Hosie - I Had a Crush on you (Completed)

Chapter Sixteen - Together Together

Josie's Pov- 

"We need to talk Hope" I say as I pull away from her. "About us". Hope nods and sits on the table next to me. "Usually I am the type of person that is afraid to jump to change anything but with you, even though I am scared that I might ruin everything I know that the later is so much better if I don't ruin everything"

"You're not going to ruin everything Jo" She says as she reaches for my hand. "I know what you want to say and the truth is I want to be with you" She says and I let out a sigh of relief. "I'm really hoping that's what you wanted to say"

"Yes, it's what I wanted to say" I say with a laugh. "So are we together together?" I ask. Hope laughs and nods. 

"Yes, we are together together" She says. Hope suddenly gets a text and her eyes light up. "Your dad just texted me, he said he's got a really strong lead on the merge. I think you should come with me"

"I'm not suppose to know about it though and he's not suppose to know that I know" I say. I'm also angry at him for not telling me sooner and I don't want to see him at the moment but of course Hope wants me to. 

"I think you need to come for this and who cares what your father thinks about me telling you? He should have told you a long time ago" She says, I nod and follow her back towards the school, we enter my dads office. He tries to hide the books but hope stops him. "Stop. She knows about the merge Doctor Saltzman"

"What?" 

"I couldn't lie to my girlfriend about something that she has to know about" Hope says. Dad looks frustrated and scared, more than I have ever seen him before.

"IT WASN'T YOUR CALL TO MAKE HOPE" He yells. I stand in front of Hope as a form of protection. 

"DON'T YOU DARE YELL AT HER DAD" I yell but take a deep breath to calm down. I can't be the person that loses control, that's not the person I am. He steps back surprised as I haven't yell at him like this before. "You should have told me, you should also tell Lizzie" 

"She doesn't know yet?" He asks. 

"No, The problem with that is that I don't think she'd be able to take the sort of news" I admit. "Usually I'd want to tell her everything but this is different. Lizzie could have one of her episodes and she could end up killing someone" 

"You're right Josie but once she finds out it could be the same, she could have an episode because not even her sister would tell her. If you know she has to also" Dad says. He paces the room, trying to think. "We are going to have to tell her"

"We don't have to Doctor Saltzman" Hope says as she notices the distress on my face. I look at Hope and shake my head. Lizzie has to know, I feel so guilty for keeping it from her for only just a day. "Or we do" she says. 

"Yes, we do" I say. 

*

"So, either Josie or I have to die when we are twenty-two?" Lizzie asks. She seems to be taking the news well considering what we all thought would happen. 

"That's why I called Hope here originally, There's something inside the books that you found at the cabin." He says before opening one of them. "Every so often through out the pages there is something circled. The woman that you met was trying to tell you and Caroline but she couldn't say it or she couldn't write it. She had been cursed not to" 

"and how are you so sure of this?" Hope asks. 

"because I have seen something like this before, There is a story about a man that knew about woman who was a witch that was going to commit a mass murder, the problem is that that man was someone the witch cared about dearly so she cursed him not to speak of it or even write it down... He found a loop hole which was circling the already written word. He saved a hundred lives. And we are about to save generations of Gemini's if this all goes to plan" 

"Okay?" Lizzie says. "So how do we do this? "

"We are going to have to go through every book once again and write down what is circled then we have to figure out what order it goes into, this could take years Doctor Saltzman. There are at least twenty books here and all of them have at least thirty words circled" Hope states. Dad sighs and nods. He leans against his desk and looks at all of us. 

"It's a good thing that we have years to figure this out"

*

1 month later

Hope, Lizzie and I gave up on helping dad find out the answer to stopping the merge. After a couple of weeks it had started to impact our school work and dad didn't want that so he told us to leave it for now. There will always be time once we graduate. I'm hoping to go to college but there aren't any colleges for the supernatural, are there? 

I wake up in Hope's bed, her arms wrapped around me. I ended up being the little spoon again, of course Hope wears the pants in this relationship. I go to get up but Hope pulls me into her. "Nope, you're not leaving this bed. It's Saturday" She says. I laugh and cuddle into her. 

"That's a reason why we should get up, there's so much that we could do today" I mutter into her ear. 

"Like what?" 

"We could finally go on our first date" I suggest. Hope opens her eyes finally and smiles at me. She seems to like the idea. 

"and where would you like or first date to be Miss Saltzman" She says with a smile. I give her a kiss on the cheek and a kiss on the lips.

"Anywhere"