Please Believe That I Truly Love You (Jenlisa) (Complete)

Chapter Eight:

"Lisa, I need to ask you something." Jennie peeked into the door of Lisa's room office.

The was talking to someone on the phone but she nodded to her to let her in.

She sat in one of the chairs in front of the woman's desk, watching Lisa. The woman smiled at what the other person was saying, showing a perfect set of white teeth. She loved the way her mouth seemed to curl at the corners when she smiled.

"Sure, just use my other parking slot in basement two and you come up here." Lisa said to the interlocutor before hanging up the phone. "Yes?" She looked up at her for a moment before returning half of her attention to the papers in front of her.

Why won't you look at me? "Do you dislike my face?" She said the first question that came to her mind.

That seemed to get Lisa's attention. "Did you came here to ask me that?"

"No, I just thought of asking now. Will you answer my question?"

Lisa frowned again.

"And can you please stop frowning at me? Do you think I'm really that ugly?"

The woman sighed. She doesn't know what to do with Jennie. Something had changed in her the previous day. She came to the office looking like some chic professional in her business suits but she changed. Lately, she always seemed to be baiting her somewhat. She can handle the chic professional but this Jennie? God, how do you stay different to someone so beautiful?

"On the contrary, I think you are very beautiful." Lisa admitted.

She showed her sweetest gummy smile. "Thank you. I think you are beautiful, too.."

They were both stunned. That has happened before. Memories of another time, of a diner where they exchanged such a line.

"Lisa, do you think we will ever fall in love with each other?" That was Jennie's question back then, a seventeen-year-old college student asking for assurance.

They looked at each other in that shared memory. Suddenly the office door opened. They were both startled by that sound and the moment was gone.

A woman who she thought was same as Lisa's age entered. She was a handsome woman in a very aristocratic way. It can be seen that there is Americana blood in her eyes and the shape of her nose.

"Hi, Priya!"

Lisa girl stood up. "Nancy!"

She would have smiled to greet the woman but her smile froze on her lips when she heard the woman's name. Nancy? She would never forget that name. Nancy of that phone call? Her hands became cold.

The loss of color in her face did not escape Lisa's attention when her visitor entered. As far as she knows, the two don't know each other, so she doesn't understand why Jennie seems to have seen a ghost.

"I'm so sorry. I didn't realize you had a guest." Nancy said she was referring to Jennie.

"It's okay." Lisa answered. "Nancy I'd like you to meet the assessor of Four Seasons Hotel, Jennie Ruby Jane Kim. Jennie, this is Nancy Jewel McDonie."

The woman seemed to think. "Jennie. Jennie Kim, you said?" She looked at Lisa before turning her gaze back to the woman. "Your name sounds awfully familiar. Let me see.." Her mouth dropped open as she seemed to remember who she was.

Lisa knew exactly what was going through Nancy's mind. She wanted to change the topic because the two women looked uncomfortable, looking at each other as if measuring the moment.

"Oh, but you look exactly what I imagined." Nancy commented in a tone that didn't deny how she felt about the woman.

The negative implication of what the woman said did not go beyond Jennie's understanding. Once she let herself be defeated in favor of this woman. Never again. She smiled.

"Is that right? What a coincidence! You also look exactly as I imagined." She purposely eyeing the woman from head to toe before continuing what she had to say. "Only older."

Nancy's smile was obviously more forced. After all, vain is written all over her appearance. She probably won't appreciate anything with an age reference. She retaliated against the woman. "I didn't think I'd see you here. Not after what you did."

"Nancy, that's enough." Lisa scolded.

She blushed but kept her expression calm. "You have no idea what I really did." Jennie said. I give the woman I love the chance to choose you!

Nancy raised an aristocratic eyebrow. "Don't I?"

"Because if you knew, you will be standing there thanking me to high heavens and not fearing me. However, considering that you still haven't managed to get my wedding ring, you probably have every reason to be afraid."

All pretense of congeniality had disappeared from the face of the woman in front of her. Her eyes flashed with the fading temper. "Why, you little bitch!"

Lisa grabbed Nancy's arm before she ran into her.

The smile on Jennie's face didn't even change. "Okay, I'm leaving this room. Three is a coward, you know." She started to leave the room but turned back to look at the woman's reddened angry face again. "And, Nancy, please don't ever play catty with me. You see, I invented cattiness. You can't possibly win."

She closed the door before the two inside could react to what she said. She leaned against the closed door, feeling suddenly tired. It had been a long time since she last lost her temper.

Lisa let go of Nancy's arm. "Can you please tell me what that was all about?"

"Me? You're asking me? How about you, tell me what that was about?"

"You started it, Nancy. You and your insinuations."

"Don't tell me that woman is still on your side?" Nancy angrily snapped.

"I'm not taking sides but don't you ever call Jennie a bitch again, understand?"

Nancy smile bitterly. "Oh, so that's it. That's what makes you angry. Tell me Lisa, why is it that out of the many women I've seen that pass through your life, you don't take any of them seriously? And why all these years, even if I force myself to you, no matter how patiently I wait in between your women, waiting for you to realize that you still really want me, why am I still just a friend?

"Nancy..." Lisa started.

"Don't say anything. I already know. You are going to tell me again that we are better just a friend. I should just believe you. Because I know how you were with women who went beyond being in love with you. Love them and leave them, thinking they were lucky just to have the chance to be loved by Lalisa Pranpriya Manoban. But you know what I think now? I think, either, you are a totally bitch or you are still madly in love with that woman.