Need You To Need Me | Jenlisa

XXIII.

Jennie had never felt more miserable.

The Sunday after her birthday party, she went to Lisa's house, hoping to be able to talk to her. But opening the door of the house, stood Lisa's mum, an incredulous look on her face.

Jennie hadn't read too much into it, understanding the meaning of it only after the woman's words.

"Lisa went to Thailand to visit her dad... she didn't tell you?"

So Jennie had waited for the girl to show up at school on Monday and all the other days after that. Each morning, she woke up and hurried to school, hoping to find the blonde girl sitting in their home room, waiting for her to arrive.

But the weeks passed and there was still no sign of Lisa.

Jennie had tried calling and texting her, but every time the rings of her phone were different and a metallic voice of a woman speaking Thai filled Jennie's room. She had even left pathetic voicemails that, at this point, she wished Lisa wasn't able to hear.

The girl's absence was driving her mad.

It was one thing to fight with her and seeing her everyday at school and still knowing was she was up to thanks to Jisoo and Chaeyoung; but it was another to not know anything about her. It felt like she had disappeared completely.

Jennie had tried talking with her other two friends about it. She of course had to meet them separately, knowing they wouldn't have met her otherwise.

They both answered the same thing. They had tried calling her and leaving her messages but they had received no response. It was like Lisa didn't want to be contacted by anyone. And she was fully succeeding at it.

Then, an idea came to her.

It was impulsive and not very thought through. But it had been too late to back down because the bell signaling the end of the lesson was echoing loudly through the school's hallway and Jennie was making her way to the school library. Where she knew she'd find Soojin.

The girl was indeed sitting at the same place of the day when Jennie had barged in and basically forced Lisa to go home with her.

She hadn't noticed her yet, her eyes too focused on the book she was reading.

"I need to ask you something" Jennie said. No "Hi" or need for introduction. She came there to know something and she wouldn't leave if she didn't find her answers.

Truth was, she didn't know which answers she was actually looking for. It's not like she didn't know the reason why Lisa left. Not to sound conceited, but she knew it had been because of her. Or did she?

The confusion and desperation fogging her mind was making her acting reckless and without thinking. That's why she was about to taunt the poor girl in front if her with questions about Lisa.

Soojin had slowly taken her eyes away from the book and up to meet Jennie's. Without saying anything she motioned with her eyes for Jennie to take a seat in the chair next to hers.

Jennie had hurriedly taken her seat and, after fixing her skirt, looked at Soojin who was meeting her gaze with expecting eyes.

"It's about Lisa"

"I figured" Soojin wasn't stupid. After the party she understood that the dynamic between the Jennie and Lisa wasn't one of two normal best friends.

It didn't take a psychology major to understand that there was tension between the two of them. And not the good kind.

But the same anybody could say about Jennie and Soojin. The two were exchanging unpleasant looks while talking and their body language kind of gave them away.