High school love

The end of the holidays

*Josie's pov*
When we woke up, we had to pack all of our things to go back to school. Hope put all of our stock in her car and we were ready to leave. "That's your car?" Lizzie exclaimed when she saw it. "It's a gift from my uncle" Hope explained. We drove all the way back to Virginia. When we arrived, Hope carried all my stuff in my room. "I'm going to miss sleeping with you every night" I said. "Me too, but you can cuddle with Teddy" she said before she laughed. "It's not going to be the same" I whined. "Do you want to move in my room?" she asked. I was happily surprised. "Of course" I said excited. "We'll have to do it later because now, we're going to eat" she said getting up. "I'm starving" I replied.

We were walking down the hall making our way to the kitchen holding hands. Suddenly, someone threw a milkshake on me. I looked around to see Penelope with an empty glass of milkshake in her hand. "Oops" she said with a fake tone. Hope got between me and Penelope. "Excuse yourself" she said angrily. "Excuse me.. for giving her what she deserves" Penelope said with a lot of arrogance in her voice. Hope grabbed her by her neck and started to lift her up from the ground. Penelope tried to escape but Hope's grip was too strong. I couldn't let her do that. "Hope stop!" I shouted as I put my hand on her shoulder. She turned around and pushed me with her arm. Her eyes weren't blue anymore. They were in their werewolf form and there was so much anger in her stare. She blinked an her eyes became blue again. She looked so disturbed. She looked over to Penelope and let her go. It was like she woke up from a dream.  Penelope ran away quickly. "I'm sorry" Hope said as I got up. Hope ran away and I wasn't fast enough to catch up on her.

I was still shocked by what just happened. I spent all morning looking around for her. I went to her room but she wasn't there. I asked everyone if they saw her but no one did. I was going to give up when someone told me they might've saw in the music room. I hurried to get there. My emotions were all mixed up. She was so weird this week and now this?

When I got to the music room, I saw her. The room was built like an auditorium so she was far from me. She was singing and playing piano. I got a little closer to hear her better.

"It makes me feel nervous
You have that look in your eye
Oh, what takes over?
What is it that holds you tight?
And you can tear it up
Oh, no one tears it up like you
Oh, you can rip it up
Oh, no one rips it up like you
When you're in the half light
Oh, it is not you I see
And you live a half life
You only show half to me
And can you shake it off?
Oh, can you shake it off for me?
When you're in the half light
I don't like the half I see.." she sang with a lot of sadness in her voice.

I understood that the lyrics she was singing represented the way she thought I felt. My eyes got watery and I had to talk to her so I walked down the stairs to go on the stage she was playing on. It was dark and I almost fell in the stairs. "Shit" I said. Hope looked up and and saw me. She stopped playing. She got up and ran away again. "Hope, wait!" I shouted trying to catch up on her but she was already far away. I understood how she felt and why she ran away. She thought I hated her for what she did and that I would be scared of her.

*Hope's pov*
I was going back to my room when my phone started to ring. It was Alaric, I decided to answer. "Hi?" I said. "Are you with Josie?!" he asked with a worried tone. "No, why? Is everything okay?" I replied intrigued. "She called me 10 minutes ago. She was in the forest looking for you but she suddenly screamed and hung up. I don't know where she is." Alaric explained. "Where was she when she called you?" I asked already on my way to the forest. "Close to the docks I think. Call me if you find her" he said before he hung up.

I ran faster than I ever did. I started thinking about the worst scenario. What if one of the vampire who attacked us in New Orleans found her? No! I didn't want to think about that. When I got to the docks, I saw a silhouette standing up on one of them. I got closer to it. The person standing there turned around to look at me. "Hi" the person said. I instantly understood. It was Josie. All of this was fake. "Don't get mad. I just needed to talk to you and it was the only way I found" she hurried to say. I turned around ready to leave and I started to make my way back to the school when Josie hugged me from behind. I stopped moving. Her warmth and her presence were enough to make me stop. We stayed there in silence for minutes. My heart was hurting so bad at the thought of running away from her another time. After a minute, I put my hands on hers to make her unwrapped them and she did. I turned around to face her. We starred at each other for a while. Words seemed useless. I got closer to her and put my hand on her cheek. She closed her eyes. "Josie.." I whispered. She opened her eyes and put her hand on mine. "I think you already know why I ran away earlier. I was so ashamed of what I did. Not only I hurt Penelope, even if she deserved it, I hurt you. Once again, you got to see the side of me I thought was gone but apparently it's still in me. I promised to protect you but I didn't today. I don't want you to get hurt because of me. When we met, I told you I was dangerous and today i could've hurt you badly. I thought running away from you was the best thing to do but I can't do it anymore. Everytime I heard your voice or everyime I saw you, my heart was breaking a little more. You probably think I'm a monster..." I said. She shooked her head. "You're not a monster. Don't be ashamed of who you are. Running away from me was more heartbreaking and hurting than when you pushed me. I need you okay? I need you to wake up by my side. I need you to make me smile. I need you to grow old with me. My life changed for the best since I met you. You changed my way to see the world. Everything is better with you. Every single moment we spend together feels like a blessing. You're the love of my life, my soulmate and the woman I want to spend the rest of my life with. I don't want us to fight anymore. Protecting me isn't your responsibility, Hope. When we met, you told me to stay away from you. You told me it was better for me. But what's really better for me is you." Josie said with emotion in her voice.
We both starred at each other trying not to cry. My hand was still on her cheek. I put it behind her neck and pulled her closer. We hugged each other in silence. When we pulled back I noticed we were at the place we first really talked. I took her hand and led her on the dock. "Remember when we had our first real conversation here?" I asked. "Of course I do. It was one of the best moment of my life" Josie answered. I released her hand and put one knee on the ground. "Wait, what are you doing?" Josie said panicking. "I'm not proposing to you. Not yet. I just want to give you something" I replied. I pulled a ring out of my pocket and showed her. "It's just a promise. A promise of loving each other no matter what. When it will be the right time, I will replace this ring with a proposal ring and then, I will add a wedding ring on top of it" I said putting it in her ring finger. She nodded and smiled. "I love it" she said. I got up and placed my arm on her shoulders. "So, do you still want to move in my room?" I asked. "Yes! I won't be able to sleep without you" she said. We made our way back to our room to pick up her stuff. "Just take some stuff we'll take the rest tomorrow" I said when we got in the room. "Pick Teddy" she said. She brought some clothes in a suitcase and we walked all the way to my room. On the way there, we ran into Penelope. I put Teddy on the ground to be able to see her. Penelope looked at me with her usual bitch look. Josie nervously looked at me waiting for my reaction. "Excuse me for later" I finally said. Penelope and Josie looked surprised. "I went to far and I regret it. But in the end, I want to thank you because what you did, made my relationship with this beautiful girl even stronger" I said looking at Josie. "Now, excuse us but we have things to do. Have a great night" I said before I picked Teddy up and continued walking. "You did great" Josie told me with a proud tone.

When we got in my room, I made some place in my walk-in for her to put her clothes which is pretty useless because she mostly wear my hoodies. I put Teddy beside my bed. "I'm exhausted" I said. "Me too" she said. "Can you please do something for me?" my girlfriend asked. "Anything you want baby" I replied. "Can you sing a song?" she asked. "Okay" I told her. After what happened today, I would've done anything to make her happy. I sat in front on my piano while Josie layed on my bed. "Let's start" I said.

"In case you didn't know
Baby, I'm crazy bout you
And I would be lying if I said
That I could live this life without you
Even though I don't tell you all the time
You had my heart a long long time ago
In case you didn't know

You've got all of me
I belong to you
Yeah you're my everything

In case you didn't know
I'm crazy bout you
I would be lying if I said
That I could live this life without you
Even though I don't tell you all the time
You had my heart a long long time ago
Yeah, you had my heart a long long time ago
In case you didn't know..."

"You're an angel" Josie said when I was done. "You're the only one I would sing for" I answered. "Let's get ready for bed" I stated.
I was brushing my teeth in the bathroom when Josie walked in and hugged me from behind again. She stayed like that until I was done. I turned around to look at her cute face. "You like doing that don't you?" I asked her. "I will do this everyday for the rest of my life" she said as an answer. "Hmm it doesn't bother me" I said. "Come on, Let's get to sleep" I said. We got in bed and we cuddled. We were laying in spoons when she turned around to face me. She kissed my lips and said "it's been a crazy day". "Yeah it was" I replied. "Good night, my love" I whispered before I kissed her forehead.

Today has been crazy. We went through so much in only 24 hours. Even if it was a hard day, it made us stronger and it made me love her even more. I can't wait to see what tomorrow as planned for us.