A Thorn in My Side(The Owl House Oc Story)

Market

Hope's POV
Hope yawned, blinking she rubbed her eyes and sat up. The past three days was rough. She had to answer loads of questions from Bristle's parents. She looked at the other side of the bed where Bristle was sleeping, her side rising up and down. Hope had stayed the night with Bristle that night, though last night they didn't snuggle like when Bristle stayed the night. Hope hopped out of bed and stretched her arms up and leaned back a little her back letting out a soft popping sound. She carefully made her way to her duffel bag she brought with her clothes in it. She pulled out a light blue t-shirt and some tan jeans. She slipped off her shirt and reached for the t-shirt she pulled out.

"Watch ya doing?" Hope jumped and turned around, Bristle had woken up, but was still laying down eyes closed.

"Changing...."

"Oh sorry..." Bristle mumble covering her head.

Hope nodded, "It's fine..." she turned back around and slipped her shirt on the changed out of her sleep shorts and into her tan jeans. "Alright I'm done.."

Bristle grumbled, "Can we-"

Hope raised an eyebrow, "Can we what?"

Bristle sat up her hair wildly tangled. "Can we snuggle?" Bristle paused her cheeks turning a light shade of red. "It's cold without you..."

Hope stiffened but then relax. "It's Sure.." Hope slipped over, she climbed in the bed and settled down. She wrapped her arms around Bristle and pulled her in, her throat began to rumble. "So what made you wanna snuggle?"

Bristle stayed quiet and nudged closer..... "Because your warm..."

Hope chuckled, "Understandable."

Bristle sat up. "Oh Willow is hosting a party and invite us, and you have to have a plus one so I was thinking maybe we could..."

"Go together?" Hope asked. "Yea, that's work. What is the dress code?"

"It's Fancy."

"Alright then what time?"

"5:00 pm" Bristle smiled reading over the text. "And it's 10:50 AM right now."

"Awesome we can get stuff for eachother!" Hope said hopping up. "We can go to the market."

Bristle nodded. "Alright."

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Hope walked beside Bristle through the market. Something bright caught her eye. She walked over and saw a white suit with a teal under shirt, cuffs and belt. "Ooh. I like that."

"And look there's a matching dress!" Bristle pointed out a dress, the top part was white and the bottom was teal.

Hope nodded. "Excuse me how much?"

The man turned around and glanced at the outfits. "100 snails." He said shrugging, "It's 50 each outfit."

Hope dug in her pockets and frowned when she pulled out 20 snails, "This won't do..."

Bristle reaches in her pocket and scraped out 30 snails. "We could combine our money."

"But it's only enough for one of the outfits." Hope pointed out. She looked down and dug in her other pocket and couldn't find anything.

"Here let's get your suit. I'm sure we can find me something else.." Bristle said placing her money down.

"No, we get the dress! Besides you'll look gorgeous in it." She winked placing her money down, "The Dress please."

The man nodded and pulled the dress down. And handed it over and swiped up the money.

"WHAT! But I!" Bristle stared as Hope picked up the dress.

"Come on. Maybe we can find something at Eda's stand." Hope purred leading Bristle away from the stand.

"But-" Bristle sighed and walked beside Hope.

"HOPE!"

Hope's ears prick she turned and could see Luz running over. "Hey Luz-" she paused, "Wait you just called me by my name... and not Kitten.. whats going on."

Luz was trying to catch her breath, "Amity, shes... Shes.... Amity is gone!"

Hope freeze and glanced at Bristle, "What do you mean!"

"Amity and I were looking for outfits for Willow's dance! We were going to go together. We split up to see what we could find. We agreed to meet up at Eda's stand at 2:00. But it's been over thirty minutes! I search the whole market! She's not here!" Luz huffed.

Hope handed Bristle the dress and narrowed her eyes, "Go home we'll meet later!"

"But-" Bristle tried to argue but Hope shook her head.

"Please Bristle." Hope could see fear and sadness in Bristle's soft green eyes. Hope gave her a swift kiss on Bristle's forehead. "Be safe."

Bristle hesitated but nodded, "Okay." She turned and ran off.

"Alright Luz. Where should we start?" Hope turned back to Luz.

Luz nodded, "Come on! We'll start over there." Luz nodded over to a alley.

Hope hesitated but nodded, "Right." Luz and Hope dashed to the Alley, once they got in Luz stopped. "Luz? Are you okay?"

Luz form became disfigured and a witch stood there. Hope stepped back and could see bright orange hair, "WHO ARE YOU!"