Stupid Choices and Second Chances

Chapter 48

"Stop making that face."

"I'm not making a face."

Jennie cracked an eye open and saw Jisoo, doing her best to not look completely repulsed as she sat in the mud bath, submerged from the neck down. "You're making a face. The whole point is to relax, Chu."

Jisoo snorted. "I feel like I have mud in places that one should not have mud in, Jennie. It's hardly relaxing."

"You sound like Lisa." Jennie said as she moved the small pillow a bit, placing it against the edge of the bath and leaned her head back, contently exhaling.

"Oh, please tell me you've suckered her into in one of these." Jisoo said laughing, tightening the sloppy bun she had perched on the top of her head to keep her black locks clean.

Jennie cracked her eyes open again. "You realize there's a bit of mud on your hands...and now in your hair."

"Damn it!" Jisoo exclaimed.

"We jump in a mineral bath after this," Jennie said with a giggle. "And to answer your question - no - Lisa has yet to experience the wonderful experience that is a mud bath." She sighed again as she felt all of her aches and pain dissipate from her body. "Just you wait," she said to Jisoo. "You're going to feel amazing when this is over."

"If you say so," Jisoo replied. "How long is this bath again?"

"Ten minutes. And before you ask - we only have been in it for about two of them."

Jisoo laughed, following Jennie's lead and sank lower into the mud. "You they're alive this morning?"

"I think Lisa and Rosé are," Jennie said with a hint of amusement in her voice. "It'll be interesting to see how the other two fared, don't you think?"

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Lisa woke up the next morning around ten, pleasantly surprised that the pounding she anticipated to feel in her head once she opened her eyes was nothing more than a dull pang. Rolling onto her back, she buried her fist into her eyes, rubbing away the sleep before sitting right up. She swung her legs over, her feet finding the floor as she grabbed the aspirin from the nighstand and swallowed it using the bottled water she got from the fridge last night. She walked across the room and opened the door, where she found Bambam and Suk-ku clad only in pajamas passed out on the couches, a pillow covering their faces.

"I covered their faces." Rosé said, habding her a cup of coffe. "I thought the room had been inhabited by a freight train so I got up, came out, and found tweedle dum and tweedle dee out here."

"But didn't we put them...."

"To bed? Yes." Rosé replied. "But apparently they woke up for a second wind." She pulled an empty bottle of tequila out of the sink and set it on the table. "I poked them both with the spatula. They didn't budge. But they're still breathing, so that's a good sign at least. How much longer do you think they'll be out?"

Lisa shrugged. "If they aren't up in another hour or so we can wake them up so they can relocate their bearings a bit before we leave."

"Right. So...what do we do?"

"There's a shop up the street that sells remote control boats that you can put in the water...I thought I'd check them out - see if I could find one for Eun-woo."

Rosé nodded. "I think he'd like that - take it down to the park and put it in the lake."

"That's what I was thinking. Come along?"