HOW YOU LIKE THAT | JENLISA

Chapter 63

Jennie

I was walking alone in the gardens; while the mansion loomed at a distance, and the fog surrounding it was giving it an eerie look. I could hear the sounds of the water fountain. It was peaceful everywhere, the calm of the dead, and I was used to it. Nothing scared me more than people anymore.

I turned a corner and almost bumped into Bambam.

He stood against the finely trimmed shrubs, while holding a cigarette between his fingers.

"What the hell, Bambam!?" I stood there, totally dumbfounded. "You're just seventeen!"

He looked like he'd been caught doing a robbery. He took a long drag and puffed the smoke like a pro, which told me that this wasn't the first time he was smoking.

"It's just a fucking smoke! Don't tell Lisa about this."

"Drop it!" I ordered.

"Come on, Jen."

"I said drop the cigarette!"

I guess it was my authoritative voice that made him drop it on the ground and crush it with his foot. He was still wearing the uniform from his private school.

I raised my hand towards him.

He rolled his eyes, fished out the packet of cigarettes, and handed it to me. "You know that I can buy another packet, right?"

"You won't." I said, "Because if you do, I'll tell Lisa. I don't care about anything else anymore."

"What's the big deal?"

"Technically, you're still a child."

His brows arched up.

"I'm seventeen." He said as if I didn't know it and as if seventeen was the new twenty-seven or something.

The kid lacked manners, and I had Nichkhun to blame for that. I could bet that Lisa used to be the one to keep him in line. I also felt bad for him. He was at this age where he wasn't a child and neither was he an adult, totally stuck somewhere in-between.

"A child." I said. "A bratty child with too much money and far too much time on his hands."

"You on your period or something!? A cactus gotten up your ass, maybe!?" He snapped, "I'm not stupid. I know you had a fight with Lisa."

"That's none of your business."

"Listen, did you read the marked pages of the journal?" He asked. His tone was soft and secretive.

"No, I haven't."

"Well, at the turtle rate that you are going and by the time that you finish it, Lucas is going to get married and have his kids. You're at a snail's pace and we don't have time for you to finish it."

I let the sarcastic comments slide. "What do you mean, we don't have time?"

Bambam's light brown eyes met with mine. It always seemed to catch me off-guard and reminded me of a teen version of Lisa. "Tomorrow, we will re-create the day of the boating accident."

Fear splintered inside my heart. "How are we going to do that!?"

"Leave that to me. Make sure that you bring her to the lake. We re-create this without the other players. Nichkhun and Sorn shouldn't know about it. The same goes for the little runt. Do not underestimate Lucas for his age; he knows more than he should."

I have a bad feeling about this.

"Is this going to be safe, Bambam? I don't know what you have planned."

"And it's best that you don't. Just do what I've said, Jen. We don't have any other choice. Lisa needs her wits back and fast. Her memories will only get triggered if she's placed exactly in the same situation."

"I'm worried about her."

"Me too, but if we don't want to end up buried in the family cemetery, we have to take this risk."