A village romance

Chapter 14: Another Introduction And Realization

As she was introduced by Lisa, Jennie went over to not be seen as rude and greeted them, Jennie, meet Palisa, Nicha, Sorn, and Ten." Lisa introduced the one named Nicha, who went to her and said, "You can call me Minnie." Minnie said to Jennie, who nodded, "What are you guys doing here?" She asked them, "We came to visit you and BamBam." Sorn said, "Yeah, and visit the place you both live in." Ten added, and as she watched, Jennie decided to leave after saying good-bye to Lisa, and she felt the need to leave after seeing Minnie grab Lisa's arm as they started talking. She didn't understand why she didn't like it, but she didn't want it to be awkward. "Watching that show with Lisa can wait, I guess," she thought to herself as she walked home.

Lisa was then dragged to the café by the others to see BamBam, who was closing up the café. He smiled upon seeing them and hugged them immediately. He decided to hang out in Lisa's home, who was protesting since BamBam's house is more spacious, but the others didn't care about that. As Lisa took the drinks, BamBam spoke first. "Hey, did you know that our Priya is falling in love again?" he told the others, who looked shocked. "Is it the girl we saw her with?" Sorn asked BamBam, who nodded. "Yep, Jennie," he confirmed. "Well, she is cute," Palisa said, remembering her features. "The question is, are you over her?" That was Minnie's question to Lisa, who looked annoyed. "I already said this to BamBam; I'm already over her years ago; it still hurts, but I don't love her anymore," Lisa explained to everyone who understood, "so when are you going to confess? Ten asked, "Probably when the festival starts." Lisa replied to Ten, who accepted as they started drinking and Lisa and BamBam told Lisa what was happening back home without mentioning her to Lisa.

Today was a normal day except that new visitors have arrived in the village. They were Lisa and BamBam's friends, and those people are now in the café as they watch the two work. "So these guys are betting on when Lisa and Jennie get together?" Minnie repeated what BamBam said to them. "So what are we going to do?" Palisa says. "I know," Jisoo says as she sits down and introduces herself to the four. "Make Jennie jealous" was what Jisoo proposed. Hearing that surprised them. "How are we going to do that?" Sorn asks. "Well, Jennie can't hide her jealousy that easily," Jisoo explains, and they see an example when Jennie frowned after Lisa went to their table and Minnie touched her arm and laughed as Lisa made a joke, and they got it. "But I'm dating someone," Minnie said in surprise as the others scoff, not believing her, making her pout seeing "Well, Jennie doesn't know that, and let's use that to our advantage to make Jennie realize," Jisoo suggested, and everyone thought about it for a moment before agreeing with her plan.

As the shift ended for the two of them, Jennie and Lisa went over to where their friends were. "Hey, Lisa, let's hang out," Minnie said, holding her hand, and seeing that made Jennie frown. She didn't entirely understand why she felt annoyed but ignored it, and she didn't know if other people noticed that but herself and Lisa. After that, BamBam decided to close since there weren't any customers going in, and they left the café. "So where do we go, Priya?" Minnie asked, and that left Jennie and Jisoo confused. "Priya?" Jennie asked. "Oh, Pranpriya is my former name," Lisa replied, but that made Jennie more curious. "When I was young, me and my mom went to a fortune teller, and they told my mom to change my name to Lalisa, which means *the one who is praised* or something like that". Lisa explained, and Jennie thought that was really interesting as they noticed someone running towards them.
It was Joy, and she looked tired and was looking for something. "What's wrong?" Lisa asked. "Um, I'm looking for more helpers to help pick out the strawberries and grapes on my parents farm since most of the farmers can't at the moment," Joy said, and to Jennie, Joy's farm is familiar as she had visited many times before, so she wasn't surprised. "We can help," Jennie suggested as she looked at Lisa, who nodded in agreement. "Yeah, let's get everyone to help," she told Joy, who thanked her. "Not me, though I'm going home, Jisoo said as she wanted to go home to play a game. "Your boyfriend is also helping out too, you know, since he wanted to give you strawberries," Joy mentioned, hearing that Jisoo stopped walking and looked towards them. "Really?" She asked Joy, who nodded at her. That's why he immediately helped me because he knows he can have the other strawberries," Joy said, and Jisoo went quiet for a moment. "I'll also help because I know he likes them too and will give me all of them," Jisoo said as she started walking and stopped. "Oh, uh, where's your farm?" she asked Joy as everyone else laughed.

A moment later, they arrived at the farm and got ready to help Joy as Jisoo met up with Bo-Hyun, who gave a big smile upon seeing her, and they got ready to work while BamBam took this as an opportunity to sell coffee for the other workers. As they were picking, Jennie decided to get the grapes first, and as she was short, she had to use the stool to grab them. As she did, she kept looking back, and seeing Lisa and Minnie interact annoyed her so much that she looked away, and she accidentally grabbed the grapes too hard. She slipped, but someone grabbed her and grabbed her. She looked up and it was Lisa, and Jennie noticed she was in close proximity to her as Lisa's body stopped her fall and her arms were on hers. She was blushing a bit, thinking Lisa smells really nice, and remembering what happened the last time this happened made her blush a bit. "Hey, are you OK?" was Lisa's answer. She woke up from her thoughts. "Yeah, thanks," she said, and then went back to work.

Unknown to Jennie, Lisa was blushing as well after what happened, but no one said anything, but Jisoo did tease Lisa for a bit. After that, they continued their work, and throughout the day, Lisa and Jennie stuck close together, and it made Jennie happy that Lisa was giving her attention instead. After a few hours, they were finished and allowed to bring home the things they had picked. As that happened, Jennie was about to get Lisa's attention, but Minnie grabbed it instead, and Jennie continued to glare until they saw a woman. Everyone looked like she was Korean and was looking for someone, then spoke. "Minnie," she said as Minnie let go of Lisa to run towards her and hug her. "Do you know her?" was the question BamBam asked to everyone who shook their heads, then Minnie walked towards them. "Guys, this is my girlfriend Miyeon, whom I met on the internet," Minnie introduced.

Hearing that shocked the guys as they didn't expect it and made Jennie internally happy, and from there everyone explained that they didn't believe Minnie had a girlfriend from the internet and didn't expect her to be Korean and stuff, and Minnie told them that's why she was eager to go to Korea to meet Miyeon and told her this location after that introduced Minnie and Miyeon left to go on a date, and Lisa was then dragged by the others as they wanted to have a drink with Lisa, leaving Jennie and Jisoo alone since Bo-Hyun went to go back home. And as the two walked home, Jisoo spoke: "You know it's funny you were jealous of Minnie," she mentioned to Jennie, who looked surprised. "Don't deny it, Jenduek; you show your feelings," Jisoo said, interrupting what Jennie was about to say. "Like it was obvious on how you act more clingy towards her, wanting her attention on you always, looking at her whenever you crack a joke to see her reaction, and plus the way you look at her sometimes is different," Jisoo said to a stunned Jennie, seeing that Jisoo decided to leave and go to Bo-Hyun.

While Jisoo left, Jennie thought of what she said, and that made Jennie realize some things about herself, as all of what Jisoo said is true, and now she understood why it annoyed her whenever Minnie was close to Lisa and what happened in Lisa's house and on the farm. She thought of her actions and concluded one thing: she was in love with Lisa Manoban.