Hello Tutorial • liskook.

Chapter 38 • Pt. 5, 2

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the things i do for love

gnome hyung
i feel like such a robber doing this

taehyunggie
Can we steal some food?

no
put things together
and leave

gnome hyung
HER CAT IS SO CUUUUTE

taehyunggie
hes a fattie
And jimin is planning to rob him jungkook!

oh pls let him do it
not like he can carry that fat bitch tho

Gnome hyung
this leo slander is JUICY
lemme sc to send to lisa when you misbehave

RATA INMUNDA

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The one about wanting to choke your boyfriend...

So, haha, awkward, but the happy ever after wasn't ever after.

"It's okay, I got it," he told her when she looked up after zipping his backpack close and saw that Lisa was handing him money.

Lisa frowned. "But I want to pay"

That made him uncomfortable, she noticed in the way his jaw tightened. He shook his head at her. "It's not necessary"

Lisa knew it was necessary. Before going back to the guest house, when they went to eat at a bar, he didn't ask for anything but told her to order whatever she wanted and he was going to pay for it, as he had done before every time they ate. Lisa thought it was that stomach ache and she insisted him to eat something, maybe it was hunger, besides he hadn't eaten anything since the day before.

From asking nothing, Jungkook ate half of his breakfast like a man lost on an island. It was something cute but so suspicious that Lisa didn't hesitate anymore, she had been in this situation before. The first months she was in Seoul, she was terrible at managing her month allowance so she ran out of money to buy something to eat in college and had to pretend not to be hungry in front of Chaeyoung because she was going to scold her, then she would devour Bambam's lunches. Jungkook had no money and was trying to hide it and was refusing to get help from her. AND FOR WHAT?

"Jungkook," she sighed. "We're in this together, you don't have to pay for me too"

He looked at her with an obvious expression. "Yes, I have to?"

"No, you don't?"

"I'm serious, I can pay for it. I brought you here after all," he shrugged like it was nothing but he was getting upset and Lisa didn't understand why, she didn't even understand why he refused.

"No, a train brought me. Or now you're a train driver and you never told me?" she crossed her arms, arching a sassy brow.

He shot her a look that made it clear that he didn't find it funny, she wasn't trying to be anyway.

"Just accept the money, it's half and half. You paid for the food too," she added and she felt guilty for just letting him do it sooner, without question. She had been selfish.

"No," he said it like that, clear, sharp, and headed for the door.

Lisa grabbed his arm. "Why not?"

"Just no," he insisted and made her grow annoyed because he was just making decisions for them and damaging himself -his wallet, actually- for no reason at all.

Was this about some man ego? Pride? Was that why he didn't tell her?

Where all this toxic masculinity was coming from?