Chapter 16 :

Dear winter, I hope you like your name~ AJR

There is just something in Jennie’s eyes that resonates within Jisoo. The sheer helplessness and tremors was blatantly shown and quiver in her small forced smile immediately struck Jisoo in the heart.

She is not used to looking at the heiress who used to be so high on her pedestal and clouds with such elegance and charms be this… small and vulnerable. Nevertheless, Jisoo couldn’t help but feel happy?

“Stop smiling to yourself. You look like a creep” Jennie broke her from her bubble.

Her smile turns to scowl in a matter of seconds. “I’m surprise that you didn’t beg me for your freedom”

Jennie casts her gaze away from her crush not wanting to look even more pathetic than she already is. “Whatever I do wouldn’t matter anymore anyway”

Jisoo kink an eyebrow. For someone who has been persistent on wanting to sweep her off her feet a few months ago with such ridiculous gestures and who was too much of a donkey to even understand the word ‘no thank you’ is giving up too easily? Is this the end of the world already?

“Not even trying to bribe me with expensive stuffs and money?” Jisoo teases

Jennie scoffs “As if you would even bats an eye on that offers”

“What makes you think I won’t” Jisoo volleyed

Jennie shrugs not wanting to elaborate more “Can you just spare me the pain and just call anyone so that they can pick me up, chew my ears off for probably an hour or so and then carry on with their own important matter?”

Jisoo sighs lightly. There’s soo much heaviness in Jennie’s words that hard to amiss. She’s contemplating. She’s torn between wanting to tell Wendy about finding Jennie and informed Mrs Kwon and wanting to help Jennie at the same time.

Why would she want to help the dense heiress who has been nothing but a pain in her ? The answer lays from one look from Jennie and the weight of desperation in her voice that soften Jisoo’s heart.

She groans in frustration “Why are you so bad in hiding yourself?!”

“Sorry? What??” 

“Urghhh” She grunts, facepalming “You owe me Kim. You better get your together and find a way and time to eventually tell your family and friend about this so I don’t have to deal with this guilt that’s eating me up” she points at Jennie “and bear in mind, I hate feeling guilty”

Jennie dejected face turns 360. Her eyes were about to fall out of the socket. She was left speechless. Surge of warmth fills her senses. She didn’t know there’s tear rolls down her cheeks not until she feels soft tissue touches her skin.

She never knew she needed this badly. She’s was desperately holding on to this new ‘space’ that she created and everything seems to fall into places even if it’s just a fragment of it.

“Hey hey, you okay?” Jisoo comforts Jennie.

If Jennie weren’t too caught up with her emotion, she would’ve make up some buttery line about Jisoo especially about how Jisoo looking like a goddess and how soft her voice is trying to comfort her.

“Thank you… thank you so much” Jennie mutters, wiping her tears. Slightly embarrass

“Don’t thank me yet. There are several things that I want you to do”

Jennie tilts her head, looking confused.

**

Jennie dusts off the remaining flakes on her jacket shoulder pad as she locks the door to her studio apartment. She needed a hot shower pronto. Damn I hate winter

“So, mind telling me who’s the chick?”

Jennie almost jump, she glares at the newcomer who’s sitting comfortably on her couch sipping what she presume to be hot coco. HER hot coco.

“How on earth did you get into my apartment?”

“Hush, that’s not even important right now. Now dish, who’s the hottie?” Taeyeon eagerly pats the space next to her

The younger woman sighs heavily, tossing her navy massanger bag towards the older woman, ignoring the latter shriek of annoyance as it almost hit her beloved coco. Jennie walks into her small kitchenette and prepares herself some tea.

“Oh come on, you can’t just walk away and not tell”

Jennie shrugs “None of your business Tae”

“Your girlfriend?” Taeyeon ponders before shrugging it off “Nah, that’s impossible”

Jennie eyed the older woman, slightly surprise by the remark “Why can’t she be my girlfriend?” to be honest it does offend her a little bit.

“She looks… stable”

“So I’m unstable?”

Taeyeon chuckles “It’s more of a personality wise. She seems so balanced. Quite contrast to you, plus she doesn’t look like she’s too pleased to see you.”

Jennie slumps her face against the counter, banging the poor surface lightly. The remark from Taeyeon basically just tarnish every single hope that she has, that one day, there’s might be light for her to at least get a date from Jisoo.

“Yah Yah, what’s wrong with you??”

**

“The cuts are still pretty reddish, and I advised not to move too much Miss Son” The gray haired doctor mutters, as he inspects Chaeyoung’s injury “That’s going to leave a prominent scar”

Chaeyoung hold back her scoff. She was clearly annoyed that she has been confined in this room for the past two days, unable to do anything except for lying on her side. But what other choices does she have? It’s not like she could go back and face Gaeun’s wrath. “How long do I need to wait for it to heals Doc?”

“A week or so” The doctor jots down something in his tiny book.

Chaeyoung grunts. A familiar clacking sound broke her from her bubble. There standing in all her glory, her saviour, the ever so mysterious older woman who saved her life when she almost died from blood loss on the street. She’s internally grateful for the latter but is ashamed at the same time. How could she ever repay her.

“How are you? I’m sorry I didn’t visit you this morning, there’s something that I need to attend to” the soft velvety voice hits chaeyoung’s eardrum.

“There’s no need to apologise Miss Myoui. You have no obligation to check up on me. I’m forever thankful that you saved my life disregarding the