Make Quiet Things Heard

Chapter 13: I Messed Up, Jo (Ep. 7)

Hope's POV

When I wake up to my dark room. I feel something laying on my chest, I turn to look and see Josie peacefully sleeping. She looks so beautiful. She didn't have any nightmares last night which is good. I then recall what happened last night. I leaned in to kiss her, and it looked like she was too. But then I chickened out and kissed her cheek instead. She went through something traumatic I do not want to take advantage of her. But did she also lean in? Did she want me to kiss her? No. It's probably just my imagination.

I slowly get out from under Josie and turn to check the time. It's already 11:13, we slept late last night. We already missed breakfast and half of our classes, but given recent events, I don't care. I'm just gonna skip all my classes and make sure Josie's okay. I go out of my room to go to the Grand Hall to get me and Josie something to eat. I go to the Grand Hall, to see that there aren't that many people here, so grab one of all the choices for lunch since I don't know what Josie likes, and also some pancakes, my favorite. I now have two trays of food in my hand, and everyone watches me weirdly as I walk down the hallway.

Then Lizzie walks up to me, I stare at her confused as to why she's coming near me.
"Hope, have you seen Josie? She wasn't in our room last night and she wasn't in any of our classes." she says.
"Don't worry Lizzie. She's sleeping in my room. She went to my room last night and we talked the whole night she's very tired." I inform her.
"Okay-- wait why has she in your room last night? Do you two have a thing? " she asks with a disgusted look on her face. I blush at what she said but she didn't notice.

"Josie's just my friend, Lizzie. She went to my room last night because she wanted to talk to me and she wanted to stay over." I explain.
"Okay. When she wakes up, tell her dad wants to talk to us." she says as she turns to leave. But turns to me again. "And thank you" she says. I look at her with a smirk on my face.
"Oh don't get used to it Mikaelson. But thank you for saving my sister."
"Don't mention it, Lizzie." I say and walk toward my room. When I open the door I see Josie, breathing heavily, almost like she's having a panic attack. I put the trays of food on my desk and run to her.

"Josie. It's okay. Everything's okay. I'm here. I'm here." I say while cupping her cheeks. When she registers that it's me she hugs me instantly, I hug her back and rub circles on her, and her breathing slows down.
"Why did you have a panic attack?" I ask pulling away from the hug to look at her, and caress her cheek.
"When I woke up you were gone. I was scared that I was alone, and it was so dark. I thought I was back underground."
"I'm so sorry I left you. I just went to the kitchen to get us lunch, and I didn't want to wake you." I state.
"I'm okay, now that you're here" she says.

We sit in silence for a moment before I spoke. "Do you want to eat?" I ask.
"Yes I'm starving." she replies. I get up from the bed and opened the curtains to light up the room and grabbed the two trays of food and placed it on the bed.
"This is a lot of food" Josie observed.
"Yeah. I didn't know what you'd like so I grabbed one of everything." I say.
"Thank you for this." she says.
"Don't mention it, Jo" I reply. We start eating and she only notices the pancakes on the tray. "Pancakes?" she asks. "What? They're my favorite" I say.
"Mine too." she replies.
"Really? You can have them" I offer
"Hope we can share, you grabbed a lot" she chuckles. "Okay. Thanks, Jo." I say.

We both ate all the food, and Josie ate almost all of my pancakes, but I had some too. I then remember what Lizzie told me.
"By the way, your dad wants to talk to you" I inform her. "Now?" she asks. I nod my head in response.
"You should probably go see them. They must be extremely worried about you"
"Okay. I should go. Thank you again Hope for everything. I'll see you later okay." she says then kisses me on the cheek and leaves the room. I sit here stunned at what just happened. Does Josie like me?