I Hate You, Don't Leave Me

Chapter 16

Chaeyoung awoke the next morning to find that she was still lying in Lisa's bed with the brunette curled into her side. This was how she was waking up every morning lately, and she didn't think that she would ever get tired of it. In fact, she was feeling so warm and comfortable right now that she wished that she could just stay in bed with her roommate forever. She was seriously tempted to allow herself to fall back asleep, but when she glanced over at the clock on Lisa's nightstand and realized that it was already ten, she forced herself to get up because she wanted to get downstairs to breakfast before Jackson, Bam Bam, and Hanbin ate it all.

Chaeyoung slipped out of bed, trying her best not to wake her girlfriend as she moved, and luckily, Lisa just rolled over and continued to sleep. Chaeyoung quickly pulled on some clothes and made her way downstairs. When she reached the dining room, she noticed that Minzy was still in the kitchen preparing breakfast, and she remembered that she still needed to pick her shirts up from the laundry room. Residents of the house could just put their clothes into the washing machine, and Minzy would make sure that they were dried and waiting by the next morning. Sure enough, when Chaeyoung walked into the laundry room, she was greeted with the sight all of her shirts folded nicely and waiting in her basket by the door.

Chaeyoung picked up her shirts and shouted a quick thank you to Minzy as she passed her in the kitchen. On her way to the stairs, she passed Hanbin and Kai, who were clearly heading for the dining room, and she quickened her pace, wanting to get down to breakfast before the best food had been picked over. However, all thoughts of breakfast vanished from Chaeyoung's mind the moment that she entered her room.

Lisa was thrashing around on the bed, making whimpering noises, and Chaeyoung quickly dropped her basket next to her own bed and rushed across the room to try and comfort the other girl, who was clearly having a nightmare. Chaeyoung thought that it looked to be a bad one, and she immediately began shaking Lisa in the hopes that it would awaken her roommate. "Lisa. Lisa, it's just a dream. Wake up."

Lisa's eyes sprang open, but Chaeyoung could tell that the brunette was not fully awake yet because she was looking at Chaeyoung with wild eyes. The blonde tried to reach out a comforting hand to her roommate, but the minute she touched the other girl, Lisa jerked away violently, tumbling off of the bed. "Don't touch me!"

"Whoa, Lisa. Stop. It's okay." Chaeyoung made her way over to Lisa's side to make sure that she wasn't hurt, but the brunette just scrambled further away.

"Stay away from me!" she shrieked.

Lisa continued to back away until she hit the corner of the room, leaning back against her wardrobe, which was against the wall, and pulling her knees up to her chest. Chaeyoung was extremely perplexed by her roommate's behavior, and she found that she had no idea why she was acting like this, nor did she have any idea what had brought on this frightening level of nightmare.

Chaeyoung looked around the room, desperate to find some means of comfort for her girlfriend. When her eyes landed on the blanket on Lisa's bed, Chaeyoung decided that it would have to do, and she quickly grabbed it, gently wrapping it around Lisa's still-naked form. The brunette girl didn't flinch away this time, instead clutching tightly to the blanket, and Chaeyoung could see that she was drawing some kind of comfort from it. The blonde slowly crouched down in front of her roommate, careful not to startle the other girl, and she restrained herself from reaching out to touch Lisa as she tried again to get through to her. "Lisa, calm down. It's just me. Chaeng. You're okay."

Lisa's eyes seemed to finally fully focus on Clarke's for the first time that morning. "Chaeng?" she asked warily with wide eyes, as if she was just seeing the other girl for the first time.