By My Side [JENLISA FF]

Part 18

"No, mom, let me go," Jennie touched the arm of her mother and held her back.

Janice looked at her daughter for a moment, then she smiled, nodded and settled down beside Yaya.

Jennie took a deep breath and opened the door. Nadech stood there and smiled sheepishly while Lisa only stared at her, not knowing what to say.

"Hi Nadech," Jennie said and smiled. "Why don't you just go in. Your wife is already there." Then she looked at Lisa: "It's like a big family reunion."

Lisa still couldn't say a word. Jennie was pale and fragile, and you could see she still suffered from the stab wound but she was taking her breath away. She tore her gaze away from her face and wanted to enter the house when she felt her hand on her chest: "No, miss. You're not coming in."

"Sorry," she whispered. "I told Nadech it wasn't a good idea." Lisa tried desperately not to show how much she was hurt by her behaviour although she felt she'd every right to treat her this way. "I ... I'll better go." she turned and wanted to go to the car, when she felt her hand on her arm.

"You're not going anywhere. I just don't want to talk to you in front of a bunch of spectators," Jennie smiled, stepped out of the house and closed the door behind her. She nodded over to the bench: "Why don't we sit down for a moment?"

Lisa studied her face and then said: "Alright."

After both sat down Jennie took her hand: "I missed you. No, don't say anything. I know why you left and you're wrong."

"Jennie, I..."

She raised her free hand: "Let me talk. Yaya told me what Hongjun said to you. I'm so sorry. I wish I could take that away, he must have hurt you terribly."

Lisa only stared at her. She wasn't angry with her: "I'm sorry too," she said. "For leaving like this. It's just ... I couldn't deal with it. I felt responsible for what happened. I know it's stupid, but that night everything came rushing back and... I was a fool and all I can offer you is to say I'm sorry for hurting you." Suddenly it wasn't important anymore if she was the right girl for her, the only thing that counted was that she loved her more than anything. The three weeks without her had been hell and all she wanted was to be with her for the rest of her life. So she took a deep breath and looked into her eye: "Would you," she swallowed, "would you take me back?"

"Oh Lisa," Jennie breathed and threw her arms around her neck. "I'll take you any way I can get you. I love you. But you have to promise never to leave me like this again. And for the record, you're not responsible for this." She looked at her stomach and touched the spot where she'd been wounded. Caressing her cheek she smiled: "You're responsible for helping me, for finding the real killer, for giving me my life back, for believing in me. You're the best thing that ever happened to me."

Lisa rolled her eyes and smiled too: "Don't flatter me. I only did my job."

"No," Jennie said firmly. "It was much more and you know it. You believed in me when nobody else did and you did it although you barely knew me."

She laughed: "I'm usually not that gullible. Actually Nadech always says I'm too critical with our clients. But with you. I just knew it. Maybe because I loved you. I certainly never planned to fall in love with you, it just happened and it happened so fast and was so deep there was not way I could fight it."

Jennie smiled: "I'm glad. That you didn't fight it, I mean. Because I've never felt that way before and I doubt I'm going to feel like this for any other man." She grinned: "So you see, you're stuck with me. I'm your private responsibility now."

Lisa grinned back: "Are you? Hmm. Sounds good." she leaned forward an began to nuzzle at her earlobe.

Jennie felt showers running all over her body and moaned: "God, Lisa. We're sitting on a bench for everyone to see us. I think we'd better stop."