Need You To Need Me | Jenlisa

XLV.

Jennie was supposed to start college in a few weeks.

She was supposed to be meeting her roomate; have her girls help her move into the dorm; watch Lisa as she carried boxes on boxes just to impress her and laugh after Jisoo tried to make her fall only to make Chaeng giggle and scold her later.

But none of that was happening. Instead, she was laying on a bed of a two star hotel in Thailand, relieving herself from the heat with an electric fan. But if the wet, sticky hair at the back of her neck, clinging to her skin as if she was standing inside a sauna, was anything to go by, she would say it was pretty inefficient at its job. The street vendor had sold it to her as a Thailand must have. But what Thailand should have was AC, and that, unfortunately was not portable.

The humid air made it hard to breathe. She had tried taking cold showers only to find herself back at square one the moment she got out of the bathroom.

So, when she finally gave up on trying to find relief from the heat, she had laid on her bed and stared at the mold that was growing at the corners of her room. It was the only one she could afford with the few money she had left in her second bank account. The first one, in her parents' name, had been shut down.

After paying for the ticket and the deposit for the room, she was left with little to no money. Hence why she had been eating from vending machines for the past few days of her stay in Thailand. Thankfully everything was cheaper here than in South Korea.

Tracking Lisa, for now, hadn't been an easy task either. Who would have thought that it wouldn't be easy finding someone in one of the most inhabited cities of South Asia?

Surely, the key to her plan laid in a last moment realization she had while laying on that exact position: while thinking of graduation, she remembered of Soojin and how she had found her crying at the end of a staircase while she was making her way back to the stage.
They hadn't talked nor had a somewhat meaningful exchange of any sort. But what Jennie did remember was how, for a brief moment, their eyes met and suddenly, they both knew exactly what the other was going through. There had been no hate, or jealousy. Just understanding.

But that had not been the only think her mind was dwelling on. Soojin had indeed helped her once before, by giving her the number Lisa was calling her from in Thailand.

Flying across her room, she emptied her bag on the floor while she looked for her phone.  She rejoiced as she took a hold of it, hurriedly looking through her old calls to find the only one with a Thai area code. Her finger found it before her eyes did and before she knew it she was ( impatiently ) waiting for someone to pick up as she bit her nail.

When the call went through and she realized  that her prayers had been answered, she almost started crying.

Yet talking to Lisa's cousin, Minnie, had felt like talking to a long lost friend. Instead of being judgmental of the time spent a part, she had been understanding, as she listened with patience to Jennie's unclear story.

"Please, let me see her" Jennie had said, tears flowing involuntarily as she choked on her words "I need to see her"

"Okay" had been everything Minnie had said after Jennie breakdown, before she gave the address, making sure to pronounce each syllable as clearly as she could. The brunette hurriedly wrote it down on the toilet paper she had retrieved to dry her tears.