It's Always Been You | Hosie

Chapter 7

"I..uh..I-I'm gonna go" Josie said as she quickly went out the door. "Josie! Wait!" Hope trying to convince Josie to stay but it was too late, she was halfway through the hallway. Hope sighed, closing the door. "So, when did you break up with your boyfriend?" Finch asked still leaning on the wall. Hope sat down on the edge of her bed "I didn't" avoiding Finch's stare. "What do you mean you didn't? You and Josie were just mak-" Finch finally realizes that they both weren't single. "Oh my god. You're cheating on Landon and Josie's cheating on Penelope..." her smirk fades. "Well if you put it that way, it sounds even worse" Hope said, laying down on her bed. "Hey, look" Finch sits next to Hope "I'm not one to judge and there must be a reason why right?"

Hope sat up to meet Finch's stare "I think I like Josie" she whispered. She started to fiddle with her hands. This was the first time Hope has confessed her feelings for Josie. "Oh wow" Finch stood up and started pacing. "So, like does she like you back too?"Hope shrugged "I have no idea. I mean for all I know she could just be making out with me for no reason" Finch stopped pacing "Don't say that, no way Josie Saltzman is making out with you for no reason" as she rolled her eyes. "I guess" Hope laid back down on her bed. "Anyways why are you here?" she asked Finch. "Well, I wanted to just hang with you, we haven't really talked ever since our encounter at the docks" Finch started to walk around Hope's room, observing the way everything is.

"I'm kind of busy today" Hope said. "Oh" Finch replied with a sad tone. Hope noticed and made sure that it wasn't because she didn't want to hangout with her "I have to help Lizzie and Josie set up decorations for the dance" Hope said as she stood up from her bed "But we can hang tomorrow, pretty sure I'm free" Hope smiled. "Okay, yeah sure" Finch smiled back "See you around" she waved at Finch. She still couldn't process what had just happened between her and Josie. What if she won't talk to me anymore She thought to herself. Hope slowly became upset, realizing how she screwed up..bad. "Oh God, what is Landon going to say?" She said to herself. At this point, Hope was starting to freak out and when she freaks out so does her magic.

Books from the shelf started shooting itself across the room, her lamps began to flicker, her windows opened, bringing in the breeze from the outside. All her papers from the table were scattered on the floor. She was on the verge of screaming, letting every single thing out of her. She closed her eyes, trying to calm herself, for a second everything stopped, it felt like it worked, it got quiet, nothing was moving but her breath became shakier, she became even more unstable. Until, she let go. Everything in her room was destroyed, or out of place. All the exhaustion from her magic break out made her fall on her knees, she started sobbing.

Hope knew no one could hear what had just happened because ever since her first incident, Dr. Saltzman gave her permission to put up a spell which prevented anyone outside her room from hearing anything that goes on in her room, as long as she cleans her mess afterwards. After what felt like an hour of sobbing, Hope finally had ran out of tears, allowing her to get ready and help with decorating for the dance.

As she left her room, she bumped into Landon "Hey" he smiled at her "Hi" Hope replied. "Are you okay? You look like you just had one of those incidents" Landon asked worriedly. Crap he knows, it's okay Hope, just lie she was starting to panic on the inside "Yeah, I'm fine, I was just watching a sad movie and it made me cry" she chuckled. To her luck, Landon believed her "Aw, well next time we should watch sad movies together so we can cuddle" he said kissing Hope on the forehead "I'd love that" Hope smiled as she gave Landon a quick hug "Anyways, I have to go help Lizzie and Josie set up the dance"

"Okay, sure see you later" Landon waved at Hope as she quickly walked down to the main room through the middle staircase. She saw how everyone had already started, fifteen minutes earlier than planned but she didn't mind. She saw Lizzie bossing around a bunch of witches and wolves but Hope was trying to find someone else. She scanned the rest of the room and there she is...Josie Saltzman with her girlfriend Penelope Park. She stared at Josie long enough for Josie to notice her. They both held their eye contact for a good minute until Lizzie walked up to Hope. "Okay, so" she interlocked her arms with Hope "We're thinking of doing a 90's decade dance" Lizzie proudly said while Hope nodded. "What's wrong, why are you having your puppy eyes out" Lizzie stood in-front of Hope so she can see her "What? Do I really look that sad today? You're like the second person to say that" Hope rolled her eyes "And no, I'm not sad, I just watched a really sad movie and cried" trying to use the lie once again but only this time it didn't work "Oh, cut the crap Hope, I know something's wrong" Lizzie interlocked her arms again with Hope's, they began to walk around "But your sad story can wait, we have a lot to do" Hope can't tell if her and Lizzie are friends. One moment they're like best friends and another moment they want to kill each other.

Lizzie pulled out this long white paper and she placed it on the table "Okay, so you and Josie will be working on art stuff, or whatever it is you're good at" she gave Hope a bunch of art supplies "I want you to draw or sketch or whatever and create this 90's themed mystic falls town" Lizzie explained. Hope already knew how to draw it, she doesn't like boasting about her talent but she is one hell of an artist. "Josie! Josette Saltzman!" Lizzie shouted while everyone continued with their work as if this is a normal occurrence. "What Lizzie?" Josie said as she walked towards both girls. "I want you and Hope to work on this drawing thingy" she said while pointing at the paper "Why me? I don't even draw" Hope was hurt that Josie didn't even try to make it seem like she was interested to work with her. "Uh, yes you do, I saw your secret sketch book few months ago, and you actually don't draw that bad" Lizzie said as she exposed her sister's hidden talents.

"Lizzie! That was only for me" Josie slapped her arm. "Ow!" Lizzie replied "I don't care and you both are going to work on this now, I don't have time to argue with you" she left the girls alone. "So, you draw?" Hope asked to start a conversation. "Yeah, I do but I mainly draw for myself" Josie grabbed a bunch of colored pencils and started sketching while Hope did the same. "Cool" Hope replied. Both girls knew they had to talk about what happened in the room but they just didn't know how to. A few minutes passed by, the girls were still drawing but Hope couldn't take it, she has to know what Josie's thinking. Hope dropped the pencils down and turned to Josie. "Jo" Hope quietly said. Josie slowly turned to her, knowing where this conversation was going. "Yeah?" she replied. "We have to talk about it" Hope said. "I know" Josie already felt nervous. "But not here" Hope looked around to see if anyone's listening to them. "Then where?" Josie asked. Hope held her hand out for Josie to take, and she did "Follow me" Hope smiled.

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sorry that this chapter took awhile! but here you go :) hope yall are taking care of yourselves <3