Life In Mystic Falls

Chapter 3

Two days after Hope, Landon and Matt had met with Dr. Saltzman, the twins arrived back at Hope's place for the first time since the full moon. Together Hope and Josie made lunch for the three of them, letting Lizzie sit and watch so nothing would get burnt or set on fire, they then moved to the sitting room to watch the latest episode of Grey's Anatomy while they ate. Afterwards, they all went upstairs to the room that MG had been staying in, so that the twins could begin packing up his stuff.

"Do you think you'll ever forgive him?" Josie asks, turning to face Hope who was leaning against the doorframe.

"I don't know," the tribrid shrugs, a blank expression on her face.

"I'm kind of sad that we didn't get the whole summer," Lizzie speaks up. "I mean, I know why MG has to go back to the school for the rest of summer, but we did nothing wrong, Josie and I should get to stay here."

"I get why your dad's doing this. He just found out that you guys spent the past month keeping this secret from him," Hope reasons, "you can't blame him."

"Hope's right," Josie tells her twin, "he's upset, and he probably doesn't trust us the way he did a few days ago."

"I guess," Lizzie sighs as she throws the last shirt into the suitcase MG had brought and collapses back onto the bed.

"Who's room next?" Hope pushes herself away from the door frame so she can pull Lizzie up off the bed.

"Mine," Josie announces, before Lizzie gets to say anything, "I have less stuff."

Hope and Lizzie follow Josie into the brunette's room and begin pulling clothes out of the closet, they get through half of Josie's things in a comfortable silence, before Lizzie interrupts it. "So, has the hobbit decided where he's going to school next semester?" She asks.

"He has a name, Liz," Josie scolds.

Hope rolls her eyes at the new nickname Lizzie seems to have given her boyfriend, but ignores it nonetheless, "he hasn't decided yet, no. I told him to take his time and think about what's best for him."

"I'm guessing that you want him to make the transfer," Josie smirks over at her friend.

"I mean, of course I do," Hope replies. "I'd love to see him every day and be able to have lunch with him and walk to class with him, but if it's not what he wants, then I don't want him to move schools and be miserable because of me."

"Oh, please," Lizzie scoffs. "I have seen the way that guy looks at you, he's in love with you and he wouldn't be miserable if he transfers, you know that."

"I just, I can't ask him to change schools just for me," the tribrid shrugs.

"Then don't," Josie says as she packs away her makeup, "just make sure he knows that you'd be happy if he were to make the transfer."

"And make sure he knows what he'd be missing out on if he doesn't," Lizzie tells Hope, giving the redhead an idea.

A few hours pass by before Hope's plan is fully formed in her head. The house is empty apart from the young tribrid who is sat is sat in from of the blank TV screen in the living room with her phone in her hand, ready to text her boyfriend.

'What are you doing right now? Xx'

She watches as the animated ellipses appears on the screen almost seconds later, before being replaced with a new message. 'Nothing, why?? x'

Hope smiles at the response before typing out her own. 'Be ready in fifteen, I have a surprise xx'

Instead of waiting for a reply, the young girl goes to put her shoes on before leaving the house and driving off to her boyfriend's, when she pulls up outside, she sends Landon another message telling him to come out. It only takes a couple of minutes, before the phoenix is sat in the passenger seat and she's driving down a long road.