Hope sighed as she sat in the corner of the living room in her grinch pajamas, her Christmas was officially ruined when her father walked into her and her mother's house.
"What's got you in a mood love?" Hayley said sitting next to her daughter with a Christmas mug in her hand.
The teenager looked at her mom before glancing over at her father who was currently playing monopoly with her Uncle Kol and Elijah.
Hayley sighed and looked down at her cup of eggnog "look I know you two don't have the best relationship, hell I don't even like the guy but don't let him ruin your mood, you don't have to talk to him, or even interact with him."
"How can I not let this affect me? He tries to place himself in every aspect of my life when I just don't want him around me" she crossed her arms.
"Come on, let's go bake some cookies away from him," Hayley said grabbing her daughter's hand and pulling her off the couch.
"No, I don't want to" Hope groaned.
"Help me bake cookies or Santa will not visit this house."
"Mom Santa isn't real."
"Yeah, well I am, and I will take back every single present I got you, even the one you most wanted" the brunette smirked at her daughter.
"Those expensive oil paints?" Hope's eyes widened and Hayley just smiled at her daughter before walking into the kitchen. The teenager quickly followed her mom into the kitchen.
When they had finished baking and everyone went to bed Hope went to her room and took out her phone pulling up Josie's contact name.
'Merry Christmas' the auburnette texted before setting her phone on the nightstand and walking over to her desk where she took some of her nighttime calming lotions and rubbed it on her arms.
She was about to lie down when she heard her phone go off.
The teen picked her phone up and saw that Josie said merry Christmas with an image attached of the brunette in a Santa hat by a Christmas tree.
"Fuck..." Hope said clutching her phone as she stared at the photo. Josie was so beautiful, she must have been crafted by literal gods.
Hope shook the thoughts out of her head and texted Josie 'you look cute' before turning off her phone and laying down.
The day after Christmas is when Hope decided to tell Landon about what she did with Josie. She decided it had been long enough, she had hidden it for a while and she needed to be honest so he could move on.
When Hope knocked on Landon's door the boy's mom answered.
"Oh, Hope hello" the woman smiled politely.
"Is Landon home?" The teen asked bouncing on the heels of her feet.
"He is up in his room playing music, you can go up sweetie," the woman said stepping aside. Hope walked in and headed up the stairs toward the boy's room. She stopped at the door and read the sign he had on it.
'Only wizards allowed'
God. Why did she agree to date him?
When she opened the door the sight she was met with shocked her.
Landon was scrambling to pull up his boxers and pants along with the guy who she saw was bent over the curly-haired boy's bed. Well, that explains why he was playing the music so loud!
"H-Hope I can explain!" Landon said running his hand down his shirt to straighten it.
"God! to think I felt sorry for cheating on you! You're doing this? You know what I was coming here to tell you we are over so bye Landon" she said turning away from the room and walking away.
"You cheated on me..? Wait, Hope! Please we can work this out I love you!" Landon said following her out of the house.
"Landon, we haven't even been dating that long you don't love me, and I don't love you just go back to your hookup."
"You can't tell anyone about what you saw."
"Ok."
"I'm serious."
"I have no interest in telling anyone about this trust me, have a good life Landon," Hope said before walking to her mom's car and hopping inside.
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When Hope had pulled into Josie's apartment complex she immediately got out of her mom's car and ran up the stairs, knocking on the brunette's door.
"Oh Hope I didn't know you were coming over," Josie said as she opened the door.
Hope just stood there staring at the brunette.
"Did you want to come in " Josie was cut off by Hope pressing their lips together in a heated kiss.
When the two had finally pulled apart Hope looked up at Josie and smiled "I did it."
