Her

40 | Let Them Look

here's the real ending :) hope you'll like it

LISA 

"Right here," that was I said without thinking twice. 

I won't hide it anymore.

There was a time, I used to be afraid of trusting someone and opening up to them. When my mom married Marco, my step-father, we moved out a lot because of his job.

Constant was not something familiar to me.

Throughout the years, I became sociable because communication was vital for me to not be left out. For a short moment I was happy until I realize that everything was ephemeral. The friends I made they were way too far from me to erase my loneliness and my dad's mutations didn't give me enough time to deepen my friendships. I was starting to give up on getting to know strangers and opening up to them.

Then, we moved to Seoul, Jennie's city.

She was obviously not the most talkative girl I ever met in my life. I remember going to her house and knocking at her wooden door to introduce me. She opened the door and I tried to befriend her but it did not work at all.

She was cold and distant.

I thought I would be staying here for a month or two and we'll go to another country.

I was wrong. We live there for almost fifteen years now.

I made loyal friends such as Chaeyoung and Jisoo. I opened up about my fear of moving again to my parents. And, last but not least, I got to know Jennie Kim, the shy and rude little girl that didn't give me her name when we first met.

With all my strengths I gathered along the few past months, I look straight into her eyes and spoke:

"You have cute eyes and I love you."

Jennie shudders at my words while there's a pink tinge showing on both of my cheeks. Holy cow, I'm blushing. I never thought in my life that this moment would happen and now I'm starting to regret what I just did. 

I confessed! Shit, that was worse than I thought.

From now on, I will keep my feelings to myself because that's the only way to avoid this embarassing moment. Jennie keeps looking at me as if I was the weirdest alien on Earth causing me to pinch my lips. There's a tiny feeling of nervousness with a bit of fear and apprehension inside of me. I mess it up. The little voice in the back of my head is telling me how dumb I look right now.

"I-I'm sorry...," I apologize when I see her frown at me and a good looking fist forms on her hand.

Is she going to punch me for liking her? I'm praying for someone to bury me six feet underground. This is too much to handle. My eyes are starting to sting.

"You..." she starts to speak and takes a step toward me.

I can see at the corners of my eyes that Chaeyoung and Jisoo are shocked. I can understand their reaction. They are unaware of what happened these past few days between me and Jennie.

"Are..." she continues and I gulp.

She takes another step but before she says something else I cut her off.

"I love you."

She stops right away.

There's something in her eyes that I can't put my fingers on. I hear the small gasp of my cousin and some students.

They are looking at us.

Overwhelmed by this situation, I shut my eyes and mute the sound around me.

Oh my god, I can't believe I told her I love her in front of everyone.

This is crazy but I do.

I do love her.

It would break my heart if she doesn't feel the same way.

"You," her sweet voice trembles.

She sounds mad. Is it my fault?

"You fake hair bitch !" Jennie shouts.

I never expected to be hit after a confession but here I am, a personification of a boxing bag. Her tiny fists that are knocking against my chest did not hurt me. It seems like she's patting me and I open my eyes.

"Jen-" I say before she speaks.

"You're a liar !" I clench my jaws and swallow my tears that threatened to fall.

"I'm not," I retort and wrap my arms around her. "I'm serious."

Eventually, she stops hitting me. She sobs lightly causing me to tighten my hold on her.

"People are looking at us."

"Let them look," I say and she takes a step back before looking at me with her beautiful feline eyes. She doesn't look mad anymore which is a relief. Even if her face is a little flushed, I'm completely beguiled by her beauty. Her porcelain skin is glowing with the dim ray of sunlight and her soft pink lips are still mesmerizing.

"If you love me then you mind if I do this," she says. Jennie leans on to kiss me fully on my lips. I can't breathe for a second as if I was struck by thunder. Then, when her lips start to move against mine, I gradually realize what she was doing to me and begin to kiss her back.

Before things starting to heat up, she leans back away from me to end the kiss. I stare deeply at her brown eyes and smile.

"I won't mind if you do it again," I say.

She chuckles lightly and puts a quick kiss on my lips.

"I stole your favorite pen but you stole my heart. You will be forever a thief to me, Lalisa Manoban."

And after that, we had the biggest smile that no one could ever imagine.