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chapter seven

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"I have to meet with Irene-unnie now," Jennie says as she and Lisa exit from the tearoom of the hotel they're staying at in Los Angeles.

"Tell her I said hi." Lisa responds, matching Jennie's smile and closing the door from behind them. She widens her arms and Jennie takes her cue to step into the space Lisa has created for her. The two girls go in for a lengthy embrace in the middle of the empty hallway.

Or so they thought.

"...and now kiss."

Across the two members is a conference room with its exterior covered in tinted glass, with the inside giving a clear view of the hallway. And in the room stands Kim Jisoo, palms pressed against the glass and in between her face that's pressed to the barrier, lips quirking into a grin as she spies on her two unsuspecting targets.

"Come on you little shits." Jisoo presses her nose further onto the glass but her figure remains unseen by Jennie and Lisa. If she could just smack their faces together, she definitely would. Her excitement increases when the girls break their embrace halfway and stare at each other with heart eyes (as Jisoo would call it), their gazes locked, and she swears they are about to lean in and—

"Jisoo, what are you doing?" Seulgi nags at her in a hushed voice, careful not to give themselves away by making too much noise. She tries to pry Jisoo off the glass but the girl remains rooted to her spot until her grin fades.

"Did you see that?" Jisoo turns to Seulgi and jabs her thumb to the hallway. Jennie has already disappeared into the main lobby, with Lisa heading to the elevator. "They were so close!"

"How long have you been in here?" Seulgi asks. She had probably arrived minutes earlier, probably discovered the trail of ketchup that had dripped from Jisoo's hotdog leading to where they are now.

"Like." Jisoo wipes her ketchup-and-mustard stained fingers on the sides of her jeans before fishing out her phone from her back pocket. She unlocks it then answers, "thirty minutes ago."

"What?!"

"I had my hotdogs to accompany me." Jisoo points to a trashcan containing two crumpled hotdog wrappers.

"But why?"

"Because I'm a slut for hotdogs, Seulgi."

"No, I mean why were you here for thirty minutes?"

"Oh. I saw those two walking alone towards somewhere like all hush hush and I was sneaking behind them and I find this room unlocked so hmm, maybe I can listen to the other side through the wall in here," Jisoo walks to the other end of the room, passing by a long table and pats the sole drywall, "But nooo! Apparently, all rooms are soundproof, except this one. Which is dumb because this is supposed to be a meeting room." She gestures to the entire room. "So I just munch on my hotdogs until they got out."

Seulgi shakes her head disapprovingly at the younger girl with her hands on her hips in a motherly posture. She and Jisoo had planned on going on a short day out, the same kind Jennie would be having with Irene. And seeing her engrossed in this Jennie and Lisa thing, she fears it could someday lead to a horrifying debacle if she were to cross the line (and according to Irene, Jennie hasn't shared anything Lisa-related so maybe everyone else is in the dark about their status albeit the obviousness on and off-cam).