The Reunion ~ A Herophine Fanfiction

Hero 8

There's silence from the other side. I know Jo is there but I don't want to push it if she clearly doesn't want to talk to me. She's probably on the other side of the door looking through her spy hole in her door and looking directly at me. I don't look at the hole in the door to avoid awkwardness for her. I sigh and I feel defeated. I move away from Jo's door and turn to go towards my own room. I'm only about 3 steps away, when I hear the door behind me open slowly. "Hero?" Jo's voice is quiet but steady. I turn to see her leaning against her door and keeping it open, she's in her pyjamas and dressing gown. "Hi" I say not meeting her eyes and looking at the floor. "Do you want to come in?" She asks. I'm not sure what is making her ask that because I'm pretty sure she doesn't want to speak to me right now. My feet shuffle for me towards her door. "Okay yeah sure" I say and follow her in, closing the door behind me. Her room is the same as mine of course but her bed sheets have clearly just been left. Her tv is on and I'm surprised to see her screen paused in the lake scene from 'After'. Why isn't she watching that? We both agreed we would watch it once and then never again because it would be too awkward for us and our families and friends.

Jo pops into the bathroom and shuts the door. I mean of course she shuts the door. I sit awkwardly on her bed unsure of what to do and what I'm going to say. I need to tell her how I feel, but as I guessed she's not very pleased with me right now. So I don't think I will the get the right response. I'm sober which helps, therefore hopefully I won't say anything I regret. Jo comes out of the bathroom a couple of minutes later and she doesn't look any different. She sees me sat on the bed and smiles a little before sitting next to me. We sit in silence for a few minutes, it's not awkward just still. "Why did you come Hero?" She asks. We're both looking at the floor and not at each other. "I wanted to apologise" I say before finally turning to look at Jo. She's looking at me, her eyebrows raised and waiting for a response. I continue "I wanted to apologise for what happened with the pool. I shouldn't have thrown you in. Hell I shouldn't have even picked you up because I didn't even know if you wanted to go in anyway!" I'm frustrated with myself, angry even.
"Then why did you?" Here goes nothing.
"I don't know, at the time I thought it would be funny because I'd been doing it with all the boys and I thought maybe if you went in everyone else would follow"
"So no other reason other then I become the leader and you thought it would be funny?" Jo asks cocking her head to one side as if to say 'just come out with it already'. I have a feeling she already knows how I feel and I know how she feels but we just haven't talked about it with each other. I reach up towards her face and Jo leans back a little. I pause my hand near her cheek. She eventually leans back towards me and I continue in my motion. I tuck a fallen piece of hair behind her ear and then bring my hand to her cheek. I don't move my hand away, I just pause to see how Jo will react. She doesn't move, instead she tilts her head slightly and looks up at me with her blue eyes wide. God she's so beautiful.

"I'm sorry Jo" I say sadly but still not moving my hand. Jo doesn't say anything but she looks down slightly and then I feel her hand take a hold of my free hand that is on my lap. She looks back up at me again and smiles. It's the smile I longed for. The smile that means there is laughter coming and she is happy. "I know Hero" she says without taking her eyes off mine. She squeezes my hand and then reaches up to move the smallest piece of hair that has fallen, that was touching my eyebrow back up to join the rest of my hair. "I like you Jo" I say simply. Jo's faces changes from adoration to confusion. "Like I really like you. I want to be with you" I say trying to give her some sort of confirmation. Her eyes are searching mine for any inch of a lie or doubt. But there isn't any and there never would be. As far as relationships go, this is as far as we have come to giving the fans what they dream of. This moment.

"I-I-" she pauses as if she's trying to decide what to say to me. "I like you too Hero" she states so quietly I'm a little unsure that I heard her right. Jo is calm but there are neves across her face as if she's worried about my reaction even though I just told her I have feelings for her. I must look either shocked or surprised because laughter rises from her throat and she shoves my arm playfully. "Come on Hero we both know we feel about each other" I smile down at Jo. We do, of course we fucking do. I put both of my hands on either side of her face and say the only thing I can think about and the only thing that I really want to say to her. "I want this. I want you Jo." We are instantly drawn to each other and we both lean in at the same time. A few seconds later our lips are the whisper of a kiss. It's only a feather light kiss but it's enough to send tingles over my body just like in filming when I was utterly convinced that I didn't like Jo in that way and I thought it was only because she had been the only girl I had kissed in a long time because I'd never dated anyone properly. I brush my tongue along her bottom lip to tell her I really want to deepen the kiss and that I want more. She opens her mouth a little wider to oblige my tongue and her own tongue dances with mine. Jo presses her lips harder again mine , our kiss is slow but passionate.

This isn't Hessa. This is Herophine. This is us.

We break apart breathless and I rest my forehead against hers. We're both quiet for a second, listening to our own breathing. "I needed that" Jo whispers. "Me too" I tell her. I snake my arms around her and pull her into my arms. She relaxes almost instantly and snuggles deeper into my chest as I rest my head on top of hers. I feel myself fall back onto her bed bringing Jo with me and we both burst into laughter. "Soz Jo" I say still laughing. She's laying across me and bringing her head up on to my chest to look at me. "For what kissing me?" She asks chucking. "No I mean toppling over" I laugh back. Jo doesn't respond but instead she snuggles into my chest and grabs the tv remote from her pillow. "Do you want to watch the rest of our movie?" I love how she said our movie. We both know it's not just us that put so much hard work into filming all the 'After' series, but we were the main characters for 4 of those movies so I guess there sort of ours in a way. I've never seen it with Jo before I guess because it would be really awkward for both us to see certain scenes that we only filmed about 2 minutes clips of and the cinematography crew did the rest to make it a movie. We've seen bits together with the other cast and crew, however that's it. Now I'm not sure how it will be because of what just happened but how bad can it be. "Okay" I agree because I know it will make Jo happy and right now that's all I want her to be.

Me and Jo snuggle down together and I adjust myself so my head is against the headboard of the bed. Jo's laying between my legs with her head on my chest and I'm playing with the wispy bits of her blonde hair. She has one hand on the calf of my leg and the other clutching the remote to her chest. We watch the lake scene and actually spend the majority of the movie just laughing and reminiscing about times when we were filming and not really watching it fully.
I soon realise nearing the end of film that Jo has fallen asleep on my chest as she went quiet. Her hair flopped over her face and her lips are parted slightly. As gently and carefully as I can, I remove Jo from my body and lay her down next to me covering her with her duvet and blanket. She looks so peaceful and I'm slightly unsure of what to do with myself now. Do I stay and sleep next to her? Or will that freak Jo out? The only other option is leaving her and going back to my own room but that just doesn't sit right with me. I remember one time when my good friend Morgz slept with a girl and he left at like 2am and he got an ear full from her, basically saying you just don't do that too someone. I also remember when he told all us boys because I remember thinking that I don't want to labelled as one of those guys, simply because I'm not one of those people. I'm better then that.

I decide to stay in the room and lie down next to Jo. I don't move under the covers, instead I lie on top of the duvet because I feel as though that is a little too forward if I fully slept in bed with her. However I do tuck myself under and share her blanket with her just in case I get a little cold even though I'm still fully clothed. I tuck a piece of Jo's hair over her ear and kiss her temple gently and sweetly. "Goodnight Jo" I whisper as I lay back and look at her beautiful face until I close my eyes and drift into a world full of dreams of my love; Josephine Langford.