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“Bye Mami! Te amo!”
Luz was heading onto the grounds of her new school. Hexide; The School For The Artistically Gifted. Hexide was a private school that only accepts the most talented… or the most wealthy. It runs sixth to twelfth grade, and it only holds so many kids per grade. Nevertheless Luz was excited to finally get a chance to go to this school, just because most get in when they are in middle school doesn’t mean that’ll stop her. She was so thrilled and hyped to hopefully actually be able to make friends.
She was so enraptured by the feeling she ran right into someone.
“Hey watch where you ar-” Luz could hear a loud gasp escape the other girl's lips as she cut herself off, followed by an angry huff.
“I’m so sorry! Are you okay?” She looked over at the girl and noticed a drawing on the ground, it had ink spilled all over it. “Oh my gosh- I- I’m so sorry! Can I help er-?”
“Just go away…” the girl spat out. Luz was so worried about the drawing and what just happened all she was able to catch about the girl as she walked away was her bright green hair.
Oh no oh no oh no… Luz thought to herself. She was so mad at herself for screwing things up again. She took a deep breath. “It’ll be okay Luz, it’ll be okay,” she mumbled to herself as she continued to walk inside, being careful to not run into anyone else.
The short haired girl took a look at her schedule to see what class she had first. History. She was hoping for something else besides what she has been learning for the past 10 years of schooling but oh well. Then she realized, she has no idea where any of her classes are. She didn’t exactly get a tour and by that she means she got the tour date wrong and had showed up a day late.
Anxious she quickly scanned the area. She noticed a rather nice looking girl just closing her locker, she seemed very approachable so that's what Luz did. “Hello!”
The girl jumped and immediately spun around to look at Luz whose cheery smile had quickly faded into a hesitant one.
In that moment of awkward silence Luz was able to get a good look at the girl. She had big round glasses that framed her green eyes. They were slipping off her nose a bit. She also had short deep turquoise colored hair that fell around her jawline.
“Sorry to startle you! But I… can’t find my class.” Luz let out an awkward laugh as she scratched the back of her head nervously.
“It’s okay! I just was a bit lost in my mind is all… what class do you have?” Luz smiled at the girl and showed her her schedule. “Oh I have that one now too. Here I’ll walk you.”
The girls walked in silence for a moment before the shorter one spoke, “My name’s Willow by the way, Willow park. And your’s…?”
“Luz Noceda! Nice to meet you Willow Park!” Luz laughed with a big goofy grin.
Willow giggled a little. “I assume you’re new here. Or have just somehow flown under the radar for the past four years and for some reason forgot the layout of the school.”
“Yeah. That would have been pretty funny though.” The two girls laugh together as they arrive at their destination. Willow held the door open for Luz as they walked in.
“You can sit with me if you want to. I don’t really have any of my friends in this class anyway,” Willow muttered shyly. Luz nodded eagerly. They claimed a table closer to the back of the room.
The girls chatted quietly amongst themselves. Only lightly paying attention to their teacher and taking notes when needed. Willow eventually asked to see the rest of her schedule, after the girl began to peak her interest. Willow quickly compared their two schedules to find that they shared not only their first class, but their study hall and alternating class schedule (except for day c) together as well. However, soon the class ended and they were forced to part ways for the time being. Willow pointed Luz into the right direction for her next class and they parted.
Luz could hardly pay attention during her English class as she was high on excitement. This was the first person she has met who actually seemed to want to not throw themselves off a toaster oven after having a conversation with her. Even better, she seemed to be hopeful to see her again later!
The next few classes for her seemed to go by fast. It wasn’t exactly like first day classes since the school was small enough to the point the teachers taught most grades, and most kids' schedules did not change throughout the years, but they were easy enough. Mostly review.
She made her way to the cafeteria at lunch time and as she walked in she was immediately waved over by Willow. She excitedly ran over and sat in the spot that she had saved for her.
“Ah so you’re the infamous Luz we’ve heard so much about.” A boy with dark green hair hummed.
“Wha-”
“I told them you were coming.” Willow quickly cut her off to clear up the confusion. She kicked his shin from under the table causing him to jump.
“Willow!”
“What?” Willow deadpanned while staring blankly at him.
“You just kicked me!” the boy retorted.
“I did no such thing!” Willow spat back.
Then Luz noticed the girl sitting next to the boy, she had the same hair color. She spoke, “Ya know Ed. It’s rude to just falsely accuse people of stuff. Are you sure you didn’t just kick yourself?”
“I- What- I can’t-” he looked back and forth between the girl and Willow in disbelief, “I give up. I swear. I’m done.” He put his hands up in surrender and just sat back.
Everyone was able to just keep a straight face during this whole interaction except Luz. She was trying so hard to just not laugh and ruin it. Thankfully Willow refocused the conversation so Luz could successfully distract herself from it.
“Anyways,” Willow said side eyeing Ed, “This is Edric and Emira. They’re twins. And that over there,” she pointed towards a girl sitting besides her she hadn’t noticed before, “Is Viney.”
Luz waved to them and smiled. Emira and Viney smiled back but Edric was still too salty to pay attention.
All of a sudden a tray slammed down on the table causing the milk carton that was on it to go flying, “Willow! I did something stupid again!”
“Oh and that's Augustus.”
“I thought it would be funny to send a code to the android in the tech room to start throwing pencils at students who walked by but I think I accidentally started World War III!” The boy shouted in panic.
Willow couldn’t help but laugh, “You did what now?” she said through a giggle. Edric just stared at him in awe with his mouth ajar and slowly gave him a high five. Emira burst out laughing and Viney snickered.
“Guys I’m serious!” He said in distress. He didn’t even notice that Luz was sitting with them.
“Augustus. I’m sure it's fine. Now relax. And look. This is Luz,” she used her hands to gesture towards the brown eyed girl still trying to hold back a laugh.
“AH HUMAN! I mean hi! I’m Augustus.” Luz couldn’t help but laugh at him too.
“Hi Augustus. Can I call you Gus? It just seems easier to say.” No one said anything. Luz was about to take it back thinking she said something wrong when Viney cut her thoughts off by speaking.
“Why did no one think of that- I-” Everyone started laughing to themselves. Gus quickly agreed to the nickname.
Then something caught Luz’s eye. Green hair. She looked over and recognized her as the girl from earlier, “Oh shoot.”
“Hmm?” Willow looked at her a bit confused.
“I had accidentally ran into that girl over there and caused her to drop her stuff. I think I messed up one of her drawings. I should probably go make sure she’s okay.” Before Luz could even go anywhere Willow grabbed her wrist.
“No. That’s Amity Blight. That’s not a very smart thing to do. She’s probably already forgotten about it anyways,” Willow spoke quietly just to make sure no one outside of their table heard.
“Oh hey are we talking about Mittens?” Edric butted in as Emira pretended to gag.
“Mittens…?”
Edric continued, “Yeah. She’s our baby sister.”
“But she’s a bitch. Please don’t associate us with her.” Emira finished.
Luz snickered to herself. “Okay if you say so.” Luz thought for a moment. “When you see her can you tell her I’m sorry?”
Emira shrugged, “I mean sure but I don’t really know if she’ll care.”
Luz looked over at Amity and sighed. Well she at least hoped it’d make a difference.