The House

chapter 10

Amity Pov

TW: S3lf h@rm scars mentioned

"Oh my god, my brain is fried please Ammy let me rest for an hour." Luz groaned slamming her head into the table, "I'm sorry Noceda I'm under strict instructions from some very bossy human to not let you rest until 7 and its 6:43, only 17 more minutes of potions and then we can eat dinner and watch an Azura movie ok." I smiled at the human whose head shot up at the sound of a movie night, she groaned but picked up her pen and continued the work. I didn't really have much work to do and Luz and I had been working for 5 hours, I had turned to writing fan fiction about Hectate and Azura, when Luz was here four years ago she introduced me into a world of wattpal and ao4, ever since then I've been writing my own fan fiction. To be completely honest fan fiction writers write stories because they want to live in a fictional world they can control, its sad really. Luz had brought the new books for me to read, the isles struggled to get human books anymore so I didn't get to read the new ones, I decided I should start book 9 and I put down my writing journal and picked up the book.

I was so engrossed in my book I hadn't noticed Luz stand up and walk behind me, I felt her chin rest on my shoulder and whole body froze, my face turned a dark crimson as I felt her hot breath on my cheek "well ms Blight its almost 8 and your very obedient student just finished all her work which mean. Drum roll please... FREE DAY TOMORROW AKA PARTY." Luz jumped up and down excitedly as I giggled at her excitement, before I could speak another word my stomach growled loudly, I looked down embarrassed, I was starving. "Hey Ammy don't be embarrassed I ordered pizza like 10 mins ago it'll be here soon, how about you go shower and change into your PJ's. I'll change and setup the movie." She smiled as she wandered into the kitchen. I walked up the stairs opening her closet to find two drawers painted my signature green, she painted drawers for me, god this girl was going to be the death of me. I grabbed my pajamas before walking into the bathroom locking the door, I turned on the shower letting it heat up. I got undressed examining my body in the mirror, after Luz left I struggled to cope with my emotions and I turned to a less than healthy mechanism. I traced the faint scars that lined my upper thighs and hips, Emira caught me one night, sitting on the bathroom floor crying violently because I was emotionally wrecked but also because it wouldn't stop bleeding, she held me in her arms until my Mother got home, Edric didn't leave my bedside in the hospital and took me to every therapist visit, I was grateful. I had been clean for over 2 years but sometimes I thought about doing it but I always found a way to distract myself.

I wandered back into Luz's bedroom, I was now clean and tidy with my hair tucked into a tight bun on my head, I wanted to wear Luz's hoodie but I had been sweaty and it didn't smell particularly great, luckily I bought some spare sweatshirts. I looked on Luz's bed, there was a small note on top of a grey sweatshirt adorning the word HAVARD.

"Ms. Blight, I realized you may have no jumpers and my hoodie is probably sweaty, please take this sweatshirt and chuck your laundry in the grey basket in the corner. Ill see you down in a bit, P.S. there's some cozy socks in the blue drawer, take a pair if your feet feel cold - Luz <3"

I smiled, she was always so thoughtful, I always wondered if I would ever admit my feelings for her if she had stayed, there was one night I almost did but Em walked in before I got the chance to say anything. I chucked my clothes into the basket and grabbed the sweatshirt sliding it on, it smelt like her and was so cozy, the inside was fluffy and felt like a never ending hug. The wooden floor felt cold under my feet as I remembered the blue drawer I ran over to the closet finding myself a pair of grey socks, I assume their calf high on Luz but they ended up being knee high on me, Jesus she's tall. I looked at myself in the mirror, I wore pink shorts and Luz's huge grey sweatshirt and matching socks, I had taken all my makeup off and my golden eyes stood out, my hair was tightly out of my face, two stray hairs lay soft on my face. I was happy with how I looked, I sighed, why was I trying to look good for someone who doesn't like me. I was ripped from my thoughts as I heard a man scream and Luz scream at hooty, the pizza must be here.

I hadn't seen this movie yet and it was amazing, Luz had to explain multiple times that Harry Potter was fictional and was not in any way real, humans didn't believe in witches but they had this whole franchise centered around this boy who couldn't be killed, it felt like a documentary but I loved it. The movie was so interesting I hadn't noticed Luz snake her arm around my waist and pull me into her, we were now laying down cuddling, I couldn't even pay attention to the movie I was bright red and my breathing was fast and erratic. She noticed me freaking out and ran her hand smoothly through my hair which had escaped the bun I placed it in. I lay my head on her chest slowly calming down continuing to watch the movie. All of a sudden Luz pulled her hand out of my hair and slid out from under me, I went to grab her but I noticed her human phone was ringing so I paused the movie as she answered.

"Hola mama what's up." I watched Luz's face intently as she listened to her mom talk, I became very good at reading facial expressions it was a skill the twins said was better than magic. Luz's face dropped instantly and she grabbed for the table behind her, I stood up grabbing her before she fell. "Is she going to be ok." I could hear the pain in her voice, id heard that pain before, I held onto luz's waist resting my head on her back so she knew I was there for her. She hung up the phone placing it on the table before turning to me and holding me close, I felt hot tears hit my shoulder as she started crying. After a bit of crying she pulled away and sat on a chair before looking up at me, her eyes were bloodshot and her face was wet from tears, I grabbed her hand which I noticed still had the bandages on it from last night. "If you want to tell me what's going on you can but if you don't I'm going to rewrap your hand because you don't want to get an infection." She looked down at her bandaged hand before looking back at me "ill tell you while you fix my hand." Her voice was shaky and strained. I nodded and made my way upstairs to the bathroom grabbing the medical supplies.

"She was the only person who actually looked out for me, we trained together everyday." Luz told me that her friend Bella had been attacked on her way home and was now in the hospital, luckily she was going to be fine and made it away with some injuries that could all be treated. I was glad I had gotten to Luz's hand now, it was still bloody and had small splinters from hitting the tree accidentally, it felt nice to look after her as she told me stories of Bella. I carefully wrapped her hand up, I had done human first aid because I wanted to be prepared to look after Luz incase of emergency and I had learnt how to properly wrap her hand up after a fist injury, I had checked for breaks or fractures and the reason for the prolonged bleeding was she had hit a small vein in her knuckles which I had bandaged. I looked at my work and was impressed, Luz looked down and smiled "geez Am your as good as my mom and she's a doctor, how'd you learn all this?" My face flushed red as I looked up at Luz's face "I learnt human first aid from this book Eda had, just in case you came back and got injured I wanted to be prepared to look after you." My face was bright red, I stood up quickly packing away the medical supplies, I felt Luz's hands hit my shoulders spinning me around so I was facing her chest, she grabbed my chin making me look up at her, I gulped. "Its sweet Ammy don't be embarrassed. I'm going to head upstairs and get ready to go to sleep, ill sleep on the floor and you can take the bed. Ill see you upstairs mittens." I slapped her playfully on the arm, she only ever calls me mittens to make fun of me.