Jisoo's POV.
"Please, tell me you're joking." I said to my dad unable to wrap my head around the fact that he had invited my girlfriend to dinner without consulting me in an effort to pry into my love life.
I shouldn't be surprised. He had done this since I was a teenager but somehow I thought he would change now that I was an adult. But he was still the dictator I left behind.
"I can't stand the thought of my daughter uprooting her life for a girl I know nothing about."
"This isn't about you."
"It's about me if you're acting out because of how your mom and I handled our relationship when you were a child."
"If Suho can handle the dissolution of our marriage so can you."
"That man is heartbroken."
I left my dad to retrieve the papers Suho gave me. "This is the only reason he agreed to see me." I told him waving the divorce papers around.
"He gave you these last night?" he asked.
"Yes."
He looked them over but his expression remained the same. "This doesn't change the fact that your actions are misguided."
"Disinvite her. I'll introduce you when you've had time to process this. You're upset. Something I can't quite understand since you made it blatantly clear throughout my entire marriage how much you disapproved of Suho." An odd thought crossed my mind. "Do you feel for him, appa? Is that what this is?"
"Yes, I feel for him. I was in his position once. But like I said, this isn't about me. I love you and you should be with a good person that makes you happy. A decent person. Not a criminal. I might've been hard on Suho but I never not liked him."
"Look how long you waited to tell me that appa! When it doesn't matter anymore."
"I won't change my mind." He said with a finality that grates my nerves. "I have to get going. See you at dinner." I rolled my eyes and he kissed my forehead leaving me stumped.
I looked over at my mom. "Do you agree with him?"
My mom stepped cautiously into the kitchen before she spoke. "Coming from someone who had an affair and lived with regret for some time now, yes. I think you're jumping into a relationship with this girl way too quickly. With that being said, I can't know how you feel or how well you've processed the past. Mason worries about you. Obsessively, if you ask me, but you can't fault him for caring too much."
I nodded absorbed in my own thoughts.
Okay.
We were moving too fast. I could agree with that. So fast that I was scaring my family, especially my smothering father. But if it was too soon to start a serious relationship wasn't it way too soon for Lisa to meet my family.
My dad wasn't going to be sweet on her. He blamed her for my divorce. I didn't want to scare her away not that she scared easily. I also didn't want all the blame to be put on Lisa.
I had a huge part in this too. It was my decision to accept the arrangement despite the fact that I knew it was wrong. But because my dad loved me so much he wasn't going to take his frustrations out on me but her. And the thought of that had me worried.
"You're different." I observed as she settled down with her coffee slowly stirring in creamer. I couldn't help but absorb everything about her since I hadn't seen her in so long.
I felt like I don't know her.
"It's called growth. I think it comes with age." She smiles with a lightness I've come to appreciate about her.
