I Would Never Do That To You

2: Don't Leave

Josie's POV -

Smoke was coming out of my ears as I held back the urge to scream. I clenched my fists and gave Lizzie a death stare. I spun around and stormed off. How could she be so selfish? How could she not tell me something so important? How little does she care about her sister? I had millions of questions that needing answering, but in all my rage I couldn't find any clear answers. I needed to do one thing before all else and that was finding Penelope.

I rushed to her room, being careful not to rip my dress on my way there. When I finally reached her room I took a deep breath. I was debating whether to knock or just bust the door down when I heard her voice. She was talking to someone. I didn't know who she was talking to, but it sounded like a final goodbye. I ran in the direction of her voice caring less and less about what would happen to my dress every passing second.

When I drew closer I shouted her name, causing her head to turn from the moment it left my lips. She stared longlingly in my direction for a couple seconds and then looked back forwards pretending she didn't see me. It was silent for a few seconds as we stod ther frozen. She turned back around completley facing me.

"You weren't gonna say goodbye?" I said with a pained voice.

"I did," she answered, "In my letter."

"Which I'm guessing you finally read," she continued.

"Belgium?" I asked

"My mom got a job there, and there's a great witch only school, where I don't have to deal with vamps or wolves or Lizzie," she replied.

At this the raven hair girl was about to turn around and leave, but I rushed up to her and grabbed her arm.

"Don't leave," I whispered. I was choking up.

My eyes teared up and I could tell she was sad to leave too. She didn't seem to have her heart in it. She put on a false facade when talking to me to put walls. To not get attached in her final seconds with me possibly ever. I saw that she was hurting. She could never handle seeing me upset, and she couldn't deal with her emotions either. She took in a deep breath, closed her eyes and opened her mouth.

"You know for weeks, I was hoping, you would give me, one reason to stay," She spoke softly.

"but Instead you gave me a thousand to go" she said more assertively.

I could see her eyes were getting glossy and she was beginning to tear up. I felt her pain. I knew what she was feeling; what she was going through. We started into each other's eyes for a while not knowing what to say. We breathed heavily, but in unison. Tears steamed down her face and she threw her arms around me. I started crying too when she hugged because I thought she hated me and I couldn't even bare the thought of it. She tried to speak, but she couldn't so she waited.

After a while of holding me tight in her arms she whispered in my ear.

"I love you Jojo,"

She pulled away from our hug and wiped a tear off my face. She sniffled and tried to pull herself together before say one last thing.

"I love you with all of my obnoxious, selfish, evil heart, and one day you will understand..." she spoke, but her voice cracked towards the end of her speech and she barely got through, "why I did... everything I did,".

At this point her face was drenched in tears and so was mine. She put her hands on the sides of my face gently and then pulled me closer closing the gap between us. Her lips were soft and I could taste a mixture of her salty tears and mine. I stood there awkwardly for a couple seconds kissing her, but doing nothing with the rest of my body. When I came to some sort of conclusion about how I felt about the situation I decided to wrap my arms around her waist. She drew in even closer not leaving a single centimeter of distance between us and that's exactly what I wanted. We kissed each other with a fiery passion for a couple minutes occasionally tasting each others tongues and biting each others lips.

Then her phone rang ruining the perfect lustful moment between us. It took us a little to part our lips before she reached for her phone. I was disappointed that our kiss had to come to an end, but then all the thoughts of Penelope leaving returned to my mind and I was further saddened. I stared at the beautiful girl before me and waited patiently for her to hang up when she did I leaned in for another kiss and touched her lips with my own, but then she pulled away.

"I have to go," she breathed.

Nothing more needed to be said. She wasn't going to stay for me. Why would she anyway? With the way I treated her no wonder she's leaving. When I snapped out of my daze I saw that Penelope's eyes were locked on me and she was waiting for something. A final good bye from me.

"I love you Peez," I finally stated after a little bit.

"I know," she replied and then turned around and left.

I wanted to run after her, but what would I do? What would I say? I watched her walk away and then I watched her get into a taxi. I half expected her to wave at me as she left like in one of those cliche goodbye scenes in romantic movies, but she didn't. She just left.

I turned on my heel and walked aimlessly forward with tears in my eyes. It hurt so much just being away from her.

I couldn't go back to my room after my fight with Lizzie so I just continued walking until I found myself outside of Penelope's old room. I looked at the door longingly wishing Penelope would open the door and give me an adorable smile, but she was gone and that would never happen.

I pressed against the door lightly and to my surprise it creaked open. The bed was perfectly made and the room was empty. It was exactly the same as before she came to this school and that made me miss her even more. I walked in slowly and closed the door behind me with tears spilling down my face.

I looked around and took a few deep breaths before frantically searching for anything she may have left behind. A discarded blazer or an old notebook; anything that was her's really.

After scouring the room and coming up empty handed I kicked her old bed in frustration. I threw myself backwards onto the soft mattress that held so many of our blissful memories and thought about all we had been through. Loving and fighting; small disputes and big arguments; hours on end together and seeing each other every second of the day. I missed her so much. It was so painful thinking about her. Thinking about how stupid I was not realizing that what she did was for me. Thanking about how she didn't stay because I didn't give her a good enough reason to.

I turned my head to the side and buried my face in the freshly cleaned sheets. I jerked my head back after a couple seconds though because I saw something out of the corner of my eye. It looked like some sort of cloth or something. I jumped up to my feet and rushed over to the dresser that concealed the item. It was an old jumper of hers. I jumper I recognized since she used to wear it all the time a while before. It must have slid behind the dresser and gotten stuck. She probably didnt notice it like I hadn't noticed it until now.

I tugged at one of the sleeves but the jumper didnt budge. I was angered by this so I pulled harder. The dresser fell forwards and I hit the bed. My foot almost got stuck under it when it fell over so I pulled my feet away from the floor quickly. The only good thing that came from this was that I got the jumper.

I held it tight for a couple seconds and then got up. I frantically ripped of my dress and stripped down to my underwear. The room was cold so I shuddered as I slid her jumper over my head. It still smelt like her and it kept me nice and warm.

I had had a long day and it was nearing the next so I climbed onto her bed and slid under her covers. I lay awake staring at the ceiling for an hour before drifting off to sleep. I thought about her the whole time and I wondered if she would ever come back.

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A/N

Is Penelope ever coming back? Is Jojo gonna be lonely? Keep reading to find out idk lmao :) Hope you like it so far tell me what you think in the comments.