A Goo Travesty
“AMITYYY!!!” Luz screams to Amity in the hallway of hexside, hugging her in panic.
“Woah what’s wrong, batata?” Amity asks in genuine concern. Once Luz catches her breath she huffs out, “WILLOW ..she’s..GOING ON HER FIRST DATE!” She says excitably and Amity looks confused, “Uh isn’t that a good thing?” She replies back. Luz looks up from her hug position on Amity, “Well of course it is! I’m so proud of her BUT what if something goes wrong? I don’t want that to happen to her.” Luz reply’s, dramatically looking off into the distance as she nervously speaks about Willows date, “Luz, I’m sure nothing will go wr-“ Amity was cut off, “Whatcha ya guys talking about?” Willow asks confused. “Willow uh-“ Luz says nervously then tries to do a cool, definitely not at all suspicious, lean against the lockers but then falls onto the floor when she didn’t realize she wasn’t close enough to the lockers. Amity giggles at her dorky girlfriend then speaks as she’s helping Luz get up off the floor, “so, Willow, heard you were going on a date. Who is it?” Willow blushes at the unexpected question and responds “uh well, I was asked by Skara actually and I said yes since I’ve had a tiny crush on her ever since she’s joined my flyer derby team.” She says, “but I’m kinda nervous. I’ve never been on a date before.” She says. “Phhf you’ll do great, Willow. You are the sweetest and I’m sure you and Skara will hit it off. Where’s the date gonna be at?” Luz reply’s. Willow blushes at the compliment and responds, “Skara was planning a picnic date by the beach.”
“WHAT?” They all jump at the unexpected yell that came from behind Willow and when she turns around she sees Boscha looking angrily at them. “You and Skara are doing what? You’ve already taken my friends and now you’re gonna date them?” Amity became mad at the random intrusion and replied, “stay out of this, Boscha.” “Oh, shut it, Blight. You’re just like these losers.” She snaps back then looks back at Willow, “ya know, Skaras probably just “dating” you as a joke. There’s no way she’d date someone like you.” She says with a giggle then walks away feeling proud of herself. Willow looks frustrated as Boscha walks about but Amity and Luz are quick to encourage her. “Don’t listen to her, Willow, she’ll never change.” Amity says and Luz backs her up. “Yeah, Skaras changed and sees how cool you are. She’ll never be like how Boscha is.” Willow nods. “Yeah, i know.” Even though Willow is seen as optimistic and uplifting to others, it can be hard to shove her feelings down
because deep down apart of her wants to believe that Boscha might possibly be right. But Willow knows that’s stupid to think that anything Boscha says isn’t out of spite or just to be mean. Willow knows that Skara has changed and isn’t like Boscha and the others who claim to be her “friend” when really they are more like her posse. No, Skara is different. I mean why would she join Willows flyer derby team? She wouldn’t do that to get a rise out of her, right? She put those thoughts aside and headed to class.
“I don’t know..is this to much?” Willow asks towards Gus whom she called over to her house for dress opinions. “Yea, it looks pretty.” Gus says supportively. “But what about the other one?” She asks, he smiles, rolling his eyes, “they’re both good.” She looks nervously at the body mirror feeling awkward. Gus comes over and puts his arm on Willows shoulder, “Willow, you’ve got this! Skara is cool and so are you. She’ll love you no matter what you wear. So wear what feels right.” He says but Willow still feels uncertain, “but what if she-“ “Willow,” Gus cuts her off, “you like Skara, don’t you? Trust your gut, if she’s changed she wouldn’t make fun of you for your dresses. She would like them a lot, I promise.” Willow smiles feeling tears at the corners of her eyes. “Ugh thanks, Gus.”
“Pick what feels right..”
Willow decides and ends up wearing a green, floral, dress with puffy, shoulder length, sleeves, the skirt being a little past her knees. Gus smiles like a supportive mother, nodding, “perfect.” He says, she smiles back at him. It felt right. It felt like her and she felt comfortable in it. “Ok,” Willow encourages herself, “You can do this. This dates going to be perfect.”
After Gus had left, wishing Willow good luck, she started flying on Clover towards the beach, her heart pounding in excitement but also nerves. She stops at the beach getting off of Clover then walks near the sand, Clover following. She finds Skara sitting at a Picknick table close to the beach. She turns towards Willow and Willow feels like her heart can’t stop beating. Skara was beautiful. Her hair was different then usual and instead of being put into a ponytail she had a side part. She was wearing a black dress that was at knee level and had long sleeves.
“Oh my Titan, hi!!” Skara says towards Willow, sounding giddy and nervous. She stands up, nearly tripping, then awkwardly comes towards Willow. “Do you like the dress? I was debating over this or a suit but I figured i haven’t worn this outfit that much and I just have a lot of outfits it was so hard to chose from and, oh my titan, I’m rambling so much, sorry.” Skara says, blushing. Willow giggles, that’s something she liked about Skara. She’s just as nervous as Willow is and doesn’t feel that she needs to be different around Skara. “It’s perfect, you look beautiful.” Willow says, Skara blushed at the compliment then clears her throat nervously. “Well you do to. Beautiful that is. You’re beautiful.” She says causing another chuckle from Willow, which makes Skara smile at her sweetly.
“Luz are you sure about this?” Amity says wanting to be certain in case Luz is just going in over her head. Luz and Amity are hiding behind a tree waiting for a certain someone to show up. “Yes,” Luz replies, “I over heard Boscha saying, to the little bit of friends she has left, that she was going to ruin Willows date. Well there’s no way I’m letting that happen. She deserves this date and we need to stay here and stop Boscha incase she does show up.” Amity nods, “yeah, you’re right. But Boschas also the type to talk big but do nothing, she’s done it before. Plus what can she do?“ “I’m not sure.” Luz replies, “OH RIGHT. She said something like uhh ‘I’m gonna get Skara on my side and make her realize how much cooler I am’ or something.” Luz mocks causing a laugh from Amity, “yeah ,right, like she can do that.” She says then suddenly she gets a shush from Luz as they hear someone walking. They both make sure they’re hidden well behind the tree. Luz was about to turn to see if it was Boscha but could hear her talking on her scroll, “well yeah, you can come if you want. Ugh, ya know what, nevermind, I’m doing this myself you’ll probably just ruin it.” Luz turns towards Amity holding her hand and giving her a mischievous smirk and Amity gives one back nodding. Luz and Amity breath in and use a disappearing glyph on themselves. Luz sticks her leg out causing Boscha to trip. “Ow, what the heck.” She says, confused as to what she had tripped on. Amity steps out using her power on the net trap bellow Boscha she hadn’t had time to notice. She gasps at the net lifts her up, hanging from a tree. “Hey! What the-“, Amity and Luz reveal themselves to Boscha. “You aren’t gonna ruin this for Willow.” Amity says. Luz nods in agreement, “Yeah, we know your games, Boscha.” She says. Boscha looked at the two of them like they’re crazy. “What are you two talking about? I was just heading to a really cool and expensive party with my friends.” She complains, while still bragging about her popularity, but Amity and Luz don’t stop their glare on the bully. “Yeah right,” Luz says sarcastically, “we heard you on your scroll. We know what’s up.” She said but Boscha just smiles causing Amity and Luz to give her an odd look. “What are you smiling about?” Amity asks angrily. “Oh I’m not what you have to worry about.” Boscha says, causing worried looks from Amity and Luz.
Willow and Skara were enjoying their date, eating sandwiches. “Sorry if this feels a little cliche.” Skara says awkwardly. “Oh that’s perfectly fine. I like cliche.” Willow responds back. Skara felt she needed to get something off her chest but wasn’t sure how to say it. She liked Willow, I mean obviously why else would she ask her on a date, but she also needed to tell her something. “Willow, I’m sorry.” Skara say’s without thinking. Willow looks at her confused. “Sorry?” “Yes. I’m so sorry for everything. I mean even back then when I was apart of Boschas group, I started to have a crush on you. But I still just stood back and let Boscha treat you terribly. I’m so sorry.” Skara feels tears in the corners of her eyes, feeling regretful. Willow was taken aback at the sudden burst of emotions Skara had just spilled out but smiles. “You’ve shown your forgiveness. You’ve even joined my flyer derby team. And then you asked me on this lovely date. Even though it hurt at the time I trust you now. You’re different. Plus Amity was also apart of that group but become a better person as well. So it’s fine now.” Skara smiles but something still felt uneasy to her as she grabbed the last sandwich from the basket. “Thank you, Willow. Here, you can have the last one.” She says giving her the last sandwich as Willow thanked her but just then that uneasiness was justified as the sandwich exploded into purple abomination goo all over Willows dress.
“Willow!” Luz yelled from a distance but she stops when she realized she was too late. “Oh no” she whispers. Amity caught up to Luz also looking in shock as Willow stands up looking down at herself. Skara cautiously stands up as well saying, “Willow I’m so sorry. I would never do this I-I swear. I-” Skara was cut off by ..laughter? They all expected anger or sadness but was greeted by a giggling Willow. “This is Boschas plan? haha she must have thought I’d blame you.” She laughs with a snort as she points towards Skara. Amity and Luz come up to Willow, “wait did you know?” Luz asked. “No,” Willow states, “she just becomes predictable at this point. I mean, Skara wouldn’t do this.” “But wait,” Skara says in concern, “what about your dress? It’s ruined.” Willow just shrugs, “it’s fine, I used to get abomination goo on me a lot. It’ll come out.” Suddenly Boscha comes speed walking towards them “shit, how did Boscha get out?” Luz whispers to Amity. “I don’t know.” Amity whispers back in confusion. Boscha huffs and looks as if she had struggled to get out of that net trap. “Well, how do you like that, half a witch? Look what Skara did. You really gonna date someone who tricked you?” She asks. Amity and Luz get into fight positions but Skara interrupts, ticked off, “Boscha, this is just sad. I already told you I’m not your friend anymore. Willow and her friends are WAY better then you’ll ever be.” Amity and Luz give quiet ‘ohhhh’s in the distance. Boscha glares at them, “Oh shut it,” she snaps then turns towards Willow, “Aren’t you upset? She ruined your dress. She did this. I didn’t I-“ she stutters then look’s around when she notices that no one was on her side. She groans in frustration, “UGH, whatever, I have plenty more friends. I don’t need you.” She snaps then turns around walking off. Skara turns to Willow, “I’m so sorry, Willow.” Willow smiles, “You have nothing to be sorry for, you didn’t do this.” “But our date it-“ “was the best date ever.” Willow interrupts, “well actually the only date I’ve ever had but was still amazing and so much fun.” Amity and Luz whisper ‘awww’ and Willow just stares at them as if forgetting they were there “no, no keep going.” Luz teases. “Yeah, pretend we’re not here.” Amity says after, causing Willow to roll her eyes smiling.
Afterwards, Willow and Skara fly to Willows place and once getting of their staffs, Willow gets the courage to kiss Skara on the cheek. Skara blushes embarrassingly and so does Willow. She felt so much happiness she hasn’t felt in awhile. Once Willow enters her house and into her room, she silently screams into her pillow, “I can’t believe I did that.” She says with a flustered smile. She looks up at the ceiling, butterflies in her stomach.
Even though there were some ups and downs tonight, Willow still thought to herself,
‘What an amazing date’