Imperfectly Perfect [Chaelisa]

sixty nine

"Are you packed?"

That's the first thing Lisa wakes up to, and she rolls her eyes at the doubt in Chaeyoung's voice. "Yes, I'm packed. Let me sleep in just a little more though."

"Nuh-uh," Chaeyoung doesn't bother shaking her to wake up; nope, she sits down on Lisa's stomach and sends her a small smile. "We're going to Spain, Lili! I've been there a few times before with my family, and they have big black bulls on highways and hills and stuff and I would name them all when we went past. We should do that."

"What?" Lisa sits up and shoves Chaeyoung off her. "Why do they have bulls? I'm confused. Did you even say bull?"

"I did," Chaeyoung confirms, "and I think they used to be advertisements. Don't know why they painted them black after though, most people would just pull them down. But they're fun to spot. And- and name, according to seven year old Rosie lion."

Lisa smiles. "We can come up with the best names, then. We'll have plenty of brainstorming time on the ten hour flight."

"I enjoy plane rides," Chaeyoung absently replies, "and I like long periods of time with you. So that'll be fun, I think. Jules will be fun too."

Lisa laughs as she heads over to her closet, but when she finally notices Chaeyoung's outfit, her eyes widen. "Are you in your pyjamas?"

"Yes," Chaeyoung replies, before looking down at her clothes and shaking her head. "Well, no, I generally sleep naked or in my Simba onesie, and I wouldn't go on a plane or through an airport in either of those. But I'm wearing my sweatpants and a comfy hoodie that kind of looks like pyjamas. So I guess I'm wearing PJs."

"Don't tell my parents you sleep naked," Lisa points out, "or they won't let us room together."

"Okay, I won't," Chaeyoung replies, not getting Lisa's teasing tone, "are you going to wear your PJs, too?"

"I mean," Lisa looks Chaeyoung over and then glances at the jeans and plaid shirt she was going to wear today. "You know what? Sure. Sweatpants it is."

She walks over to her suitcase, pulls her sweats out and puts her regular clothes back in it. She pulls on a sports bra and picks out a baggier t-shirt, and then turns around to Chaeyoung.

Chaeyoung just smiles at her. "Now we're matching. I'm also wearing my fluffy lion socks that you bought me, see?"

Lisa smiles and heads towards the bathroom. "I have to brush my teeth so I can pack my toothbrush. You can go wake up Jules if she's not already up."

"Okay!" Chaeyoung stands up and walks out of the room with a bounce in her step. When Lisa reaches the bathroom she hears her little sister call out, "Camp!" and can't help but smile.

Once Chaeyoung has woken Jules up, she lets the youngest Manoban show her all of her toys, and when Chaeyoung notices that the girl has a Simba, her jaw drops. "I have a Nala!"

Jules beams. "Y-yeah, PpeuPpeu told me. She s-said that you'd think I w-was cool if I had one of these."

"Oh," Chaeyoung grins as Jules hands her the stuffed Simba. She has Nala downstairs with her backpack - her mom had promised to look after her stuffed lion while she went upstairs to wake up Lisa. "I love The Lion King."

"Can we watch it?" Jules asks. "PpeuPpeu's c-computer has a DVD drive!"

"So does mine, and I brought the platinum edition that Lili bought me for Christmas," Chaeyoung says, "because we're going away for two weeks, and I can't not watch The Lion King for two whole weeks."

Jules nods as she starts looking through her princess dolls. "Who's your f-favourite princess? My- mine's Belle."

"I like Ariel," Chaeyoung says, "but I also like Princess Bubblegum from Adventure Time. She's not a Disney princess, but she's cool, because she's really good at science and she's badass, like me. But I'm not really good at science. I was best at art in school."