The Old and The New

Chapter 18

Jennie decided to pamper herself. She got ready her bath with peppermint scented candle; filling up her bathroom as bubbles formed in her tub. She needed something like this to get rid of the stressful moments for the past one month. Her main source of pressure came from none other than Kim Jisoo.

She turned on some soft music in the background and closed her eyes as she tried to relax. But the moment her eyes were closed; Kim Jisoo came into her mind and Jennie would jolt up from the bathtub. She just couldn't put Jisoo away no matter how hard she tried.

"This is redundant. Why Jisoo? Why must you keep entering into my mind?"

She was yelling to nobody but to herself. It was so maddening that she simply couldn't put Jisoo out of her mind. She decided to scrape the thought and drained out the bubble bath and turned off the damn music which was now noise to her ears.

She took her bathrobe and slammed the bathroom door as hard as she could; hoping that something in her could just immediately wake up and stop torturing herself with thoughts of Jisoo. Suddenly, her front door bell was ringing. She rolled her eyes and wondered who that could be.

Nevertheless she made her way to the front door and glanced to her side quickly. It was raining cats and dogs just outside her window. She didn't even realize it. That was how swarmed her stupid brain of Jisoo was. She absent-mindedly opened the door and there stood the culprit of her downfall – Kim Jisoo.

She was completely wet and drenched. Her eyes were red and she was panting really hard like as though she had run a 30km marathon. Jennie was rooted to the ground. There she was trying to push away Jisoo from her but yet the person itself appeared at the front door; threatened to turn her world upside down again.

"We need to talk."

The younger lady was staring blankly at Jennie but her voice was almost pleading.

"What are you doing here? And why are you drenched?"

Jennie was aware that she was only in her bathrobe. She had no choice but to pull Jisoo in just in case her perverted neighbour walked past and saw her in just a bathrobe. How embarrassing could that be?

But the moment she dragged Jisoo in, things got relatively heated up. Jisoo was not only letting her in but she was crashing hard against Jennie; her moist skin was stuck to Jennie's and their heartbeats were slowly synchronising as one.

"What-t are you doing?"

Jisoo didn't say anything. She just leaned closer and kissed the younger lady on her lips.

And then everything else just went blurry right after that.

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Jennie was sitting up; leaning her body against the bed rest. She couldn't adhere what had just transpired between she and Jisoo. It was almost like a dream.

Jisoo crashed her lips against Jennie's. Jennie was trying hard to resist as she pushed Jisoo away but the girl held her tighter.

"Kim Jisoo!"

Jennie couldn't fight her off. Jisoo got her trapped in her embrace and the kiss deepened. But as soon as Jisoo's hands were intruding into Jennie's bathrobe, Jennie swatted her hands away and gave a tight slap across Jisoo's face.

The older lady stopped and looked down on the floor. It must have stung for her because Jennie hissed in pain as she saw her palm reddening by the second.

"Oh my god, Jisoo!"

Jennie couldn't believe what she had done. She didn't know why she did that. But somehow she understood because she was afraid – terrified to make another mistake that would lead her to more pain in the future.