Lisa
I woke up in an unfamiliar room, in an unfamiliar bed, with a familiar headache. In slow motion, the night came back to me and I remembered that I'd gotten drunk off hot toddies and wine while baking with Jin. I couldn't drive home. I'd had to sleep with Jin.
Jin had one request: that I didn't cuddle up to him, but we both knew that was never going to happen; it was a core personality trait of mine. I was wrapped around his body, with my head comfortably tucked between his shoulder and head and my arm is around his waist.
I looked around the room. I looked at Jin's pyjamas. Wait... this wasn't Jin's room. I was also fairly certain that it wasn't Jin that was I cuddled up to. I looked next to me; that most assuredly was not Jin. I stared at Jennie for a few moments while the gears in my brain turned and reminded myself that I'd crawled into Jennie's bed to test it out and promptly fallen asleep.
Oh my God, she is going to kill me.
I had no idea how I was supposed to dislodge myself from her. I always knew cuddling was one of my strengths, but last night I'd betrayed myself. Our legs were tangled together and her head was resting against mine. I didn't think the CIA could safely extract me without detonating this bomb.
My heart hammered so loudly in my chest that I was surprised it didn't wake her up.
Okay, okay. Focus, Lisa, I told myself. You can totally do this. Slow and steady.
I needed to get up. I needed to get up right now and slip out of here like I'd done many times before and pretend that this never happened. Then I needed to practice my confused face. I did what? Cue confused laugh. Oh my God, I'm so sorry I don't remember a thing.
Jennie would see right through me.
Try as I might, I was reluctant; my body didn't want to move. I was so warm and comfortable pressed against Jennie and the thought of being cold, crumbled any resolve that I had of slipping out of this bed. I really did have to ask her where she got her bed and comforter.
I refocused and tried to move slowly, tried to move without disturbing Jennie. I started with the legs, pulling my leg out inch by inch. Unfortunately, Jennie was a light sleeper and her eyes fluttered opened.
I had no idea what to say so I let out an awkward laugh.
"Hi." I whispered.
"Hi." she said.
"I'm sorry that I fell asleep in your bed." I said immediately. "But in my defence, it's a lot more comfortable than Jin's."
"I know it is."
Jennie looked at me, then down at my body tangled into hers and I felt myself beginning to blush.
"Also, sorry about the cuddling." I finished extracting my leg and pulled myself away. "I get cold."
Jennie smiled. "I know."
"Your bed just looked really soft last night and I wanted to lay down for like a second and test it out and then I felt your comforter and it was also really soft and warm and then I guess I just wanted to close my eyes for a second but I fell asleep in your bed and you were probably super annoyed with me last night and I'm really sorry that I fell asleep. You could have totally just moved me or told me to leave and I..."
"Take a deep breath." Jennie commanded. I did.
"Sorry." I said again.
"It's fine." Jennie said. "I'll admit that I was a little surprised when I came to bed but it's fine. The bed is big enough for two."
"Okay good... I'm gonna go home and change and I'll be back with Starbucks."
I didn't wait for Jennie to respond, I hopped out of bed, gathered my clothes from the bathroom and hurried out of Jennie's room.
"I'll wash your pyjamas and bring them back." I said. Jennie may have said something to the effect of 'you don't have to' but I was already out the door. Jin was in the kitchen making himself coffee when I came in. He looked horrible. I probably looked like that too.
"Walk of shame?" he said.
"Going to school hungover?" I retorted.
"You know I am. I'm putting on a movie." Jin had a box of popcorn next to his bag.
I shook my head at him.
"So you and Jennie, huh?"
"I fell asleep in your sister's bed because it's so much softer than yours, not for any other reason."
"She came to show me."
"I hate that you two talk about everything. I really do."
Jin grinned. "So, how was it?"
"Sleeping in a soft bed? Great."
"Sleeping with Jennie."
"I have to go."
"Did you guys cuddle?"
"Leave me alone!!"
"She'll tell me if you did!"
"There's nothing to tell!"
"Just tell me how it was; you can't sleep and not cuddle someone!"
I slammed the apartment door and rushed home, suffering a mild panic while I got ready for the day. Why wasn't Jennie mad at me this morning? Why didn't she try to move me last night? Was this part of some bigger plot of hers for revenge? Maybe she'd embarrass me at my holiday party. Was it too late to find a new date? No, I already had pictures of her up on my desk.
I took a few deep breaths and looked at myself in the mirror.
"Maybe Jennie isn't mad at all and it really was no big deal." I told myself. I nodded a few times, encouragingly. I was going to stick with that. Everything was fine; absolutely peachy. I finished getting ready and couldn't find my glasses anywhere. Great. Just great.
I picked up our Starbucks order and hustled up the stairs to the apartment.
"Hey, I'm running late, so I can't stay." I said when I walked inside. I handed Jennie her coffee. She smiled at me and my heart stuttered. I held my breath.
"Thanks for the coffee." she said.
"No problem. See you later?"
"Bye, Lisa. Have a good day."
"You too!"
I ran out of the apartment and tried not to think about Jennie.
