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Luz’s POV
I had only been here a few days, maybe a week tops. The Boiling Isles was certainly,,different from my realm, definitely more fun though. I was supposed to be in a camp about taxes so honestly anything would be more fun for christ’s sake. I’m just glad I brought my skateboard with me, I might not be good but it calms me down after a long day just to ride around. Eda has been teaching me a few things here and there about skating, but mostly her lessons are about magic or how to steal from strangers. I made plans with some of my buddies, Willow and Gus, to hang out at the skate park nearby today. They’d been so busy with school they needed to detox and wanted to see me too.
Once I had arrived, I noticed we weren’t the only ones there. Willow and Gus were running a little late, so I sat away from the group of girls who were skating around each other. One of the girls had sea foam green hair, a denim jacket, some nice shoes, a very nice expensive board she was riding around on. She was riding away from a girl with three eyes. The girl looked her age, both 14, she had a yellow shirt on and pink hair, sunglasses, (how do they,,work?? like,,only on two eyes and just close the,,th,ird,,??) blue tennis shorts and white roller skates. The girls were racing around watched by a few other girls. One with white hair pulled up to reveal a black undercut, wearing a pink and yellow shirt and jean shorts. She also stood on the side with roller skates, holding onto a taller girl’s arm for balance. The taller one had short green hair, and a red and white striped vans shirt on, tucked into black jean shorts. She also wore roller skates and looked as if she was about to pass out.
I stared at the girls for a good five minutes before I heard someone calling my name.
“LUZ !! Sorry we were so late !! I got held up and my dads’ car broke down.” Willow said, clearly feeling guilty.
“Guys don’t worry, it’s fine. I just got here anyway.” I replied. Both Gus and Willow seemed to relax a little
“Let’s skate !!” Gus yelled.
We stayed over by the entrance mostly, on the flat part of the park since none of us were very good. Mostly we all just rode around place to place on our boards, but seeing as we all bought trick boards had decided on trying a few tricks here and there too. I looked over at the girls, specifically the green-haired one. She seemed so expirenced at this, like she’d been skating for a while now. They didn’t move much, mostly just did basic tricks and skate away from each other and play a very unsafe version of tag. She never messed up or got hurt though. After watching for a while I eventually worked up the nerve to try to ollie over a rock, keyword ‘try’.
“Willowww, Guss !!!! I’m gonna ollie” I yelled to them, getting the attention of the girls across the park on accident too.
“Be careful, you’re not wearing a helmet and you could get seriously hurt. Plus we aren’t near any healers.” Gus said, concerne laced in his voice.
“Don’t worry bro, I know what I’m doing” I said with a laugh.
I found a good sized rock from the entrance, about as big as one in a garden used for decoration. I set it all up and planned to nail it completely, but as I got in the air I fumbled it and ended up faceplanting on the ground. I didn’t mind, it’s not like I haven’t messed up on my board before, but this time I heard laughing. It wasn’t close enough to be Gus or Willow, not to mention neither would laugh at me if I got hurt. No, this was coming from across the park. I looked up, face bruised, just to see the pink haired girl laughing at me and saying something I couldn’t make out. I sat up and looked at the others, hoping they would make her stop or at least not join in. The white haired and tall girl both started laughing too after a comment I couldn’t make out. I silently prayed the green-haired girl wouldn’t laugh, but just as the thought crossed my mind she started to. It didn’t seem genuine though? Seemed nervous, and that was clear even from over here. I got up, dusted myself off, and looked at the girls laughing at me. I started to get teary eyed and I couldn’t tell if it was the pain or the embarrassment. I looked over at them, the two skaters in the back cackling the hardest, and I flipped them off and stuck my tounge out at them. They all stopped after seeing that but still looked smug, except for the green-haired one. She just stopped immediately, and I couldn’t tell if it was my eyes or not but she looked like she felt bad? Wack. I turned back to Gus and Willow, who looked concerned.
“You okay?” Willow asked, “That looked rough.”
“Yeah, I’m okay. Just my ego got hurt.” I replied, smiling a little. My face must’ve had at least a few bruises on it. I took a hard fall after all. “Let’s just keep going.”
We continued skating for another hour, sticking to simply riding around and working on tic-tacs. I fell another few times but managed to catch myself. Eventually Willow and Gus had to leave, sticking me by myself waiting for Eda. Knowing her I could be stuck here a week before she notices I’m gone. I sat at the bench next to the entrance, rolling my board back and forth under my foot. I took out my phone, scrolling through Twitter and rereading Azura fanfiction. Not even ten minutes passed and I felt someone next to me, and I looked over and I saw her. Green hair, denim jacket now pulled up to reveal a lesbian pride bracelet, pink undershirt and black pants. She wasn’t close, but she definitely wasn’t far either. Up this close she looked,,cute in a way, the bracelet definitely didn’t help make her unattractive thats for sure.
“Hey? Are you sitting here to make fun of me.” I asked, genuinely confused. Why was she here? She was JUST making fun of me.
“What? No,,nono sorry. Uhm sorry about earlier. I didn’t mean to make you feel bad. My names Amity.” She said, guilt clearly laid in her voice. “Sorry, again. I just wanted to see if you were okay, you took quite a fall.” She giggled a little,,a very cute sound might I add.
“Sure, yeah. I’m fine, thanks for checking. I assure you I can ollie, I’m not a wimp I’m just,,not having a good day is all.” I looked at her, seeing how she would react. I was still expecting to be made fun of.
She laughed, again. “Sure, sure you are.” She looked at me back, looking into my eyes. “What you did was loser-y today. I would hope you could do any better then that.”
“I can prove I can.” I scoffed, face slowly turning upset. I can do better, right?
“Alright. I believe you.”
“I bet I can better than you.” That got her, she looked shocked.
“Oh yeah? Sure. If I win, you owe me ten snails.” She snapped back. Clearly I hit a nerve.
“Alright. If I win however, you have to never laugh at me or my friends again.” I hoped this would work. I might not be good but I can do an ollie right? “Whoever can do the best ollie.”
“Alright. Best ollie.” She drew a spell circle, and grabbed my hand through it. It glowed for a second before disappearing. “It’s an oath. I’ll go first”
She did it perfectly, as expected. I secretly did hope she would fumble it though. I set it all up, same rock same playing field. As I kicked off and got near the rock, I messed up even worse and face planted again. This time my nose took the fall, though.
“Ow,,” I groaned. “Shit. Guess I owe you now.” I looked at Amity, and she giggled. She wasn’t laughing at me, or being a bitch. She genuinely just found me funny.
Amity looked down at me and gasped when she saw my nose. It wasn’t broken, I could tell. It was definitely bruised pretty bad though. She bent down, got closer and looked at it, squinting since it had gotten darker out. She pulled away to get her bag, getting out a bandaid.
“May I?” She asked, motioning to the bandaid. I looked at the graphic on it, and to my surprise it was a Good Witch Azura themed bandaid.
“You read Azura too!?” I exclaimed, face immediately lighting up. She looked taken aback, whispering a small ‘yeah’ and suddenly I remembered what she asked. “also, you may.” I said, nodding my head.
She lent down to my level again and took off the back of the bandaid, positioning it over my nose. She smiled and put it over my nose, careful to not hurt me further. She looked at me and I could swear I saw a little blush on her cheeks. She plopped next to me on the ground and our hands brushed against each other, and they settled next to each other with the pinkies very nearly intertwined. She relaxed a little, and looked the opposite way from me.
“Y’know, human, you seem like fun. Much better then the Walmart version of Heathers I have to hang out with. How about I train you up on your skills and one day we can skate together and not look like a professional and ameuter.” She looked at me smugly, and I really couldn’t tell if she was making fun of me or being genuinely kind. The ‘human’ comment caught me off guard, I hadn’t realized until now but my beanie had come off of my head by a little, revealing my round ears instead of the pointy witch ones.
“Sounds like a plan,,and are you gonna give me shit about me being human?” I asked, looking her right in the eyes.
“Haven’t decided. We can meet up here after Hexside’s out everyday. 3:30 work for you?” She said, and I couldn’t tell if she was being serious about making fun of my ears or not.
“Yeah. If you make one comment about my ears I will smite you though. Don’t call me human again by the way, my names Luz.” I replied smugly, looking her up and down.
“Alright Luz. See you here 3:30 tomorrow. We can get started at 4:00 once Boscha and her posse leave me the hell alone.” She said, standing up and offering me a hand.
When I took it and stood up, we lingered for a moment until she pulled away and pulled her sleeves down, taking off the bracelet. She hid it in her pocket, I assume to keep it from her parents.
“Yknow, I’m actually bi” I said, pointing to her bracelet in her pocket.
“Oh? Good to know. I just have to take it off when I go home, if my siblings found out they would spread that shit like wildfire.” She laughed, and started walking to her bag and board. “Speak of the devil, they‘re here to pick me up out the door. We can’t go out and look like we’re together, but if your ride is also here then I guess you kinda have to,,” she started rambling. I’ll admit, it was a little cute.
“I’ll check. Eda isn’t exactly the fastest.” I said, snapping out of the trance watching her had me in.
I walked over to my board, picking it up and heading out with Amity. I saw her freeze up for a second and then two much taller people come up to her.
“Heya Mittens ! Who’s this ?” The girl spoke, gesturing at me. She looked around 17, and she had long dark green hair in a braid. She held ice skates, and wore a pink v-neck shirt and light blue jean shorts.
“Yeah Mittens, who’s your girlfriend?” Said the boy, presumably the girl’s twin. He looked 17 too, dark green hair but a lot shorter length. He wore a black and pink shirt with the words ‘Smoke grass” on it, he was holding a pair of ice skates too. He also had a reddish-pink jacket around his waist and long darker jeans on.
“Not my girlfriend, Ed. Em, she’s Luz. Both of you stop calling me that or I’ll dispose of both of you.” She snapped back, rather angrily.
“Hi,,” I said, looking at the twins. They looked good, not good enough to peruse but good nonetheless.
“Hey cutie, my names Emiria. This is Edric.” The girl spoke, and the boy winked at me. I could feel my face getting hot.
“Stop bothering her. Let’s just go.” Amity said, watching her siblings turn and walk away. She moved towards me and bent so my ear and her face were level. “See you tomorrow, Luz.” She said. I felt my face get hot again from the close contact but ignored it.
I waved weakly when she pulled away, and watched her leave with Ed and Em. I sat on my skateboard and waited another hour before Eda finally showed.
“Sorry kid, I got distracted.” She said, offering a seat on her staff.
“I could’ve and should’ve walked. It would’ve taken half that time” I replied, getting an eyebrow raise from the old witch.
“Sure you could’ve.”