Start from Scratch (JenLisa Adaptation)

6

'Descent'

No one's POV

Jennie woke up the next day, feeling like hell. Her face and body still hurt from tripping on the curb the night before. But besides the physical pain, was confusion and despair, from Lisa wanting her to stay.

Of course the Thai gave a perfect valid reason for Jennie to stay, with the cold and the shelters would be full. Jennie didn't believe that, but at the same time she believed that Lisa wanted her to stay for other reasons.

Was it to help or did Lisa want to keep her there so she could fuck with Jennie's head and make her miserable, as a matter of revenge. At the moment, Jennie couldn't help but think it was revenge. Looking at the door, Jennie certainly felt trapped and the more she thought about it, the more depressed she became.

Of course on top of everything, was her constant urges to return to Kai. She would want to go back but then remember the beatings. Of course the co-dependent side of her would resurrect a happy memory to counter the bad one. It was like a war going on inside her head and Jennie had to struggle to live with it, each and every day.

"How in the hell do I even function anymore." Muttered Jennie, as she sat up on the couch and looked blankly out of the window.

The only response was the sound of Lisa eating breakfast in the next room. That was someone she didn't even want to deal with at the moment. Lisa's cold attitude, her constant sourpuss expression was slowly getting to her. Once she hated Lisa's annoying smile, now Jennie just wanted to see it, if just for a moment.

"Just smile, for God damn once would you." Jennie whispered, as she went straight into the bathroom to get ready for work.

When she emerged from the bathroom the apartment was empty as Lisa has gone to work, but even when she was there, the apartment was just as empty. Jennie felt at times, like she's living with a bad tempered ghost.

Nothing else to do, Jennie went to work and just tried to push it out of her mind. But she only had limited success and remained slightly depressed about it all day. Coming home she decided to keep working and cleaned the kitchen as she was supposed to weekly.

She finished in an hour and still felt like keeping on going, so she pulled the vacuum out of the closet and began to clean the living room. It was a mind numbing work and that was precisely what she wanted. When she finish vacuuming, and then looked at Lisa's unattended and dust covered keyboard.

"I can't ask her about it, but how will she react if I clean it. Will it cause her to use it again?" Jennie pondered out load.

So Jennie did just that, cleaning every speck of dust off the keyboard and music books on it then carefully placed them back as they were

Now tired, Jennie ordered some Thai food and sat down to watch TV. She still felt trapped and somewhat depressed, but there was nothing she could do about it. Lisa worked her second job, so she didn't come home until about 1 in the morning. Lisa went straight to bed at that point.

It wasn't until the next day, around noon, when Jennie saw Lisa come out. Jennie was watching the original 'Dawn of the Dead' on TV, when the Thai walked past her wordlessly and went into the kitchen.

Jennie could hear Lisa rummaging around and called out. "There's some leftover orange chicken and rice in the fridge if you want it."

As Jennie expected, Lisa said a soft, "No thank you."

"Once again my food's not good enough for her." Mumbled Jennie under her breath.

Lisa came out of the kitchen with a glass of milk and seemed to notice the rug had been vacuumed.