My Expiration Date Gave Me A Reason To Let Me Love You - Hosie

Chapter Ten

"Hope? What are you doing out here?" A soft voice asked coming from behind Hope, the soft voice that belonged to Josie. Hope sniffed wiping tears away getting ready to confront Josie. "Hope? Are you cr-" Josie began, getting cut off by Hope who began talking.

"Of course I'm crying. Did you expect me not to, after what I just saw? After I saw her on top of you. Huh?" Hope asked aggressively, raising her eyebrows for an answer. Josie looked at Hope confused. "Let me refresh your memory, I was trying to find you to apologise for something I didn't even need to apologise for. Then I go to your room and find her... Penelope on top of you. Then I hear you moaning her name. Does that help?" Hope asked rhetorically.

Josie still had no clue what Hope was talking about, and thought she was starting to see things and go crazy. Opening her mouth to talk, Josie then got cut of by Hope again, "You know what we're over. After everything that yesterday was and it was perfect, you just went and ruined everything." Tears started to fall out of Josie's eyes, she kept trying to get a word in to tell Hope whatever she saw wasn't true but she was unsuccessful every time.

"You're obviously walking straight so I guess she doesn't fuck you as good as I do. So why do it? Why sleep with Penelope? You make it clear every time she's in our presence how much you hate her... then this. I guess once a cheater always a cheater." Hope scoffed. Josie began balling her eyes out, bringing that up from her past really tipped her over, she's been carrying that guilt with her for almost three years.

Hope felt guilty for saying that knowing it was partially her fault Josie cheated on Finch. But anger just kept filling her up as she kept reliving what she just saw in the twins dorm room. "I'm breaking up with you Josette. Never contact me or my family, especially my family. No surprise trips to New Orleans to visit Aunt Freya. Don't worry you'll never see me again, not as long as you live." Hope said spit spitting off her tongue. Josie was now hugging herself tears falling out of her eyes every second, snot dribbling out of her nose, and cries leaving her mouth.

"I never want you back in my life, and I never want to be back in yours. You can stand here and cry like you're innocent but we all know the truth. We all know what you are Josie. You're a slut. I guess I was never good enough for you." Hope said walking away, making her exit off the dock, purposely knocking into Josie's shoulder as she walked off.

Josie fell to the ground curling herself into a ball, crying more and more. Hope turned around one last time saying, "I chose to walk away... I chose to walk away from us", she finished.

With those last words being spoken by a retreating Hope, Josie began wailing loudly. Hope then vamped away, leaving the school entirely.

After what seems like forever for Josie but in reality was fifteen minutes, someone placed a hand on Josie's shoulder making her jump. Josie looked up hoping it was Hope, but knew it wasn't from the touch. "Hey Jojo, why are you crying?" Penelope asked with a smirk. Josie just continued to cry, her mind not being able to form words. "This isn't about what I just over heard? Because my sincerest apologies", Penelope spoke looking into Josie's wet eyes. Josie's crying evened out, as she stirred up a confused face towards Penelope.

"If I can't have you no one else can", Penelope chuckled. "W- WHAT", Josie screamed in a broken voice. "Well you running away from Hope like that earlier actually helped a lot with my plan. See I've been planning this for weeks. Hope came running like a puppy dog looking for its owner, I was in your room 'on top of you'." Penelope said using her fingers as quotation marks.

"You can use your imagination with what we were doing, Hope walked in and saw. That pretty much explains why she just broke up with you. But in reality it was an illusion spell, you gotta love those types of spells." Penelope chuckled again, before she started strutting off.

Josie began crying loudly again trying to let everything out. Trying to get rid of the pain. Trying to get rid of the massive Hope sized hole in her heart. It wasn't working and it didn't help, if anything it made everything worse. Josie could feel her throat starting to hurt from all her crying, and her face burning from her tears, she felt sick to her stomach.

Hope on the other hand couldn't take hearing Josie cry for another second, she vamped off. She didn't need or want an explanation from Josie, she knew what she saw. Hope left the school wanting to get as far away from it and from Josie as she could. Hope placed a strong clocking spell on herself, something even her Aunt Freya and all the New Orleans witches wouldn't be able to break. And she took off to the other side of the world to live out a new life.

MG and Lizzie had arrived back at the school from their anniversary getaway, once they exited the car MG could hear wailing and knew that it was Josie. "Do you hear that?" MG asked Lizzie. "Now that you mention it, yes. Is someone screaming? Maybe we should leave I really don't want to put up with a new problem at this school", Lizzie said thinking back to the schools past history when her father was in charge.

"It sound like Josie, Lizzie", MG said which immediately got Lizzie hooked. "Take me to her now", Lizzie demanded, MG vamped himself and Lizzie to where he heard Josie, at the dock. Arriving at the dock the couple was met with Penelope. "What did you do now Satan?" Lizzie asked rudely. "Actually this time it wasn't me. This was all Hope. Basically called Josie a slut, then vamped off", Penelope chuckled.

"You're lying. Hope would never. Especially not to Josie", Lizzie backed Hope up. "Only a little. But as I told Josie, if I can't have her no one else can", Penelope said starting to walk back to the school. "You bitch what did you do?!", Lizzie yelled trying to throw hands with Penelope. MG pulled her back putting his hands on her shoulders calming her down, "You need to go be with Josie. Find out what really happened. She's a mess, go be there for her." Lizzie nodded kissing MG on the cheek, before walking over to her crying sister.

Lizzie got down to Josie's level wrapping her arms around her sister. "Sh- sh- she b- br- broke- broke-", Josie stuttered along her words sobbing, before Lizzie cut her off. "Shhh shhh it's okay. I know. You're going to be okay", Lizzie reassured her sister. "I love her... so much... it hurts... it hurts so much", Josie sobbed out with a broken voice. "I know it hurts, but it's going to be okay", Lizzie wasn't really good at this whole reassuring Josie thing, but she was really trying her best.

Josie pulled away from Lizzie leaning over the side of the dock, vomiting what feels like her guts out. When she was finished she pulled herself back onto the dock laying down on her back, resuming her crying. Lizzie gave MG a look, which MG understood as he picked Josie up bridal style taking her up to Lizzie and Josie's room. Opening the room, Josie began to speak, "I don't want to be in here, take me to Hope's room", Josie demanded.

"Jo what if Hope went there, maybe she wants to be left alone, and think about what happened. Give her that time", MG said sincerely, while Lizzie just looked at her sister and MG knowing that Josie will get her own way. "I don't care, I want to see her anyway. The love we have for each other could never break us a part, she'll be there and I can explain what happened. What Penelope did." Josie said so sure that she can make everything right.

MG then carried Josie to Hope's room, opening the door revealed Hope's room but no Hope. Lizzie immediately shot a look at MG, knowing Hope made an escape. "Maybe she just went for a walk or something to clear her head", Lizzie suggested. "Yeah maybe", Josie said getting out of MG's hold needing to go to the bathroom.

Once Josie entered the bathroom she began vomiting again, not knowing what else there would be to throw up after just throwing up not that long ago. Lizzie stormed into the bathroom, holding Josie's hair up rubbing soothing circles on her back. "It's as your sister I say this and I say this with love. You and I both know that she left. She's not coming back Jo", Lizzie said sadly. Josie continued sobbing while throwing up, she looked up at Lizzie telling her 'I know but I was holding out hope'.

Getting comfortable in Hope's bed, Josie got Lizzie to stay with her. She explained everything that happened, everything that Hope said, and everything that Penelope did. Lizzie was angry, Lizzie was furious with Hope and what she had said. And she most definitely wanted to get back at Penelope, but decided to hold for a couple of days and be there for Josie.

Josie eventually fell asleep exhausted from crying. Thinking that this is the only time she had ever fallen asleep in Hope's bed, exhausted, but not sexually exhausted... broken hearted and crying exhausted.