Hosie - I Had a Crush on you (Completed)

Chapter Twenty Eight - I Will Miss You

Narrator's Pov- 

ONE YEAR LATER

Hope looks at her fully furnished room one last time before she walks over to her desk and picks up a seashell. She looks at it and can't help but smile. She remembers last year when her and Josie went to the beach on spring break, they were picking up shells because it's what Hope use to do with her mum when she was young. Her mother, Hayley Marshall took Hope to the beach on rare occasions when she was a child but when they did they would come back home with a bag of shells and Hope would paint on them. This shell in particular that Hope held in her hand wasn't her own masterpiece, it was Josie's. Josie had painted a wolf, it wasn't the best artwork in the world but it was the most important piece of artwork that Hope owned and she would choose it over any artwork in a gallery. 

flashback

Hope began painting her shell, it was a painting of the ocean. She felt Josie's arms wrap around her waist from behind and felt her head rest on her shoulder. "Hey Jo" Hope said with a smile. She was truly happy and nothing could get in the way of that at the moment. 

"Hey babe" Josie says before kissing Hope on the cheek. "That looks great" Josie says before releasing her grip on Hope. "You really use to do this when you were a kid?" She asks curiously as she finds a seat next to her. 

"Yeah, Mum has a box of painted shells somewhere in the attic at my house in New Orleans and I don't imagine those ones look fantastic" Hope says with a laugh. She then puts her paint brush down and hands Josie a plain shell. "Here, why don't you try?" 

"I'm terrible at art" Josie admits. 

"Everyone is terrible at it when they first start and it doesn't matter if it's terrible because to me everything you do is amazing" Hope says with a smile. Josie returns the smile and leans in to kiss her. 

End of flashback.

Hope places the shell in a cardboard box and she lets out a sigh. She had one happy year with Josie, one that wasn't filled with monsters or worrying about the merge. But now that Hope has graduated there is one thing that is getting in their way, one new obstacle... College. Hope doesn't have to go to college but the one thing that she can do to make herself seem like a normal teenager is going off to college like every other eighteen year old girl.

"Do you really have to go?" Hope hears a voice from behind her. She turns around and sees Josie leaning against the door frame. The sad look on her face says it all. 

"I do" Hope says sadly. "There is no place for me at this school anymore Jo"

"Your place is with me" She says. Hope walks over to her a pulls her into a hug, resting her head in the crook of her neck. Her blood lust is no longer a problem, as Josie promised she helped her. "How will I not chase you to the other side of the country this time?" Josie says with a laugh. 

"Because you need to stay here and finish school and next year, maybe you can join me" Hope says as she pulls away from the hug. "I'm going to miss you so much" Hope can't help but feel sad. Hope kisses her and pulls her in for another hug. 

"How am I going to survive without you?" She asks. 

"Like you did before you met me" Hope says with a sad smile. "I will come to visit you during the holidays and on some weekends, i promise" 

"I know you will" Josie says with a smile.

*

Hope finishes  packing the boxes into her car and she finally shuts the boot. She sees her friends all waiting for her to come and say goodbye. Hope finds her way to Landon first, he gives her a soft smile before he pulls her in for a hug. "Don't cause too much trouble in Colorado" 

"And you don't cause too much trouble in Texas" Hope says as she messes up his hair. He chuckles and shakes his head. She then moves to Rafael who pulls her into a hug straight away. When she gets to Alaric, he has tears in his eyes. 

"What's wrong?" Hope asks with a chuckle. 

"I've watched you grow Hope and finally you are moving on from the Salvatore school and going to college. It's going to be so hard not having my right hand man doing all my dirty work" He says with a chuckle. "And I'm going to miss fighting you which has become extremely hard over the past year with your vampire side"

"I'm going to Miss you too Doctor Saltzman" Hope says before hugging him and moving onto Lizzie. Lizzie hugs her straight away. Not only did she have a good year with Josie but she also had good year being friends with Lizzie and teaching her how to cook. 

Moving on to Josie is the hardest, Hope finally felt tears form in her eyes. She didn't want to leave her girlfriend behind while she goes to college parties and sits in lecture rooms. This right here, standing in front of Josie, saying goodbye is the hardest part. Hope looked over at her friends and they seemed to get the idea that she wanted to be left alone with Josie. Once everyone had left Hope pulls Josie in for a kiss. Josie bursts into tears at this moment. 

"I've never had to be away from you for this long before" Josie says as she wipes her tears away. "I don't know how I'm going to do it but I know that I have to because If I ask you to stay it's selfish and I want you to get the education you want and I want you to have the life that you want" 

"You can come to the same college as me in a year, I'll even compel the headmaster to let us share a room" Hope says with a laugh. 

"That sounds really great" Josie says. Hope sighs and pulls Josie in for another hug. 

"I love you so much" Hope whispers into her ear. 

"I love you too" Josie says back. "More than anything" Josie continues. Hope gives her another kiss, this one is long and passionate. A kiss that says a thousand words. Afterwards Hope gets in her car and drives away. 

Flashback

"I can't believe you got your licence before me... I was so certain that I would get mine before you" Josie says before putting a handful of Mcdonald's fries into her mouth. Hope had driven them through the Mcdonald's drive thru for the first time in her new car. 

"It's not my fault you failed your test" Hope chuckles. Josie throws fries at her, which causes Hope to gasp. "Not in the new car" She says as she pulls up at the look out just outside of town. 

"What are we not allowed to do in the new car?" Josie asks as she puts her hand on Hope's thigh. Hope looks down at Josie's hand and smirks. 

"Oh, we can absolutely do whatever we want in this car" Hope say's leaning forward. "Just has to be in the back seat" Hope bites her lip and looks down at Josie's lips. Josie is already undoing her seat belt and jumping into the backseat of the car. Hope laughs and follows Josie into the back seat, she hovers over the top of her and kisses her jawline. Josie pulls Hope's shirt up and it goes over the top of her head and onto the car floor. Hope goes back to kissing her when there is a knock on the window. It's a cop. Hope puts her shirt on quickly, swearing under her breath. 

End of Flashback