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"Okay, so I have a few rules now that you two are dating." Jisoo starts.
They're sat at their gate, waiting for their flight to start letting passengers in. The coast is clear, management booked them a late night flight to avoid fans and paparazzi on their way home.
Jennie's sandwiched between her and Rosé whilst Lisa is sat on the new scooter luggage she bought, moving herself back and forth with the wheels.
("Unnie! I have to buy this! Look!" Lisa says as she wheels herself back and forth on the luggage.
It's a yellow scooter luggage designed for kids. Jisoo swears Lisa would have never paid it much attention if it weren't for that one kid racing around with it around the airport.
Naturally, an excited Lisa pulls her over to the store to try it out.
Jisoo swears that Lisa is literally a 5 year old stuck in a 22 year old's body.
"Lisa, you don't need it." Jisoo groans as she tries pulling the younger member up.
"But it's fun!" Lisa says, half on and half off of the luggage.
"It's not worth the money." Jisoo explains. Why does this girl spend her money so recklessly?
"Having fun is priceless." Lisa argues while firmly sitting back down.
Jisoo sighs and gives up. There's really no point in arguing with a stubborn Lisa.)
Lisa halts at her words.
"Rules?" Lisa asks.
"What's up?" she hears Jennie say.
Jisoo looks at the both of them, carefully choosing her words. With their short vacation coming to an end, Jisoo was hit by the reality of their situation. Group members dating? That's unchartered territory. Nothing in their trainee years had her prepared for this. As the oldest, she felt responsible.
(Hence why she stayed up all night thinking of a plan.)
Jisoo internally groans. There's no easy way of say this first point.
Argh. Screw it.
"No sex in the dorm." She says firmly, as she sternly looks at both of them back and forth, making sure that her point gets through to them.
She watches as Lisa and Jennie exchange a guilty look.
"I think it's too late for that..." Lisa says.
Of course. They're both young and healthy adults. What was she expecting?
She groans in disgust.
"What? No way." She hears Chaeyoung say as she sits forward, looking at the two in shock.
"We're only human." Lisa says defensively as she raises her palms up.
Jisoo massages her temples.
Of course she's happy that her two best friends are dating, but if she has to endure a second of what she did 2 nights ago, she won't hesitate to kick them off the moving plane.
"As long as it happened in your room, right unnie?" Chaeyoung says awkwardly, as she looks at Jisoo.
Jisoo watches as Jennie sinks down in her seat, while Lisa tries to escape by wheeling herself away with her luggage.
"What? Why are you sinking? Lisa, where are you going?" Chaeyoung asks as she pulls Lisa back.
"We're sanitising and blessing each room when we get home." Jisoo leans forward to get Chaeyoung's attention."Chaeyoung-ah, do you have prayers for that?" Jisoo jokes.
Chaeyoung playfully glares at Jisoo, making the older woman chuckle.
"... and maybe sanitise each surface too?" Lisa says while wincing. Jisoo feels her smile immediately fade away.
Jisoo and Rosé look at the other two members in horror.
"Lisa, you really didn't have to include that."Jennie says embarrassingly as she covers her face with her hand.
"Unnie, please tell me you at least cleaned up afterwards?" Rosé says as she grabs onto Jennie's arm.
"Of course we did. We didn’t want a UTI." Lisa says, looking at them like it's an obvious fact.
Jennie groans as she shakes her head at her girlfriend.
"Not that type of cleaning, babe." Jennie replies.
"Oh."
"Gross. Gross. Gross." Rosé repeats, this time sinking in her own chair.
Jennie clears her throat.
"Of course we cleaned after ourselves. You know me, I'd never let the dorm get dirty." Jennie explains, looking at both Jisoo and Rosé to relay her point.
Jennie's cleanliness should've really made Jisoo feel at ease, but now she can't help but think about all the times the two lovers were left alone in their dorm.
She shivers at the thought.
"How about this," Jisoo starts.
"Everywhere but your room is off limits. We'll respect your privacy just as long as you keep it down—"
"—Jennie's loud thou-"
"—Lisa."" Jennie says warningly, making Lisa purse her lips shut.
Jennie turns around to face Jisoo.
"Are there other rules?" Jennie continues, blushing madly while trying to change the subject.
"Be transparent with us," Jisoo says.
"Of course." Jennie replies sincerely.
"This is new territory for all of us," Jisoo explains, earning a nod from everyone.
"We'll protect your relationship, you know we will. We'd never let anything bad happen to you both. But you have to be clear with us when things aren't okay between the two of you, that way we can figure things out together."
"Of course, unnie. The group's our main priority, right Lis?" Jennie says, earning a nod from Lisa.
Jisoo feels herself soften a little as she smiles at them.
"But I don't want you to feel like your relationship isn't," Jisoo adds.
"You're not, unnie. We understand where you're coming from." Jennie says as she reaches for her hand squeezes it.
"Yeah. Don't stress yourself over it." Lisa says, as she scoots closer to Jisoo.
"Alright then." Jisoo says while nodding at the both of them, satisfied with the conversation. She doesn't know why she thought it'd be much harder to have than it was.
"So, are those all the rules?" Lisa asks, while rolling back and forth again on her luggage.
"Yeah, guess so— wait, Chaeyoung-ah, do you have any rules?" Jisoo asks.
Chaeyoung sits back and thinks hard. Jisoo watches as blonde’s demeanour changes.
"Are we still gonna have movie nights?" Chaeyoung asks shyly.
Lisa wheels herself over to Rosé.
"Of course!" Lisa replies as she lays her head on Rosé's lap.
“And sleepovers?” Rosé adds.
“Duh! Nothing’s gonna change. I promise.” Lisa says reassuringly as she closes her eyes and reaches around Rosé’s waist.
"Then I'm good!" Rosé says happily, as she looks at Jisoo and Jennie.
Lisa perks her head up in Jisoo's direction.
"So you're okay with PDA?" Lisa asks while cocking her eyebrow up.
Jisoo scoffs.
"What?" Lisa asks, a little offended.
"Like you two already don't show enough PDA at home." Jisoo replies, making Lisa briefly clock things up in her head.
"That's true." Lisa says as she relaxes into Rosé's lap again.
Jisoo can't count the amount of times she's caught the two cuddling and holding hands at the dorm. She always used to brush it off as Lisa being Lisa, but looking back, it all makes sense. Lisa was never that affectionate with her or Rosé.
"Jesus," Rosé says,making all three of them look at the blonde.
Rosé's looking into the distance, clearly in deep thought.
"You good Chaeyoung?" Jennie asks, while gently nudging her, trying to get her attention.
Chaeyoung shakes her head and then looks back at the three of them.
"I just— how did I miss all those signs?" she says as she slaps her forehead.
Jisoo watches as Jennie smiles and rubs Rosé's arm sympathetically.
"Honestly, me too." Jisoo says, making Jennie and Lisa laugh.
After their laughter dies down, Lisa pipes up with an idea.
"Hey Chaeyoung-ah, do you think you're faster than my scooter?"
"Maybe." Chaeyoung replies. Lisa smirks.
"Bet." Lisa says.
"You're on." Chaeyoung says before getting up.
"Lisa's gonna lose." Jennie says once the two are out of sight.
"Yup." Jisoo agrees.
When will Lisa finally acknowledge that she'll never win a bet against the rest of them?
"Want to get something to eat?" Jennie asks.
"Yeah." Jisoo agrees, leaving the two youngest members alone.
(Later on, Lisa gets on the plane, luggage-less while sporting an angry red mark on her cheek.
"I threw it away." Lisa says before Jisoo can ask.
"Why?" Jennie asks in concern, trying hard not to laugh.
"Because the wheels broke off and sent me flying."
Jisoo and Jennie burst into laughter, making Lisa pout even more. Jisoo laughs even harder remembering
the conversation she had earlier with Lisa.
"Hey Lisa?" Jisoo says,
"Yeah?"
"That mark on your face is also priceless." Jisoo comments, still laughing, earning a glare from Lisa.)
***
The plane ride back home was long and tiring, which is why she doesn't blame Jennie for saying a quick goodnight before heading to her room the second they get home.
"She's gonna be out till tomorrow evening at least." Rosé says as she flops onto the sofa.
"I don't blame her. Travel sickness sounds horrible. Plus the jetlag." Jisoo adds as she walks over to the kitchen to grab a cup of water.
"Good thing she has those pills." Lisa says as she joins Rosé on the sofa, resting her head on blonde's shoulder. The mark on the younger girl's face has finally faded.
"What pills?" Jisoo asks, not recalling Jennie taking any during their flight.
"The travel sickness pills?" Lisa says questioningly, as she stares at Jisoo.
"She ran out, remember?" Jisoo points out.
Lisa looks at her with her eyebrows scrunched up. Jisoo realises that Lisa wasn't too aware about Jennie on the plane, as she was sat too far away from them with Rosé.
"Oh, no wonder she was quieter than usual on the flight." Lisa realises, before getting up to go to the kitchen.
"I'm gonna give her something to drink." Lisa says as she turns the kettle on.
Rosé and Jisoo exchange amused looks as they watch the youngest member move around the kitchen.
"I'm gonna take a shower before heading to bed." Jisoo says as she makes her way to her room.
"Night guys."
"Night, unnie." Rosé and Lisa say together.
Jisoo drags her suitcase with her in her room before flopping on her bed.
Their vacation in Hawaii was blissful and too short. She wishes they had more time there.
They were able to relax and unwind even in the little time that they had. With the year long of tours that they had, breaking records and gaining more popularity, ending it all with the short vacation was a cherry on top.
***
After stepping outside the shower and getting ready for bed, Jisoo makes sure to check up on Jennie to see how she's doing.
She quietly opens the door and peaks through only to see Lisa and Jennie cuddled up together, sound asleep.
Jisoo snickers at Lisa. Lisa's sprawled on Jennie's bed, with one hand raised to her forehead looking like she's posing, and the other around Jennie’s body. Jisoo scans for Jennie only to see her cuddling into Lisa's side.
They look very at peace together.
Jisoo smiles to herself before closing the door and walking back into her room.
Out of all the things that would happen in Hawaii, finding out her two best friends are dating one another was not something she expected to happen.
She's happy for them, happy that they found happiness in one another, but she can't seem to shake the nagging feeling she has inside of her.
See, Jisoo likes to pride herself with knowing all her members thoroughly. Whether it's their favourite colour or their deepest fear, she has all the answers in the book.
And because of that, Jisoo believes that she can handpick the perfect partner for each of her members. Someone who she believes will be well suited for them.
And unfortunately for Lisa, she doesn't fit the ideal perfect partner she has in mind for Jennie— so how on earth did her best friend end up falling for her?
But Jennie on the other hand? Jisoo can confidently say that Jennie meets her standards as Lisa's perfect partner, but it just doesn't work the other way round.
Now don't get her wrong, Jisoo sees Lisa as the baby sister she never had and adores her to pieces. Despite their constant banter and rough playfulness, Jisoo absolutely loves Lisa— can even write her a list of reasons on why she does. But Lisa just doesn't fit her idea of Jennie's ideal partner, nor does she seem like Jennie's type.
In fact, Jisoo believes that Jennie's partner should have the following qualities:
1. Mature
2. Dependable
3. Protective
4. Attentive
5. Attractive
6. Funny
7. Can get along with her family
And to be fair on Lisa, Jisoo believes she ticks some of the boxes, but not all.
Lisa's too immature and childish for her best friend, so how on earth is their relationship ever going to last?