days past and lily still hadn't come around to talk about her trip to australia. lisa knew it was something that constantly kept lily up at night. it also explained the reason why she was going out a lot, trying to get a load off her mind, and it seemed that the load that was stacked in lily's head. was not filled with the usual paperwork. it was something new this time. absolutely new.
she couldn't help but continue asking lily about everything because it was bothering her so much; and because she was nosy.
"lily–"
"lisa, fuck off. i don't want to talk."
"but–"
the older girl stands up, resulting her chair to fall back due to the sudden action and then walks over to the sink. throwing her plate into the basin and stomps off without making a single sign of care if the plates had broken or not. ot a single glance at lisa when she was sitting there wide-eyed, a bit intimidated by her silent outburst.
"lily–"
a loud slam was echoed throughout the house and the neighbours could probably hear it too. lisa leans back into her modern parson and sighs. she also knew all the questions that she had been bugging lily with were also increasing the stress on her young body. lisa then stands up as well, before getting her unfinished plate which looked quite unpleasant to her now since all these guilt related emotions were mixing inside her stomach. she bends down to pull up the chair that lily had pushed over before and pushes it in before pushing her own. after leaving the partly eaten dish into the sink, she walks up to lily's room and knocks on the door.
"lily."
there was no answer. lisa knocked again on the cold surface of the white painted door. no answer again. she reached out for the knob but finds it locked.
it's probably not that serious...
she thinks and walks back to her room which was right next door. but not even halfway to opening her door, she turns back and knocks onto the door again.
"lily?"
she calls again, but obviously no response. lisa places her ear on lily's door and listens to any sounds of her friend in the room. there was a tap running, and it was really loud. the water seemed to be hitting the bottom of the bathtub that they both had in their ensuites. she listened in for a few more seconds and there was suddenly no more noise.
she knows it's not something serious. but there's a weird churn in her stomach and it's worse than the feeling when she gets in front of the class and talks. lisa doesn't notice it but she was already speed walking towards the house keys that were hanging on the wall on the wall next to the fridge. and after she realises it, she remembers a traumatising scene from the past. two years ago to be exact. she doesn't try to recall it again but it involuntarily happens and it makes her mind jog even faster. lisa had already reached the door to lily's room and starts flicking through the five keys they had to the house.
the moment she touches the key to lily's room, there isn't a sign of mistake and she's already walked through the first locked door.
"lily?"
she calls again, there's no reply. lisa walks towards the bathroom and knocks.
"lily are you in here?"
it worries her, even more, when there's absolutely no sign of her best friend and no noise at all. she goes through lily's keys again and finds the one marked in black marker.
"L's bathroom key," she read.
she quickly unlocks the door again with no hesitation but there's a long pause when she is supposed to open the door. lisa pushes the door a little to see if there is any sign of a specific colour or any sign of mess. a little more of a push and the door is wide open. there's nothing but pyjamas on the floor, a mat with wet footprints, a bomb in a hand and a girl holding her phone above the bath. staring at the frantic teenager in confusion while wrapped in a towel.
"what the fuck is your problem?"
lisa feels quite embarrassed.
"did you fucking think that i was gonna try suiciding again?"
she purses her lips and looks elsewhere than lily. there's a long pause again and then a little sigh which was half laughed as well.
"wanna take a bath with me?"
lisa looks up, confused with the sudden change of personality. then looks towards the bath bomb lily was holding.
"we can talk about it while we bath together. go get your bathers if you want to join me."
she doesn't hesitate at all this time. lisa's already out of the room the second lily had said bathers. she dived into her wardrobe to find her bathers that had been buried somewhere since she had quit the team.
"i'm coming!"
lisa yells from her room, clothes already off and slipping on her bathers but when she walks to lily's room the door is closed and locked again.
"lily, open the door!"
i mean, what else is there to say? of course, there was no answer.
"lily?"
"i'm changing, wait, you impatient asshole."
for a second she had thought Lily had locked her out again. lily opened the door, revealing a mixed bikini. coral bottoms and a black triangle top.
"wowza lily."
"does it look good? i bought it while i was in aus."
"you make me gay."
lisa comments jokingly while dodging lily's attempted slap.
"get the fuck out."
lily chuckles lightly and the brings her arms back to tie her hair up to stop her hair from getting into the strongly enhanced bath water.
"by the way, i bought you a bikini too. wanna wear it?"
lily asks while walking back into her room again, sitting on her bed while holding a hair tie in between her teeth.
"i don't like bikinis, why'd you buy me one?"
"because i thought it'd look nice on you. it's the same as mine but instead, tiffany-blue top and black bottoms. i bought a whole bunch actually."
she pauses, trying to fix it perfectly into a bun, adding in bobby-pins and observing where she needed to go in the mirror.
"you can choose the pair you want."
lily slides open the mirror door, revealing her organised walk-in closet, hung and colour coded. she then bends down to one of the drawers that she had bought in for herself and pulls it out, displaying the neatly rolled up bikini tops and bottoms.
it didn't take much time for lisa to choose which two that she wanted. it was obviously the set that lily had purposely chosen for her because she knew that lisa would like it.
"you know me too well."
"i know i do. are you gonna try it on now?"
lily asks while rolling up the rejected swimwears.
"i'll change in your bathroom."
lisa didn't take any longer than five minutes to change into her not preferred bathing suit. but she looked into the mirror which showcased her entire body.
"i like bikinis."
"i know you would."
the bath bomb was already done fizzing and they were already in the bath which was way too hot for their liking, so only their feet were in it and waited until the cold water had reached all of the bath, and they finally sat after a few minutes.
"tell me when you're ready"
lisa offers.
"i'm ready"
"then spill the tea man"
it wasn't long until Lisa's phone had rung.
"hold on."
she says, telling lily to hold onto her words.
lisa doesn't move until she reads the name of the caller and she turns over to stare at lily wide-eyed.
"it's sun-hi."
"answer it."
"what?"
lisa asks.
"it's not like she can attack us from the fifth storey and run past the security guards in the lobby"
"hm."
she hums and she swipes her phone before the call ends.
"sun-hi unni?"
; lisa! how have you been? ;
"i've been re–"
; ok, enough with the chit-chat. are you home alone right now? ;
she turns over to lily again who was watching her quietly, not moving a limb and then turns on the speaker.
"no, i'm not home alone. lily is in her room."
; ok, here's what i want you to do for me. you'll walk out of the house and tell lily, you're going out with... hoseok ;
"but, i'm not on good terms with hoseok and lily knows that."
; tell her it's a meet up to sort things out. don't end the call and do what i've instructed. ;
"ok?"
lisa gets out of the bathroom and opens the door acting like she was opening her own.
"lily! where are you?"
"i'm in the bathtub!"
lily answers, going along with lisa's plan.
"i'm going out."
lisa informs lily, just the way sun-hi wanted.
"ok. have fun!"
"thanks."
; ok, go do whatever you need to go to get yourself dressed up, do not end the call. ;
sun-hi's little mind forgot the fact that she could exit the phone call and enter a messaging app which she was using with lily.
~~
roommate lily yee
3:56
hurry and change
ill come along
quick
and leave the bath water so
she doesn't hear you draining it
water waste of my bath bomb
did u see what i did there :D
stfu
~~
; done? ;
"yes."
; ok, i'll send you the address, i want you to meet me there. ;
"unni, what are we doing?"
; something i've been super excited to do with you since the day we met. you seemed like a thriller person. ;
"not really..."
; don't worry, you'll love it i promise. ;
"hopefully..."
lisa make-shift laughs.
there's a sound in the background of the call and both lily and lisa know it's not something to be confused about.
"uh, unni. was that you?"
; hm? oh, no... that was my, my dog. he's hungry. ;
"oh, ok then..."