Lumity Oneshots

Reaching For Me

By: orphan_account

"It's the traditional Grom dance!" Amity insisted, the soft light reflected from the spinning demon up above, making her look even more beautiful than usual. She was always beautiful, of course, Luz's poor heart melted every time she laughed or smiled or did that thing where her nose scrunches up when she was thinking.

"Yeah, well, this is the traditional Luz Dance," Luz said as she spun around, sweeping into a dramatic bow. Her heart grew a few sizes bigger when she was rewarded with that adorable giggle, and Luz felt her face grow red. Just the dancing and lights, of course, the loud mess of people and music that always put a spring in her step. "It's much more fun!"

They had already danced, of course, but this time there was no shadowy monster or looming fear of rejection, just two friends on the dance floor. Willow and Gus had gone off to mingle, and Eda had gone to do whatever chaperones did. It was just them and the music vibrating through the floor.

"Come on!" She said, holding a hand out to Amity with a smile on her face, open and inviting. The witch took it, pulling her closer suddenly much to Luz's surprise, stumbling slightly as she regained her balance. Amity turned bright red - she must be getting a little overheated too - and looked like she was about to mumble an apology before Luz started softly swaying.

It wasn't all that complicated, and it looked a little odd to be doing something so slow amid the teenagers all doing their best to outshine each other with energetic dance moves, but Luz found that she liked it.

This way, she could be closer to Amity, smelling what was probably some fancy Boiling Isles conditioner and perfume that was a bit too floral and inexpertly applied. Luz liked it though, despite the faint scent of something rotten under the conditioner, not that there were many thoughts going through her head.

There wasn't much room for it when all she could think about is how cute Amity's smile was, and how happy she was like this. Nothing out of the normal, but then started the twisting in her gut, and the too-wide smile and-

Oh. Oh. This explained some things.

Luz Noceda had a crush on Amity Blight, and it might end up killing her.

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Luz let out an overly dramatic groan and flopped over so she could bury her head in her pillow, Amity's unfairly adorable laugh ringing her ears. She kind of scrunched up her nose, and it was really more of a giggle, and Luz had asked her to go with her to grom. As friends, because she was a monumental idiot who couldn't manage to ask a cute girl out.

It had made Amity so happy though, and she'd given her that little smile, and they'd held hands, and Luz had finally placed that odd squirming feeling in her stomach. But it had been a few days now, and still, Luz was busily running through every moment of it in her head.

She wasn't used to crushing on people who she could reasonably ask out. Not that she could ask Amity out, because she wasn't insane. Or brave, or even staying here or- Luz buried her head in her pillow and screamed a bit. She'd never asked anyone out before, and she wasn't quite sure how it worked.

Romance books informed her it should be passionate, and involve some amount of kissing and dramatic fighting for her hand. Luz wasn't quite sure if she was up to kissing, but the dramatic fighting posed another problem. Amity had wanted to ask out someone else, not her.

But she had carried her. Luz Noceda, with her little nerd arms (turns out moving to a deadly fantasy land made for some good exercise though), had picked up Amity Blight. That had to be either the best or worse thing in her life, and she was leaning towards the former. Still, Amity had looked so cute in that uniform, and when she had run, Luz might have died a little inside. Luz groaned again and pulled the covers up over her head so she could wallow in her embarrassment.