Second Overtime | JENSOO & CHAELISA

Chapter IX

It was lunchtime, and Jisoo and Lisa were headed together towards the cafeteria. Although she was aware that she has been sporting a foul mood for the past few days, she was still grateful that her best friend did her best to be patient with her. 

She was also thankful that Lisa didn't push her in helping her do tasks, like climbing up and down the stairs. Lisa did her best to understand how she was coping up with her injury, and because of that, she had agreed to go to lunch with her when earlier, she just wanted to be left alone.

As she got inside, her face fell when she saw that a lot of people were lining up to get food. She should have just accepted Jin's offer to cook food for her, but since she was too stubborn, she had refused. Now, she was starting to regret it.

She didn't want to go and stand there and be gawked at while waiting for her turn. She had enough of them looking at her with pity as she limped around towards her classes.

Lisa seemed to sense her apprehension and smiled at her, "Hey, why don't you find us some seats and I'll go get the food instead? We don't want to end up waiting until a table gets freed up." she says casually, "Just give me some cash and I'll go on ahead."

Jisoo smiled back, she was lucky that she had a best friend like her, "Okay." and took some cash from her pocket and gave it to Lisa, who then walked on ahead without a backward glance. 

She looked around and saw a free table. She immediately hobbled over there, cursing herself as she was not used to her crutches yet. Thankfully, she got there before someone did, and carefully sat down. 

She took her phone out of her pocket and began tinkering with it, she didn't want to think that other people were watching her.

After a few minutes, she felt someone sit down from across her. Lisa was back.

But when she looked up, instead of her best friend, she was seeing the smiling face of that blonde girl that Lisa had a crush on. She was taken by surprise.

She looked around, trying to make sense of it, maybe she was at the wrong table? But the other girl continued to stare at her, making her feel a bit uncomfortable.

"Uhm...do you need something?" Jisoo finally asked her.

The girl grinned at her, she was weird. She should warn Lisa about her, she might be a crazed serial killer or something.

"No, not really. You're Lisa's friend, right?" she spoke, and Jisoo could hear a hint of an accent in her Korean. 

"Uh, yeah? Why? You have business with her?"

The other girl shook her head, "Nope. I'm Rosé by the way. You can also call me Chaeyoung, that's my Korean name. I know you're Jisoo. A lot of people do, I think."

Jisoo didn't know what to say to that. If she wasn't looking for Lisa, then why was she talking to her?

"Okay? I still don't know why you're here." she says harshly, but that Rosé girl just smiled back again at her.

"You know..." she starts, "...it's fine to be angry, scared even. People just don't understand what it feels like to lose something very important to you." she tells her in the most understanding tone possible.

Jisoo gave her a cold stare, "I know you're Lisa's friend, but whatever I am going through is none of your business."

"My best friend died two years ago." she suddenly says, catching Jisoo by surprise, "Yeah, I know it's not the same as yours. But the grief you go through, the feeling of helplessness, of thinking that you could have done something about it, I can relate to that. You don't want to be pitied or being a burden to others, you feel so angry at everything that you just want to lash out at the world. That doesn't make you a bad person, that just makes you human."