What do you mean ?
“So where are we going ?” asked Luz after walking a while into London streets. For the past 20 minutes, they past a couple of houses, bought some pastries and even got into the Hyde park near the train station. Luz, her mom and aunt, always had lived in England. They loved this country natural classiness and charm. However, the food here wasn’t always very pleasant but they guess they never thought of going anywhere else.
“Just taking a walk, nothing less, nothing more” answered Eda with a calm voice. Way calmer than 40 minutes ago. That’s true that when Luz shouted “I want to be a witch !”, she could see in Eda eyes something, something she had never seen before in her idol. “Was it fear ?” she thought to herself “No. no, that can’t be it, and even if it was, why ?”. Luz was thinking about this while walking besides her aunt.
“Do you like Halloween kiddo ?” suddenly asked Eda without a hint of stress. Her control on herself was remarkable indeed.
“Halloween ? Yeah, of course, who doesn’t ? Disguising into ghost or vampire, hanging out late with friends, watching horror movies and best of all, eating tones of candies !” spoke joyfully Luz with her usual goofy grin. “Why are you asking ?”
“Just wanted to know...” again, a big silence covered the streets. It wasn’t uncomfortable though, just a little strange for this two. In fact, Luz and Eda were so close, they talked about everything and never regretted having each other’s company.
“What’s your favorite Halloween monster ? Zombie, Frankenstein, witch...?” Eda’s last word was almost voiceless.
“Hmmm” thought Luz for a second “I love witches” she innocently answered without a doubt in her voice.
“Do you dream of being one ?” carefully said Eda, trying to be impassive.
“Of course ! Casting spells, Flying on a broom, making potions-“
“Okay okay, i got it” interrupted Eda and then started to giggle slightly at the sweet oblivious child reaction. “What if I told you there was a place to be one ?” exclaimed her aunt all of a sudden. Eda didn’t know what she was doing, why was she spilling everything right now ? We’ll never know.
“You mean like a witch training ? Pfft that doesn’t exist. Witches aren’t real... right ?” Luz wasn’t sure anymore, she was told all her life that magic and fantasy world weren’t real. Nonetheless, her aunt smirk clearly said otherwise.
“How do you say we meet tomorrow at 7 am at the station, between the 9 and 10 train track ?” asked Eda hoping that the answer would be ‘yes’.
“Mm-Sure ! Why not ?” Luz didn’t know how to feel about that. Why did her aunt wanted them to be at the station, between some random train track ? That was pretty odd but Luz didn’t want to sound rude by asking ‘Why though ?’ So she just continued her walk without getting into details. She was her aunt after all, “What’s so scare about it ? We’re just going to have a great moment at the station together ! How weird can it be ?” lastly thought Luz before going back home with her aunt by her side.
When they came home, Eda was already going upstairs to go take a nap and Camilia was washing the dishes.
« Hey mamá, how was your day ? » asked kindly Luz.
« Pretty... awful » she sighed « King hadn’t change, even a little, he’s still this excited mean dog ». Luz felt upset for her mother. She knew how much she couldn’t bare animals. Not that she doesn’t like them, but more like they didn’t respected her. They would always poo in the living room or scratch her couches.
« I’m so sorry for you mamá... I’ll go sleep, Eda is taking me to the station tomorrow » said Luz with a smile on her face.
« The station ? Okay ? Sleep well cariño (honey)» told her mom with a kiss on her forehead.
« Goodnight mamá » said Luz before going upstairs. She went straight to her closet. Changed into comfy pyjamas and laid down on her bed. Tomorrow will be a great day, she knew, she just didn’t know why yet. She thought before slowly falling asleep.