Love By Soup • LK Adaptation

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A soccer team without a center is like a person without a soul, a car without an engine.  The coach changed the game plan to a more conservative one, from the original 4-4-2 formation to a 5-3-2 formation.[3]  Unfortunately, this defensive formation at the end still lost to the opponent, 1 - 0.  Tech U lost the match.

Almost the entire soccer team blamed the loss on Lisa's spill.

Yugyeom was cursing while changing the dressing for Jungkook. "Damn, that girl is really something.  Now you’re hurt, the team lost, and she acts like nothing happened.  Not even one “sorry”.  If she wasn’t a girl, I would have slapped her already!"

Jungkook tried to calm him down. "I'm ok now.  My arm is only swelling with some blisters."

"Jungkook, don't pretend like it’s nothing.  I was burned when I was little, the pain was unbearable.  It felt like I was burning the whole night!"

Jungkook laughed.  "Yeah, last night I was twisting and turning because of the pain.  So you should say happy words to cheer me up!"

Yugyeom gave in.  "Alright, alright, I'll stop.  I'll talk to the professor later to let you turn in your project a couple of days late."

Yugyeom and Jungkook were both second-year students in the Master's program of Computer Science.

As they were talking, another roommate came back, with a devious grin on his face.

"Er......that trouble making girl is at the gate trying to make friends with the security guard.  She was talking so fawningly......"

"What are you talking about?" asked Yugyeom

So the roommate impersonated Lisa.  "Dear security guard, do you know which dorm is Jungkook living in?"

Jungkook chuckled at his roommate's girly impersonation. "This girl's kind of funny."

Yugyeom was not amused. But before he could make any comment, there came a clear and crisp female voice.  "Jungkook! Jungkook! Jungkook......"

Yugyeom frowned, what was she doing pretending to be a close acquaintance?  He stamped his foot and said to Jungkook, "I'll go down and take a look."

Technology and engineering colleges are always nicknamed "the monks' temple."  It is quite normal to have an 8 to 2 male to female ratio at the Tech U.  For easy management of the male students, the school built several dorms for male students spreading over a large lot.  At the main gate, there's a security post and Lisa was right here trying to get some information from the guard.

Not only did she sweet talk the guard, she had also brought a gift too: a large bunch of bananas.  The guard knew her from the time when Lisa was still madly in love with her ex-boyfriend.  She used this same tactic to get the better side of the guard.

"Dear security guard, it's building no. 23, right?  Then I'm going in now!"

Lisa walked right into the "monk" zone without any sense of embarrassment.  Actually she should've felt somewhat uneasy; a beautiful young girl walking into the territory of animalistic men.  But Lisa had no such concept.  Probably because she had followed her ex in and out this place too many times.  All those head-turning boys and whistles didn't bother her at all.

She yelled for Jungkook for a while; as for why exactly she called him in such an informal manner, it's because she didn't know who he was at all!  She only heard the other boys call his first name that day, and she was too embarrassed to ask around about him.  That's why she called him awkwardly like they were close friends. 

She thought about asking Minnie about him, but Minnie wasn’t into sports either and didn't know anything about the soccer team.  Lisa felt very remorseful to the school soccer team.  She decided she had better come to apologize in person.

After a while, a man came out from the building.  Lisa looked at him and asked, "Where's Jungkook?"

Jungkook was quite handsome and evidently Lisa remembered how he looked clearly.  She certainly could tell who is or is not Jungkook.

Yugyeom said coldly, "What are you doing here?"

"I came to apologize." Lisa answered matter-of-factly.

"What kind of attitude is that.  There's no need.  Don't let me see you again from now on!" Yugyeom said angrily.

Lisa wasn't too happy by now either.  "I came to apologize alright, but isn't this Jungkook a bit fake?  His hand got burned, why couldn't he kick a ball?  I think he just used it as excuse......"

Yugyeom glanced her icily, in no mood of saying anything more to her.  He saw that she was holding a bowl in her hand and grabbed it from her without saying a word.

"Hey, how can you grab other people's stuff like that?!"

"Isn't this what you brought over to return to Jungkook?"

"Yeah, but......"

Yugyeom didn't want to say anything more.  "Alright, that's it.  I don't have time to listen to your babbling.  Don't come by anymore!"

He turned around to go upstairs after saying that.

Lisa was put on the spot.  She was planning to use returning the bowl as an excuse to apologize to Jungkook face to face.  Now, not only did an awful person lash out at her, the bowl was taken away from her, too.  The excuse was already gone, but she hadn't apologized yet.  Lisa didn't know how to make sense of her own feeling right now---that day at cafeteria---that day---

Alright, she admitted, Jungkook was quite handsome.

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