GLITCHES , apply fic

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i hope you all enjoy the first chapter of glitches, with many (well, at least quite a few) to come! please comment and vote and give feedback. also, please let me know what you think of how i'm writing your character. i will do whatever i can to change it to your satisfaction if you have any critisism, but please remember that 1. i am only human, 2. we are all different, so how i write them is unlikely to be precisely how you envisioned, and 3. i am the author, so i hope i am allowed to add my unique touch (that didn't mean to sound big-headed, sorry). and most importantly, enjoy!

please don't worry if your character wasn't featured in this chapter; all of the cast members will play a large role in the story.

finally, sorry if i don't update this extremely regularly. i will do my best to do so every few days, but i want to make the chapters as good as i can, and once the holidays are over, i'll have less time to write, so please bear with me and i really hope what i write will be worth the wait.

here we go!

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the moment that luna hart woke up, she knew that the world was changing. not necessarily becoming worse - although definitely not becoming better - but just... becoming different; shifting in its rotation after being knocked off its natural course and having to steady itself - barely standing.

since luna could remember (and despite what most of her teachers said or at least thought about her attention span, that was a long time) she had felt far more connected to the universe than others. she had quickly learnt, though, that while a sweet little five-year-old singing along with the birds and saying good morning to the sun as it rose and good night as it set was considered cute, predicting dangerous weather and natural disasters hours before they were reported became slightly unnerving.

luna had been raised as a wiccan pagan by her mother. she had only found out about her mother's powers (and, subsequently, her own) after losing her father in a car accident on one of his work trips when she was eight. her mother had been sure to explain to her that it wasn't that her father didn't want her to know about it – that he wasn't ashamed of luna's mother for what she was - but they had simply agreed to wait until luna and her siblings (her two older brothers, azra and felix, who were both in the year above her at school, and younger twin sisters, persephone and aria) was old enough to understand and, after she began showing signs of having magic inside her too, control her powers. after he had died, and luna hadn't come out of her bedroom for practically three days straight, only leaving for minimal food and bathroom breaks, her mother had decided that it was time.

she taught her about tarot and crystals, those being her own specialities, which luna practised dutifully. however, when it came to nature magic, she almost didn't need to practice; it all just came naturally. understanding animals, having trees blossom even in winter, and, of course, feeling shifts in the earth's course.

now luna was seventeen and in year twelve at school. she had friends, but none of them knew about her magic. in fact, they didn't really know much about her at all, but to be fair, it wasn't as if she was that knowledgeable about them, either. she craved human connection, but when it came down to actually making friends, she seemed to have let herself get stuck with the first friendly-enough faces she could find instead of seeking out souls she truly connected with.

oh well, she always told herself, it could be worse. she could have been bullied for her secret, if it ever got out. really, she just had to get through the next one-and-a-half years without anyone finding out her secret, and then she'd be able to find the type of people she had always wanted to be friends with.

she rolled over and checked her phone, quickly unlocking it. it was far from a new model, but it was a smartphone all the same, with a camera and games, so she didn't honestly understand the fuss about having the latest iphone x360 type g, or whatever they were called nowadays.

she was about to open up the camera to check how she looked, when she hesitated. there it was again, that feeling that something was different. taking a closer look, she caught sight of an app on her phone that she could have sworn she had never seen before. the title was in a foreign language – japanese, she guessed. she knew that the right thing, the sensible thing, was to delete it, but it was at times likes these that she knew her curiosity was about to take over.

without a second thought, she opened the app.

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umber agnesies was already up and dressed - wearing her usual paint-splattered jeans paired with a care bears t-shirt - when she checked her phone. she had been going to delete the new, strange looking app, she really was, but something about it just drew her in.

the cover was relativity simple - just a few faded hearts on a pastel pink background – and yet in that moment, it felt like the most beautiful thing she'd ever seen.

and now here she was, with the app open in front of her, the button displayed below the logo - the same japanese word as the title in a cute, bubbly font - advertising only one option: to start. so she did.

"hi!" she was instantly greeted by a kawaii 8-bit girl with pink hair with space buns dyed pastel green at the ends - just like umber's, in that regard - and a pink jumper the same shade as her eyes. she had a big smile on her face, her cheeks sporting pink dash lines representing a blush, and she gave umber a friendly wave.

how cute! umber thought. surely this app couldn't be all that bad or strange if this was its mascot.

"i'm lisa," the girl continued, "and i am so 'appy to meet you!" lisa's expression changed to one of embarrassment, a teardrop appearing next to her bowed head, her face darkening abashedly. "sorry, that wasn't very good."

"no, no!" umber assured her automatically. "it was great!" she giggled. "very funny."

"really?" lisa instantly brightened, the teardrop changing to a love heart. "thank you!"

"you're welcome, lisa." umber smiled, until a thought hit her. a thought that made the smile evaporate from her face like a rubber against pencil marks, and her breath to hitch. "wait, you can hear me?"

lisa let out a giggle, although it somehow came out sounding slightly creepier than most giggles, perhaps because of umber's realisation. "of course i can, umber!"

"wha- how do you know my name?"

lisa's head tilted to the side. "why wouldn't i? we're best friends, aren't we?"