Disclaimer: I own nothing of the Labyrinth, I own the plotting and characters I make up. I also own none of the songs I put in here.
Venus stared into the mirror as she carefully applied her makeup and pulled her long hair into a braid.
When she was finished she pulled on her jacket and grabbed her phone and books and ran outside and waited for her boyfriend, Maverick, and best friend, Piper.
The sun glinted off her charm bracelet. It appeared in the mailbox on her fourteenth birthday.
Since then, she never took it off, but she always wondered where it came from, even now, two years later, she has no idea who gave it to her. But you know what they say, don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
She twirled the owl charm around a few times and sighed. She rarely saw him now. The owl, that is.
And if she was honest with herself, she would agree that, that owl was the best company she had, besides Piper of course. Maverick was an okay guy, she supposed. But he wasn't exactly the best boyfriend.
A loud horn knocked her out of her thoughts. "Venus!" She sighed and ran over to the car. "Hey Piper, hey Mav." She let her head rest on the glass of the car window.
~ Some time later~
"What's the matter with you?" Venus closed her locker and laid her head against it. "It's nothing Piper."
"Well it's obviously something!" She saw her friend frantically wave her hands out from the corner of her eye.
"Look, I have to go, before her royal highness starts bitching at me."
"Why don't you come over to my house tonight?" Piper raised her eyebrow into her red hair.
"I gotta do stuff." She shrugged and ran out the door.
"Stuff my ass, she's going to sulk all day." The redhead 17 year old sighed and walked away.
"Venus! Come down stairs!" Jules' voice traveled up the staircase and Venus let out a groan. "Yep, this is exactly what I need." She rolled her eyes and hopped down the stairs.
"What Jules?"
"Why does my house look like this?!" She screamed at Venus. "Well, it could be the fact that you had a party last night and never took care of MY house." Venus scoffed and felt her cheek burn.
She softly touched her cheek. It was hot, and it was almost throbbing. "Did you just smack me?"
"Clean this mess up." Jules said with her head high. Almost as of she was proud of herself. She walked up the stairs without looking back at all.
After Venus cleaned up the living room and kitchen, she sat up on the roof with her sketch pad and pencil between her teeth with her music playing in her ears.
She hummed along to the song as she sketched in her pad. When she was finished she looked down to examine her work. "Not too bad" She chirped smiling happily.
There on her sketch pad was the owl that always visited her.
Venus had dreams of being a professional artist as her work was always beautiful and complex. But she only did for fun lately and she was happy with her work.
"Hoo! Hoo!"
Venus shrugged off her headphones and looked to her tree. The owl was there, staring at her with his head cocked to the side effortlessly.
"You're back!" She exclaimed as she ran downstairs and out the door. She looked up at the owl that had spent some of the nights listening to her prattle on about her days and such.
She gave him a wide smile and sat down on the floor underneath the tree.
"So what's up?"
The owl gave her what she thought was a skeptical look and she smiled.
"Right... owls don't exactly... talk."
"Well, owl... not much has happened y'know? Okay, so that's kind of a lie. My mom died 4 years ago, today. It hasn't exactly been the best day, if you get my meaning." She huffed and laid her back against the tree.
He swooped down and landed in front of her. "Yes?" She lifted her knees to her chest and wrapped her arms around them.
He lifted his talon and showed her a peach.
"An owl giving me a peach... yeah, that's not suspicious." He cawed at her and kicked it in front of her.
"Okay, fine but not now m'kay?" He let out a coughing sound and flew away.
"Well someone was in a hurry."
She shrugged and trudged up the stairs in her house and got dressed in her night clothes.
Her stomach growled and sheremembered she missed dinner. In the shadowy room, she blushed. "He did go out of his way to give me it, I suppose there's no harm in eating it."
She walked to the bathroom and rinsed it off and walked back into her own room, and sat on her bed.
"Oh come on Venus, you're being ridiculous, just bite the damn thing." And with that she sunk her teeth into the fruit.
"Wow, this is pretty good." She smiled.
Her vision started to swim and her head began to pound.
She laid down on her bed and groaned as her vision tunneled and turned black.
A/N: Templario: Okay, so first of all, i'm not a bigot. Secondly, no one is required to read this, I put it up because I wanted to and yeah, if someone read it and reviewed, that's nice, it's not required, so it doesn't necessarily matter to me. Third of all, 13 year olds aren't supposed to cuss, at least my character isn't. Fourth of all, you don't even know if it was a typo, so I could have meant to say bitch, but it might've auto-corrected or something like that. Lastly, paganism and wicca are religions, being a witch is a choice, I know many of both that are or aren't witches.