Feels Like Home | A Lizkook AU

38.

"Daddy..." Her voice can't be any smaller. "Say something..."

Her father had asked Jungkook to leave the room and now it's only the two of them, sitting in torturous silence. Torture because she had to suppress her need to burst into happy tears upon Jungkook's words - still lingering in her mind.

He wants to marry me! He really wants to marry me!!

To say that it shocked her is an understatement of the year. She was sure that her boyfriend's going to say things like 'don't take her away from me', or maybe that he'll wait for her to come back - not once did she expect him to even jump into the topic of marriage and be so confidently charming at it too!

Things were getting better - yes, much better - but even Lisa didn't think of the bigger picture that comes with it! She thought she'd slowly spend more time in Jeju to be with him, a subtle way to give her parents some room to digest the fact that she won't be going to Canada. She never even spoke about Canada to Jungkook after that first time - afraid of what his response might be - so to hear that he'd willing to drop everything and go with her this time is really...amazing - that's the word!

"Lalisa...I want you to be clear about something," Her father finally broke his silence. His voice is stern and filled with determination and Lisa's hands began shaking again, unsure of what follows suit. "You're my daughter and I want what's best for you..."

Oh no...oh, please no!! "Dad - please! Please don't ask me to leave him - I can't, please!!"

"You need to learn how to listen," The slightly higher tone forced soft sobs out of her, and Lisa looks down to the knotted fingers on her lap. "I know...I know how...how in love and infatuated you two are with each other. But again, you need to learn how to listen. Stop interrupting and just listen,"

Lisa nodded - tears had started falling despite the hushed battle in her mind. Please...please don't let this be another challenge...please don't break us apart...

"Listen to him. Listen to what he said. He's doing his very best, just for you!"

She looks up. It was clearly not what she expected to hear from her father. She thought he was going to convince her not to accept Jungkook's proposal but now -

"I don't ever - and I don't mean just him, it's probably someone else in the future - I don't know! But I don't ever want to hear you justifying for any man! Stop trying to put your life or decisions on hold over any man. He's not the boss of you - I'm not the boss of you! If you told me you didn't want to go to Canada before you met him, I would have been fine with it but now it seems that it revolves around your concern for him - why? If he wants to be with you, he'll make the plans to do so, and look at what he just did - he made the plan!"

She didn't know why she smiled but the joy had kicked in all too sudden and it made her grinning and nodding like a fool!

"This chasing...doubts of whether he's capable of making decisions that involve you has to stop, Lili. Trust him!"

"I do! I do, daddy - I just...I wasn't sure if you like him -"

"I didn't. He was the last kind of person I wanted to be hanging around my daughter, but that was before. See...I've done a lot of thinking. There are so many people in this world who refused to be given second chances in life. They kept taking it for granted. But him...he was just at the wrong place. It's his circumstances and it's a work of God that I, myself can't judge. He was waiting for the second chance - all his life, he's been waiting for it. He just never knew how to get it. And now that he's given that room to start over, he's doing the best he can. I don't know him that long...but I can say how proud I am of him and it has nothing to do with your relationship with him. I cannot hope for a better man to take such good care of my daughter,"