When Chaeyoung's parents force her to attend a dinner with them involving a blind date with a colleague's son despite the fact that she's a raging lesbian, her roommate Jennie offers to come with her as a buffer, maybe even flirt a little with the son to take the heat off Chaeyoung. It doesn't exactly go as planned. You could say it's a hot mess, even.
Rating: Explicit
POV: Chaeyoung
D/S: Switch/Jentop
Content: Smut, Fluff, Banter, Humor
Word Count: 11,450
TW: Minor Homophobia
Original: Hot Mess by DreamsAreMyWords
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It's unbearably quiet.
The kind of quiet Chaeyoung only associates with her childhood home. The kind that feels unlived in, nothing but the stifling silence only occasionally broken up by the gentle ticking of the clock in the distant hallway. Perfect white carpet in the dining room; waxed hardwood floors in the kitchen mopped so clean there's not a single particle of dirt marring it. Sometimes Chaeyoung wants to walk through the halls running her hands along the walls, just to knock all the picture frames crooked. They're filled with unsmiling family photographs that would probably look much more full of life if they were switched out with the generic stock photos that came with them.
She hates this place. Glances to her left, where Jennie sits a little uncomfortably rigid beside her on the loveseat, and once more feels a pang of guilt that she's somehow dragged her roommate into suffering here with her. Jennie senses her gaze, brown eyes shifting onto Chaeyoung, narrowing when they spot her expression. Jennie pointedly nudges Chaeyoung's knee with her own, brows raising, and Chaeyoung gets exactly what she's saying— stop looking so guilty, I signed up for this— but it doesn't stop her from feeling bad about it. She tried to warn Jennie that she didn't know what she was getting herself into, but, well, Jennie is Jennie. When she has an idea, she goes all in and there's no stopping her.
