Unrequited~ Han Jisung

Chapter 36. Lies

Sooah spent half of her Saturday in despair as she laid on her bed, missing Jisung like she didn't just call him the day before. She felt like something wasn't right considering he didn't sound himself at all but she felt like she was just jumping to conclusions so she decided to stop acting so sad and head to do some shopping with the money she had been saving up since she was like 12.

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"You know she'll think your acting suspicious if you don't call her," Jeongin plopped himself down on the couch beside Jisung who was hugging a pillow with a hood over his head as he stared at the black screen of the television. "What you gonna do if she finds out about you lying about my non existent mathletes competition tomorrow and your non existent basketball practice today?" Jeongin didn't mean to provoke him too much but comforting people wasn't something he was good at. Jisung didn't budge or even move from the position he was in so jeongin decided that it was a good time to give the poor boy a hug.

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"That one isn't nice," Leilany was looking through some shirts as Laura stood there wondering if by chance she'd bump into Minho but she questioned herself on why she'd even think that until surprisingly she saw Sooah sitting alone by a cafe as she drank something. Laura decided to walk over to her and Leilany didn't see her. "Hey what about this- Laura?" Leilany looked out the door and saw Laura walking towards Sooah so she let out a sigh and put down the shirt before running after her.

"Why the long face?" Laura flashed the dark haired girl a smile and she looked up at Laura and gave both her and Leilany a bow. "I don't do formalities so we can just speak freely," Laura said as she took a seat followed by Leilany.

"Are you okay?" Leilany asked and Sooah nodded but Leilany shook her head. "Tell us the tea," She said and Sooah let out a sigh before talking a sip of her drink and clasping her hands together.

"I didn't know relationships would be this-" she cut herself off once she caught sight of a couple and she knitted her eyebrows together. "I'll be back in like one second," She put her finger up them and ran towards the people she saw a second ago. "Serim? Eunbi?" She asked and the two of them turned around and she smiled at them. "I thought the basketball team had a practice today," she said and serim knitted his eyebrows together.

"Not today, no. The gym is occupied by the gymnasts," He said and Sooah gave him a slow nod before bowing and walking back towards Laura and Leilany.

"Everything okay?" Laura asked.

"What do you do when your boyfriend is lying about his whereabouts?" Sooah asked and the two girls exchanged glances.

"He's probably cheating," Leilany said and Laura hit her in the arm. "What? Dude, he could be"

"We don't just jump to conclusions. He either has a hobby he doesn't want you to know about or he's probably just sick or he's having a dudes day with his mates," Laura shrugged and Sooah nodded as she took a sip of her drink. What Laura said was quite convincing but she knew he didn't sound right on the phone which only meant he was sick or something.

"Are relationships supposed to be this nerve racking?" Sooah asked and the two girls chuckled.

"I wouldn't know," they both said in unison and Sooah looked at them, practically asking them with her eyes if they were lying. "We're not lying. Leilany is too busy with her obsession with Kim taehyung and I'm too busy with my obsession with a guy that I don't have a number for, Instagram but only a picture," Laura shrugged and both Leilany and Sooah let out a laugh which made Laura laugh as well.

"You wanna come grab a bite with us?" Leilany gave the girl a tight lipped smile making her nod as she took one last sip of her coffee and grabbed her bag.