Glimpse of Us | Jenlisa [COMPLETED]

Chapter 22

Lisa reheats homemade lasagna for lunch.

It feels out of place, oddly normal after the heaviness of the past few hours, but Lisa takes it. She pulls out the dishes and sets the cutlery down and tries too hard not to think about it too hard. The microwave beeps. She hears Jennie end her call in the living room.

"My mom stopped by the house to get Ella's uniform, she was just about to drop her off at school," Jennie informs her. "She asked if I was here," Jennie tells her. "She knows I was checking on you."

Lisa nods.

"She's smart," she tells her. "She knows so much more than we think."

"You have no idea," Jennie tells her. Lisa begins serving the plates of food. It feels domestic. Lisa is trying to avoid that. The more normal things feel the easier it is to understand what possessed her to try kissing Jennie last night. She's glad she failed. And she'd be okay with not thinking about it again, with pretending it didn't ever happened.

She's been acting like she doesn't remember.

Jennie hasn't mentioned it either.

Lisa thinks she'll just add it to the pile of things she's done in regards to Jennie that she regrets. One more for the road before she leaves.

Jennie has a boyfriend. And Jennie's been with said boyfriend for, how long now, 3 months? Four? She and Jennie had only been dating two months before they said 'I love you'. Are she and Kai there yet? Or long past that?

Lisa can't ask herself what she was thinking, because she knows she wasn't. Alcohol has a tendency burn out the part of her brain that takes care of rational thought, leaving Lisa all impulse and no control.

And all her desires have always carried Jennie's name.

"I... I actually found something in her bag," Jennie says, shaking Lisa out of her thoughts. Sh sets down two glasses of water on the breakfast island. It's either that or two boxes of apple juice to go with lunch.

"What?" she asks, frowning.

Jennie takes a seat in front of her.

"Nothing bad," Jennie assures her. "Just a photo."

"A photo?"

"Yeah. Well, two photos actually." Jennie shrugs. "Of us."

"Oh."

"Yeah."

"Did you-"

"I don't know where she got them from, actually. At least, one of them. She took this photo from my mom's. Do you remember the picture Jisoo took? With us in our bed and Ella holding her-"

"Elephant," Lisa finishes for her.

"It wasn't an elephant," Jennie tells her. "It didn't have a trunk."

"Factory mistake," Lisa says, the corner of her mouth lifting up in a small smile. It was a weird stuffed animal for sure, and they never quite figured what it was supposed to be apart from vaguely mammalian, but Ella had loved it. "She took it from Ijun?"

Jennie nods, take a bite of her food.

"My mom told me the frame was empty. She checked it when I call, who knows when she took it."

Lisa swallows her food. She remembers the day even if she doesn't remember the specific picture. They must have looked so happy. She can imagine why Ella would want a constant reminder of that. Still hurts. It's what they should have been able to give her, always.