Medicine | Jenlisa

Chapter 19: Heavenly

Lisa breathed slowly, letting the fresh breeze of midnight sink deeply into her lungs. She looked up towards the moon and stars that shone brightly into the night sky. A sigh escaped her lips as she closed her eyes, hands gripping tightly on a book on her lap.

Jennie.

Her thoughts went back to a certain brunette once again. Stuck, never leaving. Images of Jennie had been carved into her mind, memories they shared together were playing on repeat as if her consciousness had been punishing her.

Her grip on the book tightened as a gust of wind suddenly blew and made her blonde hair a little disheveled.

She had been making herself busy again, finding a good distraction, hoping to put her mind at ease. But no matter what she did, it all came back to Jennie and she had no choice but to give up.

Lisa stared at the 150 pages manual on her lap and wondered.

She knew that it was fake, a pretend manual that convinced her to believe.

Back then, this manual was the reason that she was half convinced about the service person program and why she let Jennie in. But as she looked at it again, Lisa almost chuckled to herself, quite astonished that they really put an effort to make it all real.

Her hands were a little shaky as she opened the front page. She didn't really have a chance to read it before, but now that things had already changed, she was quite interested to know more about it.

The first couple of pages were really convincing, it talks about how the service person program worked, some rules were also in there as well as the things that needed to be done in order to achieve a better result. Lisa felt like she was reading a fictional novel rather than a manual.

Her reading had been interrupted for a moment when Leo hissed at her feet. Her grumpy cat meowed and gave her a look as if he was telling her that he was hungry and demanded to be fed.

Lisa felt like she had no choice but to follow her cat towards his cat house and feeding station.

"See, this is why you keep getting fat, Leo. Maybe we should skip some midnight snacks, eh?"

But Leo only hissed again like he completely understood what his hooman told her.

Lisa chuckled and patted her cat's head when she was done giving him enough food. She stood up and went back up again to her chair near the window, picking up the manual and continuing where she left off.

She read the words Everything You Must Know About Her and chuckled to herself at the irony of it. She should've read this manual from the start, she thought.

She scanned the words written on it, hoping to find a piece of information that made sense, but instead, she only found lyrics of her own songs.

"Of course." She muttered. "Of course they'd do this."

Lisa wanted to be mad at how they made her feel stupid, but Lisa was already way past that stage, instead, she found herself laughing which startled Leo a little bit. Her cat looked at her with his annoyed eyes and hissed. Lisa shrugged it off as her eyes landed on the clock. 1:34 AM, way past her bedtime.

A sigh escaped her lips again as she picked up the manual and closed it with a thud. Suddenly, as she was standing, a paper fell off on the ground.

Lisa sensed a deja vu as she had been in the same situation before. The memory of her finding the KM Entertainment contract with Jennie's signature resurfaced on her mind, and suddenly she started to feel anxious once again.

What it is with her and unexpected papers?

Lisa was hesitant but she still picked it up nonetheless. It was just a piece of paper, folded neatly.