A village romance

Chapter 18: The Explanation

After that argument, Jennie stormed out of Lisa's house and walked back to her and Jisoo's house, ignoring everyone who was greeting her along the way. As soon as she got back, she immediately went to Jisoo's room, opened the door, and immediately hugged Jisoo, who didn't expect what happened. "Hey, I'm writing something here." Jisoo protests, trying to pry Jennie away, but her annoyance fades upon hearing Jennie crying, and she starts comforting her, wondering what was happening. After calming down, Jennie told Jennie what happened, and it did anger Jisoo, but she thought Lisa had her reasons and told Jennie the story of how she met her. "You know, when I first met Lisa when I arrived in the village, her eyes were full of sadness, and I wondered what happened, and then I learned from BamBam and Rosé that something happened to her when she went to Seoul before coming here," Jisoo said, finishing her story, and it made Jennie wonder what had happened to her that made Lisa dislike staying in Seoul, but even so, she decided to text her friend from Seoul.

Meanwhile, Lisa couldn't believe what she had said to Jennie. Did she really doubt Jennie so much that she thought it would happen again? She thought to herself and wanted to go to Jennie and Jisoo's house to apologize, but thought of giving Jennie space and would talk to her tomorrow to sort it out, as she didn't want Jennie to hate her. But she didn't exactly get what she wanted since Jennie didn't exactly leave her house all day, and Jisoo told her that Jennie didn't want to talk to her, and she decided to respect that and thought that she'd try to talk to her tomorrow. But it seems that wouldn't happen because Jennie decided to resign from the café, and that worried her and made her feel guilty. She wanted to make things right, and it took her long enough to realize that. After working, she went to Jennie and Jisoo's place, and after talking to Jisoo, Lisa was finally let in the house and knocked on Jennie's door. "Jisoo, I already reminded you that your glasses are on your head," Jennie said while opening the door, only to see Lisa standing there with a nervous smile. "Hey" was the only word Lisa could muster.

Jennie glared at Lisa a bit, and before she could close the door, Lisa stopped her and went into her room. Jennie was about to protest but saw how sad Lisa looked. The room was quiet for a moment until Lisa spoke. "I'm here to apologize for what I said," she apologized. "I was an idiot and afraid that it might happen again, but you're not her, and I shouldn't have said it," Lisa explained, and seeing that Lisa was being genuine, Jennie looked at Lisa. "I should probably tell you what happened and how I got here." She added, surprising Jennie, as she was always curious about Lisa's past and wanted to know what her first love did to make her act like that. Lisa then sat down on Jennie's desk chair, ready to tell her story: "When I still lived in Thailand, my first love and my girlfriend for many years told me that she always wanted to go to Korea after college, and I remember always stomping on her dream, telling her why she would even go if she has everything here, and she would always disagree with me, which led to a lot of fights," Lisa explained, and Jennie realized that the words she said to her before were the same words, and she wanted to say something but decided to listen. "After years, I ended up letting her do what she wanted to make her happy," Lisa said as she remembered what happened.

As she listened, Jennie decided to speak. "What happened next?" she asked Lisa, who continued her story. "She was there at first as a tourist, but after being there for two months, she ended up loving it there and decided to live there." Lisa revealed, "I was angry at her at first for just doing that, but I couldn't stop her, and she promised she'd visit and keep in touch, and I let her because she was happy and would always try and invite me to love with her, but I always declined and told her to come back, and maybe she felt lonely that she decided to do that." Lisa said, making Jennie curious, but she felt like she already knew what was going to happen but continued to listen to Lisa. "At some point she stopped talking to me and would tell me she's busy with work, which I at first ignored as I got busy with my own life, but at some point I got worried for her, and even though our friends told me that there's probably nothing wrong, I went still, and that's where it happened," Lisa said.

Jennie noticed Lisa was getting sadder as she told this, so she decided to comfort her by holding her hand, and Lisa smiles when Jennie does that and continues her story. "When I arrived in Korea, I tried to find her and found her condo and waited for her there, and she did show up but with her boyfriend," and Lisa's revelation shocked Jennie as Lisa continued to explain. "I was angry when I saw them, and she was both shocked and scared when she saw me when I walked up and introduced myself as her friend after he left. We both went in her condo and had a huge fight, and I remember her telling me that she didn't have any excuse for what she did and only thought for herself and said how lonely she was. She argued and said that she should have gone back to Thailand if she felt lonely, but she argued back, saying she has been asking me to come here, and the argument exploded to the point she tells she doesn't love me anymore," Lisa revealed.

Upon saying that Lisa stopped for a bit and continued. "She then said that he was a much better partner than me as he would never discourage her, unlike me, and she felt happier here in Korea than Thailand, and hearing her say that broke me, and in anger I left her condo," Lisa said, finishing her explanation." Our fight made me realize my actions towards her were unjust, but she also did something bad, but it was because of how I treated her," she added, but Jennie disagreed. "Yes, you may have a fault in it, but it's all on her. If she loved you, she wouldn't have done this," Jennie pointed out, and Lisa nodded. "Yeah, that's true, and it had taken me a lot of time to realize that," was her reply. "So what happened to you after you left? " was Jennie's next question. "Well, I wandered Seoul as I was depressed because the girl I loved just broke my heart like that and used up my money to go here, so I used my money to drink soju and stay in motels because I didn't want to go home as I didn't want my friends pity after they learned what happened." Lisa started explaining, and Jennie felt bad for what happened to her. "But then, while I was super drunk, I met with Rosé, and she had at that time left her lawyer life and was just busking and saw me heavily drunk and felt bad for me and brought me to her home, she revealed, and Jennie listened.I was confused but grateful for her kindness, and I tried to help being useful in her house, and we became best friends after that; she knew my past and tried to help," Lisa said with a smile, thanking Rosé for being there for her. "And after a few months of staying there and still being sad over her, I got a phone call from Bambam," Lisa explained.

Then she continued, "When I answered him, he called because he was asking me to help in his new café since he wanted to introduce Thai coffee and thought the village was a good idea, and I didn't have anything else to do, so I agreed and invited Rosé, who agreed since there's nothing there for her, and we went," Lisa said, reminiscing, "and staying there got me to move on and be happy, and then my life became more happier when I met you," Lisa said, finishing her explanation, and from there Jennie understood what Lisa went through and was happy that Rosé and BamBam helped her a bit to move on.

After that Lisa then looked at Jennie "I will apologize for my actions on our fight I ended acting as my old self whenever I discouraged her in fear of losing you but I shouldn't have done that as you're different from her in many ways I shouldn't have let my fear overtaken me" Lisa apologize Jennie who smiled "it's ok Lisa I understand you as but you should have trusted me more" she told Lisa who nodded "and I forgive you because I know you didn't mean it and were just afraid" Jennie said reassuring Lisa who smiled then it went quiet for a moment "I missed you" she says to Jennie "me too" was Jennie's reply as they then hugged happy to be in each other's arms again and then give each a chaste kiss. After that, Lisa spoke, "Hey, can I stay here for a while? She says to Jennie, "Why?" She asks her," Well, I always wanted to see what it's like to stay in your house since you always stayed in mine." She tells Jennie, who laughs and nods, "Sure." She tells Lisa, who smiles, and they leave the room to eat a snack. When Jisoo went to the kitchen, seeing them act like their old selves made her smile. She took a picture to send it to their GC with the caption, "The Lovebirds are back" and forgetting she was in the wrong GC, but the lovebirds didn't mind and laughed it off.