Glimpse of Us | Jenlisa [COMPLETED]

Chapter 17

Ella is happy to go to bed for the first time Jennie can remember.

Ella is good about it most days, but that doesn't mean she often doesn't stay awake, reading or coloring in bed until she falls asleep, or asks for three consecutive glasses of water to put bedtime off.

She goes willingly now, puts her head on her pillow and smiles.

"Can I have a story?" Ella asks.

She and Lisa look at each other.

"Do you want mommy or-"

"Both," Ella says right away.

Jennie nods.

"Which one?" Lisa asks.

"Harry Potter," Ella says. Jennie gets the book from her desk. Ella is almost halfway through it, and Jennie opens it where the hand-made bookmark is.

They sit down on Ella's bed, on opposite sides.

She passes the book to Lisa.

It feels almost normal, now, after Lisa has been around the whole day. She realizes this is the longest amount of time they've spent together since Lisa left so long ago, and they have yet to start a fight.

Lisa begins to read. Jennie listens intently to the rise and fall of her voice, the way she pronounces the spells. It almost feels like nothing happened to them at all.

Two pages later, she passes the book to Jennie.

Ella's head flops to the other side on the pillow, a content look on her face as she listens to her read. It reassures her she made the right decision. Not three pages have gone by when Ella's breath evens out with sleep.

Jennie's heart begins to pound.

She can't keep putting off the inevitable, and she knows the minute she steps out of this room she'll have to tell Lisa what's going on. It truly begins to feel like old times again. She remembers how Ella's room was a sanctuary of sorts, how regardless of how bad things got between them, they would still put their daughter to bed together and control themselves in front of her. They never fought inside Ella's room. These walls never witnessed a single hurtful word.

And Jennie has to step outside.

Lisa turns the light off after her, and though she's suddenly standing on the open hallway air doesn't come any easier.

She needs to tell Lisa.

She takes a deep breath.

"Lis-"

"Jennie-"

"I'm sorry, go on," she tells Lisa. Lisa smiles stiffly.

"I just wanted us to... sit down and talk. Do you think we can do that?"

Jennie nods. She can wait.

They sit down at the living room table, and Lisa pulls out her cell phone.

"This... uh, this is the apartment I've been looking at in Ulsan."

Lisa hands her the phone, and Jennie takes it, dumbfounded.

"It's 2 hours 23 minutes away, or so google maps says," Lisa offers. "It's close to my work too, 15 minutes if there's no traffic." Lisa grabs her phone back for a minute, before pushing it in Jennie's hands again.

"YG Corporation. An in-house position opened in their legal department. They just called me out of the blue, I wasn't really looking – I'd applied, before. I never told you."