The Red Bow [Chaelisa]

34. Forever is gonna start tonight

Temptation is a stimulus or induction to an act that seems attractive, even if it is inappropriate or contradicts any social norm or convention and, consequently, is prohibited.

"Lisa, I can’t believe what you’re saying.“ That was Somi’s voice from the speaker on Jennie’s Iphone. Lisa, Jennie, Jisoo and Jules were sitting on a checkered towel on the lawn in Central Park. The Thai finally took courage and faced the meeting she had set with her old friends and now that she had finally told her whole story, complementing the recent events about dinner and the kiss, her anxiety was at a height with the reaction of the women gifts. Jennie had an apple standing half a meter from her mouth, Jisoo – who until then was lying on the lawn – had an stiff body and bulging eyes, while her sister, Jules, was looking at her angrily and her fists were closed on her lap. The only one to speak up was Somi, who ended up being unnecessary in the end. Once again.

Lisa rolled her eyes indignantly at her best friend’s ability to play with a situation like this. She looked away from Ethan, who was playing ahead with a dinosaur-shaped hat, he was running after Adam and the two smiled unaware of the particular hell the Thai was in.

"This can only be a joke." Jules shook her head vigorously and got to her feet with one hand on her head. “First you hide an engagement and a child, and now you just kiss Chaeyoung at your house …"

“Let’s consider that I was kissed by her, at least in this part I did not make a mistake.“ Lisa also stood up, accompanied by the other girls. She was tired of her sister’s attitude of judging her without knowing the true facts.

“First of all, that dinner shouldn’t even have happened.“ Jennie cut them while studying her wife who was looking at the floor with a thoughtful expression. “Chaeyoung may have changed on the outside, Lisa. But inside, the same passionate and sensitive girl remains. She won’t show it to you, of course, but she will remain silent as long as they remain close."

The Thai was paralyzed by her friends’ lack of sense. So that’s it, no one else believed her, because now even the forced kiss – and good – was her fault. Nobody thought about how she was after having all the feelings in a continuous explosion right in her face, having a fiance and a son in the same roof to increase her guilt. Of course, Ethan was not a problem, the boy was the result of the love they created in the past and in a different situation he would be Chaeyoung’s son too. But, there was Logan and all his love for Lisa. He blindly believed that by approaching Chaeyoung to Lisa, his fiance would open up a little more in New York and have a company besides him and Olivia’s. Logan didn’t deserve to be betrayed, even though, once again, it wasn’t her fault the kiss in the elevator, but Lisa felt bad just for having feelings for someone else and now more than ever she wanted to be in arms other than his. It was wrong. Chaeyoung had arrived first, but now it was Logan that she belonged to, they would be married in less than 3 months and Lisa knew that if she didn’t act soon, she would lose everything she had built – or she thought she had – over the years.

“It was Logan who invited her, Jennie." Lisa replied dryly. “What did you expect me to do? To tell him to deselect it, since I couldn’t face my ex-girlfriend from the past?"

“Or that she was not prepared to face her ex-friend, as he thinks.“ Somi suggested on the other end of the phone.

“Logan is innocent, but he’s not stupid.“ she said, tired of rebutting the ideas she had already considered long before her friends. “And there is Olivia, she hasn’t said anything yet, but I know she noticed something different between Chaeyoung and me. That one smells of tension on the other side of the world."

They all sighed and remained silent for long seconds, watching the faint movement in the park. On second thought, no one else could understand something that even she couldn’t. After the kiss from last night, Lisa came stunned into the apartment and said she needed a painkiller and sleep. Logan was disappointed when he learned that Chaeyoung was gone and the Thai had to tell the truth and say that they had had an argument when he went to look for her, hiding, of course, the elevator part. Olivia stared at her in the kitchen as if her soul was unraveling and for a second Lisa considered the idea of her sister-in-law having pulled out everything that was going on, but it could only be in her head, of course, who in her right she would not be bewildered after a footprint like that of the person her body miserably missed.