Precious Things || Jensoo

Chapter 38

Chapter Thirty-Eight

Leaving Jennie was the biggest wrench ever.

Kissing her goodbye in her bedroom made me want to cry. I haven't cried in a long time.

She promised me, faithfully, that she'd see me soon. I believe that she'll try. I just don't think she's come up against an adversary like my grandfather before.

He's been really lenient lately, for him. I'm worried that if Jennie pushes it too far, things will get much worse. That not only will my time with her be limited but he might decide to cut it off altogether.

That was bad enough before she labelled us as 'dating'.

Before I knew what it was like to kiss her.

Before I knew what that skin at the base of her spine felt like. That skin that made me fall for her in the first place, when she leaned over and I nearly died. It's so damn soft. I spent long minutes tracing over it with my fingers until she groaned.

Apparently it was doing things to her.

I like doing things to her.

She likes it when I do things to her.

I can't believe she likes me. There was some talk in between the kissing, and I finally got the guts up to ask her about that kiss all those months ago.

She's liked me all this time.

She just didn't know what to do about it.

I guess I could understand that. I do wish it hadn't taken her so long to break up with Jongin, though. It must have been difficult, liking me and being with him. Of course, she could have just broken up with him sooner!

It doesn't matter. Nothing can bring me down from this high. Not the gardening my grandfather makes me do, not the homework he makes me do, nothing. Being apart from Jennie is hell, but I hold on to my memories tightly so that I have something to keep me going.

She doesn't make me wait too long, though. She turns up at our door one afternoon less than a week after I last saw her. I'm outside gardening and my grandfather hears it. He sends me around the front to check who it is and when I see her, I almost drop everything and run into her arms.

Of course, she would catch me in ancient baggy trousers, wearing gardening gloves and with a leaf in my hair.

She takes the leaf out for me.

"This is a new look," she says dryly.

I whack her arm lightly. "What are you doing here?" Not that I really care, just to lay eyes on her is like food for the soul.

"I came to see if you wanted to go for a walk," she shrugs.

"Oh..." I look back to the corner of the house, knowing my grandfather is around there. "Uh, my grandfather..." I drift off.

"Yeah, I know. I figured the worst he could do was say no."

She makes a good point.

"I'll have to go check. Wait here?" I smile at her. I want to kiss her so badly but, if we were caught, it would be a disaster, so I don't. Doesn't stop me from wanting to.

I make it back to the house before I meet my grandfather coming around the corner. He must have got tired of waiting.

"Oh, Miss Kim," he says. He says it to her, mostly ignoring me. I'm used to it. "How nice of you to stop by."

"Thank you, sir." She's so polite. I love how she's so polite to him. "I was wondering if Jisoo might be available for a stroll."

He looks at me, and then at her, and then back to me. "Well, Jisoo?"

Wait... he's asking me?????

"Er, sure," I say, but not with entire certainty.

"Don't say 'er', Jisoo, it's unladylike."

"Sorry, sir," I reply. "I would be happy to go for a walk." Ugh, I hate it when he makes me talk 'formal' in front of Jennie. Especially as I see that glint in her eye and she's going to give me hell for it later.

I quickly change out of my gardening clothes and straighten up. There is no way my grandfather would let me leave the premises looking that dishevelled.

He tells me to be back in forty-five minutes and I make sure Jen checks her watch so we know when that is.

After two minutes of walking away, she says "Uh, where are we going?"

I laugh. "I don't know, idiot. It's your walk."

"I just came to see you!" she protests.

"Hmm..." I think. And I have a brainwave. "Come on."

I lead her down the road to a small lane between some houses. A five-minute walk sees us down by the creek, well-away from all humanity. On occasion, my grandfather feels the need to take a walk that doesn't follow our normal route and this is usually where he comes.

At least it's isolated. At least it's alone.

Clearly I'm not the only one with such thoughts because, as soon as we're down there, I find myself pressed into her arms, her lips passionate against my own.

I kiss her back, tangling my hand in her curls and slanting my lips against her. I open, tasting and touching.

Heat flares inside me, dormant since she last touched me.

We kiss, over and over and over. When we finally do break apart, I whimper. I don't want to stop.

"God, I've missed you," she says.

"Tell me about it," I whisper back. At least she's been enjoying the summer. I guarantee she hasn't had to study.

We find some less muddy, vaguely-comfortable place to sit and start kissing again. When she lays me back against the ground and presses her body into mine I nearly explode with need and want. But I push her back up.

"Too far?"

"No. Don't want to get dirt on my blouse," I admit. "If my grandfather sees that, I have no idea how to explain it to him."

She chuckles. "Yeah, that would be interesting."

She has no idea. No fucking idea.

I stop thinking about it and kiss her.

We do remember to keep checking her watch though.

When we finally have to ramble back, she grabs my hand at the last minute, three houses away from mine. I pull away, looking around, scared that someone might see. She rolls her eyes.

"Come over on Friday."

I sigh. "God, I wish."

"Try..."

"Jen -" I sigh. "If I push this too hard, we risk not being able to see each other at all. He's been really lenient lately."

"Once a week?" she asks incredulously.

"Yeah, well, that's good for him."

"I miss you."

"I miss you, too." I look sadly at her. And then draw my mouth into a line. "Okay, okay. I'll try. But no promises, okay?"

"Okay." She smiles at me. "I really want to kiss you now."

"Mmm, disaster lurks."

She laughs. And then we have to go.

He says no. I didn't really expect otherwise and I don't push it. I can see in his eyes that it's not worth pushing. Not if I want to see Jennie again. But as usual, Hyorin comes to our rescue.

Friday might have been a no-go, but the Kim family are having a barbeque and I'm invited. It's on Saturday, which is only a day later. Apparently Hyorin has some kind of magic in her voice because my grandfather seems unable to say no to her. And he got rail-roaded into agreeing to me staying the night.

And I'm allowed to swim.

This is going to be the best summer ever!

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