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"We pray to our holy father thou art in heaven"

This is how is was every day

"That he may protect us from evil and wickedness alike”

The same prayer, the same people.

"Thou art in heaven"

The same places, the same food

"Amen"

The same feeling, that lust for something more. Something bigger than life.

Luz Noceda was your average girl... Well, no. Average is the wrong word. She was extraordinary, but around here? That's the worst thing you can be. So she was pushed down until it was gone, though that never really worked.

She stood up swiftly from the prayer as everyone was talking to one another, and swiftly made her way out of the church, trying to find her.

The one girl who made her feel normal

Though she'd never know that

Considering they’ve never talked

She looked around, looking for that beautiful auburn hair. Her golden eyes, and that porcelain skin.

Strangely enough, the one thing that made her feel normal, was her "worst mistake." Or atleast that's what everyone else in the village said...

She knew she shouldn't be like this, she shouldn't like girls... but she doesn't understand why? What's the harm right? But that's not how they see it...

She continues walking until she sees it, Amity Blight. She doesn't see her, she's looking away, talking to someone. An older woman, tall, maybe 5'11, large mane of grey hair, and a surprisingly vibrant red dress.

Luz had never seen this woman before, so she decided to stay hidden, ducking behind a nearby tree... to avoid interrupting Amity's conversation of course... nothing else

'Its okay Luz! You're not just spying on your crush! You're just being polite and not interrupting anything!' She tried to reason with herself, though it didn't really work, she stuck to it anyway.

She was too far away to hear most of the conversation, but she caught a few words, like Blight, and Boots? Though she's pretty sure she heard Amity say the woman's name was Eda.

Luz wanted to try to get closer to hear more, but the older woman soon looked around sharply before motioning for Amity to follow her, quickly following behind her, Luz refuses to lose her. Before they all end up at an old shack, decrepit and run down. Abandoned.

They go inside, while Luz debates whether or not she even wants to go inside, eventually her gay weighing out her common sense, following them into the shack.

It's really nothing special, so she can't understand why they would come into here. Looking around she sees some old desk, missing 2 of its legs on the side so it's just sitting there, broken. She sees some old, dust covered picture frames, though brushing the dust off proves to do nothing, considering the pictures were taken out long ago. The most interesting thing she notices is the staircase leading downwards. It's the only place they could have gone from here, so, gathering her courage, she goes down the dusty staircase.

It's only a few seconds before she reaches the bottom, but it feels like an eternity with how spooky this house… shed? Is. Seeing a faint purple glow from the bottom, she continues going, walking in on something she truly never expected to see.

Amity Blight, her longtime crush who she's never actually talked to… was holding a ball of pink fire.

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“WHAT THE FU-”

She can't say much before a purple slimy substance envelops her mouth to stop her from screaming

“Eda what the hell! You said nobody would find us here!” Amity waves her hands around wildly, one of them still on fire, while Luz just sits there, wide eyed, mouth would be agape if she weren’t gagged currently with… whatever this was

“Well I didn’t expect it either! I didn't see her following us earlier so I assumed everything was okay! Though I am impressed a human managed to tail me without me noticing” She puts her hand on her face thinking “We’re still screwed though, if she gets out and tells anyone well… bye bye Gravesfield.” mimicking an explosion sound with her mouth “We might just have to get rid of her…”

‘Human? What does she mean by that? Also WHAT DOES THE MEAN BY THAT’

Luz starts shaking her head wildly making incoherent noises through the strange sludge, trying to back up before she realizes her arms were bound by a chain to the wall, made of the same strange sludge

“Eda, it looks like she's trying to say something, maybe we should hear her out before… well, getting rid of her?” Amity takes a step closer to Luz, staring into her eyes and for some reason, Luz seems to calm down, like looking into a golden sea. “She seems harmless enough…”

Eda thinks for a moment, rubbing her chin slowly “Maybe you're right Boots, okay do the thing” motioning for amity to unbind her

Amity spins a glowing circle in the air, having extinguished the fire in her hand long ago, and Luz doesn’t know what she expects, but for the goop to just… float away into a bottle at Amity's side is certainly not it

“Also, just so you know human,” Eda takes a step closer before summoning a ball of fire of her own, “Don’t even think about running” She says with a deathly serious tone, before closing her hand “Kidding!” she smiles “but not really” she glares and creates another fire before putting it out swiftly

Luz just stands there, having no idea what she could possibly say, mouth, now ungagged, agape and staring at the 2… people? Things?

“Well since you seem a bit confused we’ll start for you. We,” Eda motions between her and Amity “Are witches” she finishes

If Luz’s jaw could've dropped further it would’ve hit the ground.
“Wait like- magic witches!? Like spells and sorcery!?” Luz is torn, all her life she's been told the horrors of witchcraft and the evils it entails, but here 2 witches are and she's… still alive. Sure they’re plotting on killing her if she can't give them a reason but that's more than she would have expected given all the stories about them

“Bingo kid, and you just witnessed it. So you have to make a choice, give us a reason to-”

Luz swiftly cuts her off, bubbling with excitement “Can you teach me!?” At this point she's practically jumping up and down, unable to sit still

“That's… not what i expected to hear… Are you sure about that? This isn't something you can just do so lightly, it's a life altering decision.” She gives Luz a careful look “I don't even know if you could handle the elixir kid”

“Elixir? Like a potion?” Luz gives her a confused look before looking towards Amity, Still just watching the conversation. Once again staring into the eyes of gold, filling her with confidence “I don't know what i need to do, but I'm sure I want to do this!” She takes on an attempted serious look but fails, feeling too giddy still grinning uncontainably

“If you really want to do this, you should know, you’ll never be able to have a normal life again. You will always be in danger, and you can't go back to that village as the same person” Eda looks towards Amity “Tell her”

Amity sighs and walks towards Luz, “To become a witch, you need to drink a specific elixir, one that changes your body. Permanently. You can't undo it, and you can't go back to your loved ones” She looks deep into her eyes and Luz senses a feeling of deep conviction

“That village… it already took away everyone I loved a long time ago,” Luz looks down at the floor before clenching her fists and looking up swiftly “I'm sure about this, I want to become a witch!”

Amity gives her a look, she can't tell what it is though… sadness? Respect? Anger? Luz can't figure it out, but whatever it was, it was gone quickly as Eda reached into her hair

‘Her hair?’

She pulled out a glowing orange liquid in a glass bottle “This is it, Elixir Of the Witch, though most people just call it magic juice” Luz stares at the bottle before Eda speaks again “This is going to be painful, it will take hours, and when it's finally complete, you will be a witch, but, it will take years before you can properly control your magic. Are you sure about this?”

Luz has never been more sure about anything in her life, after everything that village has done to her… what it's taken from her. A new life is what she's been waiting for. “I'm sure.” So she reaches her hands out, as Eda places the bottle in her hands.
Luz stares into the glowing liquid, seeing her reflection on the bottle. Before taking the cork out, looking towards Amity, then chugging the whole thing.

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It was agonizing. Burning, stabbing.
It felt like she was drowning and hyperventilating at the same time.
Her jaw weighed a thousand tons
Her heart was bursting
Every sound made her head pound like the bell in the tower.
She couldn't tell how long it's been, minutes, seconds, days.
Oh wait, that's right.

It's been years

2 Years later

The transformation was something else, her canines grew into fangs, her heart expanded, and she grew, she grew a lot, though the strangest addition was her ears. Long and pointy and very sensitive, to both sound and… other things. All in all, the potion only took 2 hours, but to Luz it felt like weeks. Her bones broke and reformed, her heart pushed her lungs out of the way to make room for a new organ and her ribs expanded to make room. The first couple weeks were the worst, it was hard to breathe, she couldn't walk. Eating anything other than pre smashed berries was impossible with how much her jaw ached. She truly felt like she was in hell. Though one day, everything was fine, she woke up and felt good. Actually, she felt better than she ever had in her life. She was truly energized and awake, she wasn't sore anywhere, and she felt strong. Though that was probably the 30 pounds of muscle and the 6 inches she grew, putting her at 6 feet tall and 150 pounds. That was the part Luz least expected, especially considering Amity was still 5’5.

“Kid you coming?” Eda ‘shouted’ from ahead looking back, in all reality she used a spell to talk directly into Luz’s head, as to not scare away their meal. Luz tried to do the same thing, but this was one spell she just hadn’t gotten the hang of yet, so she just gave a thumbs up.

Eda waved her forward, and Luz complied, coming over slowly and quietly until she could see the very large deer about 20 feet away. “Do what I taught you” Eda used the same spell as to not make any noise and Luz nodded, drawing a white spell circle in the air and concentrating before firing a very fast, and very sharp piece of stone at the deer. Direct hit and the deer collapses.

Luz jumps and whoops before Eda stands up next to her “Nice shot kid! Keep doing that and you’ll catch up to Boots in no time!” Luz blushes at the praise and mumbles something about it not being that great before Eda slaps her on the back “Don't sell yourself short kid, Not even I was that accurate at your age, don't worry about spell strength and just focus on what you can do!” Luz smiles again, and nods, beaming.

“Now, let's get this big guy home!” Eda casts an orange spell circle and the deer levitates behind them following them as they walk home “You know, after I became a witch, It took me 4 years just to learn how to make a light spell?”

Luz looks at her confused “You? 4 years? The light spell?” Luz shakes her head “No way, gotta try harder than that if you wanna trick me ‘Owl Lady’” Luz says with a disbelieving grin

Eda laughs “No, really kid. It took me four years! It took me a long time to get where I am now. I was a late bloomer you might say, but look at me now! Strongest witch alive!” Eda grins proudly “So don't think so hard about your strength, you're stronger than i was at your ‘witch age,’ and just about the most accurate witch I know, besides me of course” She says with a smirk

“Oh wow thank you so much oh wise Owl Lady, whatever would I do without your inspiration” she says with a sarcastic grin “But thank you, I'm trying not to think so hard about it, but i've been doing spell strength training for a year now, and I can still barely make a fireball as big as my hand…” she looks down

“I keep telling you kid, Strength isn't all that matters, you have speed and accuracy. That makes you as good as any witch I know, most of them can't even compare to your accuracy!” Eda spins a circle, pushing brush out of the way revealing a very interesting house on the cliffside. A large stained glass window in the shape of an eye on the front. Made of white bricks and a large tower on the side. Then of course, the door.

Luz hears a sharp gasp before a high pitched “VISITORS!” as the bird worm shoots his way over “OH HI LUZ!” Luz puts on a smile, “Hey Hooty, anyone come by while we were gone?” Hooty thinks for a second “NOPE! BUT I FOUND SOME BUGS, WANT SOME?” Luz grimaces “No thanks hooty… I'm feeling kinda tired so I'm gonna go lie down” Hooty waves his huge neck up and down in an attempt to nod “OKAY! JUST BE CAREFUL WITH THE GREEN ONE! SHE SEEMS MORE UPSET THAN USUAL!”

Luz already knew what he meant. In the 2 years prior Amity had dyed her hair green and grown it out, to the look of a giant lion's mane. Recently she had been trying to work on perfecting a new spell. One that would let her turn parts of her body into that purple goo, which Luz had learned is called abomination goo. Though she had been struggling with it, not understanding what the problem was. Luz sighed “I’ll talk to her”

Hooty opened the door and Luz and Eda walked in together, looking around like she always did. The breathing walls, Edas wanted poster, that really strange looking couch. Home sweet home.

Luz felt some shaking from upstairs and then a bit of a mix of a boom and a pop as she saw some smoke flowing downstairs

“I suppose I should talk to her right now, before the ends up burning the house down” Luz says, not looking back at Eda and skipping up the stairs 2 at a time as she hears Eda yell behind her about preparing the deer

Luz walks through the hallway, wondering where King was but assuming he must just still be asleep, entering Her and Amity’s shared room, seeing black scorch marks on the stool she must have been using as target practice and Amity lying face down in her bed. Hands covered in black soot.

“So, looks like you had some fun while we were out” Luz says, trying to be funny but amity just responds with a grunt “Wanna talk about it?”

Amity slowly sits up with a sigh, pulling her knees up and burying her head in them, knowing she really doesnt have any other choice otherwise Luz will just try to find something else to do to ‘help’ her. It's sweet, it really is, but she can go a bit overboard sometimes… “I just don't get what I'm doing wrong! I'm focusing, I'm hocusing, and I'm pocusing and nothing works! I feel the magic and I feel the Abomination and it just… rejects me? I can still control it like always, but it won't let me truly feel it and I just don't get it!” Luz nods slowly and sits down next to her, she never really got abomination magic, always having preferred basic elemental magic and some healing, so she can't really understand it all to well, but she wants to help anyway

“What if you don't need to control it? Try letting it take over and just guiding it” Luz says with a large grin, staring at Amity.

Amity lifts her head up to look at Luz and then she realized just how close their faces are and stands up quickly, her back to Luz hiding her fire red face, coughing slightly “That's a good idea Luz, thank you” she says in a very strained, high pitched voice.

Luz jumps up and hugs her back, “It's no problem Amity! Anything for my best friend” As Amity's face turns even redder, but Luz doesn't realize.

‘Just friends…’ they think at the same time

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Amity had been successful with Luz’s advice, being able to turn fully into an abomination

‘Woah this feels weird’

It was a new experience, so, not knowing what to do, she grabbed some logs and took them outside, trying out her new form by cutting them into firewood. She transformed her arms into sharp long blades, and slashed downwards, cleaving the wood in 2, setting them both up again and slashing down for a second time, cutting it into 4 pieces.

She hears a whistle, knowing exactly who it was “Damn boots, hell of a form. Though you were struggling with that, make a breakthrough?” the older lady says, leaning on the doorway

Amity nods, “Luz helped me, gave me the idea. She's the reason I did it so soon.” She says, transforming back into her regular self and blushing at the idea looking slightly downward

“Damn, you too are really, really bad about each other arent you?” She smirks knowingly, as she watched Amity combust and turn even more red as she waves her hands around wildly, sputtering

“I- N- NO! WE’RE J- JUST… Friends,” She slows down, looking more sad “Just friends, that's it. I don't even know if she's into girls!”

“So you are into her?” Eda says, ignoring everything else

“NO!... Maybe…….. okay yeah absolutely” she looks towards the floor “But that doesn't change that I don't thi-” Eda cuts her off

“Shes Bi, I don't know how you’ve lived with her for 2 years and not realized but good luck with that” She says as she walks away she whispers to herself so that Amity can't hear ‘and crazy into you ya dumbass,’ taking a sip from her mug.

Amity just stands there more red than ever before ‘I HAVE A CHANCE!’ she begins running and jumping around in the yard, not noticing when Luz walked outside and just started watching her

“That’s a really interesting dance there Amy, what’s it about?” Luz says, smirking and summoning an ice wall as Amity throws a pink fireball at her out of reflex

“Well damn! Please don't kill me, I thought we solved that problem 2 years ago!” Luz says with faux fear, giggling a little bit “Nice to see you’re in a good mood though, I hate seeing you upset…”

Amity stares blankly for a second, before Luz waves a bit “Hello?” as Amity snaps out of it, “Oh, Yes, Hi L-Luz. I uhm- I managed to complete the abomination form thanks to your advice yesterday!” Amity smiles, it's not technically a lie, though not entirely the truth either, but Luz doesn't need to know that

Luz smiles brightly, showing her fangs, Amity blushes “That's great Amity” Luz runs over and bear tackles her into a hug, lifting her off her feet, quite literally. Amity blushes even harder and notices something on Luz’s face, her cheeks more significantly, a blush of her own.

Luz.

Blushing at Amity

Amity thinks she might just pass out, but she doesn’t, instead, once Luz sets her down, Amity gives her a hug of her own, and presses her lips against her cheek.

“It's all thanks to you, Luz” she says smiling before realizing exactly what she just did, Turning Maroon and stammering as Luz looks into her eyes, her own eyes wide and mouth open. Amity tries to run but finds her legs unable to move, stuck there, staring into Luz Nocedas eyes, before coming back to her senses and rushing off into their (still shared) room.

Luz is frozen.

She was just kissed.

On the cheek.

By Amity.

Amity Blight.

The very one she's been crushing on for 3 years now.

Her mind is racing, filled with thoughts, bouncing off each other before it all stops on 1 single thought.

“I HAVE A CHANCE”

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Luz Noceda had never been good at romance by any means.

She tried to ask a boy out at the village she used to live in once and was immediately laughed at for the absurd notion that a girl could ask a boy out. She still doesn't understand what the problem was, but she knows that her experiences with romance have been far from good. Being called cheesy and crazy. Weird and a loser. Every name you can think of, she's heard it.

Which is why she's panicking in the basement right now.
"She kissed me first, that means she must have feelings, right!?’ she reasons ‘But what if it was just a thank you kiss!?!?’ she groans ‘Are those even a thing!?’ Luz is swirling with emotion when she collapses against the wall

“I just want it to be perfect… I just wish I could tell her how I feel…” She says to herself, her head in her hands

Her mind wanders, thinking of every way it could go wrong… and every way it could go right. Knowing that if it does, nothing could ever be better, but if it goes wrong… she doesn't know what she would do with herself.

She sighs, standing up and walking upstairs, ‘I should get something to eat’ she looks downwards while walking up the stairs, bumping into somebody after opening the door, “Oh sorr-” She's cut off by the sight of Amity, staring at her like a deer in headlights, apparently realizing she's been caught, Amity runs off, not knowing what else to do, “I DIDN'T HEAR ANYTHING!”

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Amity is conflicted. Terrified. Confused.

She's never felt like this before, so… helpless, like she's drowning in air.

Her chest is tight on itself, making it hard to breathe, she's lying in her bed, curled up with her eyes closed. ‘Luz must hate me!’ she shudders lightly ‘I didn't even ask before kissing her, and then I eavesdrop on her in the basement!’ she closes her eyes tighter ‘but… she has feelings for me… maybe i can just tell her how I feel…’ she tries to regroup her thoughts and her confidence, standing up, she promises to herself “I’ll do it! I’ll ask her out tomorrow and tell her how I really feel”

As soon as she says that, she hears a thud from outside her door, and then a squeak and someone running off. She goes over to the door and opens it, seeing 1 item on the ground outside the door. A shoe.

Luz’s Shoe..

She heard what Amity said.

She HEARD what Amity SAID!

“Oh… shit” she says and backs into their room, collapsing on the bed once again.

“That won't stop me though.” She says, confident, “nothing will”

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Luz was nervous, terrified, almost nauseous.

She heard what Amity said… Amity wants to ask Luz out.

Amity likes Luz

It's almost enough to drive her crazy, especially after she ran off immediately after falling on her ass after having overheard it, losing her shoe in the process. Which she knows Amity saw considering it is no longer where she dropped it.

Right now she's standing outside the door… of their shared room… where she's going to have to go into if she doesn't want to sleep on the incredibly uncomfortable couch… She paces back and forth, weighing her options.

‘I can just… go straight to bed! Sleep spell myself after getting in bed… but then it might seem like I'm avoiding her on purpose because I don't like her…’ Luz sighs again ‘Why am I even avoiding her!? She said she wants the same thing… is it just because I feel like I wasn't supposed to overhear it?’ She sits down, back against the door ‘I do feel guilty about overhearing her like that… But it's not like I heard something bad… In fact I heard the best thing possible… I should just face it! Yeah! I'm powerful! I can handle this!’ Luz stands up with newfound confidence, and opens the door, slowly, because she's still scared, no matter how much she wants to tell herself otherwise.

She doesn't know what she expects, a common theme these days, though this time it's just Amity sleeping on her bed.

And by HER bed, it means Luz’s bed.

Amity is sleeping in Luz’s bed for some reason

Luz is almost frozen, but manages to keep her senses, looking over at Amity’s bed, seeing it covered in… abomination spikes…

Amity did this on purpose

Luz tries to spin her white spell circle to move the sludge, knowing it won't do anything considering how far advanced Amity is in abominations but it's worth a shot, and exactly what she expected happens for once. Nothing.

Luz sighs… ‘It's not like I can just kick her out of my bed while she's sleeping…’ Luz ponders her options and decides the best course of action

Luz gets in the bed with her. Slowly, as to not disturb her. Sure maybe she's being a bit forward but it's her bed after all, right? Right! Luz isn't doing anything weird!

Atleast that's what she’d like to think, but her red face gives her away. She really does just want to be near Amity, so that's what she's going to do. I mean, Amity did say she was going to ask her out so what's the problem, right?

Though no matter how she frames it, she still feels weird, but she also doesn't want to get out of the bed, especially after Amity starts shuffling, and throws an arm over Luz and pulls her closer, practically spooning her as Luz turns into a blushing ball of gay madness.

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It may have taken her a while to get to sleep. Maybe it was her nerves, maybe it was the smell of vanilla and mint, but she just couldn't close her eyes for long enough to truly rest. Though, in the end, sleep won her over and she passed into a dreamless state.

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Eventually, Luz woke up. Amity’s arms still wrapped around her, though now, Amity’s head was on Luz’s chest and was playing with her hair. Awake. Amity was consciously on Luz’s chest and playing with her hair.

Luz nearly passed out the second after she woke up, but managed to settle for just turning into a fiery red mess. Though the second Amity felt that heat, she looked up and saw Luz, awake, and beet red.
Luz stammers and tries to say something, but Amity just cuts her off, “Do you want to go out with me?” Amity is quiet, but confident. Looking straight into Luz’s eyes with no hint of backing down.

Luz doesn't know what to say.

Well actually no, she knows exactly what to say, she just doesn't know how for a second, though she quickly reels herself back in, stammering quickly “Y-YES” while her face flushes even redder than it was earlier.

Amity smiles softly, and sets her head back onto Luz’s chest before closing her eyes once again, “Thats good,” Amity exhales sharply, but in a happy way, “I've practically been holding my breath all morning waiting to ask you.” Amity looks back up, still smiling, “Sorry for my little trick last night, I just wanted to be close to you I suppose, but I was too afraid to just ask…”

Luz calms down at this, realizing Amity was just as terrified about everything when Amity continues, “So, how long?”

Luz looks at her confused “How long what?

Amity looks at her with a shit eating grin “How long have you liked me?”

Luz goes blank, turns red, and tries to just stand up and rush out, but Amity is quicker spinning a spell circle to block the door

“It's embarrassing! Let me gooooooooo” Luz says exaggeratedly, clawing at the now abomination covered door

"I don't think so, you've been waiting a long time haven't you?" Amity looks at Luz smugly before sitting down on the bed, patting the seat beside her

Luz turns around and sighs, then slowly nods, "i may, or may not have been crushing on you since i met you..." Luz slowly sits where Amity pat

Amity was expecting something, but 2 years was not it "you've been waiting for 2 years?!" She says loudly, not exactly yelling, but not quiet by any means either.

"3 actually..." Luz says quietly and fidgets with her hands "Like, ever since the first time i saw you... you were just... beautiful..." Luz looks up into Amity's eyes, "You still are, and now that I know you? How incredible you are? It's only grown..."

Amity doesn't know what to say, she'd never been complimented like that, actually she'd never been complimented by anyone other than Eda, and that was just for her magic. Her life before meeting Eda was bland. Boring. Nothing.

A life of studying to be 'a proper lady' for 'a dashing husband' always being told she was never enough. Being told how much better she COULD be but never was. To be told that she was incredible? That she was beautiful? It was new. It was unexpected, and it was amazing.

"I- I d-... I dont know what to say..." she finally stammers out, looking down, Amity the one becoming beet red now.

Luz reaches over and grabs her hand, holding it, "If i hadnt met you... I dont know where I'd be, so thank you, Amity." She pulls her hand up and kisses her knuckles "You've changed my life" She grins brightly

"I- I didnt do that much..." Amity shakes her head "Youre the one who followed us, who made that decision" Amity looks into her eyes now, seeing the care and admiration held in them

"Sure, but you're the one who made everything after so perfect" Luz rubbed her thumb over Amity's knuckles, realizing Amity was slowly coming closer, leaning in, so she did the same,  ever so slowly leaning in, lips brushing when the door opens suddenly. Both of them looking over quickly.

Eda stands there wide eyed, "Well shit, we're gonna need to get you guys separate rooms"

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They both stand up, quickly shouting “No!” at the same time

“Well damn, okay then if you really say so. But I don't want any funny business happening in my house, you got that? Door stays open.” Eda points an accusing finger at the 2 girls, her eys squinted looking at the 2 suspiciously, both girls nod fast, and Eda continues “Other than that, I just came to get you to tell you that breakfast's ready, yall fell asleep last night before dinner so I just put your servings in the ice box. Luz did you tell her about what we caught?” Luz hiccups, realizing that she totally forgot to with everything that happend

“No… I forgot” She says solemnly “I'm sorry…” But Eda quickly stops her, “Hey kid, it's okay” she says chuckling “It's really not that big a deal.”

Luz looks up “Really?” and Eda just keeps laughing

“Yes, kid, I'm sure. Youve been here 2 years and you still don't know that?” Eda walks over and pats her shoulder, “Come on you 2, Lets go eat. Ive been dying to try this ever since i saw it!”

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Eda was right, the deer was amazing. Or maybe that was just her cooking skills. Who knows, but Amity and Luz had quickly run back upstairs to their room- leaving the door open, to talk.

“So what are we now?” Luz asks slowly and carefully

“Well I had hoped that we were girlfriends but if you don't wanna go that fast I can understand…” Amity looks towards Luz for an answer

“No! No! I want that too!” Luz quickly goes over to Amity and wraps her in a hug, her chin on the top of Amity’s head due to the height difference “I just wanted to make sure… I'm still new to all this y’know?”

Amity nods, “I do… It's my first time aswell…” Amity cringes at that “Now that I say that out loud it sounds really wrong” She laughs, “But it's the truth, Ive never had a girlfriend before”

Luz laughs aswell and kisses the top of her head, to which Amity stiffens and freezes. “Sorry, was that too much?” Luz questions but Amity quickly corrects her “No! It's fine!... I actually really liked it… I'm just not used to it…”

Luz laughs again, this time a little harder. “Well, now that we’re together I can do a lot of things like that- For example” Luz back up a little and bends down, Placing a kiss on Amitys cheek, then her forehead, and her other cheek, then her temple, then she just goes on a full assault of Amitys face, kissing every place she can see, except for one. Slowing down, pausing, looking at Amitys bright red face, eyes pulled tightly shut.

Slowly opening one eye once she feels Luz has stopped, seeing Luz gaze lovingly into her eyes Luz asks a simple, yet incredible question

“Amity, can I kiss you?” Amity’s eyes are shocked open at this sudden question, but she has no objections so she says what she feels “Y-Yes please…”

Luz smiles and leans in slowly, thoughtfully. It feels like an eternity before their lips truly collide, but once it happens Luz knows that it's not a feeling shes ever going to give up willingly. A firework of emotions, Luz can feel it in her stomach, a swarm of butterflies and 10000 pounds all at once, but she loves every second of it.

Amity felt ecsatic, like she could do this every second of every day and never get tired. Something she knows shell want for the rest of her life, and in that moment she knows she wants more.

Pulling Luz in harder to deepen the kiss, Luz complies and pulls Amity in just as hard. Neither of them really know what to do, they just know they don't want it to stop, they break for a quick second taking a shallow breath before diving right back in, falling onto the bed and neither of them really know when it happened, but one of them cast a spell to close the door.

Amity could feel Luz’s tounge on her lips, opening slightly to let her in and the second she does it's an explosion of feelings. She can feel Luz’s tounge on hers, exploring every inch, going deeper, slowly, as if waiting for something that never came, Amity does the same. Their tounges dancing together in an unchoreographed dance, going with whatever feels right before Luz breaks the kiss and moves to Amity’s jaw, lightly kissing downwards before meeting her neck and sucking lightly, enough to leave a small hickey, and looking up into Amity’s eyes, as if asking for permission.

Amity nods swiftly, before Luz jumps back into her neck, sucking harder, and licking it, before finally biting down softly, just barely breaking the skin with her fangs, making Amity gasp in a feeling she didnt quite know yet, but one she knew she enjoyed.

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Luz didnt know exactly when it happened, but eventually they fell asleep in each others arms, both glad that they met the other, knowing they wouldnt give this up for the world. Amity had gotten into the same position as earlier. Head on Luzs chest, though this time Luz had her arms around the smaller girl aswell. Tight, but not uncomftortable. Unwilling to let go of the girl she knows she loves. Truly accepting it, never to forget, that Amity loves her too, even if it's still left unsaid, for now that is.