Trials and Tribulations [Chaelisa]

Chapter 10

For the next few minutes Chaeyoung repeated the dizzying cycle of informing Lisa where she was and what had happened to her. For Lisa's part, she continued with the forthright compliments of Chaeyoung's eyes and various other features, attempting on more than one occasion to kiss her again. Apart from the first attempt, which had caught Chaeyoung completely off guard, Lisa had only managed to kiss her on one other occasion, when, awkwardly, she was asking Chaeyoung once more, if she were her doctor.

Otherwise, Chaeyoung's logic and reason had finally won out over her heart and she had managed to move her face out of the way, with, she'd admit, a great deal of selfcontrol and difficulty. Soon, the two of them had been joined by Somi and Jisoo after Lisa's mom had obviously been able to assure the latter that Lisa was fine and that she should see her. After they'd entered the room, Jisoo had rushed to Lisa's bedside, embracing the smaller girl in a massive hug, her eyes moist with tears. Lisa's mom watched the interaction from where she'd stood at the door, a sad smile on her face.

"What did we literally just talk about last week?" Jisoo asked Lisa, her arms still enveloped around her body tightly.

"I don't remember," Lisa answered truthfully. Jisoo kissed her on the head softly and laughed a little at her response.

"I told you I never wanted to sit by your hospital bed again," Jisoo replied, finally releasing Lisa from her grip and wiping a tear from her cheek with her left hand.

"I'm in the hospital?" Lisa asked her.

"Yeah Lisa," Jisoo told her. "You had a seizure."

"Oh...." Lisa replied. "Ok." Jisoo looked questioningly at both Chaeyoung and Lisa's mom, raising her eyebrow in confusion.

"She's still postictal," Amy told Jisoo in way of an explanation. "She'll be confused for a little bit whilst the irritation to her brain settles down."

"She's been like it the entire time I've been sitting with her," Chaeyoung explained to Jisoo. "She asks where she is so I tell her, then, a minute later she'll ask me the exact same question again like it's the first time."

"Oh," Jisoo said in response, a mischievous glint in her eye. "So we could tell her anything and she'd not remember it a minute from now?"

"Pretty much," Chaeyoung informed her.

"Interesting." Jisoo said a small smile creeping onto her lips. "Very interesting." Jisoo gave Chaeyoung a knowing look and she couldn't help the blush that spread across her face as a result. For the next twenty minutes, Somi, Jisoo and Chaeyoung continued to sit with Lisa and her mom in the small sterile hospital room, Amy asking Chaeyoung whether Lisa had given her any trouble whilst she'd been speaking to Jisoo downstairs.

"Nothing that I couldn't handle." Chaeyoung replied smiling at the recollection of how Lisa's lips had felt on her own.

"I'd be grateful for that if I were you," Amy laughed. "She was being a right pain before you arrived. She was trying to clamber out of the bed to get a pizza, of all things. I swear, my daughter is always thinking about her stomach." Chaeyoung glanced down at Lisa who had fallen asleep on the bed, her face almost completely obscured by the pillow it was buried into.

The four remaining occupants of the room had continued to talk amongst themselves until Lisa had woken up, pushing herself up from the bed slightly to look around at them. She reached her left hand up to her eyes and rubbed them sleepily before placing it firmly against her forehead, closing her eyes as she did so. "Where am I?" she asked her eyes opening again to look around the room.

"You're at the hospital Lalisa?" Amy told her patiently. "You had a seizure." Lisa looked at the faces around her once again, her eyes narrowing uncomfortably as though in pain.