Better than I know myself

[Mikayla Blade]

Mikayla was in a sort fo crisis, and she had no-one to turn too. She had no friends at school, because she pushed them away, and Alex was now at Beauxbatons. She was stuck for advice and didn't know what to do. She was so confused. Graduation was coming up very soon and she wasn't sure she was particularly interested in going. To be honest, she really would have rathered to just leave without any celebration. She did so hate them, because they were designed to make some-one happy and she was not the happy sort of person. She was never going to be happy again until she got her brother back, which wouldn't be for another five years. She knew it was going to be such a long time and when ever she thought about it, she felt sick inside. She really did miss her brother and though her father had tried to get him out, it had failed to produce promising results. So she was nearly ready to let it all go, to just give up on life. She knew there was no way out of it. She was severely depressed and she was scared that if she didn't come out of it soon, she might try to harm herself, or someone else. Which is why she was turning to the only other person she knew that knew her better than she knew herself. She was on her way to the Owlery presently to write him a letter. Maybe he would be able to shed alittle light through her black clouds of darkness.

Dear Need for Speed,

I know I've not written in a while, but I really had my resons, though i care not to tell them now. The reason I am writing to you is of the utmost importance. I need your help. I don't know what to do and I am really scared. I'm depressed and Im worried that I might try to harm myself. Please help me, with Alex in Beauxbatons and Chase in Azkaban I can't really think of any-one else to talk too. Except for dad, but I don't want to talk to him right now. He wouldn't understand anyway, he thinks that we are all handling it, but were not. Atleast I'm not. I don't really understand. I've had no reason not to cope, I mean, there is no real reason for me to be depressed. I'll see Chase in five years.

I'ts just so hard, I know he is coming back but my mind keeps imagining so many horrible things that might be happening to him while he is there. It makes me shudder at the thought of all those Dementor's. He might not have any happy memories left by the time they are finished with him. What am I going to do?

Signed,
Mikki.

She strapped her letter to the owl and gave it the instructions. She hoped she would have a swift answer, she really did need help and he was the only person she could think of to give it to her.

 

[Speed Stark]

Speed rolled his eyes and closed his bedroom door behind him, Stephanie was still fuming from what Speed had done to their fathers car, Austin was about to kill him because he had yelled at Tommy for pushing Cameron down the stairs, Abby was angry at Speed because he had critised her make up useage and Cameron was still upset about his very own car, that was still in the shop getting repairs from when Speed had crashed it too. It was not the best day for Spped, he was a little sad by the resent happenings, the only thing that made him remotely happy was the fact that he had recently made a new friend, which always made him happy, Speed would simply die if he had no friends. But right now? He could go for a large block of chocolate and a glass as cold strawberry milk with chocolate flakes sprinkled on top. He sighed and sat on his bed, he was so bored, he had simply nothing to do, except redo his nsils, but al his nail polish was in Cameron's room, and he was in his room, grounded, so he saw no way to get to Cameron's room, considering Cameron was in there sulking about his car.

Speed looked at his window when he heard something run into it, he hopped off his bed and opened the window curiously, only to have an owl swoop in and drop a letter, he tilted his head and picked up the letter and read it, frowning slightly at its contents. The sender was a good friend of his, but she seemed to be in trouble, and Speed thought he was having a bad day, it seemed that Mikki Mouse was having a bad life, he had to reply to her quickly, just to make sure she knew that she always had a shoulder to cry on.

Spoiler: Mikki Mouse

Dear Mickki Mouse,

Calm down hun, it gets better, trust me, once you have hit rock bottom, the only place to go is up. I know it seems that the world is falling down around you, but try to stay positive, Chase will be out in five years, that is not very long, you'll be able to run up to him and give him a big hug and make all knew happy memories for hhim to have, don't work yourself up over nothing, I'm sure your brother is okay, and I know that you will be okay too.
I wish I could be there with you, just so I can slap you in the face right now, you are working yourself and and we both know that is very unhealthy, things will get better and life will continue trucking on, even if you think it's over, it iis not, it has just began, so sit back, relax and enjoy your last year at Hogwarts, what have you been doing lately, got any new spells to tell me about? Have you made any friends? Are you eating right? And please tel me you have stopped biting your nails, I have been thinking of ways to design them and mmake them ten times better, but if you keep biting them, I'll have nothing to work with!

Signed,
Need For.

Speed nodded at his letter and sent Mikayla's owl on its way quickly, he knew that Mikayla was impatient and knew that she would llike a swift reply, so he made every effort to make it as fast as possible.

 

[Mikayla Blade]

Mikayla was just sitting in her dorm. She had nothing else to do so she decided to just wait for Speed's return letter. He was only in New Zealand so it wouldn't have teken too long for the letter to reach him. She wouldn't have been surprised if he had already gotten the letter and was in the process of writing a reply. She knew that she would get his letter soon because he knew that she was impatient. Though she had sort of calmed down by now and she wasn't so worked up, so hopefully she would be able to calm down enough to write a decent reply to his letter. Whenever it decided to get here. She was getting alittle impatient at the moment and she kind of wished that he would hurry up. Though as soon as she thought about it she heard a small scratching on her windowsill. The owl had arrived.

Mikki walked over to the owl and allowed it to perch on her arm. She loved her owl, it was a beautiful colour with white and black feathers. She really loved it, though she changed its name evry month, she was sure her owl had forgotten its name many times by now. Though she couldn't help it, she loved changing its name because she always fell in love with a different name. She smiled at the envelope and quickly ran over to her bed to read it. She laughed slightly when he mentioned that he wished he could be there to slap her. Though she was kind of glad that he wasn't there to be able to hit her. He did hit quite hard.

When she had finished the letter, she moved over to her desk so that she would be able to write a reply. She had a thing about replying straight away, so she pulled out a quill. Though she couldn't find another parchment so she decided to write on the bottom of Speeds.

Dear Mickki Mouse,

Calm down hun, it gets better, trust me, once you have hit rock bottom, the only place to go is up. I know it seems that the world is falling down around you, but try to stay positive, Chase will be out in five years, that is not very long, you'll be able to run up to him and give him a big hug and make all knew happy memories for hhim to have, don't work yourself up over nothing, I'm sure your brother is okay, and I know that you will be okay too.
I wish I could be there with you, just so I can slap you in the face right now, you are working yourself and and we both know that is very unhealthy, things will get better and life will continue trucking on, even if you think it's over, it iis not, it has just began, so sit back, relax and enjoy your last year at Hogwarts, what have you been doing lately, got any new spells to tell me about? Have you made any friends? Are you eating right? And please tel me you have stopped biting your nails, I have been thinking of ways to design them and mmake them ten times better, but if you keep biting them, I'll have nothing to work with!

Signed,
Need For.

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Dear Needy,

STOP SPELLING MY NAME LIKE THAT! You know I hate it. It's Mikki, not Mickki. That just looks stupid. Btw, Im sorry I'm writing on the bottom of your parchment, I can't seem to find mine anywhere. Yeah I know I'm being lazy, but what ever, I don't care. So neither should you. Anyway thankyou so much for your words, I had calmed down by the time I got your letter, thanks for taking so long by the way, but anyway I am glad that you did write back so quickly. I was really freaking out. You are a good friend, though I don't appreciate you threatening to slap me, because I know you hurt. Your a meanie like that. I understand that Chase will be out soon, but I think Im just angry coz I always imagined having him at my Graduation. Speaking of which, it is going to be really soon and I was wondering if you would be able to come. Like would your uncle mind? Because I invited my dad, but you know how I feel about him and I would really like you to come. I already asked the professors and they said it would be fine. Please come.

Mikki Mouse.

P.S: I will bite my nails all I want. Im stressed right now. So blegh.

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She folded the parchment and put it around the owls leg. She walked over to the window and flipped the owl out the window. She didn't mind if this reply took alittle longer, she had something she had to do now anyway. The longer the better actually.

 

[Speed Stark]

Speed frowned and rolled his eyes. ''Thank you very much Steph.'' He mumbled sarcastically, storming back to his room and once again slamming the door behind him. His stupid twin had destroyed his chances of getting into Cameron's and Austiin's good books, she had just informed them that the mechanic had called aand the car was unable to be saved, which just perked them up, so much that Speed is grounded for Merlin knows how long, his life was ruined, they had even taken away his nail-polish, that just about killed him. He sat on his bed sadly, working on his negative vibes to try and make them all feel guilty for ruining his young life, they had no right to do such things, it was basically cruelty to animals, or in this ccase, to Speed, the currently depressed wizard. But his mood was made considerably better by Mikki's pretty owl. He stood up and opened the window.

The owl did not appear to be the brightest star in the ssky wwhen it ccame to intellectual thoughts, it ran into walls and crashed into his messy bed. Laughing slightly he rescued the owl from his sheets and soon recognized the purple pen he used, he didn't really like using quills as they were so messy. He frowned, Mikki could be such aa lazy girl and so easily annoyed, which usually made her a victim of Speeds sarcastic side, especially when it came to the spelling of her nickname, Speed thought that added a 'c' made it much better to read than just the regular two 'k's. He shook his head and got a new piece of paper, his purple pen and began writing a reply, though this time he took his time as he was still a little annoyed by Stephanie's big mouth and Cameron's evil punishment.

Spoiler: Reply

Dear MICKKI

I will spell your nickname however I want, because I am far away and I can't find me, so nur nur, tough cookies and cream my Hufflepuff friend. And you are so lazy! I bet you just couldn't be bothered to search around you room for a little bit, you can be so lazy sometimes, you need to become more attentive and energetic! How will you be happy if you drown people out and sit around, waiting for something to happen? Be more alert, have fun, be spontaneous and go out and meet new people, you say that tthose Hufflepuffs are nice, go meet some, say a friendly hello, talk about the weather and what not, do something at least, it makes me sad to think that one of my beloved friends is a hermit! Imagine the talk! I can't be associated with such a person. I kid darling, don't cry.
And I'm not mean, just not exactly the nicest person that could ever slap someone, that does not make me mean, just a hard slapper, don't judge, silly girl. And what I say iis true, listen to me because I am an adult and I am smarter than yyou, because I'm older. Chase will come back and everything wiwill return to normal, you can go fishing together or something, swap stories of loneliness.
Are you serious?! I would love to come! No amount of groundation will keep me from coming! Besides, I'll give Austin a sob story, he always falls for that, we'll just have to pray that Cam or Abby don't see me going, or I'm screwed. But don't worry, I will totally be there, are you sure I won't embarrass you? I have recently been thinking of painting my nails a bright cobalt blue or something, I was going to go periwinkle, but since I'm grounded and you have jjust given me reason to be Aussie's best friend, wearing his least fav colour does not sound ttoo smart.
Do I need to bring a graduation prezzie or something? Is that norm?

Love Speedy.
P.S stop biting your nails!

Speed folded up the letter and tied it to tthe owl, he watched the owl ffly away and shrugged slightly, sitting down on his bed and deciding aa nap was in order.