The One That Got Away - A Hosie Story

''You're Safe Now'' (part 7)

A continuation of the last part:

A couple of drinks and a little while later, Hope and the others were sitting at the campfire. They all were pretty drunk at this point. Hope had drank the most out of all of them, so she was getting really buzzed. She wasn't really aware of the situation anymore and frankly didn't really care what anyone thought of her. She wanted to get up and get another drink, but as she was standing up, she lost her balance and almost fell. Then she felt two hands grab her from behind. It was Landon who pulled her on his lap. It took her a few seconds before she even realised what had happened. But she was so drunk that she couldn't do anything about it. ''I think you've had enough Hope.''

''Oh so after forcing me to come, you're gonna tell me what I can't and can do. You're a real gentleman, you know that!'' Hope was very sarcastic, but she had to watch out with what she said out loud. Landon moved in closer and whispered in her ear. ''Not now.'' And Hope got the message, she looked around and saw some people staring. ''Maybe we should head off before you get too much booze in your system (and can embarrass me even more).'' But he didn't say that last part out loud. They were about to stand up, but were intervined by none other than Josie, MG and Lizzie. ''Heading off so soon?'' Josie sounded way bitchier than anyone had expected from her. ''How about we play one more game, you don't want to leave before playing truth or dare, would you?'' She said with a pouty, narcissistic face. Everyone started to agree with her. Hope was still on Landon's lap, looking Josie dead in the eyes. They locked eyes for a few seconds. Hope always loved looking in her eyes. But these weren't the same ones. She was looking in spiteful eyes, that she had never seen before. Drunk or not, she could still see that Josie wanted revenge. Then she opened her mouth. ''I'll start. Landon...'' he started to look worried. He knew exactly what was gonna happen now. ''Truth or dare?'' Josie said with a nasty tone to it. You could see in her eyes that she was enjoying this. Landon knew there wasn't a good answer to that question, so he just blurred out, ''Truth.'' That was a mistake, which he immediatly regretted.

Josie tilted her head and looked vicious. ''I think we all wanna know this..., so are you and Hope like back together now?'' There was a vile smile on her face. Hope looked at Josie again, with eyes that told her, 'this is not the time, jo. Stop it!' which Josie could perfectly read like a children's book. But she didn't care. ''You two have looked pretty close tonight and seeing as you're sitting on his lap, I'd say you are.'' Josie never meant to be this mean towards Hope, but it was the only way to help her and get to Landon.

''It's none of your bussines Josie.'' He sort of pushed Hope of his lap, grabbed her arm and led her away from the campfire. He was pulling Hope so hard that her wrist started to hurt. She didn't want to be alone with him. She had no idea what he was gonna do if no one was looking. She tried to put up a fight but wasn't strong enough, all her senses and muscles weren't working from all the alcohol she had consumed in such little time. Then all of sudden she saw a blurry person stop right in front of them. And suddenly Hope fell toward the ground before she could even blink her eyes. Everything that happened was so vage after that.

It was because Landon got pushed towards the ground, but never let go of her wrist, so he janked her with him. Her whole world started to spin in circles and never stopped. She had no idea what just happened, but it wasn't good. Then she heard MG voice. ''Let go of her, now!'' Hope was only guessing what was happening. Hope rolled to her back and hoped everything would stop moving around her. She looked up and saw Josie hanging over her head. ''Oh my god, Hope are you okay? I never meant for you to get hurt.'' And Hope was right about what had happened. MG and Josie were trying to help Hope get away from Landon and they did it just in time. Landon got up and was really mad at MG for pushing him, so he tried to get a punch in at him but missed completely. MG on the other hand hadn't been drinking so his aim was perfect.