My Queen (Posie)

Chapter 16: The Recovery (pt 2)

There were in the hospital again. Lizzie and Penelope were on the couch, Penelope's head resting on Lizzie's as they slept. Josie was fine. She woke up a few hours after being at the hospital. It had been almost 24 hours now. Josie looked up at the ceiling and slowly started to cry. She wasn't crying for her mother this time. She was crying for her family.

How could she do this to them. How could she do this to Penelope. She was ashamed of herself. She looked down at the bandages on her arms and sighed. She closed her eyes and tried to get some sleep.

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Josie woke up to an empty room. She sat up in her bed and stretched her back. She stepped off of the bed and walked to the window. The sun was rising which made her smile. Just then Penelope walked through the door.

"The doctors said that you shouldn't move around a lot." She said in a hushed tone.

"I know." Josie didn't break eye contact from the window. "I'm sorry."

"Jojo, you have nothing to apologize for." Penelope frowned and walked towards Josie. Josie looked down. She turned to Penelope.

"You know that's not true." She wouldn't look into Penelope's eyes. Penelope cupped Josie's chin and made her look up at her.

"You are here with me now. You were in a horrible position and made the wrong decision. Now you can learn from that. I believe in you Jojo!" Once she said this Josie sink into her wrapping her arms around her.

"I don't know what I would do without you." Josie whispered.

"You have me. Always."

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Josie was in a different part of the hospital. Lizzie and Alaric sat beside her.

"Listen Josie no matter how much you don't like it, it seems you do need some therapy." The doctor insisted.

"She'll do it." Lizzie responded for her. Lizzie nodded towards Josie and Josie knew exactly what she was thinking. I'll do it for my family. I'll do it for Penelope. Josie nodded in response.

"Great! I want you to meet here with me every Sunday night until I think you are good to go. Do you think you can do that?" The doctor asked.

"Yes."

The doctor stood up and shook everyone's hand. With that everyone left and Josie was discharged from the hospital. She honestly was excited to get back to the dorms so she could go straight to Penelope's room and wrap her in a hug.

Once she arrived at the dorms she squeaked and grabbed Lizzie's hand as they went to find Penelope and Hope. Josie opened up Penelope's door and her smile dropped.

"Penelope?" She asked. No one answered. She looked at Lizzie and she shrugged.

"Come on maybe they are in the cafeteria. Josie nodded and followed Lizzie down out of the dorms. It was pretty dark in the school because it was Sunday night and everything was quite. The continued to walk into the dark cafeteria and Lizzie hit the lights.

"SURPRISE!" Yelled about 30 people in part hats and neon colors. In the front of the crowd stood Penelope.

"Happy birthday Jojo." She sweetly spoke.

Josie was dumbfounded. How the hell do you forget your own birthday. Lizzie was smirking from behind her.

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Okay y'all I'm sorry for how short this chapter is but it was just such a bad chapter that I couldn't keep writing it. Don't worry tho because the next few chapters should be fun. I might finish up this story sooner than I thought maybe around 25 but I promiseeeee that I will make it great until then!