Love You Twice

Chapter 24

Yunjin

To see Chaewon and my dad get along is mind blowing to me.

Never would I have thought my dad would even look at a girl I liked, much less have a conversation with her.

A conversation that was civil and even cracking jokes.

I'm not ready to forgive him, but maybe start having conversations every now and then could happen.

"She's adorable." Rachel says when I walk back to them.

"Isn't she?" I say, plopping down beside Rachel.

Our coffee arrives, and I take a sip immediately.

The jet lag is already hitting me.

"It seems like she makes you happy Jen." Dad says. I smile at him nodding.

"She makes me so happy." We fall silent for a moment.

Dad's just smiling at me. He hasn't taken his eyes off of us the whole time.

"I want you to like her dad, because I really like her. I want her to be apart of my life, and I want you to accept that."

"I've been growing Jen. I've been going to a therapist and I've been reflecting. I've been talking to Rach, and I understand. I'm happy if you're happy, and Chaewon seems like an amazing girl."

I'm shocked, happy, so many emotions that it's hard to put into words.

So instead of words, my eyes start tearing up.

The feeling of acceptance from the person I wanted it most from is amazing.

Rachel puts her hand on my knee, rubbing it.

"You don't-" I'm cut off by my mom.

"We need to talk. Right now." She says angrily. She stands up, grabbing my dad by his arm dragging him to the other side of the building.

The sight makes me want to sob for the opposite reason I began crying.

"Jen you can't pay any attention to mom. She's stuck in the past and in her old ways."

I know I can't, but it's just so hard. She was a great mom before everything.

We were glued to the hip.

I wanted to be just like my mom when I was younger, but now I couldn't stand the thought of being anything like her.

"It doesn't matter who you love Jen. If you love a boy, or girl you can't help that. It doesn't make you any different than anyone else."

"I wish she seen it that way." I say, leaning my head on Rachel's shoulder.

She wraps her arm around me, rubbing my hair.

"To hell with what she thinks. You can't change the way you are, and she shouldn't expect you to. It's your life. You can't spend it trying to change for someone else."

"I'm sorry for ruining your time back home."

This is meant to be a fun time. She barely gets to come home and the time she does it's ruined because our family is falling apart.

Rachel shakes her head. "You didn't ruin it Jen. You are one of the only reasons I still come back. Next time I'll go straight to New York."

"That seems like a better idea." I laugh, and Rachel joins me.

I'm starting to think Rachel is the only sane one in my family.

My parents and their homophobia, Nona and her crazy sex drive to be as old as she is, hell even I start to think I'm crazy sometimes.