Bound together

Eight

"What the fuck did you just say Jan?" Hope asked

Janice didn't say anything.

She knew that if she would have told hope sooner that it would have been better

"Hope I'm sorry"

"WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?" Hope yelled

"I—I was the one who hid the letters." Janice admitted

"So you knew I had a child?" Hope asked

"No.. I didn't..." Janice says

"So why would you hide them?" Hope asked

"It took you a whole year to get over Josie... and I was there to help you and I saw competition and I was just... I don't know.. hoping that you would pick me over Josie instead." Janice says

"Why would you hide something like that from me?" Hope asked

"I didn't know they were about this daughter of yours... I saw it was from Josie saltzman.. so I hid it." Janice says

Hope took a deep breath.

"I didn't mean to hurt you hope... I was just trying to protect our relationship" Janice says

"I'm sorry hope." Janice cried out.

Hope didn't know what to do... she was so confused on everything.

"I can forgive you... only—only if you promise that you can try and make this work.. I really want you to get along with my daughter and I hope that you can get along with Josie too." Hope smiled softly.

"Okay... yeah—yeah sure... I'll try my best." Janice says

"I need your word." Hope says

Janice sighed..

"Fine.. you have my word." Janice says

Hope smiled before Janice gave her a hug.

What the fuck is Hope thinking... she could already feel that it was a bad idea yet she still forgave her.

-

"So, how has life really been without me?" Freya asked Josie as she stood up from the living room couch.

"I won't lie it's been boring and I missed you so much... Lizzie missed you too" Josie says as she swayed her hands back and forth.

"I missed you too." Freya said with a smile

"And what about Hope ?" Freya added

"I miss and missed hope a lot." Josie confirmed

"So you still miss her?" Freya smirked

"All I'm saying is it would be great to have Hope around again ." Josie rolled her eyes

"Mmm, and what's going on with you and Hope ?" She asked

"Nothing much, I love how she's so making an effort with liv but I don't know what's going on with her and that Janice girl" Josie gagged

"I'm glad that you guys are co-parenting.. it's nice to have you around.. you know you are my favorite that Hope has dated." Freya admitted

"Oh I know" they laughed

"I love liv.... and I don't want to see her hurt nor do I think Hope would hurt her but have you ever thought that Janice was a bad person... like sketchy?" Josie asked

"She's definitely something... she's weird but not like a 'everyone's weird' thing... she actually scares me sometimes.. not that I won't fuck her up.. it's just she's so secretive and Hope just has a blind spot for her." Freya says in disgust