will never rat me out. You don't know Buffouts face either, he wears a fallout helmet." I told the douche.
"I can just send Harley out and she'll persuade him, she does have her ways doesn't she Kyle." Joker laughed.
"Buffout has a wife, it will take a lot more than a vagina to get him to show his identity." Gemini told him. He put Lassy behind him and cracked his knuckles. The Joker brought up his arm and if he let it down, we know we will be swarmed. We heard the engine of a motorcycle raging. It got louder and Gemini looked at me and smiled. I smiled back but he can't see my face. The Joker looked around confused then we saw Seph, wearing all black, her hair up. She looked as bad ass as ever.
"Hey Seph!" I yelled. Juria ran and hugged her then Seph whispered in her ear and she hid behind Sephs motorcycle.
"Stop getting yourself into stupid shit ok? I can't come to your rescue all the time." Seph told Juria and I as she walked down the hill to get under the bridge. She patted my head and looked down at the Joker.
"This him?" She asked me. The Jokers the same size as me and Seph looked terrifying hovering over him.
"Yup!" I said cheerfully, knowing what was about to happen. Gemini and Lassy walked over to me to give Seph some room to work. She punched him square in the gut.
"Get out of here." She said calmly. He ran and so did the two wimpy men he has hidden in some trees.
"I'm glad things didn't have to get to ugly, that man was way weaker then I anticipated." Seph said. I took off my mask knowing the Joker was long gone. He would be returning with actual body guards next time. And I'll be ready with Seph there guarding me.