Not out (On Hold)

Anger management

Josie POV
Hope: "Josie, I really don't want to see him"

Josie: "I know, but we have to go out the front door"

Hope: "No, there's a back entrance. Make him face the right wall and I'll go out the back"

Hope POV
Josie and I walk out of the bathroom but I stay back and wait for her to start speaking to him. When she does I basically run out of the back. I sigh in relief as I see her turn the corner and walk up to me

Josie: "Are you ok? Do you need anything?"

Hope: "I'm fine"

Josie: "Are you sure? I-I mean you seem pretty-"

Hope: "Josie"

I grab her shoulders to make her stop talking

Hope: "I'm fine, ok? You can stop worrying"

Josie: "I'm always gonna worry, Hope. It's what I do"

Hope: "There's nothing to worry about. All I want right now is to continue our date, ok?"

Josie: "We don't have to, we can just go home if you want and continue another time"

Hope: "Yea...I think that's a better idea"

We walk back to my car and after a long debate she wins and gets in the drivers seat. She takes us back to my house and we go to my room

Josie: "Do you wanna talk about it?"

Hope: "No"

Josie: "Ok, that's fine. Do you wanna cuddle?"

I nod and we both lay down on the bed. She ends up being the big spoon, which I suggested. I run my hand up and down her arm softly

Hope: "I'm ready to talk"

Josie: "You don't have to"

Hope: "No, but I need to. I usually just shut people out, I don't want to do that to you"

Josie: "Ok. What'd he do?"

Hope: "A lot similar to what Penelope did to you. First he used me for my body then when he decided he didn't want it anymore he cheated. A lot. Ever time I tried to break up with him he'd always dismiss the conversation. The last time, he started yelling but he forgot we were at my house. My dad walked in and made him leave"

Josie: "I am so sorry that happened to you"

Hope: "That wasn't all of it. I got a girlfriend a little over a year later. I was over him, but it still hurt. She wasn't particularly a nice person but I liked her for some reason. Turns out she was cheating on me too...with him"

This time she doesn't say anything but hugs me tighter and after a kiss on my cheek she tells me she'd never do it. I feel my throat dry up and start closing, meaning I'm going to cry. I try my best to hold it in but it slips and I let out a quiet sob. She immediately turns me over and hugs me tightly. I hug back after a second and she tells me to let it all out, and I do.

Josie POV
After an hour of listening to Hope cry and feeling my heart being ripped into a million pieces, over and over again, she finally falls asleep. I can't believe someone would do that to her. To anyone really. Just thinking about it makes me wanna cry, which I did. I play with her hair, trying to calm myself down so I won't wake her up. I kiss her forehead softly before I try to pull her arms of me so I can go to the bathroom. She squeezes tighter every time so I have no other option than waking her up. I whisper her name a few times before she hums in response