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Luz looked out of the windows as her mom drove, it’s been two years since the first time she visited Bonesborough and now she’s finally coming back. The girl was so lucky that her mom was able to find a job as a nurse in the neighboring town’s hospital and after talking about moving, they decided that it’ll be better for them to go back. Living in the city has only gotten more expensive over the last two years. 

After she and her mom had a rest stop at a walk-in motel for the night they were up and ready to continue their drive to Bonesborough, which now only had 5 hours left to go! 

Staring out the window, Luz recognized the path that they were taking, it was the same road the bus took when she first visited. She smiled to herself as she recalled her first memories in Bonesborough, how she only came for the summer to visit her mom’s friend Eda, but instead got a great barista job, great friends and a summer crush. 

The girl hummed along to the music that played in her ears, Amity… she thought, I wonder how she is. Well, I’m going to find out anyways aren’t I? I’m finally going back. She’s going to be so happy to see me again! Well, everyone’s going to be so happy to see me again. See? I told them I would keep my promise, and I did! So please, just wait for me a little longer guys. 

Carrying the moving boxes into their new home. Luz looked around the small building that her and her mom picked out beforehand. There were many vacant buildings in Bonesborough, but they ended up picking a fairly cheap, one story wooden-brick building with one living room, one bathroom, one kitchen and two bedrooms. It was perfect for the both of them. 

With a grunt, she placed a heavy cardboard box down and wiped a small sweat off of her forehead, “I think that’s everything Mom,” Luz said as her mom closed the door behind her. Luz grinned, “See? Isn’t this place so nice and rustic?” She gently nudged her mom, “I like it! Do you?”

Humming as she looked around the room, her mom nodded, “I like it too mija, we are both excellent house pickers,” she joked, “Anyways, you should unpack your stuff into your room and roll out the futon. I think the moving truck with the bed is going to be coming tomorrow.” 

“Okay, that’s fine,” Luz said, picking up her duffle bag, “I slept on the floor all the time in Eda’s place,” she looked over at her mom, “Oh, should we go to Eda now? Tell her we’re here?” 

Grinning, her mom raised an eyebrow at her daughter, “What about the whole surprise thing mija? We’ll come to Eda ourselves after we finish unpacking.”

Luz chuckled, “Yes ma’am.”

They walked over to The Owl House after they mostly finished unpacking, Luz mostly just put her duffle bag down and spent most of the time scrolling through her phone. The girl peered through the window, it was the afternoon so there were barely any customers, if any at all. She heard her mom take a deep breath next to her, “It’s been years since I’ve seen Eda, and I’m coming unannounced!” She sighed, “I can’t help but feel anxious.”

Holding her mom’s hand, Luz smiled at her, “It’ll be fine Mom, I’m right here.”

“Thank you mija.”

Together, they opened the door and saw Eda drinking a cup of coffee while reading the newspaper. The woman immediately stopped what she was doing when she saw Luz and Camila walk into her shop. Eda rubbed her eyes, to make sure that what she was seeing was real and not some sick illusion, “Camila… Luz,” she breathed out. 

“Edaline,” the other woman said, walking towards her old friend and bringing the both of them into a warm embrace, “I’ve missed you so much.”

Eda hummed, “I missed you too Camila,” she looked at Luz over Camila’s shoulder, “Get in here too you brat. I’ve missed you too. It hasn’t been the same at the cafe after you left.”

Without thinking twice, Luz walked over to Eda to bring her into a hug, but suddenly she had the wind knocked out of her and she collapsed onto the ground, “What the-” Luz looked up and saw a giant dog in front of her. Luz blinked, “King?”

The woman groaned, “Ugh, I can’t believe King got to hug you before me.”

Luz laughed as King recognized her scent and started to give her kisses all over her, “Ah! King! Stop it! But oh my god you have grown so much!” She said, sitting up and patting the wolf-dog.

“Yep,” Eda said, “No longer an ankle biter,” she nudged Camila, “A face biter now,” Camila just looked at Eda with a blank stare and the woman coughed, “Anyways, yeah that’s the biggest he’s going to grow now,” she sighed, “But get your butt over here Luz and give me one of those vertical arm things! We haven’t had one in two years and I hate to admit it, but I missed it.”

Standing up from the ground, Luz gave King one more pat on the head and went over to hug Eda too, “I missed it too Eda. I’m sorry I’ve been gone for so long, but I’m back now and for good this time.”

“Does this mean I don’t have to open the shop myself anymore?” Eda cackled.

Rolling her eyes playfully, Luz grinned, “Sure, I’ll get back to work. I’m moving here for good anyways!” 

Eda raised an eyebrow, “For real?” She looked over at Camila who nodded her head in confirmation, “Well,” the woman put her hands on her hips, “About time for you to come back home Camila!” 

“It was overdue, I admit,” Luz’s mom said, “But coming late is better than not coming.”

Snapping her fingers together, Eda grinned, “Touche,” she turned to Luz, “Do you even know how to make good coffee anymore kid?”

Shrugging, Luz hummed, “I’ve been working part time at Starbucks in the city, so I guess I still know how to at least coffee.”

Making a face, Eda propped her elbow on Camila’s shoulder, “Ew, kid, I thought I taught you better than that,” she sighed, “I thought I wouldn’t have to teach you anything anymore but I guess I should teach you the ropes around here again.”

Patting Luz on the back, her mom grinned, “Oh it’s good that you get your old job back here, so you’re not skateboarding all the time.”

Luz hummed, “Yeah… it’s good to be back. You’re actually going to pay me this time right?”

Rummaging through a drawer, Eda tossed Luz a spare key, “Mm… I suppose so,” Luz grinned, “You still remember your usual schedule right?”

“Yep, I got it,” Luz smiled, putting the key in the pocket of her jacket. 

Eda sat down at the counter, “So, you guys finished unpacking yet?”

“Not really, there should be some moving trucks coming tomorrow with the rest of the heavy items,” Camila walked over to her daughter and gave her a noogie, “This little punk didn’t listen to me and was slacking off when she was supposed to be unpacking in her room!”

Readjusting her beanie on her head, Luz sighed, “Okay, okay! Sorry! I’ll do it later!”

Patting both Noceda's on the shoulders, Eda grinned, “Well, don’t let me get in your way of unpacking,” she nudged Camila, “Let’s get some drinks later to celebrate this reunion!”

“Oh please,” Camila smirked, “You just need an excuse to go drinking during a working day.”

Eda grinned, “You know me so well Camila.”

They talked to Eda a bit longer but soon walked out of the cafe and went back home to unpack their luggage more. Luz twirled the key to the cafe that Eda gave her and put it back in her pocket. Piece by piece her old life was getting back together. 

After laying out her futon and hanging up her skateboards and posters on the wall, Luz kicked her duffle bag in the corner and looked around her room. It was a room that wasn’t far from the kitchen or front door and it had a window that faced the streets, which made it so much easier to sneak out at night. Plus, she was at the first floor now so she wouldn’t have to climb a fucking rope of bedsheets to hang out with Amity.

Luz blinked, “Huh,” she said to herself, “Bonesborough is a small town so word should have gotten around that someone new has moved in,” suddenly on cue, the doorbell rang.

“Mija! Can you get the door please?”

“Yeah sure!” 

The brunette quickly walked out of her room and over to the front door. When she opened it she saw three vaguely familiar figures. There was a girl wearing a black turtleneck with a yellow coat, with short trimmed hair and familiar round glasses. There was a tall boy wearing a denim jacket with hair that made him look even taller. And, there was a girl who looked like she was forced  to be there, she had a pink mullet that was shaved at the sides of her head. All four of them just stared at each other in silence.

Luz swore that her jaw had dropped, “Willow! Gus!” Her two old friends looked at her, looking as surprised to see Luz and Luz was surprised to see them. She looked over to Willow’s right and blinked, “Uh… Boscha ?”

The pink haired girl gave her a small wave, “Hey.”

“Luz, who’s there?” Her mom called from her room. 

“Just some friends!” She called back, “And a Boscha,” Luz muttered under her breath.

Boscha scowled, “Hey! I heard that!”

Ignoring Boscha’s response, Luz put on her shoes and closed the door behind her, “What are you guys doing here?” 

Willow blinked at her, “We could say the same about you…” 

Luz grinned, “I’m moving here! My mom got a job in the nearby town and I applied to Hexside High to learn here. Now I can stay here with you guys! Isn’t it great?”

“For real?” Gus exclaimed, “That’s great!” He nudged Willow and Boscha, “Isn’t this great?” 

The other girl hummed, “Yeah, that’s good news.”

Staring at Boscha, Luz raised an eyebrow, “So… where’s Amity? And why is she here?”

Willow pulled out her phone and started to text someone, “I just texted Amity to come over,” she held Boscha’s hand and kissed it, which surprised Luz a lot, “Oh and Boscha and I are dating now.”

Blinking at the two, Luz looked back and forth between Boscha and Willow and looked over at Gus, who confirmed that this wasn’t some weird joke with a nod of his head, “What!” Luz exclaimed, “You two are dating? Didn’t Boscha use to bully the hell out of you Willow?”

Putting an arm around Willow, Boscha smirked, “Two years can really change a person, Beanie .”

“Oh come on,” Luz rolled her eyes, “You can’t say that to me, Mullethead ,” she retorted.

Standing in between the two, Willow laughed, “Girls, girls, girls, girls,” Willow turned her head to Luz, “There’s no need to fight, in fact I like your beanie,” she turned to her girlfriend, “And I like your mullet.”

Luz stuck her tongue out at Boscha who scoffed at her. Willow’s phone buzzed and she grinned and looked up at Luz, “Hey, Amity is here.” The brunette blinked and looked up, where she saw Amity staring at her phone as she walked over to where they were. 

The girl blushed and swore that her pupils had turned into heart shapes when she saw Amity. Luz always thought that Amity was beautiful but she was gorgeous now. Amity was taller, had longer hair that was still dyed green with her brown roots, her skin was still clear and white like porcelain glass. Even though she was just wearing sweats and a hoodie, to Luz, she was the most elegant person alive at the moment.

Amity looked up from her phone and she and Luz made eye contact. 

“Amity!” Luz grinned at the girl, “I missed you so much!”

Giving Amity a small smile, Luz watched as Amity sped walked over to her. Maybe for a welcome hug? Or even a welcome kiss? Luz couldn’t tell since Amity’s face was hidden, she could only see the shadows that were casted upon it due to the sunset. 

Luz tilted her head to get a better look at Amity’s face, “Amity-”

SMACK!

Suddenly, Luz’s face was lurched to the side when Amity smacked her hard across her face. The girl stumbled a bit and brought her cold hands up to her burning cheek. It stung when she touched it. Luz stared up at Amity who was glaring down at her, 

What the fuck just happened? 

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Rereading her current favorite series, The Poppy War, Amity pursed her lips and closed the book, “Rin and Venka should have gotten together… Who gives a fuck about Nezha,” Amity muttered, “If it were in modern times, he would just be another fuckboy.” 

Her phone buzzed besides her and the girl saw a message from Willow.

Willow: hey someone moved into that one small house, y’know what i’m talking about right? anyways boscha gus and i are going to see who it is, you want in? 

She raised her eyebrow, “Someone moved to Bonesborough? They must have really had a sad life before. There’s nothing here in Bonesborough,” she said to herself as she typed out a response.

Amity: no i’m tired

Willow: what you don’t want to be a good neighbor? 

Amity: fuck that i’m taking a nap

Putting her phone away, Amity closed her eyes, only to be bombarded by text messages 5 minutes later. Annoyed, the girl picked up her phone to text Willow to shut the fuck up, but read the girl’s messages.

Willow: amity you should come over

Willow: like you should seriously come over right now

Willow: are you awake?

Willow: who are you sleeping beauty? wake tf up

Amity: dude shut up 

Willow: oh you’re awake, get your ass over here right now 

Amity: why

Willow: just get over here

Amity: fuck you

Willow: that’s boscha’s job 

Amity: ew wtf 

Amity: give me 5 minutes 

Walking over to the place that Willow told her- forced her to go to, Amity grumbled and kicked a pebble underneath her foot as she stared at her phone to cuss out Willow over text. But she figured that Willow probably muted their chat since she wasn’t replying, “Ugh, what the fuck. It’s probably some old couple who moved into Bonesborough, why do I have to come?” 

As Amity was getting closer to her destination, she put her phone away and looked up. She saw her three friends standing in front of her along with another girl. They made locked eyes on each other. Amity could tell immediately who those stupid kind, beautiful, round, eyes belonged to. 

Her jaw dropped. Luz? 

Instead of being the same skinny and scrawny girl that she was two years ago, Luz had grown taller, maybe taller than her now, her body was much more leaner and muscular. Amity couldn’t help but think, Wow, has she been working out? The girl still had the same cropped hair but now Luz had two long streaks of hair in the front to shape her face frame. She still wore that stupid beanie that Amity loved on her. 

Why is Luz here…? Amity was totally shell shocked, she didn’t know what to do. After two years she just suddenly pops up out of nowhere? What the fuck? None of this made sense. 

“Amity!” Luz said happily, “I missed you so much!”

Something snapped in Amity. She missed me so much? Amity thought, Oh you’ve got to be shitting me right now. The girl quickly walked over to Luz silently. 

Luz just blinked at her, “Amity-”

SMACK!

The green haired girl looked at her hand which was now red and tingly after she slapped Luz across her face. Luz looked up at Amity and fixed the beanie on her head. The girl stood up and placed her hand on the spot where Amity slapped her, “What the hell? What was that for?” 

Grabbing Luz by the collar of her shirt, Amity ignored her three friend’s faces that were paralyzed with horror in the background and just yelled at Luz, “Two fucking years!” Luz just stared at Amity in shock, “I’ve been waiting for two fucking years and you just have the audacity to show up without saying anything!” 

Pushing Amity off of her, Luz grumbled, “Nice to see you again,” she said sourly. Amity just crossed her arms and looked away, Luz sighed, “Well, I’m here now! What do you want from me Amity?” 

“You could have told me you were coming!” Amity yelled, trying to hold back tears. 

“Well, I wanted it to be a surprise Amity!” Luz snapped back. 

Amity just grit her teeth and discreetly wiped her tears away, “We haven’t talked in months Luz! I thought we were never going to talk again and that I would never see you again! And you just show up?” 

“Yeah!” Luz said, “So what’s the problem!” 

The other girl just scoffed, “You don’t get it don’t you?” She sighed and turned away, “Well, welcome to Bonesborough I guess,” she choked out. 

Luz watched as Amity was walking away and turned over to Gus, Willow, and Boscha who were just watching the show. The brunette touched her cheek, “Fuck, it hurts,” she winced. The girl looked over at her friends, “You guys were seriously just watching her yell at me?”

Boscha shrugged, “Yeah basically.”

“What was even her problem?” Luz whispered to herself.

Working at The Owl House again was as hectic as Luz remembered. The morning rush gave her a rush of thrill and stress throughout her body and the Karens at Bonesborough were as annoying as ever. But the good thing was Luz now had experience from first working at the cafe and working part time at Starbucks. So this was nothing new to her. 

Patting Luz on the back as she walked by Eda sipped a cup of freshly brewed coffee, “How’s it feel to be back at work kid?”

Luz hummed as she was making some kid a frappuccino. Who the fuck drinks a frappucino at like 7 in the morning? “Yeah, it’s nice to be back. I always liked the environment around here,” she looked over at Eda, “It’s homey.” 

“Yep, that’s what I was going for,” Eda said, “Anyways, I’m going to get lunch with my sister later so you’re in charge when that happens okay?”

The girl nodded, “Yeah okay, that’s fine.” 

Taking a good look at Luz’s face, Eda noticed that her cheek was patched up, “What happened to your face kid?” 

“Puberty,” Luz said quickly, she grinned at Eda, who was not impressed with her joke and sighed, “Amity slapped me yesterday,” she heard Eda snort, “I have no idea why too, like I just wanted a nice welcome hug but she just slapped me? It really hurt too… I had to tell my mom that I just fell while skateboarding, because who knows how she’ll react when she finds out a girl slapped her daughter. I don’t think she bought my lie though, but she didn’t ask any questions.” 

Eda laughed, “Camila would go crazy on Amity.” 

Luz scratched her cheek and chuckled, “Yeah, I don’t want that to happen to my future girlfriend.”

Raising an eyebrow, the woman smirked, “You still like Amity? Even after all those years?”

“Obviously,” Luz said as she blushed, “But I don’t know if she feels the same way though.” 

Clapping Luz on the shoulder, Eda hummed, “Back then, Amity was the girl who blushed whenever you touched her or got 5 inches near her.”

“Well yeah, she went full lesbian panic,” Luz said, “What’s your point?”

The girl looked over at Eda who just smiled at her, “My point is, she changed a lot but trust me, I don’t think she changed the lesbian panic side of her. If she panicked around the Nerdy Luz, she’ll probably panic into,” she motioned her hand around Luz, “Whatever Luz this is. So, I’m sure you’ll know if she still likes you.”

After Eda left to get lunch with her sister and not too many customers started to come into the shop, Luz put in one of her earbuds and just danced around the cafe as she mopped the floor too. 

Multitasking at its finest. 

As she listened to All Time Low, Luz heard the door open and she turned around and saw Willow, “Hey Willow!” She said, taking her earbud, “What’s up? Need a drink? It’ll be on the house.”

“Pass,” Willow said, she walked over to a table and sat herself down, “Just wanted to talk to you and just catch up a bit.”

Luz pursed her lips, “Are you going to smack the shit out of me too?” She joked, sitting across from her friend. 

“You can’t blame Amity for smacking you,” Willow said.

The brunette frowned, “Oh come on, are you going to take her side now?”

Crossing her arms, Willow just stared at Luz, “I’m not taking any sides, I’m just looking at things from Amity’s perspective,” she said cooly, Luz raised an eyebrow, “Look, think of it this way. Two years ago, you promised us- mostly Amity, that you will stay in touch and visit,” Luz hummed, “But then you lost contact with Amity and she was devastated and thought that she was never going to hear from you again but now you just appeared.”

Luz nodded her head, “Yeah, I’m here now… so what’s the issue?” She said bluntly. 

Willow let out a frustrated breath, “I thought Amity was being dramatic when she slapped you, but she had a point. You just showed up out of nowhere without saying anything. We lost contact for months and thought we would never see you. You can’t just pop up out of nowhere and expect us to act like everything is normal. It’s been two years Luz.”

“You made Amity- all of us think that you forgot about the promise that you made two years ago,” Willow continued, “We all thought that you broke the promise and that didn’t just hurt Amity, it hurt the rest of us too Luz,” Willow sighed, “But I get it, you had your own life and we had no right to hold you back from whatever life you had before. But just… look at things from Amity’s perspective please? It may not be the best perspective, since it’s a bit biased, but I hope it just helps you understand a bit how we felt the last two years.”

Even though Willow spoke to her softly, those words hit Luz hard. How could I have been so stupid? Luz thought, Surprise my ass… I just made things fucking worse. I should have told them, I shouldn’t have let them think that I broke my promise. 

Luz let out a dry laughed and rested her forehead on her first, “Fuck…” she said under her breath, “Two years and nothing has fucking changed. I’m still the same brat who can’t learn to fucking talk to the girl she likes.” 

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Taking out her phone, Amity called Luz, “Hey Luz, how are you?” Amity said, “How’s California?”

“Eh, it’s nothing much actually. But I’ve been doing pretty fine!” Luz laughed on the other side of the phone call, “Just school,” Amity heard Luz groan, “High school is so hard and everyone is just bigger than you it’s just,” the girl sighed, “I need a growth spurt soon.”

Amity snorted, “High school is kinda hard. Freshman year is super important too so that’s important,” she heard Luz hum in agreement, “Are you just studying most of the time or…?”

“Yeah basically, all I do now is study, ride my skateboard, eat, sleep, talk to you, and yeah,” said Luz, “What about you? Are you still doing ballet private lessons with Eda’s sister or did you stop doing that when you started school again?”

Lying on her bed, Amity stared at her ceiling, “Yeah I still go to lessons with Ms. Lilith, though not as often since my parents still want me to focus on my grades. I’ve been going to tutors with Ed and Em too, sometimes they help me out with homework if I need their help.”

“Oh okay,” Amity heard Luz go quiet for a second and then come back, “Sorry Ams, I have to go to sleep now. I’ll text you later okay? Good night!”

Amity nodded, “Okay good night!” She said before she hung up. 

After their call ended, a couple of seconds later, Amity received a text from Luz.

Luz: Good night!!! :)) 

It’s been a week since the last time Luz and Amity had spoken, and Amity was getting restless. Did Luz forget about her already? No that couldn’t be it. Luz would never forget about her right? 

Right? 

All this anxiety was driving Amity crazy, so she went to the only place she knew where to get help. 

Emira’s room. 

“She’s probably just busy Mittens,” Emira said, eating a bag of chips on her bed. 

Sharing the bag of chips with his twin, Edric nodded, “Yeah, that’s probably it,” he looked up and saw that Amity still looked a bit worried. The boy sighed, “If you’re so scared why don’t you text her? Y’know just check up on her. You guys both have to talk to each other, you know that right?” 

Biting her lip, Amity nodded, “Yeah of course I know that!” She sighed, “This was what I was afraid of,” she muttered, “We’re so far away from each other, what if we’re drifting now? What if the promise that she made before was just something to reassure me?”

Patting her younger sister on the shoulder, Emira smiled kindly at her, “You’re thinking too much into it Mittens, it’s alright. If you want to keep in touch with her, just talk to her!” 

“What if she’s tired of me talking to her?” Amity asked, “What if she already likes someone new back in California? What if I’m just holding her back?”

Edric also smiled at Amity, “Em is right, you’re thinking too much into it! Okay Mittens, do you trust Luz?” Amity nodded her head without hesitation, “Then just trust that she’ll keep her end of the promise. It’ll all be fine okay?” 

Amity nodded, her siblings were right. She was looking too much into it. She was overthinking everything! Plus she was being too obsessed, all she needed to do was just calm down a bit. It’s not the end of the world. 

This is fine.

Brushing her long, wavy hair with her comb, Amity stared at her vanity as she got ready for the day. After tying the top of her hair up with a hair tie, Amity put on a casual pink dress and looked at her reflection. 

“All done,” she said to herself. Amity looked over at her photo wall and looked at the two flipped photos, she frowned at them. It’s been months since she flipped them over and she couldn’t bear to look at the photos that once brought her so much joy since they now just make her feel sorrow. “I wonder what you look like now Luz,” she sighed, “Whenever I think of your name, all I can see is your crooked smile,” she smiled to herself, “I always loved your smile.”

She sighed and sat at the edge of her bed, “It’s almost been two years Luz, we haven’t talked in a while too…” she stared at the two photos, “Please come back soon, I still really miss you, I haven’t forgotten about you, but I’m scared I’m soon going to forget what your face looks like.” 

Lying on her bed, Amity scrolled through her social media, next to her was Boscha who was also on her phone, giggling obnoxiously. After Boscha laughed another time, Amity turned her head towards her friend and scowled, “What the fuck are you doing that’s got you giggling like a maniac?” 

Boscha looked over at her and put away her phone, “Just texting Willow.”

The girl rolled her eyes with annoyance, “For fucks sake, you guys are so annoying,” Boscha just stuck her tongue out to rub more salt in the wounds, “Is this what Willow and Gus felt whenever I was with Luz before?” 

“They probably had it worse,” Boscha said, “Since you and Luz were like practically in love with each other before.”

Amity immediately blushed and hit Boscha’s face with her pillow, “Shut up Boscha. Who would have thought that you would have fallen for the girl you bullied for years. That’s some Wattpad bullshit right there,” now it was Boscha’s time to roll her eyes, “30,000 words, slow burn, enemies to lovers trope.”

“Oh shut up Blight,” Boscha retorted but then smirked, “It would be more like 65,000 words. We had a lot of history okay?” 

Amity snorted. 

Nudging Amity’s shoulder, Boscha grinned, “Speaking of history, let’s talk about you and Luz. I was lucky enough to get front seats to the show that happened yesterday.”

“Don’t be an asshole Boscha.”

The other girl just shrugged and continued talking, “Y’know everyone was really surprised when you smacked the shit out of Luz yesterday,” Amity turned away, “I mean you were crying over her for like a year or something and then you did that . Do you hate her now?” 

Facing Boscha, Amity frowned, “Yes I-” she stopped herself there, “No I don’t hate her,” she said softly, “I’m just… hurt . We haven’t talked in ages and she just pops up out of nowhere and expects everything just to go back to normal,” she sighed, “But nothing is normal. Everything has changed.” 

Boscha hummed, “Yeah, especially her,” Amity raised an eyebrow, “I mean, did you see Luz’s muscles?” Before it was Boscha’s turn to get beat up by Amity, she laughed, “Don’t look at me like that Amity, I’m just joking.”

“I sure hope you are,” Amity frowned, “Stick with Ms. Park. I’ll be the one who’s taking Noceda.” 

Suddenly, Boscha let out a laugh, “Oh man, you still like her huh?” 

Turning red, Amity grumbled under her breath, “Shut the fuck up Boscha.” 

“God you fucking useless lesbian,” the girl said, wiping a tear out of her eye, “Of course you haven’t moved on from Luz,” Amity just glared at her and Boscha patted her on the back, “Luz probably thinks you hate her now. Good job Amity.” 

Shoving Boscha’s arm off of her, Amity let out a big sigh, “You think I don’t fucking know that?” She yelled. The girl then just groaned into her hands, “This is so annoying. It would be so much easier just to hate Luz, but I can’t! I mean I hate how she just popped up without saying anything but I can’t hate her as a person,” she looked up at Boscha, “Y’know what I mean?” 

Boscha nodded, “Yeah I think I know what you mean,” she shrugged, “You’re still a disaster lesbian though.”

Amity just scowled at her and pushed her, “Shut up,” she sighed, “Anyways, I still like her but,” she furrowed her eyebrows, “Does she even like me anymore? Probably not, I did slap her.”

“She’s probably thought it was hot,” Amity just stared at her and Boscha shrugged again, “I mean, she’s probably into that.” 

“I’m trying to be serious here.”

“So am I.”

Groaning, Amity glared at Boscha, “Why do I hang out with you again?”

Hugging Amity’s sides, Boscha grinned, “Because you care for me.” 

“Can we go back to hating each other?” 

“Not a chance.”

“Eh, worth a try,” Amity hummed. 

The two friends just laid on the bed in silence for the rest of the night. Boscha was busy flirting with Willow while Amity just found herself lost in her own thoughts. 

She thought about the conversation that she and Boscha just had. I could never hate Luz, Amity thought, I mean how could I? That’s like someone hating a puppy. Sure it would be easier to hate her but I tried and I can’t. I would think that after being apart for two years I would seriously hate Luz. But for some reason, when I saw her again, I still felt the same way how I was around her two years ago. 

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Putting on a green plaid jacket over her white shirt, Luz put on her iconic beanie and got ready for the day. She walked out of the room and into the kitchen to pour herself some oak milk before she went over to open up the cafe. 

Fumbling with the keys in her hands, her mom also went out of her room and grabbed a water bottle that was sitting on the counter, “I’m going off to work okay mija?” She leaned up and kissed Luz’s cheek, “Don’t get in too much trouble when I’m gone!”

Sipping her oak milk, Luz shrugged, “I never get into trouble Mom.”

Squeezing her left cheek, her mom grinned, “Whatever you say mija, how’s your cheek? Is it all better now?” 

Luz hummed as she finished the last of her oak milk, “Yeah it’s fine. It’s been like 5 days already, it healed on its own,” she said, washing her cup before putting it in the sink. The girl walked over to her mom and hugged her, “Have fun at work.”

“You too mija,” her mom said, “Oh also,” Luz turned her head over to her mom, “when you get to work today, make sure to arrange a new work schedule for yourself. When school starts in 3 weeks, you can’t be working every day like how you are now.”

The girl nodded, “Yeah I’ll do that.”

As her mom left, Luz waved her goodbye and got out her skateboard and the keys to the cafe and hurried over to The Owl House. 

Breathing in the summer-autumn air, Luz grinned to herself, “I forgot how nice the mornings are in Bonesborough,” she looked around at the almost empty streets, “It’s peaceful,” out of the corner of her eye a figure with vivid green hair was walking on the other side of the road. 

Luz fell off of her skateboard. 

What the fuck was Amity doing at 5 am in the morning? Luz figured she had extra private ballet classes. 

“Amity!” She breathed out. Ignoring her scraped hands and knees, Luz ran over to the other side of the road without thinking twice to chase the girl, but when she turned the corner, she couldn’t see Amity anywhere. Panting, Luz sighed, “I just wanted to talk…”

“Why were you late today?” 

Wiping down the tables, Luz looked up at Eda who was still in her pajamas, trudging down the stairs. Giving the woman an awkward smile, the girl laughed, “I was only like 10 minutes late.”

The woman stared at her, “You didn’t answer my question kid.” 

Luz sighed, “Sorry, I just had this really good cereal for breakfast. I couldn’t get enough of it,” she lied. The girl didn’t want to bother Eda with her teenage crushes. She has already heard enough of that two years ago. 

Raising an eyebrow, Eda stared at Luz, “Oh really?” Luz blinked at her, did she see through her lie? The woman crossed her arms, “I’ll be the judge of that. What brand?”

“The gay Cheerios,” Luz said bluntly as she continued to clean tables.

Making a face, Eda went behind the counter to brew herself her morning cup of coffee, “You mean Fruit Loops?” Luz nodded and Eda snorted, “What are you 7 years old? Those things are so sugary,” she grinned, “Now Raisin Bran, that’s , where it’s at.”

Luz rolled her eyes playfully, “You can’t be going around acting like a cereal connoisseur when you think Raisin Bran is the best cereal.”

Eda shrugged, “Agree to disagree.” 

“Fair enough.”

As Luz was cleaning in silence, Eda fed King and after they opened up the cafe for the day, the girl walked behind the counter to her station to make herself a cup of coffee before the customers would bombard her during rush time. 

While making their first customer a drink, Luz looked over at Eda, “Oh by the way, my mom said I can’t be working every day when school starts in 3 weeks. So can we make a new schedule for me?” 

Nodding her head, Eda hummed, “Yeah sure, we’ll discuss that after the morning rush.” 

Luz turned her head and saw a crowd of people pushing themselves through the door, she groaned, “Sometimes I really hate this job.”

Finally, after two hours of customers asking dumb questions and being Karens, the morning rush was finally done and Luz and Eda were exhausted. Grabbing a chocolate bear claw from their display counter, the girl walked over to a table and nibbled on it to regain some energy. 

“I’m pooped,” Luz said as Eda sat across from her with a calendar in her hand, “The morning rush here is worse than the one in the city, maybe because we’re the only workers here. It’s been like 4 days and I still haven’t gotten used to it.”

Eda snorted, “You’ll adjust again,” she pushed the calendar towards Luz, “Okay pick your days and I’ll jot it down.”

Luz stared at the calendar, “It’s not like I actually have a life outside of school, and I didn’t even start school yet!” The girl sighed, “I’ll work the opening shifts on Saturday and Sunday and I’ll just work closing on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday.”

“What, you don’t want to work Thursday and Friday?” Eda said.

“No, those can be the days I just mess around or study or something,” Luz shrugged, “I don’t know.” 

Eda hummed, “Okay sure, I’ll let you live your life a little bit,” she joked.

Luz grinned, “How generous.”

“You know me, I’m the most generous being out there.”

Luz snorted.

Lying on the grass with Willow and Gus, Luz stared at the clouds, “Yeah, the last two years has been hella boring for me, I just studied, worked, and skateboarded,” she looked over at her friends, “What about you guys? What have you been doing for the last two years?”

Gus ran his finger through his hair, “I’m an intern at the News place that my dad works at, so that’s new for me. But other than that, nothing really.” 

“What about you Willow?”

“Me?” Willow hummed, “Nothing much, just still helping my dads out and I went to summer school also to learn ahead,” she shrugged, “Yep, nothing much.”

Luz sat up and stared at Willow, “What about the part where you are now dating Boscha . Of all people you chose Boscha? How did that even happen?” 

“It’s a long story.”

“You gonna tell me?”

Giving Luz a shiteating grin, Willow shook her head, “Nah, not yet at least,” she saw how Luz just glared daggers at her, “One thing at a time Luz, one thing at a time,” she said calmly.

Luz scoffed but then just shrugged it off, “Okay fine, I’ll wait,” Willow hummed in satisfaction while Gus just let out a short amused laugh, “At least you guys are talking to me,” they both turned their heads towards Luz, who was crossing her arms, “I’m making the effort to try to find Amity so we can catch up and just sort things out. But I can never fucking find her!” She threw her arms in the air in frustration.

“No seriously,” she looked over at her friends, “I can never find her.”

Willow raised an eyebrow, “Elaborate.”

Adjusting the beanie on her head, Luz frowned, “Literally, this morning I was going to The Owl House to open up the cafe for the day and I saw her across the road. I fucking fell off my skateboard because I was so surprised to see her at 5 in the fucking morning. So I ran across the street and when I turned the corner she just vanished into thin air or something! I couldn’t find her after that.” 

Gus nodded his head, “Yeah… she does that.”

“I swear, Amity has to have been a witch in her past life or something,” Luz said, shaking her head.

The other girl laughed, “Maybe she was, who knows.”

Luz frowned, “It’s just so frustrating because I just want to talk to her so we can just I don’t know make things okay between us, but I can never find her! It’s like she’s avoiding me or something.”

“She probably is,” Gus agreed. Luz glared over at him, but he just smiled.

Sighing, Luz rested her head on her fist, “You guys still talk to her right?” Willow nodded her head and Luz raised an eyebrow, “Does she talk about me?”

“Yeah once in a while.”

Luz’s eyes widened and she suddenly placed both of her hands on Willow’s shoulders, “Oh my god, really? What did she say?” She said excitedly.

Brushing Luz’s hands off of her shoulder, Willow smirked, “Woah there, calm down,” Luz sat back down on the grass, “That’s classified information.”

“Are you fucking serious Willow?”

The girl shrugged, “I am always fucking serious,” she said. Willow cleared her throat, “Look, what Amity tells us, stays betweens Amity and us,” Gus nodded his head and Willow turned her head to Luz, “And what you tell us, stays between you and us. Fair enough?”

Groaning, Luz nodded her head reluctantly, “Yeah fair enough,” she sighed, “But can you at least tell me if she says good or bad things about me?”

“It’s a mixture of both,” Gus piped up.

“Okay, that’s… good enough I guess,” said Luz. She groaned, “Ugh, I just want to talk to her again!”

Willow pushed her glasses up with her finger, “We’re in the 21st century Luz, technology exists. Just text her.”

Pulling out her phone, Luz showed her messages with Amity over to her friends, “You don’t think I have?”

Luz: Hey Amity! How are you? My cheek is doing better if you’re wondering. Can we please meet up and talk?

Luz: Hey did you see my last message? The offer of talking still stands! 

Luz: Sorry to bother but I’m just not sure if you saw my last two messages haha

Luz: Heyyy Amity you know what it’s totally fine if you don’t want to talk I’m cool with that

Luz: I really need to talk to you

Gus and Willow blinked at the one sided conversation that Luz and Amity were having, “Yeah, she’s just ignoring me and leaving me on delivered. Not even on read! But on delivered !” Looking up at Luz, Gus laughed and Luz just blinked at him, “What? What’s wrong? 

“Man you are desperate !”

Sitting at the base of the giant tree that she always went to get a nice peaceful moment. Amity breathed in the warm air as she watched the sun set in the distance. She remembered how she saw Luz this morning on her way to ballet lessons. The girl couldn't help but laugh when she remembered how Luz almost fell on her face. 

Amity smiled to herself, “Well… after two years, it looks like she’s still a clumsy idiot,” she rested the back of her head on the tree, “I do feel bad that I’m avoiding Luz, it’s just hard to be around her right now…” she sighed, “God, I’m acting like an idiot, but I can’t help it. Because after all this time I-”

The girl heard rustling in the bush and she let out a short scream and jumped up, “Who the fuck is there! You fucking scared me!” 

Her eyes widened when she saw who emerged from the bush, “Luz!” She exclaimed.

Picking leaves off of her beanie, Luz let out a sigh and smiled when she saw Amity, “Oh my fucking god. I finally found you.”

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The two girls stared at each other, not saying anything, until Amity broke the silence, “How’d you find me?” She asked.

Luz smirked, “Because I know you so well, I knew you’d be here,” the other girl just raised her eyebrow skeptically and Luz laughed, “Okay fine, I’ve been coming here 3 times a day for the last 4 days hoping to see you here and looks like today is my lucky day.”

“Why would you waste your time coming here 3 times a day?” Amity said, crossing her arms.

Sighing, Luz looked at her, “Oh gee, I don’t know. Maybe because someone hasn’t been seeing my billions of text messages I’ve been sending her.”

Amity laughed, “Oh yeah no, I’ve been receiving them, but I just didn’t want to answer them. You sounded really desperate you know.” 

Rolling her eyes, Luz frowned, “Yeah I know. Gus and Willow already informed me, thank you very much.”

“Well then, you’re very welcome,” Amity retorted as she sat back down on the base of the tree.

Walking over to where Amity was sitting, Luz pointed at the spot next to her, “Is that spot next to you taken?”

Looking up at Luz, Amity smirked, “Thanks for asking, and the answer is yes. That happens to be the ants favorite spot to sit.”

“Funny,” Luz said, sitting down next to Amity, “It happens to also be my favorite spot to sit,” she looked over at Amity, “A lot of shit happened at this fucking tree.”

Amity chuckled, “Yeah we danced here, you rejected me at first here-”

“I told you my true feelings here,” Luz interrupted, “And we would always hang out here. Good old days huh?” 

The other girl nodded, “Yeah,” she whispered, “The good old days.”

Sitting together like this would have reminded the two of them of the good old days two years ago, but it was the opposite. They both just sat in a suffocating silence for a couple of minutes as they watched the scenery. 

Getting tired of the silence, Luz spoke up, “Uh… so how have you been for the last two years?”

“Shitty,” Amity replied.

Luz gulped and just kept her mouth shut after that. 

Again, they were stuck in another silence, until this time, Amity spoke up, “It was shitty because you weren’t there.”

The brunette smirked, “What, you going soft on me?” She turned her head and saw that Amity was crying silently to herself, “H-hey… I’m sorry I didn’t mean it,” Amity just waved it away and hugged her knees quietly. 

Sighing, Luz gently held Amity’s chin and made Amity face her, “What are you-”

Without saying anything, Luz cupped the girl’s cheek, wiping the tears off of Amity’s face as she leaned in, “Please don’t cry,” she whispered against Amity’s lips, until she brought them together, kissing Amity softly. 

For a second, Amity felt vulnerable and she kissed back but then quickly pulled away from Luz’s touch, “I never said you could kiss me,” she said coldly.

Luz laughed and touched her lips, “Well, you kissed me back didn’t you?”

“Got me there Noceda,” Amity couldn’t help but smile to herself when she replayed the kiss in her head a million times. She sighed, “When we first drifted, I thought that you forgot about me, about the promise that we made before you left,” she wiped the tears that poked out of the corner of her eyes, “I was really scared that I was the only one who remembered us and that you just forgot about me- forgot about us .”

Holding her hand gently, Luz looked at Amity, “I never forgot about-”

“I know,” Amity sighed, “I mean, I think I know,” she looked at the floor, not wanting to look directly at Luz, “But how would I have known if you have forgotten or not? So I just assumed that you did, I guess.”

Luz sighed, “It’s just- I don’t know, the last two years have been kinda crazy,” Amity nodded in agreement, “I know I promised that we would keep in touch, I wouldn’t forget you, and that I would come back soon. But I don’t know, it’s a lame excuse but I’ve just been so busy with everything I didn’t have any time to check up on you. I’m sorry.  But I never forgot about you, I still thought about you and everything.”

Amity stayed silent as Luz continued to talk, “I’m really sorry. I fucked up and that’s my fault, I should have taken some time out of my day just to quickly check up on you and I should have told you that I was moving to Bonesborough. It must have been hard to think that you would never hear from me again and I just suddenly popped up.”

Nodding her head a bit, Amity sighed, “Yeah… I was really surprised to see you again after two years,” she laughed, “I would have never thought that you would be moving to Bonesborough. To be honest, I thought that an old couple with a cat was moving over. Not you .” 

“Well,” Luz nudged Amity, “I’m much better than an old couple right?” 

Smirking, Amity rolled her eyes playfully, “Yeah, you tell yourself that.” 

Luz let out a laugh.

Turning her head to face Luz, Amity cupped Luz’s right cheek in her hand, “Sorry for slapping you by the way,” she softly brushed her thumb, where she saw a small mark on Luz’s cheek, “I was just so bewildered and so many emotions just flooded me. I’m sorry.”

Kissing Amity’s palm, Luz smiled kindly at her, “It’s okay, I deserved it.”

“Did it hurt?”

Luz raised an eyebrow, “Of course it fucking hurt!” She exclaimed, “I had to wear a fucking patch on my cheek for a couple of days!”

Laughing, Amity shrugged, “Whoopsies.”

Rolling her eyes, Luz sighed, “Can I ask you something?’

“Can I stop you?”

“Nope.”

“Then go ahead.”

Luz looked over at Amity, “How come you never texted me?”

The green haired girl felt a blush of embarrassment rise up her neck, “Uh… I texted you a couple of times first,” she looked over at Luz who just stared at her, “But I don’t know, I just wanted you to text first because I wasn’t sure if I was bothering you or not.”

“What,” Luz raised an eyebrow, “I was waiting for you to text me first because I wasn’t sure if I was bothering you or not!” 

Amity stared at her, “You never bothered me!”

Luz blinked, “Well I didn’t know that! And, you never bothered me!”

“Well how was I supposed to know?” Amity said.

The two girls both just stared at each other in bewilderment, until they both bursted into laughter, “Man we are idiots,” Luz laughed.

“Real dumbasses,” Amity agreed.

Looking over at Amity, Luz grinned, “Who would have thought,” Amity looked over at her, “Two years later and we are still ass at communicating. I thought we would at least be a bit better than our 14 year old selves.” 

Amity nodded, “Yeah, we were never good at that huh,” Luz hummed, “Especially you,” Luz just raised an eyebrow at her, “You were the one who always avoided confrontation. Don’t even try to deny it!” Amity snapped when she saw Luz open her mouth.

Rubbing the back of her neck, Luz laughed, “Okay fine, you’re right. But this time you were the one avoiding me.” 

“I-” Amity closed her mouth, “Yeah you’re right,” she admitted, “But still, you’re a bit worse than me.”

Luz snorted, “I’ll take it.”

“You should really learn how to communicate,” Amity muttered.

Placing her hand on top of Amity’s, Luz smiled at her, “How about we learn together?” She said smoothly.

Smiling back at the girl, Amity rested her head on Luz’s shoulder, “For once, you have a good idea.”

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“ So, what are you doing today?”

Luz lied down on her bed as she called Amity, “Nothing much actually, I’m going over to Eda’s later though so her and my mom could talk a bit I guess. Why?” Luz asked.

There was a pause on the other side of the call, “ Oh uh… nothing just asking I guess, ” Amity said.

“Mija!” Luz’s mom shouted from across the hallway, as she put on her shoes, “Are you ready to go? Remember? Eda invited us to get lunch with her at the cafe.” 

Luz sighed, “Fuck, I have to go. I’ll talk to you later okay?”

“ Okay, have fun at Eda’s, bye. ”

After saying goodbye to Amity, Luz stuck her head from outside of her room and raised an eyebrow, “Does she have to invite us? I mean we can just walk there. I don’t think we need an invitation to go to the cafe.” 

Her mom crossed her arms, “Mija…” she said slowly.

Putting up two hands in defense, Luz grinned, “Just pointing out the obvious,” she quickly put on a denim jacket and a purple beanie before she and her mom started to walk over to The Owl House together. 

“I’m glad this hospital gives you the weekends off Mom,” Luz said as they were walking down the sidewalk, “So we can actually spend time together and now you and Eda can catch up again.”

The woman nodded her head, “I agree, it’s nice. We have to treasure moments like these.” 

As they arrived at the cafe, Luz opened the door for her mom but found herself stuck in that awkward position where she held the door for 3 other people who were walking out of the cafe. After the girl was finished holding the door open for strangers, she walked over to the table where Eda and her mom were at. 

“I saw that you were stuck in that ‘holding the door for a group of strangers,’ situation,” Eda pointed out. 

Luz sighed and sat down on the chair next to her mom’s, “Yeah and I hated it,” she muttered under her breath, “None of them even said thank you. Did they think that the door held itself open? What a bunch of pricks.”

Patting her daughter’s shoulder, Camila laughed, “It’s okay mija, at least you did the right thing and that’s all that matters.”

Eda nodded, “Anyways, I’m going to get you guys some tea, wait here.”

Luz watched her mom just watch Eda make them their drinks, “It’s been so long since I’ve seen you work,” she turned over to Luz and smiled, “You know Eda used to try to make random drinks in hopes to discover something new. But every time she did so, it just tasted horrible and we had to throw out the drink? Sometimes I forced her to drink it though, since I don’t like wasting food.”

“Really?” Luz laughed.

Ignoring the glares that Eda gave her, Camila continued to talk, “One time around finals week for school, she was so exhausted with studying and work, that she mistaken one of her weird invention drinks for a customer’s order,” Luz snorted, “So then when the customer drank their drink, they complained about it and gave a 1 star rating. Eda’s dad found out and gave her a mouthful about it.”

Walking back over to the table holding a tray of biscuits, tea cups, and one big tea pot, Eda scowled, “Oh shut it Camila, you can’t go around telling that story to Luz. She’ll lose respect for me! Before that story,” she patted Luz on the shoulder, “this kid thought that I was the best barista in the whole world-”

“Uh, I did?” Luz said awkwardly.

“Yes,” said Eda, “ Yes you did,” she cleared her throat, “Anyways, now my reputation is ruined because of you Camila, don’t you feel guilty?”

Luz’s mom just shrugged, “Everybody makes mistakes.”

Eda just pursed her lips while Luz just snorted. She did not know her mom could be like this. But she loved it. So that’s where Luz got her snarkiness from. 

“Don’t get me wrong Camila,” Eda said, sitting down on her chair, “I missed you but you could have left that sassiness of yours back in California.”

Camila grinned, “We’re a packaged deal Edaline.”

Frowning, Eda turned over to Luz and then smirked, “Okay now it’s my turn to embarrass you in front of your kid.”

“ Edaline- ”

Putting her hand over the woman’s mouth, Eda whispered to Luz, who was excited to hear Eda’s story about her mom, “Before I showed you the photos that me and your mom took in an amusement park photobooth right?” Luz nodded, “After that we went to on on one of the rides and Camila was so scared that she peed herself-”

“Edaline!” Luz’s mom shouted, her face burning bright red, “You said you wouldn’t tell anyone about that story!”

The woman just shrugged, “Everybody makes mistakes,” she grinned at Camila’s flushed face while Luz was still trying to comprehend Eda’s story, because to be honest, she wasn’t sure if she heard it right, “Plus,” Eda said, “She’s your daughter it’s fine .” 

Camila turned over to Luz, “She’s still someone ,” she sighed, “Did you know that in high school, we did a school play and Eda got the lead role and she had to sing something in front of everyone,” Luz heard Eda let out a groan, “But then during the performance, her voice cracked and it echoed in the microphone. Everyone laughed at her.”

Eda frowned, “When I first convinced Camila to spray paint with me, we got away with it but when we went to the park, a police cruiser showed up and Camila immediately kneeled to the ground with her hands up yelling, ‘Okay I did it, it was me!’ It was hilarious,” the woman said. 

“One time when she went on a date-”

“Okay- okay !” Eda said, “Let’s not do this anymore. We’re just embarrassing ourselves at this point. Plus I will not let you tell that story to Luz.” 

Tugging on her mom’s sleeve, Luz said softly, “Wait I wanna hear this story though. Especially since Eda always brags about being a relationship expert.”

“Nope!” Eda said, “Absolutely not, I am not going to relive my embarrassment on that day,” Before anyone could say anymore, Eda turned to Luz, “So how are you doing kid? Happy to be back in Bonesborough? How is your stay so far?”

Luz opened her mouth to talk but her mom interrupted her, “She got slapped by someone when we first moved here,” Eda snorted, “But she told me that she fell off of her skateboard,” the woman looked over at her daughter and pursed her lips, “And she won’t tell me who.”

The girl blinked, “How’d you know I got slapped?”

“Mother’s intuition,” Camila said simply.

Eda laughed, “Well, besides getting slapped by A-” she stopped herself from revealing the name and coughed, “Besides that . How is your stay so far kid?” 

Luz thought about how everything is different now compared to when she visited 2 years ago. She wasn’t the only one who grew up, Gus was taller, Willow was more mature and had Boscha of all people as her girlfriend, and she thought that Amity hated her guts before they talked things out. Luz hummed, “Not gonna lie, as much as I was excited to move here, I was also kinda scared since all of my old friends have changed.” 

She laughed when she remembered how Amity slapped the shit out of her, “I thought things were going to be difficult at first because I thought that some things have changed for good and that I could do nothing about it.” 

The girl remembered how she and Amity talked things out with each other and saw things from their perspective.

Her own voice echoed in her head, “How about we learn together?” 

Luz heard Amity’s voice, “For once, you have a good idea.” 

“I think things will still be difficult, since so much as changed when I left.”

“But?” Eda said.

The girl sighed, “But that’s just life, things change and sometimes it changes for the better,” she grinned when she remembered how she and her friends caught up with each other and talked about the last two years, “I think things will get easier and slowly get better. But I’m sure eventually I’ll get used to things that have permanently changed.”

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Luz looked over at her shoulder and saw Amity just resting her head on it as they talked underneath the tree. “Ugh, I can’t believe the summer is ending and school is going to start soon,” Amity complained, “Junior year is going to be ass.”

Smiling at the girl, Luz patted her head, “But at least you have me there right?”

She rolled her eyes, “That’s the worst part.”

“Hey!”

“Just joking,” the girl said, sticking her tongue out.

Kissing the top of Amity’s head, Luz smiled, “I’m excited to go to school here,” she sighed, “Too bad your siblings are at college now, I feel like going to school with them would have been so fucking fun.”

Amity just hummed, “If they even show up. Most of the time Ed and Em just skip classes. I’m surprised they even managed to graduate with the top scores in their grade.”

Holding Amity’s hand, Luz looked over at her, “How’s it like living without any siblings now? Are your parents treating you okay?” She frowned, “I swear, if they aren’t I’m going to have a talk with them.”

Laughing, Amity shrugged, “They’re fine, they don’t really acknowledge the fact that I’m a lesbian these days. When I first came out they treated me and my siblings like a fucking virus but now they just don’t bring that fact up and just treat me like usual. Which is still shit,” she sighed, “But whatever, I don’t really care,” she looked over at Luz, “How did your mom react when you came out?”

Luz hummed, “When I told my mom I was bi, she was actually really supportive of me and was happy that I trusted her enough to come out.”

Hugging her knees, Amity mumbled, “Must be nice.”

“You’re always welcome to stay at my place y’know,” Luz suggested softly.

Amity snorted, “I’ll take that offer up another day.” 

“Fair enough,” said Luz.

A phone buzzed in Amity’s pocket and she rolled her eyes when she saw the message. The girl groaned, “Sorry, I have to go. It’s another one of my family’s business dinner things. At least Boscha is there though, so I’m not too bored,” she leaned down and kissed Luz’s cheek quickly, “See you later.”

Waving as Amity left, Luz grinned dorkly to herself and looked up at the sky, “Man she’s amazing… How lucky am I to have a girlfriend like her,” she quickly stood up, “Wait fuck, I haven’t even fucking asked her out yet!”

Pacing back and forth, Luz anxiously ran her fingers through the two long streaks of hair in front of her face, “Oh my god, why am I so dumb! We’ve been hanging out like that for a couple of days and I haven't even officially asked her out yet! I didn’t even ask her out on a date yet!” She turned to her friends who were sitting on the park’s benches, “What should I do?”

“Ask her out?” Gus said.

Willow nodded, “Yeah, it’s not that hard Luz. 14 year old you could do it.”

The girl rolled her eyes, “Well obviously I’m going to ask her out! I meant like how should I ask her out? I want it to be special!”

“Flowers,” Willow said, “It’s just that simple. You’re just overthinking it like usual.”

Luz groaned and threw her hands up in frustration, “I gave her flowers last time! I need something new Willow!”

“Chocolate!” Gus suggested. 

She quickly shot that idea down too, “No, I want to get dinner with her and get a dessert that’s going to be way better than a box of cheap chocolate.” 

Willow just frowned, “Just give her a bouquet of flowers and ask her to dinner, it shouldn’t be that hard. Amity already likes you a lot, she'll say yes to anything you ask her to do.”

Luz rubbed her neck, “Does she though…?”

Gus groaned, “Haven’t you two been making out like everyday?” 

“I mean… friends can make out with each other,” Luz said awkwardly.

“What the fuck Luz.”

Letting out a sigh, Luz rubbed her eyes with her two fingers, “I don’t know why I’m so nervous okay? I know she likes me but I don’t know my mind is saying she doesn’t? But I already fucking know she does! This is so weird and now I’m just rambling and I sound so dumb,” she looked up at her two friends who just were staring at her.

Gus blinked at her, “You lost me there.”

Willow sighed, “Okay, while you were being a dumbass, I already planned something out for you.”

Luz raised an eyebrow, “You did?”

“Yes I did, I’m just that great,” Willow sighed, “Anyways, I’ll give you a bouquet of flowers, you go talk to Amity, give her the bouquet of flowers and just simply ask her out. Just get to the point and ask her out and Gus and I will find a nice restaurant for you guys to eat at.”

The brunette nodded slowly, “Okay but the flower thing sounds lame-”

“Well stick with it, because it’ll work,” Willow said sternly.

Luz gulped, “Okay… well everything else sounds great but last time I tried to get food with Amity, I reserved a place at Isle’s Tavern but someone fucking sold out my reservation, which I didn’t even know was a fucking thing! So then Amity and I just ate a bunch of sad ham sandwiches at The Owl House, she said she liked it and that it was a perfect first date for her, but I want this date to actually go well.”

Rolling her eyes, Willow crossed her arms, “Okay, first of all, of course Amity would say something sappy like that and second, this time I’m the one choosing where you guys are going to eat and we won’t even need a reservation for this place. And it’s going to work out because I’m the one planning it.” 

Luz stared at her, “Over the last 2 years, you really developed one hell of a superior complex huh Willow?”

“You want your date to go well or what?”

Tapping her foot, Luz waited for Amity to come meet her at their usual spot. The girl looked at the bouquet of beautiful flowers that Willow gave her. She was lucky that her friend didn’t charge her or anything, “Great,” she said, “I’m becoming as cheap as Eda,” she sighed and took out her phone where she reread her last messages between her and Amity.

Luz: Hey Amity, can you meet me at the tree in like 10 minutes or so? Preferably alone?

Amity: you going to kill me and bury my body noceda? 

Luz: Haha.

She frowned, “It’s been 15 minutes, where is she?” 

“Waiting for me Noceda?” A voice said.

The girl looked up and saw Amity walking towards her. Trying to hide her blush, Luz looked away and mumbled, “Took you long enough Blight.”

Amity smirked, “What miss me?”

Luz rolled her eyes.

The green hair girl looked around, “Okay, we’re alone now, I mean I was going to come alone anyways, but what do you want?”

Taking the bouquet of flowers from behind her,  Luz gave it to Amity, “Here it’s for you.”

“A bouquet of flowers to put on the grave you’re going to dig me in,” Amity laughed, “Fitting.”

Luz sighed, “Look I was thinking…”

“Wow, shocker.”

The brunette rolled her eyes and rubbed the back of her neck nervously, not making eye contact with Amity, “Anyways, I was wondering if maybe you and me can like…” the girl felt her throat closing up, “Go out on a date together?” She choked out.

They were stuck in a silence for a while and Luz was getting anxious as she waited for Amity’s answer.

Suddenly, Luz heard Amity snort and started to burst out into laughter, Luz looked at her in shock, “Are you seriously fucking laughing at me?” That just made Amity laugh louder, “Ugh, I can’t believe you,” Luz huffed.

“Sorry I couldn’t help it. It’s just that you looked so fucking nervous and you’re such an idiot!” She quickly pulled Luz’s beanie over the girl’s eyes, making her blind.

“What the- 

Suddenly, Luz felt Amity’s lips on hers and she felt her beanie being pulled up. Luz was blushing furiously as Amity just let out a chuckle, “Does that answer your question?” 

Luz nodded silently as she adjusted her beanie.

Amity turned around and started to walk away, “Perfect,” she called over her shoulder, “Pick me up later tomorrow night. I’ll be waiting.”

As she watched Amity walk away, Luz just touched her lips again. She kissed Amity multiple times, whether they were 14 or they were 16. But every time Amity pulled her into a kiss, Luz always felt giddy. And this time was no exception.

She grinned to herself, “Well, I guess that went well.”

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“Red or purple…?” Luz held two different colored beanies as she stared at the mirror, “Which one would Amity like the most…” She shook her head, “No, which one would look better on the outfit I wear?” Luz snapped her fingers, “Okay, outfit first then beanie.”

She rummaged through her closet and got out baggy jeans, a black tank top, and a brown coat to wear over it. Luz walked over to her drawers and put on two rings on her fingers, “Accessories are a must.” Whistling, she walked back to the mirror and put on each beanie, “Uh…” She hummed, “I think red today.”

Putting the purple beanie back in her closet, she took one last good look at herself in the mirror, “I look super gay,” she grinned at herself, “That was exactly what I was going for.”

The girl walked out of her room and saw her mom taking out the trash from the bin, “Oh Luz!” Her mom raised an eyebrow at her, “Where are you going mija?”

“I’m going on a date with someone,” said Luz, “I told you, remember?”

The woman blinked at her and gasped, “Oh is it with that girl you always talked about?” Luz nodded, and Camila smiled, “That’s nice mija. But anyways, since you’re going out already, can you take the trash out?” Luz nodded and grabbed the trash before her mom gave her a kiss on the cheek, “Where are you going again?”

Luz hummed, “Just out of town, my friend Willow found this really good ramen place.” 

Her mom nodded, “Okay drive safely okay?”

“Okay bye!” She said, grabbing the car keys from the counter and heading outside. After throwing the trash away, she connected her phone to her AUX cord and began to blast some rock music as she drove in the direction of Amity’s house, “My second first date with Amity,” she sighed, “I hope this goes well.” 

Arriving at Amity’s house, Luz parked across the street and walked up the driveway and quickly texted her date that she was here. Come to think of it, Luz thought to herself, I’ve never actually been in Amity’s house, I only came here to get Amity to sneak out with me. Sneaking out was so fun, I wanna do it again. 

“Okay I gotta look cool,” she muttered to herself. Luz took out her car keys.She grinned to herself as she rang the doorbell, “Gotta make Amity be like ‘oh my god Luz you’re so cool!’” 

The door opened and Luz cockily grinned as she spun her car keys around her middle finger, “Hey Ami-” Fuck that’s not Amity. She stopped spinning the car keys, “Good evening ma’am.”

Amity’s mother looked up and down Luz, “Oh, are you the girl my daughter is going out on a date with tonight?”

Luz gulped and nodded her head, “Yep,” she said cooly, but inside she was screaming, Oh my fucking god, did I just uninteionally  flip off my soon to be mother in law- I mean did I just flip off Amity’s mom? Why did I choose the middle finger? I am such an idiot!

“Well are you going to come in?” 

The girl looked up and saw that the woman was offering Luz to go inside of the house. Going inside of Amity’s super big mansion house? Fuck yeah, She thought as she walked inside of the house. 

“Odalia, who is this girl?” A deep voice said to the right of Luz. 

Luz turned her head and gave Amity’s father a small wave, “Hello sir, I’m going to be taking your daughter out tonight,” she said awkwardly. 

The woman walked over to her husband and whispered something in his ear. It was probably something like, “Make sure she doesn’t steal anything.”

The man nodded and gestured his hand towards a couch, “Well, Amity is still getting ready, feel free to make yourself comfortable.” 

Hestitanly, Luz sat on the couch and in front of her the Blight parents sat there. Luz cleared her throat, “Well, how are you two?”

“We are doing well,” the woman said.

They were stuck in a suffocating silent for a minute. Luz prayed that Amity would come down soon. Come on… any second now, Luz thought.

Okay, the girl thought, Gotta show them my Noceda charm and make them like me. She spoke without thinking, “Well,” Luz gave them finger guns, “It’s easy to see where Amity got her good looks from.”

No one laughed.

They just stared at each other. Luz coughed, Oh my fucking god, please Amity, save me.

On cue, Amity came running down the stairs, wearing a loose crop top, a purple jacket and jeans. The girl saw Luz sitting awkwardly with her parents in the living room, “Luz!” Luz immediately stood up and sped walked over to where Amity was at, “Sorry, I was doing my hair, I didn’t see your text until now.”

“No, it’s okay,” said Luz, “I was just… talking to your parents.”

Amity’s parents stood up and her father waved at them, “Well, have fun you two.”

Luz nodded, “I’ll bring her back at 11,” she quickly added, “Is that okay?”

The man nodded and before any of them could say anything more, Amity grabbed her date by the arm and they ran outside of the house and sat in the car. Amity looked over at Luz who was covering half of her face with her hand, “So… what did you talk about?”

“I don’t want to talk about it,” Luz said quickly.

Amity shrugged, “Fair enough.”

Wiping the memories of what just happened a few minutes ago, Luz took a deep breath and smiled at Amity, “Your hair looks beautiful tonight,” she said flirtatiously.

“What, and the rest of me doesn’t?”

Rolling her eyes, Luz grumbled, “Take the damn compliment Blight,” she looked over at Amity who just stared at her with a raised eyebrow. Luz quickly kissed her on the cheek, “Sorry, you look beautiful as always too.”

“You as well,” Amity said.

Starting the engine of the car, Luz pulled up directions to the restaurant and turned towards Amity, “You ready to go?”

“Always am.”

After driving for an hour, the two walked into the ramen shop and sat down in a booth. “I never actually had authentic ramen before,” Amity confessed.

Luz blinked at her and gasped, “Are you serious?”

“Yeah,” Amity said, looking through the menu, “I barely ate the instant stuff too. My parents never really bought that.” 

The brunette grinned, “Well, it’s pretty life changing not gonna lie.”

Amity smiled at her, “Oh really? What do you recommend? I don’t really know what to get,” she scratched the side of her head, “Everything sounds good here.”

Pointing at one of the items, Luz hummed, “Shoyu ramen is really good, you should try that one.”

“I think I’ll get the tonkotsu ramen.”

Luz blinked at her, “You just said you wanted me to recommend something! What’s the point of me giving you my advice if you’re not going to take it?”

Sticking out a playful tongue, Amity grinned, “Just to spite you.” Rolling her eyes, Luz said something under her breath but Amity just placed her hand over Luz’s, “So what are you going to get?”

“Tantanmen ramen,” Luz said, “I never tried it before but I wanna,” she sighed, “Anyways, you ready to order?” Amity nodded and Luz called a waiter over to order. 

After ordering their meals, Luz took out her chopsticks and Amity did the same, “How do you use chopsticks?” Amity asked and Luz just raised an eyebrow at her, “Don’t look at me like that! I don’t know, okay? Can you help me?” She said softly. 

“Of course,” Luz held her chopsticks and demonstrated, “So you want to place one of your chopsticks between your pointer finger and thumb as you balance it on your ring finger,” Luz watched as Amity was shakily following her directions, “Then you want to place the second chopstick between your pointer finger and thumb again, but rest it on your middle finger.”

Holding the chopsticks awkwardly, Amity looked up at Luz, “Like this?”

Luz nodded, “Yeah basically,” she hummed, “But use your thumb, pointer, and middle finger to hold the second chopstick firmly so it doesn’t fall off or anything. And then just use your index and middle finger to open and close your chopstick.”

While Amity was practicing, she looked up at Luz, “Where’d you learn how to use these?”

Grabbing the paper that the paper that the chopsticks came with, Luz showed it to Amity, “It shows how to use it correctly on the back,” she grinned and started to fold the paper into a little boat, “Look! Now I have a chopstick holder,” she said proudly, resting her two chopsticks on the paper boat.

“That’s so cool! Can you make me one?” Amity said, giving Luz her piece of paper.

“Anything for you Mittens,” Luz quickly folded the papers together and gave Amity a little paper swan for a chopstick holder. 

By the time they were finished with their chopstick lessons and folding the papers into chopstick holders, both of their bowls of piping hot ramen came out. 

Amity salivated, “This looks so good,” she used her spoon and tasted the broth, “And it tastes so good!”

Luz grinned as she watched Amity shakily use her chopsticks to eat, “It’s so good right?” Amity was too busy eating her noodles to reply to Luz.

While eating they talked a bit, but they mostly ate since the two were too busy focusing on their noodles to talk to each other. Which was valid since it was just so good! After eating, Luz paid for their meal and they went back to their car and drove to another place to get some desert. Since, according to Luz, “After you eat something savory you have to balance it with something sweet!”

Walking hand in hand, Amity groaned, “I’m so stuffed, I don’t know if I can eat anymore Luz, the ramen was just so good and it was so much food already.” 

“Are you sure?” Luz said, swinging their arms back and forth as they walked, “I think you’ll really like this place.”

Amity nodded, “I don’t know… I’m just so full,” she looked up at Luz, “What is this place anyways?”

Luz hummed, “It’s called taiyaki ice cream, they show you how they make it,” they walked to a window in the front of the shop and Amity saw how the workers poured this crepe like batter into fish shaped molds. Her eyes followed as another worker took out a fresh fish shaped bun, put a cream into it and then put soft serve ice cream into the bun.

Suddenly, after seeing how the dessert was being made, all of the food that was sitting in Amity’s stomach disappeared and she was hungry again. “I want that,” she said, eyes fixed on how the workers continued to make the dessert.

The brunette let out a laugh and they walked over to the front and ordered. 

Luz got the fish shaped bun with red bean and green tea and black sesame ice cream, while the other girl ordered the fish shaped bun too but  with custard and taro and green tea ice cream.

After waiting 10 minutes, the two got their dessert and Luz quickly snapped a picture of Amity holding it, “Aw! Look at you! That’s a new wallpaper right there.”

Being too busy eating her ice cream, Amity didn’t even care if Luz took a picture of her, “Oh my fucking god,” she grinned, “This is so good!” 

Pecking Amity on the cheek, Luz laughed, “Okay, before you devour your ice cream in 2 seconds, wanna take a selfie?” Amity nodded, “Okay I’ll make it quick, or the ice cream will melt,” they took a couple of pictures before they sat down on the bench and continued to eat in a comfortable silence.

Amity finished her ice cream first and rested her head on Luz’s shoulder, “ Now I’m stuffed.” 

“Did you enjoy the date?”

The girl nodded, “It was great,” she laughed, “I know I said that the last first date that we had 2 years ago was perfect because I got to spend the whole day with you,” Luz hummed in agreement, “ But I gotta say, I prefer this one better because I got to spend the day with you too and we also got to eat something other than ham sandwiches.”

Chapter Text

Sitting on the soft grass at the park, Luz hugged Amity who was sitting in between her legs.  “I wish Gus was here,” she said to Amity.

Amity hummed, “Yeah, too bad he’s busy with his internship at the news station.” 

“Yeah, it sucks,” Luz said. 

The brunette looked over at Willow and Boscha, where Boscha was flirting with Willow, who was just trying to act cool even though she still blushed. 

Luz raised an eyebrow at them, “Okay, is anyone going to fill me in on how they became a couple? I’m still so confused on how they, of all people, got together,” she said, pointing at Willow and Boscha.

Boscha shrugged, “It’s simple, Beanie, Willow fell for my looks and charms. I mean who wouldn’t?” 

Jamming her elbow into her girlfriend’s side, Willow rolled her eyes, “It’s because I have low standards.”

Amity sighed, “It’s a pretty long story, but why not, we can tell you. It’ll expose Boscha on how much of a bitch she was before.”

“No, I already knew she was a bitch before,” Luz said.

“I’m right here!” Boscha shouted, “And in my defense, I got a shit ton of character development!”

Rolling her eyes, Amity shrugged, “I mean, I guess. You’re just a less shitty person now. Congrats on being the bare minimum.”

Willow wrapped an arm around her girlfriend, “This is how we show love to each other, isn’t that right Boscha?”

“I hate it here,” the girl said.

Amity grinned and looked up at Luz who looked super lost, “Anyways… so it all started when Boscha was being a bitch like usual.”

“Hey there flower girl,” Boscha said as she walked past Willow, Amity, and Gus, who were making flower crowns with each other, “I think my garden needs a bit of trimming, do you want the job? I think you’ll need the money.”

Standing up to defend her friend, Amity grit her teeth, “Boscha what’s wrong with you? Can you just be nice for once? Is it that hard? Did your parents not love you as a kid?”

Scoffing, Boscha rolled her eyes at Amity, “I wasn’t talking to you Blight.”

“You were just born lucky,” Amity said to Boscha, “If you were in Willow’s shoes, would you like to be treated the way you are treating her?” Boscha stayed silent, “Yeah, that’s what I thought.” 

Amity looked over Boscha’s shoulder, where her other old friends were, “And you guys are just as bad as Boscha. I can’t believe you still hang out with her! Even after you see first hand how she treats people!” She saw how the other girls exchanged glances with each other. 

Letting out a sigh Boscha glared at Amity, “Ugh, don’t listen to her guys,”  she turned around and started to walk away with her friends, but Amity heard clearly what Boscha said over her shoulder, “Do you want to stoop down her level and hang out with dirt?”

Frowning, Amity walked back to Willow and Gus, “Are you okay Willow?” 

Willow nodded, “Yeah, thank you.”

Gus smiled at Amity, “Thanks Amity, I wouldn’t know what to do without you. I would never have the guts to stand up to Boscha and her gang like that. Especially since Luz is gone now.”

Amity sighed but then managed to smile, “That’s what friends are for.”

Boscha stared at the ground, “If I were to go back in time I would totally knock out 14 year old me. I mean, who gave her that much confidence?”

“You did,” Willow said bluntly.

“Uh… Amity,” Boscha said nervously, “Wanna continue that story of yours?”

The green hair girl rolled her eyes, “Anyways, so one night I was reading and I got the weirdest phone call ever.”

Picking up the phone, Amity raised an eyebrow and stared at the contact, “Skara? We haven’t talked in months, I wonder what she wants,” she answered the phone, “Hello?”

“Hey Amity!” Skara said on the other side of the call, “Sorry if this is super random but my parents were out of town for the weekend and we were having a party and things got a bit out of hand when Boscha found my parent’s stash of wine,” Amity hummed, what does this have to do with her? “So… everyone has already left but Boscha is still here, is it okay if you take her home please? I would do it but I need to clean up around the house before my parents come back tomorrow.” 

A twinge of pity pulled at Amity’s heartstrings, no one cared to bring Boscha home? Sure Boscha is a terrible person, but Amity just couldn’t leave her there, “Uh… yeah sure, I’ll be there in like 10 minutes.”

She heard Skara give out a sigh of relief, “Thank you so much!” 

“Yeah, no problem,” Amity said before she hung up. The girl sighed, “Why do I have a feeling this is going to suck?”

Walking up to Skara’s house, Amity saw Boscha all sprawled out on the couch, totally drunk out of her mind, she sighed, “Yep, this is going to suck,” she grabbed Boscha and gave her a piggyback ride out of Skara’s house.

As Amity trudged down Skara’s driveway with Boscha on her back, she heard Skara call out to her, “Thanks Amity! I owe you one!”

“A-Amity…?” Boscha slurred, “Is that you?”

The girl blinked, “Uh… no? This is a dream. Yeah! This is all a dream! You are dreaming right now.”

Boscha groaned, “I can’t believe you! You left me and all our friends for a random city girl and plant girl and news reporter boy!”

“So…?” Amity said, “They are better friends than you’ll ever be!”

Tugging on Amity’s ponytail, Boscha hit and punched the girl’s back, “Put me down you traitor! Put me down right now!” She yelled. 

Having enough, Amity grit her teeth, “Fine! I’ll put you down!” She then used all of her strength to throw Boscha in the patch of grass on the side of the road. Amity let out a sigh and sat next to where she threw Boscha, “I’ll just wait here until you are sober enough to walk. I should have brought water, it would have been so much faster-”

She closed her mouth when she heard Boscha crying besides her.

“I’m such a loser now and nobody likes me anymore!” Boscha sobbed, “After you yelled at my friends for being my friends, they all stopped liking me and w-were always being cautious around me! It’s all your fault!” She curled up into a ball as she continued to cry, “No one even bothered to send me back home, except you. You!”

Looking over at Boscha, Amity sighed again, “Look Boscha, remember what I said to you before? I don’t think self-worth depends on how rich your family is. Who cares about status? That stuff doesn’t matter, like I said before, we’re the same and you’re just brainwashed. I know deep down you’re a good person. And if you want people to like you more, maybe treat them better and just ignore the whole status thing,” Amity smiled to herself, “I think you’re actually pretty cool and fun to be around with when you aren’t being mean.”

Amity heard Boscha let out a loud snore besides her and the girl just groaned and turned her head. Was she just talking to herself this whole time?

“Thanks,” Boscha said softly, “I’ll remember that.”

“And then that’s when Boscha stopped trying to be a bitch!” Amity said, “Who knew making someone’s friends turn against them can be a way to show them that they’re an asshole and that they need to get their shit together?” 

Boscha nodded, “Yeah, it took a while but I finally realized that I was terrible.”

Luz hummed, “Okay that’s a great story and all,” she pointed at the couple, “But it doesn’t fully explain how you two got together.”

“We’re getting there,” Willow said. 

The pink hair girl sighed, “Anyways, yeah, after Amity talked to drunk me, sober me talked to Amity about it and we came to an understanding and forgave me for the shit I pulled.”

“I reluctantly forgave you,” Amity rephrased.

Boscha shrugged, “Potato, potahto,” Amity raised an eyebrow at her, “Then I finally built up the courage and apologized to Willow for bullying her for all of those years.” 

“Hey Willow,” Boscha said nervously as she scuffled with her feet, “I just wanted to see that I’m really really sorry for being such a jerk to you for all of these years,” she looked up and just saw the girl staring at her. Boscha gulped, but continued talking, “So I’m going to try to make it up to you now. I’m really sorry.”

Willow sighed, “Can you move?” Boscha raised an eyebrow, “I can smell your bullcrap from here.”

Sighing, Boscha scratched her head, “Then I just started to like talk to Willow a bit more even though she thought it was a bit sketchy that I was suddenly being all friendly with her. But all I was trying to do was just tell her that I really meant that I wanted to make it up to her and that my apology was sincere.” 

“What are you doing here Boscha,” Willow sighed as she was trimming some flowers.

Sitting in front of Willow, Boscha tried her best to smile kindly, “I just wanna hang out with you! Y’know as an apology for being a bully to you.”

Pursing her lips into a thin line, Willow rolled her eyes, “I don’t think it works like that Boscha. You’re going to have to do better than that. You can’t fool me.”

Willow nodded, “Well, yeah it was really sketchy and I thought you were just playing this really mean prank on me!”

Boscha kissed her cheek, “Anyways, when school started again I followed Willow around everywhere.”

“It was really annoying.”

Putting her books into her locker, Willow closed the door to the locker and then suddenly jumped when she saw Boscha in front of her. “Can you stop following me everywhere I go! It’s a bit unnerving if I’m to be honest,” Willow said.

“I know! I know! But I just want to spend time with you Willow! Y’know, show you how much I’m sorry and how much I want to be friends with you!” Boscha said.

Pushing the girl away, Willow sighed, “Okay, okay you’re sorry. I get it! Now can I please have some alone time? I need to go to class now.”

“Do you want me to-”

“No!” Willow abruptly said, “No, I don’t want you to walk me to class. You have your own class to go to.”

Boscha watched as Willow walked away and saw how she smiled and greeted Gus when they bumped into each other in the hallway. Her heart thumped when she saw Willow smile and she gulped, “What was that about?”  Boscha muttered to herself, clutching her chest. 

That night, Boscha texted Willow.

Boscha: I didn’t see you after school. Did you get home okay?

The girl jumped when she saw Willow’s response.

Willow: yes i did i’m going to sleep now good night

Boscha: good night!

Her heart thumped against her chest as she texted Willow. The girl put her phone away and started at the ceiling, just listening to how her heart pounded rhythmically in her chest. “I have a crush on her don’t I?”

Luz snorted, “That’s how you found out you had a crush on her? Because you were so excited to text her good night?”

Boscha scowled, “Shut up! I’m not done with my story yet Beanie!” She sighed, “Anyways, I had found out that I had a crush on her and I kept it to myself for the next week or so. But then I realized, I should just ask her out, I mean who would say no to me?”

Waiting at the school bleachers, Boscha tapped her foot anxiously as she waited for Willow to come. A minute later Boscha saw Willow walk through the grass field towards her, “Pretty…” she whispered to herself.

Sighing, Willow looked at Boscha, “Okay, we’re alone now, what do you want? I have to go home soon.”

Boscha gulped, “Willow, I really like you. Will you go out with me?”

Staring at her, Willow blinked, “No.”

Wait what?

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Snorting, Luz slapped her knee and let out a laugh that startled everyone around her. Amity turned around and started to also laugh when she heard Luz’s laugh. Then, Willow followed the sound of Amity’s laughter.

The only one who wasn’t laughing was Boscha.

Furrowing her eyebrows, Boscha grit her teeth, “Why are you guys laughing? This is supposed to be the sad part of the story because I had fallen head over heels for Willow but she just rejected me! Can you guys show a bit of pity?” 

Trying to contain her laughter, Luz ran her fingers through her hair, “Sorry, I just can’t help but imagine you hyping yourself up saying shit like ‘Willow is going to be so happy when I, Boscha , ask her out,’” Amity snorted besides Luz and had to put her hand over her mouth to muffle the laughter, “But then when you asked her out she just flat out said no. Not even a fucking explanation!”

Willow rested her head on Boscha’s shoulder, “The no was pretty explanatory.”

“So then if Willow rejected you, how did you two become the lovebirds you are now? You slip in something in Willow’s drink, Boscha?” Luz said. 

Letting out a big sigh, Boscha rubbed her eyes, “I was going to get to that part if you guys didn’t rudely interrupt me!”

Leaning back in Luz’s arms, Amity laughed, “Okay, okay. Then go on and continue your oh so romantic fairy tale.”

Crossing her arms, Boscha hummed, “Anyways, after Willow rejected me at first, I was actually really sad and confused-”

“Were you confused because, ‘who would reject me? I’m fucking Boscha!’” Luz interrupted.

Rolling her eyes, Boscha glared at Luz, “No!” She blushed, “Maybe,” she muttered.

Kicking a pebble as she walked to Amity’s house, Boscha scoffed, “This is so dumb. Why would she reject me? I’m Boscha! No wonder Willow needs glasses, she’s blind if she can’t see that a total beauty wants her,” she sighed, “This is so annoying.”

Walking up Amity’s driveway, she rang the doorbell and her friend opened the door, “Boscha?” Amity said, “What are you doing here?”

“I’m bored,” she said, pushing past Amity, “And… I may need help from you.”

The green hair girl blinked at her but then shrugged, “Alright, let’s go up to my room.”

As they walked up the steps, Boscha hummed, “Are you home alone?” Amity nodded, “Where’s the rest of your family then?”

“Ed and Em are out doing their own thing, probably spray painting something, they’re doing some trouble,” Amity sighed, “And my parents are out in a meeting.” 

The girl opened the door to her room and the two of them plopped on Amity’s bed. Amity turned her head and just saw Boscha staring blankly at the ceiling, “So… what do you need help on? You did do your part on our science project right?”

Boscha nodded, “Yeah, I already finished that.”

Raising an eyebrow at the girl, Amity hummed, “Then what is it?”

“I got rejected,” Boscha said. Amity turned her head and stared at her friend in surprise.

Amity blinked, “I didn’t know you liked someone. You got rejected-”

“Right?” Boscha sat up, “I can’t believe I got rejected,” she groaned, “This is so frustrating I hate it.”

“So who rejected you?” Amity asked.

Boscha muttered something under her breath that Amity couldn’t make out.

“What was that?”

Letting out a big sigh, Boscha groaned, “Willow Park!” Boscha saw how Amity’s eyes grew in bewilderment when Willow was mentioned. Boscha crossed her arms, “Right? Why would Willow reject me? It doesn’t make sense, nothing adds up!”

Placing a hand on Boscha’s shoulder, Amity awkwardly laughed, “Woah there, let’s calm down that ego a bit,” Boscha raised a confused eyebrow at her, “Anyways, she probably doesn’t like you back because you bullied her for years.”

“But I apologized! But we hung out a lot!”

Amity sighed, “It doesn’t work like that Boscha. It took me a while to be okay with Willow when I first apologized to her. But you may take longer because you made her scars run deeper.”

“So what should I do?”

Shrugging, Amity clapped Boscha on the back, “Just give her some alone time to think and maybe in the meantime, you can decide if you actually like her and maybe try to move on from her-”

“No,” Boscha said sternly, “I don’t want to move on from her.”

The girl raised an eyebrow, “Why?” Amity asked, “If you keep being attached to her then it’ll just hurt you more. What’s the point?”

Turning her head towards Amity, Boscha looked at her friend, “Are you talking about yourself?” Amity looked at Boscha in shock, “It’s been a year since Luz left and you’re still not over her yet huh?”

“How’d you know?”

Boscha shrugged, “Because I’m a people person.”

“Didn’t you get rejected?”

“Shut up.”

Luz stiffened up when she was mentioned in the story, Amity took notice and whispered in the girl’s ear, “Hey it’s okay, don’t worry about it,” she quickly kissed her on the cheek and held her hand to reassure her. 

Not listening to Amity, Luz was stuck in her own thoughts, Amity didn’t move on from me even though she knew it was hurting her? Luz thought, Was it because of our promise she clutched onto me because she still had hope that I would come home soon? But it took me 2 years to come back-

Clearing her throat, Boscha snapped her fingers together to get Luz’s attention again, “Hey! Beanie! Think about your own terrible life choices later! I’m not done with my story yet!”

Snapping out of her thoughts, Luz sighed, “Okay sorry, continue please.”

“Okay,” Willow said, “After I totally rejected Boscha, I didn’t see her lurking around me for a couple of days, so I guess she took Amity’s advice on giving me some space,” Boscha nodded her head, “So then I had my own talk with Amity where she gave me some advice.”

Amity laughed, “Wow I was just everyone’s relationship therapists huh?”

“It’s pretty ironic if you think about it since-” Boscha stopped herself mid sentence when she saw the girl glaring at her.

Clenching her fist, Amity smiled, “Care to finish that sentence?”

Coughing, Boscha laughed nervously, “No ma’am,” she nudged her girlfriend, “Willow, hurry up and say your side of the story.”

Sitting on the park bench with Willow as they both ate ice cream, Amity looked over at her friend, “So, anything new with you?”

Willow shrugged, “Nope. Nothing much,” she hummed, “Actually, something weird really happened to me a couple of days ago,” Amity raised an eyebrow, “Boscha asked me out, isn’t that just so weird?”

“Yep,” Amity said, trying to sound clueless, “Totally weird.”

The other girl sighed, “I mean, how dumb does she think I am? This is totally a prank right? First she gives me a lame apology and then she starts acting all friendly towards me and then she asks me out! It’s such a weird prank.”

Amity laughed, “I think she just likes you.”

Willow chuckled, “Well, she has a funny way of showing it.”

“Do you like her back?”

The girl pursed her lips, “I don’t know, what if this is just some weird prank?”

Laughing, Amity shook her head, “I don’t think Boscha is that good of an actress.”

“So then, after a week or so,” Willow said, “Boscha tried to ask me out again and I decided to give her a chance. So I said yes.” 

Nervously walking up to Willow, Boscha rubbed the back of her neck, “Hey Willow?” The girl turned around, “So my parents had some extra amusement park tickets and they expire next weekend, so I was wondering if you wanted to hang out with me this weekend at the park? Just so it doesn’t go to waste or anything…”

“You mean as a date?” Willow said.

Humming, Boscha looked around nervously, avoiding eye contact with Willow, “I mean… sure, if that’s what you want. It doesn’t have to be a date though!” She added quickly, “We can totally hang out in a platonic setting.”

Willow giggled, “Sure why not?”

Boscha blushed, “You mean, yes to the date?”

The girl nodded and Boscha felt like she was on cloud 9.

“That date was fun,” Boscha said, “We just went on a lot of big roller coasters together and took a bunch of pictures in the photo booth,” she blushed, “I still have the photos hung up on my wall,” she nudged Willow, “That was a fun date right?”

Willow nodded, “Yeah, we had a plate of fried chicken before a ride and it was almost closing so Boscha wanted to go on one of the bigger rides one last time,” she smirked, “Let’s just say that she threw it back up.”

Frowning, Boscha shook the shoulders of her girlfriend carefully, “Hey! You said you wouldn’t tell anyone that!”

“It’s part of the story isn’t it?” 

Boscha rolled her eyes, “Anyways, after a couple of dates together, I asked her to officially be my girlfriend and surprisingly she said yes.”

Luz smiled, “That’s kinda cute. Did you guys say your ‘I love you’s’ yet?” She clasped her hand over her mouth and the three other girls turned and stared at her, “Sorry! It just came out of my mouth I wasn’t thinking I’m so sorry.”

Snorting, Willow shrugged, “Nah, it’s all good. We told that to each other already.”

Boscha nodded, “Yeah, I had a whole mental crisis about how I would tell you because I wanted it to be perfect.”

“Yeah,” Amity piped in, “I remember, you made me help you plan it all out.” 

Boscha looked over at Willow, “Yeah, and I didn’t even get to go out with the plan because-”

Luz looked at the couple, “How’d you know you loved each other?” She interrupted, “If you don’t mind me asking.”

Sighing dreamily, Boscha grinned, “Well I first realized I loved Willow during one of our dates. I’ll never forget that feeling.”

Running hand in hand up the stairs, Willow called out, “Are you sure we’re allowed to be here Boscha? I think this area is restricted!”

“I think it’s fine,” Boscha said, “Plus up here is so pretty!”

The couple opened the door and stood on a balcony which was illuminated by lights around them. Boscha turned around and looked at Willow who was smiling at the lights, totally in awe, “Wow you’re right!” She grinned at Boscha, “Up here is really beautiful!”

Boscha’s heart thumped, she slowly walked up to Willow and tucked one strand of her girlfriend’s hair behind her air. “Boscha?” Willow said softly.

The girl hushed her quietly and stared into Willow’s eyes which no longer looked cold anymore. Right now, she looked gentle and soft, unlike her distant and cold self. Boscha’s hand shook and she leaned in to kiss her. Why was she so nervous? They kissed a bunch of times before. What made this time any different? 

Finally, Boscha’s lips met Willow’s and after a moment, the girl pulled away and saw Willow smiling kindly at her. Boscha’s heart thumped again and she flushed red.

 Fuck, she loved Willow didn’t she? 

Boscha smirked, “That moment was just so surreal, it was crazy. I thought I was dreaming to be honest,” she looked at Luz who was totally into the story and smirked cockily, “Well that’s when I knew that I loved Willow.” 

“Aw, that’s cute,” Luz said, she turned to Willow, “When did you realize that you loved Boscha?” 

Willow shrugged, “I don’t remember when I realized I loved Boscha, I just remember saying it.”

Boscha rolled her eyes, “I remember the moment you told me.”

Curled up in her bed, Willow reached out for her phone and texted Boscha.

Willow: hey i’m sick 

Boscha: omg are you okay? do you need anything?

Willow: can you get me homophobic chicken

Boscha: ???

Boscha: you mean Chick-fil-A? 

Willow: did i stutter?

Boscha: give me 20 minutes

20 minutes later, Boscha arrived at Willow’s house and went up to her room holding a bag which had a spicy chicken deluxe sandwich, waffle fries, and more chicken nuggets. Handing the bag over to her sick girlfriend, Boscha raised an eyebrow, “Shouldn’t you be eating soup when you’re sick?”

Unwrapping her sandwich, Willow sat up from her bed and shrugged, “I dunno, I was just craving this,” she took a bite out of her sandwich and grinned, “Oh my fucking god, this is so good. Thanks for bringing this to me Boscha, I love you,” she said casually.

Boscha blinked, did she just?

Luz snorted, “Wait, that’s how you told Boscha that you loved her?”

Willow raised an eyebrow, “Well, how else was I going to do it?”

Crossing her arms together, Boscha groaned, “I remember being so confused that she just said it so casually while I was planning how to tell her that I loved her! I had this whole thing planned out!”

Nodding her head, Amity yawned, “Yeah, I remember, you were crying to me about it and begged me to help you plan.”

Scowling, Boscha rolled her eyes again, “Yeah I know, and it was all for nothing,” she put her arm around Willow and smiled, “Well that’s how we became a couple, any questions?”

Luz blinked, “You guys are certainly a… special pairing. But I got to admit, you guys are kinda cute. Like a couple straight out of a Wattpad story!”

Amity laughed, “That’s what I said!”

Boscha grit her teeth, “I’ll take that as a compliment.”

Chapter Text

Driving to the store to get school supplies with Amity sitting next to her on the passenger seat, Luz hummed along to the song that she was blasting on the speakers. She looked over at Amity who was staring out of the window, “Excited for school?” Luz said.

Amity nodded, “I can’t believe it’s like starting in 3 days,” she smiled at Luz, “Are you excited? You’re in a new town and going to a new school.”

Shrugging, Luz looked forward on the road as she drove, “Yeah, I’m pretty excited. I hope I don’t get a lot of attention drawn to me.”

Snorting, Amity smiled, “I mean, you already have had a lot of attention since you moved. It’s weird for someone to move to Bonesborough, especially if they’re not an old couple in their late seventies.” 

Laughing, Luz drove into the parking lot and got out of the car after she parked. Hand in hand, they walked to the front of the store, Amity looked at Luz, “I wish I knew how to drive,” Luz looked down at the girl, “I feel bad for making you drive us everywhere.”

“You haven’t been learning?”

“I mean I have,” Amity said, “I got my permit like 2 months ago and my father has been teaching me a bit, but he got busy with work so I guess he just forgot about it, or he just doesn’t care anymore.”

Walking through the automatic doors of the store, Luz smiled at Amity, “How about I teach you?”

Amity raised an eyebrow, “Isn’t that like illegal? Don’t you have to be like 21 years old to teach someone how to drive?” 

Luz shrugged, “No one will find out.”

Laughing, Amity nodded, “Okay,” she picked up a shopping basket with her free hand, “Come on I need to get more pens.”

“Lead the way Mittens.”

After getting a basketful of colored pens, college ruled paper, notebooks, a bunch of snacks that they picked up on the way, and other school supplies. The two girls checked out their items and went back into the car. 

Starting the car engine, Luz looked over at Amity, “I’m craving boba, wanna get some?”

Humming as she texted on her phone, Amity replied, “Never had it.”

Letting out the biggest gasp ever, Luz patted Amity’s shoulder, who just raised an eyebrow at the brunette, “Oh you poor soul. Let’s go right now, my treat. I need to culture you anyways,” Amity snorted and they drove off to the nearest decent boba place. 

Which was a 30 minute drive out of town.

Walking into the building Amity laughed, “I can’t believe we drove out of town for this.”

Luz grinned, “It’ll be worth it, trust me.”

Staring at the menu, Amity blinked and tugged on Luz’s sleeve, “There’s so many options, what should I get? I can’t decide.”

“Do you want fruit tea or milk tea,” Luz asked.

“What’s the difference?”

“One has fruit and one has milk,” Luz said bluntly.

Pursing her lips into a thin line, Amity hummed, “Fruit tea.”

Luz smiled as she nodded her head, “Good choice, what fruit do you want?”

Rubbing her chin, Amity blinked again, “Strawberry?” 

“Okay, what type of tea do you want, green, black… it’s right there on the menu.”

Amity rubbed the back of her neck, “Uh… you can pick for me.”

“Green tea it is,” Luz decided, “Okay, I’ll just order boba for you too, because you can’t drink boba without boba,” she laughed.

After they ordered and got their drinks, the two girls went back into their car and tried their drinks. Amity sipped her drink and chewed on the tapioca balls, “Oh my god, this is actually really fucking good!”

“Told you it’ll be worth it,” Luz said, sipping her drink happily.

Amity looked over at Luz’s drink, “What’d you get?”

“Mango green tea,” Luz said, “It’s good, you wanna try it?”

“Can I?”

Luz shrugged, “I offered you didn’t I?”

Taking the drink, Amity took a small sip, “Wow, it’s actually really good,” Luz nodded and smiled when Amity approved of her order, “But mine is better,” she added, sticking out her tongue.

“In what universe does strawberry beat mango?”

Sipping her drink, Amity smirked, “In my universe.”

Rolling her eyes, Luz chuckled, “Fair enough.”

Starting the engine of her car, Amity tapped Luz on the shoulder, “Can we actually head to Hexside so we can hang out on the campus?” Luz raised an eyebrow, “We can just climb the buildings and watch the sunset.”

“We can do that at the tree Ams.”

Amity groaned, “We go to that fucking tree like everyday, plus I wanna show you around the campus a bit. So you aren’t so lost on the first day. Hexside is pretty big, believe it or not.”

Luz hummed and put on the directions to the school on her phone, “Alright, we’ll go there instead.”

After driving for 40 minutes, finishing their drinks, and going through Luz’s playlist, the two finally made it to Hexside. Taking out the snacks that they bought from the store, Luz followed as Amity climbed up upon one of the giant metal storage boxes and up on the roof. 

Struggling to climb up the building, since she was holding a plastic bag full of snacks, Amity eventually stopped making fun of Luz and helped her up. 

They walked along the rooftop and stared at the sunset as they munched on oreos and chips, “The campus is actually pretty nice not gonna lie,” Luz, said, breaking the comfortable silence that they were sitting in for a while, “Back in California, my school was all gray and dull, Hexside actually looks really prestigious.” 

Amity snorted, “That’s what you think that first, so much shit goes down here it’s insane.”

“I can’t wait to witness that,” Luz laughed.

Rolling her eyes playfully, Amity nudged her elbow into Luz’s side, “Oh please, you’re probably going to turn into the school’s top troublemaker.”

Raising an eyebrow, Luz laughed, “And what makes you think that?”

“Dunno, it’s just a gut feeling.”

Luz smiled and grabbed a handful of chips, “I can’t afford to be a trouble maker Ams. I have a Hispanic mom, I’ll get the chancla if I pull any shit,” she laughed, “The most I’ll do is probably get detention for skateboarding on campus,” she sighed, “I saw the no skateboarding sign when I pulled into the parking lot.”

“And you’re going to ignore that sign and continue skateboarding here aren't you?”

Kissing Amity’s hand, Luz grinned, “You know me so well,” she sighed, “It’s a pretty view, like the sunset and all,” Luz said, 

“Better than the view at the tree?”

“Of course not,” Luz said, “That tree has fucking memories and nothing will change that.”

Resting her head on Luz’s shoulder, Amity hummed, “Well, this place is going to have memories too soon, since school starts in like 3 days.”

Laughing, Luz nodded, “Yeah, I can’t wait. It’s going to suck doing balancing my work schedule and my study schedule, but at least I get to hang out with you more,” she snapped her fingers when an idea popped in her head, “We should study together!” 

Amity nodded, “We’re probably not going to be doing work if we have study sessions together.”

“Exactly!” Luz grinned, she sighed, “So many things are changing, I’m back here for good and I’m going to school here. It’s kinda crazy if you think about it since I was just a tourist 2 years ago.”

Amity hummed and Luz kissed the top of her head, “But since I’m with you, this type of change is good.”

The girl snorted, “Getting all sappy with me Noceda?”

“Let me have my moment.”

Chapter Text

Tapping her foot, Amity crossed her arms as she waited for Luz at the front of the school gates. Many students walked into the building, none of them being Luz. The girl sighed, “Where the fuck is she?”

“Waiting for someone Blight?”

She turned her head and saw Boscha, Willow, and Gus waving at her. 

Amity nodded and sighed, “I don’t know where Luz is and it’s the first day back at school, where could she be?”

Patting her friend on the back, Willow hummed, “I’m sure Luz is just running a bit late,” everyone’s heads turned when they heard the first bell ring. Willow shrugged, “Come on, we all have first period together-”

“Not me,” Gus laughed, “Good thing I’m a sophomore, I don’t have chemistry first period.”

Boscha groaned, “Ugh, I hate chemistry.” 

Willow snorted, “Don’t you want to major in bio?”

“Yeah, but still,” she tilted her head towards the building, “Don’t want to be late for first period.”

Still looking around for Luz, Amity felt Willow tug on her arm, “Come on Amity, it’ll be fine, she also has chemistry with us, Luz will show up eventually.”

Amity sighed, “Yeah you’re right.” 

BUZZ! BUZZ! BUZZ! 

Slamming her hand over her alarm, Luz rubbed her eyes, “5 more minutes,” she grumbled. She slowly opened one of her eyes to check on the time. It was 8:05 am. She quickly got up, “Fuck! I’m late for school!”

Resting her cheek on her hand, Amity zoned out after listening to the chemistry teacher talk about the syllabus for 5 minutes. The girl checked her phone, it’s been 15 minutes since school started. Where is she? Is she seriously late for the first day? Amity thought. 

While the teacher was writing something on the white board, the girl quickly texted a message to Luz.

Amity: where tf are you? did you forget school was a thing or something? 

Just then, the door slammed open and Luz came in panting. She had her backpack swung over her shoulder and was holding her skateboard in one hand. 

Amiy blinked, Did she forget that skateboards are banned from campus? 

“S-sorry,” Luz said, trying to catch a breath, “I woke up a bit late.”

The teacher stared at her and then looked at the attendance paper, “I assume you’re Ms. Noceda?” She nodded and the teacher raised an eyebrow when she saw Luz’s skateboard, “You do know that skateboards are prohibited from campus?” 

Rubbing the back of her neck Luz awkwardly smiled, “Yeah but technically I wasn’t riding my skateboard on campus. I just skated to school but I didn’t actually use it on school grounds,” she said.

Is she serious right now? Amity thought, That smartmouth of hers is going to get her in trouble! Fucking idiot.

Letting out a sigh, the teacher marked something on the attendance sheet, “You’ll be sitting next to Ms. Blight over there.”

Luz turned her head and met eyes with Amity, she smirked and winked at her, which embarrassingly, made Amity blush. 

Sitting on the lab stool next to Amity, Luz grinned, “Miss me Ms. Blight?”

Amity scoffed, “Hardly.”

“Oh please, I saw your message that you sent,” Luz whispered.

Kicking her under the table, Amity frowned, “Just pay attention you idiot.”

After first period ended, Luz walked with Amity over to second period since they were both heading in the same direction. Amity looked up at Luz, “Why were you late anyways? Don’t you normally like get up at 5 to open up the cafe?”

Luz hummed, “Yeah, my internal clock woke me up at 5 today but then I realized that I don’t have work today and that I can just sleep in since school starts at 8, so I guess I just slept through my alarm a bit.”

Walking into a classroom, Amity waved goodbye at Luz, “Well, see you later at lunch, don’t cause too much trouble okay?”

Rolling her eyes playfully, Luz grinned, “I’ll do my best.”

Finally, after 4 periods, lunch was finally here. Sitting outside of the cafeteria on a bench, Amity waited for Luz to come as she sat with Gus, Willow, and Boscha. Walking towards them, Amity saw Luz holding her lunch tray along with having a frown on her face, “Where were you?”

“I had to go to Principal Bumpkin’s office,” Luz said, sitting next to Amity on the bench.

Gus snorted, “You mean Principal Bump?”

Luz hummed and took a bite out of her salad, “Yeah him.”

Willow stared at Luz, “What happened?”

Luz sighed and turned to Amity, “Let’s just say after you told me not to cause any trouble… I caused some trouble,” she sighed when her 4 friends stared at her, “Look, I didn’t do anything too bad. During math after the teacher went over the syllabus, he told us to do some equations and so he demonstrated that,” she rolled her eyes, “I guess his ego is way too big because he did something wrong and when I kindly corrected him he threw a fit.”

Boscha snorted, “That’s it?”

“Okay, maybe I may have made fun of him and embarrassed him in front of the whole class,” Luz shrugged, “But I couldn’t help it! So, I guess this dude was having a really bad day and told my other teachers about my behavior and the chemistry lady jumped in and said that I was a delinquent or something and that my other teachers should watch out for me. So then I was just minding my own business in the last two periods but I guess they all told Bump about my behavior so I was called into his office.”

Continuing her rant, Luz furrowed her eyebrows, “He just told me stuff about Hexside’s behavior etiquette or some shit like that, and said that I have to follow it or I’ll get detention. But since it’s my first day here, he let me go easy and said he wouldn’t tell my mom about it, which is good.”

Amity patted Luz on the back, “It’s fine, some teachers here are assholes.”

“Wish I knew that sooner.”

After the last two periods of the day, Luz was exhausted. None of her teachers liked her, they all either hated her or really hated her. Skateboarding alongside Amity who was walking home, Luz sighed, “So much for a first impression huh?”

“Maybe if you weren’t late to school it would be better,” Luz shot her a glance and Amity smiled, “Just joking.” 

Luz nodded, “It’s okay, it’s just so annoying,” she groaned, “Even back in the city I was a so-called ‘trouble maker,’  even though I didn’t even do anything. Sure I disrupted class a bit and was a bit of a smartmart-”

Amity snorted, “Only a bit?”

Rolling her eyes playfully, Luz grinned, “Okay I was a smartmouth. But anyways, besides all of that, I’m a pretty good student, believe it or not.”

“I believe it,” replied Amity.

Luz smiled at her and sighed, “It’s weird because I was actually hoping for my teachers over here to like me since back at my old school none of them liked me too,” she rubbed the back of her neck as she continued to skate beside Amity, “Seems like I’m none of my teacher’s favorites.” 

Holding Luz’s hand, Amity kissed it, “If it makes you feel any better, you’re my favorite.”

Luz’s heart thumped and she blushed.

She quickly turned away and then smirked “Yeah I better be.”

Chapter Text

Twirling her pencil in her fingers, Luz looked up from her biology textbook and stared at Amity who was sitting across the table. She groaned, “It’s only been a week and we already have so much fucking work,” Luz complained.

Not even looking up from her book, Amity hummed as she rubbed her chin, “We are Juniors, it is the most important year and everything,” she looked up at her book and looked at Luz, “Do you need help or something?” 

Luz shook her head silently.

“Okay, if you do need help, feel free to ask me,” Amity said, “That’s why we are having these studying sessions together.”

The other girl nodded, “Yeah okay,” she stood up from her chair, “I’ll be right back, I’m going to go to the bathroom. Do you need anything? Like water or something? I’ll buy it for you.”

Amity looked up, “Can you get me some chips?”

“What kind?”

“Surprise me.”

Pushing her chair in, Luz smiled, “Sure thing boss.” The girl walked away from the library table and went quickly to the bathroom before she bought some water and 3 bags of chips from the vending machines. 

Tossing a bottle over to Amity, who caught it, Luz sat back on the table and placed the 3 bags of chips on it. Amity raised an eyebrow at the bags of chips and then looked up at Luz who popped some Lay’s into her mouth. “What?” Luz shrugged, “I couldn’t decide.”

“Fair enough,” Amity said, reaching for a bag of Kettle chips. 

Around the corner, a librarian smacked their ruler on the table, which made both Luz and Amity jump, “Hey! No eating allowed in the library! Only water is allowed here! Are you trying to get the books dirty with your grimy hands?” They scolded the two girls, “Snack outside of the library, thank you very much!”

Before they knew it, Amity and Luz were eating their chips on the bench, “I didn’t know there was a no snacking policy,” Luz said, “There’s literally a vending machine in the library.”

Amity shrugged, “Ironic huh?” She sighed and rested her head on Luz’s shoulder, the girl flinched when Amity suddenly did that, “I’m exhausted too… studying is so boring and lame.”

“Yeah, I agree,” Luz said softly.

“Can we stay like this for a while?” Amity asked.

Luz tilted her head onto Amity’s, “That’ll be nice.”

After their little snack break, the two were back studying, well Amity was studying, Luz was just sketching on her notebook, making it look like she was diligently taking notes. Resting her head on her hand, Luz looked over at Amity who was actually studying.

God… Luz thought while staring at Amity, She’s so fucking pretty and beautiful. Ugh, she’s just so perfect. “Fuck, I really want to kiss you right now,” Luz said outloud.

Blushing furiously, Amity looked up from her textbook, “ W-what ?” She stuttered.

Luz blinked at her, Oh fuck, did I say that outloud? She thought, Ugh that’s so embarrassing! The girl laughed, “Oh- uh, nothing!” She grinned. 

Still blushing, Amity covered her face with her hand, “Okay… Pay attention idiot,” she said, pretending to be harsh, but Luz knew it was just because she was embarrassed. 

Ignoring Amity’s advice, Luz continued to stare and sighed, “Hey wanna be girlfriends?” Luz said suddenly.

Looking up from her book, Amity blinked, “Were we not before?”

Wait, what the fuck?  

Luz gaped her mouth open, “Uh… we were?”

“I thought we were,” Amity replied. 

Shrugging, Luz smiled dorkily, “Well… we are now!”

Amity snorted, “Alright, we are now,” she echoed.

Luz grinned, “Look at us communicating! Isn’t this great?”

Rolling her eyes playfully, Amity grinned and kicked Luz under the table lightly, “Yeah, we should have talked about this sooner though.”

“One step at a time right?” Luz said positively. 

Standing in front of the school gates, Amity hummed to herself as she waited for Luz to come. In the distance she spotted the girl’s signature red beanie in the sea of students. Amity waved at the girl, “Luz!”

Running over to Amity, Luz hugged her, “Hey there, girlfriend .”

Amity blinked and laughed, “Why’d you say it like that?”

“Because you’re my girlfriend now Blight!” Luz grinned.

As Luz was about to kiss Amity on the cheek, the girl pushed Luz’s face away, “Why are you like this?”

Luz grinned, “Oh you love it.” 

Blushing, Amity just rolled her eyes and grabbed Luz’s hand, “Come on, we’ll be late to first period you idiot.”

“Don’t you mean, girlfriend ?” Luz teased. 

Even though she let out a big groan, Amity couldn’t help but laugh, “Will you knock it off?”

Sitting down next to Amity at lunch, Luz wrapped her arm around the girl, “Guys guess what?” Boscha, Willow, and Gus all looked at Luz, “Amity and I are girlfriends now!” She said happily. 

Raising an eyebrow, Boscha took a bite out of her lunch, “Were you not before?”

“That’s what I was saying!” Amity said.

Willow snorted at how dumb the new couple was but Gus smiled, “Hey, at least you guys discussed it!” He said positively.

“Right?” Luz grinned, “That’s what I was saying!”

Walking Amity back home from school, Luz hummed to herself, “Our friends seem happy for us,” she said, breaking the comfortable silence they were walking in before.

Nodding her head, Amity continued to walk, “I mean to be fair, they thought we were official a long time ago.”

“Were we really acting like a couple that long ago?” Luz asked.

Amity shrugged, “What do couples even act like?”

Luz hummed, “Well Willow and Boscha are kinda like love birds right? 

Making a face, Amity shook her head, “Are you sure you wanna use those two as an example?”

Thinking for a second, Luz blinked, “Yeah nevermind,” she snapped her fingers together, “How about Romeo and Juliet?” 

“Please we aren’t as dumb as fucking Romeo and Juliet,” Amity said rolling her eyes, “They fell in love after like 2 seconds of meeting each other and then they fucking accidentally died for each other. Worst couple in history.”

Luz snorted, “Yeah you’re right.”

“Adora and Catra,” Amity said, “Remember? You forced me to binge watch that show in 1 fucking day. We barely slept.”

Nudging Amity, Luz grinned, “Yeah but you liked it though right?”

Amity hummed and nodded, “As much as I love their relationship, Catra almost killed Adora like 10 times in the show. But after she gets her redemption, their relationship is nice.”

“To be fair, you did fucking slap me when we first saw each other again,” said Luz.

Kissing Luz quickly on the cheek, Amity laughed a bit, “Touche.”

Holding Amity’s hand, Luz grinned, “I’ll let it go though, because you’re my girlfriend after all.”

“Why are you like this?” Amity groaned, “You are so annoying!”

Smiling happily, Luz swung their arms around as they walked, “But you have to deal with me because I’m your girlfriend .” 

Rolling her eyes, Amity sighed loudly, “What have I gotten myself into?”

“Oh please, you love that I’m your girlfriend now,” Luz said, sticking her tongue out.

Pulling Luz into a kiss, mostly to shut her up, Amity smirked when she saw how Luz’s mouth gaped open, “Just shut up.”

Luz grinned, “Look at us kissing because we are girlfriends .” 

Amity never facepalmed so hard in her life before.

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After dating for 3 weeks, Luz and Amity were happy with each other, sure they had a couple of mishaps and little arguments over dumb things during the last 3 weeks, but overall they were happy campers. 

On the phone with Amity, Luz hummed, “So… you’re coming over tomorrow night right?” 

“ Yeah, ” Amity said, “ I’m really nervous though. What if your mom doesn’t like me? That would fucking suck. ”

Luz laughed, “Don’t be nervous Ams, it’ll be fine!” She said, reassuring her girlfriend, “I’m sure my mom will like you. I said a lot of great things about you. It's okay,” she snorted, “Plus, it’s your parents who don’t like me.” 

The girl heard Amity groan, “ Okay, first of all, they’re homophobic pieces of shit, so of course they won’t like my girlfriend. ”

Humming softly, Luz stretched her arms, “Do they like Emira’s girlfriend? Uh… it was Viney right?”

“ Uh, kind of? They like her as a person but not as Em’s girlfriend, ” Amity barked a laugh, “ You know, they first thought that she was Edric’s girlfriend?

Luz laughed, “Oh for real? That’s hilarious! Is Ed even straight?”

“ Both him and Em are unlabeled,” Amity said, “ I guess they just do whatever they want, but that’s fine I’ll still support them, obviously, on whatever decision they make.”

Nodding her head, Luz stretched her arms, “Yeah that’s good,” she looked over at her alarm clock, it was almost midnight, “I should go to sleep now. I’m waking up in like 5 hours.”

Amity hummed, “ Oh right, you’re opening the cafe tomorrow right? ”

“It is Saturday,” said Luz. 

“ Okay, I’ll let you get your sleep then. Maybe I’ll drop by lunch tomorrow, ” Amity said.

Luz grinned, “I’ll like that. Well, g’night Blight.”

“ Night Noceda. ” 

Just like what Amity had said the night before, she came over to The Owl House and brought over some beef pastries for Luz. Sitting down at the table with her arm propped on her chair, Luz took a bite out of her pastry, “Thanks Amity, this is really good.”

Amity nodded, “Yeah of course, I know that you work hard and everything.”

Smirking, Luz raised a cocky eyebrow at Amity, “Going soft on me Blight?”

“In your dreams Noceda,” Amity grinned.

Wiping the crumbs off of her after she finished eating, Luz leaned back in her chair, “So, you ready for tonight?” Amity grumbled something under her breath, “Oh come on, you’ll be fine, it’s just my mom! What's so scary about her?”

“Nothing is!” Amity replied quickly, “I’m just nervous, meeting the parents is such a big… step for us, don’t you think?”

Placing her hand over Amity’s, Luz brushed her thumb over her to comfort her, “Hey it’s okay, I know it’s a big step for us, but we’re taking it together right?”

Amity smiled and nodded, “And you say that I’m going soft,” she joked.

Helping her mom clean up the house and get ready for dinner, Luz hummed as she wiped the tables down and put things back in their spots in the drawer, “So, when’s your girlfriend coming over mija?”

Checking her watch, Luz blinked, “Uh… like in an hour or something,” she walked over to her mom who was still cooking, “It smells so good Mom, what are you cooking?”

“Shrimp gumbo,” her mom replied, “I got the recipe from one of my co-workers at the hospital, let’s just hope this turns out well.”

Luz grinned, “I’m sure it will.”

After cleaning up the tables and the living room, Luz went into her room where she got changed. She put on a black tank top, gray sweats, and a green jacket, along with a beanie. Who the fuck was she without her beanie? That piece of cloth is like a part of her now.

About 30 minutes later, the doorbell rang and Luz got up from her bed and checked her watch, “She’s early,” the girl muttered to herself. She quickly walked out of the room and opened the door where she saw Amity standing there, wearing a gorgeous black dress with flower patterns on it, “Amity!” Luz grinned, bringing her girlfriend into a tight hug, “You look so pretty!”

Amity grinned, “You as well.”

Letting Amity in the house, the girl smiled awkwardly at Luz’s mom, “Hello Ms. Noceda,” she said, sticking a stiff hand out for the woman to shake, “I’m Amity, it’s really nice to finally meet you!” She said, her voice quierving a bit.

Damn, she must be really nervous, thought Luz.

Shaking Amity’s hand, Camila smiled back at the girl, “So you’re Amity,” the woman said, “Say… are you the one who smacked my daughter on the cheek when we first moved here?” 

Still holding Luz’s mom’s hand, Amity blinked, “I…” Fuck! She’s going to hate me for slapping her daughter! Amity thought, Oh my god, okay just tell the truth, no one likes liars! “ Uh- I was- yes , but I-” Amity stuttered, she looked up at the woman who was giving her a death glare, I’m fucked! She looked over at Luz who also had no idea what to do.

Letting out a laugh, Camila clapped Amity on the back, “I’m sure Luz deserved it didn’t she?”

“Hey!”

Amity blinked again, “Uh… yeah she kinda did,” she said softly, “But I’m sorry!”

Smiling kindly at the girl, Camila motioned her hand towards the dining table, “No worries, I know what type of kid Luz is, I raised her after all.”

“Wait what? What did I do?” Luz protested.

Ignoring her daughter, Camila kept smiling, “Anyways, the gumbo is ready, let’s all take a seat and eat.”

Sitting next to Amity at the dining table, Luz crossed her arms and whispered into Amity’s ear, “I did not deserve that slap,” Amity turned around and raised a questioning eyebrow at her, “Okay, well you didn’t have to slap me that hard.” 

Cupping Luz’s cheek with her hand, Amity smiled softly at her, “I’ll keep that in mind for next time.”

Luz blinked, “What do you mean next time?”

Before Amity could say anymore, Luz’s mom came over and placed three piping hot bowls of gumbo on the table, “Eat up girls, it’s my first time cooking this dish, so tell me how I did.”

“It smells great Ms. Noceda!” Amity said.

Waving her hand, the woman laughed, “Thank you Amity!” 

They all sat in silence for a minute, appreciating the stew that Luz’s mom cooked for them. “So, what do you like to do, Amity?” Camila piped up.

Looking up from her bowl of soup, Amity scratched her cheek as she thought, “Well I don’t really do much,” she saw Luz’s mom nod. Why did this feel like an interrogation? “But I do competitive ballet and recently I’ve volunteered to help out organize the town’s festivals.”

“Oh you organize the festivals?” Camila said, “I always loved those as a kid!”

Getting flustered, Amity chuckled, “Well I only do some of the parts, it’s a team work after all, but the Hallow’s Eve Festival is coming up and there’s going to be a haunted house that I organized along with some other people.” 

Luz hummed, “I didn’t know there was a Hallow’s Eve Festival.”

“We have festivals for every major holiday,” Amity said, “Except Thanksgiving, since that’s more of a family related holiday.”

“Bonesborough is known for their festivals,” Camila said.

Nudging Luz in the side, Amity grinned, “If you thought the Midsummer Festival was great, just wait till you see the other festivals.”

“Are you just saying that because you’re organizing it now?” Luz smiled.

Shrugging, Amity smirked, “Maybe.”

Camila smiled at the two, “Oh right! I forgot you saw the Midsummer’s Festival mija, how was it?”

“I don’t really remember it well,” Luz admitted, “All I know is that I played a lot of games and I got to dance with Amity,” she said, pointing her thumb over at her girlfriend. 

Amity nodded, “I remember,” she looked over at Luz’s mom, “She offered to dance with me too. Do you know what she said when she offered to dance with me?”

“Amity please don’t.”

Grinning, Camila leaned forward, “No, please go on.”

Glancing over to Luz, Amity smirked, “She said, ‘that’s what friends do,’ when she offered me to dance with her,” Camila snorted while Luz shook her head in embarrassment, “I laid down so many hints that I liked her, but she never took any!”

Camila sighed, “Luz can be like that sometimes,” she clapped her hands together, “Since we’re on the topic about embarrassing Luz, do you want to see her baby photos? It’s my job as a mother to embarrass my daughter.”

“Oh yes please,” Amity said, not taking her eyes off of Luz. 

The woman got up from her seat to find the photos, leaving Luz and Amity alone. 

Groaning, Luz pouted, “Why Amity?”

Crossing her arms, Amity smirked, “Remember the time when Ed and Em showed you my baby photos?” The girl slightly nodded, “This is only fair.”

Slumping in her seat, Luz sighed, “This is going to be a long night isn’t it?”

After 3 hours of embarrassing talking shit about Luz with her mom, it was time for Amity to go back home when her father texted her that he was already outside. Hugging Amity goodbye, Luz smiled, “See you later Blight.”

Amity smiled back at her girlfriend and turned to Luz’s mom, “It was really nice to meet you!” She said, shaking the woman’s hand one last time, “Thank you for dinner too! It was delicious.”

“It was really nice to meet you too Amity!” Camila grinned, “You’re welcome here any time!”

The two Noceda’s watched as Amity ran down their driveway and drove off in her father’s car. Camila smiled and nudged her daughter, “She’s a good one, I like her. You should keep her.”

Luz grinned, “That’s the plan.”

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Driving out of town, Boscha turned up the radio, which was just playing Paramore, while Willow was giving her directions to the Korean barbeque place that they were going for a double date with Amity and Luz; who were quietly sitting in the backseat of Boscha’s white Chevrolet. 

At a stop light, Luz tapped Willow on the shoulder, “Hey Willow, can you drive?”

“Nope,” Willow said, “I failed my test 2 times already.”

Luz blinked, “Oh okay.”

The girl grinned, “That’s why I’m dating Boscha because she can drive me places.”

“Also, because you love me right?” Boscha said.

Willow coughed, “Next question please.”

Luz laughed and looked over at Amity, “Oh so both you and Ams, are only dating people who have their license so they can drive you places?” 

Shrugging, Amity smiled, “Sounds about right,” she leaned against Luz, “But you said you’re going to teach me how to drive one day right?” 

“Yeah of course sure thing,” Luz grinned.

Turning her body to look at the couple in the back seat, Willow raised an eyebrow, “Isn’t that like illegal?” Luz shrugged and Willow sighed, “Who am I kidding, it’s not like you care.”

“ Whom are you kidding,” Luz said, everyone turned their heads and just stared at Luz who shrugged, “Who or whom, I learned it in English,” she blinked, “You guys are grammatically incorrect.” 

Amity rolled her eyes, “Luz shut the fuck up,” she looked out of the window and smiled, “We’re here!” 

After getting out of the car and getting seated in the corner of the restaurant, Luz scanned through the menu, “I haven’t had Korean barbeque in a while,” she said. 

Placing a hand on Luz’s forearm, Amity smiled, “Don’t worry Willow’s going to order for us. She’s been drooling about going here on a date with Boscha for days,” Amity nudged Luz, “It sounded tasty whenever she talked about it so I managed to convince her to let us come along to have a double date.”

Looking up the menu, Willow nodded her head, “Yeah, good thing Amity convinced me so we can order more stuff. Plus, Korean barbeque tastes better with more people. And I also wanted to show Amity it since she’s the type of person who would order chicken tenders at every single restaurant.” 

Amity turned away in embarrassment and Willow laughed, “Okay, let’s order now,” She raised a hand and called a waiter over and ordered in Korean. 

After ordering, Amity hummed, “What’d you order?”

“Beef short ribs, pork belly, beef strips, and some brisket,” Willow said, leaning back in her chair.

Amity stared at Willow, “Did you get the thing that I showed you in the menu? Back when we were in the car and looking at the place?” She asked. 

Humming, Willow nodded her head, “Yeah, I got the cheese corn and steamed egg.”

A second later, a waiter came out with a tray of side dishes and while Amity nibbled on a fish cake, Luz and Willow ate kimchi, while Boscha just didn’t eat anything. “You not going to eat anything?” Luz said.

“Nope,” Boscha grinned, “I’m going to save my stomach for the meats.”

Luz smirked, “I can probably eat more than you even though I’m eating the side dishes.”

Amity rolled her eyes, “Please don’t tell me you guys are going to compete how much you guys are going to eat-”

“Is that a challenge Beanie?”

“Only if you can take it Mullethead,” Luz said.

Looking over at Willow, who was grinning, Amity raised an eyebrow, “Shouldn’t we stop them? They’ll probably get stomach aches later if they do this dumb fucking competition.”

Willow shrugged, “That’s what makes it fun.”

Face palming, Amity muttered under her breath, “I’m surrounded by idiots.” 

Once the first cut of meat came out, Willow was busy grilling it while Luz and Boscha were acting like rabid dogs and waiting to snatch any piece of meat so they can see who can eat more pieces of it. 

It was an all you can eat place anyways, gotta make their money worth it right? 

While Luz and Boscha were busy shoving and counting the pieces of food in their mouth, Willow was just teaching Amity how to make a lettuce wrap.

“So, you just put a little bit of rice on the lettuce,” Willow demonstrated while Amity was copying her, “But some of the galbi in it, I like to put kimchi on it and then put some pickled radishes and a whole garlic clove on it,” Willow put down her chopsticks, “Then fold it together and you’re done.”

Amity took a bite of her wrap and hummed in delight, “Woah, this is so much better than just eating it with rice!”

Willow grinned, “Right?” She tilted her head in the direction of where Boscha and Luz were sitting, “Let’s see how the idiots are doing.”

Slowly bringing the chopstick up to her mouth, Luz groaned, “35…”

“35…” Boscha whispered to herself as she finished swallowing a piece of food.

Looking at the empty grill, Amity blinked, “Woah, you guys ate all of the meat we ordered.”

“Good,” Willow said, “So we don’t have to pay extra for having leftovers.”

Placing her hand on Luz’s shoulder, Amity laughed, “Luz, I think that’s enough, you’re going to eat sick.”

“I think I’m already sick,” Luz chuckled, resting her head on Amity’s shoulder. 

Willow patted Boscha’s shoulder, “Let’s call it a draw, as much as I want to see you guys suffer, I do not want you guys to throw up in the car.”

Boscha grinned and put her chopstick down, “You’re right, or else I’ll have to clean it up.”

“It is your car,” Willow laughed, she called over a waiter and asked for the check.

After paying, the girls went into Boscha’s car and started to drive back to Bonesborough. Luz closed her eyes and sighed, “That was pretty fun. This was my first double date, I actually kinda liked it.”

Amity nodded, “We basically always have double dates, except Gus is there fifth wheeling.”

Willow laughed, “I feel bad for him, constantly fifth wheeling.”

“I don’t think he really minds though,” Boscha hummed as she drove.

For once, Luz agreed with Boscha, “Yeah, as long as we don’t leave him out when we all hang out.”

“Woah, Luz getting along with Boscha?” Amity gasped, “Shocker.”

Luz laughed, “Okay but, this double date would have been perfect, but sucks that I had to be one with fucking Boscha.”

“I take back what I said,” Amity murmured to herself.

Looking over at Willow, Luz crossed her arms, “Willow, couldn’t you have chosen anyone else?”

Shaking her head, Willow hummed, “Nope sorry.”

Boscha barked out a laugh “That’s right Beanie,” the girl sneered, “Willow loves me too much.”

Shrugging, Willow just stared ahead, “I took pity on her one time because she was just so desperate to go out with me, I felt a bit bad,” Willow sighed, “I regret it now though since I’m stuck with her forever.”

“You guys know that I can literally crash this car at any moment right?”

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“Do I have to wear this?”

Zipping the back of Amity’s dress, Luz hummed, “Oh come on, you look really pretty as Hecate!”

Rolling her eyes, Amity muttered, “You always say that no matter what I wear.”

Hugging the girl from the back, Luz kissed her cheek and whispered in her ear, “That’s because you’re always pretty,” Amity blushed and removed herself from Luz’s grip. Luz laughed at how red Amity was, “Aw! You’re blushing!” She leaned in closer to Amity, their faces centimeters apart, “Did what I say fluster you?” She cooed.

Pushing her girlfriend’s face away, Amity looked away, “Oh shut up Noceda,” she smiled “You didn’t even put on your costume yet.”

Holding up a clothing hanger, Luz nodded her head, “I’m getting there Mittens.”

After putting both of their costumes on, Luz and Amity stared at their reflection, “We look ridiculous,” Amity said bluntly.

Putting her arm around her, Luz grinned, “I think we look great!” She said cheerfully, “Plus, I was really lucky to get these Azura and Hecate costumes! It’s like we’re cosplaying, 14 year old me would be freaking the fuck out. I’m still bitter that they never got together at the end of the story.”

Amity nodded, “Right? They would be so perfect with each other! The only flaw in the book,” she said shaking her head.

Smiling at her girlfriend, Luz kissed Amity’s hand, “Well, we can act like they became canon since we’re basically wearing them as a couple's costume.”

“I can’t believe I actually let you convince me to match with you,” Amity said, “I just wanted to wear a onesie tonight since it was going to be cold, but now I have to wear this.”

Luz smirked and hugged Amity again, “I can be pretty convincive don’t you think Ams?” Amity just rolled her eyes and blushed, “Plus, if you get cold, just tell me I’ll lend you my jacket!”

Amity smiled, “Okay fine.” 

Grabbing Amity’s hand, Luz grinned, “Come on, the festival is going to start soon right?” Amity nodded, “Then let’s go, Willow and the others are probably waiting for us too.”

It was 7 pm and the sun was setting, walking hand in hand to the town square, Amity and Luz spotted their friends waiting for them on a nearby bench. They saw that Willow and Boscha were wearing matching Thing 1 and Thing 2 costumes, while Gus was wearing a Robin Hood costume with a fake bow and arrow. 

“Hey guys!” Luz waved, “Oh my god,” she looked at Willow and Boscha, “You guys are matching too! It looks so cute! Willow, did you pick out the matching costumes?” 

Shaking her head, Willow pointed at Boscha, “She forced me to match with her.”

Boscha frowned, “I thought it would be cute!”

Amity laughed, “Luz forced me to wear matching outfits with her too.”

“Don’t be like that Ams,” Luz smirked, “You love it.”

“Love is an overstatement,” Amity retorted.

Shrugging, Luz looked over at Gus, “Woah, that’s a really nice costume, where’d you get it?”

Gus grinned, “It’s pretty nice isn’t it?” Luz nodded, “And I didn’t get it, I made it myself,” Luz hummed in surprise, “My dad and I bought some supplies to make it and we sewed it up ourselves.”

 Looking at Gus’s outfit, Luz nodded, “That’s really cool! I have mad respect for cosplayers,” she patted the boy on his head, “Anyways, let’s go explore the festival now,” she nudged Amity, “Didn’t you help organize it?”

Nodding her head, Amity smiled, “I did like the haunted house and some other places,” she started to walk ahead of the group, “Come on, I wanna show you guys what I organized!”

“Great,” Boscha groaned, “Now Amity is going to show off her organization skills to us.”

“Shut the fuck up Boscha, she worked hard on this,” Luz said, defending her girlfriend. 

Giving Luz a shiteating grin, Boscha raised an eyebrow, “Hit a soft spot there?”

The group started to walk around the town which was decorated in spooky Halloween decorations, which would occasionally lurch out at you, making people jump sometimes. Looking around, Luz whistled, “Wow, this place looks great Amity! I think it’s even better than the Midsummer Festival!”

Smiling, Amity looked up at Luz who was in awe, “Really you think so?” She said softly, the girl coughed, “I mean, obviously it is, I worked on this one. Plus, Halloween is such a cooler event to celebrate than the middle of summer.”

Holding her hand, Luz nodded, “I agree,” she laughed and turned around to her other friends who were trailing behind them, “Hey I’m kinda hungry, wanna get something to eat?” 

“Are you going to pay?” Willow asked.

Gus grinned, “Oh are you?”

Luz blinked, “Uh…” she sighed, “Yeah, sure why not,” she dug in her pockets and got out her wallet, “I wanna try those caramel apples, do you guys want any?” Boscha and Gus raised their hands, “Willow you don’t want one?”

The girl shrugged, “I’ll steal some from Boscha.”

Turning over to Amity, Luz hummed, “Do you want any?”

“I’ll just leech off of yours,” replied Amity. 

Luz snorted and walked over to the caramel apple stand and bought three. The five of them all sat on a bench and silently ate their sugary treat before they got up and started to walk around and play different fair games again.  

After playing at a rigged ring toss game, Luz crossed her arms and purposely bumped into Boscha, “You got lucky with the last shot, I could have totally beaten you if it wasn’t fucking rigged.”

“Oh stop making excuses Noceda,” Boscha sneered, “It’s okay to be a loser sometimes.”

Luz scoffed, “I hate being like you then.”

“What was that?” Boscha yelled.

Gus looked over at Willow and Amity who were just watching their girlfriends fight each other. 

“Are they always like that?” He asked, “Even when you guys go out on your double dates?”

Amity nodded, “Yeah, they are always being competitive pain in the asses, it’s hilarious though so Willow and I just sit back and observe.”

The other girl silently nodded in agreement and Gus let out a nervous laugh, “Well… okay then.”

Looking behind her, Luz hummed, “Hey, I’m going to go find Eda and my mom, I’ll find you guys in an hour or so and we can go through the haunted house that Amity planned.”

“Sure okay,” Gus said, “Let’s just meet back here in an hour.”

Luz nodded and ran off to find her mom and Eda. Pushing through the sea of people, 5 minutes later, the girl spotted her mom, wearing a wizard robe, behind The Owl House stand with Owlbert resting on a perch and King besides her, wearing a little fake skull costume on his head. 

Walking up to her mom, Luz blinked, “Hey Mom!”

“Hello mija, where are your friends?” The woman asked.

“I just ditched them to find you and Eda,” Luz replied, she looked around, “Where is Eda anyways?” 

Camila smiled, “When I came by, she was just wearing her regular clothes so I made her go back home and put on a costume while I watched over her stand,” she grinned, “Here she comes now.”

Walking over to them, Eda was wearing a fake witch nose and a long black dress, “Don’t laugh at me Camila,” she snapped.

Smiling, Luz’s mom pointed at the oversized witch hat that Eda was holding, “You didn’t put on your hat Edaline.”

Grumbling, Eda reluctantly put on her hat, “I can’t believe you made me find and wear my old high school outfit, I’m surprised I can still even fit in it.” 

“Wow, you look nice Eda,” Luz said.

Turning her head over to her, Eda smiled, “Oh shut up,” she tilted her head, “That’s a nice costume. It looks familiar, where did I see it before?”

“I’m Azura! From The Good Witch Azura ,” Luz said, “I’m matching with Amity too, she’s Hecate.”

Nodding her head slowly, Eda hummed, “Oh right, I always saw you reading those books late at night,” she turned her head over to Camila, “Didn’t I tell you that witches are always better than wizards Camila?”

The woman shrugged, “You know I like Harry Potter Eda.”

“I do,” she nudged Luz, “Anyways, you gonna help me out with the stand kid?”

Coughing, Luz started to back away, “Oh wow, do you hear that? I think someone is calling my name,” she turned around and started to run away, waving her hand behind her, “See you tomorrow at work Eda!”

Crossing her arms and tapping her foot, Eda watched Luz disappear into the crowd, “That little brat.”

Just like they said, Luz found her friends just talking amongst each other on a bench at the town square. Sneaking up behind them, Luz placed her hands on Amity’s shoulder and yelled, “Boo!”

The girl jumped and turned behind her, “Luz! What the fuck you scared me!”

Smiling with satisfaction, Luz shrugged and kissed the top of Amity’s head, “Yeah, that’s kinda the point, Ams,” she walked over to them and sat next to her girlfriend, “I would think you wouldn’t get scared easily if you planned the haunted house.”

“Asshole,” Amity muttered.

Wrapping her arm around Amity, Luz rested her head on Amity’s, “Aw don’t be like that Mittens,” the girl just grumbled, “Look, I’ll make it up to you later okay?”

“Oh?” Amity said, raising an eyebrow.

Luz grinned and stood up, “So,” she said, clapping her hands together, “You guys ready to go to the haunted house? I can’t wait to see what Amity had planned out for us.”

Excitedly, Gus got up, “Yeah let’s go! I’m ready! Nothing can scare me!”

“Slow your roll little man,” Amity grinned, “You guys have no idea what you’re signing up for.”

After waiting 20 minutes in line for the haunted house, they only allowed a group up to 3 people to enter, so the 5 of them decided that Amity and Luz would be one group and Gus, Willow, and Boscha would be one group. 

Going into the haunted house first, Luz grinned at Amity, “Hey, if you get scared, you can hold onto me,” she said cockily, “Afterall, I am the great witch Azura.”

Amity smirked, “I’ll keep that offer in mind, oh great witch Azura.”

Looking around the haunted house, Luz hummed, “Fake cobwebs, fake hands, fake blood,” she looked over at Amity, “Not bad Ams, it actually looks pretty dark in here, I mean I can barely see a thing too, the lights are dimmed so low.”

“That’s the point,” Amity said.

Shrugging, Luz smiled, “Well, nothing too scary yet, is this all you had planned out-” Suddenly, underneath a table, a hand reached out and grabbed Luz’s ankle, “Oh what the fuck!” She scream, “Holy shit, holy shit ,” she turned over to Amity, detressed, “What the fuck was that?”

Amity laughed, “Shouldn’t this be nothing for the great witch Azura?” The girl teased.

Coughing, Luz put up a thumbs up, “Y-yeah, that was nothing,” she held onto Amity’s hand and the girl raised an eyebrow at Luz, “I’m just holding it to make sure you’re safe… It’s not like I’m scared or anything!”

Snorting, Amity shrugged, “Okay.”

The two of them went to many different rooms with props that horrified Luz so much that she started to shake every time they went into a new room, expecting the worst.  Letting out a sigh, Luz scratched her head, “Why is this haunted house so fucking long?”

“Luz, it’s only been like 5 minutes.”

“That’s 5 minutes too long,” Luz said, her voice cracking a bit, “Okay but are we almost done? I can’t stand it in here anymore. I’m not scared or anything but it’s like this place in suffocating me, it must be all of the fake fog machines.”

Amity hummed, “Or you’re scared.”

“I’m not fucking scared!” Luz yelled.

Letting out a laugh, Amity nodded, “Yeah, yeah, the great witch Azura doesn't get scared,” Luz nodded in agreement, “Anyways, we’re almost done, we just have to go down that hallway.”

Luz grumbled under her breath, “Fucking hallways…” She looked at the floor, “There better be no disgusting hands that pop out and grab me! Because I swear to god…” she muttered as she and Amity started to walk slowly down the hall. 

Behind them, a door slammed open and Luz turned around and saw a giant man with a bag over his face, wearing a bloody apron, holding a giantantic chainsaw. 

“Why are you guys in my house? Get out of here!” The man yelled, revving his chainsaw. 

Screaming, Luz started to shake, “I’m sorry!” She said, running down the hall as the chainsaw man chased her. Right before she was about to reach the exit, a hand popped out and grabbed Luz’s ankle, causing her to trip and fall on the floor. But that didn’t stop her from getting the hell out of the haunted house, since she ended up crawling out of the exit, gasping for air.

The chainsaw man walked back over to Amity who was stoned face and hadn't moved an inch. Amity smiled at the man, “Good job Casey,” she said, fistbumping him.

Lying down on the grass, trying to catch her breath, Luz quickly sat up, “Oh shit! Amity is in there!” She shakily stood up, “I have to go get her! What if the chainsaw guy already-” Luz shut up when she saw Amity casually strolling out of the haunted house, with her usual cool expression on her face.

Running up to Amity, Luz embraced her in a tight hug, “Oh my god! Are you okay? Did that guy hurt you? I would beat him up but he has a fucking chainsaw.”

Laughing, Amity flicked Luz’s forehead, “You dumbass, did you forget that it was all acting?”

Luz blinked and then blushed in embarrassment, “Oh fuck, I totally looked like a loser in there didn’t I?”

Kissing her on the cheek, Amity nodded, “Yeah you really did.”

“Fuck…” Luz said, groaning into her hands.

Clapping her girlfriend on the back, Amity grinned, “I think I did a pretty good job with organizing the haunted house if the oh so great witch Azura was scared shitless because of it.”

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Leaning against the school’s brick walls, Amity hummed as she waited for Luz to arrive so they could walk to first period together. “She better not be fucking late again,” Amity said, rolling her eyes. 

“Waiting for Luz?” A voice said.

Amity turned her head and saw Boscha about to walk into the gates, “Hey Boscha, and yeah,” replied Amity, “We always walk to first period together, I guess it’s part of our routine or something.”

Boscha nodded, “Okay, have fun, I’ll be going ahead. See you later.”

Waving when Boscha left, Amity waited for another 5 minutes and was about to just go to class when Luz’s car pulled up. The car’s window rolled down and Amity raised an eyebrow when Luz signalled her to come over. 

“What are you doing? We’re going to be late for class,” Amity scolded.

Luz hummed, “Wanna skip today?”

Amity blinked, “What?” She stared at Luz, Oh, she’s serious, Amity realized. “What if we get in trouble?”

The brunette shrugged, “We won’t, don’t worry about it. It’s Friday anyways, there’s nothing today. Plus I can teach you how to drive right now,” she hesitated, “Unless… you don’t want to. That’s totally fine by me. It was just an idea.”

“Oh what the hell,” Amity muttered under her breath before she opened the passenger door and sat next to Luz. She pulled out her phone and quickly texted Boscha.

Amity: cover for me, i’m not going to class today

Boscha: you owe me

Amity: go fuck yourself

As they were driving, Amity looked over at Luz, “I thought your mom uses the car to drive to work.”

Nodding, Luz hummed, “She does, but right now she went on like a mini vacation over the weekend with Eda.”

“What about the cafe?”

“It’s not open today,” Luz said, “But on the weekends I’ll be opening it like usual but I’ll be working alone since Eda is off prancing like in the countryside or something. I think they’re wine tasting?” 

Amity nodded her head, “That sounds fun.”

Shrugging, Luz laughed, “Wine just tastes like grape piss. I think people only drink it to feel fancy. It tastes fucking gross.”

The other girl raised an eyebrow, “You tried it?”

“Just a sip,” Luz smiled, “In my defense, I thought it was grape juice.”

Amity snorted, “When did this happen? Like when you were 10?”

Luz grinned, “More like 15.” Amity laughed and Luz pulled up in an empty parking lot, “Alright, we’ll be practicing here,” she looked over at Amity, “I don’t think you have your permit so we’ll just be wary of the cops if they ever come around here. They probably won’t though. I skateboard here all the time and it’s totally deserted.”

They both got out of the car and switched seats. Luz looked over at Amity who was adjusting the chair to match her height. “Okay, I’m ready,” Amity said, firmly gripping the steering wheel with both hands. 

Leaning back in the chair, Luz just watched as Amity started the engine and drove slowly around the parking lot in circles. She occasionally pushed the brake too hard so the car would lurch forward. Driving around the parking lot, Amity pressed on the gas to go forward but then suddenly pressed the brakes again and groaned into her hands, “Why is this so hard?”

Rubbing the back of her neck after Amity stepped on the brake, Luz groaned, “Man, you’re going to give me fucking whiplash Ams,” she looked over at Amity who was still gripping the steering wheel like her life depended on it, eyes focused on the road ahead of her. Luz sighed, “Ams, just relax,” she grinned, “Driving is fun, just relax a bit. You’re too tensed up.”

Snapping her head towards Luz, Amity grit her teeth and yelled, “I am relaxed! I’m so fucking relaxed Noceda!”

Luz blinked, “I think we have different terms if what being relaxed means…”  Amity pursed her lips into a thin line and Luz just placed a hand on her shoulder, “I think that’s enough driving for now… I’m not a great teacher anyways,” Luz laughed nervously, “Let’s just walk around a bit. Sounds like a plan?”

Letting out a sigh, Amity nodded, “That sounds nice, better than this.”

Grinning, Luz got out of the car and got her skateboard out from the trunk and just started to slowly ride on it as Amity was beside her. Amity hummed, “Second period starts in a couple of minutes.”

Luz glanced at her, “Forget about school right now. Let’s just enjoy this moment,” she smiled, “Everyone is busy at work or at school, so we practically have the whole town to ourselves.”

Amity raised an eyebrow, “Do you skip school often?”

“If I feel like it,” Luz replied. Her eyes sparkled as she saw the biggest hill ever, “Oh my god, I wanna skate down there.”

Amity looked at the hill, “You’re going to get hurt Luz, that’s really fucking steep.”

“I like a challenge,” Luz grinned. She walked over to where the hill was and looked over at her girlfriend, “Can you record this?”

Taking out her phone, Amity shrugged.

Getting on her skateboard, Luz leaned forward a little bit and started to go skate downhill. She felt the wind go under her hair and had to hold onto her beanie so it didn't fly off. Luz laughed and grinned. 

Apparently, the smallest pebble was having a bad day and got stuck under Luz’s wheel. Oh, you’ve got to be shitting me, Luz thought right before she got flung forward and hit the ground with a grunt. 

“Luz!” Amity said in distress, she quickly ran downhill and went over to help her girlfriend.

Taking out a bandage out of her pockets, like what Eda advised her to do 2 years ago, Luz carefully put the bandages on her scraped chin, hands and knees. “Ugh… that hurt like a bitch.”

Amity crossed her arms and looked down at Luz, “I told you you’ll get hurt. But of course you didn’t listen.” Luz didn’t reply and just hugged her knees. Amity sighed and kneeled down in front of the girl, “Are you okay?” She said softly.

“Amity,” Luz whispered, “Come closer.”

Confused, Amity raised an eyebrow but leaned closer to Luz.

“Closer,” Luz said.

She leaned in closer.

“Even more closer.”

They were centimeters apart from each other. Luz looked up at Amity and they met eyes, Amity got flustered by how close they were and blushed. Cupping Amity’s cheek in her palm, Luz looked at her softly and Amity couldn’t help but glance down at Luz’s lips, “Close your eyes?” The girl asked.

Closing her eyes, Amity tried to stay calm but her mind was going crazy. Oh my god what is she doing? She thought, Obviously she’s going to kiss you dumbass! Calm down, you’ve kissed Luz a crap ton of times already, why are you freaking out?

Instead of meeting Luz’s lips, Amity just felt Luz flick her forehead, hard . 

Opening her eyes, Amity rubbed her forehead, “What the fuck Luz? What the fuck is actually wrong with you?” She yelled.

Ignoring Amity, Luz just got out a bandage, kissed the spot on Amity’s forehead and then patched it up with a bandage. Amity just blinked at Luz who was grinning, “What?”

“Look,” Luz said, “Now we’re boo boo buddies!” 

Staring at Luz, Amity blinked, she remembered 2 years ago when they snuck out and skateboarded together. How she scraped her hand but Luz patched it up. 

“Look now we’re boo boo buddies! ” 14 year old Luz said in Amity’s head. 

Pulling down Luz’s beanie over her eyes, Amity quickly kissed Luz, “I see you’re still a dumbass.”

Moving the beanie out of her way, Luz smiled, “I guess some things never change.”

Sitting at the base of the tree with her girlfriend in her arms, Amity looked at the time on her phone, “School just ended,” she said.

Luz leaned her head back to look at her, “This was your first time skipping isn’t it?”

Amity nodded.

“So, what’d you think of it?” Luz asked, “It was pretty fun wasn’t it?” 

“Yeah, I liked it,” she hugged her knees, “I dunno if I’ll ever do it though. If my parents found out that I skipped, I’ll never hear the end of it,” she turned over to Luz, “Wouldn't your mom get angry too if she found out?”

Shrugging, Luz hummed, “I dunno, maybe? But she’s on vacation right now, trying to get away from me and be stress free,” she laughed, “So I don’t think she’ll check school stuff, since she wants to be away from stress right now.”

Luz sighed, “Y’know, to be honest I wanted to skip school because I fucking hate it there,” Amity looked over at Luz, “Like, I hate school in general, all of the busy work and learning shit I won’t need really use in te future, but I guess I’m talking about the environment.” 

“What do you mean?” Amity said, hugging Luz a bit more.

The brunette shrugged, “What I mean is that I’ve been at school for like what, 3 months or so already. But like people still like ostracized me and everything, I can literally hear them talking behind my back,” she frowned, “I know I shouldn't really care about what other people think of me, especially since I have you, Willow, Gus, and Boscha,” she sighed, “I can’t help but think that without you guys, I wouldn’t be able to fit in anywhere.”

Amity snorted, “Well, that’s complete bullshit.”

Tilting her head back to look at Amity, Luz raised an eyebrow. 

Kissing the top of Luz’s head, Amity smiled, “You fit right here in my arms don’t you?”

Luz chuckled and rested her head against Amity’s arm, “Got me there Blight.”

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Scanning through her history textbook as she diligently took notes, Amity sighed and leaned back in her chair, she’s been studying for the last 4 hours since midterms were coming up soon. At one point she even had to turn off her phone so she wouldn’t get distracted. 

There was a knock on her door, “Amity?” Her father said, sticking his head in the girl’s room.

Taking out one of her earbuds, she looked at him, “Yes, Father?”

“Come downstairs, your siblings should be coming back home soon.”

Turning her head to look over at her calendar, Amity gasped, she totally forgot that her Edric and Emira were coming back today. Immediately, she pushed her textbooks and notes away and ran downstairs, waiting for her older siblings to burst through the door so she could embrace them in a hug.

A moment passed and Amity saw a car drive up to the house and saw her siblings get out of the vehicle. Fuck waiting for them to come in, Amity thought, I’m going to them! She opened the door, ran out in her pajamas and hugged her twin siblings.

“Woah there!” Edric said, patting Amity on the back, “You really missed us that much huh Mittens?”

Hugging them tighter, Amity nodded, “Of course I did! You know how lonely it is staying at home all by myself?”

Emira smiled, “We missed you too Amity, pranking the college kids at campus isn’t the same as pranking you,” she sighed, “Anyways, let’s go see Mother and Father.”

The boy groaned, “Do we have to? It’s not too late to go back in the Uber and drive away with Mittens is it?”

“We’ll just greet them for a second and then hang out with Amity in my room while we unpack,” Emira said, she looked over at her twin, “Deal?”

Shrugging, Edric grinned, “Fair enough.”

The three siblings walked up the driveway and into the house where they saw their parents. “Edric, Emira,” their Mother said, “How have you two been? You barely pick up my calls. How's college treating you?”

Giving her Mother a fake smile, Emira nodded her head, “So sorry Mother, it’s just college has been really busy, so we weren’t able to pick up your calls. But other than that, we’ve been doing well!”

Their father smiled at them, “Your mother and I are going to buy your favorite meals for dinner tonight. How does that sound?”

Edric grinned, “It sounds great Father!” He tilted his head towards his two sisters, “If you’ll excuse us, Emira and I have to unpack.”

Their father nodded and the three of them quickly walked upstairs and locked themselves into Emira’s room.

“Well,” Emira said, “Talking to them hasn’t gotten that easier,” she looked over at Amity, “How do you even manage to live here alone with them?”

Amity shrugged a bit, “To be honest I’m barely home, I basically just come here to sleep,” she chuckled and looked over at her siblings who just raised an eyebrow at her, “I’ve been hanging out with a certain special… someone most of the time now.”

Gasping, Edric leaned forward, “For real? Oh my fucking god who?”

“You finally got over Luz?” Emira exclaimed and then clapped Amity on the shoulder, “Good for you Mittens! You were too good for her anyways!”

Awkwardly laughing, Amity rubbed the back of her neck, “Not exactly… since the person I’m seeing is Luz.” 

Emira blinked, “What.”

“You guys are talking again?” Edric asked, “Is it a long distance thing now?”

“Well, yeah we’re talking again, we’re dating ,” Amity said, “And no, it isn’t a long distance thing since… Luz moved to Bonesborough with her mom now!”

The twins just stared at Amity and Emira raised an eyebrow, “Why didn’t you tell us this before? You know texting is a thing right?”

Amity nodded, “I know! I just wanted it to be a surprise and get your raw reactions!”

Pursing his lips, Edric hummed, “Well… I mean, that’s really surprising considering you were crying your eyes out about her a few months ago,” he rubbed his chin, “Usually I would say not to get back with your ex, but were you and Luz even exes?”

“They weren’t officially dating before,” Emira said, “But you were practically exes.”

Amity shrugged, “Yeah kinda,” she sighed, “But things are different now, we talked things out and are learning how to communicate with each other together and things have been actually going well. She’s changed a lot .” 

Exchanging a glance with her twin, Emira turned back to Amity and smiled, “Well, we’ll trust your judgement.”

“But that does not mean we won’t keep an eye out for Luz,” Edric said. 

Hugging her siblings, Amity smiled, “Okay, fair enough,” she looked up at them, “What about you guys? I know Em is dating Viney,” she turned to Edric, “What about you?”

Edric blushed and rubbed the back of his neck, “Well yeah, I’ve been talking to someone recently. They go to the same college as Em and I but they live across the country so we can’t really meet each other during breaks, which suck. But it’s fine, I see them plenty during school.”

Humming, Amity turned to her sister, “What about Viney? How are you guys doing?”

Blushing at the mention of her girlfriend, Emira grinned, “Great! We’ve been FaceTiming almost every day during college and I’m going to see her today since we both have the same Thanksgiving break schedule!” She sighed, “I can’t wait.”

“So, what’d you do today Mittens?” Edric asked.

Groaning, Amity rubbed her temples, “Just been studying nothing much. Midterms are coming up so i have to stay on top of my game.”

Emira rolled her eyes, “Well, that’s lame,” she clapped her hands together, “I have an idea! You should invite Luz and we can go on a double date together with Viney!” 

Coughing loudly, Edric frowned, “What, are you guys going to ditch me to hang out with your girlfriends? We’re on Thanksgiving break and Thanksgiving is about family, you’re going to ditch your brother for your girlfriends?”

Staring at her twin, Emira blinked, “Okay then… double date plus Edric!”

Sitting at the table outside of the local ice cream shop, Amity sipped her milkshake as she waited for Luz to come. Walking over to the table, Edric and Emira sat down holding two cones of ice cream, “I can’t wait to see Luz again,” Emira said.

“Right?” Edric said, “I wanna see how she looks like now.”

Emira nodded in agreement, “She was always cute before-” she looked over at Amity who was glaring at her, “I’m no homewrecker Mittens,” she laughed and then continued what she was saying before, “But let’s see how much she grew.”

“Hey Ams,” A voice called out, Amity turned her head and saw Luz walking over to the table. She grinned at her girlfriend and ran over to hug her.

In the background, the twins just exchanged a look, “She’s no longer the scrawny kid we used to tease,” Emira whispered.

“You think I don’t have eyes?” Edric said back.

Luz looked over at the twins, “Edric! Emira! Hey What’s up?” She smiled, “It’s been so long since I’ve seen you two! You guys look so cool!”

Emira smiled, “Right back at you.”

Sitting at the table next to Luz, Amity nudged her, “Are you going to get anything?”

The brunette shook her head, “Nah I’m good, I had like 3 iced coffees today too, morning rush was a pain in the ass,” she grinned, “Plus I’ll just steal some of your milkshake,” she took Amity’s cup and sipped the drink, “Vanilla,” she hummed, “My favorite.”

Rolling her eyes, Amity grabbed her drink back and Luz turned over to the twins, “So, how have you guys been? You guys are in college now right?”

“Yep,” Edric nodded, “It’s fucking sucks, you should just drop out-”

Slapping a hand over her brother’s mouth, Emira grinned, “Ignore him, school’s important,” she looked at her watch, “Viney should be coming soon…”

Luz hummed, “Oh I can’t wait to meet your girlfriend! How long have you two been dating?”

Emira smiled, “A couple of years,” she sighed dreamily, “She’s so great and perfect, ugh I love her so much!” 

“You talking about me Blight?” A voice said. Luz looked up and saw a tall girl with hazelnut hair and bangs, tied up in a ponytail. What really caught Luz’s attention was that she had a giant fish hook as an earring. 

Standing up to give her girlfriend and hug, Emira laughed, “Oh my god Viney! I missed you so much!”

“I missed you too,” she said, sitting down next to Emira. She looked over at Luz, “Oh, I don’t think we’ve met before,” she stuck out her hand, “I’m Viney, Emira’s girlfriend. You?”

Shaking the girl’s hand, Luz smiled at her, “Luz, and I’m Amity’s girlfriend.”

Viney grinned, “Nice to meet you Luz,” she turned over to Edric and punched him softly in the shoulder, “How are you Ed?”

Rubbing the spot where Viney punched him, Edric smiled, “Was doing fine before you punched me,” he said, sticking a tongue out.

The girl grinned and Luz looked at the couple, “How did you two meet? If I may ask,” she added quickly.

Emira hummed, “Oh it was super romantic, basically-”

“She spray painted the pet hospital that I was volunteering at,” Viney interrupted, “And I caught her red handed and told her to clean it up, but she ran away.”

Amity snorted, “I thought you said you guys met because Viney ran into you on the street and dropped something and you helped her and it was love at first sight,” she said to her sister.

Putting two hands up in defense, Emira laughed nervously, “Okay, maybe I tweaked the story a bit and exaggerated a little bit.”

“A little bit?” Amity and Viney said at the same time.

Clearing her throat, Emira smiled, “ Anyways , when I got caught spray painting, I thought Viney was really pretty, so the next day I spray painted again and got caught on purpose-”

“It was really annoying since I was the one who had to clean it up,” Viney said to Luz and Amity.

“And then one day I saw her cleaning up my tags,” Emira said, “And I offered to help her like the good samaritan I am.”

Viney rolled her eyes, “Oh please, everytime I caught you I told you to clean it up but you would always sprint away.”

Putting her arm over Viney, Emira grinned, “Ignoring that, I apologize for causing her a lot of trouble and we actually got to exchange numbers and everything!”

The other girl blushed, “Maybe I thought you were a bit cute…” VIney said, “Plus I’m into troublemakers so…”

Luz smiled at the couple, “Aw! That’s so cute! You two are so cute!”

Emira kissed Viney on the temple and grinned, “We are, aren’t we?”

Standing up, Amity excused herself, “I’ll be right back, I’m going to go to the bathroom.”

Also standing up, Viney smiled, “I’m going to get some ice cream.”

That left Luz alone with Edric and Emira.

For some reason, Luz couldn’t help but feel a bit intimidated being left alone with Edric and Emira. 

“Oh Luz, we have to talk to you real quick,” Edric said, Luz raised an eyebrow at him, “We couldn’t tell you this since Viney and Mittens were here but we’re alone now so yeah.”

Luz nodded her head a bit, “Uh… okay what’s up?”

Emira sighed and leaned forward, “Look, we know you’re a good kid and what happened 2 years ago was just a whole big misunderstanding, at least that’s what Mittens says-”

“But if you ever, ever , hurt Mittens again,” Edric said, “You’ll personally be hearing from Em and I. Got it?”

Luz gulped and then nodded, “Don’t worry,” she looked over at Amity who was walking back to the table and smiled, “That’ll be the last thing I ever do.”

Chapter Text

While sitting at the dining table with the rest of her family for Thanksgiving, instead of listening to her father’s prayer about what he was thankful for, Amity mostly just focused on tuning him out. “...Alright I’ll go ahead and cut the turkey now,” Amity refocused her attention on the dining table when she heard the mention of food. She basically starved herself for the whole day so she could fill herself up with Thanksgiving dinner.

A holiday dedicated to eating? Of course Amity had to make the most of it. 

Getting a plateful of turkey with stuffing, mashed potato, and some cornbread, Amity took a bite out of the turkey and immediately regretted it. Wow, this piece of turkey is as fucking dry as my conversations with Luz 2 years ago, Amity thought. 

She coughed and looked up from her plate to look at her family, “Uh Mother, where did you get this turkey?” She quickly glanced over at her siblings who looked like they were having the same experience as her.

“Oh I made it myself! Since I’m so thankful Edric and Emira are back!” her mother said happily, “Isn’t it such a nice change from ordering our Thanksgiving dinner from fancy restaurants?”

Amity gulped, “Yeah, it’s really good and… different , that’s why I was asking,” she lied, It tastes like fucking ass, we all know that you can’t cook for shit! Amity thought to herself. She picked the side dishes with her fork and slowly ate them, What’s the point of Thanksgiving if there’s no decent fucking food?

The girl sighed to herself, This is going to be one long dinner isn’t it? 

After a plain dinner, the three Blight siblings went back up to Emira’s room to hang out. “Wow,” Emira said, “That was one sad dinner,” she went over and connected her Nintendo Switch to the TV so they could play some games together.

Nodding his head, Edric sighed, “Why didn’t Mother just order take out like usual? Our family is not the home cooking type…”

“Remember that one time Mother tried to cook us breakfast in the morning back when we were in elementary school?” Amity mentioned.

Groaning, Emira laughed, “How can someone fuck up boxed pancake mix?”

Amity grinned, “Remember when Father saw a video of a family having a barbeque together and so he bought a grill for us and tried to cook lunch for us?”

Edric snorted, “Yeah… let’s not mention that Mittens.”

“You guys wanna play Mario Party?” Emira asked as she was setting up the controllers.

Shaking her head, Amity hummed, “Count me out.”

“I’ll play,” Edric shrugged.

As the twins were trying to cooperate with each other as they were playing the River Survival game, Amity was scrolling through her phone when she got a call from Luz. The girl raised an eyebrow and turned to her siblings, “Guys shut the fuck up, I’m getting a call,” she said before she answered the phone, “Hey Luz, what’s up?”

Amity could hear loud music playing on the other side of the call before Luz answered, “ Hey Ams. I was wondering if you and your siblings wanted to come over to The Owl House to celebrate Thanksgiving with us? Everyone is here, Willow, Gus, and even Boscha are here! So you wanna come over?” There was a pause, “ I mean only if you guys don’t already have plans with your own family.”

“Will there be food?” Amity asked.

Luz laughed, “ Obviously! It’s fucking Thanksgiving! My mom made tamales, Willow brought over some pork belly that her dads made, Gus brought over-”

The girl felt her stomach growl, “We’ll be there in 10 minutes.”

After managing to sneak out of their house, Amity and her siblings walked up to The Owl House, where Luz opened the door and greeted them, “Hey guys,” she grinned, “Happy Thanksgiving!” She went over and hugged all three of them. 

“Thanks for inviting us over Luz,” Amity said.

Waving it away, Luz smiled, “Of course, anytime guys,” she went over and opened the door for the Blights, “Guys, Ed, Em, and Amity are here!” Everyone in the room stopped what they were doing to smile and welcome the three siblings. “Go ahead and help yourself to anything you want, we have plenty of food,” she looked over at Amity and kissed her on the cheek.

Amity smiled at Luz, “Did you already eat?”

“A little bit,” replied Luz.

Taking her hand, Amity tugged on it, “Then come on and eat with me.”

“Whatever you say, Mittens.”

Going to each table, Amity stacked her paper plate high with different varieties of food, tamales that Luz’s mom made, pork belly that Willow brought, turkey that Gus brought, and many more. While walking over to a corner to eat her food, Amity saw Luz’s mom and went over to greet her. 

Waving at the woman, Amity smiled, “Happy Thanksgiving, Ms. Noceda!” 

Turning around, Camila smiled back at Amity, “Oh Amity! Happy Thanksgiving to you too! How have you been?”

“A bit busy,” Amity admitted, “I’ve just been studying a lot since midterms are coming up, but at least Thanksgiving allows me to take a break a bit,” she laughed.

Camila hummed, “Yeah, it’s good to have a break every once and a while,” she patted Amity on the shoulder, “Don’t overwork yourself too much, okay?”

The girl nodded, “I’ll keep that in mind,” she smiled at Camila, “Well, I just wanted to see how you were doing. It was nice talking to you again!”

“You too!” Camila said before Amity turned and walked back over to Luz. 

Quickly eating the pile of food that Amity put on her plate, Luz laughed, “Did you not have dinner or something?”

Wiping her mouth with a napkin, Amity shrugged, “My mother decided to cook Thanksgiving dinner tonight and it tasted like ass,” she said, taking a bite out of a turkey leg, “I was not having a good time there.”

“Do they know you’re here?” Luz asked.

Amity shook her head, “Nah. But I don’t think they’ll care enough to check if their children are home,” she looked over at Luz, “They don’t have the best parental tactics.”

Luz blinked and laughed, “Okay, well as long as you’re having a good time here,” she gulped, “Are you having a good time here?”

Raising an eyebrow at Luz as she took another bite of food, Amity nodded her head, “Yeah, of course I am! Why wouldn’t I?”

The brunette smiled, “I dunno, just making sure I guess,” she kissed Amity on the top of the head, “I’ll be right back, I’m going to talk to people a bit. Do you want me to get you anything?”

“Can you get me more juice please?” Amity said, holding out her plastic party cup to Luz.

Nodding her head, Luz smiled “Yeah sure thing,” she said before she walked away to socialize.  

Sitting down next to Amity, Willow leaned back in her chair, “Happy Thanksgiving Amity,” Willow said. 

Amity hummed, “You too Willow. What’s up?”

“Nothing much,” replied Willow, “Just hanging out here to get away from the crowd a bit. How’s your day so far?”

“Better,” Amity said, pushing her empty plate away, “Fuck… I’m so full.”

Willow laughed, “Did you like my pork belly?”

Amity nodded, “It was just like the one in the Korean barbeque place,” she looked up and saw Luz walk out of the cafe and raised her eyebrow, “I’ll be right back, going to check on Luz a bit.”

“Have fun,” Willow called out behind her.

Walking out of The Owl house, Amity sat down next to Luz who was sitting on the front steps. Turning her head over to Amity, Luz asked, “What are you doing here?”

“I could ask you the same thing,” Amity said.

Luz shrugged, “Nothing’s wrong don’t worry, just getting some fresh air,” she leaned her head on her girlfriend’s shoulder, “This was a nice Thanksgiving party don’t you think so?”

Amity hummed, “Yeah, it was really fun.”

“I’m glad you think so,” Luz said, “Especially since you’re the one who orgainizes the town’s festivals,” she laughed. 

Nodding her head, Amity grinned, “Yeah, you get my approval, how do you feel?”

“Fucking fantastic,” replied Luz.

“It’s Thanksgiving,” Amity said, “So… what are you thankful for?”

Luz lifted her head from Amity’s shoulder and looked at her lovingly, “I think you already know that answer dummy.”

Raising an eyebrow at Luz, Amity smirked, “Oh?”

She pulled them into a kiss and Luz nodded, “I’m thankful that I’m back in Bonesborough again with you and all of my other friends,” she smiled, “I’m really thankful that we are together now since you’re the best girlfriend I could ever asked for!” Luz sighed and leaned against Amity’s shoulder, “I could go on, but I think I’ll end up rambling until daybreak.”

Amity snorted, “Were you always this sappy?”

“Yeah, what are you going to do about it?” Luz said confidently.

The other girl rolled her eyes and pulled her into a kiss, “I’ll do that.”

Grinning, Luz laughed, “Well, I should be more sappy then.”

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Biting the ends of her reading glasses anxiously, Amity sighed and slumped forward on her notes. She’s been studying for midterms for the last 5 hours without any rest. The girl got up, “I need some coffee,” she muttered. The only thing she’s been drinking was coffee, she was certain that by this point her veins were coursing with coffee instead of blood.

Quickly going downstairs, she quickly made herself her third cup of coffee for the day and ran back upstairs. She couldn’t waste any time, she needed to study. After getting seated back at her desk, Amity took a sip out of her coffee and frowned, “Luz makes it better… well this is instant coffee,” she slapped her cheeks to get her attention, “Focus!”

Her phone started to ring, Amity turned her eyes to see who was calling her, it was Luz. Instead of reaching out to answer her girlfriend’s calls, she quickly turned her phone off and threw it across the room, “Shit, I should have told her that I’m busy…” she shook her head, “It’s too late for that. Sorry Luz but I gotta study.”

Frowning when Amity didn’t pick up her calls, Luz sighed, “She’s probably busy,” she looked through the textbooks that she was scanning through, “Ugh, I can’t fucking look at textbooks without feeling nauseous,” she stood up, “I need some fresh air.”

Grabbing her skateboard, Luz was about to go outside before her mom called at her, “Are you done studying mija? Midterms are next week.”

Luz nodded, “Don’t worry Mom, I just need a break then I’ll get back to studying.”

“Okay, don’t be out too long!”

Yawning, Amity rubbed her eyes with her hands and looked over at her clock. It was 4 am. She slowly blinked at the clock and took a sip out of her coffee cup, only to realize that it was empty. Amity yawned again and stretched her arms, “4 am already? Fuck…” She laughed, “I guess time goes by faster when you’re having fun,” she frowned, “Or when you’re under an intense amount of pressure from yourself.”

Quickly flipping through her notes, Amity groaned and then glanced at the clock again, “I have enough time before school to go further in detail…”

Walking up to the school Luz grinned when she saw Amity waiting for her like usual at the front of the school’s gates. Running over to her girlfriend, Luz scooped her into a hug, “Ams!” Luz smiled, “Why didn’t you pick up any of my calls?” When Amity didn’t respond, Luz let go of her and looked at the girl’s face, “Oh fuck, did you sleep at all last night?”

Amity’s eyes were bloodshot red, there were giant eye bags under her eyes and her face was noticeably thinner than usual. 

“Yeah,” Amity yawned, “Why?” She said, her head tilting down a bit.

Catching Amity so she wouldn’t fall, Luz coughed, “Uh… no reason, you just look super, super tired. Do you want me to drive you back home?”

Pushing Luz off of her, Amity furrowed her eyebrows, “Fuck no! Classes this week are important since we’re getting to ask questions about midterms next week!” She took out a notebook from her backpack and flipped to a page that was filled with writing, “And I have a ton of questions to ask my teachers.”

Luz nodded slowly, “Okay…” she held Amity’s hand, “Let’s go to class then.”

Amity grumbled and they walked into school together. 

During lunch, Luz sat down next to her friends as she ate an apple, “Where’s Amity?” She asked.

Boscha shrugged, “I think she’s still bombarding the teachers with questions.” A minute later, Amity came walking out holding her lunch tray and sat next to Luz, “Hey Amity,” Boscha grinned, “Done bothering your teachers with your pointless questions?”

Amity turned her head and glared at Boscha, “Well sorry if I want to get a good grade on the midterms!” She snapped, “Y’know the way you’re doing things, I wouldn’t be surprised if you don’t graduate highschool Boscha,” Boscha just stared at her in shock, “But I suppose you don’t need to worry about that since you have daddy’s business that you’re going to inherit anyways right?”

“What the fuck Amity?” Boscha said. 

Luz watched as Amity stormed off and got up from the bench, laughing nervously, “Uh… I’ll go check up on her,” she patted Boscha’s head, “No hard feelings Mullethead!”

Running after Amity, Luz grabbed her girlfriend by her shoulder, “Amity,” the girl turned around and looked at Luz with her tired eyes, “You didn’t mean it when you said that to Boscha did you?”

“Oh no, I meant it,” she said through grit teeth. Pushing Luz’s hand off of her Amity frowned at Luz, “I’m going to go to the library to get some books. See you after school.”

The brunette just stood there as she watched Amity’s back disappear from her line of sight.

It’s been a day since Amity has snapped at Boscha and her temper has been getting worse and no one could figure out what’s wrong with her.

Sitting at the park with Willow, Gus, and Boscha, Luz sighed, “No, I don’t know what’s wrong with her, she’s not telling me anything!” She said in frustration, “Usually she picks up my calls but now it’s like she’s ignoring me or something,” she frowned, “I just want to make sure she’s okay,” she whispered.

Gus nodded, “Same,” he sighed, “I think she’s just really stressed out about midterms coming out, especially since you guys are in Junior year, so it’s a really important year for colleges.”

“I understand,” Willow said, putting an arm around Boscha, “But she shouldn't have snapped out to her friends like that.” 

Luz nodded in agreement, “I’ll talk to her.”

The next day at school, Luz found Amity borrowing more textbooks out of the library, “Amity!” The girl looked over at Luz and raised an eyebrow. Running up to her girlfriend, Luz panted, “So glad I found you! Is this a good time?”

Amity grumbled something under her breath that Luz couldn't quite make out.

The brunette coughed, “Anyways, so I just wanted to make sure if you were okay or not. I’m really- we’re really worried for you. It’s not like you to snap out like that- on purpose I mean, and say some insensitive things,” Amity looked away and crossed her arms. 

Placing both hands on her girlfriend, Luz smiled at her, “Hey,” she called softly, “I’m here for you. You know you can tell me anything right?” Amity frowned at her and Luz sighed, “You’ve been really distant lately, did we do something wrong? Did I do something wrong? Just please tell me.”

Amity looked up at Luz, “ Yes !” Luz flinched when she heard how stern Amity’s tone of voice was, “Can you guys just all leave me alone? I have shit to do okay? I can’t just stand around talking and wasting time like this!” She quickly pushed past Luz and walked away.

Looking at her clock to check the time, Amity sighed and slumped on her notes, “It’s only 9?” She cursed under her breath and closed her eyes a bit. She imagined Luz’s scared face when she yelled at her today and quickly opened her eyes, “I fucked up,” she groaned and held her head, “I have to fix this.”

Sitting on the doorsteps of her house, Luz waited for Amity to come so they could talk. The girl pulled out her phone and reread the last message between her and Amity.

Amity: hey luz, can we talk please? i have to explain

Luz: Sure, where do you want to meet?

Amity: Is your place okay? 

Luz: Yeah that’s fine

Amity: I’ll be there in 10

“Luz?”

Looking up, Luz saw Amity standing in front of her. She silently moved a bit so Amity could sit on the steps next to her. “So…” Luz said, “What are you going to explain?”

Amity sighed, “I’m sorry I snapped at you like that,” she looked at the floor, “I know it’s not really an excuse but I’ve just been so stressed because of midterms, I’ve been studying my ass off and I haven’t been getting sleep,” she chuckled a bit, “I’m running on instant coffee, Noceda.”

Luz snorted, “I could have catered some coffee from The Owl House if you wanted me to.”

“I didn’t want to bother you,” Amity laughed, she coughed, “Anyways, I’m just really burnt out and I know it sounds like excuses but that’s why I’ve been snapping out to like you and Boscha.”

“Did you already talk to Boscha?”

Shaking her head, Amity sighed, “No not yet, I will though, don’t worry,” she frowned, “I just don’t know what to say to her. But I’ll figure it out when I apologize to her tomorrow.”

Luz hummed and Amity stood up, “Anyways, well I’m going to go and continue to study, I just wanted to tell you this because I felt super guilty about it.”

Grabbing Amity’s hand, Luz forced her to sit back down, “No, no more studying tonight. You’re done okay?”

“W-what?”

Kissing Amity’s cheek, Luz smiled softly at her, “Worry about studying tomorrow okay? Just get some rest right now. You deserve it- you need it,” Amity opened her mouth to argue but Luz talked over her, “Ams, you can’t expect to function properly without any rest. So just rest right now okay?”

Amity leaned against Luz’s arm, “Fine you win this one since I am really fucking tired. I think I have been for a long time,” she yawned, “Promise to wake me up in 15 minutes.”

Staring at her girlfriend, Luz kissed the top of her head and then stared at the stars above them, “I promise.”

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“Okay, pencils down and pass your papers forward,” the teacher instructed. As the papers were being passed forward, the teacher collected them and started to count the papers, “Well then, I’m sure you all did well on your last midterms and have a good winter break-”

The last bell of the day rang and before the teacher could even say anymore, all of the students grabbed their bags and ran out of the door the second they heard it. What was the teacher going to do? Call them back?

Tapping her foot in the snow as she waited for Amity to come out of her last class, Luz spotted her girlfriend and ran up to hug her, “Amity! How was your last midterms?”

Grinning, Amity leaned up and kissed Luz’s jaw, “It was actually not that bad! I remember studying my ass off on that topic last week!”

“That’s good,” Luz hummed, “Anyways, you wanna go over to my place today? We can maybe play in the snow and eat dinner and watch a movie at night?”

Placing her hand in Luz’s hand, Amity smiled, “That sounds great.”

Tightening her jacket around her, Luz shivered, “To be honest, this is my first time in the snow, does it snow in Bonesborough often?” 

Amity shook her head, “Not really,” she said, the snow crunching underneath their feet as they walked back to Luz’s house, “Once in awhile yeah,” she laughed, “It never snows in California?”

“Nope, it’s mostly hot as fuck there or just windy and on fire,” Luz grinned, she took out her keys from her backpack and opened the house of her door, “My mom isn’t home from work yet, so we have the house to ourselves,” she looked over at Amity, “Can we make a snowman? I always wanted to build a snowman!”

The other girl snorted, “Okay Anna,” she grabbed Luz’s hand, which was freezing cold, “You have any gloves though? Don’t want your hands to freeze off.”

“I was hoping if Mittens, have some extra mittens for me,” Luz grinned.

Rolling her eyes, Amity dug through her backpack and threw a pair at Luz’s face, “Mittens does have extra mittens for you.”

Putting on the purple mittens that Amity gave her, Luz grinned, “Okay now can we please build a snowman?”

Amity nodded her head and once they went out of the house, she shoved Luz into the fluffy snow. Laughing at Luz as she wiped the snow off of her face, she lurched and tackled Amity into the snow with her. As Luz was laughing now, Amity pushed her girlfriend off of her, “Oh you’re such an asshole,” she said, not being able to hide her grin.

Getting up from the snow, the couple laughed and started to form their snowman, “This is going to look so sick,” Luz said, rolling the first part of the snowman, “We should name it.”

“How about Bartholomew?” Amity suggested.

Giving Amity a look, Luz made a face, “No,” Amity frowned and Luz laughed, “How about Olaf?”

Shaking her head, Amity crossed her arms, “Oh come on, we have to be original.”

Luz rolled her eyes, “Okay fine, it’ll be called, Bartholomew Olaf Noceda-Blight. Is that original enough for you Blight?”

Amity grinned, “I suppose.”

The couple continued to make their snowman as they kept their usual mutual banterings with each other. After they formed Bartholomew Olaf Noceda-Blight’s body, they couldn’t find a carrot for their nose, so they just smashed a rock in its face and called it a nose.

Lying down on the snow next to Amity, Luz rested her head on Amity’s lap, “That was fun,” she hummed.

“Very,” Amity said, running her fingers through Luz’s hair. 

The girl got up from Amity’s lap when she saw her mom’s car pull up, “Oh, my mom’s back already, did we really spend that much time building a fucking snowman?”

Amity snorted, “I mean, if you didn’t stop pelting me with snowballs, we probably would have built the little shit faster.”

The two girls walked up to Luz’s mom, who was grumbling to herself, “I did not miss the snow at all. Driving back home was a-” she looked up and saw Luz and Amity staring at her, “Oh! What are you two doing out here? It’s freezing and you guys don’t want to get sick during Winter break do you?”

Exchanging a glance with her girlfriend, Luz nodded, “Yeah, it is pretty cold out here, let’s head back inside.”

After the three of them went back into the house to warm up a bit, Camila looked over at Amity who was sitting with Luz at the couch, “Do you two want me to cook you guys anything?”

Luz looked at Amity, “Are you hungry?”

On cue, Amity’s stomach grumbled and she turned red in embarrassment, “Yes please,” she said softly. 

After eating some stew that Luz’s mom made, Luz had the idea to roast some s’mores over the fireplace. As they were roasting their marshmallows, Amity saw how Luz had a perfectly roasted marshmallow and then proceeded to peel off the outer roasted shell and eat it. 

“You eat your marshmallows like that?” Amity asked.

Luz hummed, “It’s the best way to eat it!” She grinned, roasting the other part of the marshmallow, “You just keep roasting it and eating the other part until you have no more marshmallow left. Genius amiright?” 

Amity raised an eyebrow and took a bite out of her s’more, “It’s something , not genius, but something.”

Shrugging, Luz stuck out a tongue, “You can’t judge it until you try it.”

Opening her mouth to retort something back at Luz, Amity was then interrupted by a gasp. The couple turned around and saw Camila watching the news, “Oh no… there’s a snowstorm coming and they closed all of the roads,” she looked at Amity, “You’re going to be staying here tonight, maybe even for a while.”

Not going back home? Amity thought, Spending the night with Luz? Sleepover with my girlfriend? She grinned, “Okay.”

“ What? No fair, you don’t have to go home? ” Edric whined to Amity on the other side of the phone call.

Amity rolled her eyes, “I can’t Edric, the roads are blocked since there’s a massive storm coming,” she gave her siblings a shiteating grin, “Now you guys can experience how it was being with Mother and Father alone.” 

There was distraught on Emira and Edric’s faces, “ Mittens please! Come back home! ” Emira said, “ Ed and I will walk over to Luz’s house ourselves and bring you back home! ”

The girl smiled, “Sorry what was that? I think the call is breaking up. Must be the storm. Call you guys later.”

“ The storm isn’t even here yet-”

Amity hung up and went to sit next to Luz who was on her bed, “Wow that was cold Amity, really hung up on your siblings like that? They came back home from college for their Winter break just to hang out with you,” Luz teased.

Shrugging, Amity rested her head on Luz’s shoulder, “I’ll spend more time with them when I come back home,” she stretched her arms, “Ugh, I feel like shit, can I take a shower?”

Luz raised an eyebrow, “Is that just an excuse for you to wear my clothes since you don’t have any extra?”

Smirking, Amity shrugged again, “Maybe.”

Grabbing some clothes for Amity, Luz threw it to the girl, who caught it, “Wanna watch a movie when you’re done showering?”

“Depends on what movie.”

“ Steven Universe ?” Luz suggested.

Amity grinned, “I’ll make sure to shower quickly then.”

Lying in Luz’s arms as they watched the Steven Universe movie, Amity hummed along to the songs, “Rebecca Sugar is my idol, I fucking love her,” Amity said, her eyes fixed on Luz’s laptop.

Luz snorted, “Same, she’s amazing, but I gotta say, I love her Adventure Time songs more than her Steven Universe ones.”

Letting out a gasp, Amity looked at Luz in disgust, “You’re just saying that because you have the fattest crush on Marceline.”

“Who doesn’t?”

“Touche.”

With Luz’s warm arms around her, along with the soft melody that was playing on the laptop, Amity felt her eyelids grow heavy and she started to doze off a bit. 

Opening her eyes a bit, Amity yawned and looked around. Wait this isn’t my room, Amity thought. The girl felt something heavy resting over her chest, she turned her head and saw Luz snoring right beside her, her arm around Amity’s body. 

The girl turned red.

How the fuck did I get here?

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Face flushed red, Amity stared at Luz who was sleeping next to her, How the fuck did I get here? Amity thought, The last thing I know was watching the Steven Universe movie with Luz. She gasped, Hold on…

The girl quickly looked under the blankets and let out a sigh of relief when she saw that she still had her clothes on. She then buried her face in her hands, Why was I even thinking about that in the first place? 

Next to her, Luz shifted in her sleep. The brunette rubbed her eyes and smiled when she saw that Amity was already up, “Oh,” Luz said in a groggy voice, “Buenos dias, mi amor.” 

Amity raised an eyebrow, “What does that mean?”

Luz blinked at her, too tired to understand what she was saying.

“I know what buenos dias means but what does mi amor mean?” Amity asked.

They stared at each other for another second until Luz’s eyes widened when she realized what she called Amity, “Oh! Uh-“ she rubbed the back of her neck, “It doesn’t mean anything,” she lied.

Holy fucking shit, Luz thought, Did I really just call Amity my love in Spanish? I don’t actually love her yet right? I mean… do I?

Amity just stared for another second and then shrugged, “Okay… well I’m going to get ready for the day now.”

Groaning, Luz stretched her arms, “Why? Let’s just sleep in a bit more, it’s cold.”

“It’s almost 12.”

“Okay?”

Rolling her eyes, Amity sighed, “I’m going to go get ready.”

Luz frowned, “Gimme a kiss first.”

“Ew no,” Amity said, “Not until you brush your teeth. I don’t want morning breath kisses.”

The brunette groaned, “Seriously?”

“I’m always serious.”

After the couple both got ready for the day, they had some of the leftover stew that they had last night and just relaxed for the whole day together. Stirring a pot of hot chocolate, Luz smiled to herself, “Ams! It’s done, can you grab some cups?”

Standing up from the couch, Amity went into the kitchen and got three mugs, one for her, one for Luz, and one for Camila. Pouring the beverage into the mugs, the three of them sat in the living room. 

Camila hummed when she looked out of the window, “I guess the news wasn’t that reliable about the storm. It didn’t even do much last night.  It’s starting to clear up a bit outside.”

Sipping her mug, Amity nodded, “Yeah, maybe I actually have to go home today,” she turned her head to her girlfriend who was just staring at her, “Right Luz?” 

Blinking, Luz snapped out of the trance that she was in, “Huh? Oh yeah- sorry, I just blanked out a bit there.”

“You gonna miss me when I leave?” Amity asked.

Luz grinned, “We’ll have plenty of time to hang out together.”

The rest of the day, the three of them just talked with each other about their plans for Winter break, the upcoming Winter Festival, New Years, and just random topics in between. They all noticed how the snow was starting to clear up a bit and so Amity called her siblings to come and pick her up. 

Luz noticed that she felt her heart throb when she watched Amity leave. 

Lying down in bed with her pajamas on, Luz grinned as she texted Amity.

Amity: i can keep the clothes you lend me right?

Luz: Can I stop you?

Amity: mmm… no

Luz: It’s all yours ig 

Amity: >:)

Amity: anyways hella tired i’m gonna sleep gnight noceda

Luz: Gnight Blight

Turning off her phone, Luz sighed, “Fuck, I love her,” she sat up and blushed, “Fuck, I love her!” 

Pacing around her room, Luz ran her fingers anxiously through her hair, “I fucking love her? I fucking love her. Is it too early? We’ve only been dating for like 4 months and 13 days!” She bit her lip, “Is it too soon? It feels too soon,” she pulled out her phone, “I should ask Willow…” an idea popped in her mind, “No, I should ask Mom.”

Running out of her room and into the living room, she saw her mom looking right at her, “What’s with all of the noise in your room?” Camila asked, “I can hear you walking back and forth out here!”

Laughing awkwardly, Luz sat next to her mom, “Sorry Mom,” she cleared her throat, “Anyways, I need your help.”

“With what mija?”

Scratching the back of her neck, Luz muttered, “I think I’m in love with Amity,” she looked up and saw her mom staring at her with wide eyes. 

Smiling at her daughter, Camila smiled, “How do you feel?”

“Scared,” Luz replied almost immediately, “I don’t know what to do. What if it’s too soon to love her? What should I do? Do I tell her or something?”

Holding her hand, Camila nodded, “I understand how you feel mija,” she said, “Love is a scary thing. It’s wild, and uncontrollable,” she smiled, “But it’s also very beautiful and you have to be open to it. I think you should just tell her.”

Luz looked away, “What if she doesn’t love me back? What if I scare her away?”

Camila let out a laugh, “Mija, I’ve seen the way she looks at you. There’s no reason to be afraid, I’m certain she loves you too,” the woman noticed how uncertain her daughter looked and nudged Luz, “Trust me mija,” she grinned, “Just like Eda, I’m somewhat a relationship expert myself.”

Leaning against a tree, Amity crossed her arms, “So, what’s the thing that’s so important that you wanted to tell me in person and you couldn’t just text me?” 

Luz made a face, Who the fuck confesses their love to their partner over text? She thought. 

“I have a confession to make,” Luz gulped, Amity just raised an eyebrow, “Remember a few days ago, I called you mi amor?” Amity nodded, “Well uh… I didn’t want to tell you what it meant because…” she muttered, “It means ‘my love.’” 

Amity leaned forward, “What was that? Couldn’t hear you.”

The brunette swallowed, “It means ‘my love!’” She yelled.

The two girls just stared at each other for a good second and Amity turned red when she realized what Luz meant, “Wait so-”

“Please don’t freak out,” Luz interrupted, “But I love you. I think I have for a long time but I finally figured out my feelings for you a couple of days ago,” she shuffled with her feet, “Sorry if I freaked you out, but I just thought that you should know the truth,” she laughed, “Because we promised that we would communicate with each other and everything.”

The girl looked up and just saw Amity staring at her, Fuck, Luz thought, Did I just mess it all up again? Was it too soon? 

“What’s with that worried look on your face?” Amity asked, “You scared about my response or something?”

Luz looked away, “Obviously,” she huffed.

Grinning, Amity suddenly pulled the two of them into a kiss, “Well, the response is, I love you too. I have for a while.” 

Blushing, Luz brought them into another kiss and smiled, “I wasn’t worried for a second, mi amor.”

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“And then we both said that we loved each other!” Luz exclaimed, “God… I will never forget that day. It was great!” She nudged Eda, “So, what do you think about my story?”

Groaning, the woman leaned against the counter, “You mean your story that you have been talking about for the last two hours?” Luz grinned and nodded, “It was fine, I guess. So much teenage drama, and for what?”

“Hey!” Luz said, “Amity and I had a very complicated history okay?” She grinned, “I can’t believe it,” she sighed dreamily, “I love her so much.”

Eda made a face, “Ew, no love allowed in the cafe sorry kid,” she looked at the time, it was almost 5 pm, “Anyways, let’s clean up and close up for the day.”

After cleaning and closing up The Owl House, Luz waved goodbye to Eda and walked home. I thought I would like the snow, but I fucking hate it, Luz thought to herself, Can’t even fucking skateboard right now. Whatever, I can hang out in the snow with Amity though. She grinned to herself, Amity… I wonder what she’s doing right now.

Just then, she got a call from Amity, Luz immediately picked up.

“Hey Amity!” Luz smiled, “I just got off from work. What’s up?”

On the other side of the call, Amity coughed and said hoarsely, “ Hey Luz, I’m sick. ”

Luz blinked, “How? What happened? Are you okay?”

“ I’m fine, I guess, ” replied Amity, “ I think I got sick when we were making the snowman together. But I’m fine, really, ” the girl repeated.

The brunette frowned, “I’m coming over so I can take care of you.”

“ Luz, I’m fine, ” Amity insisted.

“What was that? Sorry, couldn’t hear you, bad connection!” Luz lied, “I’ll be there in 15 minutes!”

“ Luz- ”

She hung up before Amity could argue any more. 

Knocking on Amity’s door, Luz tapped her foot as she waited for her girlfriend to open the door for her. She didn’t have to wait long since a minute later, Luz was greeted by Amity who was wrapped in 2 different blankets.

Sniffling, Amity frowned, “I told you not to come Luz,” she wiped her nose on her blanket, “I’m fine !” 

Pushing Amity out of her way, Luz took off her shoes as she entered the house, “Yeah, yeah, whatever you say,” she looked around the house, “Are you home alone?”

Amity hummed, “Yeah, my parents have a meeting, Em is out with Viney, and Ed is on a sleepover with some old highschool friends.”

“That’s great,” Luz smirked and held on Amity’s chin, “Now it’s just you and me.”

Rolling her eyes, Amity pulled away from Luz’s touch, “Yeah sure, you want to get sick too?”

Luz pursed her lips, “It was a joke!” Amity snorted, “ Mostly a joke!” She rephrased. The girl coughed, “Anyways, where’s your kitchen?” She held up a plastic bag, “I brought some shit from home to cook you some soup,” she grinned, “There’s nothing better than drinking a nice warm bowl of chicken soup when you’re sick.”

Shrugging, Amity smiled, “Yeah, that’s the best feeling ever.”

The two walked into the kitchen together and Amity sat on the counter as Luz unpacked the ingredients that she brought with her and started to cook up the soup. She boiled some pasta in a pot of water and then added it to another pot that had chicken broth. Luz diced up some celery, carrots, and shredded some chicken before she also added it to the mixture.

Amity hummed, “It smells so good. I didn’t know you knew how to cook. Thought making coffee was your only redeemable trait,” she teased.

Rolling her eyes playfully, Luz added some salt and pepper to the broth, “Yeah, I learned how to cook since my mom is busy with work most of the time so I have to provide for myself,” she poured out the soup into a bowl and handed it over to Amity.

Adding in more pepper to her bowl, Amity blew on her soup, “Well then, let’s see if cooking can also be another one of your redeemable traits.”

“You’ll be surprised Blight,” Luz cooed.

Sipping the soup, Amity sighed, “It tastes good,” she looked up at Luz and grinned, “Looks like you have two redeemable traits Noceda.”

Luz leaned forward and smiled, “Yknow what they say, kiss the chef.”

Pushing Luz’s face away, Amity rolled her eyes, “Do you want to get sick too dummy?”

“No,” Luz said, “I just wanted a kiss!” She whined.

Amity laughed, “Fuck you’re so clingy,” she took another sip of the soup and once she finished, the girl put her bowl away in the sink, “Wanna head up to my room and just hang out there?”

Luz grinned, “Sure.”

Lying down in Amity’s bed, Luz held Amity in a little spoon position, “You don’t allow kisses but you allow me to hold you like this?”

“Shut up,” Amity huffed, “It’s just that it’s cold and you’re warm.”

“That’s what blankets are for.”

Amity looked at Luz and smiled, “I think I prefer you over blankets.”

Letting out an exaggerated gasp, Luz laughed, “Oh my god, my girlfriend prefers me over blankets! I’m the luckiest girl in the world,” she said sarcastically.

Slapping her hand over Luz’s mouth, Amity just rolled her eyes, “Ugh, you’re so fucking annoying,” she sighed and whispered, “Let’s just enjoy this moment okay?”

Kissing the top of Amity’s head, Luz hummed and held her closer, “Of course, mi amor.”

“What did I say about kissing?” Amity snapped.

Rolling her eyes, Luz groaned, “It was just your head!”

The next day, Amity felt so much better. Maybe the cure to getting over a fever was having your super hot girlfriend come over to make you chicken soup and give you cuddles. The doctors should prescribe that instead of pills. 

Brushing her long hair, Amity hummed as she got ready for the day. It was already like 12 in the afternoon but whatever, it was Winter break, she was allowed to sleep in.

Next to her, her phone rang. It was a call from Luz.

Amity immediately picked up the phone, “Hey Luz!” She said happily, “Guess what! I got over my cold, isn't that great? Now we can go outside and hang out more, instead of being hermits all day!”

“ Yep, that sounds great, ” Luz said tiredly.

The girl blinked, “Are you okay? You sound like Death.”

Luz sniffled, “ I think I got sick. ”

Amity frowned, “Okay, maybe we shouldn’t have lied down on the same bed together…” she muttered to herself, “Anyways, are you okay? Do you need anything?” Before Luz could even answer, Amity snapped her fingers together, “Chicken soup!” She exclaimed, “I’ll come over and make you some chicken soup!” 

“ Do you even know how to make it? ”

Shrugging, Amity laughed, “Shouldn’t be too hard, you did it.”

“ Okay, I’m going to ignore that part because I’m thankful that you’re coming over, mi amor, ” Luz said, “ But, I did get sick from you so it’s fitting that you are taking care of me. ”

Amity raised an eyebrow, “Are you saying it’s my fault?”

Luz hummed, “ I mean, yeah who else would it be?"

“Do you want your fucking chicken soup or no?”

Chapter Text

After driving out of town to get some gifts for her secret santa, Luz just started to window shop, just for the fun of it. After spotting something she liked, the girl double backed and went into the shop to buy it. 

Holding a brown paper bag with the items that she bought, Luz grinned, “I really hope they like this… I mean, it’s pretty!”

Strolling around town, holding a plastic bag, Gus whistled, “I’m the best secret santa ever! They’re going to love this.”

“This is too good for them,” Boscha frowned. She sighed and shrugged, “Well, I guess it is Christmas.” 

Sitting on her bed, wrapping some gifts up, Amity smiled, “I think they’re going to like my gifts!”

Walking out of a store holding a bag, Willow hummed to herself, “If they don’t like the gift, I’ll just take it for myself.”

Driving back home from gift shopping, Luz looked around the streets, “Huh, everyone is already setting up their stands for the Winter Festival,” she parked on her driveway and went into her house, where she saw her mom wrapping up some gifts, “Hey Mom, I’m back.”

“Did you find all of the presents you want to give to your friends?” The woman asked.

Luz nodded and held up her bags, “I only bought a couple of things since we’re doing secret santa. We don’t have to buy something for everyone,” after putting down her bags she walked up to her mom, “Do you need help wrapping?”

Shaking her head, Camila laughed, “I think I’m okay mija,” she tilted her head towards Luz’s bags of gifts, “Are you going to wrap up your gifts? Do you need me to help?”

“Nope,” Luz said, “They already packaged everything for me,” she took out a small cute brown box from one of the bags, “Isn’t it so cute?” she pointed to the other bag, “That gift is a lot bigger and more delicate, so I’m just going to keep it in there.”

Smiling at her daughter, Camila nodded, “Anyways, you should go get ready for the Winter Festival, there’s a dance tonight too, are you going to wear the suit I bought you?”

“It’s freezing out there and you want me to wear a suit?” Luz asked, raising an eyebrow at her mom.

“Anything for good style,” Camila shrugged.

Luz ended up wearing the suit. 

Meeting up with her friends at the festival, Luz realized that her mom was right about the whole suit thing since everyone was also dressed up for the occasion. “So,” Gus said, “Presents after or before the dance?”

Willow hummed, “I think before, since where would we put our presents if we’re waiting for after the festival?”

Nodding her head, Boscha agreed, “You’re right.”

“I’m always right.”

Amity cleared her throat, “Anyways, let’s find a clear area where there’s not a lot of people here.”

After they sat down in a somewhat spaced out area, they all sat down on the benches and started to all put their gifts in one pile. “So… how do we do this?” Luz said, “Just grab the gift that has our name?” 

“I guess so,” replied Gus.

They all grabbed their gift and Willow crossed her arms, “Okay, we’re going from left to right, so it’s Gus, Boscha, me, Luz, and then Amity,” she looked over at Gus, “Go ahead.” 

Not having to be told twice, Gus eagerly unwrapped his present which was a fake, vintage news reporter hat, a deck of cards, along with a book about illusions and card magic. He gasped, “Oh my god!” He put on the hat and flipped through the book, “This is so awesome!” 

“Who do you think gave you the gift?”

Rubbing his chin, Gus eyed his friends, “Well… I think it’s Luz!” He pointed at the girl who let out a fake gasp. 

Willow nodded her head, “Boscha your turn.” 

“Yes ma’am,” the girl said as she unwrapped the paper, “Holy shit!” She took out a plush King Boo along with a LED nail lamp and a small nail kit, “This is so cool!” She looked around her friends, “Okay, so it’s definitely not Luz,” Luz rolled her eyes, “Willow is this you?” Boscha grinned, “I think it is! You just know me so well and what I like. I think it’s Willow,” she said finally.

Grabbing her present, Willow slowly unboxed it, “A leaf?” She noticed, “Who the fuck would buy me a plant, I work at a fucking flori-” she gapsed, “ A bonsai tree kit !” She adjusted her glasses, “I always wanted one,” she said, delicately touching the leaves, “This is so nice, I love it,” she mumbled, “I’m going to name it Iris.”

Letting out a loud cough, Amity crossed her arms, “Okay Willow, you’re in love with your plant, who do you think gave it to you?”

“Bonsai trees are pretty expensive, so I think you gave it to me Amity,” the other girl just raised an eyebrow at Willow. The girl smiled, “Anyways, your turn Luz.”

Opening her present, Luz smiled , “Stickers and pins! A bi pin! I’ll stick that on my beanie so everyone knows I’m gay,” She dug more in the box and took out a vintage oversized denim jacket that had embroideries on it, “Holy shit it has the bi flag on it! That’s so cool!” She looked around the jacket, “It has The Good Witch Azura symbols on it too and coffee shit on it,” she smiled, “I love it, thank you to…” she looked over at Gus and grinned, “Gus?”

Leaning against her girlfriend, Boscha tilted her head towards Amity, “Your turn, hurry up, I want to drink some hot chocolate, it’s fucking freezing. Why does there have to be a dance during the Winter Festival?” She whined.

Giving Boscha a shiteating grin, Amity shrugged, “I’ll go slower just for you Boscha.”

As Boscha flipped Amity off, Amity replied by blowing her a kiss.

Taking out a moon lantern and some random books to read, Amity grinned, “Oh, this is actually really nice!” She flipped through the books, “I never heard of these books before,” she looked at the covers, “I honestly can’t wait to read them,” she looked up and smiled at Boscha, “Is this you, asshole?”

Before Boscha could reply, Willow pointed at Gus, “Okay from left to right again, we’re going to say who we got.” 

Gus raised his hand, “I got you Amity,” he laughed, “Oh and those books are just random sapphic books that I heard have really nice reviews,” he pointed at one, “Like that one is a guard trope in a fantasy world.”

Amity nodded her head, “Thanks Gus, I can’t wait to read it.”

“I got Luz,” Boscha said.

Luz blinked, “Wow, thank you Boscha,” she said bluntly, “I guess, you’re not so much of a bitch than I thought you were,” she awkwardly rubbed the back of her neck, “The jacket is nice, I really like it,” she admitted, “I didn’t know you did embroidery.”

“I only do it sometimes,” Boscha shrugged, “Your jacket was a perfect way to practice it,” she grinned, “If you look closely you can see some of the mistakes I made that I didn’t care enough to fix.”

“Fuck you.”

Willow looked over at Gus, “I got you, Gus.”

“Yeah, I was either thinking you or Luz,” Gus smiled, “Because-”

“You always blabbed about wanting to own a deck of cards and learn illusions to us,” Willow finished for Gus, “And I thought the hat would be a nice little touch because you’re interning at a news station right now.”

Gus grinned, “Yeah, I really like it, thanks!”

Putting her arm on Willow’s shoulder, Luz leaned against her friend, “I got you the willow, Willow.”

“It’s a bonsai tree dumbass,” Willow said.

Rolling her eyes, Luz groaned, “I know that! I just wanted to make a pun!” She grinned, “So, you like it don’t you?”

“Yes, I love it,” Willow admitted.

Amity raised her hand, “I got Boscha her stupid King Boo plush and her nail shit.”

Looking up at Amity, Boscha smiled, “Thanks Amity! Is it because I always beat you in Mario Kart playing King Boo? I can’t believe you're so salty about that!”

“Shut the fuck up before I shove that plush down your thorat,” Amity threatened.

After exchanging their secret santa gifts with each other, the group decided to go hang out in the festival. They played the rigged winter themed fair games and ate the items that the stands were selling. Later, Luz decided to break off from the group and just to check up on Eda to see how her stand is doing since she saw a group going towards the direction of The Owl House stand.

“Hey Eda,” Luz said, “I just saw a mob of people head towards you, how was that?”

Holding up a stack of money, Eda grinned, “Great! I got all so much money!” She leaned against her stand, “The Winter Festival is the busiest for me, since everyone wants to drink hot chocolate since it’s freezing outside. I have to thank Mother Nature for that.”

Luz nodded, “Did my mom give you the gifts already?”

“Yep,” Eda rolled her eyes, “I swear, if it’s a coffee grinder, or a coffee maker, or a coffee anything, I’m going to flip out!”

Awkwardly laughing, Luz nodded her head, “Y-yeah! That’ll be really terrible,” she coughed, “Anyways, I just wanted to check up on how the stand was doing,” she started to walk away, “I’ll see you tomorrow at work!”

As she walked back towards her friends, the only thing Luz could think was, Fuck, my mom totally gave Eda a coffee grinder and a coffee maker. 

Holding two  small boxes in her pocket, Luz let out a sigh, “When should I give these to her?” She looked up and spotted Amity alone at the punch bowl. Walking up behind her, Luz hugged Amity from behind and kissed her neck, “Hey, where’s everybody else?”

The girl shrugged, “Beats me.”

Luz kissed her girlfriend’s cheek, “Hey,” she said softly, “The first dance of the night is going to start soon, wanna head to the dance floor?”

Amity smiled, “I think I know a better place we can go to.”

“You’re right,” Luz said, “This is so much better,” she sat at the base of the tree, “Away from the people, but you can still hear the music and see everyone. I love this place.”

The other girl nodded, “Yeah, it’s also where we first danced at the Midsummer Festival together,” she shrugged, “I thought it would be fitting if we also dance here.”

Standing up, Luz nodded, “I agree-”

“ Welcome to the Winter Festival everyone!” Someone said on the microphone, “ I hope you are all having a good night and I also hope you all have a date tonight, since the first dance of the night is starting!”

Holding out her hand towards Amity, Luz smiled, “May I have this dance, mi amor?”

Accepting Luz’s hand, Amity nodded, “Of course.”

A nice upbeat waltz started to play on the speakers and the couple danced along with the beat. Luz spun Amity in a circle and was careful not to step on her toes this time. Amity smirked and then gracefully dipped Luz down. They laughed together as they continued to dance along to the music.

Eventually, the song started to end and so did their waltz. Amity and Luz both trudged to the tree and sat down, exhausted. “I haven’t danced in a while,” Luz panted, “That was fucking tiring.” 

Amity laughed and then took a box out from behind the tree, “Here,” she said, “It’s for you.” 

Luz blinked, “Where the fuck did that come from?” 

“I put it in the trunk of the tree beforehand,” Amity rolled her eyes, “You know I like to plan ahead.”

Taking out two small brown boxes from her jacket, Luz handed them over to Amity, “I got you something too.”

Amity smiled, “Let’s open our gifts at the same time.”

Opening up the present, Luz’s eyes widened when she took out a new skateboard along with a ring with a small sun engraved in it, “Oh my god! A skateboard and a ring?”

Holding up her hand, Luz saw Amity wearing a ring with an engraved moon in it, “ Matching rings,” she rephrased. The girl opened up her boxes and gasped, “Oh my god! This is such a cute necklace!” She grinned at the necklace with a small amber gemstone in it, “Can you put it on for me?”

“Of course,” moving Amity’s hair out of her way, Luz carefully put on the necklace she bought for Amity, “You should open the other box.”

Listening to Luz, Amity opened the box and took out a small antique music box, “Woah… this looks so pretty! Thank you so much, I love your gifts!”

Kissing Amity on her forehead, Luz smiled, “I’m glad,” she put on her ring, “Look! It fits perfectly!”

Amity whistled and stared at Luz’s hand, “Wow, that’s a nice necklace.”

Raising an eyebrow, Luz looked at Amity in confusion, “Necklace…? You mean the one I gave you?”

“Nevermind,” Amity said quickly, “Anyways, do you like the ring and the skateboard?”

Luz hesitated, “It’s great, I love it, but-” she sighed, “It’s a bit expensive, why would you buy it for me?”

“Why not?” Amity shrugged.

Rolling her eyes, Luz groaned, “It’s so fucking expensive! Don’t get me wrong, it’s a nice gift and I love it but still!”

“I got it for you because I love you so shut up!” Amity yelled, she leaned in and kissed Luz to shut her up, “God, you’re so stubborn sometimes.”

Luz blinked and pursed her lips, “I think a kiss from you was a better gift than the ring and skateboard you got me.”

“Oh,” Amity said, reaching her hand out to take back the gifts, “Then I’ll be taking back these-”

Snatching the skateboard away from her, Luz frowned, “I mean, they’re still great gifts and I still want it…”

Chapter Text

Sitting under the tree as they watched the sunset, Luz sighed, “It’s crazy how this year is almost over,” she looked over at Amity and wrapped her arm around her. 

“Yeah…” Amity hummed, “Usually the year goes by so slowly,” she looked up at Luz and smiled softly at her, “Maybe because I’m just having a grand old time being here with you.”

Luz snorted, “Time goes by fast when you’re having fun,” she said, sticking a playful tongue out.

Nodding her head, Amity laughed, “Exactly.”

Resting her head on Amity’s, Luz sighed, “So much happened during the last couple of months, don’t you think so Ams?”

“For real,” Amity said, “I slapped the shit out of you and ignored you for a couple of days-”

“We talked it out and I asked you out on a date and then we became official after a couple of them,” Luz interrupted, “I started attending Hexside here, I still hate that shithole. You met my mom and we went on more dates and then festivals yay,” Luz hummed, “That’s basically what happened in a nutshell.”

Amity laughed, “Basically,” she hummed, “Since the year is almost over, do you have any New Year’s resolutions?”

Luz raised an eyebrow at her, “What are we, in fucking first grade?” Amity pursed her lips in annoyance, “You do that shit Ams?”

“I’m trying to start a conversation you little shit!” Amity snapped.

Raising up two hands in defense, Luz laughed, “Okay, okay!” She hummed and rubbed her chin as she thought, “New’s Year’s resolution?” She echoed, “I never really thought about it, I guess just do well in school and work hard?”

“Lame.”

Rolling her eyes playfully, Luz looked over at Amity, “Okay then, what’s your New Year’s resolution that makes mine lame?”

Pulling out her phone, Amity read out her resolution from her notes, “Since I’m planning out the Spring Festival, I want a lot of people to come to that festival since it’s not as popular as the others. I’m going to maintain my position as top student at Hexside, try not to bottle up my feelings and lash out at people, have a healthy sleeping schedule, get the main role in my ballet performances, communicate with you more, try not to drink too much coffee, learn how to drive,” she looked up from her list, “I can go on.”

Pushing Amity’s phone away from her, Luz laughed, “No, no, I get it,” she hummed, “That’s a pretty nice list you have there, Mittens.”

“Isn’t it?” Amity said, sticking out a tongue, she sighed, “But in all seriousness, I do the most so I can prepare for college. We’re starting in like 1 year and a half, you know that right?”

Groaning, Luz buried her face in her hands, “Of course I fucking know!” She sighed, “I usually tend to avoid that topic though,” she looked up from her hands and at Amity, “It stresses me out.”

Amity laughed, “Well, you’re not going to be able to avoid it now,” Luz quickly stood up and was about to run away, but Amity was faster and grabbed onto the girl’s jacket and pulled her down, “Sit your ass down Noceda, we’re talking about this.”

Crossing her arms, Luz huffed, “Alright, alright, fine.”

“What are your plans for college?” Amity asked, “Do you know what you’re majoring in?”

Rubbing the back of her neck, Luz shrugged, “I dunno, probably business?” She looked up at Amity who was listening closely, “I admire Eda okay? I really like how she was able to take over her father’s business and become really popular. I kinda wanna follow her footsteps and open up my own place too.”

Nodding her head, Amity smiled, “So you do have a plan,” Luz raised an eyebrow at her and the girl just laughed, “I thought you had no idea what you were going to do in the future and that you were totally clueless.”

Pursing her lip into a thin line, Luz rolled her eyes, “I do have a plan, I just don’t like talking about it since before when I talked about it, some people were like, ‘Oh majoring in business is a really competitive field, are you sure you can do it?’” Luz grit her teeth, “Like I fucking know that already. I know the risks of opening a business,” she sighed, “But it just pisses me off that some people think I’m not able to do it. I can handle myself though.”

Placing her hand on Luz’s, Amity smiled at her, “It’s good that you know the pros and cons about it and that you’re prepared for the worst. I respect that,” she kissed Luz on the cheek, “Look, just ignore all of the people who doubt you. If you want to do something, just work hard and persevere and I’m sure you’ll be able to achieve it one day.”

Luz smiled at her girlfriend, “Thanks Amity, that means a lot, coming from you,” she turned her body to face the girl, “So, what are your plans for the future?”

Humming, Amity stared at the sunset, “Looking at the bigger picture, I just want to get into a good college, out of Oregon preferably, and major in communications,” she smiled to herself, “I can get a lot of different, but important, jobs as a coms major. Like I can be a marketing and advertising manager, human resource specialist, a market research analyst, and other stuff.” 

“That’s nice,” Luz said and Amity nodded in agreement, “It’s good that you have a plan and all of those other choices,” she groaned, “I don’t really know what to do if the coffee shop thing doesn’t work out, I’ll look into other choices later. But business majors have a lot of different jobs that they can get, so maybe I’ll survive.”

Amity hummed, “I’m sure you’ll be fine, just work hard. I guess you should get a stable job first before you open up a coffee shop. Y’know, scrape up the money first and then proceed to create your business.”

The brunette nodded her head, “Yeah, that’s probably what I’ll do.”

The couple sat in a comfortable silence for a while until Luz piped up, “What about us though?” Amity turned her head and looked at Luz, who was just staring at her, “Like, in the future, what are we going to do? There’s no way we’re going to the same college. You’re on a different level than me.”

“I-”

“I think long distance will work well for us,” Luz said, “Just in case the colleges we go to are too far apart,” she raised an eyebrow at Amity, “What do you think?”

Amity stayed silent for a second but then nodded, “I think we can do long distance,” she leaned against Luz, “Em and Viney are able to do it, they say it’s hard but manageable. What if we drift again-”

“Don’t finish that sentence Ams,” Luz said, “We won’t drift. Not this time,” she said sternly, “I’ll make sure of that.”

Frowning, Amity sighed, “Look, it’s not that I don’t trust you, I know we’re more mature now, but I just can’t help but assume the worst. I just don’t want to go back to what happened to us 2 years ago if we do long distance.’

Holding Amity’s hand and kissing her knuckles, Luz smiled, “I understand, the future is unknown, we have no fucking idea what’s going to happen, but we’re going to be okay. We’re in a good place right now, we’ll manage,” she whispered.

Smiling at her girlfriend, Amity rested her head against Luz’s chest, “Okay,” she said softly.

Beaming back at Amity, Luz kissed the top of the girl’s head, “Plus, if our colleges aren’t too far away and in the same state, maybe we can rent an apartment together! But if we are super far from each other, we’ll just visit each other during our breaks and then after college we can live together!”

“That sounds nice, I like that idea,” Amity agreed. 

Letting out a laugh that startled Amity a bit, Luz blushed, “Look at us talking about the future together. It’s almost like we’re a married couple.”

Getting flustered, Amity lifted her head from Luz’s chest and flushed a bright red, “ M-married ?” 

Grinning, Luz leaned down and kissed Amity on her temple, “We’ll have that talk together in a couple of years, mi amor.”

Soon, the sun completely set and when the stars came out, the couple decided to lie down on the grass and stargaze for a while. Arm around Amity, Luz stared at the stars, “This is nice, reminds me back when we were 14, since we used to stargaze like every fucking night.”

“Yeah, now that we can drive we don’t really just hang out like this under the stars,” Amity agreed, “We mostly just drive around and eat- which don’t get me wrong, I fucking love driving around and eating with you and the others.”

Luz snorted, “I know you do,” she sighed and stared at the twinkling stars above them, “I always loved stargazing when I was a kid,” she said, “I always wondered how big the universe was,” she laughed, “To be honest, now that I realize it, looking at the stars make me feel so insignificant. I mean, we’re looking at other fucking planets and galaxies, there’s just so much more life there. Compared to that, we’re mud.”

“Don’t say that bullshit,” Amity said, “It’s depressing,” Luz turned her head and stared at Amity who was just looking at the sky, “Plus, that’s not true, you’re not insignificant,” she turned her head towards her girlfriend, “Cause you’re everything to me.”

Luz grinned, “Oh really?” 

Kissing her on the corner of her lip, Amity nodded, “Yeah, pretty positive.” 

They both talked through the night, sitting in the darkness and figuratively being each other’s lights, along with the literal shining stars above them. They didn’t know about the future that lay ahead of them, but they couldn’t care less, they only had eyes for each other at the moment. The only thing that Luz and Amity wanted to do right now was to simply enjoy the company of each other as they sat, under the stars.