Mine! No Objections Allowed (Jenlisa Adaptation)

Chapter 3 : Auditions

It was a hot summer day. There was no air-conditioning, just a few fans hanging from the ceiling of the food stalls making a ruckus.

Outside, there was a wooden table where two men were seated. One of them had such a loud and unrestrained voice that those sitting within could hear him clearly.

Kim Jisoo slung an arm around Lisa's shoulders and laughed. "Your suit -really, it makes you appear handsome beyond belief!"

Lisa laughingly scolded. "Get out."

Jisoo filled his glass with more alcohol. "It's been such a long time, if I'd known you'd left the army earlier I'd have come back sooner to take you out for a drink."

Lisa sniffed and said nothing.

The two of them grew up together. After Lisa joined the army and Jisoo went into business, their interactions had lessened but their friendship remained tight.

"Ding -"

A clear phone notification sounded.

Jisoo wondered, "Lisa, why is your phone still sounding, it's been almost a whole night."

Lisa took his phone out and glanced at it. Sure enough, it's some unimportant messages from Jennie again. He hadn't managed to put his phone back when Jisoo let out an exclamation.

"Goddess Jennie?" Jisoo paused in shock. "That female celebrity?"

Lisa didn't say anything, taking a drink on his own.

"Is it?" Jisoo looked at his indifferent attitude and smiled wider. "Hey, if it is, give me her number, I've liked her for a really long time."

As he spoke he opened his phone, digging out a photo from his album. It was Jennie's Instagram profile picture. On it she wore a well-fitted suit, her red lips slightly parted and her eye-line slanting up, at once handsome and sexy. "Damn, during the auction I'd intended to go chat with her, but I got held up by my dad."

Lisa tilted his head and looked at the photo on Jisoo's hand phone for just a moment before he looked away again.

He raised his head and took another gulp before standing up, patting Jisoo's head as if he was patting his dog.

"You've passed the age where you need your dad to help you get a girl."

It was only when Lisa was a distance away that Jisoo finally recovered enough to call angrily, "If you didn't want to, you don't have to give me the number! Why do you have to attack me personally as well?!"

***

Outside the auditioning room for 'Undercurrent'.

Jennie was looking at the script in her hand, muttering something under her breath. Close up, it was possible to hear her reciting the lines.

Her pronunciation was clear, reading aloud the lines in rhythmic tones. Irene, sitting beside her, couldn't help sighing with deep feeling that even the heavens wanted her to be an actress. Jennie didn't have professional training in this regard, but her ability to read off the scripts definitely crushed that of most other female actresses. She almost never needed dubs.

After going through the script once, Jennie took out her phone again. Sure enough, there wasn't any notification, but there was no disappointment on her face. Instead, she curved her lips up slightly and sent another message to Lisa.

When that was done, she opened Instagram and looked at the trending topics. Then she realized that the news of an egg being thrown at her was gone.

That news had been a rather hot topic, not just because she had an egg thrown at her. More people were interested in Lisa. The media had caught the scene when he had caught the egg, making that the main photo for this article.