I Hate You, Don't Leave Me

Chapter 11

The next day, Chaeyoung was sitting on her bed, trying in vain to finish her biology homework. She had just started the worksheets that were due in tomorrow's class, but she had been staring blankly at the second question for almost five minutes now, and she was starting to think that this homework might take her all night. She wished that Lisa were here. She and the brunette normally always did their homework together, and while Chaeyoung missed her roommate's intelligence, she missed the other girl's company even more. However, she hadn't seen Lisa since this morning, so she had resorted to the fact that she was doing her homework alone today. She grabbed her biology book and began flipping through the pages in search of the answer.

Not much time had passed before Chaeyoung lifted her head at the sound of her door opening, smiling when she saw Lisa stride into the room. However, the brunette did not say a word to her, walking silently over to her wardrobe, and Chaeyoung's face fell at the obvious sign that her roommate was going out again. She knew that Lisa probably just needed some space after what Chaeyoung had done yesterday, but the blonde couldn't help but wish that her roommate might stay.

"Hey, Lisa, do you want to work on this biology assignment with me?"

"I can't, Chaeyoung," Lisa said, pulling on her boots. "I'm going out with Jennie."

The blonde's nose wrinkled at the statement, thinking that this was most definitely a lie. "No, you're not. Not too long ago, you were telling me how you didn't want to hang out with my friends because they hated you. You expect me to believe you're suddenly best friends with Jennie?"

Lisa sighed in exasperation. "I'm not best friends with her. She asked me to hang out with her tonight since Jisoo's going out with Hanbin, and Kai is working on a project, and I said yes."

Chaeyoung was about to protest more because she knew that her roommate was most likely just making this up to avoid her. The blonde wanted to call her out on it in the hopes that she might stay here, where Chaeyoung might be able to convince her to talk about what had happened. She didn't want one stupid mistake to ruin the beautiful friendship that had grown between them. Before she could even get a word out though, the door to their room opened again, and this time it was Jennie who stepped inside.

Chaeyoung's eyeballs almost rolled out of her head at the sight of the girl. "She wasn't lying," the blonde said before she could stop herself. Jennie shot her a confused look, and Chaeyoung quickly explained herself. "You two really are hanging out tonight then?"

"Um, yeah. Kai's doing some kind of project, and Jisoo and Hanbin are going out on a date, so Lisa and I were just gonna hang out at the arcade down the street." Jennie paused for a moment, taking in Chaeyoung's shocked look, unsure what to make of it. "Is that a problem?"

Chaeyoung realized that she must have been making a strange face, and she tried to relax her features and stay calm. Inside though, Chaeyoung was not calm. She was hurt that Lisa would rather hang out with Jennie than with her, and she was also slightly upset that neither one of them had asked her along. Chaeyoung cleared her throat. "No. You're fine. I just thought Lisa was lying, that's all."

Jennie's brows furrowed, and Chaeyoung realized that the brunette didn't know that there was anything wrong between the blonde and her roommate. "Do you want to come with us?"

Chaeyoung wanted to scream out yes, to jump off her bed and grab her wallet and follow the two of them out the door. She was two seconds away from saying she would go, but she noticed Lisa out of the corner of her eye when Jennie had spoken. Lisa had tensed up a bit, eyes widening at the prospect, and Chaeyoung's shoulders slumped. She had been right. Lisa was trying to avoid her, and the blonde knew that if she ever wanted things to work out between the two of them, then she needed to give her roommate the space that she so clearly needed.