Pretender (Posie)

Chapter 16

"No, you're not going out with him," Lizzie  stated, "I won't allow it."

"Lizzie, he will ruin your reputation and your dad will find out you're-"

"I don't care Hope! I love you and I don't think that I can stand seeing you with someone else!"

"How do you think I feel?!" Hope shouted, "You're dating someone else, Lizzie! It hurts me to see you with someone else even before we started this! Lizzie I have had feelings for you before you even started dating Raf! I've been in love with you ever since we became friends! I have to go on that date with Landon because I want to protect you!" Lizzie wraps her arms around Hope attempting to calm her down. She knows she's being a hypocrite and that it is so unfair to Hope that she's still dating Raf. She knows that Hope should go on that date but that doesn't mean she wants her to.

"Fine, go on that date with Landon... Just don't do anything you don't want to and remember that I love you," she whispers.

(With Josie and Penelope)
"I know I came off as aggressive but when I see something that I want I don't want to wait. And I want you, Josie Saltzman. I want you to be mine but I know that your sister doesn't approve of me and whatever but I really like you, like a lot," Penelope confesses

"I really like you too," I leaned in and softly pressed our lips together.  She moved her hand to my cheek and when our lips separated she kept her hand there looking me in the eyes.

"I really can't wait for tomorrow," she states.

"Me too."

"Do you want to head off to your spot?" She asked removing her hand and looking back at the lake.

"Yeah, let's go." We got up and started walking back to her bike. While we were walking I felt her hand brush against mine.  I unvoluntarily put it in my hand and intertwined our fingers. "Are you going to drive?" She asked.

"Are you serious?" I stated shaking my head.

"I don't know how to get there," She stated crossing her arms.

"I don't know have to even drive this thing," I told her.

"Then I'll teach you," She states getting on the bike.

"What?" I asked a little confused.

"It's not that bad..." Penelope moved back a little making room for me in to sit infront of her.

"I don't want to crash your bike," I stated not wanting to hurt her.

"This bike has been through a lot, I'm sure it can survive," She stated getting off of the bike and gently grabbing my arm.

"Penelope, I don't want to hurt you."

"You won't, I promise." She sat down on the bike again.

"Okay," I said sitting down in front of her. I could feel her breath on my neck. It was distracting me.

"Do you know how to ride a regular bike?" She asked against my ear.

"Umm...yeah my mom taught me," I stated still distracted by how close she was.

"It's just like that but you know with a motor and goes a lot faster," she says. That made me feel a little better about driving this. "I'll start it and guide you through, okay?" Penelope put her arms around me and put her hands on top of mine which were on the handles. "Josie?"

"Y-Yeah, umm sorry, I'm just a little nervous," and distracted.

"Okay are you sure you want to do this? You can just tell me the directions to get to your spot and I'll take you there."

"No, I want to do this," I stated. I wanted to learn how to do this also I wanted to spend more time with Penelope.

She then started the bike. I took a deep breath as  she did so. "You pull back your right hand to move forward," she turned down her right hand slightly making us go forward slowly. "Just like that... and you pull the brake if you want to stop,"  she moved her finger and pulled down on the brake slightly. We spent the next hour riding around an empty parking lot.

"I think I got this," I state

"Are you sure because I don't want to put you out there if you don't feel you're ready," she states.

"I'm ready," I said while I put on my helmet.

"Okay," She put her hands around my waist causing my face to heat up, luckily she couldn't see the blush due to the helmet.

I pulled out and got onto the main road. I felt free like I could do anything. When I was with Penelope I felt like I could do anything.