Crazy Over Him

18: Thinking of Him

Lisa was sitting patiently in the waiting room as Rosé was changing. After her lunch detention, Lisa nabbed Rosé from her class for a trip to the mall because shopping was the best way to de-stress while keeping with fashion trends. If you wanted to stay relevant, you had to have the right gear. Everyone needed to look up to you.

As she waited, she was brainstorming about her plans to flirt with Ryan. Never in a million years would she be doing that but if it meant Jennie would be crushed, Lisa was willing to flirt with Ryan for a while. On the plus side, Lisa was starting find Ryan slightly less unattractive.

Rosé stepped out of the change room in her original school uniform and clothes in her hands. "I'm tired of Gucci, let's go shop at YSL, ooh, or Celine."

"Celine? Yeah, let's go there. I love their new season," Lisa said and the two girls left the store. "By the way, you're sure that Jennie and Ryan are together, right? I'm only asking because you're around her so much—more than me at least."

Rosé laughed, "You're kidding..."

Lisa looked over, "What? They're not dating?"

"I don't know. I said that because you thought I hang around Jennie so much on purpose. Why would I care who Jennie dates? No, actually, why do you? Conversations with you about Ryan usually go the other way around where you would question me about him... Are you feeling alright? Are you coming down with an obsession, Lisa, hm?"

Rosé smirked and stuck her hand on Lisa's forehead to feel her temperature. Lisa clicked her tongue and pushed her hand away.

"Tsk, that's obviously not what I meant! If you can talk about him so much, can't I mention the loser just once? God, it's not as if I like him or anything, you psycho." Lisa looked straight ahead, but she could see that was Rosé still staring at her through the corner of her eyes. "What is it now?"

Rosé only shook her head to say nothing and they eventually returned back to normal—shopping to their heart's content. After Celine, Bulgari and Tiffany were all 'shopped out,' something popped into Rosé's mind.

"The semi formal's rolling around soon. Who are you going with? Chanyeol?" she raised a teasing eyebrow but Lisa's face twisted into disgust.

"Damn that Jennie for bringing up Chanyeol," Lisa thought to herself, then replied, "I'll probably go with Jungkook or something. All I need is to show up with him and he can have his fun with his girls on his own time. What about you?"

"I... I don't know..." Rosé said because the only name that came to her head was 'Ryan.' She kept regretting that kiss with him and every time she rehearsed with him, that kiss was more distracting than anything else.

Lisa chuckled slightly, "Rosie, I'm your best friend. I see the amount of guys who ask you out, and the guys who are too afraid to even look at you. Hell, there are girls who probably have a crush on you yet you're telling me you don't have a clue who you'd go with? Unless..." Lisa gasped, "You're going with Jennie!"

Rosé shuddered at the joke, "She's worse than Ryan... I mean... what?"

"Ryan? Who... who said anything about Ryan?" Lisa questioned since she still Ryan at the back of her mind.

"Oh, nothing. It's just that they're basically a couple so their names basically come hand in hand," she replied awkwardly.

But Ryan was much more than a name to Rosé after they kissed, and she was beginning to worry that if Lisa were to find out, she'd never hear the end of the bashing. Lisa already made her feelings about Ryan crystal clear and Rosé wanted to stay out of the danger zone.

Lisa scoffed to the side, "They're not together. Jennie's just bluffing. I swear she is."

Rosé looked over now. "And why would that matter?"

"Because Jennie thinks I don't have a chance with Ryan. Not that I want one but you know me, boys come easy and if not, maybe I'll like the little game," she shrugged.

"This is unbelievable..." Rosé said. "Something happened between Lisa and Ryan. Why would she joke about Ryan, let alone continue a conversation about him?"

"Right? It's unbelievable that Jennie would say something like that about me. It's idiotic."

"Yeah, no... Jennie is the crazy one..."

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