BALI SUN ☀ [✔]

[17] I am scared of storms

We spent the day sightseeing some more, visiting the famous rice terraces of Tegalalang. This island was so beautiful. Everytime we arrived at a new place, it took my breath away. The rice terraces were no exception. 

We paid a small entrance fee to support the locals and then wandered through them for a good hour. Lisa took the most beautiful pictures of me with her big Nikon and then also made Rosé happy by taking instagram worthy pics for her followers.

It was here that the first ever couply looking picture of me and Lisa was taken. It was just a sweet photo of her hugging me from the back while kissing my cheek. But looking at it sent my heart into overdrive. We looked so good together. 

Like we belonged together. 

Soulmates.

The word was still in my head and it was getting louder every moment I spent with Lisa. The Thai girl seemed to have a sense of what I needed and when I needed it. She was always there to provide me with water when I was too hot, a hug when I felt overwhelmed, a kiss when I needed her close. I hardly ever had to tell her. It was like she was reading it from my face, my eyes. From my soul.

The things she sometimes said, her opinions, her look at the world, resonated with me one hundred percent. The connection that we had, could not be denied. Not to mention the overwhelming physical attraction that I felt towards her. I wanted her arms around me constantly. But even though we had started to be openly affectionate with each other, I didn't want to come across as too clingly. Though in my heart, I was.

Our friends already started treating us like a couple. Although they never said the word. There was some low teasing every now and again but it didn't bother me anymore because Lisa was by my side countering Jisoo's playful comments expertly. Jisoo took up the habit of referring to me as 'Lisa's girl'. Not her girlfriend, but her girl. I pretended to glare at her everytime she said it, but secretly I liked it. It sounded good.

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We were currently sitting underneath our little gazebo in the garden of our Villa. Each with a glass of wine in hand. It was already late late evening. Lisa hadn't allowed me to sit on my own lounge chair, so I sat comfortably nestled against her in her lap. Her free arm was wrapped around my waist and in the last hour I had felt her fingers slowly creeping their way underneath my shirt. 

Jisoo had seen her hand disappear and had wiggled her eyebrows at me suggestively but she hadn't said anything. We were talking about life and what we wanted to do with it. Hopes and Dreams and stuff you talk about late at night with a glass of wine in hand. 

"I'd be so cool if I get signed with a big record label." Rosé sighed against her glass. "But I don't want to go to America to do it... and I want to stay myself, you know? Not being bent by the industry into something they think will work but isn't me?"

"How about you look at korean labels?" Jisoo suggested, thoughtfully. 

"And you don't think they'll be the same, screwing people over?" I asked Jisoo unbelievingly.

"Maybe you'll just need a good manager, who fights for the best contracts with you..." my best friend shrugged. Jisoo had studied Event- and Entertainment management in Seoul. She had already had a peek at what the industry was like through various internships over the last four years. 

"I could be your manager!" she blurted out, looking at Rosé like she was dead serious. I didn't dare to laugh. Even though I knew how serious Jisoo could get when it came down to it, I couldn't picture those two working together in a professional manner. 

"I couldn't pay you at first, you know that, right?" Rosé laughed at her a little nervous from the sudden offer that sounded so serious. 

"I'd get by otherwise at first... until you're signed as an independant artist and become a huge k-pop star!" the dark haired girl smirked.