In My Blood (Posie)

Where Were You In The Morning?

You said, "I wanna get to know ya." Why you gotta get my hopes up? You said that you were staying over, but then I woke up to the cold air.

Despite declaring their love for one another and becoming official, the two had their reservations. It was a precautionary measure just because the two didn't want to get hurt again. Time and time again, however, they'd reassure each other that this is exactly what they want.

There was a huge rain storm last night that made for awful driving conditions. Penelope was originally only planning to come over to pick her girlfriend up for them to go on a date, but their plans soon changed when the rain came pouring down. Instead, they'd traded a day where they'd be sipping on fine wine at a extravagant restaurant for drinking iced tea and playing board games in lazy attire. Neither Penelope nor Josie minded though. Any time with the other was a blast. They basked in each other's company and revelled in their light banter as they busted out Josie's dusty old board games.

Josie thought that after last night, things were good between them. Great actually. Because when their teasing jokes were all said and done, the night ended like many nights prior. The two slipped under the sheets of the Josie's bed and they'd had a long and tiring night of making each other writhe under their touch.

Josie stirred awake in the wee hours of the morning. Noticing her arm was not slung around her girlfriend, she lazily shuffled to her girlfriend's side of the bed. With her eyes closed, obviously still tired, she felt around for her girlfriend. Instead of being greeted with a warm body, she felt the cool air and a cold bed.

The idea that Penelope was just in the bathroom sprung into her head. However, after waiting in the cold and lonely bed for fifteen minutes, she figured that wasn't the case. Her eyes show open and Josie was riddled with whatever she had done wrong. She tried replaying the night over and over again in her mind. Sure, things got quite heated due to each other's incessant competitive nature, but it was all out of good fun. She racked her brain of anything out of the ordinary but she was coming up blank.

How could you make me believe? That there was something in between you and me, yeah. I look around and I don't see you.

Josie thought she knew her girlfriend better than this. She knew her girlfriend's favorite book, her love for math, her favorite song, why she prefers coffee over tea. She knew of all the places the girl wanted to travel to. She understood the girl's obsession with Harry Potter, her love for astrology, why she puts her left sock on and then her left shoe before proceeding to put her right sock and her right shoe on. But she didn't understand why the girl would just up and leave her. Josie thought that everything was going perfect. They didn't quite pick things up where they left off, but it was better this way. The changes in their character from maturing and time apart reflected that.

Normally, Josie wouldn't be this high strung, But something about this felt off. She felt it in her gut. Leaving her in the middle of the night or day just wasn't Penelope.

Where were you in the morning, baby? You didn't leave your number for me. Left me without a warning, baby. Where were you in the morning, baby?

By 8:45am Josie was fully awake and pacing around her room. Panicking and overthinking about everything. She obsessively checked her phone in hopes that Penelope would text her a heads up like "Went to go pick us up some breakfast x" or "Went home to feed Murph. Be back soon!" but her texts were dryer than the Sahara Desert.

Josie nervously ran her fingers through her hair and chewed on her bottom lip. What if she's just in the living room or the kitchen and I'm making a big deal over nothing? Josie thought. She chuckled shortly and hastily left her bedroom and ran into the living room. To her disappointment, Penelope wasn't there. She swiftly turned on her heels and looked towards her kitchen. She wasn't there either.