Jennie
Lisa was in a mood tonight. Not just any mood. The mood. She could hardly keep her hands off of me all the way to the club or even when we made it inside, always guiding me along with a hand on my lower back, veering down to cup my ass when she thought no one was looking. But Chahee had seen it once or twice and shot me a grin every time she did. Lisa's attentions were making me restless and, more than that, they were making me want to grab her by the collar and drag her back into that limo all the way home where I could really see what she wanted from me.
But we had signed up for a night out with friends and her head designer, Nate, spotted us the moment we walked in to the hip new club. He rushed over to us, whiskey in hand, and gave us each a hug in an overly familiar greeting that had everyone laughing. I introduced Chahee and Jimin as he proclaimed that some guys from the office named Drew and Reggie were already in the VIP area where he'd left them. Apparently, Nate got the invite to this opening because the owner was his brother's best friend. So that invitation came complete with VIP table and bottle service, a term which, the moment Chahee heard it, had her scurrying past the red ropes for a bottle of her prized tequila.
"Tequila is quite the choice for a starter." Nate joked, with a smirk on his lips as he raised a glass to Chahee who was already ordering.
"Honey, tequila is just me getting started." she shot back.
"I like this one." Nate shouted to Lisa over the music. "She single?"
Lisa looked at me.
"Nearly always." I answered and Nate grinned before moving away to talk to Chahee. Lisa and I exchanged a glance and a knowing smile.
"Hey, big boss." another man called out in greeting, shaking Lisa's hand as the other stepped forward. "Nice to see you out tonight."
"Nice to be out tonight." Lisa replied, relaxing more easily into this environment than I thought she would. "I didn't know you were coming, Drew."
"Yeah, well, Alice said if I didn't, I'd be out on my ass in the morning. Something about impressing the CEO." he answered, giving Lisa a pointed look. Lisa burst out laughing, holding her stomach as she smiled.
"Well, schmooze away." Lisa said as Chahee handed her and I each a shot of tequila. "If my wife's friend has anything to do with it, neither one of us will remember it in the morning anyway."
Drew laughed outright and did the shot along with us. I watched Lisa take hers, mesmerised by the muscles in her throat contracting to swallow the liquid. She set the shot glass down and then turned to me. We locked eyes and she smiled, nodding her head at the shot still in my hand.
"If I have to, you have to." she told me and I just rolled my eyes and threw it back.
"Yes!" Chahee cheered, pumping her fist in the air as she grabbed the whole bottle and took a sip.
For a while, we sat at our VIP table, mostly talking, sort of drinking. Nate and Chahee were flirting heavily by his second whiskey and her third tequila shot. After that, she switched to vodka cranberries and grinned like a fool every time he spoke to her. Jimin was locked in some disagreement with Reggie about an artist that they both knew of. And Lisa and I were still talking to Drew. Suddenly, I noticed a perfectly manicured hand squeezing Lisa's shoulder and I looked up to see a drop dead gorgeous woman standing over us and smiling.
"Rosé!" Lisa cried in greeting, moving over so that she had somewhere to sit. "I thought you decided not to come."
"And miss Lisa Manoban's big night out? Fat chance." she answered with a dazzling smile.
I hated her immediately.
I glanced over to Chahee who was watching us now, with a fiercely protective look in her eyes. Her gaze met mine and we had one of those classic, wordless, eye-contact only conversations that only female friends could have.
Who's this bitch?
I don't know. Should I be worried?
If she doesn't get her paws off of your Lisa, I will remove them for her.
I glanced up to find that she was still touching Lisa, her hand remaining on her shoulder. I turned back to Chahee.
That murder on the Pacific Ocean plan, is that still viable?
I'll throw her overboard myself.
What do I do?
Re-establish dominance. I haven't heard an introduction.
I nodded slowly to Chahee and then turned back to Lisa and Rosé, clearing my throat loudly. Lisa turned to me.
"Oh! Rosé, this is my beautiful wife, Jennie." she introduced us, smiling sweetly at me as if she hadn't just been ignoring me entirely while this random woman sank her literal claws into her.
"Nice to meet you." I said, trying to sound polite but failing in the effort.
"Lovely to meet you as well!" She cried. "I've heard so much about you."
"Funny." I snapped. "I've heard no mention of you."
She cocked her head to the side, with her brows furrowed briefly in confusion.
"Can I get you a drink, Rosé?" Nate interrupted and she turned her attention to him, smiling and ordering something that I couldn't hear.
Lisa gave me a funny look, as if something was amusing to her.
"What!?" I snapped at her.
"Are you jealous?" she asked, with a stupidly sexy smirk still plain on her lips. I crossed my arms and rolled my eyes, looking away from her. I knew I was behaving like a petulant child but I couldn't help it. I was feeling a lot of things that I hadn't expected and possessive over Lisa Manoban was at the forefront.
"Jennie." She reached out and took my hand.
"Do you want to dance?" I asked without looking at her, my eyes on the crowd of moving, sweating bodies on the dance floor nearby.
She looked out at the crowd too and then nodded. "Sure." she answered.
