The Oasis and The Island

Chapter 24 - Moving On

Lisa kept looking to the red stain of her blood red spit in the sink. If she knew that her headaches had been caused by her stupid teeth, she would have removed them a long time ago. Not now, in this godforsaken town. She took another pill and went downs stairs for her breakfast. Yes, more ice cream.

She could not avoid her tongue curiosity, touching that stitches every 2 minutes. She'd rather it would be touching something else. But 'something else' was forbidden for the next 2 days. Why she was always been punished with sex restrictions? That was not fair at all. Not with her hot fiancé making delightful suggestions on bed. Hurt mouth aside, she could not complain about her life. She had a beautiful girl, inside and out, a baby coming and even a very nice father in law to be. Her job was the only thing that still bothered her. After all of this time away from the drugstore, she could not imagine working there anymore, she would definitely look for another one.

Jennie was nowhere in the house. When she returned to the living room, Mr. Kim told her that Jennie was in the attic. Even though Lisa was getting used to be awake in the daytime and sleep at night, she still had a hard time to wake up before noon. And most of the time she missed Jennie in the bed. She hated to wake up alone.

"And Lisa." Said Mr. Kim, before she left upstairs. "Keep an eye on Jennie, please. I told her I'll get anything she needed to be carrying out from the attic, but you know how stubborn she is."

"Sure thing, Janney." Lisa said still feeling the stitches pulling her gum.

"And you too, don't take anything heavy, or I will arrest you, I mean it." He made a fake mad face.

"No problem, Sir."

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Lisa approached slowly, taking careful steps to the attic. She found Jennie looking inside of an old wood trunk. She pulled out a white long dress and looked with a painful expression to the wrinkled fabric. Lisa didn't want to scare her, so she just said a "Hey." Jennie startled a little.

"Hey." Her expression eased a little when she looked at Lisa. "How are you feeling?"

"Better."

"Did you eat already? You barely ate last night."

"I did. I think I won't be a big fan of ice cream after these 2 days."

"I don't think it's possible."

"It's your mom's?" Lisa said pointing to the dress.

"Yeah." Jennie smiled a bit. "Very 80's, huh?"

Lisa approached taking the helm of the dress. "Not bad. I think it can be refurbished or something."

"Maybe." Jennie tilted her head. "I think I will take it with me."

Lisa felt a little dizzy and sat on a rocking chair a few feet away from Jennie. "Cupcake, we need to talk about our wedding day."

"I know." Jennie shoved the dress in a cardboard box. She turned to Lisa "I really wanted to have a big and fancy wedding but..."

"What?"

"That will take forever to plan. And with the baby coming, I don't know when and how we can do it."

"Can I make a suggestion?"

"Sure." She sat on the top of the trunk.

"I know my original plan was to get married after the baby was born, but I really wanted for us get married before that."