The next day after Grom was, thankfully, a free day. Way too many things happened last night, and I was too tired to deal with it so I did what any responsible person would do: sleep on it.

When the next morning came around I felt fresh and ready to go and bother my best friend. After eating breakfast and getting changed, I made my way to Blight Manor with a smile on my face. Once I got there one of the maids opened the door for me and I made my way straight to Mittens room and opened her door with a kick.

"Ah! Fuck!" As expected, Amity was already up, dressed, and was putting some makeup on when I barged into her room. Thankfully she wasn't putting on the eyeliner or she might have stabbed herself in the eye. "Val! What the fuck is wrong with you?!"

I simply stood there with a grin on my face. She must have sensed my evil intentions; because she dropped the brush she was holding and made two fireballs. "Don't you fucking dare." I simply stood ready and inched my way closer to her. "I'm serious, Val. I won't hesitate."

We both stood there, staring at the other in the eyes. I wiggled my fingers before drawing the fastest spell circle I've ever drawn and summoned a bunch of chains that wrapped themselves around Amity. Now that her hands were tied around her body, I rushed towards her and wrapped a yelling Amity in a hug.

"Oh, I'm so proud of you!" It was hard to be able to properly hug her when she's thrashing around so much.

"Val! You piece of shit! Let go of me!" And, as always, she managed to get free of my chains. How does she keep doing that? I don't know.

Once she got free, I let go of her and step back. "Alright, alright. But I only did it because I need to do this next." Amity just looked at me as if she wanted to murder me, but did nothing when I walked to the door and out of her room.

Once out I walked to Edric's room, stood in front of his door, and knocked on it. "Edric! I know you're awake! So get your dumb ass over here!"

"Who's making so much noise this early in the morning?" Emira walked out of her room, still dressed in her pajamas and rubbing the sleep out of her eyes. I was going to greet her when another person walked out of her room and my eyes widened.

"Emira Blight," I called out to her while dramatically putting a hand over my chest in mock shock. "What is this shameful behavior?"

She looked at me confused before she turned and saw that Viney was standing behind her. Then she proceeded to blush and hide her face between her hands. "I told you to stay inside."

"Well, I had to come and see who's dumb enough to come here and make a mess so early." She said while leaning against the door frame and crossing her arms over her chest. "You're Valyria, right?"

"The one and only." I said while knocking on Edric's door a couple more times till I heard a muffled "coming" from the other side. "And you must be Viney."

She raised an eyebrow and chuckled, probably surprised that I know who she is. "That's right. And I'm guessing you're close friends with the Blights since you busted in like a rampaging Slitherbeast."

"You got it," I said with a smirk. "Been friends with little Mittens since we were kids."

"We're the same height!" She yelled from her room, clearly annoyed with me.

I was about to knock on Edric's door once again but stopped short when he opened it while yawning. "What do you want?"

"Pay up, bitch." By that moment Amity walked out of her room and closed the door behind her. "I won our bet."

He looked at my outstretched hand for a bit before groaning and walking to fetch the 50 Snails he owes me. "I hate you." And then he slammed the door on my face.

"Geez, someone's grumpy," I said while looking at Emira and Viney.

"He's not a morning person." Said Emira while resting her chin on top of Viney's head.

The beast keeper was about to complain when Mittens walked out of her room, locked the door behind her, and began to walk away towards the stairs.

"I'm going to the Owl House." She said to me when she reached the stairs and turned around. "You coming, or not?"

"Yeah, yeah, coming." And with that, after saying goodbye to Emira and Viney, I followed Amity out of Blight Manor. "So! Any specific reason we going to meet Luz on a free day?"

Oh, if only I could take a picture of Amity's face right now! She's so embarrassed.

"W-Who said anything about meeting Luz?" Oh, she's so cute when she tries to lie to me. "M-Maybe I'm going to meet… Hooty?"

I simply glared at her and she groaned in response. "Hooty? Seriously? You could have said King and I might have bought the lie. But with what happened last night, I really doubt you want to go there just to see King." Even if he's really adorable.

"Ugh… you're right. Luz… she asked me out on a date." Knew it!

"Speaking off, you need to tell me what happened. I gotta know the details!"

She sighed, ran her hands through her hair, and slowed down her pace so that she would have enough time to tell me everything that happened that night.

-o-

Willow's POV

"…and then I asked her to be my girlfriend." Said Luz while flopping into the worn-down couch. "But I still don't get it."

"Get what?" I asked her while sitting on the other end of the couch. King took this chance to climb on and lay on Luz's lap.

She began to scratch him behind his ear, probably out of reflex. "Why me? I mean… I'm a weirdo. Back home no one would even think about dating "Weird Luz."

"Then I guess it's a good thing we're not in the human realm." Luz stopped petting King and turned to look at me. "Luz, what you think makes you weird; it's something absolutely normal here in the Boiling Isles. You're not weirder than me, or Gus, or Amity, or even Val."

The smirk that appeared on Luz's face when I said the name of the Grugby player sent a shiver of apprehension down my spine.

"Speaking of Val," I don't like where this is going. "I saw you two dancing reeeaaally close last night." I knew it.

I could feel a blush creep up my face so, to save me further embarrassment, I groaned and covered my face with my hands. "It's not what it looked like."

"Oh really? Cus it looked like you were having the time of your life while dancing with her." I don't need to see her to know that there's a smirk on her face.

After resigning myself to my fate, I moved my hands away and leaned back into the couch. "Okay, okay. You're right! I enjoyed dancing with her. And I…" And like the coward I am, I mumbled the last part.

"Sorry? What was that?" I hate her so much.

"I… I might have a crush on her." I sighed, stood up, and began to pace around the living room. "I always saw her as this… this amazing person that could do whatever she wanted. Sure she used to hang with Boscha and her pose, but it was probably for the same reasons Amity does it. She also became actual friends with Amity and was there when I couldn't…"

"Because her parents suck."

"…and she never bullied anyone. Sure she can be a bit of a bitch, and has a mean side, but she always directs that behavior to those that mess with her." Thankfully, Luz stayed quiet and said nothing while I ranted. After getting all that out of my chest I sat back down on the couch and sighed. "But last night she did something that caught me completely by surprise: she pushed me out of the way and took the full brunt of a Spawn. She willingly decided to face her worst fear, just so that I didn't have to."

"So when the Spawn took her inside itself I… I freaked out. She could have died! When I realized that, something inside of me snapped. I had to get her out of there. So, after struggling with piercing the Spawn's body and trying to find Val, I managed to pull her out. Shortly after that, you two must have defeated Grom because the Spawn went limp."

Luz stayed quiet for a second, now scratching King on his tummy. "Dang… I never thought of her as the selfless type."

"Me neither. So imagine my surprise when she decided to tell me what her greatest fear was and before you ask, I'm not going to tell you what it is." Luz pouted and mumbled something that I couldn't understand. Something about "perra loca." Whatever that means. "And that's when I saw her for who she truly is." I could feel a smile pulling up at my lips, and a blush starting to cover my face and ears.

"Well good for you, Wills. Maybe, if you're lucky, you'll manage to score yourself a girlfriend!" She was going to say something else but got caught off by a yell that came from the front of the house.

Then Hooty opened the door. "Luuuz! The mean girl and her crazy friend are here. Hoot!"

"Hey! Who you're calling crazy, you freak!" Said someone from outside.

"No, no he has a valid point, Val."

We both turned to look at each other. Luz grinned at me before lifting King (who complained with an adorable "weh!") and walking out the house. After calming myself down, and hoping that I was no longer blushing, I followed Luz to the front of the house, only to be met with a really weird sight: Amity was blushing a lot and her ears were wiggling with happiness, Luz had an arm wrapped around Amity's waist and had a really big grin on her face, and Val was laughing at Amity's reaction.

Now that I had these feelings for her, hearing Val laugh was making weird things to my heart and knees.

"I wonder if I could make her laugh like that…"

…oh no.

Oh no

I do have a crush on Val.