Choosing you | LisRene AU [BOOK 2]

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Group Message: Irene and Junmyeon and Lisa

Junmyeon – What time will you guys be back at the WH?

Irene – I'm here all day.

Irene – Lisa's class gets out at 4:30, so I guess we can leave here just as soon as she gets here.

Lisa – Yep.

Junmyeon – OK, cool. You guys want me to drive?

Irene – Sure.

Junmyeon – I can sense your guys' enthusiasm from here. /s

Lisa – Does that /s mean sarcasm or am I just missing something?

Junmyeon – Nvm.

Irene – Junmyeon's weird, we can't question his symbols.

Junmyeon – Feeling the love guys, thanks.

Irene – What are you guys doing for lunch?

Junmyeon – I'm coming to the WH. Want me to bring you food?

Irene – :o) yes

Lisa – I'm just gonna grab something here before class. See you guys later \o/

Lisa pocketed her phone, stretching her shoulders tiredly as she made her way to the main cafeteria on campus. She actually didn't eat on campus very often, but the options in the cafeteria weren't half bad. Typically, if she did eat on campus, she would meet up with Rosé or Jisoo. Usually Jisoo is on Wednesdays, but Jisoo was conveniently not answering her text messages, so Lisa was going to buy her lunch and then head back out to the campus greens to sit by herself and eat.

Once she'd gotten her food and was trekking back to the middle of campus, she felt her phone begin to vibrate in her pocket. Figuring that it was probably Jisoo, she grabbed it out of her pocket and answered immediately. "Hello?"

"Lisa?" The voice that she heard made her eyes widen – she barely recognized it over the phone.

"Haruto?"

"This is Lisa?"

"Yes, that's me," Lisa replied, utterly confused as to how Haruto had gotten her number and why he was calling her in the middle of the day. He was likely at school right now. "How did you get my number?"

"I've been trying to steal if off of my dad's phone all week," Haruto admitted, "but he hasn't been at the house very much since he got home. I think he and my mom are still fighting. But I got his phone yesterday and I had to wait to call you until today because if my mom saw me on the phone with you she would freak out."

"Wait, Haruto, why did you need to call me?"

There was a pause on the other end of the line before the younger boy answered. "I just... thought that maybe you and I could talk. I've always wanted to have a sibling, and you're cooler than either of my parents."

Lisa relaxed a little because her first thought was that something had to be wrong if Haruto was randomly needing to call her. "Haruto, I don't know... if that's the best idea. Your dad and I aren't really keeping in touch right now, and I don't even know your mom."

"So what?" Haruto demanded. "It's not fair that they didn't even tell me that you existed. When I heard them talking about you I thought that it would be a good thing, but then I thought maybe you were like a scary creep or something by the way that my mom talked about you. But then I met you and you're awesome and it's just not fair."