Secrecy (Hosie)

Part 79: Reality

The following day, Hope and the Saltzman's have their flight back to Virginia.

Back to reality.

Dorian and Emma were able to keep an eye on things while they were away. 'Things' meaning the two prisoners and the newbie unidentified supernatural student.

Landon was having a hard time adjusting.

Clarke and the Necromancer are still annoying.

But other than that, not much happened.

Since the Tribrid was in New Orleans with a protection spell, no monsters attacked the school.

Surprisingly, Triad and Aurora didn't even attack the school, which should be a good thing, but it actually makes Hope more nervous than anything.

She doesn't know their next move.

But she does know hers.

Before they left to New Orleans, she revealed her identity to Clarke, and in an attempt to keep his life, he offered to take Hope to the Triad facility which houses the Malivore pit.

So just as Hope gets back from one trip, she has to prepare herself to go for another.

But before she does that, there's something else that's been on her mind a lot more since her conversation with Lizzie in the Quarter, when she admitted that she already has an engagement ring for Josie.

And while Lizzie eagerly gave Hope her blessing, Hope still has a couple more people to ask.

So right now, she's walking through the halls of the Salvatore Boarding School, trying to find an excuse to distract Josie long enough for her to have a private conversation with her parents.

She comes up with an easy enough excuse, "We should probably go ahead and get our stuff ready for our trip to Georgia..."

Josie nods, "Yeah, I know, but I was thinking..." She snakes her hands up to Hope's shoulders and around the back of her neck, bringing her voice lower as for Hope to be the only one to hear her, "We didn't get much alone time back in New Orleans...so maybe we could head upstairs to the spare room we have saved for you to get some privacy? I know we're really busy, but I'm sure we can spare a little bit of time..."

She lightly runs her fingers through Hope's hair, her eyes suggestive and her body pressed close.

On second thought, maybe that conversation with Dr. Saltzman and Caroline can wait.

Hope nods, suddenly as eager as Josie, "Let's go."

Josie smirks when Hope quickly takes her hand, beginning to guide her toward the stairs.
But it quickly fades when she sees someone descend the stairs at the same time, blocking their way.

"Hey Hope!"

Landon's stupid grin takes up his entire face.

Josie thinks he wouldn't be so smiley if she were to tell him that his little crush is about to go fuck her girlfriend...

Josie feels Hope gently squeeze her hand before responding to Landon with the most forced smile Josie thinks she's ever seen from the Tribrid,
"Hi Landon."

Josie forces herself to be polite, "Are you settling in well?"

Landon furrows his eyebrows, finally glancing toward Josie and acknowledging her presence, "Didn't you vote me out?"

This asshole...

"No."

Landon argues, "But you wanted to."