Protect Her, My Heart

a full time position

"Please cancel all my morning appointments and tell Jisoo that I won't make it to coffee today," Jennie said into the phone as she dropped onto the backseat of her car.

"Of course, Miss Kim. Will that be all?" her assistant asked.

Jennie debated with herself for a second, but if she wanted to fire Lisa and find someone new then that could wait until she was at the office herself. She ended the call and told her driver to take her to the hospital.

After last night, her foot was still in horrible pain. Normally, she would've simply ignored it until it went away but this morning, she hadn't been able to get into any of her high heels without being in unspeakable pain. Sure, she could go into her meeting with flats on, but these extra few inches gave her a better posture and what felt like more dominance over her opponents.

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With Jennie on her way to the hospital, that left Lisa alone with Ellie. Well, alone with Ellie and the babysitter and Silvergunn. While Silvergunn greeted her friendly as she put the groceries away and already started gossiping about the neighbours again, Lisa didn't know what to think of the babysitter. She was a young woman, probably in her early twenties and she looked absolutely annoyed at the fact that she was here. She'd quickly introduced herself as Momo and didn't even wait for Lisa to say her name before she was gone again. Now, she and Ellie were making a puzzle together at the kitchen table and while Ellie looked at all the pieces in concentration Momo was only looking at her phone, only answering Ellie half-heartedly every now and then. Silvergunn gave her a judgemental look and Lisa knew in an instant that there was more gossip to come about that later on.

Instead of staying in the kitchen, Lisa escaped Silvergunn's stories and made her way back to her room. She wanted to continue reading all the files and doing a background check on the babysitter. Miss Kim had told her that all of her employees had already been checked over but Lisa couldn't help it, she felt weird around that woman. And she was rather safe than sorry.

Also, Miss Kim hadn't even so much as looked at her this morning. Lisa had wanted to apologize again but it was hard to catch her in a quiet second and she'd rather do this right. She was truly sorry after all. Therefore, burying herself in her work seemed like the best option to make it up to her right now.

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When Jennie finally arrived at the office hours later, she had already missed most of her work day. There had been a smaller piece of glass still left in her foot, which had caused the swelling and Jennie couldn't help but be disgusted at her own body as she saw the doctor pull it out.

So now she was finally at the office, having missed her important conference already. It also had been hard getting there because she wasn't allowed to put pressure on her foot but there was no way she would use the crutches they gave her. Not even over her dead body. As her only solution, she called Jisoo to come downstairs and pick her up from where her driver had left her.

The first thing Jisoo did when she saw her was laugh out loud. Jennie was standing in the middle of the entrance hall of K-Corp, into which she had managed to casually hobble into. Hopefully, Jisoo was the only one who had seen her so far.

"Stop laughing and help me to the elevator," Jennie hissed. Jisoo quickly wiped the few tears off her cheeks and hurried over to help her friend.

"Have you always been this short?" she asked with a grin as she put an arm around Jennie's waist. Instead of answering, Jennie elbowed her in the ribs, which only made Jisoo laugh again.

"So, why don't you tell me what happened?" Jisoo asked, once they'd safely put Jennie into her chair. "And I want every single detail."

"It's good to see that you're so delighted by my misery."