Trials and Tribulations [Chaelisa]

Chapter 40

A/N: because i have to attend some meeting tonight, i will just give you triple update right now instead of posting it at 9 pm like i used to.
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“Smile!” Chaeyoung heard someone call loudly, her consciousness returning to her as she woke with a start. She was aware of the flash of a bright light through the thin, sensitive skin of her closed eyelids and amused giggling in the near vicinity to where she slept.

“Wake up Chaeng,” she heard someone say firmly having obviously noted that she was gradually starting to stir. Chaeyoung’s eyes felt heavy with sleep and she lifted up a hand to rub at them for a moment in an attempt to make the concept of opening them more appealing.

“Chaeng…” someone practically sung; their voice cheerful and melodic. Chaeyoung forced her eyes open, squinting for an instant as they adjusted to the light in the room and groaned as she spied Jisoo, Jennie and Somi all towering above her.

“God,” she groaned, closing her eyes briefly and placing a hand over them as though attempting to hide. “What the fuck guys?” She asked evidently irritated by the somewhat rude awakening.

“Oh, don’t be like that,” Jisoo laughed, lifting up the iPhone in her hand and snapping a picture of Chaeyoung where she lazed, still enveloped in her sleeping bag on the living room floor. “It’s a New Year remember? Where’s your energy and enthusiasm for life?”

“Why are you waking me up so early?” Chaeyoung grumbled sleepily, still not amused that she’d been disturbed. “Couldn’t you just let me sleep?” Chaeyoung propped herself up on her elbows to get a better look at her friends and felt a heavy weight across her stomach. She glanced down and found Lisa still lying sound sleep beside her on the floor, her girlfriend’s head resting on her stomach, her right arm draped across her legs messily. Lisa was swathed in her own sleeping bag, her dark curls spread out across the floor, her face turned in to Chaeyoung’s body. “Were you taking a picture of us?” Chaeyoung asked, suddenly realising what the flash of light she’d seen through her closed eyes had been.

“You two are so cute,” Jennie informed her cryptically, avoiding answering m the question directly.

“That’s not an answer,” Chaeyoung replied, pinching the bridge of her nose and closing her eyes for a second as she tried to wake herself up fully.

“Fine we were taking pictures,” Jisoo admitted, “but you both look adorable in them, don’t…”

“Wait, pictures?” Chaeyoung asked, her brain finally catching up to the older girls words. “Plural?” she questioned needing some clarity.

“Maybe…” Somi confessed smirking at Chaeyoung who did not look amused at the revelation.

“Thanks guys,” she commented drily, pushing herself up into sitting further and resting her shoulders against the couch for support. “What the hell is the time anyway?” she inquired certain that it could be no later than six in the morning.

“It’s eleven,” Jennie told her, laughing when she observed the look on Chaeyoung’s face in response to this information.

“Now can you see why we woke you?” Somi asked. “We’re all starving…”

“Then have some breakfast,” Chaeyoung griped. “Jesus Christ, you guys have been here enough to know where everything is by now. Just helps yourselves.”

“Wow, you are not a morning person Chaeng,” Jennie said amused at her friends’ irritation.

“Well can you blame me?” she asked running a hand through her hair frustrated. “I’m tired and we didn’t get to sleep until three o’clock this morning.”