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Luz stood by the curb of the street and looked up at the dark and starry sky. Goddamn it Gus. Willow, Gus, and Luz had all been having a great time at the party. That is until Luz broke a vase and got herself kicked out. Willow had wanted to take her home, but Gus had insisted she would be fine, and Willow was far too wasted to argue. Now Luz was here. Drunk. Alone. Confused. Luz sloppily took out her phone. The device however slipped out of her hands and made a hard crack on the ground. As Luz picked up the phone, she thought please don’t be broken please don’t be broken. Luz turned the phone around and desperately pressed the home button. To her despair, nothing happened.
Amity was pissed off. Someone had been making fake uber accounts and sending her to fake locations just to mess with her. She didn’t know who, and she didn’t know why, she just knew that she was mad. Amity really needed the cash. She’d been barely out of debt sense her parents disowned her for well, “special reasons”. Debt was something Amity Blight wasn’t used to. Blight. She hated that name. It just made her remember. Suddenly, she heard a loud honk snapping her out of her thoughts. Oh, the light was green. Amity was startled and her mind began to fill with rage. She slammed her foot on the gas and shouted, “FUCK YOU!” at the top of her lungs.
Luz was so wasted. She could barely see anything beyond her. But she wasn’t thinking of how she’d get home, or what she’d say to her stepmother, all she was thinking about was her broken phone. Luz got frustrated with this and threw her phone into the busy street. Realizing her mistake, she scrambled into the road to find the phone. As she found it, she heard a loud honk and saw the blinding headlights of a car.
Amity knew she could get a ticket and knew she could get hurt, but it didn’t matter anymore. Nothing mattered. What the hell do I have to look forward to. She thought. She heard the other cars honking at her. She didn’t care. She just wanted to get home. Or die. Whichever happened first. She was a few blocks away from her apartment when she saw a figure crawling in the road. She slammed on her breaks immediately. Being distracted from her anger, she put the car in park and ran out to the person. They were wearing the strangest outfit Amity had ever seen. A tuxedo with a pink tutu and purple leggings. The stranger's face however was enticing, though being obviously wasted, the stranger had a huge smile plastered on their face. “Ohmagod are you okay?!” Amity asked the girl. “You almost hit me with your car.” The stranger giggled. “Yeah I know, do you have somewhere to go?” Amity offers her hand and pulls the girl to her feet. “My house is alllllll the way over there. Behind the walmart.” The girl slurred.
Amity cursed to herself. Why does the stranger have to live on the OTHER SIDE of town. Amity helps the girl up into the car. This was going to be an interesting drive.
“You’re not a creepy psycho stalker are youuuu?” The girl said drunkenly. “No, I’m an uber driver. I literally do this for a living.” Amity said coldly. “Coooool, I’m Luz btw.” Btw? Who uses acronyms in real life conversation? Amity thought. Amity hesitates before responding. “Amity.” She focuses her eyes back on the road before Luz responds. “Well Amityyy, you’re suuuper pretty.” Amity feels her face go red before responding. “And you’re suuuper drunk.” She says mocking Luz’s drunken tone. “oOo my gAhd, you joked bAck!” Luz exclaimed. Amity giggled. “So do you give free rides to every drunk girl you see on the side of the road?” Luz asks. Amity rolls her eyes. She must think she’s being sooo smooth. “To be fair you were in the middle of the road, not the side. And what do you mean free ride?” Amity shot back. “Oh uhmm, I don’t have any cash.” Luz said, clearly uncomfortable. The girl is wasted, of course she didn’t get it dumbass. Amity thought to herself. “Joking, I figured you didn’t have anything.” Amity paused. Oh no did that come off as rude ? Amity looked in her mirror to see Luz still smiling. Phew. They sat in silence for a few minutes before reaching an old cottage stowed away in the woods. Amity parked and Luz unbuckled and got out of the car. Before shutting the door, Luz popped her head inside the door. “See ya later stranger.” She winked. And with that, Amity was left with a furious blush.
The next morning, Amity decided to do some work. She didn’t have anything going on. She’d had to drop out of college last semester after the ‘you know what’ happened. She couldn’t afford it anymore. She couldn’t afford anything anymore. Just a one bedroom apartment and a used minivan. Barely. Whilst driving to the location she was given, the strange girl was on her mind. She wasn’t even thinking in sentences per say, just thinking about the girl’s pretty eyes and bright smile. Amity wished she could’ve seen it more. She pulled up to a duplex to see a girl with bright pink hair staring at her phone. She climbed into the backseat and started rambling. “I’m going to the Victrola Building on the BIU campus please. I’m Boscha btw.”
Seriously, why is everyone talking like that. Did I miss the memo?
Amity rolled her eyes. “My girlfriend Willow usually drives me, but she’s hungover as HELL so I was like, shit bitch, what am I gonna do??” Boscha ranted. Amity sighed and blocked out Boscha’s talking. When they got to the building, Boscha paused before saying something. “Someone left this on the back of your seat.” Boscha handed her a sticky note. ‘call me when im sober 349-2894 - xoxo luz ;)’ The handwriting was horrible, but Amity still understood the message. Amity’s face began to flush. “Looks like you’ve got an admirer.” Boscha said before closing the door.