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"Amity..."
Golden eyes blink open in confusion, scanning her bedroom in search of the voice. Finding nothing, she lays back down and curls into her blankets.
"Amity!"
She startles awake again, annoyed and tired. She slides out of the bed, careful not to wake her cat, and stands up, waiting for the voice again so she can pinpoint it.
"Over here..."
Her gaze snaps to her balcony and she quietly approaches, recognizing the sound of Luz's voice. Her heart flutteres with excitement at the thought that the girl she loved had climbed her window, but it is quickly silenced by the reminder that Luz loved somebody else.
Amity pushes the door open, stifling a yawn. "Luz?" She already looks ugly enough.
"Hey," Luz smiles awkwardly, "can I come in?"
Luz?
In her bedroom?
At night?
Oh, Titan...
"Sure," Amity mutters, avoiding eye contact and stepping away to reapproach her bed.
Luz had really climbed up her window in the middle of the night…
What kind of crazy was this girl?
Oh, who was she kidding? She was a kind of crazy that Amity loved.
Amity swallows another yawn as her friend climbs into the bed, laying with her front down and her legs swinging in the air, she’s sitting up and watching her with an unreadable expression.
Oh, Luz is on her bed. That's fantastic.
Focus.
“It’s one in the morning, Luz, what do you need…?” Amity murmurs quietly, sitting back down on the bed next to her friend and rubbing at her eyes.
The tanned girl clears her throat, “I’m… Well, uh..."
"Luz, I don't have all night..." Amity is exhausted.
Luz speaks in a hurry, "Do you remember how I said I was going to ask that girl out next week?”
Oh.
Of course, she’d gotten her heart broken and was coming to Amity to cry… “Yeah,” Amity sighs heavily, preparing her heart for the inevitable hug of comfort that Luz likely needed, “did something happen? Did she reject you?”
Luz is momentarily quiet, a blush rising to her cheeks. “Actually, I haven’t asked her yet…”
“Oh.” Amity rests her head in her hand tiredly, wanting to stay awake to talk to her friend and give her the advice she needs, “Why not?”
Luz stares at her for a long minute before rolling out of the bed, she withdraws a glyph from her pocket, and an expression of nervousness forms on her face. She looks between Amity and the glyph, “I’ve thought it over so, so many times… I was afraid if it was cheesy that she would reject me… I want it to be something special… But, I can’t think of anything that’s not stupid.”
"It would be perfect regardless coming from you... You poor your heart into everything..."
“Yeah?”
"But, I think I finally figured it out... Can I show you?"
Amity forces a smile. "Show me."
The human taps the glyph and a ball of light shapes from the paper, rising to hover above her head. The girl anxiously approaches with the ball of light following her, she comes to stand in front of Amity and kneels down in front of her.
“This is going to be so stupid…” Luz laughs apprehensively before clearing her throat again, she gently takes the brunette’s hands and Amity’s heart jumps to her throat, pounding in her ears like a drum. “Amity Blight, I really, really like you…”
Oh.
She’s dreaming, she has to be dreaming. This wasn’t real.
“I care about you, a lot… And, I, um…” She squeezes Amity’s hands and looks down, “And I wanted to know if… You would go out with me?”
Oh holy Titan, this was real.
Breathe, Amity.
"M-me...?"
"Who else would it be?" Luz asks with a soft laugh.
"B-but you... There was another girl, and you were-" Amity's vision was becoming blurry with tears, fearing that this was some kind of horrible joke. "You were in love with her..."
Concern flashes through Luz's eyes, and she reaches up to wipe away Amity's tears. Amity jerks away, unwilling to accept any affection from her friend in case she was pranking her. But, Luz wouldn't do that... She would never do that...
Right?
"Amity..."
The way she says her name...
"There was never another girl, I made all that up..." Luz is worried now.
Wait, what?
"You... Made it up?" Amity stutters, "B-but why?"
Luz laughs wetly, "I fell in love with Amity Blight, everybody loves you. I was afraid you would reject me, and so I reacted like a coward..." Her voice breaks a little, "Unless... You don't love me?"
Oh, how could she not?
"N-no..."
Luz's face falls.
"I do love you..."
Luz's misty eyes brighten a little.
"I love you, Luz... I have loved you for so long..."
Luz grins, taking Amity's hands in hers. "Does this mean..."
"You stupid...!" Amity laughs, "Haha! Yes, Titan, yes..."