"Gifts"

Yiruma. Reminiscent. I ran my fingers across the smooth and white keys while I watched her sleeping peacefully, her arms wrapped around the pillow as if she was hugging me. As I stared at her, I began to realize how every single place became beautiful with her in it — that song was undeniably one of my favorite piece of Yiruma’s works but it sounded strangely sad.

The sun was starting to rise in the sky and as it hit Rosé’s skin, it hugged every single curve of hers; utterly angelic.

Her body was half-covered in my light white blanket, hair still a complete mess but I adored that sight, more than anything else in this world.

I continued playing my last notes and looked over her again, she was now rubbing her eyes and stretching herself and finally our eyes met.

“Good morning” she said softly.

I made my way towards the bed and locked her between my arms as I gently placed a kiss on her forehead and whispered “Good morning princess”

“That was beautiful” she said, her eyes twinkling while looking at me

She then, reached my lips and caressed my back where visible red marks could clearly be seen.

We continued on cuddling for a bit, laughing and telling each other about embarrassing moments during our life, childhood, bad and good memories — it was actually the first time we connected on a personal level, one that wasn’t, uhm…physical.

I kept on playing different chords and keys for her, while she hummed simple melodies to accompany me. Music and simple notes filled the room and for a moment, I thought an angel came to me.

The sound of the piano resonated through the room as my foot kept moving to the rhythm of the music. We didn’t talk to each other for the rest of the time, but it somehow felt like we were. How could I explain what she made me feel? With her, anything else didn’t really matter.

I stopped and looked over the clock and saw it was already 10 a.m and we still didn’t have breakfast, yet.

“Let’s go downstairs” I said and helped her standing up

“Let’s wash up first” she said, dragging me to the bathroom 

After taking a shower, she insisted again on drying my hair; I don’t know why she likes it so much but I honestly don’t care, as long as it’s her.

“Jaeden…” she loudly said while running her fingers through my wet hair while her other hand was busy passing the blowdryer

“Mh?”

“Can we go shopping today? I need to buy some presents for the girls” she said, tip-toeing, trying to desperately reach for my hair.

Looking at her struggling, made me lower myself at her height so that it would make things easier for her

“Sure” I said, and nodded.

It wasn’t difficult explaining to my parents that Rosé came over last night. In fact they even told her to stay as long as she wanted, and Leo, who stuck near her with his tail wagging, was probably the happiest that moment.

Justin couldn’t stop staring at us and giving us ‘that’ look that also Jennie sometimes gives me — his eyes stabbed my body and almost felt like it reached my soul, making me feel kind of uneasy.

“Your parents are always so sweet, as well as Justin and Alex” Rosé said and closed the door behind us

“They all love you” I replied and cheekily smiled, while taking the car’s key out of my pocket and start the engine

I wasn’t sure if it was because of her or because it was simply the fact that the rode was free from traffic, but driving had never felt more relaxing and safe. Everything suddenly felt so unreal and I didn’t really know why. But then again, my life has been undeniably surreal since I’ve met her.

We finally arrived at the parking lot and as I made a turn inside of it, something came into my mind, “Why don’t you sing me something?” I asked, smiling at her

“Thinking about it, I’ve never heard you singing when you’re with me” I continued

“You came to our concert and fan-meeting Jaeden” she said and grabbed my chin, kissing me

“That’s different, I want to hear you sing only for me” I pouted like a kid

“Maybe next time babe.”

When we got inside the mall, she made sure to cover her face with a mask, so that people wouldn’t recognize her while I just put a hat to cover my eyes from others.

I began to actually see how the life of a celebrity felt like — hiding from everyone, having the fear of being followed and most of all, hiding your loved one. I still don’t get how it even worked, but people treated her like a normal person, without even knowing her but from my point of view, I would have probably recognized her even just by looking into her eyes.

The mall was filled with Christmas decorations on every corner and classic music of this season was being played in the background, making the atmosphere feel much more relaxing and at peace.

We stopped by various shops but nothing seemed to have the right presents for the girls, until we finally found ourselves inside a store that sold any kind of thing you needed for the house

“Why are we here?” I asked in korean, confused of what she was thinking about

“I just remembered Lisa really wanted a tea set, she loves tea” she said and went to that particular section and just like that, Lisa’s present was ready.

The second one was Jisoo — she’s the oldest but acts like the youngest and even though we don’t hang out often, she’s pretty difficult to understand and doesn’t really shows what she really wants.

“What will you give to Jisoo?”

“Unnie is addicted to video games” she said, going inside a game shop crowded with kids and their parents 

“There it is!” she suddenly shouted, pointing at one a game

“Overwatch?” I said and furrowed my eyebrows

“This game is really popular here” she said, all excited — of course, I heard of it but I’m not really a ‘game’ guy and finally, the only one remaining was Jennie

She always seemed so cold outside, making her look like an ice-princess but I was sure that Chaeyoung would have found the perfect gift for her.

And just like I predicted, we ended up going to a clothing store — too many girls and some of them were with their boyfriends, bringing all their shopping bags 

“What do you think about it?” she asked and showed me a black, long-sleeved off shoulder dress

“Isn’t that bit too short and y?” I asked, blushing while imagining Rosé in it even though it wasn’t for her

“You think so?” she said and took a last glance at it

“I think she’ll like it”

“I feel like she would wear it to impress Alex” she silently said to herself

“What?” I asked — I didn’t hear what she said but I was sure she mentioned Alex

“Nothing” she quickly replied, shaking her head and went to pay

What does Alex have to do with Jennie now? Perhaps…she likes him? But thinking about it, I don’t think that’s possible — or maybe I was wrong.