A little something different

Chapter 7

"Mistakes were meant to make you realize that it wasn't meant to be no matter how pretty they were."

"I really don't like this," Lisa voices out, eyes on the TV screen as she grimaces at the images playing out.

Jennie thinks watching horror movies is a good way to relax.

Lisa thinks it's dumb.

Having been criticized for only thinking about work and doing work on a day where it is a given to sit back and enjoy without the stress of thinking too much, Lisa is dragged into watching horror movies. Of course she rejected the idea and called it a waste of time.

It was.

Her defense had always been that when has a horror movie given the audience a happy ending? There's only either tragedy or cliffhangers. Real life's already full of that, they don't need more of it.

It gives you hope only to crush it down in the end.

Just like the mistakes her heart made.

Jennie calls her a scaredy-cat and weak.

So now they are watching a horror movie with popcorn and chips arranged in a perfect line in front of them because Lisa is out to prove to Jennie that horror movies are highly predictable.

Horror movies are like psychos, like Jennie.

Let's all watch the many ways how you can get killed because of stupidity!

The death count is already three and so far Lisa has painfully watched all the gore without screaming yet.

Her companion, on the other hand, the instigator of this whole horror marathon, is hiding behind her, shrieking at every moment of surprise. Popcorn is already spilling on Lisa's sofa and that irritates her as much as it irritates her on how stupid the main character in the movie is.

"Why does she need to investigate stuff on her own so bravely only to run off at the first sign of the supernatural? And in a dark, old, haunted house? What else is she expecting?" she exclaims in frustration.

"She's going to die, C'mon ghost, kill her already!" she groans while Jennie peeks from behind her shoulder.

Jennie basically turned her into a body shield and Lisa doesn't realize how close they are until a frightening thing happens on screen, again. A screaming Jennie hugs her for dear life while her chest jumps at the unexpected appearance of the so-called ghost.

Okay, maybe it was really scary, and hiding the fact that it does scare her is getting hard. As hard as being unable to ignore the fact that Jennie's body presses against her tightly and Lisa can feel... a lot of things.

Every smooth curve, how soft she is, how warm her skin is and how she can smell her shampoo mixed with something sweet, something so... Jennie.

This was a really bad idea.

So she tries to shake her away, prying off hands that are tightly gripping her and pushing her away. How they ended up this close to each other, she doesn't even know.

"Stop hiding! If you're just going to keep asking me what happened, then we should just stop watching," she argues but doesn't get to hold the remote control because Jennie is hiding it from her.

"But we're getting to the good part!"

"What's good about getting a heart attack?"

"The thrill! It's exciting and fun!"

Lisa will never understand her. Jennie is clearly from another world. Her decisions regarding Jennie must've been tampered by sorcery or something because a couple of days ago, she'd never even think of sharing the same space with the newbie. Now, they are pretty much glued together, watching horror movies and making a mess on her, living room.