flirtatious guest
“What do you mean we’re stuck here?!” Amity yelled at her sister, ripping her hand out of Luz’s to start frantically gesturing with it.
“Amity, calm down!” Edric said, putting a hand on Amity’s shoulder, but she just shrugged it off and gave him a death glare, making him take a step back.
“Yeah, Mittens. No need to worry!” Emira chimed in to her brother’s rescue. Amity could definitely be intimidating if she wanted to be.
“Would you mind telling us what you meant by ‘we might be stuck here’?” Amity let out a breath, trying to calm herself.
“Mittens, I’m sure if you would just give Emira a chance, she would explain,” Edric gave her a look that told her, once again, to calm down. Never in the history of ever has anyone calmed down from being told to calm down, so why did people try to calm people down by telling them to calm down?
Amity was about to snap at him, but Luz grabbed her hand. “It’s gonna be okay. I’m here,” she whispered in Amity’s ear and it made Amity relax somewhat. Luz gave her hand a little squeez to prove that she was, in fact, there for her.
“Willow texted me-“ Emira started to explain, but was cut off by a confused Amity.
“Since when do you have Willows number?!”
“Since you befriended her again. Now, back to the important stuff. Willow texted me, saying that Lilith stole the key when the door closed behind us. We’re stuck here until Eda can get it back.” Emira was talking as fast as she could, so Amity wouldn’t interrupt her again, but still slow enough to be understandable.
“We can manage, Mittens! It’s probably just going to be a few days! You were planning on staying with Luz until the end of her ‘Vacation’ anyways. Now you just got more company!” Edric grinned, trying to lighten the mood. Even under Amity’s death glare, his smile didn’t falter.
“Edric, I swear if you don’t shut up-!” Amity was about to jump at him, but Luz pulled her back by the hand and gave her a look.
“Aww. Did Mittens wanna be alone with her girlfriend?” Emira teased. She was making the situation worse and she knew it, but seeing Amity all flustered and blushing was worth it.
“That’s not-! You know what? I don’t have to explain myself!” Amity turned her back to them like a little child who was mad at her siblings and, after all, that’s exactly what she was.
“Mhmm. Sure you don’t…” Edric pushed even more, hoping to get a reaction out of his sister, but before Amity could say anything, Luz, once again, cut her off.
“Let’s just go back to the house guys. We can sit down and figure something out there!” She offered, giving the twins a pleading look, telling them to leave it, at least for now.
“You’re right… Alright! Let’s get going!” Amity agreed and started heading in a direction, only to be yanked back by Luz and pulled in the right one.
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“I was wondering when you’re gonna be back cariño. Is something wrong?” Camilia noticed that slight worry and seriousness on her daughter’s face. Luz was only serious when something was wrong. Any other time, she was a goofy dork.
“Yeah, well… there might be a problem. We’re all stuck here. The portal closed and someone stole the key. Until Eda gets it back, we’re all stuck here. Can Ed and Em stay here until it opens again?” Luz looked at her mom with her puppy dog eyes that seemed to work on almost everyone on the Boiling Isles, but she’s forgotten that her mom was already immune to it after all those years of raising her.
“I’m sorry, mija, but there’s no room left in the house…” Camilia put a hand on Luz’s shoulder and looked at twins, expecting to see anger, but she was only met with light smiles and understanding eyes.
“They could sleep in my room!” Luz protested.
“Amity is already sleeping there. You would all be sleeping on top of each other.” Camilia argued.
“So what? We’re just gonna leave them outside?” Luz was starting to get angry at that point. She couldn’t believe her mom would just put her friends on the street like that. Sure, they weren’t always the best, but they did nothing to deserve that.
“Of course not! See, while you were away, this college student moved here. She’s helped me out all summer. They could sleep at her place.” Camilia took the hand off of Luz shoulder, but kept the eye contact up. Luz seemed to relax a bit at her words before she tensed up again.
“What do you mean by here? Where does she live?”
“Don’t worry. It’s not on the other side of the city. They live across the street.”
“Oh.” Luz was a little disappointed that her friends wouldn’t be staying with her, but at least they weren’t going to be far away. She looked at the twins to see if they were okay with it.
“Don’t worry, Luz. We’ll manage!” Edric reassured her, giving her a lopsided smile.
“I know you will, but if they find out who you guys really are…” Luz didn’t even want to think about the consequences it might have.
“They won’t.” Emira walked up to her and bumped her shoulder against Luz’s, making Luz chuckle a bit.
“Yeah, we’ll be careful.” Edric said.
“Alright. Could you ask her, mami?” Luz looked back at her mother again.
“There’s no need, mija. I already invited them over before you arrived. I thought you’d like them, so I wanted you two to meet.”
“They’re a college student. What would she possibly like to do with me?” Luz raised an eyebrow at her mom.
“They’re a big fan Azura too.”
“Really?!” Luz asked, now a bit more excited about this new neighbor than before.
“That’s what they told me. You can ask them too!”
“When will they be-“ Luz was interrupted by a very loud knock at the door.
“That must be them!”
“Good afternoon, señora.” A tall, tanned, muscular, short white haired women stood in the doorway. Luz was surprised. She thought they would be… well,… more nerdy looking and not your local rebel like. But there she was. Leather jacket with the arms ripped off, a black button down underneath it with a red tie, black ripped skinny jeans and some heavy eyeliner.
“I told you already. Call me Camilia.” Camilia giggled and let them in.
“Alright, alright. Just don’t wanna be disrespectful is all.” They raised their arms up..
“Why don’t you come in? My daughter and her friends are already here,” they walked in the door, past Camilia and in front of Luz.
From this close, Luz realized that they weren’t even bad looking. That thought made her blush a little and Amity sure as hell noticed and she did not like it one bit.
“Hey, everyone! I’m Morana!” they waved at everyone with a sly, lopsided grin.
“Hey.. I’m Luz. This is Amity and her older siblings Emira and Edric.” Luz was never nervous to talk to new people, but when they were this good looking.
“You guys are twins?” Morana asked pointing between Emira and Edric.
“Yeah, no duh.” Edric replied.
“Just wanted to make sure. I didn’t want to be mistaken. Has happened before and they weren’t even siblings.”
“How?” Amity asked, raising an eyebrow.
“Dunno. Now looking at them, they don’t even look alike, but it’s been a few years. They’ve changed.” They shrugged.
“Morana, cariño. I have a favor to ask you.” Camilia interrupted.
“Shoot your shot!” Morana turned around to face her.
“The twins need a place to stay at because-“ Camilia didn’t even get the chance to finish.
“They can stay with me!” Morana offered with yet another lopsided grin.
“You don’t even wanna know why?” Camilia asked her with furrowed eyebrows.
“Why would I? It’s their business, not mine,” they shrugged.
“I already like them!” Emira said.
“Luz show the guests to your room. I’ll be down here if you kids need anything!” Camilia said. She wanted to give Morana and Luz, alongside her witch friends, some bonding time and that’s better without a parent there.
“Alright, mom!” Luz said and took off towards the stairs with the others following behind.
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“So, your mom told me you’re into Azura too. I see that now.” Morana looked around Luz’s room, only to be met with a dozen of Azura posters, fanart and merch.
“Yeah, I kinda have a few posters and… other stuff…” Luz scratched the back of her neck, feeling a bit embarrassed.
“Nothing to be ashamed of kid. I have a mural if Azura and Hecate painted on my wall.” They assured.
“Really?!” Amity asked.
“Yeah! I painted it myself! Problem is… I’m not really a painting kinda artist. I’m more like bum-budum drums!” Morana made drumming gestures with her hands as she proceeded to imitate the sound of drums with her coice.
“Wait, you’re into drumming?!” Emira’s eye lit up and suddenly Morana was the center of her attention.
“Sure am!” that lopsided grin of hers reappeared as she leaned onto Luz’s desk with one arm. It flexed from the way she put onto it and everyone’s eyes seemed to be on her arms for a few seconds before everyone realized they were staring and looked away, trying to pretend they weren’t even looking in the first place. Morana’s lopsided grin only grew, she was sure liking the attention she was getting.
“I’ve always wanted to learn!” Emira cleared her throat, trying to ease the awkwardness in the room.
“You’ll be staying in my apartment! I can teach you a few things. That’s it if you want me to!” they brought a hand up behind their neck and left it there.
“Of course!” Emira squeeled, blushing right after.
“So, goody-two-shoes… You seemed to charm everyone around but m-“ Edric stepped in front of his twin, not liking the way this was going. He was sure Morana was flirting with Emira or maybe it was just their personality.
“Goody-two-shoes?” Morana let out a laugh. “People don’t usually use that term when talking about me,” they gave him a challenging stare.
Morana was anything, but a goody-two-shoes. She’s done things solely because they were forbidden to do. The moment she was allowed to do something, she was not as interested in it anymore. The danger of getting caught doing something she loved to do gave her quiet a bit of adrenaline and she was addicted.
“And why not? You seem like one?” Edric challenged back.
“I’m just not an asshole to people who don’t deserve it! But people who do… let’s just say I punish ‘em…!”
“I’m intrested…” he put his finger under his chin and raised an eyebrow.
“For example, the principal at my old school was an asshole to my friends, so I snuck a cow into his office. Needless to say, the office was full of shit by the time he got there the next morning.” They chuckled at the memory. It sure was an interesting day.for them, almost getting expelled was exciting, not like she cared. Getting into a college wasn’t necessary, she just wanted to.
“Alright, you’re alright I guess.” He stepped out of Emira’s way with a chuckle.
“You guys wanna see something awesome?” Morana asked, a lopsided smirk replacing their grin.
“Depends what it is…” Emira said slowly.
“Don’t worry, beautiful. It’s nothing dangerous. I’m too tired for that right now.” They winked, pointing a finger gun at her.
“Sure! Why not?” Edric said, now ignoring Morana’s flirtatiousness. He put his arm around their shoulder and both of them took off, leading the group.
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“Are you sure this is safe?” Amity asked as she grabbed onto Morana’s hand, climbing out window of the second floor of their apartment.
“Absolutely. I come out here almost every night. Nothing’s happened to me so far.” They pulled her up and onto the roof.
The sky was full of stars as it was most nights. If you looked out a window you could see the sky, but not in it’s true beauty. The real way was ro get on the roof and stare at for a few hours. Morana loved to do it. They were doing it ever since they moved to the city. The last time they saw stars before they moved was when they were 8. Now they were 19. It’s been a while and they were not gonna waste it.
“If you say so.” Amity said once she was already up. She was safe, now the only problem was going down.
“Whoa!” Luz said, looking up at the sky.
“I know, right? It’s gorgeous, isn’t it?” Morana layed down on the flat roof, staring at the stars.
“Yeah, it is!” Edric layed down right beside them.
“We can stay here for a bit. Then I’ll take the two of you and Luz can go home with Amity. That is if you guys don’t want to stay here too for the first night,” they offered, turning to Luz who was still standing, staring at the stars.
“I don’t know…” Luz said, scratching the back of her neck. She came home to be with her mom and Amity, this was complicating it.
“We can have a movie night? And have snacks… It’s make your siblings feel more at home.” Morana tried to push a bit farther, hoping to get a yes.
“By the way they attacked you’re fridge when we got here, I’m pretty sure they already do.” Amity pointed at the two who were eating something they have stolen from Morana’s fridge. Morana just let out a laugh.
“Alright. It’s up to you. If you change your mind, just tell me.” They told Amity and Luz.
“Sure.” Luz said as she layed down on the roof herself and waited for Amity to do the same.