Choosing you | LisRene AU [BOOK 2]

18

"What time are we leaving?" Irene murmured as Lisa cuddled into her tiredly. It was Friday evening, and Irene had come home from the warehouse early to pack her two-night bag. They'd decided to take an evening nap since the group had decided to take their road trip late at night so that they could get to the hotel rooms they'd booked and sleep there for the night and get an immediate start to their day on Saturday. They wanted to maximize their time in the city since they would have to drive back Sunday night.

It was currently coming on seven in the evening, Lisa knew from checking her phone a moment before, and they were all due to leave in the next half hour. Junmyeon was going to pick them up last since their apartment building happened to be the closest to their way out of the city, which meant that they probably had the full half hour left to crawl out of bed and double-check that they had packed everything. "Soon," Lisa replied with a sigh. "I'm excited, but now I'm tired."

"Honestly, we'll both wake up pretty quickly once we're surrounded by our hooligans – I mean, friends," Irene joked, and Lisa giggled.

"You're not wrong. Plus, I feel like candy and caffeine will be our first stop. It's a four-and-a-half-hour drive, so we'll be there hopefully by midnight." Lisa rolled away from her girlfriend grudgingly, stretching out her limbs.

"Come back," Irene whined, wrapping her arms around the younger girl and pulling her closer with a pout. She pressed a soft kiss to Lisa's cheek. "I wanna sleep more."

"Baby, we have to get up and make sure we're ready to go," Lisa murmured. Irene's lips moved over to her ear, nibbling on it lightly and causing the younger girl to release a happy sigh. "Irene."

"Lisa."

"We have to get up."

Irene released her girlfriend with a dramatic sigh. "Fine." She rolled away and grabbed her phone off of her nightstand, sitting up against the headboard of the bed as Lisa sat up and stood, stretching her arms up over her head. "Suho texted. They'll be here in twenty."

"Alright," Lisa said, going over to their two packed bags to check over that they had everything. Irene stayed rooted to the bed on her phone.

"Oh my god," Irene said, sounding surprised and drawing a curious gaze from Lisa.

"What?"

"I got an email from my mom. 'Dear Irene, due to a few unexpected and inconvenient events, I've had to head back to my home in Daegu. I do not support your decision to be an artist, nor do I support your choice of romantic partners, and once you have remedied these issues, you may contact me. Until then, I am sorry to say that I would not like you to contact me, nor will I contact you. I do not appreciate that you went to your father about me, but it was a wake-up call to the fact that both you and him have always been hopeless to reach my expectations, so I have decided to give up on holding you to them. Enjoy your sinful life.' Oh my god, this bitch. At least she's fucking gone," Irene muttered. Lisa's eyes were wide.

"That's a very... formal way to basically say go fuck yourself," she commented quietly. "Well, I'm glad she's leaving."

"Me too," Irene breathed out slowly. "I guess my dad was able to talk her into leaving. I wonder what he had to say." Lisa silently unzipped her bag to check over its contents, unsure as to whether she should vocalize her thoughts. Irene seemed to notice, however, and she asked, "What are you thinking?"

"Just that, you know that if you do decide that you want to have your dad's number, even if just to talk to him once ever, you can ask him for it," Lisa said, glancing over her shoulder at her girlfriend, who was frowning. "Obviously, if you don't want to, you don't have to. But it's not like we'll be here, so you wouldn't ever have to see him necessarily. Just... after we move, it might be harder to get into contact with him if you ever decide that you want to."