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Chapter 40 • Pt. 2

"It will never be a waste of time, doll, you're doing what you love," he smiled at her, taking her hand under the table. Lisa gave him a small smile that transformed her entire face beautifully.

"Doll?" Preeda asked.

Ah right, they were there.

Haha...

Fuck...

"He thinks I am pretty like a doll," Lisa said happily and showed her face in a flower pose.

The face of disgust in her father was almost hilarious and he looked away like in The Office, like saying, "wow, the hippie tatted artist he calls her doll".

Preeda then decided to ignore that reply, refusing to accept that yes, the pet name fit her daughter. "Honey, I'm actually happy for you. If you say it is big, it must be," she finally said something nice, perhaps for the first time noticing that her attitude was not correct and it was exactly why her daughter had said all those things to her before. She then showed Lisa a real smile that made Jungkook realize that all the ones he had gotten since he arrived were as fake as the Koreanity of Oli London. 

Wow, flattering.

In-laws loved him so bad, wow.

Did he really want them to love him, though? With that attitude?

He was really wondering.

Lisa looked at her mother really surprised by her and with a glint of illusion in her eyes that revealed how much she really cared about her approval, but she said nothing and pursed her lips, smiling.

The food came then and it was a good excuse for everyone to be quiet. It was delicious but even that couldn't cover how awkward this lunch was, probably because his father in law was stabbing his fish with his eyes on him, he was probably murdering him in his fantasy which didn't go along at all with Jungkook's fantasy about having a happy meal. 

And it's not like Jungkook had any idea what to talk about, because he didn't know how to deal with casual conversations, and knowing himself it was better to keep quiet.

"What will you do when you graduate, Jungkook?" Lisa's father surprised him with a mouth full of food.

Fuck

C'mon man, right now?

Had he expected him to fill his mouth to ask or something?

He didn't even chew, he directly swallowed everything he had in his mouth and his throat hurt, so he drank water and the pain went down to his chest.

Why were these things happening to him?

"Ehem," he cleared his throat. "Hmm, I will keep-" God, no, Jungkook you can't say you want to keep being a tattoo artist because it's a good job. Nope. Don't say that. "Actually, I might find a job as a professor"

That wasn't the best answer either, the man grimaced in distaste. "Professor? Arts professor? "

Lisa arched an eyebrow, lowering the fork with food that she was about to put in her mouth. "What were you expecting from someone studying arts? Being a Politics Professor? "

"That'd make a better salary"

"Why does it matter, not like he is going to pay your bills"

"He might end up paying yours"

"I won't because she has a job and many opportunities," Jungkook necessarily interfered, hating every word implying that Lisa would need him to survive in the future. 

He was actually more likely to need her, emotionally.

Her father ignored him. "But you're living in a place where I pay the bills"