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Amity
“Oh, that’s great Luz!” it’s not “I’m happy you found someone who loves you.” it should have been me “I’m happy for you” I wish I could be happy as well.
“Thank you, Amity, I know how hard this might be for you...” please, stop talking.
I wanted to run, to go back to the Boiling Isles and lock myself in my room forever. I had spent six years, six whole fucking years waiting for Luz, I never moved on... many tried scoring a date with me, I declined each and every one, my heart only belonged to Luz.
But it seems Luz’s heart didn’t belong to me.
She moved on, she found someone to make her happy, and she forgot about me. I wanted to be angry at her, to tell her how much she was hurting me, how much I had risked and lost just so I could be with her. My parents disowned me after they found out about my classes with Gus, I ended up moving in with Gus and his father, they were both very supportive. I graduated with honors from Hexside, and I could’ve entered the best University in Bonesborough, and have my entire future solved for me. But here I am, with all that thrown into the drain for a girl that saw me as a bad thing in her mind up until a few minutes ago.
“It’s okay, now that I know your answer I can move on, find someone of my own...” She looked at me for a few seconds, before pushing me on the shoulder lightly.
“Whoever gets you will be one lucky girl!” Luz told me with a wide smile, I forced a fake smile of my own.
Then I realized what she had said. “Wait, how do you know I like girls only?” I looked at her with a confused frown.
“Please, you radiate lesbian energy.” Then she stopped for a second, putting a hand into her chin, like she was thinking. “Oh! Your snapback makes you look like a ‘hey mama’s lesbian’!”
“Yeah, I’m going to pretend I know what that is, and also assume it’s a good thing.” She let out a chuckle.
“But yeah, jokes aside, I fully support you. Oh! We have to go to the Pride Parade together!” I had heard a lot about this Parade, yet I wanted her to tell me about it, I loved how her face changed when she talked about something that’s important to her.
“Oh, what is that?” And Luz entered full-on excited baby mode, telling me everything about it, from its origins to its meaning, to the many things we could do together that day... she also mentioned something about having matching outfits but I tried to block out that part of my mind.
Stop talking about cute things you want to do with me like we were a couple...
“I would love to do all those things with you, Luz...” I smiled softly at her. She smiled back, before her phone vibrated in her pocket.
“Carajo, it’s my roommate. Give me one second Ami” Ami... She just gave me a cute nickname... Don’t blush Amity. She turned around from me, and walked a few steps away. I could hear their conversation, but I couldn’t understand a word, since they were talking to each other in Spanish. After a few minutes I saw her walking back to me. “Me debes una grande, Mel... Chao.” She huffed and hung up.
“Everything alright?”
“Yeah, it’s just my roommate asked me to spend the night outside of our dorm...” She looked at her phone once, before putting it back into her pocket. “Apparently she invited her girlfriend over for the night, so she wants the dorm for the two of them only.”
“It’s really kind of you to let her do that, I would’ve still gone to the dorm.” She chuckled.
“Yeah I don’t doubt that. But honestly, I don’t have a problem with it, the only thing is that I don’t quite know where to stay...” I looked at her, she was looking at motels she could stay in, you could sense her frustration a mile away. I decided to offer something I might end up regretting.
“You could stay with me...” She looked up from her phone, eyes wide.
“Really? Oh my god, thank you Ami!” She wrapped me in a tight hug, and I once again felt, like I could die right there and then.
“Y-Yeah, when I asked for a room here, I wasn’t assigned a roommate, so there’s an entire bed for you to sleep in...”
“Great, let’s get going!” She took out her phone again, looking at the time. She frowned and said. “I don’t feel like walking, but the last bus to the dorms left half an hour ago... Oh! I got it.” I saw her touch her phone, before bringing it to her ear. “Hey baby... yes I’m good... do you think you could come pick me and a friend up?... you’re an angel, thank you, love you...” She hung up with a smile. “So, I called my boyfriend, he said he can come pick us up!”
“Oh, really? That's good...” It’s not. “I can’t wait to meet him!” Please let him be ugly, so I can at least feel better about myself.
“He told me his five minutes away, let’s wait for him in the main entrance!” She grabbed my hand and basically pulled me to the entrance.
We waited outside for a few seconds, before I saw Luz wave at a dark blue car making its way towards us. Luz motioned me to get in the back seat, she sat in the front, next to her boyfriend. As soon as she got in the car, I saw them both share a short kiss.
“Hey darling, who is your friend on the backseat?” He asked, pointing at me.
“That’s Amity, she’s uh... an old friend from high school, turns out we go to the same college and I had no idea.” She turned to look at me. “Ami, this is Nicholas!” He turned around and smiled at me.
“Nice to meet you, Amity!” He extended his hand towards me. Get your greasy Cheeto hands away from me. I took it and smiled at him. “If the name Nicholas I too long, you can just call me Nick.”
“Will do!”
“So where are you ladies headed?” Luz told him to take us to the dorms, and as if I wasn’t even there, they started a conversation with each other. My mind was thinking about a thousand ways of how to kill him, yeah no I don’t want to go to jail.
At some point their conversation stopped being friendly and bubbly, and it turned into a more serious conversation. Luz looked really mad, she huffed and looked at the window. I saw that Nicks grip on the steering wheel had tightened, he was mad as well. I had no idea what happened, nor what caused them to be like this, but honestly, I didn’t mind.
After what seemed like an hour, we finally reached the dorms. Luz got off the car without saying a word, I got down as well and followed her.
“Hey, will you at least say goodbye to me?!” I got startled when I heard Nick scream at her, Luz just continued walking, ignoring him. I noticed she was mad, like really mad. I had no idea if I was supposed to say something to make her feel better, or if I should just stay quiet.
“Hey, Luz... are you okay?” She stopped, and turned to look at me.
“No, but it’s not a big deal, I don’t want to bother you with boy problems...” I walked to her and grabbed her shoulders.
“It’s not just ‘boy problems’ it’s Luz problems, and I want you to be happy, I don’t like not seeing you smile.” She let out a small smile, which made my heart flutter. “How about we go to my dorm and you vent to me, hm?” She nodded in agreement and we made our way upstairs.
I opened my dorm room and let Luz in, my dorm wasn’t really decorated with anything, I had some posters I brought from back home and Azura merch, which didn’t go unnoticed by her. She immediately ran to my collectives, looking at them like they were the most precious thing in the world. I noticed she was very attracted to a certain Azura figurine.
“This is amazing Amity! How did you buy all of this?” I rubbed the back of my head and let out an awkward laugh.
“I um... I didn’t buy it... I used magic to distract the sales man while I took the figures...” The look on Luz’s face was better than applause.
“You stole them? Damn Eda would be proud of you...” Then her shocked face changed into a happier one. “By the way how’s Eda? Oh! And King and Hooty!” Oh no... Luz doesn’t know...
“Um... weren’t you going to tell me what happened with Nick?” She sat down on the bed with a huff.
“Fine... okay so we’ve been having a lot of fights recently, and we’re barely talking. It’s like everything we talk about turns into a fight, and I don’t like that, I want to fix things with him, but it’s like he doesn’t want to fix things on his side...” At this point Luz’s face had turned into a sad frown, eyes glistening with fresh tears. You know how I said I didn’t want to go to jail? Yeah scratch that, I'm making him suffer.
“Luz... why are you still with him? If you’re the only one putting an effort in that relationship, then it’s not healthy. “I sat down next to her. “You’re way too amazing to be feeling sad about a boy who doesn’t deserve you...” She turned to look at me, her smile full of love and admiration.
“Do you mean that?” I blushed.
“Of course, I could never lie to you... my fearless champion.” She chuckled and wiped her tears.
“You’re amazing, Ami...” she leaned towards me and wrapped me in a very tight hug, burying her face in my neck. “I’m feeling a lot better now, so... how are things in the owl house?” I flinched, which didn’t go unnoticed by Luz. “Amity, what aren't you telling me?"
“Luz... after you were forced out, Eda got captured by the Emperor, she was... brainwashed into joining the Emperors Coven, she is currently her second in command alongside Lilith...” I could see the confusion on Luz’s face, which quickly transformed into anger.
“He... forced Eda to join a coven?” I nodded at her. “And... Hooty and King? Where are they?”
“They... a group of demon hunters sent by Emperor Belos were tasked with eliminating the two of them...” She looked at me, trying to understand what I was saying. “Luz, they’re both dead...” Angry doesn’t even begin to explain how enraged Luz looked in that moment.
She stood up from the bed, and she started pacing back and forth, her hands clenched into fists. “I’m going to kill Belos... I want to hurt him... he took away my family...” Luz’s grip fists became stronger, and before I realized, she was digging her nails into her palm.
I made my way to her and took her hands on mine. “Luz, I know you’re angry but don’t take it out on yourself, you’re not at fault-”
“But I am! Eda told me not to go that day, if I had listened to her... if I had stayed home... she wouldn’t have gotten captured, King would still be alive, so would Hooty...” She broke down crying, her body losing strenght and kneeling on the floor. I immediately wrapped her around my arm, trying to tell her soothing words into her ear.
After a few minutes her loud sobs became soft whimpers, I took her face in my hands and wiped her tears. “Listen to me, don’t blame yourself for something you didn’t even know was going to happen, it’s not your fault Luz.” I reached up, and grabbed one of the figurines from my desk, which was near us. “Here, I want you to have it...”
“Your Azura figurine? Why are you giving it to me?” I took her hand and placed the figurine on it.
“Do you remember this scene? With this specific outfit?” She nodded
“Yeah, it’s from book seven, Hecate helps Azura realize she... wasn’t responsible for Zinger's death...” She held the figurine in her hand and smiled. “Wow... that’s oddly familiar... but wait, this is valuable to you, Amity, I can’t take it!”
“Luz... you’re more valuable to me than anything...” I caressed her cheek tenderly.
“Amity, I-” Our eyes met, and it was like we were the only people in the world, like any problems and drama we may have didn’t exists, all my mind could think of was her, and how much I wanted to taste those lips, to show her how special she is.
I was way too focused looking at her lips, that I barely missed her looking at mine, it was then when I realized, I have to kiss her, this is my moment. Our lips were mere inches away from each other, her warm breath sent a tickling sensation on my upper lip. Our noses brushed up against one another. So close, so so close...
Ring Ring
We both separated from each other, startled. Luz got up and went to take her phone, she answered the call as she made her way outside of my dorm, looking for privacy. I sighed and stood up from the floor, I went to the small kitchen to drink some water and calm myself.
Luz and I almost kissed...
I finished my glass and made my way back to my bed, I plopped down into it and a few seconds later in walked Luz, plopping down into her own bed, she turned and wished me a good night, before turning around and falling asleep.
Slowly, tiredness overtook my body, and I fell asleep.