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Josie Saltzman’s life changed 3 months ago, if you had asked her about her life before that. She would have told you that she was close to her sister as one could be, she had the best of friends someone could ask for and she had the most amazing girlfriend, her soulmate, the love of her life even though she is only 16 years old, Josie knew that she wanted to spend the rest of her life with Penelope Park.
So what changed?
Josie was looking for her father, so the first place she would check was his office off course. She thought she would surprise him with cookies she had baked since he had been so busy.
But to her surprise when she entered the office it was empty, she thought that she would just leave the cookies for him.
But then her eyes landed on a book about the Gemini coven and Josie’s curiosity rose. Her and Lizzie were the only ones left of the Gemini lineage, her dad had told her some stories about the coven, but it wasn’t much to satisfy Josie. Her eyes began to study the page with the headline “the merge”.
Josie’s eyes began to study the page, her eyes widened when she read the words, “The stronger twin survives the spell and is empowered by their magic as well as the magic of their twin. The weaker twin, however, is drained of their magic and dies.”.
After she read that, her chest began to tighten, her hands were trembling over the page and her vision became blurry, she felt her body heat rise and the she sank to the floor. Josie didn’t know how much time had passed before she eventually was able to steady herself and get up.
She was now pacing back and forth in the office, “this can’t be right, this can’t be happening. I need to tell Lizzie, there must be a solution, a way out of this”.
Josie heard a sound that broke her out of her trance, turned around to see where the noise came from “Mg” she whisper yelled, Mg had used his vamp speed running all over the school looking for Josie, “it’s Lizzie”, and by that Josie knew what Mg meant, “take me to her Mg”.
Josie finds Lizzie in the kitchen, overwhelmed with emotion, using her magic to throw around furniture and plates, whereas she manages to shatter most of the school’s plates. Lizzie in rage, almost hits Josie, but she was able to stop it. “Hey Liz”, Josie says and walks over to her to comfort her.
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Josie finally returned to her room, her mind wondering back to what she had read earlier, she couldn’t muster the courage to tell Lizzie about the merge. She instead laid awake for multiple hours thinking about what she should do with the information. Josie finally came to the conclusion that she needed someone to hold her before she completely breaks down. She stood out of her bed and made way to her safe heaven, in the arms of her girlfriend.
*Knock knock*
As soon as the door opened, Josie ran into Penelope’s arms and broke down, she was crying, her eyes were like a waterfall, tears streaming down nonstop. Before Penelope couldn’t comprehend anything that was happening, she just wrapped her arms around Josie as it were a reflex.
Penelope didn’t ask her, she knew that Josie would eventually tell her the reason to why she was crying in the middle of the night. Penelope had her arms wrapped around Josie the whole night, holding her tight, just as Penelope was Josie world, Josie was hers.
* Present time – 3 months later *
Josie was walking through the cafeteria towards the empty table she had spotted in the corner. Josie’s eyes were scanning the cafeteria looking for a certain vamp as her gaze fell upon the table where she used to sit at. She met light blue eyes, shifted to cold blue ones and ending with staring right into emerald green eyes. Unlike 3 months ago, Josie was no longer close to her best friend, her sister nor had she a girlfriend anymore.
Josie breaks the eye contact with the raven haired witch after she felt a tap on her shoulder, “come on Jo, let’s go”, Mg had finally showed up and they were now walking towards the table in the corner.
“Jo, do you still want to continue with the plan, I know you miss them a lot. I notice how you look at them and I know that you’re hurting. I can see it on you, you can’t keep continue doing this, you have to tell them”, Mg said as they finally sat down.
Josie took a bite of her peanut butter and jam sandwich before answering, “yes, the plan is still on and I’m fine and you don’t have to worry about me. And I would also kindly remind you that I will burn you to ashes, if you’re not careful with that mouth of yours”, Josie said with an empty and tired expression. Mg knew, she wouldn’t change her mind, so he dropped the subject for now.
* 3 months ago *
Since Josie had found out about the merge, she started her own research, looking through every history or magic book, she could find. Which didn’t help her at all, there weren’t that many books containing the information, she was looking for. And those she did find that could help her with the answers she was looking for, well those pages were ripped out of the book. Josie knew she had to be careful, so no one could find out that she knew about the merge.
She had to be very careful, she knew Lizzie or Hope wouldn’t ask questions and when they finally did, she would always tell that she had to study.
The hard part was lying to her girlfriend. Penelope could always see right through Josie, So every time Penelope was hanging with her friends or other people that weren’t Josie, she would use those opportunities to do some research.
Josie was currently sitting in the library at a table hidden between the bookshelves, a place she couldn't be disturbed. The amount of progress Josie has made was zero. She hadn't found any answers to her questions and she couldn’t ask her parents.
* Ding *
Josie looked at her phone,
Pen<3: Hey Baby, do you want to come to my room and watch a movie?
Josie hadn’t been hanging so much with Penelope these last days, so she decided that she would say yes because she could really use a break from all of this, besides she had missed the warm embrace and the sweet kisses from her girlfriend.
Jojo<3: I’ll be there in 5.
Josie arrived at Penelope’s dorm room and knocked. As soon as Penelope opened the door, Josie starred at her in admiration, she was wearing short shorts and a tank top, her choice of clothing was exposing her toned legs and arms. “Well are you going to stare all day or are you gonna come in?”, Penelope chuckled.
“It’s not my fault, my girlfriend is beautiful”, Josie answered while she entered the room and gave a lustful kiss, but before anything more could happen, she pulled away. “So I was thinking do you want to see The Blind Side, it’s with Sandra Bullock, you know, your celebrity crush”, Penelope said.
“Sure let’s watch it”, and with that Penelope pulled Josie onto the bed. They were cuddling the whole time the moving was playing and after the movie ended, Penelope closed the laptop and sat up. “Pen is everything alright?”, Josie asked.
“Yeah I’m fine, I was just wondering if you would like to talk about what happened and don’t say you don’t want to talk about it or it isn’t my business because it is. Jo you’re my girlfriend whom I love very much and I have never seen you like that, so talk to me”, Josie opened her mouth to say something, but closed her mouth again, she didn’t know how to respond, since she obviously couldn’t tell her the truth. So she had to lie, which she hates or just the part were she is lying to Penelope.
“I have been feeling very stressed lately mostly because of school, all of the extracurricular activities, my dad makes me doing, the fact that I always have to be the headmaster’s perfect daughter and I really miss my mom. Every time I try to bring her up, my dad keeps shutting it down”, “oh Jojo, come here”, Penelope pulled her in a hug and after a minute or so she pulled away, grabbed Josie face a hand on each cheek, looking into Josie eyes, remember you’ll always have me and you don’t have to change for me or act as the perfect daughter. I love you Josie Saltzman, I love your flaws and everything else about you, don’t ever forget that” after she said that Josie closed the gap between them. “I love you too Penelope Park, always and forever”.