Dear Diary,

Did last night actually happen?

Holy Titan, Luz is my girlfriend.

My. Girlfriend!

Holy shit, we finally did it! We're finally a thing, a couple! It only took us a ride in a bird worm (technically, two for me), a crumbling tower, and imminent danger for us to do it, but we're finally official!

Okay, I need to stop writing that, but I just can't!

AAAAAHHHHHHHH!

Okay, I think I'm good now.

The whole thing felt like a huge blur, it didn't feel real until I woke up lying on the floor of Luz's living room in a borrowed sleeping bag and pajamas that weren't mine. It was only then that the memories of last night hit me like an out-of-control grudgby ball.

The knocking at my window would prove to be the start of the insanity, as it was Hooty trying to get my attention. Having no clue how he got here or knew where I lived, I opened them to see if he was okay. I didn't even know if it was actually him, part of me thought it was the twins pulling an illusion on me to piss me off.

Well, it was him alright.

He greeted me by immediately snaking up to my balcony and yelling something like "I gotta help them all!" before swallowing me into his gullet in one big gulp.

At least he was kind enough to not shatter my windows.

I tried to fight my way out of Hooty, but he somehow bound my hands to my sides when he picked me up, and I didn't have the chance to summon Ghost to help me. Eventually, the smell knocked me out, which I was glad for because the odor of his throat made me want to vomit. I didn't know what to expect out of a demon who eats rats and garbage off the ground, but it definitely was worse than I could ever imagine.

When I came to, I began to struggle my way out of the pellet he trapped me in. When I emerged, the first thing I saw was Luz hovering over me. I had no clue where I was, or why she was there and looking relatively unscathed. She explained that we were in the basement of the Owl House, which became more apparent as I found myself surrounded by part of Eda's human artifact collection. She also started apologizing for Hooty, saying he had been acting weird all day.

I think we both knew that weird was an understatement.

I brushed Hooty off, just looking to get back home and away from Luz. I couldn't even look at her without blushing. Figuring I had a chance, albeit kinda forced, to bring the "kiss" up, I asked her if we could just forget about it. As much as it pained me to want her to forget it, it was totally subconscious, and I still had no clue whether or not she would have wanted it.

Luckily for me (?), Luz didn't want to talk much about it, instead wanting to get me out of the basement as quickly as possible. She walked over to get me out a back door, but our weight triggered this trap door in the floor that neither of us saw when we came in. We ended up grabbing on to each other, and fell down a slide into a pile of pillows. For some reason, Luz blew one of them up with one of her fire glyphs before sliding down to investigate our surroundings. When I joined her, I found that we were in some sort of ride like the ones at the carnival.

I was so confused as to what was going on. I saw a sign as we were floating in, but I could barely register it. I was too preoccupied with wanting to beat Hooty's ass, but he was too busy acting as our boat.

I still have no idea how he managed to do that.

When I heard the sappy music, saw all the hearts, and the sign that said "you're smart, cool, and classy,", I instantly figured out what was going on.

As fast as I could without Luz noticing, I tried to make sure my hair was okay. I could feel my face heating up, and I think my cheeks began to hurt from smiling. It was just such a cute sight, and I thought that Luz took a lot of time and energy in setting it up.

That was, until she started to destroy the place.

Almost as soon as I realized what we were floating through, she began conjuring her glyphs and knocking all the displays down. It felt like I was at Grom all over again, but this time watching the real her reject me right in front of my eyes. Even if it wasn't intentional on her part, it still hurt.

The boat eventually stopped at a dock, where Luz emerged from the water. She called the whole experience a nightmare, something I had to wholeheartedly agree with. I told her I was heading home, but she tried to stop me, telling me this whole thing was one of Hooty's stupid ideas.

I guess he's not the only one who had stupid ideas about us.

The moment I told her that the idea of us dating was stupid, Hooty started going crazy, flailing around the room and sobbing. He was yelling about how he couldn't seem to help anyone.

I didn't know what else was going on in the Owl House that night, but he was helping Luz? I didn't know what that meant, but the gasp that Luz let out right before Hooty went mad should have let me know what she wanted to do.

In an effort to try to get us to safer ground, Luz led us out of the basement, where we were greeted by a loud shriek, something flying around, and parts of the turret next to the house falling towards us. When the dust settled, Eda in this huge harpy form came to check on us, swaddling King in her arms. In spite of the craziness happening around us, Luz was as chipper as ever, wanting to ask Eda about her new form when we weren't in danger at the hands (beak? body?) of a house demon in the midst of an attack.

I definitely had some questions about everything going on, but all I could do was stare at the insanity that was Hooty. Eda eventually caught him and pulled him away from us, hopefully to go to calm him down. But, that caused a huge sinkhole to form, dragging us both a couple feet down into the ground. Luz came and helped me up, saying that she wanted to ask me something for a while.

"Oh Titan, where was this going?" was all I could think while she went on about how she wanted to do it in the best way and that she thought that the Tunnel of Love was too lame of a place to do it.

She knows I'm a nerd and a hopeless romantic based on our Azura conversations, how could she possibly have thought that I was too cool for that?

She eventually collected herself, and said that everything was so crazy, and that while she had no idea what the future held, she knew it would be so cool if I were in it.

As corny as this might be to say, though she's not a witch in the same way I am, she still manages to have me under her spell.

She couldn't get the words out, and I couldn't wait any longer. I knew what wanted to ask me, so I just went ahead and did it myself.

"Do you want to go out with me?"

She left out a halfhearted no, which I almost took as a misunderstanding until I saw her dorky grin emerge. I felt bad, so I let her do it.

When she asked, I gave a wholehearted, enthusiastic yes.

Titan, the biggest weight fell off of my shoulders when those words left her mouth.

It turned out that we were both kind of new to this whole relationship thing, so the first thing we did was hold hands. While it wasn't the first time that I ever held her hand, it was the first time I was able to do it without something dangerous chasing us, and the first time in a relationship with her.

Like every other time before it, it was kinda awkward, but it felt so right. It felt so scary to do it, but her thumb running over my hand instantly calmed me down.

Seeing how late it was, Luz invited me to stay with them for the night. I almost said no, but I didn't want the night to end. I also didn't want to face anyone in my house just yet, I needed the moment to sink in enough to figure out how I was going to break this news to those who needed to know.

Though they were most likely preoccupied with other tasks, I texted Mom and Dad that I was staying with Boscha. They still didn't know that we weren't exactly friends anymore, so I was able to use her as a good coverup. Knowing that they wouldn't snitch on me, I texted the twins and let them know that I was staying overnight with Luz, they asked if the lovebirds had finally gotten together.

I told them that was for me to know and for them to find out later.

Before we headed to bed, we spent some time looking through Philip's diary. I was able to show Luz some ways to get more info from the echo mouse while she was avidly taking notes about everything Philip had discovered. We each kept catching the glances we were giving one another, causing us to blush and laugh uncontrollably.

It soon got to a point where we were both about to pass out, so Luz took me upstairs to grab a sleeping bag and a pair of her pajamas for the night, so I could be comfy and not have to sleep in the clothes that had been through Hooty and back.

We made our way back down to the living room after we changed and set our sleeping bags out on the floor. Eda said she trusted us not to wreck the house any more than it was tonight, but still left a sleeping King with us. I think King actually wanted to stay with us, he would miss Luz too much if they slept apart from one another.

Side note: His snores are adorable, but no one can ever tell him that.

Luz and I laid down, just talking about anything and everything. I put out my hand to her, and she grabbed it. We laid like that until we both fell asleep, I'd like to think with a huge smile on both of our faces.

I got home this afternoon with the biggest smile on my face, but I knew I had to play it cool until I got up to the twin's room. I walked in all nonchalantly despite my urge to explode in joy, and was subjected to a barrage of questions from them. I let them finish, just casually dropped the news to them that they were right. They grabbed me into a hug with Em squealing in delight. Part of me thinks they're relieved to see us together so that we can finally stop the awkwardness that we had before we asked each other out. We talked about everything that happened, and how they knew where I was before I texted them. It turns out Hooty left a note behind so that no one would freak out.

It was covered in stains and horribly misspelled.

I have no clue how I'm gonna break the news to Mom and Dad. I doubt would approve of me being with her, they always said that I needed to be with someone noble and strong, whatever that meant to them. Well, I really don't care though, because she's everything to me, and I'm finally happy for once.

Oh well, that's a problem for another day.

FINALLY WITH THE GIRL OF MY DREAMS,
Amity