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Chapter 14: Food

Rosé's POV

I sat by the bedside for days, watching over Jennie. Lisa, Jisoo, Seulgi and I switched out every 12 hours. I had 3 hours left to watch over her.

It's been three days and Jennie hasn't left the bed for more than a 5 minutes. She got up only to use the bathroom. Any food we give her, she eats only a spoonful and goes back to sleep.

No one knew how to cheer her up, not even Jisoo unnie. So, we decided to leave her be until she was ready to talk, herself.

I focused my attention on the lump laying on top of the bed as my mind wandered off thinking of how we could get her back to her normal self.

Minutes into my wandering, I felt a pair of eyes watching me. I turned my head and there she was, turned to her side staring at me.

I felt a bit uncomfortable since her gaze was empty and almost lifeless. "H-hey.." I stuttered out to hopefully make the interaction less awkward.

She blinked but said nothing back. I nodded my head slowly, feeling the awkwardness grow. I tried again. "Are you uhh" I decided not to ask the obvious and went with food, "craving for anything?"

She only blinked and said nothing for a while. I nodded my head once in awkwardness, again, and just looked at my hands.

Minutes passed by and I hear a small response from her. My head snaps up to look at her small figure wrapped up in the comforter.

"Could you say that again, Jen?" I asked softly.

She blinked, took her hand out of the comforter and waved me to come closer. I stood up, picked up the chair and walked myself closer to the bedside. My chair was usually placed a few feet away passed the bedside table.

She lifted her face and tucked the comforter under her chin. "Ice cream."

I blinked at her. "At this time of night??"

She blinked rapidly at me in clear confusion. "Jen. It's 10:37 p.m. and you want ice cream."

She blinked and nodded her head. I looked at her with my mouth slightly agape. I sighed in defeat and stood up off the comfy chair.

"Alrighty. Come on then." I was already by the door when I didn't hear the comforter being moved aside.

She had laid on her back, slightly sitting up just enough to see me and look at me with furrowed eyebrows.

"What?" She lifted her eyebrows to signal that I should know 'what'.

"Well, the ice cream isn't gonna buy itself and walk all the way for you."

She scrunched up her face again in a pout(?). I'm not sure. She had already gone back to covering the bottom half of her face once I turned to see her still on the bed.

She didn't budge from her spot in the middle of the king sized bed. So, I decided to lean my back against the doorway until she got up. This was the only thing I could think of to get her out of that darn bed.

Minutes passed by as I just kept looking to my watch. "Stores 'bout to close" I looked at my watch again and mumbled to myself.

I think she heard me since the next thing I know I see a blanket being dragged in front of me.

I looked up and there was Jennie wrapped up in a medium sized blanket, that was almost touching the floor, with a pout on her face. I smiled triumphantly with my tongue out slightly on the side.

"Hehe. Let's go !" I grabbed one of her hands that held onto the blanket near her face as I lead her down the stairs to the garage.

I let her pick out a car that she liked and then we were off to the store. She hid the bottom of her face more using the blanket as we neared the store.

I parked the car closer to the store. Once I turned the engine off, I looked to her direction. I raised my eyebrow with a smile, "You know you don't have to go with me right?"

She shook her head no and narrowed her eyes at me. "I'm gonna guess that that's your way of saying 'You brought me here, I am seeing it through'?"

She nodded firmly and I just smiled. We got out of the car and walked into the store. I was navigating through the store, thinking that all we had to get was the ice cream but once I turned around at the ice cream section Jennie was there.

I panicked. There wasn't many people at this time but it was still a lot considering the size of the place. I retraced my steps calmly even though my heart was racing the entire time.

After a few minutes of retracing, I still couldn't find her. I sighed heavily as I ran my fingers through my hair. I kept looking through the aisle for 10 more minutes and thankfully I found her aisles away from the ice cream.

I sighed in relief, "Jen."

She turned my way and looked at me with excitement. She was standing in front of the candy section of the store.

"Please. Please. Please. Tug my sleeve or something before you go running off." I walked closer to her and looked at the chocolate she was staring at.

Her little sorry was almost inaudible but I was still able to hear it. "It's alright. Just make sure to get my attention before you go off. Remember, you're still a celebrity" The last sentence, I moved closer to her and whispered in her ear.

I grabbed her hand and laced them with mine so if she ran off again, it would be easier to tell. "Come on. Let's get a cart."

I dragged her back to the front of the store and I grabbed one of the carts with my free hand while she occupied my other. I noticed that her hand was cold so I stuffed our laced hands into my coat pocket, "Oki where to, Jen?"

By the time we were at the register, the cart was filled with all of her cravings. We spent the whole hour at the food section. From ice creams to ramen.

She had a weird award show type thing going on at the ramen section. The only part I heard from her banter with herself was '... won't disappoint you is ramen.' And my small response was 'preach'.

She didn't seemed to hear me at that time because the next thing I know she was scurrying towards her next victim to take from the shelf. I smiled unconsciously as I saw her scurry aisle to aisle taking things, mostly food, and putting them into the cart. It was a good thing I went to one of the stores that stocked up on a multitude of food, snacks, and drinks or else the only thing in the cart would've been chips, soda, and ice cream.

I paid for 'victims' of Jennie's escapade and then we were off back to the house. I unloaded the groceries into the kitchen. Jennie helped with moral support as she just waited by the door every round I walked in and out of the house.

After everything was unloaded, Jennie took her ice cream, drinks, and other chips she wanted and ran back to the safety of the room.

I sighed and shook my head in amusement as I followed after her with the only thing I bought for myself, sliced mangoes. I smiled to myself as I successfully got her out of bed for more than 5 minutes in the last three days.

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A/N: HERE YALL GO. THE LONG AWAITED NEXT CHAPTER. Lol.

Ha after 13 chapters something finally starts to blossom between them 💀
I'm still wondering, myself, why the hell 14 chapters have passed and this is like the only other mingling 💀
I'm so sorry about that 💀

Anyway!! Hope you guys enjoyed!