#fitgof chapter 2

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Everything was still until it wasn’t. A thousand thousand crows, shadows in the night sky, flocked to the ruins and descended trapping Amy in a whirlwind of feathers and she didn’t know which way was up anymore. They tugged and they flapped and they squawked. She couldn’t hear a thing except their wings beating down and their screams.

Amy covered her head with her hands but the crows ignored her flailing and pulled through her hair and they pecked and they clawed and she fell on her back. Her wand skittered away and she knew she didn’t have the strength to try any magic without it. A sliver of moonlight shone down around her but the moon couldn’t help her now that the night was full of murder.

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~𝓔𝓷𝓭 𝓒𝓱𝓪𝓹𝓽𝓮𝓻 2

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Left alone at last! The afternoon  had been full of laughs and catching up with her friends.  Somehow everyone agreed to help Dahlia in someway with her party but Amy knew Dahlia would get out of doing at least most of her share. As the day got later, all of her friends had left but Amy had stayed in the park to finish a drawing. She smiled proudly at her work so far. Not until the street lights turned on did she realise how late it had become.

Now that the last ferry had already departed for the day, Amy had to take the bus back home. She packed her things and stepped onto the illuminated pathway as the sky darkened for the evening. With a cursory look behind her shoulder to make sure she didn’t leave anything behind, Amy walked straight into another sim. A disposable coffee cup fell to the ground splashing coffee between their feet.

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There had been four flights of stairs up to Angelus’s dorm. Anyone not in an animal costume managed just fine, though left a little exhausted, in reaching the top. Flora and Amy made it first, leaving Sunrose stumbling with her gigantic feet on the steps below. She tried to cling to the railing but without opposable thumbs on her costume she wasn't having much luck.

Dahlia opened the doors to greet her friends, looking angelic as always. A smell from inside the dorm wafted out, fighting the fresh air that begged to enter. It smelled exactly what you would imagine a dorm of male spellcasters to smell like and with the cobwebs trailing over the walls and the trash on the floor, it looked like one too.

“You're late!” The halo of Dahlia’s angel costume wobbled above her head. “Poff and Ivy are already here and have started decorating, so hurry up and get inside.” Some balloons and streamers already clung to the entry way’s walls though it was hard to tell if they were newly hung or were left over from a previous year.

Another sim approached them and looked Amy and Flora up and down. “Who’s this, babe?” he asked Dahlia.

Dahlia draped herself over her boyfriend and pointed out each of her friends. “That’s Flora, Amy and... oh, where’s Sunrose? Anyway, this is Angelus!”

“Hello,” Amy and Flora said simultaneously.

“Hey.”

“So, what’s your costume?” Flora asked. He was dressed in a simple knitted top and jeans and there was nothing spooky about it.

“University student.”

“I see. It’s quite obvious now you’ve pointed it out”.

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“Dahlia's party is coming up soon and I still need a costume. Do you think I should find a swan outfit and start practicing?”

Perennial tutted. “Have Summerdream help you with it dear.”

“Seriously? Do I have to?”

“Yes! It’ll do her some good to get out of the house and with some of your clothing choices of late you could do with a second opinion.” She pointed her needle at Amy before slipping a new thread through its eye. “I’d go with you myself but traipsing about downtown doesn’t sound very appealing.”

“Fine.” Better Summerdream than her mother anyway. At least Summerdream will do what Amy says. And go where Amy wants.

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"I love going to the Realm; it’s so pretty!"

"Except for that big awful building filled with Scholars right in the middle of it."

"Who cares about buildings!" Dahlia certainly doesn't. "The gardens are so nice. You’d probably find something nice to paint there, like flowers. I know you like painting flowers. It’s just a shame the greenhouse is offlimits."

"It is?"

"Carnation and I got one hell of a zap when we tried sneaking in the last time we were there. Someone put a hefty protection spell on it that’s for sure."

"Probably to stop sneaking children break in!" Amy teased, knowing the kinds of trouble Dahlia and her brother used to get into.

"Oh, we weren’t children. It was when I had my ascension." Dahlia replied.

"You- you’ve had your ascension?"

"Yes a couple of months before this past summer."

"You never told me that!"

"Didn’t I? Oh, well it’s not like it’s a big deal. They just say a few words and you repeat them to promise a few things and hey presto you ascended. Now the adult witches think you can use magic better than before." Dahlia rolled her eyes remembering the whole process. One day she ascended and that means she was better at magic than she had been the day before when she hadn't had any more or less training the time in between? Ridiculous.

Amy put her paint brush down. "Maybe you should call Flora and ask for some valerian root. She probably has some."

"You’re right! That girl has everything I’ll call her right now!"

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“Excuse me, but Angelus is a gentleman! He--”

“Ugh, see!” Ivy threw a leaf in Dahlia’s direction but the wind picked it up and carried it away.

“Sorry, Dahls but I've now met the Duke of Tastings and let me say he is much more interesting than your boy.” Poffertjes wiggled her eyebrows. Ivy and Flora giggled.

“Those Brindleton books are just make-believe! The Duke of Tastings isn’t even real but Angelus is, he--

“--Is it your tutor, Amy?” a big smile crept across Flora’s face as she interrupted Dahlia.

“No wonder you don’t want to tell me anything!” Dahlia gasped “Amy van Aster is having a taboo affair!”.

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“So. It’s your turn to answer. Why are you here?” Amy asked.

“I actually run a store in town. Antiques, collectables… trash and treasures, really..”

“That explains why you were at my auction.”

“Your auction? I thought it was your parent’s auction?” he smirked remembering how Amy had chastised him about it when they met.

A bus pulled up at the stop before she could reply. Part of the crowd dispersed ready to board.

Amy squinted at the bus’s number. “This is me”

“I guess this is goodbye?

“I guess so”

“Would you stop by my shop sometime?” he asked. "You do still owe me another drink".

Amy looked over towards her bus, and back to Folklore. “So I do! Goodnight, Lorey. Thank you for waiting with me.” She was the last to board her bus and the doors shut right behind her.

For a split second, Lorey forgot where he was as he watched Amy’s bus leave the area. Then he remembered why he had even been walking through the park to begin with and continued on his way.

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[fitgof]

𝑀𝒶𝓃𝒹𝓇𝒶𝑔𝑜𝓇𝒶 𝒫𝓇𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓃𝒶𝒹𝑒 𝒫𝒶𝓇𝓀 ᴇᴠᴇɴɪɴɢ

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“Don’t you think you have enough Miss Amy?” Out of breath and struggling with the collection of bags in her hands, Summer had barely made it through the door after Amy’s last set of purchases.

“Not quite. I do still need art supplies.”

“The art stores are on the other side of Del Sunberry, not out here.”

All day, Summer had been following Amy and Amy couldn’t get rid of her. This was Amy’s last chance now. “There might be one here”.

“I don’t think so, Miss Amy. We’ve been all over town and I haven’t seen–”

“ –That doesn't mean one does not exist! It could be a small place that specialises in… in….”

“In what, Miss Amy?”

“ …in art!" Amy turned around to glare at her annoying companion. "Do you have to question everything?”

“Sorry, Miss, shall I put these with the others?” Summer shuffled the bags around in her hands.

“I suppose. Wait for me there; I’m going to make sure I haven’t missed anything out here.”

“Alright, though I’m not sure what else you could need.”

“What do you know!”

“Obviously not as much as you, Miss Amy.”

Amy stomped to the end of the street, leaving Summer behind. When she turned around Summer seemed to be out of sight. Finally, Amy can do what she came out here to do.

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Amy’s book thudded to the floor as she stood to face her mother. “Why?! Must you really ask?!”

“Sweetheart…”

“Has it been too long for you and so you’ve forgotten?”

“Darling--”

“My best friend and her parents died, Mother! Then we left!”

Everlast sat on the sofa and grabbed Amy’s arm, pulling her back down to sit beside him. “We have not forgotten, Amy. None of it.”

“Then why ask me ‘why’? Because that’s why”. Amy wiped at her eyes with the back of her hand and leant into her father who wrapped his arm around her.

“Things are different now, those sims no longer exist. It’s a new chapter of the Scholarship and they’re trying to help us.” Everlast explained.

“They have been helping us!” Peri interrupted.

“My friend and her family no longer exist. How are they helping with that?”

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“Who’s cute?” Dahlia asked, finding her friends in the middle of the fruit orchard.

“Amy,” Flora explained. “We were trying to talk her into inviting a certain someone to your party.”

“Yes! Yes she should!” Matchmaking situations raced through Dahlia’s mind. How had she not thought of that herself? ‘Matchmaker’ is practically her middle name!

Amy’s phone beeped and she stopped walking to look at it. Oblivious to the conversation happening around her, she giggled.

Dahlia looked at her. “What are you giggling at?”

“Nothing; I’m not giggling.” Straightening herself, Amy put her hand behind her back, hiding her phone.

“Yes, you are. I heard you!” Dahlia reached behind her friend and snatched the phone out Amy’s grip. “Are you talking to him right now?!”. She looked for some juicy, sexy talk but the messages were rather mundane.

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After hanging up the phone, Amy flopped into her bed pillows face first. She didn’t even care about getting paint on the bed covers from the smears on her hands and the streaks through her hair. As Dahlia said It's just paint!. And who cares about that when Dahlia's ascended already! What’s next for that girl? Marriage? Babies? Career? All while Amy will still be stuck studying with Sage Ember. It could only be worse if Dahlia was made her new tutor!

Eventually Amy stopped sulking long enough to begin to get ready for her session with Sage Ember. Not feeling motivated enough for a whole shower, Amy just scrubbed at her hands and brushed out the most obvious paint streaks in her hair. Amy wasn't sure if the Scholars would be offended at seeing her covered in paint but she knew her mother sure would be.

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Dahlia strutted with Flora’s cousin, Fauna, around the karaoke machine waiting for the lyrics to flash up on the screen. When the song began,  Dahlia sang along looking and pointing to Amy while an oblivious Fauna concentrated on keeping up with her backing vocals.

I know something about love You've gotta want it bad If that guy's got into your blood Go out and get him

Amy rolled her eyes and backed into the hallway almost bumping into Angelus though he didn’t notice. He gave a group of guys all high fives and they all hollered and shouted at each other in a sportsball mating ritual.

“What are you looking at?”

Amy jumped at Folklore behind her. “Stop doing that!”

“Doing what?” Folklore handed one of the cups he held over to Amy.

“Sneaking up behind me!”

“I’m sorry! I didn’t do it on purpose! So, what are you looking at?”

“Angelus. Dahlia’s boyfriend.”

“Oh. Do you like him or…?”

“He seems nice enough, I guess, but I have this weird feeling about him.” Amy took a sip of the cold juice in her hands and turned to face Folklore. “Kind of like I’ve seen him somewhere before but tonight was the first time I’d met him.”

Fauna took over the karaoke on her own and began belting out a new song that had obviously been picked by Dahlia. Sims swayed to the music and clapped and others sang along filling the crowded room with multiple loud voices that echoed out into the hall.

You won't admit you love me And so how am I ever to know? You always tell me Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps

Folklore took a sip of his own drink. “Perhaps he just has one of those faces”.

“Perhaps." Amy sighed.  "I feel like dancing”.

“I thought you wanted to do karaoke?”

“No, I’ve had enough of that already”

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By the time Folklore arrived, the party was in full swing with music blaring, sims dancing and drinks flowing. There were party games happening in one room and spooky day festivities in another. Dahlia was flitting between each making sure everyone was behaving; she’d already caught a couple trying to ride a broomstick in one of the bedrooms (or that’s what she hoped they were doing with it). Amy was following Dahlia around trying to help but mostly trying to watch for Folklore’s arrival.

“Officer Phlox!” Amy waved as soon as she spotted him dressed in an attempted police uniform.

“That’s him?! He’s very cute!” Dahlia said.

“Shhh, he’ll hear you!”

“Hear me make a compliment? Big deal.” Dahlia rolled her eyes and pushed Amy aside. “Folklore is it? It’s so nice to finally meet you, Amy talks about you all the time!”

“She does?”

“This is Dahlia, you can just ignore her because she never knows what she’s talking about. She’s probably already drunk!”

“No way! Do you see all of these sims that I need to host?!” Something shattered and a puff ball of sparkles floated to the ceiling. “Uh, excuse me, I need to check on that.”

“She seems nice.” Folklore pushed his glasses back in place as Dahlia rushed to a group of coughing sims.

“Seems, yes” Amy agreed. “I wasn’t sure if you were going to make it.”

“I wanted to see you again–”

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“Oof! Are you alright?”

“Apologies sir, let me buy you another drink- Mr Phlox!” Amy squeaked, her voice stuck in her throat as she recognised whom she had walked into.

“Folklore” he corrected. “Or Lorey if you prefer. I mean... it’s what I prefer”. He scratched the back of his head. “It’s Ambrosia, right?”

“YES! Yes,” she shouted before repeating herself again in a more elegant tone. “Ambrosia is right. Amy is what I prefer though”

“It’s nice to meet you, Amy”

“Um, we’ve met already?” Amy quizzed.

“Oh, I know! I just- I didn’t know what else to say.”

Folklore crouched down to pick up the cup he had dropped and fidgeted with it in his hands as they both stood in the middle of the path not talking but also not moving away. The families and shrieking children had left now and everything seemed peaceful and quiet despite the rush of sims hurrying past as they cut through the park. No doubt they were on their way the bus stop where Amy was headed.

The bus would be coming by soon, but Amy had no idea of its timetable. “It’s late. I should be going.”

“Can I walk you to somewhere…. ?”

“The bus stop?” Amy suggested. “That would be nice, thank you.”

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Display cabinets and tables were covered in paraphernalia and tchotchkes, and the spaces in between were floor to ceiling stuffed with other large things. Amy wandered into the maze like room, looking all around her. It smelled like must and grandmothers and everything seemed to be covered in a thin layer of dust yet it was also nice and homey. A mirror near the front showed Amy her hair was neat and face was clean. Teeth check showed no signs of lunch sticking out.

“Sorry for making you wait; how can I–AMY!” Lorey stumbled from behind a pile of stuff colliding them both.

“Hello,” Amy mumbled into his shirt. They each took a step back from each other and Amy refused to meet the gaze of her reflection as to not see how red her face was burning, especially under the garish orange light of the shop.

“I'm glad you found me-- the shop, I mean. You found my shop.”

“There are so many things in here; it's amazing!”

“Nothing like the things you would be used to.”

“Are you kidding! I had a doll just like that as a little girl,” she said pointing to an old rag doll behind her. “There are books on your shelves I've read a thousand thousand times!”

“That’s quite a lot of reading; do you like reading?” Lorey pushed his glasses back upon his nose.

The shop’s door behind them opened, jingling the bell, before Amy could answer and she sighed in relief as Folklore moved away to greet the new customer.

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