Lovesick Girls (Blackpink)

14| jisoo's devastation

in all her worst nightmares, jisoo had never pictured something like this.

and it was all her fault.

she had woken up with a start, finding herself back in the lounge area with lisa's bottles of alcohol still lining the counter. 

jennie was nowhere to be found.

that fact alone was already enough to set the alarm bells ringing in her head. jennie wandering alone unaccompanied was asking for trouble, just as when jisoo wasn't around she had managed to dispose of her toy boy. jisoo wasn't very worried; jennie's father held substantial sway over the authorities, he'd be able to cover it up. and jisoo wasn't very sorry to see a bitter rival go.

putting two and two together as her brain woke up, jisoo remembered that both of them had eventually made their way back to the lounge and settled to sleep leaning against each other in their seats. but jennie must have woken up, gotten bored and took off.

jisoo cursed now as she hurried through the hallways, trying to not let panic take over her senses when jennie never answered her frantic calls. she was tempted to check with rosie and lisa but shrugged off the idea almost immediately. if she went to them, it would mean that she was truly out of options and panicking, which she wasn't. she wasn't going to panic.

focus. she needed to think.

jennie could look after herself fine.  it's just that she didn't understand the concept of danger sometimes, and that's what had jisoo's heart drumming ominously in her throat as she called out through the empty corridors whilst scaling floors as fast as she could. 

she burst on the landing of the last floor, a sinking feeling making its presence known in the pit of her stomach when she didn't see jennie crouching and eavesdropping at lisa's door. all was quiet and still.

where else could she have gone?

and the obvious answer surfaced easily, because she knew jennie like the back of her hand.

if jennie hadn't gone to spy on rosie and lisa, then she had gone to the roof.

sure enough, the planks blocking the stairs were out of place. heart in her mouth jisoo climbed up, feeling the cold draught wafting over her face as she burst out on to the roof.

"jendeuk?" she called out. "it's me, chu. come out now. you win, i couldn't find you anywhere."

her breath formed a cloud as she spoke. jisoo glanced around the sun deck shrouded in darkness except for a huge green neon sign sputtering and flickering weakly. it was hanging at a tilted angle. jisoo couldn't quite read what it said.

"jen? where are you?"

nobody replied.

jisoo approached the neon sign cautiously, squinting as she tried to make out what it said. the smell of stagnant water reeked in the air, making jisoo wrinkle her nose. the pool lisa mentioned must have caught quite a lot of water from the rain.

the sign had fallen off its rusty supports, with the tail end clinging on resolutely as the light twitched feebly, iluminating some of the letters of the signage. the head of the sign was dark and submerged in a pool filled with black swirling water reflecting green light—that's where the stench came from.

and floating face down in the middle of the pool was jennie.

jisoo blinked for one, two, three seconds as a strange roaring filled her ears, replacing the silence. the typhoon of panic built up in her chest until it burst forth from her mouth in an all-consuming screech unlike anything she had ever uttered before.