Forgotten Memories | JENSOO [18+]

Chapter Fourteen: The Car

Chahee walked Jinwoo out to the garage with Jennie following. Jennie decided she wanted to go shopping. She was going to attempt her first dinner, smoke detectors willing.

As the garage door lifted and sunlight shone in, Jennie froze. On the furthest side of the three stall garage sat the most beautiful car she'd ever seen. And, her legs wouldn't allow her to walk toward it.

"Wow, Jisoo sure did a nice job replacing your car," Chahee said, not noticing Jennie wasn't walking with them any longer.

"My car?" Jennie's voice asked from the door of the house.

Chahee turned and saw the stricken look on Jennie's face. "Jen? Are you alright?"

Jennie's eyes remained focused on the latest model Dodge Charger. A rich wine color with gray interior.

"Chahee, take Jinwoo out of the car," Jennie said, still not removing her eyes from the car.

Chahee did as she asked.

"Mommy! Race car!"

"No Jinwoo, not a race car," Jennie told him. "We'll take Chahee's car to the store honey."

"Jen?"

Jennie now looked at Chahee and saw the concern and confusion in her face.

"Jinwoo can't get into that car," Jennie said.

"Jen?"

"That's not my car," Jennie softly said.

"Well, it's a year or two newer than yours. Jisoo replaced it as best she could. Same color. Programmed your stereo the same. Everything."

"Chahee, can we please take your car?"

"Sure," she agreed. "Let me get Jinwoo into the car seat."

"I can do that," Jennie said, grasping Jinwoo's hand and walking away from the scariest sight she could remember.

Chahee called Jisoo while Jennie was busy getting Jinwoo into her car parked at the front of the house.

"Jisoo, we have a problem." She continued to relay what had happened.

Jisoo gave a heavy sigh. "Chahee, why do I keep screwing up?"

"Jisoo, you had no idea she would react this way."

"I should have! Dammit, she totalled the car. Almost didn't pull through. I'm expecting her to be Jennie, and she's not!"

"Jisoo, stop beating yourself up over this. Give Doctor Park a call while I take her to the grocery store. See what he has to say." She saw Jennie turn to look her way. "I gotta go!" She closed her phone and walked to her car.

Jennie was distracted in the grocery store. A flash of a memory and then nothing. Was it a memory? All she knew was she wasn't ready to get behind the wheel of that car. Didn't know if she ever would.

As they stood at the checkout, Jennie realized she didn't know how she was going to pay for the purchase. Her wallet didn't have a checkbook.

Chahee figured out her quandary and spoke softly, "Use the cash card for your account."

Jennie looked at her then back in her wallet. She removed one of a few plastic cards from her wallet. 'Kim Jennie' in gold letters stared back at her.

In the entire time she'd been home, she'd never seen her married name officially. She turned the card over and looked at her signature. It looked like her writing. Of course it was her writing.

As Chahee and Jinwoo worked on bagging up their food, Jennie handed the teenager running the checkout the card. He swiped it through the machine and after a moment asked to see some identification.