It Started With a Spinny

Moving On

"Oh Vee, why were you crying?"

Vee smiles weakly. Of course Luz would focus on that part! "That's - I'll get to that. And I was me when I was crying, but when Amity heard, she thought it was you, called out for you, and I... became you."

Luz nods hesitantly. "Okay. Um... wh-"

"I don't know why."

"You don't?" Amity and Luz both ask with different kinds of disbelief.

She hunches inwards, "I... I have my suspicions. And I'll get to that. But it's become a habit at this point."

Luz nods, then: "Wait, how many times have you been me?"

Amity waits.

Vee closes her eyes. "Four."

"Four!"

She flinches. "And four as Amity."

"You were Amity too! W-when, where-"

She hunches inwards, breathing shakily!

"Hey, hey," Luz squeezes her fist, "hey I'm sorry I-"

"No no please don't be sorry," she breathes deeper, pushes down the pressure, "you have a right to know, and I will tell you, and then," then I'll go! But she can't say that part without crying.

So she takes another shuddering breath, and continues: "Today Amity found Luz crying on the sofa. She'd come over to take you out for a picnic so you could-"

"A picnic?"

Vee nods, "At the hill in the forest, where you go to think."

"Oh that'd be really nice!"

"That's what I said!" Vee is almost smiling, until she sees Amity, still waiting. Vee stops smiling. "Amity was worried because you'd been sending here memes all day."

Luz tenses, "I, I mean I maaay have sent one or two-"

"You sent twenty," both Amity and Vee state.

"I... okay. I may have gone a little overboard."

Vee opens one hand, holds Luz's, reassuring: "Because you were worried."

Luz breathes out. She nods.

"About yesterday."

She nods.

"Wait," Amity frowns, "yesterday?"

Luz looks over Vee's tensed shoulder, her voice small: "you, you asked me to pretend it didn't happen."

Amity blinks, then looks down at Vee, who flinches. "That, that was me too. As Amity."

"Oh," Luz says, then, "Oooh," then, "Oh!"

"Yeah."

"So you, so I-"

"Yeah. I'm sorry?"

"No I, I just - I was so scared to tell Amity, and now I have to tell her all over again?"

Amity blinks, "Tell me what Luz?"

Luz's whole body tenses. "I... I..."

Vee opens one hand and, without daring to look up at her, holds Amity's hand, and offers: "When, when you and Luz - when you and I talked today, and I asked you to come back in an hour and talk to me?"

Amity hesitantly nods. "I'm guessing that would have been Luz I came back and talked to? The real Luz I mean."

Vee flinches. She nods: "Do you remember what I asked you to tell - to tell Luz?"