Meeting you | LisRene AU [BOOK 1]

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Irene woke up at eleven the next morning, and Lisa was still passed out next to her. She smiled fondly at the younger girl. She hadn't wanted her to get too drunk the night before, and she was certain that Lisa would've been far less out of it had she not taken the jello shot that she did. Frowning, Irene carefully pulled away from Lisa and got out of bed. Her head was perfectly clear, but she knew that Lisa's wouldn't be. Aside from the fact that she drank a lot, her body was definitely not used to drinking that much.

She padded quietly into her kitchen to get a glass of water and an aspirin. Back in her bedroom, she set the drink and the pill on her nightstand, next to where Lisa was sleeping, and then made her way back around to the other side of the bed. Sliding back under the covers, she wrapped her arms around Lisa and tugged her closer so that she was spooning her. Satisfied, Irene let her eyes flicker closed again and she did her best to fall back asleep.

She was just beginning to doze off when Lisa started to stir. She let out a pained groan, and Irene immediately released her hold and let Lisa turn over onto her back. "Oh my god, I feel like shit."

"Can't say that I'm surprised," Irene admitted, her left hand moving to brush some hair out of Lisa's face. "I got you water and some aspirin." She nodded to the nightstand, and Lisa turned her head to glance at it.

Exhaling in relief, Lisa murmured, "Thanks. I'll have to take a second to work up the energy to sit up and get it."

"Oh come on, Lisa, sit up," Irene insisted, reaching over to the younger girl to grab the water and pill. Lisa grudgingly forced herself into a sitting position and took both items from Irene, gratefully swallowing the pill with a big gulp of water and then slowly sipping up the rest.

"Thank you," she said afterward, setting the glass down again and sighing, falling back into Irene's pillows. "Can I just stay here forever?"

Irene smiled, propping herself up on her arm and looking at Lisa curiously. "Did you have fun last night?"

"Yep," Lisa answered, smiling. "I just wish my head would stop hurting."

"You shouldn't have taken that jello shot."

Lisa hummed indifferently. "Oh well."

"Have you ever been that drunk before?"

"Yeah," Lisa answered, and Irene furrowed her eyebrows in slight concern. "I got drunk with Jisoo sometime over the summer. I blacked out for about ten minutes and then slept in her car. It was interesting."

Irene nodded. "Sounds not fun. Um... can I ask you a question?" Lisa nodded, looking at Irene with confusion written over her face. "Before we came here, when we were still at the lake, you got kinda distant and it seemed like something was bothering you. And last night before I fell asleep, I remembered that you said a lot of things were bothering you this week, but we only talked about your mom. Was there more stuff that you wanted to talk about? Or that you need to talk about?"

Lisa's expression froze for a moment as if she was debating whether or not to respond, but then she released a long sigh. "Yeah. Something else has been bothering me."

"What is it?" Irene asked carefully, wondering if she should be worried.

"I've just been... I mean, it's kind of bothering me that I don't know that... ah... I don't really know how we're defining this," Lisa started, her voice very quiet. "I mean, what's going on between us? Are we just dating? Are we exclusive? Are we labeling this as something? It's just... it's just been on my mind lately."

"You know you could've asked me about that at any time, right?" Irene asked softly, and Lisa sighed.

"That's originally one of the reasons I wanted to see you on Friday night, aside from the fact that I just wanted to see you anyway. But my mom happened and then we were both exhausted so... I just forgot about it until last night again," Lisa admitted, snuggling into Irene's blanket a little. "I just... am scared that I'd be taking this more seriously than you. And it's not that I don't think you're taking it seriously, it's just that I'm scared that I'd be too clingy and you'd think I was weird or something."