Guitar Strings and Flower Petals

Old Friends and Old Problems

BestestBard1234567: Speaking of things I can't get out of my head and feel like I'm going insane over - Luz and Amity.

BestestBard1234567: There's something going on there, right?

Willow snorted, and had to stifle a laugh.

Hello_willow: That's not for me to say.

BestestBard1234567: I choose to take that as a yes.

BestestBard1234567: I've been around a lot of people who like each other. Trust me, Luz is crushing hard.

If anyone was crushing hard, it was Amity , Willow wanted to type, but she restrained herself from doing so. Skara wouldn't spread it around - She knew that. Skara wasn't that kind of person. At least, she wasn't anymore. And even if she still was, she had been on the receiving end of that not too long ago, when it came to her break-up with Ves. Not only did she know what it was like, she knew how it ended. Especially since she was the one who had 'ended' it when Boscha had done it. But it was more the principle of the thing for Willow. She didn't like to gossip about things like this.

Amusing as it was that she wasn't the only one who had noticed how Luz and Amity tip-toed around one another. There would come a point, she was beyond certain, where the only people who didn't realize it would be Luz and Amity themselves.

Glancing at the time on her Scroll, Willow realized that she and Skara had been chatting through their penstagram accounts for the better part of four hours at this point.

A familiar pattern that had emerged over the last few days.

Ever since they added one another contact details, at some point when school was out, and the two of them had said their goodbyes to their friends and one another, they would message one another, and just talk about whatever had happened throughout the day, or whatever came to mind.

Not always right away, and not always for this long, but it had quickly become a regular part of how they interacted. Skara seemed to get more comfortable the more that they did it, and that translated to her getting more comfortable whenever they spoke in person. She was getting more familiar with the group by the day.

And that mopey, depressed Skara that Willow had been checking in with for the last few weeks now, had all but disappeared. Now, she seemed to be back to her regular, excitable, and openly friendly self that she had displayed before all of this. Only this time, Willow was one of the people Skara included in that friendly periphery.

Thinking on that though made Willow feel a twinge of worry from her gut. She knew all too well how easy it was to hide behind a forced smile. Before she knew it, she had sent another message.

Hello_willow: Speaking of crushes though, I have been meaning to ask you - Are you doing okay with the whole Ves situation?

It had been a while since the topic had come up, and Willow wanted to be sure that Skara was doing alright with it.

As she awaited a response, Willow put her scroll to the side, and began to inspect a couple of Bitey's overflowing roots. She trimmed them, ensuring that they wouldn't escape the confines of his plant-pot, as well as avoiding his attempts to bite her hands. Once she was done, she rewarded him for being, relatively speaking, well-behaved with a helping of water. When she checked her scroll again, Skara still hadn't responded, and a twinge of regret and panic set into Willow's gut.

Hello_willow: Sorry, I didn't mean to upset you. I was just worried.

A response came through just a few seconds later though, before she could even put the scroll down again. And then another, clarifying message came before she had even finished reading the first one. And then another. Each time, she had to scroll up to find where she had gotten up to beforehand.