Protect Her, My Heart

failing without trying is no option

"You look horrible."

Jennie looked up from her coffee mug and raised an accusatory eyebrow at Jisoo, who was standing in the doorway. "Well, thank you."

Jisoo was probably the only person who was allowed to say something like this to her.

"Okay, tell me what's wrong," she said and sat down opposite of Jennie.

"The investors called, they want to reschedule the meeting again so it might take longer for us to-"

"Yeah, I don't care. Tell me why you can't sleep."

"You don't care about the future of our company?" Jennie asked and gulped the rest of her coffee down. It burned her throat but she didn't find the time to care about it.

"You're more important," Jisoo said with a smile and Jennie could feel her shoulders relax at these simple words.

It was good to know that she could always count on Jisoo to be there for her. But still, she didn't know what to say. It had all taken a few days until everything caught up with her and she truly realised what had happened. A few days until sleepless nights and endless thoughts were finally too much for her to handle. She'd been poisoned in her own house. A place where she usually felt safe. And in a wrong moment it could've been her daughter with her in the room, but Jennie didn't even want to go there in her mind. So yes, she looked horrible because these thoughts kept her up at night. They hadn't caught the person who had done it yet, which was one of the worst things about it.

Silvergunn had come to her the other day, her face covered in tears as she apologized over and over again, after she'd realised that she'd been the one to leave the mail in the kitchen. She swore she couldn't remember seeing any suspicious letter. Jennie knew that Silvergunn blamed herself, which she couldn't quite believe, because even though Lisa put every single person she knew on the list of suspects, there was no way that it could have been Silvergunn. Not with the way she was so devastated of possibly helping in the process of hurting Jennie.

"What are you doing here anyway?" Jennie asked as she finally came back from her daydream. She knew she should be more concerned when people just randomly entered her house without anybody noticing. Good thing Jisoo wasn't just people.

"I told you I was coming over for brunch on Saturday and as far as I know it is Saturday," Jisoo grinned and got back up from her chair. "And now tell me about your problems while I make food."

Jennie sighed and leaned back in her chair. Why was it always so hard to form her problems into words?

"You know just the usual. Some people hate me, some try to kill me," she shrugged a little. "I'm just tired of it all."

Jisoo turned back to the table and set to glasses down. "Food is served."

"Are Mimosas a nutritional alternative for real food now?" Jennie asked as she wearily eyed the glasses.

"Yes, now drink up and keep talking. I get payed by the hour."

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It was an hour later, more than one bottle of champagne had been emptied and the two of them had also actually consumed real food. Just as they stopped giggling for longer than a few seconds, the front door opened and they could hear Lisa's voice in the hallway.

"I know, I know," she said to someone on the phone, while kicking her shoes off. Jisoo and Jennie involuntarily grew silent, not wanting to listen but also not wanting to say something instead.

"But I just bought expensive lingerie for no reason so I need sex now so someone can see it."

At that Jisoo spluttered out in laughter, making Lisa turn around towards them with shock written all over her face.