Chapter 18 Say It Again

 

Second chances are not given to make things right, and not to correct mistakes. The past cannot be undone and cannot redo to do the right choices to fix the greatest mistakes. The shattered glass can be fixed to its original form but the cracks will still be there carved deep within. That’s why second chances are there to prove that regardless of the flaws, loses and faults they can do better, they can stand taller after a great downfall. Thereupon, second chances might work better than the first time, because mistakes are already there, they learn from it and take it as a lifetime lesson.

 

“Jennie… where are you going… come back…”

 

In Rose’s bouncy and fluffy bed, there lies the intoxicated Lisa in her sleep, in her dreamland, likely in her nightmare where she hasn’t gotten up to. In her wildest dreams she sees her ex-girlfriend, smiling but walking far from here and she couldn’t chase her. She stands there in her place incapably watching Jennie fade into the bright light dazzling and blinding her. She’s unable to stop her from fading and she’s cowardly paralyzed in her stance, like how she was defenselessly left out, like how she let Jennie free from her weak arms and like how she was abandoned vulnerable.

 

“Lisa, wake up. You’re dreaming.” Rose lightly shakes Lisa for in her sleep she’s heard mumbling Jennie’s name over and over again.

 

Rose light pats didn’t work and so the other one makes a harsh attempt of waking Lisa up. Jisoo, being the violent one, she went to get a glass of cold water and right into Lisa’s face, she splashed it all, drenching Rose’s pillows too that’s unavoidable then she shouts right into her ears, “Wake up Lalisa Manoban!”

 

Jisoo’s ways successfully alarmed Lisa up from her deep sleep, opening her eyes wide and quickly sat up which only caused severe headache as she did. Lisa feeling so weak and so bad that her vision is spinning round and round, she drops her body back down from the bed after that worst way to alarm her. She stayed still looking up to the familiar ceiling which her rumbling brain immediately recognized and later realized of where she is. Not saying anything, Lisa remains arrested while recollecting why and how she got there.

 

“You’re having a hangover.” Jisoo opened up while standing and staring down at Lisa’s wrecked figure upon noticing that puzzled look from her eyes that are darting up. “I know it’s your first time to feel this kind of morning because for the very first time you had a drink last night until you passed out.” She then further said.

 

“What happened last night? Why am I here?” Lisa questioned with her fuzzy thoughts and covered her burning face with her palms that smells a mixture of wine and various alcoholic drinks she had for the whole night.

 

Rose carefully sits on the bedside and softly hisses, “You got yourself drunk… after you had a talk with Jennie-unnie.”

 

“Talk… with Jennie…” Lisa grumbled as she tried to recollect her scattered morning vague brain.

 

One by one she starts reminiscing all that happened. From the moment she stepped in to the party to the time she seated beside Jennie. Then lastly to how their conversation went on and how it ended, how she sat there and did none, did none to stop her worst nightmare yet ever. Remembering all of this, her face turns into terror, into a horror that soon her all her thoughts abandoned her yet again. Like a statue she laid there on the bed, stoned with an airhead.

 

“We… broke up.” Lisa cried as soon as she recalled every single thing.

 

The two cannot do anything but to watch those tears falling out, sadly accompanying her in this time of a great downfall. Thinking of how Jennie decided to end up everything about them, what they’ve gone through and all, Lisa couldn’t help but to whelp and let those tears out more than how it was, weeping on such an early morning and let her cries occupy Rose’s expansive room. She’s destitute to help herself up just yet. She’s so incapable of bringing herself up just yet and knowing this, the two determined to stay with her this time, and not to Jennie’s side who has settled herself with her decisions.

 

Jisoo reached out for Lisa’s cold hands and rendered, “Actually, it was Jendeukie who asked us to take care of you today. Well, even last night she asked us to accompany you in case you don’t remember us carrying you all the way to my car. She got so full-handed at the party when you were drunk so she asked us to bring you back home to take care of you. But, we just decided to bring you here so that you’ll get a better rest.”

 

“She didn’t have to do that, right after she broke up with me.” Lisa sobbed.

 

And Rose immediately bounces back cautiously, “I think Jennie-unnie wanted to show she cared for the last time. Besides, she believes she’s the reason why you got so drunk in the first place and she felt responsible for it.”

 

“You guys are so unfair!” Lisa continues on with her loud cries and faced her back to her friends, not wanting them to see this break out and defeat she’s suffering from.

 

Lisa began blabbering and started being unreasonable with her random chatters under the pillow. The two can’t comprehend anything though for she’s biting onto that white pillow as she rants. Sighing in loss, Jisoo quietly signaled Rose, mouthed as she asked her to step out of the room and left Lisa in her own miseries and let the happenings sync in properly into her. Thus, Rose complied and together they faintly stepped out to give Lisa her most needed time to be alone in her thoughts.

 

As they stepped out and proceeded to the small dining area for their breakfast, Rose lowly groans in her worries as she sits down, “I wonder if it’s alright to leave her alone in my room.”

 

“It’s alright. Heartbreaks hurt. I mean who wouldn’t cry like that after all that happened between them?” Jisoo calmly said as she handed Rose her favorite morning tea she hastily brewed for her and later joins her on the table.

 

Rose however still in her frowns, she wonders, “Did Jennie-unnie really make the right decision? For some reason, I feel like it’s wrong.”

 

“What makes you say that?” Jisoo asked after gulping her hot chocolate.

 

“Because… Jennie-unnie obviously still loves Lisa and I know Lisa feels the same. What’s the point of breaking up if you still love each other? It’s frustrating me… Moreover, remember last night unnie? Jennie-unnie still kissed Lisa while she was unconscious before we took off.” Rose articulated.

 

Jisoo immediately covered Rose’s loud mouth and warns in a rustle, “Hey, don’t say that out loud. Lisa might hear us. Jennie asked us not to tell her about that anymore.”

 

That night, there’s no way Jisoo could forget it all. Indeed, she told Lisa of what happened to her but never ever intended of expressing more of that night for her. Both of them had known it all, how Jennie planned on coordinating with them not to show up until she has done talking to Lisa. They have seen it all, from the time Lisa passed out due to drunkenness and that Rose popped out behind her to catch her from dropping straight down the floor, on how Jennie worriedly rushed to Lisa outside the venue who’s in Rose’s arms as well and caressed her reddish face and how heavy she cried ogling at Lisa’s desolated unconscious state. Both of them witnessed it all, on how it was Jennie herself who took the effort of carrying the unconscious Lisa all the way to Jisoo’s car and let her one last tear dropped as she kissed her goodbye. They know all but to Jennie’s wish, they kept mum and said none.

 

Rose snapped her fingers in front of Jisoo’s blank face and startles her, “Unnie! You’re spacing out all of a sudden!”

 

Jisoo shakes off her head as she goes on sipping her drink and admits her concerns, “I just thought of something but anyway, let’s respect Jendeukie’s decisions. All we can do is to support and guide them, not to interrupt them whatever they want to do. Ji-yong oppa kept on telling us that so we shouldn’t do more than this.”

 

“Okay unnie…” Rose sighed.

 

On the same day, the other half of this heartbreak, Jennie, is on her own errands together with her supportive brother, in her own ways of forgetting of what the previous night brought them. She’s been keeping herself busy the second she opened her eyes and welcomed the day. Though not getting her much needed rest, she forces herself just to blow off her mind from her ex-lover’s presence that’s still tickles her heart. She’s doing her very best but every time she stops and takes a short break, her mind would automatically resumes back to nothing but Lisa, just like now that they are on café for a chill.

 

“You don’t really have to rush on fixing your transfer papers Jennie. You still have two weeks left for that one. It could have been better if you just have a good rest for today.” Ji-yong commented as his sister is manifesting so much aggressiveness in a single day.

 

And Jennie returns cold, “You don’t really have to accompany me today oppa and you can go to work if you want. I didn’t force you to tag along with me.”

 

“Nah, it’s alright. I was given a time off from work until you’ll fly off to London.” Ji-yong first said then goes on after a sip of his latte, “Also, if I leave you alone and let you go on your errands by yourself, for sure you’ll end up in an accident.”

 

Jennie raised an eyebrow, “What do you mean accident?”

 

Ji-yong pointed at Jennie’s side of the table, telling her to look at it. And wondering why, Jennie followed to where his finger is pointing at only to realize that she’s writing on the table and not on her papers which are supposed to be signed. As she realized she immediately went on frantic and covers their table with her paper while quickly wiping it, hiding the damage she has done to the shop.

 

“S-sorry…” Jennie awkwardly said.

 

Her upset brother has no way out but to help his sister from her silly mistakes while observing her disturbed face that cannot focus at all. Even if she had apologized and currently repenting through her apologetic actions, Ji-yong can still see this trouble in her for she makes these unnecessary movements and useless gestures and awkward smiles. Jennie, in her brother’s eyes, is obviously showing off a great disruption corrupting her mind and making her heart uneasy that she has turned to be someone who’s not her usual self.

 

The fed up brother then decides to bluntly ask for he couldn’t take this kind of sister with him, “What’s wrong with you? Is it because of Lisa? Are you thinking about her?”   

 

“Well…” Jennie stopped from her impractical acts as she looked down in hopelessness, “Honestly, yes. I can’t help it. I’m quite bothered still. We just broke up yesterday and I’m feeling a little indifferent right now. But maybe soon I’ll get used to this feeling. No one possibly moves on in less than twenty four hours right?”

 

Ji-yong emphasizes as he criticizes, “Extraordinarily bothered, Jennie. Your trouble is way over the top and it makes me feel like I’m not facing my sister right now.”

 

“Sorry oppa…” Jennie again apologized and has nothing more to do but to keep on apologizing.

 

Upon ordering a new cup of coffee for his sister, Ji-yong keeps on throwing his direct queries, “Do you have plans to meet her any time before you fly to London?”

 

Jennie unfortunately shakes off her head, negatively responding in a frown, “I won’t meet her anymore I guess. Because, if I still appear in front of her one of these days, she might just get distressed again and I don’t want to be the reason why she’ll fail her one last chance with her dreams.”

 

“And do you think breaking up with her and letting her go would make her focus with her dreams?” Ji-yong closely interrogated.

 

“It’s better that way rather than forcing me to her. I mean, at least now, she doesn’t have me to worry about. She got loads of weight off her shoulders and with this, I’m sure there’s nothing to stop her anymore.” Jennie believed but she pronounced so low she was barely heard talking.    

 

Jennie said so, she managed to voice it out yet she makes another silly mistake. The moment the waiter arrived for another cup of coffee she again accidentally elbowed the plate he was holding and ended up with another mess which made Ji-yong to feel so more disappointed towards her that he rolled his eyes with a growl of annoyance.

 

“Aish! Seriously Jennie! Can you please pull yourself together?” Ji-yong scolded and raised his voice to indicate how mad he is over her odd actions.

 

“Sorry…” Jennie looped with her unending apologies.

 

Even if he feels so exasperated, as a brother he tried to tone down himself as he lightly lectures the troubled sister, “How can you go on like this? If you knew you’ll end up this more miserable then you shouldn’t have just broke up with Lisa instead you should have just temporarily gave her space by herself.”

 

Jennie said no more and argued no longer for she knows for herself she’s wretched like what was said. She let those hurtful yet truthful words from her brother hurt and hit her. She just sat there in remorse, doing her best to be so tough in front of Ji-yong in order not to make him worry any further. She sat there in the midst of tears which she successfully held back with the help of the water chewing in her emotions.

 

It was already dusk when Rose and Jisoo sent Lisa back to her apartment block. They didn’t talk as much as they used to be while they were on the way and it was never been that dull and awkward before, only now that they’re experiencing it. No one dared to open a topic, not even a joke that Jisoo always pull off which might have the potential to make it more awkward than how it was. They let this silence engulf Lisa for her attention the entire time she was on the ride was outside through the windows, blank and out of space that she didn’t even notice she had long reached her place.

 

Lifelessly Lisa walked up to her room and straightly dropped her departed body on that narrow bed that has Jennie’s smell lingering her pillows and bed sheets. Every breath she takes she remembers Jennie. Every blink she takes Jennie’s image appears in her head. Every time her heart beats it shouts with Jennie’s name. And as every second that passes by, these feelings are getting worse making her breathless.

 

“I miss her.” Lisa soon cried at the recognition and buried her face against her crumpled bed sheets.

 

It hasn’t been a day, it’s been only long hours since they separated ways yet Lisa feels so empty. She’s too weak to do anything. She’s too troubled to even walk and get up from her bed. She’s too bewildered she cannot move an inch out of her bed. All she wants to do and all that her rebellious mind and body need is Jennie, everything is about Jennie that makes her so vulnerable.

 

Jennie’s cute smile, her touch, her presence and her kisses, Lisa cracks from head to toe missing all of those, which she believes she might not feel anymore. “Why did I even let her go… you’re such an idiot…” Lisa grumbled, groaning so loud and so mad she unconsciously punched her tightly clenched fist against her room’s wall closest to her bed.   

 

Cutting her trail of thoughts is a call from her parents, buzzing her vibrating heart. Normally, whenever these concerned parents call her, she’d pretend jolly by exaggerating her happy tone but not for this time around she cannot do such pretending for even to herself she cannot put everything altogether. Sluggishly, she picks the call up sounding so low with a husky hum upon the answer.

 

“Oh Lisa, what’s wrong? You don’t sound like the usual. You were not also answering our calls yesterday too. What happened to you?” The worried mother immediately noticed.

 

Lisa, staying on the same position, she dully answers back, “Mom it’s a long story. I don’t want to talk about it anymore.”

 

“You know Lalisa, last time I only found out that you failed your exams thanks to Bam who initiated to call us first. He’s also the one who called us to let us know that you’re given the chance to take the retake and now you’re not saying anything again. You’re refusing to tell us anything about you. What’s this, huh? What’s happening to you that we’re not aware of?” The mother scolded badly that Lisa needed to put the phone farther from her ears.

 

Annoyed of her mother’s importunity, Lisa is forced out to shout it out loud, “Mom! Jennie just broke up with me last night so could you please stop?”

 

Neither talked, neither said anything from that revelation but Lisa couldn’t help but to let out her tears again while her mother hears her agony over the phone. Lisa at the same time can hear her parents talking and mumbling about the unfortunate news as the call was set to speaker mode but she said none and let them talk through the phone call which neither of them refuses to drop it.   

 

“I’m so sorry to hear that my dear. I didn’t know.” The mother later sincerely apologized to her sobbing daughter.

 

“It’s alright mom. I’m sorry for yelling too. It’s just that…” Lisa wanted to explain more of how she’s feeling at the moment, her feelings that are so empty yet confused but her voice won’t let her to.

 

The mother immediately hushes, “I know what you feel. It must be hard.”

 

Lisa insists on going on despite of how is aching, “She let me go mom. It’s my fault. Everything’s my fault. She let me go because I was confused. I blamed her and our relationship for everything. She let me go because of my dreams. Mom, I don’t know what to do anymore. Please help me mom.”

 

Being an expert, the mother starts questioning her daughter one by one, “Do you still love her?”

 

And Lisa obediently responds, “I do mom but… I’m confused. I want to keep her but I don’t know how to with all these priorities I have. I know I can never find anyone like Jennie who can understand my flaws yet I let her go.”

 

“Priorities, huh? Isn’t she one of those priorities?”

 

“She is mom but I’m still so weak to handle it all at the same time.” Lisa confessed in between her sobs.

 

To which her mother returns with a giggle, “You really are still young to love so deep Lisa and you’re just lucky enough to have a matured and understanding girlfriend.”

 

Lisa creased her eyebrows and questions in misunderstanding, “What do you mean by that mom?”

 

But her mother returns back with another question, “What did Jennie tell you before she let you go? Do you remember?”

 

“Well… she wanted me to focus with my exams and that I have to pass it. She wanted me to reach my dreams and wished me luck. I think she believes that breaking up will solve my problems. So yeah… we broke up.” Lisa said as she recalled that painful night.

 

And Lisa heard her father butting in from afar through the call, “She’s giving you a chance! Oh c’mon, you’re my smart daughter! Can’t you just decode the true meaning behind her upfront words? It’s a girl’s code, don’t let it deceive you! Don’t believe her when she said she wants to break up! That’s just a mere lie! Girls are always like that! They tend to say things that they don’t mean to. Their words are only confusing! So don’t believe her when she said she wants to break up!”

 

“Excuse me?” Lisa raised an eyebrow.

 

“Real couples only break up when they don’t love each other anymore and when feelings faded! Don’t believe those things she says when she’s letting you go for dreams. That’s so childish! That doesn’t happen in real life! Breaking up isn’t the answer to it! That’s idiocy! Why, did she tell you she doesn’t love you anymore?” The father went on shouting from the other line as he interrupted the conversation.

 

Lisa then realized looking into the bigger picture of their break up. Jennie never said that she doesn’t have feelings for her anymore. Jennie didn’t say anything about her love fading. Jennie did say they are only hurting each other and that she was obviously hurt of their distance but never said she doesn’t love her anymore despite of all those things. Jennie did say how they were wrong from the start but never mentioned about an ending. There’s none, Jennie mentioned nothing about how she really feels that night yet she got swayed by her emotions and let the break up happen. Realizing all of these, Lisa left opening wide, wider at each realization.  

 

Then her mother returns back chuckling, “I want to stop your dad from blabbering things here but I have to say he’s right, Lisa. Even I and your dad broke up a lot of times when we were still dating but somehow we’re here and now we have you. Maybe you’re too young yet to understand how complicated love and people are but as you go on you’ll get to learn it.”

 

Lisa slowly sits back up on her bed and asks, “What should I do now mom? Jennie is set to go to London two weeks from now, exactly the day after my removal exams.”

 

“Focus on with your top priority which is your dreams obviously. Do what Jennie wants you to do and after that, maybe you’ll have come up with something about your relationship with Jennie, something that’s better than breaking up. Slowly but surely, take it step by step. Don’t rush. And who knows if Jennie just momentarily set you free just so that you can focus with your exams.” The mother genuinely advised.

 

“What if I still fail mom?”

 

“You won’t. I just know you won’t. Let your love for Jennie inspire you rather than to distract you.” The mother simply said as her last piece of advice.

 

With that being said, Lisa dropped the call forgetting to pave goodbye to her parents who are proud of her, her parents who never ceased to leave her, her parents who never failed to give her advises, her parents whom she relies onto during her darkest times. As she stores everything that was said into her mind, Lisa, bit by bit, she regains a bit of enthusiasm but not entirely for only Jennie can fill up these remaining spaces for her to complete her dreams and she has yet to realize that.

 

“Jennie wants me to pass these damn exams, so I have to pass it and meet her expectations. I shouldn’t disappoint her more than how I’m letting her feel right now.”

 

The very well determined Lisa slapped her face hard to wake up from all these delusions blocking her resolve. To continue on with her day, she proceeds to her books, her notes she once crumpled and put it back to how it used to be and picks up her backpack from under her bed which dropped a book containing tons of polaroid photos of her and clingy ex-girlfriend, those daily photos they took during their first month of togetherness. Seeing all these only made Lisa teared up but not to falter yet again for her resolve.

 

All throughout the succeeding days, Lisa solely gave her attention to nothing but her goal, to pass the exam and to go on with her dreams, to attend her part-time jobs timely and fit in all her time just to study twice as hard as how she used to be. And as Jennie wanted them to be, Lisa hasn’t reached out to her yet, no communications and never even bumped into each other by the town, though Lisa knows she would perhaps feel more motivated when she sees her. But that didn’t matter for Lisa got Jennie’s photos stuck in her walls and a photo of them during their first date in a frame standing on the side of her study table. Lisa, without doubt, she has her eyes only to her dreams and her bright future at least for this moment she has nothing but only her dreams.

 

If Lisa is keeping herself busy as much as she can, Jennie does the same. All the days remaining for her in the town, she uses it in fixing her papers, completing her clearances and doing various works in and out of the university. For the last days, she wants to make it memorable as much as possible, with or without Lisa beside her. She doesn’t want to regret, she doesn’t want to let all these times to slip by without doing anything and she doesn’t want to waste it regretting that night she let Lisa go on her way. Like how Lisa is moving on with it, Jennie never once reached out for her either, letting their communication dry out.

 

For they have so much luxury with their time, their supportive friends decided to help Jennie out with her remaining activities which she decided to do for her last day, an activity she thought would be the best way to spend her last day mingling with people dear to her. And prior to Jennie’s last day in town is a night that’s filled with commitment, a quite tiring night for both Jisoo and Rose who are in Jennie’s mansion to help out some staffs in carrying boxes to these huge carriage trucks parked in their front yard.

 

“Damn that Jendeukie! How dare she leave us here fixing all these things for tomorrow’s program?” Jisoo complained while carrying all these huge packages to the truck.

 

Rose however has an opposite mood, enjoying as she carries this huge box filled with wrapped gifts and retorts to Jisoo’s complains, “Stop complaining unnie. You should be glad that we’re helping out with this program for the orphanage. I’m sure the kids will be happy to see these gifts she prepared for them.”

 

“I know. Even I am touched that she thought of holding an event for those kids for her last day. But I just wish she’s here to help us out.” Jisoo said but still her complaints are unending.  

 

Rose later joins Jisoo on resting by the back of the truck full of boxes, sitting by the edge and returns, “She has to keep herself busy, that’s why. If she stops moving around then definitely, she’ll end up weeping about Lisa again.”

 

“You’re right.” Jisoo sighed.

 

Rose then ponders out of her anxieties, “You know unnie, I don’t want to experience the same thing. Watching them being like this makes me don’t want to love anymore. I’m scared to experience the same pain. It’s too complicated.”

 

Jisoo handed over a bottle of water to her anxious friend staring to a space before sharing her own remarks, “It depends on who you’re going to love Chaeyoung. It depends on who you’ll choose as your partner.”

 

“Say unnie what kind of person should I love then so that I won’t end up like them?” Rose questioned and challenged Jisoo’s competencies.

  

“Let me see…” Jisoo looks up to the night sky thinking. “You’re that type of woman who’s fine with everything so I think it’s not hard to love you. I think you’ll need someone who will stand beside you all the time, maybe? Someone who is willing to sacrifice time for you despite of busy schedules? Basically, someone who can stay with you all the time, that’s all you need since you’re often alone.”

 

“Someone like you unnie?” Rose teased; grinning at Jisoo’s caught off guard face.

 

Jennie in a few minutes arrives at the mansion with another truck which quietly made its park on a far side. Upon entering the mansion’s gate, there at the back of the opened truck she saw her friends flirting, pinching each other’s waist and ticking until they get breathless from laughing so hard. Thus, Jennie purposely marched in a slow motion, prolonging their moment together to relish.

 

“Oh! Unnie! You’re here!” It didn’t take long for Rose though to notice Jennie’s presence and soon stopped from playing with Jisoo.

 

Jisoo immediately jumped off the truck and dashed to her best friend, playfully choking her and goes on with her complaints that were cut off earlier, “Yah! Where have you been? You left us here packing all the gifts! I thought you said we’ll do all of this together but you left us!”

 

“I went to get another present for the kids. I just thought they might like it too.” Jennie grinned.

 

Jennie pointed at truck that arrived with her. It’s an ice cream truck labeled ‘Jennie’s Ice Cream’. They have already packed hundreds of presents for the kids and even including the caretakers of the orphanage from the packages to be given away, some monetary donations as well but here comes Jennie with another huge surprise.

 

“I can’t believe you. Just how much did you spend for all of this?” The amazed Jisoo can only smile at Jennie’s generosity.

 

Jennie presents the ice cream truck and proudly says, “It’s cool, don’t you think? I want to let the kids know about my favorite milk ice cream so I bought this truck. It’s just a one day event so I want it to be memorable. I also went to double check with the orphanage a while ago and they said tomorrow’s a perfect day and made sure everything’s going to be set. Well, I don’t even know if I can still visit them once I go to London that’s why I want to make it special for them as much as possible.”

 

“As expected from you unnie.” Rose gave her two thumbs up.

 

“Just talking with you like this right now makes me forget that tomorrow’s going to be the last day.” Jisoo sighed and Jennie saw this sadness in her eyes.

 

“Yeah. It’s like tomorrow’s such a big day for all of us. Jennie-unnie’s last day and Lisa’s going to take her removal exams too. Time sure moves so fast.” Rose then also sighed, joining Jisoo in her deep thoughts, bothering Jennie so much she cannot take it.

 

Jennie pulled both Rose and Jisoo with her as they approach the ice cream truck she brought. The hyper Jennie asked them to follow her climbing up the truck with three cups of ice cream in her hands and the two willingly followed yet cautiously as they did the same. Side by side, the three squatted on the truck’s roof and let the moon shine upon them, let the stars brighten up their night and let their worries be vanished into the mild wind of this night to remember.

 

Offering the milk ice creams to her friends, Jennie requests in a smile, “Let’s just enjoy this night, shall we? If you know tomorrow’s a big day then don’t make me feel bad. Please, for me, let’s not make dramas.”

 

“If that’s what you want then it’s fine. Let’s make tomorrow your best day ever with the kids in the orphanage.” Jisoo nodded.

 

Following her two older friends Rose popped open her ice cream cup too, agreeing, “Tomorrow’s going to be a busy day. We better brace ourselves for it then.”

 

From inside the mansion, Jennie’s father observes them laughing together, taking a break from all their worries and troubles for the mean time from above that ice cream truck that his daughter requested him to buy for her. Spoiled it may sound, the father all signed these checks and payment orders to pay for all of Jennie’s expenses that were used and to be used for tomorrow’s event at this orphanage where she came from, where he first met his only daughter.

 

Joining him from observing their daughter is his wife and asked in worries, “Are you sure we won’t be doing anything for Jennie?”

 

“What do you mean? I already granted her wish to hold an event tomorrow at the orphanage and make donations. What else should we do more for her?” The father questioned back, playing dumb of his wife’s aims.

 

“I know you know what I’m saying.” His wife whined. “It’s about her relationship with Lisa, I heard from Ji-yong they already broke up.”

 

He only chortled at his wife’s concerns and returns with a smirk, “Lisa has an iron resolve, that’s all I know.”

 

“So you do trust her now, huh? You used to curse her to death.” The mother teased.

 

“It’s not that I already accepted Lisa, okay? I still hate her for hurting my daughter. It’s just that I won’t be buying the break up thing that our daughter decided and I’m quite disappointed of her decision. Sooner or later, Jennie will wake up from that and will realize her decision isn’t the best thing. I hate to admit it but Lisa is smarter than our daughter so I know she might come up with something better than our daughter’s decision soon. Moreover, Lisa made a promise with me and I just know her words were beyond real and I’m still holding onto that promise of hers, even if she broke it with my daughter.” The father explained himself and smiled confidently at his wife proudly staring up at him.

 

“I see. Then, if that’s what you believe I’ll just have to watch things develop with you.” She smiled comfortably and together they watch their daughter having fun with her friends, fighting against the miseries and battling against all these despairs she’s been carrying.

 

The day came, the final day when everything unfolds came. The wholly set Lisa, with all her determinations she formed in weeks, walks in to the university where she saw these students who failed like her entering the same building and marching a little jumpy towards her designated exam room. She has prepared her mind and body for this that comes along with her loud pounding heart. For her it’s now or never and so she has to keep her mind straight and focused, ignoring all these eyes judging at her as she stands in front of the room’s door.

 

“Lisa!” Bam came running to his tensed best friend. And panting, he cheers her up, “Good luck! I know you can do it! You better ace it this time! You worked hard for this day so I know it’s going to be easy for you! I’ll just be here to support you