Chapter XIV

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LISA'S POV I was looking for Jennie because she's been aloof and I know part of it is because of Megan's announcement. I did not know that she's going to announce it to our friends. I was also surprised when she did.   Megan is already sleeping at the couch she passed out because she drinks a lot while Jisoo and Rosé are still making out I heard voices from the kitchen so I was wondering if that's Jennie. I walk to the kitchen then saw Jennie and Kai. Oh, I almost forgot that Kai is also here. I can't see their face clearly because the lights in the kitchen are off. But Jennie was holding a bottle of wine I guess? And they are both sitting on the counter. I was going to approach them but after a moment, I saw how Kai leans on Jennie...   They are kissing. I was hoping that Jennie would push him but she did not. I must be intruding on their privacy so I decided to go back to where Megan is. She's still sleeping peacefully. I was trying to sleep but the image of them kissing made me stayed awake. "Lis, Jisoo and I are going to rest now." Rosé told me and started to go to Jisoo's room.   I want to go home but I cannot leave Megan here alone, that would be inappropriate. I keep on shifting in my seat and keep looking to the kitchen waiting for them to be done maybe? s**t.   Am I hurt? But why would I? I am getting married. I look at Megan who is peacefully sleeping right now. To this girl, to this wonderful woman. I wasn't expecting to see that and if ever I can go back I will never go to that kitchen just to see them making out.   I keep awake at 3:30 in the morning, maybe everyone is already sleeping but I never saw Jennie and Kai's presence since that. I should distract myself so I opened my phone and plays music. I played Stay by Blackpink and I closed my eyes while I'm tapping my fingers to my phone.   In the middle of the I song I heard some footsteps going closer to me, that's why I opened my eyes.   "Jennie." I said. "Did I wake you up?" she said. "N-no." I can't sleep at all...   "Ah. You should go back to sleep." She told me. She's still holding the bottle of wine and it is almost empty. "I think you are the one that should get some rest. You've been drinking a lot." I told her.   Jennie's eyes look like she came from crying but when she noticed that I noticed her eyes she looks at the other side.   "I don't think I can sleep. I mean even this alcohol can't help" She said to me with her low tone voice as she look at the bottle. "Neither do I." I murmured. I know she's drunk and not in the right way of thinking but I need to ask her something. I can't stop myself from asking. "You guys are a thing now?"   She looks at me and chuckles. I furrowed my brow and felt insulted because of her reaction but then I remembered she's drunk. So instead of waiting for her answer "You better sleep now" I told her and put earphones back to my ears.   But to my surprise, Jennie pulled it out from my ears. "What?" I asked. She then put the bottle she was holding in the center table. "Let's talk." I did not respond to her. I just look at her and examined her facial expressions. She's sad and tired. It breaks my heart seeing her like this. "This might be last." She added and it confused me.   "What do you mean?" I asked her. "You are getting married." She told me. "I think you drink too much, Jen." I said worriedly. "I might but I am still thinking right." She told me then faced me. "I am happy for you. Look at you, you are getting married to that precious girl." She pointed to Megan. I stand up to where I am sitting. "Sit here." I told her and she did. "Thanks." She said softly. "What do you want to talk about?" I asked her this time. "Let's reminisce about everything and nothing .." her voice is sad and I can't help but sigh deeply. "Why?" I asked. "Oh, I change my mind." She said and it made me look at her with confusion in me. "Let's just talk like you don't know me because I want to tell you a story and y-you, you should respond like you don't know who I am." She's putting a little game but I agreed to her.   "I'll tell you a story about this girl that I loved oh .. I still love her." She chuckles. Jennie started with that sentence and my heart beats faster than usual. I look at Megan, I hope she doesn't wake up right now.   "At first we did not really tag along but thanks to our friends who are obviously like each other since then and they became our bridge to start liking each other." She smiled reminiscing that time.   "She looks arrogant, but everyone wants to sleep with her." She laughs at this statement and it made me shake my head. "They call her a player, a womanizer. But she's soft too." The way Jennie describes me makes me want to cry but I hold it back. I should act the way she wants me to.   Like a stranger.   "When I heard she slept with a friend of mine I wanted to punish her because that girl cried a lot because she's in love with that girl. That Lisa Manoban." She said naming me. I drink to the bottle of wine she's holding a while ago because I think I need some alcohol this time.   "I danced to the club where I started to take revenge. I was lucky because I got her attention easily." She laughs again. "Maybe because you are too hot." I said chuckling and she just gave me a smile. "Fast forward, I made her wrapped around my fingers but my first persona which is the girl who is studying in the same school with her the girl who is really me already likes her." She sighs heavily. Stating how it contrasts herself.   "Then I am finally in love with her and to my surprise, she does too. It was a rollercoaster love story. Until the tragic came that changes everything we have." The smile on her face vanished instantly.   "There are people who want to take revenge on me. They want to ruin my relationship with her and .... they won. She knew everything, she thought that I was faking everything even the love that I am showing to her. She hated me so much that it breaks my heart. She even told me she regrets touching me. And that really hurts my whole existence." Jennie is crying this time and I can't help but wipe my own tears because I was crying too.   "I tried to apologize to her so many times because I admit it was my entire fault. She hates me and I think I deserved that. She doesn't want to talk to me anymore maybe she thinks I'm a nasty dirty b***h. So I decided to walk away.."Jennie is telling our story and pretending I am a stranger, it hurts me seeing how much pain I cost her.   I can't say anything; I just want to listen to her. We never talk about what happened and what we felt about things, we never had a discussion about that. "I was surprised when she followed me to the airport. She's yelling my name and I know that's her so I look back. That was really her. She's apologizing to me. I wanted to run back to her but if I do I might just break her again.." she's now telling me the airport incident.   "I just can't ruin her life again. I love her so much that I am willing to go away for her happiness." Her sentence made my heart aches and my eyes can't hold back the tears anymore. She's sobbing this time so am I. "Then after six freaking long years, I need to go back here. I thought I was fine and I am brave enough. Funny because when Jisoo and I are at the airport I saw her. She fetches someone, maybe her new girl?" so she saw me at the airport with Megan? How come I did not see her?   "You saw me?" I asked her. "Nah, I saw her. Lisa." She said. Alright, she's still in the 'talking to stranger thing.'   "She looks genuinely happy." She murmured.   "When we finally arrived at the hotel room I researched her and found out that it was her girlfriend. Then a few days after we met at the f*****g conference room with their fathers. Rosé and Lisa were the last to come. I tried to hold back my feelings seeing her. Then we all decided to go to the bar like we used to." She is now telling me the previous things happened.   "I was the first one to get there because Jisoo and Rosé are might be f*****g somewhere else." She laughs. "And then Lisa came. We were the first two. It was awkward at first but then we started talking and talking. I was really happy to have time alone with her. We were both crying and she kissed me. Her lips were still soft as fuck.." she said while wiping her tears. "Until our two friends came" she laughs again this time. "We partied and play a game. I was dared to kiss her for 10 seconds. It was the longest 10 seconds of my life. After that, we talked again before we ended the night. I told her that it was just a kiss and a closure and we did not have any moment but it was all opposites. It wasn't just a kiss, it wasn't just for closure and I believed that we had a moment back there. I just don't want to confuse her." She told me.   "But why? Why did you lie again?" I am tempting to ask her so I did. "Because I don't want to ruin her relationship with her new girl." She answered and it hits me.   "Then the event came, her girlfriend and I talked in the bathroom. She was threatening me to not steal her girl. Who the hell she thinks she was?" Megan did that?? "That event is the longest awkward night ever, I even accepted Kai's offer to be my date just because I couldn't stand being alone in that event and seeing her with that girl. It sucks!" she furrowed her brows.   "Then this Christmas came. The day I will never ever forget. The day that breaks my heart into pieces but I was brave to pull myself together." She hugs herself...   "They are already engaged.." she then sobs.   She looks at me this time while the tears dripping down her face. "Lisa." She called by my name.   "I still love you and I never stop loving you but I was too late .." she told me while she's sobbing in pain.   "I do too .." I mumbled.   "I love you too, I really do." I cried with her   This moment she's looking right into my eyes. But then she stands up and walks out then stop. "I just need to let it out, I am so happy for you." she told me. I couldn't see her face because she's facing the other direction.   "You are my favorite chapter of my life that I will always treasure." She said.   "Jennie .." I called her.   "Shhh.." she shushes me. "I'll be fine," she said then started walking again. Before she entered her room she said something.   "I am not walking away because I can't endure the pain, I am walking away because you need to breathe."   She then closed the door and I was left there crying. What happened to us, Jennie?
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