Bestfriends (First Time) || Jensoo

Secret Truths

They didn't get back together again at the night of the pre-engagement-party party. There was always something - or, more often, someone - in their way. It was frustrating for Jisoo, especially as Cutter always seemed to be the one who was interfering. He wouldn't take the hint that she wasn't interested in him in that way; she didn't even understand why he was interested, given that she lived pretty much hand-to-mouth on school loans, money from her parents and the pay from her part-time bartending job. When she told him that she was gay, he laughed in a way that implied he thought she was just giving him the brush-off. She made a mental note to get Kyla to back her up at some point.

She had been pretty sure that Jennie had been on the verge of admitting something pretty major. The thing was that she knew - she had always known - how jealous Jennie had been of Paige, so she wasn't really sure what the big deal was. For all that her best friend thought that she could hide things from Jisoo, she kept forgetting that Jisoo was, in fact, her best friend and could see right through her.

She was surprised when Jennie left the party without saying anything to her. She didn't even see her leave. She wandered around the room for a while, making small-talk with some of Shea's friends, waiting in case Jennie had just stepped out, but she never returned. She even went upstairs and knocked on Jennie's bedroom door, but there was no answer. A quick check inside proved that Jennie was not in bed, although her cellphone and car keys were on the bedside locker, so she hadn't left the house. Just as she was starting to get really worried that Jennie had done something stupid, she bumped into Kyla in the hallway. Jennie had passed out dead drunk on Kyla's bed.

The following morning, there was still no sign of Jennie, which Jisoo put down to her sleeping off the inevitable hangover. She waited until after one, by which time the overnight guests were starting to get ready for the engagement party proper, and headed to the kitchen. She enlisted Maria's help in preparing coffee, orange juice and an enormous pile of wholewheat toast, all of which she put on a tray and took up to Kyla's room. She was nervous when she knocked on the door and mildly disappointed when Kyla was the one to answer it.

"Uh, hi."

Kyla looked down at the tray and then up at Jisoo. She didn't say anything. She just raised her eyebrows with a grin and opened the door wide enough for Jisoo to see Jennie lying in bed, her arm over her face and the slow rise and fall of her chest betraying the fact that she was still asleep. As Jisoo stepped into the room, Kyla stepped out, giving her a thumbs-up sign as she closed the door again.

Jisoo looked around for somewhere to put the tray and settled for the dressing table in front of the window. Sitting on the edge of the bed carefully, she reached a hand out and brushed the matted hair from Jennie's forehead. Jennie awoke with a start and jerked up, the hand that had been over her eyes reaching out to grab Jisoo's wrist. She almost immediately let it go again, a sheepish look on her face as she flopped back onto the pillows.

"Morning," she croaked.

"Afternoon," Jisoo chuckled.

"Really?" She lifted up her hand to check her wristwatch. "Shit."

"Feeling rough?" Jisoo stood up and retrieved the tray. She placed it on the bed where she had been perched and smiled fondly as Jennie propped herself up just enough to help herself to the steaming mug of coffee and take a cautious sip.

"You made me a latte?"

"Maria made it. I just carried it." She sat down in an armchair next to the bed and tucked one leg underneath herself. "I did, however, pour the orange juice. No pulp."

"My favourite."

"I know."

They were silent as Jennie pushed herself into a sitting position and took a bite from a slice of buttered toast.