[✔] kingdom come • jenlisa

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Jisoo liked waking up early. She’d learned only a few days after they began sharing a room that Rosé was the sort of person to arise when the sun did. However, there wasn’t a lot that she could do when she was awake and no one else was. Jisoo had been very eager to solve this dilemma.

Right now, Rosé was in her arms. The smell and fading sensation of their new morning routine lingered around them. Rosé was kissing her tenderly, and Jisoo was all too willing to let herself surrender to the touch.

This was another thing about Rosé that Jisoo hadn’t shared with other lovers. With everyone else, it had always seemed that every touch, every glare and conversation, was just preluding sex. Rosé wanted to kiss her even after.

When Rosé’s lips stopped, Jisoo thought that it was because something was wrong. Instead, Rosé's eyes met her own. There was emotion behind this look. It stunned her, rendering unable to break the gaze.

“Jisoo, you have such a perfect body. You’re toned but still feminine and curvy” Rosé murmured. “You know that there's more for me than just attraction right?”

“Yes,” the alpha uttered

“I think I love you,” Rosé stated.

She might as well have driven a block of ice through her, for Jisoo had never felt so frozen and cold just seconds after feeling warm and safe. The omega was looking at her, almost expectantly. Jisoo's voice didn’t workㅡ not that she had the right words in the first place. She didn’t know what she was supposed to say to this. She didn’t know what she was supposed to do.

“I’m not ready for this,” she said after a silence that she knew had stretched too long. “I’m sorry. Give me time, I need to figure out how I feel.”

“I understand.” There was a hollow look in Rosé's eyes, but she didn’t press the matter.

Jisoo took her in her arms once again, hoping that the embrace could make them both warm once again.

“Rosé, you’re very sweet,” she hummed.

They stayed like that until it was time for them both to face the day ahead of them. Rosé left the room first, needing to assist Lisa with some administrative tasks. Jisoo didn’t have much to do, since the cold weather made going outside less likely.

She sought out Jennie to see if she was needed for anything. She found her reading a book on the history of Niva. The interest in her eyes was surprising. Jennie had always loved to read, but Jisoo had a feeling that this particular book stemmed beyond academic interest. She left the princess reading. If she stuck around she would just be a distraction.

It made sense that Jennie would want to learn about Lisa’s home. The two of them seemed to be caught in their own little world. She’d seen them holding hands and whispering compliments to each other. They were so different that the uncomfortable and stiff couple they had once been. Jennie had confessed to her that she thought she might be falling in love with the royal alpha.

Jisoo was happy for them. She really was. Seeing Jennie smile so much filled her with relief, and she couldn’t help feeling a little proud of all the work that she had put into setting the two together. Lisa had even thanked her for the relationship and sexual advice she’d given. Given how much Lisa avoided talking about what went on in the bedroom, Jisoo knew that she must have had to swallow a bit of pride to do so.

Jennie and Lisa were finally in the state most marriages began at, and this was a good thing. It just meant that all they did was talk about each other. At least, that was all Jisoo ever saw them do these days.

Then there was Rosé. Jisoo didn’t know what she was going to do about her bed partner.

Rosé was gorgeous, exceedingly clever, extremely sweet, and the best lover she had ever had. But Jisoo knew that she wanted more than just fooling around at night and sharing each other’s company during the day. Rosé wanted something steadyㅡ something permanent and she just wasn’t ready.