Your Attention is Mine

eyes on me

Jennie hates competitions. Sure, she can win any competitions with her savageness and wits, but one thing she can't win no matter how hard she tries? Attention. More specifically, Lisa's attention.

It seems like she always has a competition for Lisa's attention, affection, you name it. Be it a suitor, a friend, a dancer, a colleague, hell even Minnie became her competitor for Lisa's attention. Lisa doesn't know this and frankly, she doesn't even notice it. Maybe it is all on Jennie. Maybe Jennie's only imagining it, but imagination or not, she hates it. She hates it when she's inside a room with Lisa and some other irrelevant people and Lisa's attention isn't on her. She hates it when she sees that Lisa's eyes are looking at other people's eyes and not on hers. She hates it when Lisa laughs at other people's words when she can laugh at Jennie's lame jokes. She hates it. She hates it.

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Just like that other day,

Lisa is free from work on Saturday, after Minnie insists she takes the day off and that she'd reschedule her appointments and meetings for next week. Lisa finds herself with Jennie, Jisoo and Chaeyoung, having an early walk in the park after they had breakfast at McDonald's. They aren't exactly paired with their significant ones, Lisa walking side by side with Jisoo while Chaeyoung stays behind with Jennie.

"Easy with the glaring Jennie unnie, that's just your sister, not some guy who's trying to flirt his way with Lisa." Chaeyoung says as she chuckles at the way Jennie is glaring at her sister's red hair. Jennie stops glaring but the crinkle is still permanent on her face. She watches as Lisa laughs at something Jisoo had said, Jisoo slapping Lisa on her arm playfully and Lisa replying to the gesture with a joke question, "Why did you hit me? Is it because I'm the maknae out of the four of us?" making Jisoo laugh loudly.

"If I wasn't Jisoo unnie's girlfriend and was just a bystander, I would actually think that you're jealous of Jisoo." When Jennie doesn't answer, Chaeyoung almost chokes on her own saliva. She can't believe it.

Jennie is jealous of her own sister.

Jennie turns to her, the crinkle still on. "They're laughing. Why are they laughing, Chaeng?"

Chaeyoung tries not to laugh at Jennie's expression. "I don't know unnie, I don't actually have any super hearing abilities."

"I think it's rude to snoop on what they're talking about if I go there..." Jennie says as she looks at Lisa who's pointing at something, Jisoo trying to see what she’s pointing at.

"Maybe they're sharing some corny pick up lines to tell us later. You know those two."

Jennie tries to use Chaeyoung's reason, but it isn't working. The more she sees Lisa laughing at something Jisoo had said, the more questions filter in her mind.

“Why is she putting all her attention on my sister?”

"I'm here! Did she forget that?”

"I'm her girlfriend! She's supposed to be laughing at my lame jokes, not Jisoo unnies!”

"Wait, did Jisoo unnie and I exchanged girlfriends and I didn't know? Oh God, that can't be! I don't like Chaeyoung that way!”

"Lisa's not replacing me with unnie, is she?”

"Lisa stop looking at unnie like that!"

While the thoughts occupies Jennie, Chaeyoung is having fun watching her unnie’s face contort from shocked to confused to scared to angry then back to being shocked. She can practically hear the bolts turning in Jennie's brain.