I do not own HHAW or Jojo, but I own Natalie and my creativity :D
So what will Natalie's mum say? Will Jojo and Natalie be able to stay together?
Read on and find out!
(PS: Watch out for crossovers with the film itself)
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Natalie and Jojo walked home together. They were about to approach her house when she stopped.
"Jojo," Natalie started, holding Jojo's arm to stop him going any further, "I think we should say goodbye here, I don't want my mum to see us together, that would just make matters worse,"
"Yeah, you're right," he said. They hugged, pulled away slightly, and kissed. They stared into each other's eyes, then Natalie walked off the rest of the way to her house, dreading what she will find. Jojo walked back to his house, also dreading what her mum would say.
Natalie opened the door gently, to find suitcases in the hallway. Her mum came walking in from the kitchen. Natalie looked at the floor.
"Hello, dear, how are you?" her mother said, smiling. Natalie looked up at her really confused. Wasn't she angry?
"Yeah…I'm fine…so, what are the suitcases for?"
"Oh, those? Yeah, we're moving back to Whichville! It's the only thing I can think of to keep you away from that boy," she said, a bit too cheerfully. Natalie couldn't believe what she just heard.
"What? Whichville? When are we moving? I can't believe you're doing this!"
"It's for your own good, and we're moving next week. We would move sooner, but the people who bought our house still need to move out themselves."
Natalie was speechless. She tried to find the words to say but she just couldn't. She just glared at her mum and walked upstairs to her room. As soon as she entered, she saw everything in boxes. It was really happening. But she had to stop it somehow. She couldn't let it happen.
Later than night, Jojo was ready to sneak out back to his observatory. He was almost out the window when his dad came down the hall.
"Hey Jojo!" He came stumbling down with 97 glasses of water piled up on a tray, "Lotta liquid, lotta liquid. Just the person I wanted to see!" Jojo looked at him blankly.
"Jojo, we have not been seeing eye to eye recently, and most of it is my fault. I feel I've been trying to impose my view of you're future on you," he said, poking his nose with his foot, since his hands was full, "Jojo, you can be whatever kind of mayor you want to be!" 'Here we go again…" Jojo thought to himself. He was always talking about him becoming mayor. "Strong and silent, outspoken, it's up to you!" Jojo just looked up at his dad through the obscurity of the glasses of water.
"Ok! Good talk! Good stuff!" the mayor said, passing him a glass of water, walking away towards his daughters' bedroom. Jojo just put the glass of water on the window ledge and got out onto the tree, sliding down it and made his way to the observatory.
He opened the door to the observatory, but was surprised to find it unlocked. 'That's weird,' he thought, 'I could've sworn I locked it the other night', but decided it's probably all fine - nobody went up there anymore, hence the term 'old, abandoned observatory'. He opened the door and turned on the lights. He looked around - what should he do to it now? Just then he heard movement behind a pile of boxes which made him jump. He approached the boxes with caution, but was relieved to see it was a friendly face. Natalie was curled up against the wall, huddled in a blanket. His relief then turned to concern - why was she down here in the first place? Why was she sleeping here too? Jojo didn't really want to wake her to find out - she looked so peaceful, but he wouldn't be able to do anything until he knew. He knelt down beside her.
"Natalie," he whispered loudly, nudging her slightly. Natalie gently woke, still half asleep at first, but when she saw Jojo, her face lit up, and surprised him by practically jumping on him with happiness, forcing him into the floor. She giggled slightly.
"So, why are you here?" Jojo said, getting up from being bundled to the floor, laughing slightly and smiling, but deep down worried why she was down there. Natalie stopped smiling when she was asked that, and looked at the floor.
"Well, I'm kinda running away from home…"
"Why? What happened?" Jojo said, shuffling over close to Natalie's right side.
"My mum said the only way for me to stop seeing you is to move back to Whichville, and she said we're moving back in week," she said quietly, close to tears at this point.
"Wow…you weren't joking when you said she would do anything,"
Natalie nodded, putting her head on Jojo's shoulder. He put his arm round her.
"Guess I broke my promise when I said everything was going to be alright…" Jojo said quietly.
"No you didn't, I know it is going to be alright in the end. All you have to do is somehow prove to my mum you're not a bad influence," Natalie stopped and sighed. "If she just knew you for who you are, everything would be different,"
"You have a week, right?"
"Well, as long as I can hide from my mum, so could be longer,"
"Natalie," Jojo didn't want to say this, but he felt he had to. He looked her in the eyes, "I want us to be together, of course I do, but I don't think you can hide from your mum for over a week. I mean technically it's possible, but your mum will get really worried, and it won't exactly help the situation will it? She needs to know she can trust both you and me, and if she knows I was involved in you running away she's never going to trust me no matter what I do,"
Natalie knew he was right deep down, but she just didn't want to go home.
"I know, you're right, but what if I leave before a week? I might never see you again, or at least not for a few years,"
"You have to trust me. I promise I'll find a way to get her to like me, just go home now before she realizes you're gone, and leave it all to me, ok?"
"Ok Jojo. I trust you."
