I've got you under my skin ‐CHAENNIE‐

Chapter 21

Jennie stayed silent. In fact, everyone was silent and listening now.

"She was... well, she was my soulmate. We had the same tattoo, the moon..."

Rosé looked at Alice now, and Alice gave her a nod of encouragement.

"Jennie, she died in a road accident, 3 years ago."

"Oh, baby!" Jennie suddenly could feel an indescribable pain in her heart, pain for her lover's heart.

She leaned in and kissed Rosé's forehead "I'm so sorry..." Jennie spoke into her skin.  Rosé closed her eyes and allowed herself comfort at this moment.

"Losing a soulmate, it's uhh..." Rosé was losing her words.

"It's a dark time. Not too many soulmates make it through the grief of losing their other half" Alice explained, looking at Rosé with so much love and pride and adoration.

"But Rosé grieved hard, almost lost herself, but managed to pick herself up, right before she could completely let go..." Alice completed.

Jennie's tears were flowing endlessly as she watched Alice talk about Rosé, her Rosé.

"I uhh... I don't know what made me go on then, but now, with you here Jennie, knowing I have you, I see why the universe helped me pick myself back up..."

Lisa was crying. They could have sworn they saw Irene wipe a tear too.

"So yea... Alice and I had a lot of questions about what would happen after she passed, a few elders we knew told us that my tattoo linked with a soulmate who's passed will begin to fade and be replaced with a new one, only when I was ready to find love again." Rosé explained.

"When did the new tattoo start appearing?" one of Lisa's friends asked.

"Honestly, I didn't notice its existence until after 2-3 encounters with Jennie... but I didn't know what to make of it cause Jennie and I.. well we didn't seem too compatible anyway, so I thought maybe it's linked with someone I've yet to meet..."

"and the moon? when did it fade?" the other girl asked.

"I noticed at that same time how it had gotten lighter and started to fade. "

"That still doesn't explain how you'll never saw the tattoos? why didn't you'll just ask one another?"

"I DID," Rosé said, now looking at Jennie. and Jennie recalled as she gazed into her lover's eyes.

"yes, she did, on text one night, and I remembered seeing her moon tattoo on her skin while we..." Jennie hesitated.

"Had sex! Dammit. Just say it." Jisoo completed, rolling her eyes.

"While we were having sex. So then I just replied to her text saying 'it's not where mine is. and we left it at that." Jennie explained. 

"FUCK!" Jisoo facepalmed herself.

"Yea. what a mood!" Jennie said, biting down on her lip, and then looking at Rosé again, her face radiantly glowing in the warm sunlight.

Jennie leaned in to kiss her when they were interrupted again.

"Can we see it? can we see your tattoos?" one of Lisa's friends asked.

"Sure," Rosé said. and both Jennie and Rosé stood up, turned around, and lifted their t-shirts from behind.

"They're beautiful," said Alice.

When they turned back around their friends were smiling at them, looking at them with so much love and awe. Rosé found herself reaching to hold Jennie's hand. It's like she constantly wanted to be touching her, holding her, kissing her, protecting her, it was an inherent need.