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Luz looked up from where she and Amity were coloring when she heard Hooty say someone was coming.
“Who is it?” She wondered.
“Your little friend—what’s her name? Wi-Willow?” Eda asked. “Something like that.”
“Yeah!”
Amity looked up from her coloring page. Ever since she and Luz went into Willow’s mind the two of them have started to become better friends again, but Willow had never seen her when she was little before. She knew she was little, though. Amity was a little nervous. She was always nervous around new people when she was little and Willow would be new to her little self.
“Yeah, King and I have to go out, so Willow’s going to watch you two. We won’t be long.”
“You never ask me to watch the kids!” Hooty pointed out, throwing the door open and letting Willow in.
“ You would encourage them to get in trouble!” Eda lightly tapped Hooty’s head. Hooty would only ever babysit as a last resort. Hell, she trusted King to babysit more than Hooty and King was also a child!
“Hey, everybody,” Willow greeted, smiling.
“Willow!” Luz jumped up to hug her friend tightly. “I missed you!”
Willow laughed as she hugged back. “You just saw me yesterday at school!”
“That’s a long time ago!”
Willow laughed again and looked down at Amity who was hiding her face in a pale green baby blanket. She knelt down beside her. “Hi, Amity.”
Amity blushed behind her blanket. She wasn’t embarrassed for Willow to see her like this, just shy.
“I think the three of us are gonna have a lot of fun today! But you can hold onto your blanket for as long as you’d like, okay?”
Amity peeked out at Willow, curiously. She’d never been allowed to keep hiding in her blanket when she was young. Her mom would always take it away, and even try to throw it out! But she always rescued her blanket from the trash later.
Willow smiled at her kindly and straightened up.
Eda grabbed her bag and Owlbert and lifted King to her shoulder. “We’ll be back soon, everybody. Call if you need us home sooner.”
“Bye, Eda! Bye, King!” King waved as they flew away on Owlbert.
“So, guys!” Willow smiled. “What do you want to do?”
“Let’s play tag!” Luz suggested.
Amity pouted and moved her blanket so she could speak. “But I wanna finish coloring….”
“Well, why don’t you bring your coloring book and crayons outside with us?” Willow said. “I’m sure Eda won’t mind if we bring a table and a chair for you to sit at.”
“Okay,” Amity agreed, smiling shyly.
“I’ll help bring the crayons out!” Luz said.
Once they were outside, Willow made sure Amity was set up comfortably with her coloring book and her blanket and a sippy cup nearby.
“I’m going to play tag with Luz, but you can come get me if you need me, okay, little one?”
Amity nodded, blushing at the name. She crossed her legs on the chair and picked a yellow crayon to resume her coloring.
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After a while of playing tag Luz had to run inside to use the bathroom, so Willow took the time to check on Amity.
“Hey, little one!” She smiled, coming up behind her. “What are you coloring? Can I see?”
Amity blushed as she showed her the page. A purple abomination was running through a flower field while wearing a flower crown. Amity had tried so hard to stay inside the lines, but it was a little difficult.
“Aw, this looks great, Amity!”
Amity ripped out the page and handed it to Willow. “For you,” she muttered.
“Really? Thanks, Amity! I’m gonna put this on my wall in my bedroom, okay?”
Amity nodded.
“Here, I have something for you too!” Willow drew a tiny circle in the air and a flower crown materialized above Amity’s head, falling down to rest on top of it.
Amity beamed. “Thank you!”
“Woah, awesome flower crown!” Luz exclaimed when she returned.
“Willow made it!”
“Cool! Do you wanna come play with us now or keep coloring?”
“Um…play what?” Amity wasn’t too good at tag when she was feeling little. She was a bit clumsy and she didn’t want to fall.
“Hmm.” Luz looked around before coming up with an idea when she saw Amity’s flower crown. “Maybe Willow can make a really bouncy flower for us to trampoline on! Unless you wanna do something else!”
“That sounds fun!” Amity looked up at Willow. “Please?”
“I guess I could do that. Stand behind me.” Willow drew a large circle in the air and a big purple flower grew out of the ground. The stem was manipulated into a spring shape. She made a bunch of smaller flowers around it in case anyone fell off it so they wouldn’t get hurt too bad. “Well, who wants to give it a try?”
“C’mon!” Luz grabbed Amity’s hand and dragged her to the flower-trampoline. Flower-line? Tramp-lower? Flow-poline.
Luz climbed onto it first, then helped Amity on. Willow got on by herself. “We don’t have to jump too high if you don’t want to, Amity.”
“I wanna jump super high!” Amity said.
Luz grinned. “Okay!”
The three of them bounced on the flower-trampoline until dark when Eda and King finally got home.
Willow went to talk to Eda while King went to jump with Luz and Amity.
“It looks like you three had fun,” Eda commented.
“Yeah! They were super well behaved!”
“Good to hear it.”
“Eda, did you see the flow-poline Willow made for us to jump on?!” Luz asked, running over to her mentor.
“I see it.”
“And she made me a flower crown!” Amity added, adjusting it on her head.
“Very nice. Hey, you’d better step up your game, King, Willow’s gonna end up being their new favorite babysitter.”
King stood with his hands on his hips. “You’re gonna have to do better than make some flowers to compete with the best babysitter in the Boiling Isles!”
“Is that a challenge?” Willow asked, slightly mischievously.
King stomped his foot. “You’re on. They’ll both vote for me, right?” He looked at the two girls who’d fallen asleep in the flower bed.
“You two can have your babysitting war another day,” Eda said. “Help me get them inside for bed.”