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XI

"Lisa! Wait!" Roseanne yells as she speeds out of the classroom to follow Lisa.

Lisa ignored the woman and walked faster, Jennie said they should have lunch together. It was an agonizing three hours of her first day in her new school. It feels like deja vu. This morning she was so happy that she escaped Joohyuk but now she'd chose him without contest.

"Lisa!"

Not satisfied with her speed, Lisa started running. She ran until she can't hear Roseanne anymore. The amount of tears that she shed when Roseanne dropped her without a warning was enough. It was enough to traumatize her forever.

She hid behind a tree near the football field before looking back. When she didn't see Roseanne anywhere near her, she sat on the shade under the tree. She tried to remember if she had any conversation with Roseanne that concerns programming. She knows there's none. If anything, Roseanne said that she wanted to become a lawyer. What the hell is she doing in Lisa's course, she doesn't know. Her reminiscing was interrupted with her phone ringing, there were 37 messages from Jennie. She forgot about their lunch and the woman is surely sulking right now. She is hesistating to answer her phone but knowing Jennie, there will be a university manhunt if she wouldn't.

Where are you?
I am starving!
(tell her to come here now!)
(shut up Tae!)
Tae is really mad now, Lili.

Fine. Fine. I am at the football field, wait for me.

Lisa walked slowly to the direction of the university with her shoulders hunched. She doesn't feel any hunger at the moment. Anxiety is creeping up on her that if there's anything that she wants to do right now is to vomit. Should she slap her face because maybe this was just a dream? She'll wake up in the comfort of her bedsheets Kendall's legs entangled to hers.

"What happened to you?" Jennie asked while Tae eyed her from top to bottom as if he's checking for something. He is in his basketball jerseys meaning Jennie forced him to eat lunch with them instead of having it with his teammates.

"Long story.."

Jennie looked at her left arm as if she's checking for the time. 1.) There's a huge ass clock on her left and, 2.) she's not wearing a watch.

"I have time."

Lisa looked at Tae who rolled his eyes before standing up to get their food. His tall frame became smaller as he approaches the food hall. There are eyes following his movements, from girls with reverence and from boys with annoyance. Taehyung has always been an enigma to the people that doesn't know him. There's only one girl that he dated and when the girl left, he abandoned the idea of dating anyone. Or so he says. Lisa knows that Taehyung doesn't want any distractions and it would hurt any girl that will be always be second to Jennie.

Jennie looked at Lisa with interest. She knows when the woman is mad, hungry or even horny. Their familiarity with each other can compete with Jennie's connection with Taehyung.

"It's nothing, Nini.."

"Your face says otherwise. Come on, tell me before Tae comes back or he'll storm into your classroom and glare at your classmates one by one. You know he'll do it."

Lisa shivered.
"How about after school? He has practice, right? We can sneak it a couple of vanilla ice cream on the benches and pretend we are interested in basketball like we always do."