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Lisa stares at Irene, the senior girl smiling brightly at her blabbering friend, the girls making their way through the college cafeteria.
"Why don't you just ask her out already?" Jennie's voice cuts in as the girl munches on a green apple and shakes her head.
Because she's not the one I want.
"Manoban's a fucking coward. At this rate we'll all get married off and you, Lisa, will have the company of your hand." Jisoo says, shoving her palm in Lisa's face as Lisa shoves it away irritably, her older friend's eyes filled with disappointment regardless of the sexual joke she just cracked.
Because Jisoo knows.
"You can shut the fuck up now." Lisa says, suddenly afraid by how agitated her friend looks and how she could slip-up and reveal her deepest secret.
She'll hold it close to her heart forever.
"Hey! My Chu's just worried for you. Stop being rude." Rosé says, sulking but not stopping chewing on her very unhealthy burger.
Jennie sighs and shakes her head again, drawing her attention to her phone and Lisa seizes the opportunity to trace her friend's beautiful face. She looks down at her food tray before she's caught as her mind drifts back to Irene, who's sitting at her usual spot, acknowledging how much of a mix she's found herself in.
It started with Jennie incessantly asking her if there was anyone she was planning to kiss as the clock hit 12 at midnight on New Year. She had almost blurted it all out, her secret, until Jisoo had interrupted with a very poor excuse.
"This bitch has a crush on our senior." Jisoo had said, trying to save her friend's ass from ruining their mutual friendship.
Jennie had narrowed her feline eyes so intensely that Lisa almost thought she was about to slap someone, probably the latter, but she had only eyed Jisoo and her to mutter a "which senior?" which is exactly how Irene came into the picture. Sometimes Lisa wants to strangle Jisoo for ever coming up with that excuse, but then she had saved her, after all. It doesn't change the fact that she wants to strangle Jisoo because the girl had gotten her drunk earlier that year to make her spill out exactly how much she likes Jennie. It made Lisa doubt just how obvious she was being with her crush on Jennie, but Rosé doesn't know yet, so she's not too worried.
Jennie taps away at her phone, her mind furiously going around in circles about everything Irene and Lisa could be with just one move from her friend. The replies she types out to the people who are lined up on her chatbox are rather cold and dry. Because that's how she feels-left out in the cold.
Irene's gorgeous. Lisa's just as gorgeous. Her heart squeezes in her chest as she looks at Lisa picking at her food, pushing some of the items she doesn't want to the side. Always the picky eater, she thinks, gulping down a lump of emotion that lodges in her throat and she places down her half-eaten apple on the tray before her.
