Love Me If You Dare

Chapter 5

Lisa sits down on the sofa.  She decides to take a nap.  

It doesn’t take long for her to stand up again.  She is wearing a thin jacket and her hands and feet are getting cold.  

I might catch a flu.  She thought to herself.   

She makes her way to the room where Jungkook is in. At the end of the corridor, she gets another surprise.  

Light.  

A narrow streak of light shines through the gap at the bottom of the door. There is emergency lighting equipment!  

Lisa stand there, stunned for a moment.  She knocks on the door.  

The door opens.  Fluorescent tubes in the ceiling shines brightly.  She finds it hard to adjust to the brightness after being in the darkness for so long. 

Then she sees a man, blocking most of the light as he stand in front of the doorway.  

Lisa blinks.  She is curious what else is inside the room.  But Jungkook quickly stands in front of her to block her view.  

“What’s up?’ says the man wearing a huge white surgical mask.  All Lisa can see is his eyes.

“I am cold,  I need to borrow some clothes.” says Lisa

After a few moments of silence, he replies :  "I don’t like other people wearing my clothes.”

Lisa is dumbfounded. 

Then he steps back and closes the door.  

Darkness surrounds her once again.  

While he was closing the door, she noticed Jungkook was wearing surgical gloves. She also saw some round containers sitting on the shelves inside the room.  She is not sure what’s in them, but they had something in them.  

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Lisa goes back to the lounge.  She sits down for a few minutes, and then she stands up once again. This time, heading toward the kitchen.

She lights up the gas stove top. Lisa places her hands close to the yellowish green flame to warm herself up.  She looks up and sees a cupboard.  The bottle of wine she gifted to Jungkook is sitting on one of the shelves.  Without hesitation, she opens the bottle and takes a few sips.  

Now that she feels a little warmer, she realises that she is also quite hungry.  She begins searching for food in the kitchen.  

Empty.  There’s nothing in the cabinets.  Not even a piece of fruit or biscuit.  She looks inside the freezer.  Again, it’s empty.  She turns to the fridge next.  Bingo!  

Fish.  Lots of fish.  Neatly stacked inside the refrigerator.  She chooses the biggest one and puts it on the chopping board.    

Using the light from her mobile phone, she makes herself a plate of poached fish fillet pieces.  It is still pretty dark in the kitchen, but it’s enough for her to prepare the food.  

Satisfied with what she has cooked, she places the plate on the dining table and heads back to the kitchen to clean up before she enjoys her meal.  

After she is done, she returns to the dining room, only to find the table empty. 

A tall white shadow stands on the other side of the table. A pair of hands is holding the plate of food. 

“Thump” Jungkook puts the plate back on the table.

“Unpalatable!” He says in his deep voice.  

“The fish is boiled for too long.  And you added too much salt.”