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Amity was furious. Not only had Luz made a complete fool of her in class, but she was mocking her by following her everywhere. The alpha was always trying to get her attention with some hairbrained scheme that left Amity worse for wear and even angrier than before.
“Amity, wait up!”
She groaned at the sound of the human’s voice and walked faster, praying to the Titan that she made it to her class before the other girl caught up to her.
Luck was not on her side.
As she turned a corner something barreled into her from behind and knocked her off her feet. She had just enough time to spin around to land on her ass before a solid body slammed into her, pinning her down.
“Titan that hurt,” Amity grumbled as she sat up to rub at the back of her head.
“I’m so sorry, I didn’t mean to do that.”
Amity looked up, a ferocious comment on the tip of her tongue, but she froze as she realized just how close she was to the human. Big brown eyes stared down at her, the sunlight shining into them at just the right angle to make them glimmer like fresh fire-bee honey. Amity gulped and fought down the blush staining her cheeks.
“Of course you didn’t, just like you didn’t mean to blow up my abomination class project yesterday or accidentally set my favorite textbook on fire the day before.”
“I didn’t mean those either, I swear!”
“Yeah, right.”
Amity shoved Luz off of her and stood quickly to dust off her uniform and gather her books.
“I’m really sorry I keep messing everything up. I just wanted to talk to you,” Luz rushed out as she stood to follow behind Amity.
“You’re going to make me late to class, go away.”
“Wait!”
Amity paused as Luz rushed to stand in front of her, hands outstretched.
“What is it?” Amity sighed.
“I was wondering if you wanted to meet up at the library to see the Wailing Star with me tonight? Everyone says it’s going to be super cool, I thought maybe you’d like to go, and someone told me the library was the best place to go.”
Amity sighed and asked, “If I go will you stop destroying my things?”
“I’ll try my best!”
Amity sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose. She knew it was the best she was going to get so she nodded once and said, “Fine. What time were you wanting to meet up?”
“Let’s meet up at 10,” Luz rushed out, her mouth spreading in a grin. “It’ll be so much fun, I promise!”
Amity’s reply was cut off by the late bell screaming her tardiness to the entire school, and she groaned before taking off in a run towards her next class.
If things didn’t get better after tonight, she was going to kill that alpha.
Amity flicked through her scroll, completely uninterested, as she stood waiting outside the library. She was early, she knew, and yet it still annoyed her that Luz hadn’t shown up yet. Didn’t she know that it was rude to keep people waiting, especially when you were the one to invite them to something?
Amity rolled her eyes and scoffed.
Of course she wouldn’t, humans were savage creatures. They were neither timely nor courteous, if any interaction she’d had with Luz up to date was anything to go off of.
“Amity!”
Speak of the devil.
Amity dismissed her scroll and watched as Luz skipped up the front steps. She stumbled over her shoe laces at the top, but caught herself just before she barreled straight into Amity.
“Whoa, sorry,” Luz chuckled as she rubbed at the back of her neck.
“You should really be more careful,” Amity sniffed.
“Right, yeah. Um, I hope you haven’t been waiting long.”
“Twenty minutes, but who’s counting?”
Luz flinched at Amity’s cold tone, and she sighed as that nagging voice began in the back of her head.
Be nice, she’s new to the Boiling Isles, maybe if you helped her she wouldn’t embarrass you so much.
“Right, well, are you ready to go inside?” Amity asked, forcing her tone to soften.
“Yeah! I’m really excited to watch this with you,” Luz gushed as she slipped in the front door behind Amity.
Amity clicked the lock shut behind them and began leading Luz through the library. She knew it like the back of her hand, worked there every other day during the week after school reading to kids and taking care of their section. It was one of the more enjoyable parts of her week, and it always calmed her to walk through the different sections.
“Wow! This place is huge!” Luz laughed as she spun in circles, her arms stretched out wide. “There’s so many books! How could anyone read all of these!?”
“We have a lot of patrons, no one person has read every book. Well, except the head librarian,” Amity explained as she stopped in front of the romance section. “I need to grab something from my study, give me one second.”
Amity triggered the secret door and walked through quickly to rifle through her desk.
“Wow!” Luz gushed as she walked in behind her. “This is so cool! Do you come here a lot to study and you were just so nice they gave this to you?”
“What? No,” Amity snorted. “I work with the kids here, and I found this one day when I was reaching for a-” Amity paused and flushed red as she remembered what section her study was behind. “- a book to reshelve because it was in the wrong section, and that’s how I found this place.”
“That’s so cool. It’s almost like a top secret headquarters, like you’re the secret agent and you’ve infiltrated the library,” Luz said, her voice growing serious as she made various poses with her hands pressed together, her thumbs up and her index fingers pointed out.
Amity snorted at the alpha’s weird action, but turned back to her desk to find what she was looking for. A weird blue glow filled the room, and she looked over her shoulder to find the whole library was lit up with it.
“I think the meteor is passing over us, we better go see it before it’s too late. I’ll come back later to find my… thing,” Amity said as she closed the desk drawer.
“Right, we should-” Luz cut off with a sharp gasp and a high pitched squeal, and Amity whipped around to find Luz pointing at her favorite book series.
“Oh my god, you have Azura here!?”
“Yeah, it’s just a book series I thought was… good,” Amity said, her face growing hot as embarrassment flooded her system. She knew she should have hid them better, now Luz would make fun of her for being a dork.
“I love this series! It’s my favorite! You have to tell me what you think about Azura and Hecate, one great enemy to lovers right?”
“Lovers? They’re not lovers.”
“Oh no! You don’t have the fifth book, spoilers! I’m so sorry! I’ll let you borrow my copy if you’d like, I always keep it on me. I love reading the ending, it’s so good,” Luz said as she began to ramble.
Amity spaced out for a second as she tried to collect herself. The embarrassment was quickly fading, and Amity was surprised to find she was beginning to feel quite fond of this strange alpha. Luz knew what Azura was and had even promised her the one book she had been unable to find. She was always nice to Amity, in her weird way, and she’d never asked her for anything. Unlike all her other friends. Her heart began hammering in her chest and she flushed red to the tips of her ears. That weird feeling was back, the weird heat the human seemed to pull out of her everytime she came near her. No matter what the situation was, Amity would always become a blushing, stuttering mess. She never quite grasped what it was, never figured out what this alpha from a different world was doing to her. She thought maybe she had hit that point in her life where every alpha affected her omega like this, but no one else even came close, although many had tried. Amity tried to fight the feeling for as long as she could, but as it stared her right in the face it was impossible to deny. At some point in their weird history of Luz getting her into trouble and wrecking her stuff, she’d developed feelings for the weird little alpha.
I was wrong about you, Luz the human.
“Amity, there’s something I’ve been meaning to- um, the thing is,” Luz gulped as she reached into her hoodie pocket. Her eyes strayed for just a moment and then she gasped, “Oh! What’s this?”
Amity snapped back into focus right in time to watch Luz grab the thing she had been looking for and a mounting feeling of panic washed over her. Her diary- Luz was holding her diary.
“Wait, no!” Amity yelled as she lunged for the book.
She succeeded in doing nothing but smack it onto the floor, and she watched in growing horror as it flipped open and a small version of herself began to walk across the pages.
“The human ruined my abomination homework,” The mini Amity lamented as she trekked across the page. “She’s always ruining my day and in my way. Titan, she’s so embarrassing! I wish she would just leave me alone and find someone else to bother. Maybe then she would finally realize I don’t want to be near her in any capacity, I think she’s weird, and I don’t want to be her friend.”
Amity lunged forward on her stomach and slammed the book shut, then closed her eyes and pressed her forehead to the floor as she willed it all to be a bad dream.
“Luz, that wasn’t-”
“I wish you had just told me you didn’t like me.”
Amity’s eyes snapped open and her head shot up as Luz’s voice wobbled, and she turned to find the human wiping at her eyes with the back of her hand as she turned away from her.
No no no, don’t cry-
“If you thought I was so embarrassing why would you want to- I’m sorry, I’ll leave you alone.”
Luz sobbed and covered her face as she ran from the room.
“Luz, wait!” Amity yelled as she reached out for her. She scrambled up onto her knees, but movement out of the corner of her eye caught her attention. A wadded up piece of paper rolled to a stop right next to Amity’s diary, and she realized with a start Luz must have dropped it. She picked it up then carefully unrolled it, and jumped as a miniature Luz began to walk across the creases. She looked deep in thought, and Amity stared as she began to talk.
“I know I haven’t made the best impression, or any good impression really,” Mini Luz began as she cringed and ran a hand over her face. “But I think you’re so cool. Too cool for me, by far. I just- everytime I see you my heart beats rapidly and my alpha goes crazy and it’s like every worst case scenario I can think of becomes my reality. I can do better, I can show you who I truly am, I just… I like you, Amity Blight, and I would love it if you would be my girlfriend.”
“Oh no, oh Luz,” Amity whimpered as she stumbled to her feet and took off after the alpha.
The front door was wide open and Luz was nowhere to be found. Amity groaned and bumped her fist against her forehead as she began to think of a plan.
“Way to be a bitch, Amity. Look at what you’ve done this time,” She sighed to herself. “I’ve got to fix this. I have to fix this.”
Amity looked for Luz everywhere the next day at school, but she couldn’t find her anywhere. She was growing desperate, and even Boscha (who paid attention to no one but herself) was beginning to grow concerned.
“You look like you’ve lost something you can’t live without. Dish, what is it? Something embarrassing? A love note? Oh, a spicy love note?” Boscha asked as she followed Amity to their next class.
“What- No! Stop saying that,” Amity stuttered as she flushed bright red. “What is with you and dirty notes?”
“They keep the day interesting,” Boscha shrugged.
“Titan, you need a hobby.”
Amity rolled her eyes and turned to walk away but her whole body tensed as she saw familiar fluffy brown hair out of the corner of her eye.
“Luz!” Amity yelled as she bolted after her.
She rounded the corner in time to lock eyes with Luz as the alpha ran around another corner, disappearing from sight. Amity groaned and clutched her face in her hands. Of course Luz was avoiding her, who wouldn’t after she was so mean to her the night before. She just wished she had the chance to explain herself.
“The human alpha? That’s what you’ve been moping over? Titan, Amity I knew you had bad taste but this is a whole new level,” Boscha scoffed.
“Shut up. She’s amazing. I just wish I was a better person, maybe then she wouldn’t be running away from me.”
“You know, I’m going to do one favor for you, just so you owe me one,” Boscha said as she smirked at Amity. “This is the human’s free period, and I always hear she goes out to the grudgby field to practice those weird drawings she does.”
“What? Really?” Amity gasped. “I’ve got to go!”
“You owe me!” Boscha yelled.
Amity didn’t listen, could only focus on the pounding of her heart as she bolted through the back doors towards the field. Her heart skipped a beat as she realized Boscha hadn’t been lying for once, and it only quickened as she grew closer to Luz.
The alpha was sat in the center of the field, her back to Amity, as she scribbled away in a notebook. She spread three sheets of paper out, each with a different glyph, then tapped them one by one. She nodded and scribbled away after each different reaction, and Amity realized she was doing an experiment.
“What are you working on these for?” Amity asked quietly.
Luz jumped and turned to look at her with wide eyes. She blinked twice, before her eyes narrowed and her cheeks darkened with a blush. Luz grabbed her notebook and pulled it to her chest, and Amity felt suddenly like she’d interrupted something she shouldn’t have.
“Why do you want to know? Looking for more ammo so you and your friends can laugh about how weird I am?” Luz spit.
Amity took a step back, caught completely by surprise at the ice in the human’s voice.
“No, I would never- I just, it looks important to you.”
Luz stared at her for a solid minute before she sighed and turned away from her.
“The door I came through is gone. I have to figure out another way to get home, or I’ll never see my-” Luz choked and cleared her throat, and Amity’s heart clenched as the alpha swiped her hand under her eye. “Or I’ll never be able to get back home.”
“Oh… I’m sorry, that must be really scary.”
Amity walked closer slowly, unsure where the boundary was as she moved to sit a good two feet to Luz’s left. Luz gave her a questioning look but didn’t comment on her presence as she shrugged and began to draw a new glyph.
“It’s not all that bad. I’ve got Eda, who’s like a second mom to me, and King, who’s the little brother I never had. And even Hootie, even though I don’t know what he is.”
“And you’ve got Gus and Willow,” Amity said, trying desperately to keep the conversation flowing.
“Yeah, they’re really good friends. My only friends, actually.”
“That can’t be true. Lots of people here would love to be friends with a human, and I’m sure your human friends-”
“I don’t have any.”
“What?” Amity asked slowly.
“I don’t have any human friends,” Luz admitted as she shrunk into herself. “All the people at my… human school bully me. They call me weirdo and freak. I was never meant to come here, I was supposed to go to a camp that would make me normal.”
“Oh.”
Amity bit her lip, the harsh sting a clear sign she’d cut herself on her teeth.
Titan, I’ve really messed this up.
“Luz, about what you heard in the library-”
“I don’t want to talk about it. I don’t want to know how weird you think I am, I don’t want to hear that you don’t like me, I don’t want to know.”
“If you’d just let me explain, please, Luz.”
The alpha glanced over at her with sad eyes before she looked away again and nodded.
“When you first came here I didn’t know what to think. I’d never met a human before, I didn’t know how you acted or talked. I didn’t know your customs, still don’t actually. And I was… prejudiced against you. I thought because you couldn’t do magic, that that meant you were lesser than me. I was wrong, Luz. You’re amazing, and it’s me that’s lesser. I’m really sorry I wrote those things about you, and I’m even more sorry you heard them when you thought we were on a date.”
Luz tensed up, her face flushing darker red.
“If I had known that’s what it was I would have been more honest with you. I’m kind of glad it happened the way it did though, because it gave me a chance to be honest with myself. I- I never thought I could feel this way, had never imagined I would ever- I’m rambling, I’m sorry. I just- the point I’m trying to make is, I think you’re so cool. Too cool for me, by far.”
Luz’s head snapped over to her, the all too familiar words echoing in her ears as Amity held her note out for her to see.
“Amity, no- I never meant for you to see that-”
“Let me finish,” Amity said sternly. “Before I lose my nerve.”
Luz snapped her mouth shut, her full attention on Amity as the omega began to speak again.
“I can do better, I can show you who I truly am. That’s why I want to know if you’ll- if you’ll be my-” Amity swallowed hard and rubbed her sweating palms on her leggings.
Titan, this is harder than I thought.
“Luz the human-”
“Noceda.”
“Will you- huh?”
“My name isn’t ‘Luz the human’. My name is Luz Noceda,” Luz rushed out, her voice breathy.
“Oh, right, that makes much more sense,” Amity groaned, internally kicking herself.
“Don’t worry about it, everyone here calls me that. I’m sorry for interrupting, though, if you want to-” Luz cut off and raised one eyebrow in question.
“Right. Luz Noceda,” Amity started again, the odd lilt in the alpha’s last name foreign but delightful on her tongue. “I would love it if you would be my girlfriend.”
“Really?” Luz asked, her eyes narrowing as her guard raised.
“Yes, really. I thought I hated you- you made me so agitated and all I could see or feel was red anytime you came near me, but I realized it was because I like you. And I’m sorry I was a jerk before, you don’t have to forgive me. I just hope we can move past it and,” Amity paused to catch her breath, her face a raging inferno. “Maybe we can build something more than just a better friendship.”
“Amity Blight, I would really like that.”
Amity grinned from ear to ear, ignoring the burning in the tips of them in favor of scooting closer to Luz.
“Really?”
“Yeah, really.”
Luz held out her hand hesitantly and Amity looked at it for far longer than she should have before she wiped her palm on her shirt and reached out to link their hands. The two shared a wobbly smile, both bright red, as their hearts pounded away in their chests.
It wasn’t the fantasy moment either of them had dreamed of, but it was better than they ever could have hoped.