Accidentally

It's In The Little Things

Updated 02/2023
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The sun had enjoyed the peak of its daily reign, and began to descend for its exit, to be swallowed by the placid sea, a sight Jisoo would have enjoyed taking in, if she hadn't enjoyed watching Jennie's graceful smile so much more.

In the few short hours that Jennie had to spend with her prior foster brother, Jisoo had learned many things about her.

She'd learned that Jennie's laughter was the sweetest sound she'd ever heard in the world, though, to be fair, Jisoo already knew that. It was light and airy and incredibly honey-like, a compliment to her typically lower, calm voice.

She would have blindly follow that laugh into the darkness at a moment's notice.

She'd learned that Jennie had been a fighter in her younger days, defending Jongdae from just about everything and anything that crossed his path. Jisoo had to bite back a smile and young, fiery Jennie, defensive and perhaps a bit much.

She'd learned that their time spent under Jang Jaehwa, whom Jisoo hated without knowing, had made them nearly inseparable. They didn't go into specifics; Jisoo had surmised that it was too painful. But she understood what was implied, she'd read between the lines.

The fact that Jennie ever had to throw herself in front of Jongdae to shield him from their own mother, foster or not...It broke Jisoo.

She'd managed to hide her tears with her sunglasses, careful only to allow herself a sniffle when Jennie was busied with Jongdae's ramblings.

Jisoo had managed to fend off her own family, as they respected her wishes to give Jennie the privacy she so deserved with Jongdae.

They had settled for walking and talking, with Jisoo doing a great bulk of the listening. She noticed the way Jongdae squirmed and wiggled his way between herself and Jennie, greedily taking one of their hands each in his own as he swung them on his walk, chest puffed proudly as he told Jennie of his many accolades and accomplishments.

Occasionally, Jongdae would turn and smirk at Jisoo, as if sharing an inside secret with her, like they were the best of friends.

Occasionally, Jennie would glance at Jisoo over Jongdae's ramblings and give her a knowing smile, rolling her eyes at the way her little brother would huff exaggeratedly when he'd found they'd been "canoodling", as he put it, behind his back.

Jisoo swore, it was a wonder the two weren't related.

Chanwoo was long gone, seizing the rare opportunity to get some errands done without Jongdae, who'd proven to be more than a handful. He'd promised Jennie to pick him up as soon as they needed him, and was off before a word could be put in edgewise.

Between his ramblings and his inability to hone his focus on one single subject for more than three seconds, Jongdae had declared his hunger, glancing up at each girl with a hopeful smile.

Jennie rolled her eyes. "Of course you played Jisoo to get you dessert beforehand."

Jongdae smiled proudly, chuckling to himself at Jisoo's feigned gape of protest. "I knew you wouldn't let me. You'd probably make me run it off, or something."

At that, Jisoo was in hysterics while Jennie scoffed, rolling her eyes as she dragged her two idiots to the café by the edge of the corner, feeling an odd sense of completion in her life that she never knew she needed.

"How does this look?" Lisa asked, narrowing her eyes at her own reflection as she took in her dress clad body in the boutique dressing room.

Chaeyoung tried not to gape from her nonchalant seat in the back, arms folded, legs crossed lazily. "Fine." She replied briskly.