A/N: last chapter. :)
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The next day, Lisa wakes up alone in a foreign bed and wonders why she thought it would have been different this time.
She stares at the ceiling for so long, Lisa could tell you where each and every one of its cracks were.
She stares for so long, that when she stops, she's surprised not to find her world an endless white and bare slab.
She had almost expected it to be.
She takes a deep breath, finding her clothes on the floor and putting them on without bothering to make them seem presentable.
She takes another deep breath as she gets out of the room. For a second, it's like she can't live without that white, white ceiling hanging over her head.
It doesn't feel real.
It feels too real.
She almost can't stand Jisoo's cheeky grin as she walks into the kitchen.
"Good morning." Jisoo sips her coffee, grin temporarily obscured by her mug.
She grunts an hello back, reaching for the coffee. Jisoo swipes it out of her reach before she can.
"I heard someone didn't come back to their assigned room yesterday." Jisoo continues sipping her coffee with her other hand.
"Was that someone you?" she quips, managing to steal the coffee back.
"Maybe." Jisoo laughs, self-satisfied and happy, and that pulls a small smile at the corner of Lisa's mouth despite everything, "But so did you."
"Nothing happened." she lies before Jisoo can go on with her interrogation.
"So, I didn't see you walking out of Chaeyoung's kind of room?"
"No. But shouldn't you be more worried about Chaeyoung having a permanent kind of room at your girlfriend's house?" she tries to deflect -badly, she knows, by the way Jisoo only lifts an eyebrow.
"Not my girlfriend and not a concern. So, I also didn't see the two of you walk into that room yesterday looking quite busy?"
Lisa doesn't say anything. Jisoo just stares at her -into her, through her- until she cracks wide open.
"It was a friendly kiss."
"Friends kiss now? Well then come on." Jisoo laughs sharply and puckers her lips up in a way Lisa would really like never to have to see up close ever, ever again, "I know you've always wondered."
"Jisoo!" she evades Jisoo's grabby hands, walking around her and out of range.
Jisoo laughs again -cackles, really, "C'mon, Lis it's a friendly kiss. Whatever could go wrong?"
"Can you please stop? You've proved your point."
"So, no kiss?"
"Jisoo."
"There's nothing wrong with it." Jisoo's voice drops into one that is kinder than Lisa deserves, "Nobody's going to fault you for falling in love with your best friend."
"I'm not in love with you." Lisa says quickly.
Deflecting comes too easily to her lips as of lately, she thinks.
Jisoo just looks at her, "Lisa."
"It's being a cliché I mind, really."
"Lisa."
A lifted eyebrow and Lisa sags against the counter, "What do you want me to say, Jisoo?"
Jisoo smiles like she knows more than Lisa ever will -which is probably true, but it's still rude, "C'mon we never have girl talk."
