You Got Me (JenLisa)

Chapter 34

“Oh! I saw Jisoo today, by the way. I meant to tell you earlier,” Lisa told Jennie while the latter was Indian-squatting on the carpet floor and playing with Leo and Luca.

They were languidly idling the time on Lisa's place, listening to a playlist that Jennie picked. They just came back after they went to the nearest food stalls to eat. Lisa meant to take Jennie to a nice Korean restaurant for a full meal but Jennie insisted that they should try the food stalls lining up along the streets of Hongdae. Lisa wanted to protest because she really wanted a full-course meal, but there was no way she would say no to Jennie.

And so they hit the food stalls, jumping from one stall to the other. Jennie was particularly feasting over the hot mandu. She finished at least a dozen of it, that it made Lisa question her gastronomic capabilities.

“What?” Jennie demanded when she picked her twelfth hot, steaming mandu and saw that Lisa was eyeing her conspicuously.

“That's your twelfth,” Lisa pointed out, while her fishcake was suspended in midair.

“So? I'm hungry,” Jennie said with a pout before she took a mouthful of her twelfth dumpling and fanning the outskirts of her mouth with her hand because it was almost burning the insides of her mouth.

“Who starved you? I never seen you munched food like this,” Lisa said, shaking her head.

“The corporate world. And speaking of starvation, I want to highlight this little food adventure we're having right now with deserts, Lisa,” Jennie said and turned her attention to the elderly woman manning and cooking at the food stall. “Ahjumna! Can you please give me a hotteok? Make it four,” she told the older woman manning the stall and faced Lisa and said, “We'll have two each.”

Jennie looked up and met Lisa's eyes. The blond chose to sit on the couch, bringing her feet up in the upholstery, her chin was resting on her knees and her arms wrapped around her legs. She had never felt so relax and happy in her own apartment, she realized, while watching Jennie with the two furballs on the carpet floor. And the apartment never felt warmer now that Jennie was gracing and filling it with the sound of her laughter and the cute voice she was making when talking to the two cats. They were even both laughing at some point when Leo and Luca were trying to fit themselves inside two small boxes. Luca succeeded but Leo didn't. And Lisa's heart warmed up when instead of laughing at Leo's misfortune, Jennie chose to shower the cat with kisses on the top of his head to console him. Telling him that he was loved and that she would buy him a bigger box.

“Where?” Jennie asked.

“At the Orange, with Chaeng,” Lisa replied. “Yeah, I know. It's weird seeing them together after they tried to kill each other,” Lisa added with a chuckle after she saw the curious and horrified look on Jennie’s face.

“So, that's why she wouldn't pick up my calls. All the while, I thought she's out of the country,” Jennie said softly and resumed to play with the two cats. “I'm glad to hear she's doing okay.”

Jennie petted them that it made Leo purred loudly, to Lisa's disgust. Leo would never purr at her that loud, even if she would practically beg for it. But she decided to let that pass this time. Especially since Jennie with her two boys on the carpet looked picture-perfect. Especially with the faint sunlight streaming through the curtain cracks on the window.

“Can you hold that still, please?” Lisa told Jennie while she stretched herself to reach her Polaroid camera on the coffee table.

“Anyway, she told me that she haven't seen you for a week now?” Lisa picked up the conversation from where they left it after she took a couple of photos of Jennie and the two furballs. Which, Jennie was too happy to obliged and was beyond giddy when Lisa gave her the Polaroids. She asked Lisa if she could have one of the two copies and, of course, Lisa said yes.