The Marrying Type || Jensoo & Chaelisa

Chapter 21

"Miss Kwon, do you want your marriage to Miss Kim dissolved?"

Jennie's eyes flickered to Jisoo, and she smiled gently.

"No, your Honor."

"Then that is all we need to know. This petition for an annulment is hereby declined. The court is dismissed."

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Jennie did not sit down. She couldn't, or wouldn't, and so she stood there, stunned, as the judge walked out of the courtroom and left behind him a stunned audience. The silence that resided over the room was so tense it was electric; Jennie could practically feel the anger emanating from her parents behind her, but failed to care anymore for that.

She heard the scraping of a chair against the floor as people began standing up, and that was when the tension dissolved altogether and Jennie felt relief washing over so quickly, she felt all energy drained from her altogether. She felt her knees buckle, and caught herself against the table, leaning against that one focal point with all her might to keep herself grounded.

She was not going to faint now.

The attorney rushed out of the room quickly as she could, and Jennie felt bad for her; she knew her parents would take their anger out on this poor woman, who really was only doing her job. She wondered whether she should find out her name and try and help her.

But her worry for the attorney disappeared when she noticed Jisoo walking towards her. Her feet directed themselves away from the table, away from her parents, and she practically collapsed into Jisoo's arms the instant she was close enough. Jisoo caught her with ease, and for a while, they just stood there, holding one another and breathing together. "Told you it'd be fine," Jisoo murmured into her ear, and Jennie smiled so widely she was sure she'd hurt herself.

She drew in a deep breath and held Jisoo tight against her as though she feared she'd slip away if she loosened her hold. She felt numb, as though she'd been hit by a truck and been left to fend for herself, and wasn't even so sure she was breathing.

This amount of joy shouldn't be possible, she thought to herself, it can't be real.

But then her eyes fell to her hand which rested on Jisoo's back, and to the ring that had grown to become a part of her body; she could no longer feel it actively, but would rather occasionally be surprised to find it there and then instantly be overwhelmed with happiness.

Jisoo was her wife and would stay her wife.

"I guess I should've trusted you more when you said it'd be fine."

Jisoo pulled away and smiled, and when she kissed her wife Jennie could practically taste the relief and joy on her lips. At the back of her mind she was aware of the glaring stares of her parents, fixed at her and her wife – she knew they were furious, and this overtly blatant display of affection was sure to rile them up to all-too-high levels.

But she didn't care.

Let them be angry, Jennie hummed in her mind, they don't matter.

On their way out of the courtroom Jennie glanced back and threw them the most satisfied, victorious smirk she could muster. She was sure it was so perfect Lisa would have certainly been proud, for her parents looked just about ready for murder by the time Jennie and Jisoo walked out of the doors and away from them.

Jennie had no interest in quarreling with them. She knew they had words to spit and yell at her, but they were no longer of any use to her; they were pitiful words, based on nothing but personal fears and ignorance. She refused to lower herself to their level and subject herself to the pain of yet another conversation with them.