Happy Anniversary || Jensoo

Chapter 4

"That was so good," Jisoo remarked sincerely. "You have to cook for me more often."

Jennie smiled shyly, "You're not the only one who can take cooking lessons from my dad." She'd been nervous to cook for the brunette so she was relieved that her food had turned out edible. "I'm glad you liked it."

"I didn't like it," Jisoo frowned. She paused a few beats before flashing Jennie a toothy grin. "I absolutely loved it!"

"You ass," Jennie rolled her eyes and then she swatted her girlfriend's arm. "That was mean."

Jisoo covered her eyes with her napkin. "No pouting! You know I can't resist it, plus I was only joking so it doesn't count."

"You are so dramatic," Jennie pointed out before leaning across the table and planting a kiss on Jisoo's forehead.

"Well, it's true," Jisoo replied. There were many things she was powerless against when it came to the cat eyed and her pout topped that list. "But seriously, Jen, dinner was awesome. Thank you so much for such an amazing meal."

"Is it me, or do most of our conversations seem to revolve around dinner?" Jennie asked rhetorically. She wasn't really sure where that question came from but it did seem to be an astute observation.

Jisoo took a moment to take in how absolutely lucky she was. Not just because her girlfriend had surprised her by cooking. Jennie had sent the brunette to run a few errands that afternoon without giving her any hint of what was to come. Jisoo had assumed that they'd go out that night for a nice anniversary meal, but clearly her girlfriend had other ideas. She had walked back into their place to find it illuminated with candles and a certain cat eyed girl standing there looking gorgeous.

After recovering from the shock Jisoo felt her heart expand to a point she didn't know it could go. She'd swept Jennie up in a very passionate embrace because it was the only way she could even begin to express what she was feeling. Before the cat eyed had come into Jisoo's life nobody had really made an effort for her. She'd been constantly disappointed by her parents but since Jennie had come along those types of feelings were non-existent.

That's not to say life was perfect but for Jisoo it was pretty damn close. She wasn't used to having someone who cared for her in a way that made her feel special, and there wasn't a day that went by where the brunette didn't thank her lucky stars for Jennie. She finally felt like she belonged to something and someone and while a coupe of years ago that would have been scary, now it brought a sense of incredible comfort to Jisoo.

Throughout the entire meal she'd been thinking of the present she'd made for Jennie. When the inspiration had struck the brunette she knew without a doubt that the cat eyed would love it. It had taken some sneaking around to get it done and once it was complete, Jisoo was thrilled with the way it turned out. She'd spent a lot of time making sure it was perfect because she wanted it to convey exactly how she felt to her girlfriend. However, as the meal progressed, Jisoo's confidence began to wane significantly. What had seemed like a great idea two days ago, now seemed to be something incredibly lame and cheesy.

A pit formed in the brunette's stomach as the time to give Jennie her gift got closer. She was a nervous wreck and it didn't appear that anything would make her feel better. Like she had expressed to Kyla and Arthur, the last thing Jisoo wanted to do was screw up an important night and moment.

"Ok, you've gone silent on me," Jennie said, breaking the brunette's thoughts. "Am I boring you?"

"Not at all," Jisoo assured her girlfriend. She pressed her lips against Jennie's temple as the two of them cuddled together on the couch. The dishes from dinner were cleared a while ago and they were enjoying just being close to one another without distractions. "You're many things Jennie, but boring isn't one of them."

"Such a sweet talker," Jennie teased as she snuggled even closer to the brunette. She loved all the time she spent with Jisoo but the quiet moments were among her favorite. "I really do love you."

"I love you more," Jisoo replied knowing that the cat eyed would insist that wasn't true. Instead of waiting for Jennie to respond, she kissed her tenderly.

After a few minutes Jennie pulled away to lay her head on the brunette's chest. She loved hearing how fast Jisoo's heart would beat after they kissed. It was nice knowing the affect she had on the other girl.

As much as Jisoo was enjoying being so close to the cat eyed, her anxiousness for exchanging gifts wouldn't allow her to stay in the moment. "I'll be right back," she announced before jumping off the couch and running to the bedroom.

Jennie shook her head as she watched the disappearing figure of her girlfriend. She wasn't sure what Jisoo was up to but she suspected it had to do with her gift. The brunette had spent the past two nights working on something that Jennie was strictly forbidden to see or touch or be near. It only made sense that it had to do with their anniversary. Unlike Jisoo though, Jennie was more than confident that her gift would be a success. She was sure of it.

Jisoo walked back to the couch, the present she'd made clutched firmly in her hand. She couldn't stand the tension one moment longer and that's why she'd gone to grab the package she'd wrapped that morning. Knowing that doom was impending made her want to get things over with as soon as possible. If the brunette was a betting woman, she'd put a lot of her money on her gift being a total and utter fail.

Despite her sense of foreboding a big part of Jisoo hoped that Jennie would love what she'd come up with. It might not appear to be much to someone else, but to the brunette it represented something that her words weren't always able to express. And at the end of the day making her girlfriend happy is what really mattered to Jisoo so that's why she'd put so much effort into the present.

"Is that for me?" Jennie asked excitedly. She now understood why the brunette had left in such an abrupt manner. Even though she didn't want Jisoo spending a lot of money on her she was so excited to finally find out what he gift was. She was also excited of course to give her own gift to the brunette but clearly Jisoo wanted to go first.

"No, it's for my other girlfriend," Jisoo rolled her eyes to hide how on edge she actually felt.

Jennie smacked the brunette playfully on the arm, "It better not be."

Jisoo sat back down next to Jennie and then she turned to face the girl she loved more than anything. "I love you a lot. You know that, right?"

Jennie was surprised at how shaky the other girl's voice sounded. She was growing curiouser and curiouser by the second to find out what was in the box the brunette had in her hand. "That better be rhetorical Kim because you know my answer."

"I do know," Jisoo agreed as she shifted around. The speech she'd planned out was forgotten and now the brunette was going to have to wing it. "It just sounded like a good question to start with."

"You really are one of a kind," Jennie observed affectionately. "And I'm glad you're mine."

Jisoo blushed but she refused to get distracted from her goal of showing the cat eyed exactly how she felt. She cleared her throat a few times before she placed the box in her hand into Jennie's lap. "There was a time when hearing that from you would make me want to run in the other direction."

Jennie was so tempted to interject with a comment but she could see that Jisoo was struggling to get out whatever it was she was going to say so she remained quiet.

Jisoo locked eyes with the brown pair she was so deeply in love with. The past year had brought her immeasurably closer to Jennie but that didn't mean it was easy to be so open. Whatever discomfort she felt though was worth it because she knew the cat eyed appreciated the change in her. "When I first fell in love with you, Jen, it was the best and the most terrifying thing I'd ever experienced."

The cat eyed was watching her girlfriend with rapt attention. She wanted desperately to open the present in her lap but one again Jennie showed restrain because whatever Jisoo was saying was much more important than any object.

"In a lot of ways I felt like you deserved someone better than me," Jisoo admitted. "Someone who could love you without feeling scared out of their mind."

"Oh, Chu," Jennie sighed as she caressed her girlfriend's cheek. She didn't like hearing the brunette put herself down. "There's nobody out there that's better for me than you."

"I don't know, you haven't really looked that hard," Jisoo replied semi seriously. "But I know without any single shred of doubt that you are the one for me and you've made me believe over this past year that perhaps I am exactly what you need."

Jennie nodded, "You really are." She felt her emotions start to take over and the cat eyed could tell it was only moments before she got choked up. Not because she was sad, but because of how strong her feelings for Jisoo were.

Jisoo took a deep breath before continuing. "When you so rudely bumped into me that day we first met I was so closed off from the world I had no idea how to let anyone in."

Any comeback Jennie had was stopped because of the intensity she saw in the brunette's eyes.

"I lashed at you because I really thought that people sucked and that they'd inevitably let me down." It wasn't easy for Jisoo to be so honest, and while she knew it was important to be expressive it left her feeling very vulnerable. "You weren't like that though. I still have no idea what you saw in me or why you stayed when I tried so hard to push you away."

"Because you're worth it," Jennie told the brunette in no uncertain terms. "Everything that we've been through has been worth it because look where we are now."

"Not everything," Jisoo said in reference to why they had separated in high school.

Jennie shook her head before tugging on her girlfriend's hand. "Yes, everything. None of that stuff matters anymore Chu, and you have to stop thinking you're who you used to be. You're not."

"Yes ma'am," Jisoo replied as her emotions also started to come out. She knew it was only a matter of time before the moisture in her eyes spilled over. "But we're getting sidetracked anyway I really didn't plan to take a stroll down memory lane. My intention tonight was to give you something I've never given anybody."

"Do I get to open my gift now?" Jennie asked impatiently.

Jisoo inhaled sharply, "Yes, go ahead."

Jennie let out an excited squeal before she ripped the her present open. She opened the box Jisoo had gift wrapped and when she looked inside she wasn't quite sure how to react. The cat eyed looked up to see if her girlfriend was going to give her an explanation.

Jisoo lifted the object out of the box and even though her hand was trembling she placed it in the cat eyed's hand. "I'm giving you my heart, Jen," Jisoo whispered. Her voice was shaking along with the rest of her body. Not only did she feel vulnerable but the brunette suddenly felt very exposed. It didn't help matters that the cat eyed wasn't saying anything.

The truth was, Jennie had no idea what to say. She was incredibly touched and caught off guard by the emotion pouring out of her girlfriend. She'd known instantly what her gift was when she'd seen it, but she wasn't expecting it to come with what was shaping up to be a very deep look into Jisoo's mind.

After her epiphany, Jisoo had rushed out to the nearest craft store to buy all the supplies she needed to make the gift she'd given the cat eyed. It had taken her hours to mould it to perfection. Countless times Jisoo had started over because the heart looked lopsided and that wasn't acceptable to her. Once everything was perfect, the brunette had put the heart into the oven to harden it. Then came the painting job which had resulted in more red paint ending up on Jisoo than on the present but the brunette didn't mind. She'd finished things off by painting a white letter J in the middle of the clay heart to identify it as her own.

Jisoo was dying inside because Jennie hadn't reacted at all really since getting her present. It was killing the brunette not knowing what her girlfriend was thinking. "I never thought I'd trust anyone enough to give them my heart, but I trust you with it completely." Jisoo continued as she played with her fingers. "And I'm giving it to you to hold onto and keep safe for the rest of our lives." While it wasn't a proposal, she was signifying her intentions for the future. "Because I'm going to do everything in my power to keep yours safe from ever feeling any kind of pain."

Jennie was once again rendered speechless. She couldn't believe how thoughtful and amazing her girlfriend was. It wasn't that she doubted Jisoo, but that didn't mean she expected to get a gift that would blow her away.

"You think it's stupid, don't you?" Jisoo couldn't take the cat eyed's silence any longer. She'd been on edge for the better part of a week and she'd finally been pushed off the edge. The gift that she'd thought was perfection, was turning out to be the complete opposite. "I knew it was lame!"

"No, it's not," Jennie insisted when she found her voice. She held on tightly to the heart in her hand because she didn't want anything bad to happen to it. "It's the most thoughtful and wonderful thing anybody has ever given me."

Jisoo was too far gone to believe her girlfriend. "You're just being nice, it was a dumb idea." Inside it crushed her to think that Jennie didn't like what she'd spent hours making. And of course that meant her over dramatic side was coming back full force.

Jennie was having a difficult time understanding why the brunette wasn't listening to her. "It's not a dumb idea, I love it!"

"You have to say that!" Jisoo exclaimed almost hysterically. "I should have just done something unoriginal like a scrapbook of us together." She missed how Jennie's face fell because if she'd have noticed there's no way the brunette would have kept talking. "Talk about lame but at least you wouldn't have a stupid clay heart that you can't do anything with."

Jennie didn't know which remark to react to but that didn't stop her stomach from dropping. "You think scrapbooks are lame?"

There was something in the cat eyed's tone that made Jisoo step out of her fit. When she saw the tears brimming in Jennie's eyes she knew this time they weren't the happy kind of tears. A realization hit her hard and it made the brunette weak in the knees. "Oh my god!"

"Do you really think that?" Jennie asked as she unsuccessfully hid the pain she was feeling.

"Oh god, Jen," Jisoo forgot about her own issues because it didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what the cat eyed had made for her. "I don't think that at all, I was just talking out of my ass."

Jennie didn't want to break down because she knew deep down that her girlfriend had no idea what she'd put together when she'd made that comment. "I mean, it's ok if you do..."

"I don't think that!" Jisoo practically shrieked as she grabbed Jennie by the shoulders. "I was just nervous to give you my gift because I thought you hated it." She was talking incredibly fast, "Please don't be upset Jen and please don't pay attention to what I said. I think that scrapbooks are the coolest thing ever and I think that anyone who thinks of such an awesome idea is, uhm awesome. Oh god, this isn't coming out right and please don't be upset because..."

Jennie cut the brunette off with a kiss. "You sure know how to freak out," she remarked once they'd pulled apart. She could have made a bigger deal out of the scrapbook comment but what was the point? Jisoo obviously felt bad and the cat eyed had no desire to let one small misunderstanding ruin their night.

"Can you forgive me, Jen?" Jisoo asked frantically.

"There's nothing to forgive," Jennie told her girlfriend. "But that doesn't mean I can't make you feel bad about it later. Especially when it comes to making me breakfast in bed tomorrow."

Jisoo let out a relief filled laugh. "Is that the way you're going to play this?"

Jennie gave the brunette a coy look. "Of course it is. How else do you want me to react to you calling my gift lame?"

"Jennie!" Jisoo whined loudly. "That's not very nice," she pulled the cat eyed in to her arms. "Besides how do I know it's not actually lame when you haven't shown it to me?"

"Smart ass!" Jennie exclaimed but she wasn't upset anymore.

"I really am sorry," Jisoo said before she kissed her girlfriend.

Jennie returned the kiss lovingly, "I know you are and that's why I'm letting you off the hook." She looked down at the heart in her hand and then back into the eyes of the girl she was madly in love with. "Thank you for giving me something I've wanted pretty much since I laid eyes on you. Even if I didn't know it then."

Jisoo's insides turned to mush like only Jennie could do. "Just so you know you can't exchange it for any other heart, you're stuck with mine."

"I wouldn't have it any other way," Jennie replied. She knew she'd never need anyone else's heart or love because in Jisoo she'd found exactly what she wanted and needed.

Jisoo was finally at peace with her gift, "Happy Anniversary, Jen."

"Happy Anniversary, Chu." Jennie hadn't felt more in love than she did right then.

While Jisoo definitely wanted to see the scrapbook the cat eyed had made for her she couldn't help but want Jennie more. She pulled her girlfriend off the couch and towards their bedroom with the intention of making their night even more unforgettable, but in a really good way.

And that's exactly what she did.

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