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Luz and Amity awoke to the sight of each other’s eyes fluttering open in the sunlight. The two couldn’t help but smile at one another, Luz giving Amity’s nose a quick good morning kiss. Amity reached and cupped Luz’s cheek in her hand, Luz grasped it, gently.
“Something wrong?” Luz rubbed Amity’s palm with her thumb.
“I just…I just can’t believe you’re real.” Amity rolled onto her back, staring up at the ceiling. “I can’t believe any of this is real. After what happened with Willow, I thought I’d be under the thumbs of parents forever, so I did everything they told me to do.” She rubbed her eyes. “They wanted me to be cruel, so I was cruel, not that that excuses my behavior. They wanted me to be top student, so I was top student, no matter how much sleep and free time studying sucked up. They wanted me to join the Emperor’s Coven, that was my future, all my dreams were forfeited.”
“What…uh…what did you want to do?” Luz asked. “I mean, what do you want to do now?”
“You remember when you caught me reading to kids in the library?” Amity turned to Luz, smiling warmly.
“Oh, you mean the extra credit?” Luz joked
Amity laughed. “Yeah, that.”
“You want to work with kids?”
“I want to write children’s books,” Amity said. “Instead of hosting book signings, I’d host reading sessions for kids Braxus’ age, completely free of charge.”
“Very generous, Miss Blight,” Luz said.
“Spending all of my life with wealth, but no happiness taught me something,” Amity began.
“Money can’t buy happiness?” Luz guessed.
“Human’s use that phrase, too?”
“Hey, we share the English language.”
“It’s true, either way,” Amity said. “I used to have the money to get anything I wanted, and now I have nothing. Yet, I feel like the opposite is true. When I had money I had nothing, now that I have nothing, I feel like I have everything.” She looked at Luz. “That everything is you, Luz. You’re my everything.”
“Amity…I don’t know what to say,” Luz admitted. “Being everything to someone is not a something I expected to have.”
“I’m sorry, is that too much responsibility?” Amity asked, worried. “I don’t want to rush this!”
“No! I mean, I don’t think so,” Luz assured. “It’s just not somethings I’d ever thought I’d be.”
“Neither did I,” Amity admitted, as well. “Especially with who I hung out with and how I would treat people.”
“You changed, though,” Luz said. “You are someone who deserves to be loved.”
“I feel it’ll take me a while to agree with that,” Amity said.
“However long it takes, I’ll be there.” Luz placed a comforting hand on Amity’s shoulder.
“Thanks Luz, I knew coming here was the right decision.” Amity rubbed her nose with Luz’s.
“You’re full of good decision, Amy.”
“Oh, that reminds me!” Amity sat up. “I thought of the perfect cute nickname for you!”
“Oh! What is it?! What is it?!” Luz jumped in excitement.
“Light,” Amity said.
“Light?” Luz scratched her chin.
“La Luz is Spanish for light, right?”
“Yeah.”
“That’s exactly what you are, Luz.” Amity smiled. “You’re the light of my life.”
“Well, now that you explained it to my slow brain, I like it,” Luz said. “Now, come on, let’s get out of bed and I’ll make us some Azura pancakes!”
“You know how to do that?” Amity asked.
“Your gf is an artist, Amy!” Luz winked, then she took Amity’s hand and pulled her to her feet. “I’ll show you!”
Luz lead Amity out of the bedroom and down the stairs. As they walked towards the kitchen, they passed by the living room, Amity suddenly stopped dead I’m her tracks, causing Luz to stop, as well.
“Amity? What’s up?” Luz asked.
Amity didn’t answer, she just stared into the living room. Luz followed her eyes, and she saw what made Amity stop. Eda was sitting straight up on the couch, staring at the door, eyes wide and bloodshot. She was shaking.
“Eda?!” Luz ran over to her knelt down beside her. “Eda, are you okay?”
Eda didn’t say anything, she just continued staring at the door.
“Eda!” Luz shouted, shaking Eda by her shoulders.
“Wha…what?” Eda finally blinked, shook her head, and looked around
“Eda, you were staring off into space and looking at nothing,” Luz said, sighing in relief. “Are you okay?”
“No.” Eda shook her head. “I’m not okay, and I wasn’t staring at nothing.” She gave the door a passing glance. “I was looking at the door, waiting for…”
“Lilith?” Luz’s eyes widened.
“Is something wrong with Miss Lilith?” Amity asked.
“Yeah, she never came home,” Eda said.
“Well, please to meet you Lilith.”
“Lilith, help me!”
“Thank you, Lilith.”
“I would love to go out with you!”
“Lil.”
“Lily.”
“I’ll always love you.”
“I never loved you.”
Lilith gasped as she awoke from her nightmare, breathing heavy. As she caught her breath, she realized she was laying on her side, curled into the fetal position, on the ground in some dark, dirty alleyway. A small shield hung over Lilith, she most likely casted it before she passed out to keep the rain from boiling her alive. She sat up, rubbing her temples as her head spun.
“What happened?” Lilith asked herself, then she realized she was carrying an empty beer bottle. “Oh.”
Lilith stumbled to her feet, letting the bottle slip from her hands and shatter on the ground. Using the wall to keep her steady, Lilith walked out of the alleyway and into the light. She covered her eyes, the light not doing anything but making her splitting headache worse.
“I need to get home, to Eda, and…” Lilith stopped when the memories came flooding back, and realized why she had the beer bottle and headache.
After what happened with Jade and Steve, Lilith booked it out through the back of Blight Manor, ran to the nearest bar, and drank herself into oblivion in a hope shed forget. When the bar closed down on account of the scheduled boiling rain, Lilith used what little awareness she had to summon and shield so she could pass out in the alleyway and be certain she’d wake up the next day.
“Why would I want to wake after Steve and…Jade…” Lilith stumbled through the streets of the Bonesborough, getting weird looks from the residents, most clearly shocked at how far the head of the Emperor’s Coven had fallen. “I can’t go home…that isn’t my home. I don’t belong there. I don’t belong anywhere…there is only one place I can go…”