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Life has been pretty upside down lately, Amity decides. Between getting closer to Luz and patching things up slowly with Willow, she feels like her mind is racing. She knows deep down she should focus more on her spells but with Luz around she can’t help but slack off. Just a little should be fine, right? Besides, the time she spent alone in her room while her leg was broken gave her enough time to study. She deserves some time off.
Amity smiles to herself at the thought of Luz as she walks to class. They have an Azura book club meeting tonight, just the two of them. Although she tries to play it off, she can’t get her mind to stop thinking about it.
She won’t admit it but she’s fallen for the human badly. Even when she tries to stop herself she can’t help but think of Luz.
She shakes her head to focus as she opens her locker and begins to grab her books for her first class. She can’t help but notice the many whispers and snickers from students near the surrounding lockers.
“Hey look it’s Amity.” kids in the hallway snicker and point. She shrugs her shoulders and brushes it off. No one has stopped talking about the grudgby match she figures.
Amity’s eyebrows raise in question as she notices Boscha and a group of students walking towards her.
“Awww look who finally showed her face” Boscha cooed sarcastically. “If it isn’t the human kisser herself. Watch out everyone! She may just give us a show pretty soon.” she smirks as the group of students giggle around her.
Amity stands there, confusion on her face “Boscha what are you even talking about?” she closes her locker before crossing her arms. “Still upset that no one cares about your win in the grudgby match? Let it go already.”
Boscha laughs, “Oh Amity, I have something far more interesting to care about right now.” Holding up a familiar notebook, she clears her throat before opening to a random page.
Amity gives a blank stare before she looks closer at the notebook and panics. That’s her private diary. How did it even get into her hands? She could have sworn it was locked in the library.
“Boscha stop that’s private how did you even get this-” She attempts to grab the diary from Boscha, but is shoved away by Boscha’s hand to her face.
“Ah ah ah!” Boscha waggles her finger at Amity before turning her gaze to the open book.
“Ahem,” she clears her throat “Dear Diary, Luz and I have gotten somewhat closer. Luz is always on my mind and no matter what she does it seems to make my heart beat faster.” she mocks in a sickenly sweet sing-song voice.
“Boscha, stop please.” Amity begs as her face flushes red, struggling to grab the book from Boscha’s hand.
“Wait wait! This one's my favorite!” She interrupts Amity as she flips a page to read another excerpt. “I had another dream last night that I kissed Luz. I feel so awful. Luz probably doesn’t even like me back. I wish she would see me as more than a friend.”
Boscha and the group of students burst into laughter. “Look at that guys,” She looks back to the group of students “I guess lil ol’ Amity really has fallen off the deep end with those geeks, huh?” They all roar with laughter.
“Oh Luz! You’re a human! Our love is forbidden”
“Oh Amity!”
Two students mockingly swoon over each other as they make kissy noises before bursting out into laughter.
Boscha puts a hand on her shoulder “Don’t worry Amity. While you’re off playing house with your new little human I’m sure I can take your place in the emperor's coven.”
Amity’s face flushes red as she looks down to the ground. She can’t even begin to form words. She feels her panic rising. They all know. They all know her secret and there’s no spell to erase it. She’s helpless and she hates that part of this the most.
“Here.” Boscha tosses the diary to Amity. “You can have it back now. I just wanted to make everyone aware of perfect little Amity Blight’s intentions.” she gives a sinister smile. Amity catches it quickly and holds it to her chest. “Oh and don’t worry, i posted them for the whole school to see too!” She flicks Amity’s forehead and watches her flinch before whispering into her ear, “Maybe the human will even see it too.”
Amity cautiously turns her head to the student board and notices the stacks of papers tacked to the board. She knows she should be strong, and that she should ignore it. Words are just words she’s been told. It’s just a stupid diary. But if that’s true then why does she feel the pain swell in her chest? Why can’t she control her tears? She can’t think rationally with all this emotion.
So Amity does the only thing she can think of: Run.
“Awww bye bye Amity! See you in class!” Boscha waves as the crowd of students giggle and return to their classrooms.
Amity runs and doesn’t look back. She can feel the tears on her cheeks and knows she should stop. All she can hear in her mind are the laughs of the student’s. Including Luz.
‘Oh no.’ Amity thinks. Luz. How will she react when she sees this? Everything is ruined. Luz will never look at her the same again. Her parents were right. She should have never let emotions get in the way of her success. All of this would have never happened if she just was a good witch and focused solely on her spot in the coven.
Amity’s eyes are blurred from her tears, she can’t tell where she’s going but she can’t get herself to stop at all. She doesn’t even notice Luz and co. approaching as she continues to run through the hall.
“Oh Hi Amity!” Luz chirps and waves before Amity crashes into her.
“WOAH” Luz exclaims as they both fall to the ground, school books scattered around them. Luz shakes her head and puts a hand on Amity’s shoulder.
“Are you okay Amity? We both took a pretty big fall!” Luz laughs.
“Luz I uh-” she stammers, face flushing red as she meets Luz’s gaze. She wipes her tears away and pushes Luz’s hand off her shoulder.
“Sorry I-I have to go.” she quickly grabs her fallen books and rushes off without another word.
“Wait! Amity what’s wrong-” Luz yells towards her, still sitting on the ground. Amity doesn’t stop or even look back to Luz’s yells.
“I wonder what’s wrong with her.” Willow questions as she offers a hand to Luz. Luz graciously takes it and wipes the dust off her uniform. Luz looks at her hands and makes a disgusted face. “Jeez, they should really clean this place. Don’t witches have some sort of cleaning spell?”
Willow giggles and shrugs. “Principal Bump just slacks off I guess.”
“Uh oh guys...” Gus points to the school board. “I think I know why Amity was running.” He points to the student board hanging on the wall. “I uh think... Boscha may have found Amity’s diary.”
“Wait wait WHAT?” Luz exclaims as she runs toward Gus “How could she have found Amity’s diary?” She could have sworn that her and the twins were the only ones who knew where Amity’s diary was...definitely NOT Boscha.
“I don’t know but I'm guessing that's the case from the big letters that read ‘Amity’s diary’ right here.” Gus’ finger follow the big font as he reads the words out.
Willow grabs a piece of paper off of the board, scanning her eyes over the words quickly.
“Oh no.” Willows gasps.“This is bad. Boscha never knows when to quit.”
Luz grabs the piece of paper from Willow’s hand, crumpling it in her hands and throwing it into the trash.
“Ugh! Boscha! What does she even WANT from Amity? Esa chica es tan malvada!” Luz yells angrily as she kicks the trash can.
Willow’s face grows with concern. “Boscha must be trying to get back at Amity and uh… from what the topics are about I think she’s trying to get back at you too Luz.”
Luz’s eyebrows raise as she stops and looks at Willow. “Wait...me too…?” Her eyes drift to the papers tacked to the board.
Luz brings her hands to her head and shakes her head. “NO!” she yells. “I don’t care if it includes me. I won’t read it. Those are Amity’s private thoughts and they should only be for her eyes. Even if I am included.”
“Oh uh yeah only for her eyes!” Gus nods as he quickly crumples the piece of paper in his hand and laughs nervously, earning a scolding look from Willow as she taps her foot.
“What! You read it too!” Gus argues.
Luz paces back and forth. “I need to go find Amity. She must be so scared right now. If we’re both involved in this then we have to stick together. Who knows how she even feels right now.”
Willow and Gus look at each other with concern. “Um Luz-” Willow reaches out towards her “That might not be the best idea…”
Luz stops pacing in order to give Willow a stern look. “I don’t care. I don’t care about what stupid Boscha and her crew say. I care about Amity. Do what you want but I’m going to go find her right now.”
“But class starts in 5 minutes!” Gus exclaims, pointing to the clock.
“So make up an excuse! Make an illusion! C’mon. You guys are my best friends. Don’t you have my back?” Luz pouts and holds her hands together. “Pleeeassseeeee?” She begs.
Willow sighs, defeated by Luz’s puppy dog eyes.
“What are friends for?” She smiles.
“Eeee!” Luz squeals, jumping up and down as she brings them in for a group hug.
“You guys are the best. I’ll be back soon, I promise.” she waves.
Willow waves as Gus shakes his head, casting an illusion spell.
“Cmon Luz #2,” he sighs “Let’s get to class.”
Luz looks towards the hallway, eyes roaming the halls with her hands on her hips.
“Okay Amity. Where did you go?”