Find a Light (JenLisa Adaptation)

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Wednesday,

January 1st, 2020

"You do know my dad's a cop, right?"

Mino tilted his head and shot her a look, to which Jennie only raised her eyebrows. "Of course I know that," he said softly and stuffed his hands into the pockets of his leather jacket. "I don't want anything from you... I just want to apologize."

Out of everything, this was the last thing Jennie would have expected to come out of Mino's mouth. She already prepared herself to scream for her dad, or even Claudia – her sister was in no way inferior to her dad – but as the word 'apologize' left his mouth and the look on his face somewhat resembled remorse, Jennie's tense body relaxed a bit and she stepped to the side, although still a little wary, and motioned for the man to come inside.

He did, very reluctantly Jennie noticed. Not once allowing her eyes to leave him, Jennie closed the front door and slowly sidestepped him to take a seat on the sofa. "Let me guess, this is just another one of your tricks."

"It isn't." his eyes glanced at his shoes before almost timidly looking up into Jennie's. "I really do want to apologize."

"You want to apologize?" she scoffed when he nodded his head. "For what exactly, Mino?"

When he walked closer, his eyes straying away from Jennie's, and he took a seat next to her, the feline eyed woman couldn't help but let the slight fear take over once again, causing her to create as much distance between them as it was possible on the red sofa.

Jennie carefully watched him take a breath, his elbows resting on his knees while he looked at his clasped hands. "I should have never... done what I did. I know I scared you and for that I'm really sorry."

"And you really expect me to believe that?"

He shrugged without looking at her. "Believe what you want. I know that I've been acting like an idiot and I really do regret it. Believe me or don't believe me. It's your choice."

Jennie let a silence wash over them when Mino stopped talking, she herself not knowing what to say. It was hard for her to figure it out if he was serious or not, after all, he surprised her more than once with his behavior, so she really should expect him to lie.

But then again, if he was telling the truth, she should at least give him a chance. Even if he didn't deserve it. "Why did you come after me?" this time he craned his neck to look at her. "And please don't tell me because you love me. I know you've been... pursuing other girls after I didn't fall for you."

Mino made her wait a long while, sitting up straight while pushing out a harsh breath and rubbing his hands together. Finally, he said something Jennie really hadn't expected to hear. "I needed someone to marry me before the New Year's started," he simply told her while looking at the ceiling. His confession, instead of clearing everything up, only confused Jennie more.

"You needed... that's why... what?"

"Last year in January, my grandpa died."

Despite it being Mino that sat next to her, Jennie couldn't help but feel bad for him. "Oh. I'm so sorry."

"Yeah, don't be," he dismissed curtly with an annoyed raise of his eyebrows at the thought of the old man that passed away, "He was a really big asshole. He hated me."

"Oh, well then I guess the asshole gene runs in the family." Jennie joked with a smug grin, to which Mino only sent her a surprised glance. Blinking, he cleared his throat in discomfort.