I Hate You, Don't Leave Me

Chapter 2

Chaeyoung was awoken the next day by a loud banging sound, and she shot straight up in her bed, wondering what on earth her mother was doing in her room. She opened her eyes to see Lisa, and she suddenly remembered where she was and realized that the sound that she had heard was the sound of Lisa closing her wardrobe unnecessarily loud. The other girl was now standing in front of the mirror on her vanity, putting on her tie, and Chaeyoung felt her skin begin to crawl, feeling the urge to grab onto the tie and choke her roommate with it. However, she resisted this urge, instead opting to chew her roommate out with words. "Do you have to be so incredibly loud? If you hadn't already noticed, I was still sleeping. Why don't you wake the whole goddamn house while you're at it?"

"Maybe I would, if the whole house wasn't already up. Everyone's down at breakfast, and it's actually almost time for school. Would you have liked for me to let you sleep through your second day of school after already missing your first?" Lisa asked in a bitchy tone.

Chaeyoung's brows furrowed in confusion, and she reached over to her phone, which was resting on her nightstand, wondering if she had slept through her alarm. However, she noticed that there was no sign that her alarm had even gone off in the first place. Quickly opening up her clock app, she found that she had accidentally set the alarm for PM instead of AM. Chaeyoung groaned internally, but she had to at least feel a little grateful that Lisa had actually woken her up, even if she had done it in a rude way.

"Thanks, I guess. For waking me up," Chaeyoung mumbled. She couldn't help but feel a little bit bad that she had acted so rudely towards Lisa when her roommate had actually done something kind of nice for her in a weird Lisa way. However, this feeling instantly evaporated when she heard what her roommate had to say next.

"Will you shut up?" Lisa glared at her in the mirror. "I find the sound of your voice incredibly annoying."

Chaeyoung's hands tightened into fists, and she again had to resist the urge to do something bad to her roommate. Instead of strangling the brunette, like she so desperately wanted to, she decided to simply try to provoke her further. Running through her options, she thought the best way to annoy her roommate would be to keep talking. Better yet, she could try to pry into Lisa's life a bit, knowing that the other girl probably didn't want to talk about it with her. "You said everyone else was down at breakfast. Why aren't you?"

Lisa sighed before answering in what Chaeyoung figured was a truthful way, even though the brunette's tone remained sharp. "I don't eat with them. If I even eat at all."

"Why?" Chaeyoung asked, unable to help her curiosity. She was surprised that Lisa had even answered at all. She had expected the other girl to either yell at her or simply ignore her.

Lisa's eyes hardened at the question. "None of your business."

Now, that was more of the response that the blonde had been expecting. Chaeyoung  was about to say more, but Lisa simply growled in frustration, grabbing her book bag off of the floor and making her way out the door without another sound. The blonde didn't even bat an eye, still staring at the place that Lisa had occupied only seconds ago. Chaeyoung's gaze settled on a silver sequined headband that Lisa had left behind on the top of her vanity, and the blonde wondered if her roommate had been planning on wearing it before she had started asking the slightly invasive questions that had driven the other girl from the room. It was a nice color, and Chaeyoung realized that she had forgotten her headbands at home. Her sudden wish that she had a headband of her own to wear gave her an idea that she considered a great one. If Lisa hated even talking to Chaeyoung, she would hate it even more if she borrowed her things, so that was exactly what the blonde intended to do. She smirked as she plucked the headband from the vanity and put it into her hair. She then gave herself a once over in the mirror, deciding that the accessory would do nicely for the day, before she proceeded to her wardrobe, pulling out a uniform shirt, skirt, and tie, so she could get ready for the school day.