Dear Bullies

2 months had passed since Josie passed away and Hope had been locking herself in her room. She haven't been the same since then.

She felt guilty and horrible about what she did and it haunted her everyday.

When her parents found out what had happend and that she was responsible about it she had never seen her parents so distant and disappointed at her and that was a feeling she would never forget.

The look in her parents eyes when the police and headmaster told them that she was responding for bullying the younger girl and for being the reason that she died. That look in their eyes she would never forget.

Her mother wanted to pull her out of the school but her father told them that he did not want her to come home and that she should accept whatever punishment they would give her.

Her mother just nodded and agreed. Only thing Hope never could see was that her fathers punishment was more harsher and painfully.

He told her that she was not to come home at all, she should stay in school until she graduated and he would set up a house to her where ever she please when it was time for her to go to college.

He hardly looked at her at all. During the meeting. Hope begged her father his forgiveness but the last thing she would ever hear from his the word she never thought she would her.

When I held you for the first time I felt hope, love and joy. We took good care of you and raised you to be honorable and good. To be independent and always do the right thing.

We are the order in our city, we take care of people who needs us and can count on us. We give them Hope during their hard times. We give them love when they need it the most.

I never thought that my own daughter would could be so cruel. To disappoint us and brake our hearts. This is someone we did not raised.

I don't know what happend to you but I know that you are not my daughter cause my princess would never be this cruel to anyone. Don't bother to come back home.

I don't want you there but if you ever find my daughter and bring her home I would be happy to accept her with open arms.

Her parents arrange all her papers that day. She was secured to be living in that school until it was time to go to college.

This broke the girl. To know that her parents did not want to see her anymore. She knew she disappointed her family but most of all her parents.

Her mom did not say much, she just cried in her husband arms and asked him what she have done to fail raising her.

Hope never knew that her heart brake would feel this bad. Like she wanted to die.

Ironic she thought, this is the way Josie must have felt when she was alive.

Lizzie was not the same after her sisters death. She felt angry and blamed herself for not being nicer and loving towards her.

She should have protected her like a good twin sister should have.

She was more meaner and hated people more.

She kept her distance from her friends and most of all Hope. If she ever saw her she would probably beat the crap out of her.

Both girls knew that their friendship would was toxic. The lies that Hope made thorn them apart.

The disappointment that her parents had was written in their faces. It broke her.

The pain and emptiness was filling her body.

Her parents did not want her to come home until she finish her studies. They would see her during summer and holiday brakes when they came to visit her but she was not allowed to come home.

The pain that she caused her family was greater and it split them apart.  That was a guilt that she had to go with everyday.

After Josie got out from the hospital she was sent to live with her aunt Bonnie in Paris.

Her parents told her about the plan to fake her death and sent her to safety. She understood that it ment that she was not allowed to contact her sister at all or Hope for that matter.

She had met Hope's parents in the hospital. That's when all parents and the sheriff agreed to let the others belive that she had died and that she was to be moved to Paris and no contact with her old life.

*3 years later*

Josie was back in the state, her parents had been in an accident and they died so now she had no choice to go back.

Her aunt Bonnie and her husband Enzo had been taking care of her. She went to an all english private school and from there she found new friends who was there for her when she needed it the most.

She was a A student and always perfect. Her school was amazed at how smart she was. How caring and loving she was to other people and especially the younger kids that would need help from her.

Before they flew back to Mystic Falls her aunt had told her to be careful cause of Lizzie. Her parents had not told her that she was alive.

Josie knew what that ment. She knew that this day would come someday but not this erlie.

Lizzie was in class when she heard the news about her parents and hit broke her even more. She had lost her sister 3 years before and now her parents. She was alone.

Hope was there to catch her even though their friendship was broken she made a promise to herself to be there for the blond even if she did not want it.

The blond did not protest when Hope followed her back home. They kept quiet all the way to her old house.

When they got there non of them expected to be met with a suprise.

The blonds aunt and uncel was back from Paris.

"Aunt Bonnie uncel Enzo"

The two turnd around and saw their niece with Hope standing by the door. 
They didn't expect her to come home this erlie.

Before anyone could say anything they heard a familiar voice coming closer.

"Uncel Enzo, do you know where dad put the.." Josie stopped talking when she realizes that they where not alone.

"Josie" both girls says. Looking shocked.

"Oh.. yeah we need to have that talk now" Bonnie said.

"Devons- nous"

"Oui Josette"

"Je ne veux pas" Josie huffs.

"Why? vous devez lui parler à un moment donné"

"No je ne lui parlerai jamais ni à personne" Josie said passing by the two stunned and confused girls. Slamming the door behind her.

Bonnie didn't know what to do at this point. Enzo held on to her and calmed her down.

"You need to let Josie calm herself down, she be back love" he said.

Lizzie and Hope sat down and didn't really know what to say. They where silence.

"I have a letter for you from your parents" Bonnie says and gives it to the blond.

Lizzie

If you received this then that means that we are dead.

I'm guessing that by now you have seen Josie. That she is alive.

We kept it secret and for you two to be separated. To be honest Josie was out of it when she woke up in the hospital. She begged us to keep her away from you and Hope.

You and Hope broke her to the point where she wanted to live somewhere else. She wanted to die rather then to go back to school. So we did what she wanted and kept her secret.

We are very sorry to keep this from you but you need to understand that we had to protect Josie cause no one did that when she needed it the most.

We sent her to live in Paris with your aunt and uncel. You need to beg her for her forgiveness but that's gonna be on her terms.

We love you Lizzie.

Love mom and dad.

Lizzie read that letter over and over again. She couldn't belive that Josie didn't want to come back to school. She rather be dead then to go there.

She always wondered why neither she or Hope got arrested for the death of someone else. All they got was just a slap on their wrist but now they know why they never got any proper punishment.

Josie was furious, she didn't want to see or talk to her sister or Hope for that matter.

She left all of that in the past and that ment her sister and her old crush. She got a new life and a new start. She finally got friends that would do anything to keep her safe and loved her.

She just wanted this over and go back home to Paris. She continued to drive for a few hours before she went back home.

When she got to her family home her everyone was sitting in the living room. She tried to avoid the two girls but to her vain her uncel stopped her from going up.

"Josette" he raised his voice. The brunette looked at her uncel and frawn.

"oui mon oncle" she said.

"Come and sit with us" he said

"dois-je" she said looking at him.

"Oui mon amour" he said.

"Fine" Josie walked over to one of the sofas.

"Well.. what is it you want to say?" She asked her uncel and aunt.

"You know we need to talk about this, your parents wanted to" he said.

"On my terms yes.. but I don't want to and you can't force me" she said.

"Jo, I'm sorry.. I want to fix this.. to fix us" Lizzie said with a cracked voice.

"I'm not interested, I'm just here for the funeral and then I'm going back home" Josie said looking at her sister.

This made Lizzie sad and want to cry. She just want her sister back. She is all she has left.

"Josie.. please just let us fix this.. at least fix it with Lizzie, she is your sister" Hope said who looked at her with sadness.

The brunette stood up and walked up to the two girls.

"I don't have a sister and we are not friends. Sisters don't let other people torment you for 2 years and talk shit behind your backs" she said with venom in her voice.

"And you.. I can't belive that I was in love with you but thanks for showing  me who you really are. A conniving little girl who thinks she can get what ever she wants while she hides who she really is. A lesbian who can't even be honest to herself that she was in love with the girl she tormented for 2 years just to hide who she really is"  Josie spit out loud enough for everyone to hear.

Both Enzo and Bonnie was suprise to the revelation. This was something that they did not know. 

"You bullied my niece for 2 years just because you didn't want people to know that your in love with her" Bonnie raised her voice.

The two girls looked down on the floor. Lizzie started to cry and begged for her forgiveness.

"2 ans tante, jusqu'à ce que j'essaye de me tuer, comme j'ai dit. Je ne veux rien d'eux" she said.

"As I said.. I don't have a sister and we are done, I'm just here for the funeral then I'm going home" with that Josie walked up to her bedroom.

Bonnie couldn't understand why Lizzie would do that to her own sister.   No wonder that Josie didn't want to go  back there. She didn't want to live anymore.

"I think that it would be best if you go to stay somewhere else" Enzo said.

"Guest house on the back" Bonnie said.

"No need, I take the guest house. I be there if you need me" Josie says walking out the back door.

The next day they all had to go to fix the funeral and all the other papers from the bank and the house.

Hope haven't had any success in speaking to Josie since the brunette kept on avoiding her since the confrontation.

She hated feeling bad and she wanted to tell her how she felt about the brunette.

After the incident with Josie it took 6 months for her to come out that she liked girls. Since the students found out that she was out of the closet some of the girls tried to go out with her but she always turned them down.

Hope had only loved one person and that was the same person she tormented for 2 years until she tried to commit suicide.

She treated her like shit and always slutshamed her with her friends. All  because she was scared of coming out.

She regretted all of it now. She wish she could take it back.

To just let Josie know that she loved her and that she was just scared to come out.

She wanted her to understand that she still loves her. For years she never stopped loving Josie.

Lizzie had been trying to talk to Josie for days but with no luck. The death glare that her brunette twin gave her everytime she tried to engage a conversation always end up with Lizzie crying.

Since the supposed death of her twin sister Lizzie had been trying to come to terms to what she had done and what she didn't do for her.

She loved her sister but she didn't know where she got off the rail to hate her or be mean to her.

She knows that she should have had her back but she didn't. She help her friends torment her sister instead.

For 3 years she felt lonely, her parents didn't really want to see her and now she knew why they where always away traveling.

They where with her twin sister in Paris. They rather spend time with her then the blond.

It broke her, knowing she was the reason her family is broken. Well she was separated from her family for all the right reason.

Now that her parents are gone she only have her sister who does not want to have anything to do with her.

She felt alone. She is alone and it was her own fault.

The funeral was beautiful. Their parents was buried in their family grave.

Josie was sitting between her aunt Bonnie and uncel Enzo Lizzie was sitting beside Hope.

Josie sang a French version of Mama by Celine Dion and Dance with my father by Luther Van Ross. It was a beautiful ceremony.

All the papers and the inheritance was already done and cut in half. The twins didn't know that their mother came from a rich family so she had saved up money to her daughters.

To their surprise each one would end up with enough money that made them millionaires.

Lizzie ended up with the house and their car. Josie ended up with the apartment in Paris and the medical facility her mother owned was split by the two girls but with Josie as the CEO.

Josie was packing her last suitcase and the last boxes in the car when Hope showed up. She was the last person she wanted to see.

"What are you doing here?" She asked the red head woman.

"I wanted to see you before you leave" she says.

"Well now you seen me now you can leave"

"Jo, I.."

"Don't call me that, you are not allowed to call me that. Just leave me alone" Josie said stuffing the last luggage in the car.

"For 2 years you made me suffer, made fun of me and tormented me with your friends and my own sister"

Josie tried to steady her breathing.

"I loved you for 2 years, wanting you to love me back but all I got from you was constant teasing and forced make up when you find me alone in a corner"

Hope listend to Josie's rant. It hurt her so much that she started to cry.

"You broke me Hope, you drove me to my last breath. Faking my death was the best thing I've ever made. To let you think that I was gone. I have a life in a different country. A life where I could be myself and be respected as a person"  Josie said looking at the blue eyed girl.

Both of them are shedding tears.

"I have my life planned out and both you and Lizzie are not included in it. I ment it when I said that I don't want anything to do with either of you. You mean nothing to me anymore."

Hope stood there watching Josie drive away.

She was crying now.

She knew she fucked up.. she lost the only girl she ever loved.

Josie was sitting in the car on the way to the airport. She was crying.

"You be fine my love, if it's ment too be. You and her will find a way to be together" her uncle Enzo said.

She just smiled and nodded her head.

I do not know French and all translate is via Google.