After a quick shower and dinner Joy and Chae came back to Lisa's room where the fallen angel was still sleeping peacefully. They decided to not bother her and just stay like that for a while: Joy in an armchair pretending to read something in her phone and Chae with a book in her hands, rereading the same sentence again and again and again.....
Procrastination is your friend when you are faced with problem you have no power nor right to solve.
Chaeyoung bit her nail nervously still hoping to at least get a response on one of the dozens messages she sent to Jennie earlier or calls that she still was doing.
Joy, on the other hand, was patiently waiting a response from the mysterious (not so much) J-chu in her messenger, that magically became one of her contacts.
The dialog
"It's chu, how are you? how is Lisa? Send me a photo I wanna be sure."
Joy rolled her eyes.
"You can just ask for her photo if you want to have one, lil perv."
"I'm not little, you giant!"
"Yeah, We are fine, Lisa...well, she's sleeping, but could be better."
"I hope she won't be mad seeing me, I want to visit her."
"She is exhausted, but she isn't mad as much as I know. How is Jennie?"
"Jennie's sleeping, too. I don't want to leave her alone, but I know somebody who would take care of her properly."
"Who?" Joy felt that she already knew the answer but waited still.
"Rosie."
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Joy tugged Chaeyoung and gently directed her to the bathroom, after that the door is closed Chaeyoung confusedly eyed Joy.
"Someone wants to say hello," she handed the phone to Chae.
"Yeah?" Chaeyoung blurted and was bombarded with questions from someone with extremely pleasing husky voice, too fast though to comprehend.
Jisoo.
Chae smiled to herself, this midget was already gently loved by Rosie, she was scared at first that somebody beside Lisa could enter her life that fast and feel like family to her, trustworthy and caring. But the girl with heart shaped lips and the most charming smile walked past her walls straight to her heart, sporting her annoying but adorable smirk.
".....and I know you want to see Jennie!" Wait, what?
"Chu, say it again, please."
"I will teleport you to Jennie if you want, and I want to take care of Lisa if it's okay."
"Teleport?!" Chaeyoung's eyes widened,
Silence.
On the other side of the line Chu face-palmed on her own nonchalance.
"Um, well, ahem........like Lisa I'm not a human." She waited but was met with the same silence. "not an angel or a demon though."
Chaeyoung stayed here with her mouth agape a little, she started doubting the reality of the whole situation.
Yes, Lisa is an angel but Jisoo, Jennie seems pretty close to her, does she know?
"Um, it's a bit...unexpected. Okay, I'll digest that. How is Jennie? You really can to take me to her? Is she.....fine with seeing me?"
"Don't worry, Jennie had been crying and upset today but it's a good sign, she will be soft like a marshmallow when wakes up and sees you. I take you to her safely."
Chaeyoung was relieved to finally have a chance to see Jennie, if she can protect the girl somehow she will do it, she can't afford seeing her shattered in pieces again. Not anymore.
"Okay."
Jisoo said to Chaeyoung to go to the bathroom, both Joy and Rosie just shrugged and Rosie came closer to sleeping Lisa, kissed the crown of her head and went to the Lisa's bathroom.
She felt a bit excited somehow, Jisoo instructed her to touch the mirror and close her eyes, saying a prayer to herself, Rosie was confused at first but the desire to see Jennie was too overwhelming and blurred her common sense.
So, she did as she was asked.
After a few moments she opened her eyes only to see smirking Jisoo in the mirror, moreover, she was in her sleeping clothes. Her heartbeat raised slightly, she is still not used to the fact that Jisoo can do......that.
She turn over and narrowed her eyes suspiciously. Jisoo opened her arms for a hug, still smiling childishly.
"Let me guess....prayer was unnecessary?" Chae rolled her eyes but hugged her anyway, letting herself feel safe and unbothered for a bit.
Rosie wondered if Jennie feels the same when Rosie hugs her, but then remembered that they hugged only once in school cafeteria and it wasn't even that much of a hug.
"Yeah, I was just in the bathroom when Joy called me, the idea was too good to let it slip." She winked.
Rosie smiled at Jisoo after the hug and felt her strain, Jisoo's gaze fell upon the door.
"She is still sleeping."
Jisoo smiled and nodded. Her eyes seemed to shine a bit brighter.
"Ppoong! Let's take you to your girl."
"So you can faster come back to yours?" Chae mocked and Jisoo only blushed, snapping her fingers and it made Chaeyoung's world swirling around.
The next thing she saw was the door to, as she assumed, Jennie's room.
-–-------------Jisoo's PoV
Again I'm here, in front of the same door where we met. Maybe someday we will have a date huh, instead of me always sneaking into your house at night? Wanting to be caught? By you.
I don't think that we met without a special reason though. Please be kind to me, Lisa, because I can't help but think about your smile.
"Don't be dramatical, chu. Just come in." Joy nudged me and I pouted.
"I will be there in the last room," she pointed, "call me if you need something. Good night, chu."
"Ppoong." I softly whispered and finally entered the room.
I approached the bed in the center of the room, the lights were dim but I still managed to see Lisa's peaceful face, without her always-on light make up, and with the traces of dry tears she is still the most beautiful girl I'd ever seen. After me of course. I chuckled.
I went on the other side of the bed and patted the blanket before crawling over it and laying down. I examined Lisa's features praising internally her soft-looking lips and my gaze fell on her hand which was laying on the pillow in front of me.
I felt blush creeping on my chest and closed my eyes stopping myself from any further embarrassment, she is beautiful in general but...
Her hands are divine.
I took her hand in mine without disturbing her sleep, our skin felt so different, her is warm and inviting while mine is cold and almost fragile.
I felt that she softly squeezed my cold hand in her own, wrapping her fingers around my small fist and caressing it with her lips.
I fell asleep feeling her lips against my skin.
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Chaeyoung had been watching the girl's sleep for hours now, and still she was mesmerized and broken at the same time.
Just the same as when she just entered the room and saw her pretty brave girl seem so hurt and small, gripping on the blanket tightly and her tears starting streaming down her precious soft cheeks even in her slumber, Chaeyoung's heart was broken pieces, but her jaw tightened and she said, demanded from herself not to cry.
Get yourself together.
Cry all you want when she is not in this state.
Be for her here. Love her now.
Rosie looked up at the ceiling then to get rid of unwanted tears, after few seconds she clenched her jaw and came to the sleeping girl, she brought her hand to touch her hair but instead she wiped almost dried tears on the cat-like girl's temple and cheeks and kissed her forehead repeatedly.
After, she sat beside the girl her back leaning on the headboard and her hands gently caressing Jennie's shoulders.
These hours were calm and soft, Jennie didn't seem to be bothered by her presence, on the contrary, she seemed to like to hug her arm tightly or to hide her face in Chaeyoung's neck and hold on her waist with her small gentle palms strongly.
Chaeyoung never felt better.
Just like Jennie,
who wasn't asleep at all.
She woke up 20 or 30 minutes ago and just wondered whether she's still dreaming or not.
The girl she's been holding on to wasn't Jisoo. Moreover she knew who it was, simply because she new the scent of the girl she loved.
Rosé.
She wanted to let Rosie know that she had already woken up but was scared of the coming, if she explains everything it may affect Chaeyoung's version of her too much.
And Jennie liked the way Rosie always looked at her. Like she's brave. Certain.
True.
But the last one was so blurred, she knew herself, she was all of it,
also she was not.
She tightened her grip on Rosie's shirt which was met with the gentlest touch she had ever experienced.
Chaeyoung's fingers softly danced on her skin and at last she squeezed it,
"I know that you woke up already," she simply said, leaving small kisses on the girl's forehead.
Jennie giggled at the sensation, and it made Chaeyoung feel at ease. She smiled. And continued.
Jennie felt something tickling on her tummy and it was already a war: she sneaked her hands on Rosie's shoulders and the on her nape, so that the were on the same level. She kissed Chaeyoung's earlobe knowing that it is her soft spot, (simply because Joy may be very loud while talking, and it means informative, at school) she knew that it worked very well when Chae started squealing but,
she was affected as well.
Rosé's grip on her waist was......well, possesive.
and careful.
Jennie was loving the sensation, but she stopped kissing Chaeyoung's ears, and instead backed away a little, and sat beside her a little distance between them.
She wanted to be clear and honest. So she started.
"First of all, I like you very much, Park Chaeyoung.
I'm pretty sure I'm in love with you."
Jennie took a glance and felt proud seeing a blush on the girl's cheeks. She continued,
"There is something I wanted to tell you since.....forever. Please be kind to me......whatever it is."
It was the very first thing Jennie thought she lost.
Her pride.
She had never asked someone to be kind and to forgive her. But this time her special someone was very prideful herself.
Chaeyoung sat straight and took her little hand in hers. Without making an eye-contact she murmured:
"Then please be kind to me too, because I can't even control my affection to you to think clearly, or criticize you."
Jennie chuckled. "We are pretty biased, aren't we?"
She turned a little so now she was facing Chae.
"The one thing that I want you to know about me is a bit ugly and can seem pretty selfish to say but," she paused and felt a plump in her throat making it difficult for her to continue
"I woke up without any memories 2 years ago. As I heard from my parents....or I was said that they were my parents, It was an accident but nobody told me what in particular."
"I, I didn't know where I was nor who I was. Even slightly. It was terrifying. and somehow beautiful. The best things that I've learned about myself disappeared right in front of me and I didn't even care about it so much, I felt numb and fresh, but also lost." Jennie smiled sadly, vividly seeing a little scared girl, but nobody knew or saw her ever crying because she never did. She could seem powerless, but never weak.
"The day I woke up my family's doctor was the very first person I met in the hospital and though he said that my mother would arrive as fast as she could, I don't I needed it that time. I'm pretty sure I just wanted to sleep."
"My first few months, as I remember now, weren't pretty and most painful was to learn about almost everything like for the very first time, and I needed it.... because my parents said to me that I had to be strong.
I was homeschooled that time but eventually my psychiatrist said it would be better to go to the familiar environment, school. These months I had been taught about the way I should carry myself....
So nobody knew I had ever lost my memories."
"My family is...."
"One of the richest in S. Korea." Chae continued for her and slowly nodded.
"They couldn't afford such a scandal....this way nobody knew what really happened because nobody was ever said."
"The months that I was absent.....were presented like our family had to move to New Zealand due to business matters. But..."
"Eventually you came back."
Chae teary smiled remembering these months without Jennie. She was so lost....the worst thing was she didn't know whether Jennie would come back or....not.
"A lot happened to me then....but also happened a certain blonde girl who smiled at me like I was the most precious thing in the world."
Chae felt happiness but also
doubt?
Jennie realized her mistake and shook her head, her eyes met Chaeyoung's.
"I don't want you to think that I liked you because I was broken and you seemed like a good way to heal.... I never wanted you to feel like that. So I became cold and was staying away from you as much as I could. I needed to fix all of that first. But you were....you are too important to me to avoid you all the time.....I came up with an idea."
"Gang." Chae smile grew wider seeing the way her puzzle was becoming complete little by little.
"Yeah, I heard that you were fierce when somebody was hurt or treated somehow badly. They even called you an iron angel," she winked. "You was cold as stone but kinder than all of us altogether. So, the gang made me closer to you, on a safe distance."
They fell into silence once again but it was lighter this time, Jennie finally told everything to the girl she deeply cared about...but she knew that she should also tell the rest.
"What happened yesterday...is that I remembered something else.
Someone else I lost as well."
"Lisa."
Both girls said in unison. But before Jennie could ask they heard someone knocking on the door.
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Jisoo woke up in the middle of the night feeling a bit thirsty, this body thing could be a bit annoying - it always wants to eat, sleep, drink and easily gets tired.
She started moving but suddenly felt a warm hug she was engulfed into, she also felt a hot breathing on her nape, but moreover....
The hand on her bare tummy.
Aish. This girl.
She realized that Lisa managed to be a playgirl even in her sleep. She rolled her eyes and slowly started crawling out of the embrace.
Until
A hand move a bit higher, Jisoo eyes widened and
"Aaaahhhhh! Lisa you.....you perv!" Jisoo screamed and got out of the bed which startled sleeping peacefully Lisa and she screamed as well seeing a figure with long dark hair beside bed who was beating her with a pillow and shooting at her.
"What a f..." Joy almost flew into their room and turned the lights on.
"J..Jisoo?" Lisa hugged her pillow feeling a bit embarrassed because she got scared and almost fainted earlier, but she met Jisoo's angry eyes and smiled brightly realizing that she probably came to see her.
Joy didn't get any answer and deeply breathed in glaring at the girls, she shook her head and smiled at their face expressions and the way they were seeing only each other, she closed the door leaving them alone.
Jisoo's heart softened when she saw Lisa's sincere bright smile, the last time she saw her she was crying and looked broken, now Jisoo felt much better knowing that everything will be eventually good.
Tears often turn out to be the omens of smile.
"Can...can you sit, please?" Lisa gently patted the place beside her, she was still sporting a smile but now a shy one.
Jisoo narrowed her eyes suspiciously but obliged and sat down, their hands touching.
Lisa turned around a bit and took a glass of water that was staying on the shelf beside her bed, she got a little bottle of it as well, she then handed Jisoo a glass and chugged from the bottle slightly.
"I'm sorry, I might unconsciously eavesdropped on your thoughts, you wanted to drink." Lisa encouraged Jisoo to take a sip and Jisoo gulped all of it in one go, this thirst was killing her.
"I know the way it feels in human body for the first time, or if you didn't used it for awhile." She shrugged, looking straight at Jisoo's eyes, sincere and honest.
Jisoo finally saw a bigger picture. Her eyes flinched and she smiled sadly.
"Tell me about origin of your body." She lied back down and pulled Lisa's shirt to join her.
Lisa crawled a bit closer and wanted to ask Jisoo if she could hug her, but just started leaning back nervously, not wanting to create an uncomfortable atmosphere.
But then she felt little hands on her shoulders and she met deep brown eyes which were showing her something she couldn't comprehend yet; not now, but evetually.
"Lay here." Jisoo said hoarsely and tapped on her chest and Lisa carefully put her head on Jisoo's shoulder, feeling safe and secured by brunette's touch.
Lisa started talking, letting her tears flow easily. She is done with carrying it all alone.
"The girl died because of me."
.
.
.
"And I took her body."