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Chapter 39

"Because I don't want to! I just want to be alone as I've been my whole life, what is it so hard for you to understand?"

Refusing to accept it and as she always did her whole life, Preeda sighed, ignoring her words, and changed the subject: "Me and your father will come tomorrow for you to have lunch all together, be ready at 11"

"Of course," Lisa scoffed in disbelief, rolling her eyes.

"I'm serious Pranpriya," Preeda stared into her eyes. "Don't make me turn into the villain of the story and take things from you"

Couldn't she be even worse?

Lisa gasped feeling so outraged. She was being unfair and manipulative, playing with her dreams like when she was young and it was so damn frustrating because after all, she didn't have anywhere else to go if her parents decided to take her place from her and that allowance to cover the bills. She wasn't in the right economic state to pay herself a place and the bills and also college, not even if she got that photography assistant job. And her mother knew it, she knew it too well.

Lisa felt like being seventeen all over again.

Powerless, frustrated and controlled.

"Fine," she spat with eyes full of fire, feeling a knot in her stomach that burned because she was full of rage.

Her mother nodded and with that she simply left the apartment, her back as straight as a stick and her high, thin black heels marking her determined steps.

The door closed and Lisa sighed deeply, seeking to calm the latent fury that began to throb in her body and also grateful that her mother didn't stay to eat or walk through her apartment like a real estate agent, pointing out everything that was dirty or out of place. Good thing she didn't, she was going to find Jungkook's t-shirts in her room, his earrings on the bathroom counter along with a toothbrush for him and some of his own skincare and maybe also his underwear somewhere. Lisa could explain everything and make up great stories for everything, but not for his underwear. She really wouldn't find any excuse to explain the presence of Calvin Klein boxers in the washing machine.

That confrontation left a bad taste in her mouth but at least her cards were laid out on the table and without exposing Jungkook.

Jungkook.

Shit!

She had to explain this to Jungkook.

Lisa went to the bathroom with a bad feeling, it was her own fault pressing her throat and making her hold her breath, and when opening the bathroom door the dark pierced gaze her boyfriend sent left her paralyzed.

She was in trouble.

She smiled nervously, shaking her bangs a bit to remove the dust, which fell on the bridge of her nose. "Hey, she's gone so-"

"I can go home now," he ended up standing up from where he was sitting, the edge of the tub, and he stepped past her at the door coldly.

"What? Why?" she followed him into the living room.

Jungkook took his shirt from the couch. "So you do not have to keep hiding me like a little secret," he told her softly but his words were lethal and his tone was contained in his clenched jaw.

And she got it, she really got it! It looked bad and she had handled the situation very badly by hiding him but what was she supposed to do? She panicked and her instincts simply said: hide him and push the witch away.

"I wasn't hiding you, I-"

"No, we were playing hide-and-seek and you never got to tell me, right?"

Lisa blinked. "You get so sarcastic when you are mad"