"Taehyung? So suddenly?" Kim Jisoo, his twin sister, looks at Jennie with wide and lost eyes.
Jennie dispiritedly picks on her food. "Why? Who else should I ask when you know him the best?" She puffs out her cheeks.
The older squints her eyes. "Rather than why you're asking me, I'm curious as to why you're asking about him."
"Just wanna know if he's as cranky as you, you're twins after all." She taunts, harboring a harmless glare from the other side of the table.
"Hmm, I don't know. He's my brother but I'm not really interested in his business nor he is in mine. Taehyung's just —" Jisoo pauses, genuinely having a hard time describing her own twin. "him. He's got a distinct personality, a force of nature. Very unlike me." She spiels, acting as if she's not possibily just as eccentric as him.
Jennie hesitates but upon seeing Jisoo's doubtless expression, she carries on. "Um.. Is he into girls?"
The clacking of the utensils came into an abrupt stop at her question, replaced with coughing and pounding at the cafeteria table. Jisoo chokes on her food and Jennie hands her a glass of water, fazed by the reaction.
"The last time I checked he was." She says, fanning herself after sweating bullets at the door of death. "Is this what I think it is because I'm sorry to tell you this: He's not into men, it's just that he already likes someone else."
Jennie ignores the provocative looks the older has been giving her. She was stupid for jumping into such a foolishly egotistical assumption, thinking that men would have to be gay to not like her.
Of course, he could possibly like another woman!
"It's his Thai childhood friend, Lalisa Manoban." Jisoo blurts out, cutting to the chase — knowing that she'd be interested to know who it is.
"Lalisa Manoban." The name rolls out of her tongue. Childhood friend, huh?
Jennie was not a fan of the typical and cliché love story prompts, and falling inlove with childhood friends are one of those. She hated romance books, movies, or mangas of the same genre. Obviously love stories should be romanticized, but it's dumbed down to mutual pinings and second lead syndromes.
When in fact, love is like business. Love is business. It's a two way give and take thing, no one's in it if they're doing it alone. It's why unrequited love exists, people can never be satisfied of loving someone without expecting something back.
Jennie will never understand it's concept, it's not like she has ever felt such attachment which would drive her into desperation. It's pathetic.
It's pathetic watching Kim Taehyung and his lovestruck gaze go unnoticed by Lisa. How he admires her from afar, and constantly keep himself in check whenever he's around her. It's pathetic how Lisa never notices his subtle attempts to get her attention and the hesitant skinships. The saddest thing of all is how Taehyung couldn't seem to get the hint that Lisa doesn't like him back, she has eyes for Jeon Jungkook.
Jennie finds amusement in it all, the laughable love triangle who are a bunch of dense and clueless kids experiencing puppy love. Ignore the fact that Taehyung is technically older than her.
As if things couldn't get even more interesting, there stood Jeon Jungkook infront of the college gate. A shy blush dusted across his cheeks and a tight grip on his phone, he offers the device to Jennie.
"Noona, can I have your number?"
Pathetic.
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