As It Was (JENLISA)

five

"You're like... kidding, right?"

"Rosie, for the last time, I'm really not." Jennie replied while browsing through the clothing rack placed across her best friend.

Jennie had took it upon herself to tell her best friend about her abominable encounters with Lisa. She started briefly from the beginning from when they first met at the school and carried on from there.

"Okay, okay, okay... Let's back it up a tad, shall we?" Roseanne pauses her shopping and averts her full attention back to her best friend, "Why were you at her house?"

"I told you, I wanted to know how she had gotten my name, full name." Jennie retorts.

"Jen, in a small town like this, I can tell you the name, occupation, and address of everyone in this store. So please, make this easier for yourself and just answer the damn question." Roseanne states in what seems like one fluent breath. Impressive.

"Alright. OK." Jennie gives in. She gathers all the clothes she's picked out and drags Roseanne into an open dressing room, "I don't really know, I mean, with a house like that? Who wouldn't like to check it out?" Jennie questions.

"Exactly. Who wouldn't. Because I know damn well you know I would've loved to see that place. Like what the actual hell could've made you bike up a hill, when you - by the way - could've just asked me to take you. I wanted to see that mansion too." Roseanne states, slightly raising her voice while doing so. "That outfit is hideous by the way." She says staring Jennie up in down after seeing what her friend had just changed into.

"What? Are you just saying that because you're mad or because it's actually a bad outfit?" Jennie questions, checking herself out in the mirror once more.

"Or maybe you just make it look hideous. I guess we'll never know." Roseanne says more to herself than to Jennie, as she has averted her full attention to her phone.

"Rosie." Jennie calles out.

"Roseanne." Jennie says once more

"Rosie stop this is crazy." Jennie says while taking her clothes off.

"Really? Because what I find crazy is that you went to a house the size we have dreamed of living in one day and just didn't say shit to me about it until..." She pauses to look down at her phone, "...1 and a half hours ago."

Jennie lets out a deep sigh. "Rosie. I apologize sincerely for my unlawful acts. So here I am, asking for your forgiveness, and I suppose a simple apology would never make up for these horrid actions I've committed, so, shall we make up over an ice cream sundae?" Jennie dramatically states, trying to hold in a smile while doing so.

Jennie is glad to see that Roseanne is also struggling to bite back a smile, oh how easy it was to win her heart over with ice cream. She's always been like this. Since her parents had moved in right across from the Kim's former residence, since Jennie had seen her playing alone in the sand box at their local park, since going through life with her, all the way up until this moment. She's glad Roseanne had never changed, its only encouraged Jennie to become a better person.

She would never give Roseanne the satisfaction of knowing that, though.

"One ice cream sundae please, two spoons with extra fudge and cherries." Jennie orders, just how Roseanne likes it.

She fishes out a twenty from her wallet, her only twenty, her last twenty. The twenty she was waving in Lisa's face yesterday, insisting for her to take it.

"Jen..." Roseanne says, pulling out her own wallet.

"Rosie no its fine", Jennie says, handing the twenty to the cashier, "My treat, remember, I'm paying for my traitor-like acts." She says with a smirk, hoping it would lighten the mood.