Choosing you | LisRene AU [BOOK 2]

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Irene bit down on her lower lip as she gazed at the bed while leaning against the bathroom door frame. She'd gotten up five minutes earlier, used the bathroom, brushed her teeth, and made a quick run down to her car, and was now debating on whether or not to wake up her girlfriend. Lisa was sleeping peacefully in bed, the blankets falling off of her because she tended to get too warm when wrapped up in them. It was funny, though, that she would always shed the blankets and still stay cuddled up against Irene as if it was the perfect in-between.

That's how Irene knew that Lisa would probably not stay asleep much longer. It was Sunday, after all, so her mind would be expecting morning cuddling.

So was Irene's, and she was tempted to just curl back up in bed with her girlfriend, but she couldn't. No, she needed to get Lisa up, because it was Valentine's Day, and Irene had the whole day planned.

Yeah, she had sacrificed an hour or so – okay maybe two or three hours – of her painting the previous day in order to plan it all out, but she was bent on surprising Lisa. The joke that she always planned dates last minute was pretty accurate, but this time Irene had a plan, and she wanted to follow it as closely as possible. After all of the shit that had happened in the past two months, she and Lisa both deserved it.

Finally, Irene pushed off of the door frame and went over to the bed, sitting down next to Lisa. "Baby," she cooed softly, "babe? Lisa..." She brought her hand up to Lisa's hair, tugging her fingers through the curly mass carefully. She thought back briefly to when Lisa had dyed it purple – for a week, after the first time Irene ever saw her – and smiled. "Baby, wake up."

"Mm, why?" came the mumbled protest as Lisa shifted slightly. Her eyes flickered open and her eyebrows were furrowed. "Why aren't you laying down? I wanna cuddle. It's Sunday."

"Mmhmm," Irene confirmed, "and it's Valentine's Day. So you need to get up because I'm taking you out."

"Aren't you doing that tonight?"

Irene shook her head. "All day. Come on, we have plans."

"Do we actually?" Lisa asked, her eyes widening. "Have you been up for an hour planning this?"

"Hey, don't tease, I actually have planned out a day for us, and it was ahead of time," Irene promised. She gave Lisa her best pout, before grinning involuntarily and resuming her original task, "So you need to get up and get ready."

"Wait, you meant Valentine's Day doesn't even start with morning sex?"

"Nope." Irene stood up from the bed, moving over to the closet. "Come on, baby."

"I'm getting up," Lisa insisted as she pushed the blankets off of herself. "What are we doing?"

"It's a surprise." Irene grabbed a pair of her comfier jeans and a blouse, before grabbing a similar outfit from Lisa's side of the closet.

"You're picking my clothes, too?"

"You took too long to get up."

Lisa rolled her eyes, walking over to the closet and taking the outfit. "I took like thirty seconds, chill."

Irene smirked, grabbing two coats and turning back around to the bed. She set the coats down on the bed and then went into the bathroom. Step one of Valentine's Day was a go.

Twenty minutes later found them leaving the apartment building and getting into Irene's car. "Are you going to tell me where we're going yet?"

"We're going multiple places," Irene stated.

"Which consist of?"

"Be patient, baby."

Irene didn't miss the small smile that appeared on her girlfriend's face. Yes, this was going according to plan so far.