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It was hard at first for Eda to understand the vast spectrum of emotion that the human appeared to go through, but she learned immediately that unlike herself at the kid’s age Luz leave her feelings hidden behind a mask a camouflage needed to prevent her sincere sentiments leaked (where Eda, on the contrary, was always straightforward with her ways).
It wasn’t like she didn’t trust Eda per se, although some days it felt that the kid had something in her mind troubling her, keeping it for herself.
Today, for example, was one of those days, Luz was wandering around the house without a clear purpose in mind however always with that strange little rectangular thingy (she calls it cellphone or something like that) in hand ready in any moment for something to occur like... I dunno something, thought Eda to herself.
After an excruciating amount of time, the Owl Lady had had enough.
“Whatcha doing there, kiddo?” Eda asks from the couch, trying not to seem concerned.
Luz jolt in the spot where she was standing saying after a moment to recompose herself, “W-what n-nothing I’m not doing anything why you ask?”
“No particular reason, just curious to know why you’re roaming around the house for about an hour,” Eda teases with a soft voice and a smile.
“It’s nothing really, just some dumb human stuff...” Luz says, trying her hardest to fake a smile.
“Kid, even I can say that there something on your mind lately, maybe I’m not the best at...” Eda interrupts herself at the sound coming from the weird box in the hand of Luz.
Luz’s eyes went wide and froze on the screen (that is how she calls it) of the device while her entire body stiffens, following a moment of stillness before she starts:
“E-Ehm s-sorry can we talk later I-I’m going... I mean, I need to... to use the restroom,” after that Luz ran to the bathroom on the first floor.
Eda not knowing what to do exactly wait for some time, time that passes slower than usual, after what seemed like an eternity where in reality was probably like 6 minutes, Eda feels something crawling on her right arm and at that moment she turned her head to her rear to find King on her shoulder scratching his neck with his paw.
“So where is Luz? I need my minion to bring me the cookies jar from the shelf, I... I can’t reach them,” King says the last part whispering.
“King the food can wait, Luz is... in a rough spot let’s say,” Eda responds with a sigh.
“B-But the cookies..” King answered crestfallen.
Then Eda stabs King with a malicious stare, in which King response: “Whoa there, no need to get all worked up, I’m kidding… maybe”.
“Don’t be such a baby you just ate like twenty minutes ago, where do you even put all that food?” says the witch, teasing the little demon with a smirk on her face.
“I don’t expect that a foul creature of the likes of you could understand the needs of THE king of demons, beside a capable tyrant like me, can’t work on an empty stomach,” King replies, pleased with himself.
“May I remind you who is the sidekick and who is the master slash owner of the house where you live in for free? You ungrateful freeloader!”. Eda loudly states starting to tickling King.
“Noooo my only weakness!!” he scream.
Meanwhile, in the bathroom on the first floor, Luz had thrown her phone to the wall. Luckily, the device seems to have survived the impact with the mentioned wall. She didn’t bother, and sat down on the floor, holding her knees close to her chin.
“Why is she doing this to me, why can’t you just love me the way I am!” Luz said, starting with a whisper but ending in a scream of hurt and anger, noticing her face going red for the effort, while warm tears formed on the back of her eyes.
‘But no, of course not, I will never be what she wants me to,’ Luz thought to herself, trying to hold the sobs.
She took some deep breaths, trying to calm herself down, and after a couple minutes she managed to crawl her way to the smartphone. She noticed new messages from guess who.. her obviously, her mother.
And she just HAD to flood Luz with new messages, and for some twisted reason Luz decided to read the chat from the beginning, because at this point it can’t hurt more than it already did.
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Luz: Hey mom, can we chat a bit?.
Mom: Mija! Yes, I couldn’t wait to know more about how you doing at the camp!!
Is everything okay? Are you eating well? You made any new friends?
Luz: Mom, slow down!! I get that you’re curious! But one question at the time please xD.
Mom: Sorry! I just really want to know.
Luz: Okay so… yes I made some new friends, three actually they are smart, know a lot of things and are always very caring to me, which is new!
Mom: Cariño!!!! That’s amazing!! I knew that you just needed a little push!
Luz: Haha… Yeah… So mom, there’s something that I really need to tell you… It’s about one of those friends of mine.
I may or may not have… a crush on them.
Mom: WHAT oh dear now you HAVE to tell me everything about him.
Luz: Mom, they are… they are a girl mom; I like a girl, her name is Amity, and she is really sweet.
Mom: Mija it’s not funny, I know that you are not one of those people, you always had crushes on boys.
Luz: Yeah about that, that’s because I’m bisexual mom, I like both boys and girls… Is this a problem to you?
Mom: Mija, I thought we already talked about those make-believes of yours, that’s why you are there in the first place!
You know I love you, but in the real world these fantasies of yours will make your life harder, you need to understand that you can’t live in this imaginary world forever.
Please, Luz, answer me.
Cariño please.
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‘and yada yada yada she kept going for a while with those appeals, so nothing new to cry about,’ Luz thought rubbing her wrist on her cheeks wiping off the tears.
After a couple minutes and a lot of sobs and ugly crying, Luz heard a bunch of knocks on the door.
“Kid what is all this ruckus about? Are you alright?”.
It was Eda.