You're My Perfect (Jenlisa) COMPLETED

Chapter 40

"Oh my God, Nini."

"Put that away!" Jennie runs over to Lisa and her mom and rips the photo album out of her mother's hands. "Don't show her my baby pictures."

"But Jennie~," Lisa pouts and takes the photo album back. "look how cute you were. You can't deny me that."

Jennie frowns. "But I don't want you to look at my baby pictures."

"Let her look, Jennie," Haejin laughs and flicks over the page, pointing to a picture in the top left. "This was her first day of school. She made me go on the school bus with her because she was frightened of the other kids."

"Oh my God," Lisa repeats, staring down at the picture with wide eyes, "Nini, you were adorable. I just want to squish your mandu cheeks. In fact, I'm going to go and build a time machine so I can go back and harass baby you with my cuddles."

Jennie sighs in defeat, because she knows that her mom isn't putting the photo album away any time soon. So, she sits down on the couch next to Lisa and shrugs.

"I wouldn't let you cuddle me, though. I didn't like touch even more back then."

"But look at you!" Lisa exclaims. "You were so cute! And you're such a cuddly dork now. You're always asking for snuggles."

Jennie shrugs again and cuddles up to Lisa, because now she kind of wants snuggles and Lisa had told her that she can hug her whenever she wants.

"Yes, but I didn't like it then. I would never let people touch me, except - um, I would cuddle with my mom on a Saturday morning when we watched The Lion King."

Haejin laughs. "You say that like you don't ask to watch it on a Saturday you're not at Lisa's."

Jennie blushes, but Lisa doesn't look all that surprised at Haejin's words. "Trust me, the days she's at my house and I suggest watching a movie, it's always straight to 'can we watch The Lion King?' I don't get how you're not sick of it by now, Nini."

"It's one of my special interests," Jennie shrugs. "I love it, and there's more than one movie so I can choose which one I want to watch."

Lisa doesn't reply, because she lets out a loud aww that makes Jennie jump. "Okay, this picture is my favourite by far. Look at you, you were so tiny! I bet you were having so much fun at the playpark. Look, you seem so happy to be on the slide."

Jennie looks down at the picture with a frown. "I'm not - um... I never went down the slides. I just sat on it. Because I could."

Haejin looks between them with a smile. "The slides scared her. Jennie's afraid of heights."

"Mom," Jennie sends her mother her best glare. "Stop it. You're embarrassing me."

Haejin laughs. "I'm your mother. I'm supposed to embarrass you in front of your girlfriend."

"Well... stop it," Jennie repeats, tapping on her leg but cracking a smile when Lisa wraps her arms around her waist and rests her head on her shoulder. "And - um, Lili, stop encouraging her."

Lisa shakes her head. "Nope. I'll encourage her as much as I like. I want to see all of your cute baby pictures and hear about all of the embarrassing stories from your childhood. But I didn't know you're afraid of heights. You didn't seem to be when you were dragging me at all of the rollercoasters at Disney."

"I mean things like - uh, tall buildings. One time I went up the Eiffel Tower when we went on vacation and - um," Jennie turns bright red, and her last words come out all muttered, "I cried."

"Cried is an understatement." Haejin says, and Jennie feels her mother squeeze her hand; she doesn't pull away like she usually would. "She had a little panic attack, but you were fine after weren't you?"