the art of perfect snogging | ✓

12: finally!

Rosie wasn't going to lie, she misses Jisoo's undivided attention, but also Jisoo's entirety. They did not hang out as much lately.

She blamed on that night.

Odd, one moment you are always with them and the next you barely even look at each other in the eye.

Then Rosie remembered.

Jisoo liked somebody else-

fuck

- that definitely hurt remembering, especially when she thought about it further.

Jisoo liked somebody else, to begin with they started this whole snogging ordeal because Jisoo wanted to be better at kissing. A proclaimed negative ten, even if really, Jisoo kissed her as if it was her own salvation.

Or maybe, Rosie is just thinking that because she is a delusional girl who wanted love from a girl who couldn't give it to her, because she is totally interested with someone else.

Having that realization during the last period wasn't really ideal, but there she was going through it, with her eyes locked outside, her heart feeling like it was being shattered a ten fold.

She did not even feel this with Alistair, in fact she did not feel this intensely about Alistair at all. Huh, funny how she thought she was absolutely straight, or- she was definitely really totally just in denial about this.

She always had found Jisoo some kind of beautiful where there were no words to articulate how, beautiful was not enough.

The bell rang already and yet, Rosie still looked catatonic there, sitting, seemingly unmoving, then Jisoo noticed this.

Jisoo put her things inside her bag and made her way in front of Rosie, she snapped her fingers in front of the blonde.

"Rosie, hey,"

Rosie blinked, and then looked up at Jisoo. Jisoo held her chin and smiled that- that smile which made Rosie's stomach plummet down into swirling butterflies.

Jisoo held her by the chin, "You okay, love?"

Rosie smiled and nodded, "Yeah, I am."

"Let's go," And then Jisoo began to gather Rosie's things for her and put them into Rosie's bag herself. She offered her hand to Rosie, Rosie took it and then they made their way out of the room. Hands perfectly fitting each other's and nothing made more sense than that- them, together.

In that moment Rosie did not wish more of anything but Jisoo to see this.

Unbeknownst to her, Jisoo did.

There was silence, but it was not comfortable.

(I know the narration of this isn't any light anymore, but I really want to emphasize how pivotal this moment is, how dramatic it should be painted)

They both know that it wasn't and this made Jisoo worried because it wasn't anything like this before.

"You know, you still haven't told me, who the girl is..."

Jisoo looked at Rosie, her brows shot up, "Huh?"

"Well, you wanted to learn how to kiss perfectly right and we did that, and you never tell me for who it is for..."

This was Jisoo's moment, she was either still going to be really idiotic about this or she can decide to smartly thread through it and tell Roseanne the whole truth.

She stayed silent as she really thought about it.

"You should ask her out, Soo." Rosie encouraged, a perfect fake smile plastered on her face, but despite its perfection, it was obviously so fake that Jisoo, the usual oblivious girl that she was, had seen through it.

"Okay," Jisoo simply said and squeezed Rosie's hand to stop her.

They did. They stopped in the sea of people. Jisoo grabbed Rosie to her level, put a hand behind Rosie's neck and kissed her square on the lips.

They never kissed in public.

Well they did, once, on that party.

Rosie was caught off guard but she still found herself kissing the shorter girl back. They pulled out and Jisoo smiled at Rosie.

"What was that for?" It was totally random.

"We have a date tomorrow, okay?"

"What?" Rosie was still so confused, now she was the dumb one this time.

"Are you deaf now?" Jisoo laughed.

"No?" She was trying to make sense of things inside of her head because she did not want to mistake this one as real when it's just her imagination.

"You told me to ask the girl out,"

"The girl you like,"

"Yeah and that is you, you nitwit."

Rosie's broke into a grin, "What the fuck?" She gladly blurted out in exuberant glee.

"It's me all this time," She whispered to herself, not believing it at all. "You did all that- oh my god, why didn't you just ask me out in the beginning!?"

Jisoo laughed and began to walk again to fetch Jennie from her last class so they could all walk back home together, "Where is the fun in that?"

Rosie punched Jisoo on the shoulder, "Ow. We are not even together yet you are being such a-"

"Shush!" Rosie glared at Jisoo, it was an empty threat.

"What?"

"Why did you just not bloody ask like a normal girl would?"

"Because I'm not normal?" Jisoo shook her head and smirked.

"You are insufferable, but be glad you are cute."

"I am glad."

And there was a pep in the way they both walked.

What dumb asses, right, they could have just gotten together earlier, but this story wouldn't happen if it did anyway.