Don't wait for the right time when it comes to confessing your love, because in this case, the right time is always too late...

"Luz Noceda! Get your face out of my abomination!" The teacher ordered.

Luz pulled her head out of the abomination's body, turning to the teacher with a face covered in purple sludge. While everyone in the class grimaced Amity couldn't help but giggle at Luz's usual goofy antics. She wiped her face clean of any remains and apologized, "Sorry Teach, I was looking for a glyph inside of the abomination."

The teacher adjusted his glasses. "Ah yes, right. I suppose you have caught up to the literary aspect of abominations and should now focus on actually summoning one. Very well, since you need to draw glyphs in order to do magic, please resume."

"Woohoo," Luz exclaimed triumphantly before diving face first into the purple creature.

Class continued normally, with the exception of Luz, as everyone either worked on controlling or summoning their abominations. Once again Amity found herself admiring Luz, how determined she is to learn magic. Despite everyone else silently judging her for not being able to do magic the normal way she ignores them and presses forward with her studies.

"Amity Blight would you please focus on training your abomination," scolded the teacher.

"Sorry!"

Once class was finished she and Luz made their way to the cafeteria together. Conveniently the two were in the same abomination class before lunch so they'd always accompany each other. It was nice, a little awkward at first for Amity but she eventually got over her nerves. But ever since Grom she's been more nervous than ever, every single interaction she notices more and more about Luz. And since her talk with Emira last week, things have somehow become even worse, which she didn't think was possible. It started with noticing how her eyes sparkle whenever they talked about magic or Azura, how a small tuft of her hair sways gently across her forehead with each step, and now she's noticing how her eyelashes flutter when she-

"You ok Amity?"

Amity blinked twice, not aware how far gone she was. "Um, yeah. Just uh, thinking about classes and... stuff."

Luz leaned her head forward in concern, "You've been pretty out of it lately, you sure you're ok?"

"I'm fine."

"Amity, if something's going on then I want to help. You can trust me."

Oh Luz, why do you have to have such an amazing smile?

"I do trust you. I just... it's complicated."

Luz's eyes widened, knowing what that meant, and she inhaled excitedly. "You have a crush on somebody!?"

"No!" Amity exclaimed, her face a deep shade of red.

"It totally is! You never did tell me who you wanted to go to Grom with, is that the person you like," asked Luz with a giddy smile.

Amity was completely helpless when it came to Luz.

"Yes, it is."

Luz squealed in excitement.

"Wait," Amity said before Luz could say anything. "I know you want me to tell you everything but I really don't want to talk about it, so could we please just drop it?"

Luz's potential smile fell to a small frown. As much as she wanted to learn about Amity's love life, and help as much as she could, she wouldn't pry. "Ok. Fine, we can stop talking about your crush. But when you're ready to talk about it I wanna hear all about it!"

"Uh…"

"Promise?"

"..."

"Pwease!"

Completely helpless.

"Fine."

"Let's make it official," shouted Luz, extending her closed fist out to Amity, then sticking out her pinky finger.

"What are you doing?"

"You're supposed to wrap your pinky around mine. It's called a pinky promise, the strongest form of promise that exists."

Amity eyed Luz's pinky finger cautiously, "Even stronger than the Everlasting Oath?"

"Well... it's the strongest form of promise that exists in the human world," she responded bashfully.

Amity couldn't help but smile, "Alright." She slowly wrapped her pinky finger around Luz's, almost pulling away from a sudden shock that coursed through her. "A pinky promise it is."

"Awesomesauce!"

The two were now standing in the cafeteria. Amity looked towards a particular table and mentally sighed, knowing that this would be her last "Luz time" she gets for the rest of the day. Because Luz spends all day in different classes, she only spends 1/9th of her time in the abomination class. Even though she would love to sit at Luz's table with Willow and... the other person to spend more time with her, she's required to sit with Skara and Boscha.

"I'll see ya tomorrow Amity," Luz said, waving at her friend while walking towards her table.

"See ya," Amity copied, returning the gesture. She made her way to her own table, sitting down with Skara and Boscha. Both girls were mindlessly scrolling through their Penstagram pages.

Amity was already bored.

While they were somewhat interesting to talk to they paled in comparison to Luz. Amity would have to turn off her brain sometimes in order to talk to them, as it was limited to clothes that they thought looked nice which didn't mean anything because Amity rarely wore anything that wasn't her Hexside uniform, mean teachers (really just them complaining for their poor performance), and cute boys... yeah. No. Now that she actually thought about it, they're not interesting at all.

Luz's unique human charm was like a breath of fresh air. She spoke with such enthusiasm about the smallest of things and made the most boring of conversations interesting. Maybe it's just because she's human but Luz has a way of sporadically jumping from one interesting topic to another, it could be mind boggling, thought provoking, or just undeniably interesting.

There's apparently this dish-thing called "Peet-Saw" with a mysterious ingredient called a "Toe-Maydo" that is unlike any other fruit or vegetable. It's eaten in triangles, made in the form of a circle, yet delivered in a square box. If that image wasn't enough to interest someone in human culture then there's apparently this ancient ongoing debate as to whether or not it's correct to have a certain tropical plant on this "Peet-Saw". Amity highly doubts that this would be interesting at all if it were not Luz explaining the complexities of human life.

One good thing that comes out of sitting at Skara and Boscha's table is that it provides a perfect view of Luz. Amity likes to watch how her arms flail around while talking about something that excites her, how her hair sweeps every time she nods or shakes her head, and despite the distance Luz's smile still has that effect on her: making her heart beat just a little bit faster. Is it creepy? A little bit… but Amity just can't help herself, Luz is too dang pretty.

Suddenly the doors to the cafeteria were kicked open, a loud bang echoing throughout the room. Someone dramatically stepping in from the hallway.

It must've been a new student because Amity had never seen him before. He wore a Bard Coven Hexside uniform, the dark red contrasting greatly with his somewhat pale skin, yet complimenting his dark red hair. He looked to be a little bit taller than Amity and had a decent build to go with it. He looked like someone straight out of a teen romance novel... not that Amity would know anything about that.

The boy scanned the cafeteria before looking at Luz's table and flashing a white toothed smile.

The whole room was quiet as he walked towards Luz's table. Now standing before Luz, who was chowing down on a peanut butter sandwich, he cleared his throat.

"Hello Luz," greeted the boy. He had a deep voice.

"Hi," responded Luz, her head tilted in curiosity. "Who are you?"

"Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Uzair and I'm of the many people who have heard about what you did at Grom, usually the Grom Queen gets eaten alive but you succeeded at defeating the Grom monster! That is quite an accomplishment."

"Thank you Uzair, but I couldn't have done it on my own. If you're going to praise anyone it should be her." Luz said, then turning to said girl. "Hi Amity!"

Amity gave a small, awkward wave and a smile but kept quiet.

"Right, well I'll be sure to thank her later. Now, you're probably wondering why I'm here," Uzair chuckled scratching the back of his neck nervously.

"You betcha."

"If I am being quite honest, I'm a bit embarrassed to say it, but your accomplishments have certainly gotten my attention and... well, I'd be honored if someone as accomplished as you... would accompany me to dinner tomorrow."

Luz's eyes widened, "Wait... are you saying-"

"I am formally asking you out on a date."

Amity Blight felt her body freeze, the cafeteria filled with hushed whispers and surprised gasps becoming nothing but a numbing static as it dawned on her that Luz might accept.

She waited for Luz's answer.

"I accept!"

Author's Note

I'm doing what I can to capture Luz's goofy personality and how Amity is internally reacting to it, trying to make it seem as canon as possible. I really enjoy writing their interactions with one another (especially from Amity's perspective) they're an interesting dynamic. REVIEW and tell me what you think, I'd love to hear how you all think this story is going to progress!

Tonight I'll be watching "Wing It Like Witches" and I hope that I don't learn anything that invalidates this story... well, guess I'll have to wait and see. Cya tomorrow!