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Chapter four: Hope

I knew I was ruining our date, but I couldn't help complaining to Landon.
"She is driving me crazy," I moaned.
We sat by the lake, our favourite spot. The scenery always made London's eyes bluer, I stopped to admire him.
"Give her a break Hope, she is your mum."
Landon was always fair, but sometimes that annoyed me. Sometimes I just wanted him to take my side and not be the voice of reason.
Landon never had anyone love HIM the way my dad loves me- loved me.
A phone call wouldn't hurt, but mum says Aunt Bonnie decified him. I know she's lying, the truth is mum doesn't know shit about where dad is. She never did.
I know he hurt her too.
I placed my head on Landon's lap, trying to sooth the headache that was slowly forming. Landon ran is fingers through my hair, which cooled my nerves tremendously.
"She just doesn't let me in, I used to think I could tell her anything. Now I feel like she is a complete stranger and worst of all, she treats me like a  child."
Landon chuckled, I knew my problems were little compare to his. I wasn't the one being chased by monsters. Off course, I was the one dealing with said monsters but still- family drama was not his thing.
Landon didn't have a family- ever.
Landon rolled his eyes and let me vent for the rest of our date, making minimum commentary.

Sitting in the evening sun, with Landon's fingers massaging my skull. My eyes were beginning to feel heavy, I could feel sleep stealing my consciousness when my mother screamed my name. I jumped awake.
Mum was running toward me, a blur of colour until she was standing besides me.
Landon and I jumped apart, he always panicked when my mother was around. I wonder how he would react meeting my father.
"Hope," she said steadily, "I need your help."
I eyed Landon, was this a dream.
He shrugged.
"You can come too Landon," my mum said, misunderstanding our eye conversation.

My mum tried to slow down and control her excitement as we walked back to the boarding house.
I've never seen her with so much life in her eyes since dad left.
"Aunt Caroline is on her way, she thinks she has a really strong lead. Ancient magic she says, but we need Bonnie and we need your blood."
My blood? She needed my blood. Arg, she didn't even trust me with the magic.
"Mum," I whined, "I can do it. We don't need Aunt Bonnie."
My mum scoffed, "Hope, I'm going to ask you to do something very dangerous. Letting magic like that into our lives is risky, so don't push it."
Why would Bonnie risk her life? She wouldn't. I knew my mum was at a dead end that she couldn't see.
"We need your blood, and Elena's."
My mum was digging through her pages, looking at a map.
Please don't tell me she was going to try a locator spell, because we already tried that. The magic of the hollow is too scattered - it doesn't work.