Start from Scratch (JenLisa Adaptation)

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'A Night to Remember'

No One's POV

Looking somewhat relieved, Jennie took a deep breath and exhaled. "Great, get cleaned up and we'll go. I don't want to be late and you tend to be pokey in the bathroom when you're getting ready. I don't want to be late."

Lisa briefly scrunched her face, "We're not even dating for more than 3 seconds and you already insult me."

Jennie quickly scoffed, "That wasn't an insult, that was criticism."

After shaking her head, Lisa playfully and gently slapped Jennie on the cheek, "You're just lucky you're too cute."

Jennie shot back a rather dubious look. "Cute? Just cute? Not sexy or heart stopping gorgeous or utterly stunning?"

With a shrug, Lisa headed off to the bathroom to get cleaned up. "Sorry, you have to work your way up to Sexy. But to get to that, you have to go through really cute, really really cute, kinda hot, hot and only then do you get to be sexy."

Jennie put her hands on her hips, with a perplexed expression. "And who gets to be the judge of that?"

"Of course it's me." Lisa said as she shut the bathroom door behind her.

Contrary to Jennie's opinion, Lisa got ready very quickly and in a short amount of time, they were in a cab on their way to the restaurant.

"So Jen, sounds like you have the evening already planned out. May I ask what the evening entails?"

"Fun." Said the feline eyes cryptically.

"Fun. Hmmmm. Your idea of fun, sometimes vastly differs from mine."

"You do have a point, when I stuck that tarantula into your bag during lunch that one day and your subsequent screams of terror when you found it during in one of our class the following hour, I found it to be really fun." Jennie then made a rather proud smile. "You ran screaming, all the way to the parking lot. So obviously, you didn't find that funny."

Lisa's eyes instantly narrowed. "No, I did not. Especially when I tripped in the parking lot and ripped a brand new pair of pants and bruised my knee. I limped for 2 days after that."

"Manoban, you really need to pay attention where you're running when fleeing in terror. I see that in my horror films all the time. But I digress. This will be an evening that I think won't be too painful.

Lisa couldn't help but chuckle. "Not too painful, nice way to describe a date. Oh yeah, before I forgot, you still owe me for one pair of pants and a bag."

"I understand the pants as you ripped them, but why the bag? What did it do, lay eggs in it or something?"

Looking briefly but very sad, Lisa quipped. "YES IT DID! I loved that bag, it was yellow and it went with nearly everything I had."

"Oops. You'll have fun tonight and there will be no ruined bags, I promise." Jennie said with a smile.

As the cab took them to the restaurant, Lisa told Jennie about some new music she had been writing. Minutes later, they pulled up in front of one of the cities more trendy and authentic Chinese restaurants.

"We've been eating at that local Chinese restaurant for so long, I figured we'd forgotten what real Chinese food tastes like. Not the pale imitation they served."

"Sounds good."

They were seated in short order and the lively conversation continued. Through all of it, each could detect and underlying nervousness in the other. They both knew they had come through a lot to get to this point and it appeared their troubles were behind them, but at the same time, both knew things could still go wrong.