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Luz Noceda eats breakfast, as usual. Next to her is Eda, part time mom, full time crime queen (just don’t tell that to anyone). Raine left a few moments before to do something Luz couldn’t quite remember. They are probably buying groceries, Eda did mention they were short on tomatoes or something.
Luz puts another big spoon of “griffin egg omelet” in her mouth, Eda calls it that since Luz started living with them. Eda’s omelet does feel otherworldly, though! It reminds Luz about her home, even though her other mom never made omelets for her. It’s just nostalgic like that!
After putting her plate near the sink, she heads off to the front door, excited.
“Hey! Where are you going?” Luz hears Eda shout from the kitchen.
“I’m meeting Amity today! Didn’t I tell you last night?”
Eda, now at the front door of their house, furrows her eyebrow, confused
“I’ll be back at 2! I think”
Eda opened her mouth to speak but Luz just runs off to her girlfriend anyway. It was a relatively small street, the one they lived in. But her girlfriend, Amity, lived on the opposite end. Luz’s quirky pokemon watch marked 9am on a sunny Saturday.
Luz gets tired of running and stops by a stop sign, ironically. The back of the sign was full of little stickers and drawings Luz did with Willow and Gus a couple of months before. It was their little thing! The stop sign is something Luz holds really close to her heart, as it reminds her of her first days living with Eda. Next to the stop sign is a green street sign. “Bonsborough ST” with an “e” drawn next to the Bon. Bonesborough. It was kinda funny.
She moved to Bonsborough street a few months before, her mom being on an important job trip. Eda was like her second mom by now, and it kinda hurt knowing she’d have to leave her eventually. But at least her mom 1 and her mom 2 lived in the same city! Luz could visit anytime, right? That’s what she tells herself, and trusts each word like she would trust a random street rat on the sewers. A lot.
“Focus, Luz” the girl mumbles when she realizes she forgot where she was running to. Amity’s house was a few meters from the stop sign Luz was next to. Just a few
more minutes.
Luz catches her breath again and continues running to the end of the street. That house with purple walls and a “Blight” written on the door in fancy letters. Amity’s house is the last one on the street, and even though it was only a 5 minute run to Eda’s, it felt like too much. Luz’s girlfriend is always there! And Luz has to wait to see her everyday!
Luz rings the doorbell. Amity answers quickly and with the biggest and brightest grin on her face.
“Where?” Amity asks behind her smile.
“Anywhere!” Luz answers with hers.
They were having a picnic. There weren’t any parks near Bonsborough Street, but they’d do it even if it was in Amity’s front yard. And they did do it. But it’s romantic either way.
Amity grabbed some snacks, and Luz put down a cute cloth on the ground, a pair of plates and plastic cutlery. This was their first date and they would NOT mess it up. It could rain, it could snow, they could be run over by public transportation, and the picnic keeps standing. With the power of love, fanfic writing and the cute flower cloth Luz brought.
The only people there at Amity’s house were her siblings, Emira and Edric, the cool kids of the street and prime suspects of being the ones who wrote the “e” in Bonsborough street. They went to greet Luz and tease Amity about the inconvenient front yard picnic.
“Hey, Mittens, nice first date, huh?” Emira said with a little, just a little bit of honesty.
“It’s not about the date, Em, it’s about the love” Edric responded.
“Look who’s talking, mister ‘fell in love with the whole street and is still single’ Blight.”
“EMIRA! Why do you keep telling people that?”
They kept bantering, for a long time. Amity just asked Luz to ignore them for the sake of the date.
The Blight’s mowed yard was very anti-romantic and it stinged like hay under the picnic cloth, but as Edric said, “it’s not about the date”. Luz probably should have just invited Amity to hang out at Eda’s, but it was way too late to turn back now.
Luz’s pokemon watch strikes 11. Are sandwiches and orange juice a decent enough lunch?
It 's okay. Now Luz and Amity will have a nice picnic date with the cute flower cloth and the pink plastic cutlery. Just them, the mowed grass and the odd number of grapes in-between them. This is going to become a problem later.
Amity was staring at Luz, very romantically and not in a weird way. First date, first date, first date and nothing will go wrong. Even though they were religiously staring at each other, they both heard the unison of Willow, Gus and Hunter’s scooters rolling down the street, almost cultishly. They had this weird group behavior of just scootering up and down the street repeatedly until noon.
Luz burst out laughing at that just like every other time she catched them doing it, breaking the very normal eye contact session she and Amity were having. It had been a whole hour they were just awkwardly sitting at the picnic cloth. They haven’t touched the food yet. Heck, They barely talked.
“So, yo Amity, how’s it going?”
“It’s going”
Silence, except for the incredibly loud sound of three scooters coming back downstreet.
“What about you?” Amity notices she ruined Luz’s attempt at small talk.
“Yeah I’m hanging in there”
Hunter, Willow and Gus reached the end of the street, and quickly started scootering up the street again.
“We are so bad at this”, Amity chuckled.
“YEAH! It’s almost like we have never been to a picnic before!”
“I have never been to a picnic before”
“Then this one’s your first!”
Luz grabbed a sandwich and ate it.
“See?”
She said with her mouth still full. Amity did the same, and they both laughed so hard Luz almost choked on the sandwich. The awkward environment was going away.
In the end, they were both lying on the spiky grass, looking at the sky. Amity would have tried to find a cloud that looked like something if there were any clouds at all.
Luz ‘s pokemon watch striked noon. She mumbled the theme song along with the clock. The scooter trio.. cult thing got to the end of the street again.
“HEY! LUZ! AMITY!”
Gus noticed them. Wow. It took them 3 laps across the street.
Amity turned and waved, Luz yelled.
“YOU LOOK SO EMO WITH THE ROCK BAND MERCH, PLEASE STOP”
“IT WAS HUNTER’S IDEA”, Willow replied with a shell over her mouth.
“AND YOU WENT WITH IT” Hunter scoffed.
Was the target wolf shirt disease contagious? Would Luz and Amity ever get them back? Luz chuckled to herself and remembered her full pokemon fit. She stopped. She looked way better than the Twilight shirt cult though. Luz puts a grape in her mouth to cover the awkwardness. But there were only three????? What kind of grape only comes in three?
Bon(e)sborough street gets weirder everyday.
Gus, Willow and Hunter suddenly stopped their fun group activity of scootering and being emo to join Luz and Amity in their picnic. Wait! Amity thought. It’s OUR pseudo-romantic (also kind of lame) date!
“We only have two plates,” Amity said with the softness of someone shushing a cat with a broom.
“Yeah dudes, this is kinda a thing that’s ours, maybe someday we’ll be so lucky as to scooter up and down the street with you. Maybe even wear emo shirts from target!” Luz didn’t mean that. Luz would rather be forced to watch 20 hours of platform gameplay, actually. When she snapped back, she noticed there was only 1 grape.
Oh
Oh
This was a problem. Be danged, the very low number of grapes. Luz didn’t want to get the last grape and she KNEW Amity didn’t either. Is this the end of a healthy relationship??? So unfortunate. So. Unfortunat- Oh, okay Hunter ate it. Yeah. Thank you, Hunter, for saving a relationship.
Amity laughed. Willow laughed, and Gus, and Luz (Hunter did not. He’s emo) and suddenly the lame date became one of Luz’s best experiences. All of them, happily! It felt unreal.
Luz almost wishes the day was ending. She wanted to see the sunset with Amity and talk about their plans for the weekend. Amity didn’t know it, but she wanted it as well.
Luz 's pokemon watch striked 3 pm.
She said she would be back by now. Maybe the sunset date is something for another weekend.
Yeah! Maybe another weekend.