Choosing you | LisRene AU [BOOK 2]

20

On Sunday, Irene and Lisa went to Mrs. Manoban's house and had dinner with the older woman. They all did their best to keep the conversation light, since, at least for Lisa, leaving her mom in the move to New York was one of the sadder parts. Along with, of course, leaving Rosé and Jisoo.

Still, by the end of the dinner, Mrs. Manoban wrapped Lisa up in a tight hug and made her promise that they would come to visit. Lisa felt tears leaking when she pulled out of the hug, and then Mrs. Manoban pulled Irene into a hug as well.

Lisa was pretty sure that she saw Irene's eyes turn watery.

When they finally left and got back into Irene's car to head back to their apartment – which would be entirely emptied the next day – Lisa let out a long sigh. "It's weird knowing that I won't be able to see her very often. Like, I think I took for granted that she's always been on campus at the same time as me. I feel like I should've been visiting her classroom more often."

"Mm, well. You didn't know all this time that you'd be moving," Irene justified, "and plus, you'll still get to talk to her. I mean, you can call her once a week like she suggested, and the drive isn't that far."

"Ha, I don't think calling her once a week was a suggestion. It was more like, 'if you don't call me once a week, I will drive all the way to New York to make sure you haven't died'," Lisa said with a chuckle. "But yeah, you're right. It's just weird."

On Monday morning, the two of them were curled up in their bed together, wearing little to nothing and wrapped only in a sheet. They'd been sleeping peacefully since falling asleep the night before until an incessant buzzing began to go off for an excessive amount of time. Lisa was the one who woke first, and she groaned, trying to figure out what the sound was.

"Oh my god, is that the fucking buzzer?" she groaned out in realization. Irene just let out a grunt in response, and Lisa sighed, pushing up off of the bed. Irene made a tired, whining noise, trying to grab at Lisa's arm to keep her in bed, but Lisa was already standing.

She padded through the apartment and over to the buzzer, hitting the talk button and asking, "What the fuck?"

"Hey!" came a chorus of three voices that she obviously recognized. "It's us! Let us up!"

"Sure," Lisa muttered, and then added, "just don't come into our bedroom." She hit the button to let them into the building, and then immediately escaped back into the bedroom. Irene was sitting up a bit now, rubbing her tired eyes.

"Is it time to leave?"

"No, it's still just Monday," Lisa replied with amusement. "Jisoo, Rosé and Seulgi are here. I think Seul said she was going to help us load the U-Haul, and in exchange, we're going to squeeze in her boxes. She doesn't have any furniture or anything to bring. She said on Saturday that she's leaving it all in a storage unit in Fredericksburg."

"Right," Irene murmured, stretching her arms over her head. "Oh shit, the U-Haul." She dropped her hands lamely by her side. "We still have to go drive and get that shit."

"Should we just leave the three of them here while we go get it?"

Irene shrugged. "Maybe you could stay here and Seulgi and I can go get it. We are letting her live with us for a whole summer, so she kind of owes us. And you can hang out with Jisoo and Rosé for the last time in a little while."

So that's what they did – once they'd showered and gotten dressed, that is. Irene dragged Seulgi out to her car with her, and they went to go pick up the U-Haul. Lisa, Jisoo, and Rosé stayed at the apartment, talking and eating some of the last items of food that were in the fridge. They'd stuck to mostly eating takeout over the past week or so since it was faster and easier than buying groceries.