Lumity Oneshots

Little Miss Anything But Ordinary

Requested by @Party-Tron.

"This is Spotify!" Luz giggled at the fascinated expression on Amity's face as she stared in wonder at the human app. "It's where we humans listen to our music."

"How does it work?" Amity asked, eyes still glued to the screen.

"This is my home page," Luz explained. "It's where the app can recommend me music based on the songs and artists I listen to. The search bar is where you can look for songs, albums, artists, or playlists..."

Amity drank up this information, nodding along to what her girlfriend was saying like a cat given milk. It was always fascinating to learn about human technology, especially when it came from Luz. Humans had lots of non-magical equivalents to the Boiling Isles' magic, like how they used big, metal machines called "cars" instead of staffs to go everywhere. It had been an object of great intrigue for Amity when Luz had first shown her a picture of one.

Luz finished her rant, brandishing her human scroll at Amity with a beam. "You can pick out some music to listen to, if you want," she said. Amity took it, scrolling through the little boxes on the home page. She clicked on one titled "Daily Mix 1" and watched as a list of songs appeared beneath the title. "Do these refresh every day?" she asked, glancing up at the human.

Luz nodded, giggling at Amity's wonderstruck expression. "Yep. Pretty cool, huh?"

"It's so intricate."

"Yeah. It's pretty useful, though."

Amity's only response was a short, "Mhm." Curiously she clicked on one of the songs and nodded her head along to the beat as it played. Luz recognized it as a Melanie Martinez song.

"I'm hungry. Do you want a snack?" Luz asked, pushing herself up to standing.

Amity smiled and shook her head. "No thanks."

"Ok. Well, I'm gonna go get some, so enjoy your music!" Luz gave her finger guns as she left the room, and Amity grinned at the doorway Luz had disappeared into before turning back towards the app.

Scrolling slowly, she took in the songs' titles and what she could see of the covers on the small screen. At the bottom of the screen, a song called 'Ordinary' caught her attention.

She clicked on it, and listened as the singer went on about her struggle with her feelings for a girl in real life versus what she read about in the books she loved. The singer actually reminded her a lot of Luz—if the lyrics about having to go back home to a place where she was forced to fit in didn't remind her of her girlfriend enough, the cute, nervous and awkward energy the song gave off certainly did. Amity let out a laugh when the singer made a frustrated "ahhh!" after the first chorus, thinking fondly of Luz's frustrated exclamations.

The rest of the song didn't fail with its continued resemblance of Luz. Amity smiled at the last line, I'll be anything but ordinary—Luz definitely embodied that lyric wholeheartedly. Amity had never met anyone like her before.

She was scanning the lyrics—yes, just as she had suspected, they fit Luz to a T—when the human came back, holding a plate with a sandwich on it.

"Have any luck?" she asked, sitting down with the plate in her lap.

"Yeah. I found a song that reminded me of you, actually." Amity moved so they were side by side and held the device in front of her, showing the lyrics as the song played. After it was over, Luz looked at her curiously.

"Wow, you're right! It really does sound like my life. Who's the artist?"

Amity squinted at the screen. "Joriah Kwamé," she answered, sounding out the words.

Luz's eyes lit up in recognition. "Hold on, I think I've heard of that person before." She typed the name into the search bar and tapped the first song that came up, one called 'Little Miss Perfect'. "This song reminded me of you when I heard it," she commented, grinning.

After about a minute, she understood why. The singer lamented about needing to be perfect to maintain her reputation and struggling with a crush on a girl at her school. It almost perfectly fit her old life—back when she was still under her parents' thumb, when she knew she liked Luz and didn't want to be a jerk anymore, but before she started truly standing up for herself.

A wave of embarrassment overcame her when she got to the second verse and was brought back to the day she and Luz searched the library for Philip's diary—the day she impulsively kissed Luz's cheek. She'd been so scared then, terrified that she'd messed it all up with the best person that had ever happened to her. Amity wished she could go back in time and tell herself that it would be alright, that she didn't have to worry about losing Luz. She was sure that neither one of them would leave the other, ever, unless they absolutely had to. Even then, she thought that Luz would figure out a way to avoid it. She was clever like that.

After the song, Amity smiled at Luz, albeit a bit sheepishly. "You're right. That song did really fit me a while ago."

Luz nodded, bumping their shoulders together affectionately. "Yeah! Kinda cool, right?"

Amity nodded. "Definitely. Thanks for sharing that song with me."

Luz grinned, planting a kiss on her cheek. "Of course, batata."

Amity blushed, not bothering to resist the loving smile that spread across her face. She might always look back at that moment with embarrassment, but ultimately she was glad for it. If she hadn't done that, who knew if they would be together now?

She replayed one of the song lyrics in her mind:

Little miss perfect, that's me.