Outline of You | Jensoo

Ch07.

Snuggling into the side of Lisa, Chaeyoung keeps her eyes closed, still stuck in dreamland as she inhales the familiar scent of her girlfriend. She hums in her exhale and flings her arm behind her, patting the sheets in search of another warm body.

When her hand sweeps nothing but the soft fluffy comforter, she pops her eyes open and abruptly sits upright.

Oh my god, did I finally kick her off the bed?

She makes sure to check the floor before jumping out of bed, just in case she accidentally tramples on poor Jisoo. Only when she pads briskly out of the room does she spot Jisoo, sitting on the couch with her back towards her, but from Jisoo's profile, Chaeyoung can see the dreamy smile on her tragically pale face.

"There you are!" She loudly proclaims, startling Jisoo half to death. "Are you okay? You look so ill!"

"Chaeyoung," with a hand clutching her chest, Jisoo replies with ragged breaths, "at this rate of deafening shock, I'll really become ill."

Chaeyoung scoots next to Jisoo on the sofa, scanning the mountain of balls of used tissue paper on the coffee table and shaking her head. "You definitely are on your way, if not there already. Why did you leave the warm cosy bed?"

Jisoo rolls her eyes and blows mucus into another piece of tissue. "Because it was too cosy for comfort. Lisa and you basically morphed into a gigantic spoon in the centre of the bed." She leaves out the real reason, which is that she wanted to spare the couple of any more third wheeling.

"You can join in the fun and spoon Lisa, I don't mind," Chaeyoung laughs and smooths down the strands of bed hair poking out of Jisoo's head. "Well at least you have sense to get this thick fluffy comforter, it seriously freezes in the night."

"Ah. Yeah, about that...," Jisoo breaks eye contact and scrapes the back of her neck, looking somewhat shy and sheepish, "I uh, I didn't get it myself, frankly. I think... Jennie did."

Chaeyoung frowns, unable to catch the last words that Jisoo just mumbled through. But when she manages to connect the dots, her eyebrows shoot up and she excitedly hip-bumps Jisoo, almost sending the girl flying.

"Oooo! No wonder you were smiling to yourself like a complete idiot!" Chaeyoung bursts with a clap of her hands together.

"No it's not because of that!" Jisoo shakes her head quickly and corrects, "I mean, no, I wasn't smiling to myself at all!" Her eyes inadvertently flit to something on the coffee table for only a split second but of course Chaeyoung catches on.

"Ah, now I see it," Chaeyoung flashes a mischievous smirk as she slowly reaches for the note tucked under the metal flask, "so it's because of this." She reads it and her smirk grows into a splitting grin, her fingers flipping the note annoyingly back and forth, "Is this from Jennie?"

Jisoo tries her best to suppress the strange stir within her, but her cheeks dust pink anyway.

She clears her throat and sniffles her mucus back, her voice nasal as she blabbers, "Yeah, but don't read too much into it. I mean, she's just concerned as a friend, right? And like, it's not uncommon for friends to worry for other friends, so she probably does this to a dozen of her other friends when they are under the weather, and I just so happen to, you know, fall a little sick, so she is showing friendly concern."

She shrugs but it looks like a neck spasm, and Chaeyoung resists the urge to laugh.

"Alright, alright, I'm not saying it's anything," Chaeyoung winks, then grabs an apple from the fruit basket on the coffee table and begins munching. "But seriously though, where did you both elope to yesterday night?"