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“Boscha!”
Boscha’s head swiveled backwards. Amelia was running, nay, sprinting towards her at full speed. She looked concerned and confused, which mostly just made Boscha confused.
“What?” Boscha replied when Amelia came within earshot. Amelia kneeled over and started wheezing for air. Dear Titan, where the hell did she come running from?
“I-“ she had a bit of a coughing fit, and Boscha awkwardly motioned for her to catch her breath first before continuing. Whatever she had to say couldn’t be that important, and Boscha sure as shit didn’t want someone from the grudgby team dying before the season even started. Amelia finally got back to a normal heart rate before starting to talk.
“I think Luz is cheating on you.”
“...what.”
Words suddenly came spilling out of her mouth, a million miles a second, half of which Boscha was not picking up, or even really paying attention to.
“I saw her with Willow and they were holding hands, which I thought was weird so I was watching them- I mean, not in a weird way or anything- and then she gave Willow a kiss on the cheek and I said, ‘Hey, that wasn’t platonic right?’ and Cat said it definitely wasn’t but also we don’t really think Willow would do that if she knew so she went to tell Willow and-“
“Yeah, okay, great, one question, since when the FUCK were me and Luz dating?”
Amelia abruptly stopped.
“Huh?” She stared for a moment, like she expected Boscha to retract, and then seemed more baffled when she didn’t.
“I- you- she’s always holding your hand-?”
“It helps with her anxiety.”
“She gave you a kiss on the cheek???”
“Yeah? She’s my friend,” Boscha said flatly, as if that didn’t create more questions than answers.
“But-“
“She’s my friend.” For just a moment, Boscha sounded like her old, awful self, and Amelia decided maybe she should just shut her mouth. Boscha gave her an exasperated look, buried her face into her hands and gave a muffled apology for snapping at her- and then gave Amelia a horrified look.
“Did you just fucking send Cat to tell Willow the same thing!?” Amelia’s eyes flitted back to the school with a guilty look.
“Uh. Maybe I should tell her not to do that-“
“Maybe???” Boscha haphazardly threw the grudgby ball she'd been practicing with off to the side and started putting on her shoes, “Oh, fucking Titan, Amity’s going to think we’re macking on her girlfriend-“
“What?” Amelia shouted. The confusion was recursive, apparently. Boscha threw her a slightly disappointed look with her one eye, the other two were still on her half-tied shoelaces in hand.
“Whaddya mean, ‘what’? They’re obviously together, dumbass!” She hastily put her shoe on and stood up. Amelia was looking right past her, like she wasn’t even there. Boscha turned around-
Oh, god, it was Amity.
“Uh- Amity!” Amity was staring at her with severe consternation. “Okay, listen, I can explain-“
“I’m not dating Luz?” Amity’s said, hesitantly, like she wasn’t sure herself.
“Eh?” Both Boscha and Amelia said it. And then, “Wait, what are you confused about?” Boscha said, turning to Amelia. Her face went red.
“Uh. Honestly, I just figured you two were…” she coughed, “uh, sharing, since, you have a crush on Amity and-“
“WHAT-“ Amity yelled with a jolt. Boscha slapped her hand over Amelia’s mouth.
“HAD. PAST TENSE.” Boscha shouted way too defensively. Amity now looked consterned, confused, relieved, and slightly offended.
“And why the hell did you think we were together?” Amity asked.
“Besides you two constantly staring at each other and the fact that she was your grom date last year and you two both beat the snot out of Grometheus by having a impromptu dance sequence?” Boscha said. Amity flushed red and sputtered.
“I- well, that- I mean, it was nice, but she- Luz, I mean, she didn’t-“
“Wait, what the hell did you even come to see me for?”
Amity stared at her blankly, mouth agape like there would be words at any moment.
“...I was going to tell you that Skara and Luz were already a thing and you really shouldn’t be trying to get with her, but-“
“Okay, what the fuck is it with you two and thinking Luz is dating people she isn’t?”
“You thought Amity and Luz were dating two minutes ago.” Amelia pointed out.
“Shut up.”
“Oh, no.” Amity muttered suddenly, looking off in the distance. Amelia turned her head. Boscha simply screwed her eyes shut, because on fucking god if it was-
“Hey, Skara?”
Yeah, of course it was. Boscha turned around, and promptly got smacked on her shoulder by Skara.
“Hey! Boscha, congrats on your date,“ Skara chirped, “Honestly, I’m surprised it didn’t happen sooner-“
“I am NOT dating Luz!” Boscha shouted. Everyone else startled at the sound, but Skara simply tilted her head in confusion.
“Huh? Luz?” She shook her head. “I was talking about Willow.”
“Wh-!?”
“I mean, honestly, I’m surprised it didn’t happen earlier, but you two are really cute together-“
Boscha physically slammed her mouth shut with her hands. Her entire face was red, and they could almost swear there was steam coming out her ears.
“I AM NOT DATING WILLOW.” She howled. Her voice echoed back to her from the school. There was about three seconds of silence, and then,
“Okay, will someone kindly explain to me what the FUCK is going on?” Everyone jumped at Willow’s voice, and Amity literally fell over.
Willow was standing behind her, arms crossed, with an unamused look on her face. Bo and Cat were catching up to her from behind, looking sheepishly aside, and Gus was walking between them, filling the awkward silence between them. Willow waited for them to get in the circle before she started talking.
“It’s is eight in the morning, and I’ve had three different people tell me and Gus that Luz is cheating on someone, and someone else tell me that Luz is cheating on me,” she explained, looking between everyone present, “I don’t know if this is some sort of April Fool’s joke or something, but one of you better explain right this damn minute because I don’t think I appreciate people spreading lies about my best friend.”
Everyone was silent for an awkwardly long time. Willow was staring everyone down with a look that could cut glass.
“...I just thought Boscha and Luz were dating,” Amelia finally mumbled. And all at once, everyone started talking.
“Wait, isn’t she dating Amity-“
“That’s what I thought! She was like, on her shoulder and everything-“
“Wasn’t she holding hands with Skara yesterday?”
“Yeah, but that’s just cause it helps with her anxiety-“
“What is April Fools-“
“Wait, you’re not dating Luz-?” Bo asked, pointing at Willow.
“LUZ ISN’T DATING ANYBODY.” Willow finally shouted. The whole field fell silent. A few of them looked genuinely terrified. Willow sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose. She wasn’t saying anything yet, but everyone felt like they were being chided anyways.
“You know, I thought Luz was still single because none of you can get the guts to just ask her out,” she muttered, “but apparently you’re all too stupid to realize she isn’t taken.”
Boscha was pointedly staring at her feet, Skara was looking anywhere except at Willow, and Amity- was still on the ground?
“Hey, Amity, you alright?” Someone shouted from above. Amity turned her head up, and then shrieked.
“Uh- hey, Luz!” Amity shouted nervously with an accompanying finger gun. Sure enough, Luz was flying around on her staff above them. She casually flew by, jumping off and catching her staff in her hand in one swift motion.
“Hi, I heard my name, what are we talking about?”
Most of them stayed silent, and a few started mumbling a half-coherent excuse.
“Luz, are you romantically interested in anyone?” Willow asked casually. Luz pondered for a moment.
“Uh. Not really?” She laughed, “I mean, I guess there’s some pretty cute people at school, but who’d want to date a weirdo like me?”
Luz was apparently oblivious to the deadpan, incredulous stares everyone was giving her. Willow simply rolled her eyes affectionately.
“Well, in that case, do you want to go on a date with me?”
“Oh, sure!” Luz replied cheerfully before anybody else could object. “Tomorrow? I’m going to the human realm, I could show you around the library. The books don’t try to eat you there.”
“That’d be nice.”
“Cool! Well, I gotta fly,” she laughed, motioning to her staff, “literally.”
She leaned in and gave Willow a kiss on the cheek as a parting. It was only when she pulled away that she noticed everyone staring at her.
“Oh, did you want one?” She asked nobody in particular.
“A date or a kiss?” Boscha said, and immediately regretted saying. Luz giggled and skipped up to her to try to also kiss her on the cheek. Boscha was much, much taller, so it ended up being closer to her mouth. Oops. Boscha sputtered.
“Well, you can ask me for one anytime. Bye!” Luz casually turned on her heels. She threw her staff like a spear, ran after it and hopped on when she caught up, and they were off. Well, that was unconventional.
They were all left staring after her. Willow shrugged.
“Well, I’m glad that’s settled.”