just friends [l.kook]

Chapter 2

Lisa wiped the sweat off of her forehead and pushed her bangs to the side, looking over at her dance partner, Joen Jeongguk.

His whole face was sweaty and his hair was sticking to his forehead and untidy looking. His white t-shirt had small pools of sweat scattered around and he looked like he'd just ran a marathon.

It had been four days since the two of them found out they were partners on a dance project. Four days of Lalisa coming home drenched in sweat and soar from the dancing of the previous day.

And today was no exception.

They'd been practicing and pushing their limits, relying on nothing but a two-liter bottle of water to keep them sane.

You'd think that after hours of work they'd be done by now, and yet all they could accomplish was two things. Picking out their song, and choreographing the first thirty seconds of the dance.

Lisa had grown annoyed at how every time one of them would mess up, Jeongguk would restart the song from the beginning.

At this point, she was sure she could sing this song in her sleep.

Lisa groggily dragged herself over to the wall, and slowly slid down until her butt had softly landed on the wooden floor.

"Jeongguk! I'm tired of listening to 'Bboom Bboom!' She exclaimed, watching as he paid her no attention and continued going over the moves that they had so far.

After a full minute of her partner ignoring her, she sighed and slowly pulled her phone out of her jean pocket. She had a couple of messages from the group chat she'd created with Jisoo, Rose, and Jennie, but other than that, she had almost no notifications.

Lisa opened up snapchat and decided to sneakily take a ten second video of Jeongguk dancing, but decided she didn't want to put it on her story for everyone to see. She figured that if someone saw the dance moves they'd choreographed then someone would claim them as their own.

So instead, she saved it to her camera roll, and made the decision to keep it to herself.

"Gukkie, do you ever get tired of dancing? Sometimes I feel like people only see me as a dancer rather than a person." She asked him with a pout as she tucked her phone away in her pocket.

That got his attention.

He shut the music off, and walked over to her, carefully sitting down next to her.

With their shoulders touching, he looked into her eyes and responded.

"You're much more than a product of the system, Lalisa Manoban. You're so much more than just dancer. You're a really great person too."