Hosie - I Had a Crush on you (Completed)

Chapter Fifteen - You're Beautiful

Josie's Pov- 

I made my way back to my room to find Lizzie still there, usually she leaves pretty early to have breakfast but she must have gotten worried and decided to wait for me. "Oh hi Josie, how was last night?" she asks with a smirk. I scrunch up my nose in disgust. 

"Gross Lizzie, no I just ended up falling asleep in her room. We didn't have sex" I say nervously. I think back to what Hope told me last night. I have to get that out of my head especially when I'm talking to Lizzie. If Lizzie knew right now, all hell could break lose. Or it wouldn't... but I don't feel like testing it right at this moment and I promise Hope I wouldn't tell her. 

"Okay Okay, what? you two just had a heart to heart and you ended up falling asleep on each other?" She asks. She just has to know everything, doesn't she? I don't mind though, It's good to have someone that I can tell everything to. Well not everything... God it's killing me already not telling her about the merge.

"Something like that" I say with a laugh. I grab a towel and head into the bathroom. 

"I saw you two on the plane Jo, she's good for you" Lizzie says. I give her a small smile before going into the bathroom for a shower. I think about what Lizzie said, that Hope is good for me. We aren't even together and I don't know what Hope wants. I'm scared to ask though because what if I ruin everything?

*

Hope's Pov-

I make my way to Doctor Saltzmans office where I see Caroline and Doctor Saltzman reading the books that we bought back from the elderly woman's cabin in Alaska. I pick up one and look at the front cover. "We have read all these cover to cover" I mutter before dropping the book back onto the pile. 

"Maybe... but there's something she wasn't telling us. Couldn't you see it?" Caroline asks. "It's almost as if she couldn't tell us anything"

"Yeah, she couldn't tell us anything because she didn't know anything" I mutter before falling back into a chair. "You do realize that their is one way that both of them can survive, are you not considering it?" I ask. 

"of course I have considered it Hope but could you imagine if Lizzie or even Josie became a heretic? You and I both know that Josie has a darkness inside of her that she is constantly pushing down and Lizzie... well if Lizzie had the heightened emotions of a vampire, well it could cause a disaster. Especially since she will have unlimited witch power as well. And I'm afraid of what Josie could be if she allows the darkness to take over." Doctor Saltzman says. He shakes his head. "So no, I will not allow my children to become heretics" 

"Even if it means that they will die if they don't?" I ask. He looks down at his desk and then looks up at me. 

"We'll cross that bridge when we get to it." 

"Becoming a vampire made me grow to be the person I am... I'd never want to go back to being human. Some people are good at being a vampire, I'm just saying." Caroline says. "But I'm not sure that I want it for our daughters not unless they want it. So if the time comes and we don't have a solution that can stop the merge then I guess that the best thing to do is to ask them what they want"

*

I make my way to breakfast and notice Landon sitting on his own. I sit next to him, he looks at me and gives me a soft smile. "Hey" He says. 

"I heard you died while I was gone" I say. He chuckles and nods. 

"Yeah so apparently I am supernatural. A phoenix to be exact" He says. "Way cooler then I could have imagined, except the amount of monsters still coming is ridiculous... we've had a medusa and your ex"

"Roman?" I ask. He nods. 

"Oh yeah, you have a thing for curly hair, don't you?" He asks. I look over at Josie who had just walked in with Lizzie. I smile at her and she gives me a small smile back. 

"More like wavy" I say as I look at Josie. 

"So... you two are a thing now?" He asks. 

"Uh... I don't know" I say as I look at Josie. "It's complicated, I mean I guess we are a thing but we're not together if you get what I mean?" I mutter. Josie and I haven't really had the discussion and to be honest the whole thing scares me. What if I ruin things with her? 

"I think I do. You mean that you haven't asked the question?" He says. I begin to feel uncomfortable with having this conversation with him because we only broke up less then a month ago and this is the first time I have seen him since. "Don't worry Hope, I know that I'm your ex boyfriend but I decided that it was a good thing that we broke up. It was good when it was new but after a while I don't even think my own feelings were there." 

*

I walk into our history of magic class and find a seat next to Josie. "Don't want to sit with Landon now?" She asks. Unbelievable, she's jealous. I put my hand on her leg and she looks down at my hand. 

"I wish you could see that you're the one that I want" I whisper. She shifts in her seat, uncomfortably. "sorry" i say before taking my hand off her leg. She shakes her head. 

"No, don't be sorry Hope" She says. She looks out the window and then back at me, her eyes look my up and down. "It's going to be hard to concentrate with you sitting next to me" 

"Now you know what i feel right now" I say with a chuckle. I then feel her hand on my leg, I look down at it and back up at her. "Maybe we should leave? Before the teacher comes?" 

"I think that's a good idea"

*

Once we arrive to the mill, I push Josie against the wall without hurting her and kiss her. She jumps up and wraps her legs around me while kissing me. I walk her over to an old bench and sit her on it. She pulls away and puts a hand on my cheek and smiles. In this moment she is the most beautiful thing in the world and I know that with her is where I want to be always. "Look at us skipping class to make out at the mill" She says before looking up at the old roof. She leans in and kisses my nose, I let out a laugh. 

"You're beautiful" I mutter. Her cheeks turn red and she kisses me to hide the fact that she's blushing.