The only exception

Part TWO

"Or you can just wear the strawberry dress that Lisa brought for you." I say, not bothering to look into her eyes.

"But I want to wear it on our date next week."

I didn't say anything. Instead, I just continue to stare at Jennie's ceiling. I knew our conversation would just go in circles like it always does, so I just stared until I fell asleep and woke up only to see the person Jennie had been pinning on me about.

"Sorry, should I say good morning or good afternoon?" She asks, peeking cautiously from the door. "Did I wake you up?"

I smile a little. "I didn't realize I dozed off," I say, rubbing my eyes. "Where's Jennie?"

"She said something about going to Lisa's house. They were about to have a movie marathon there."

"Oh," I say, that bitch didn't even tell me, and just left me under her sister's care.

I could feel my cheeks heating up. The least Jennie could do was to let me know that she was going to go see Lisa and not leave me alone here.

"Say, I'm going to some cafe downtown. Do you want to come with me?"

Thirty minutes later, before I knew it, Jisoo and I sat together, and the guy behind the counter came up to us, momentarily grinning as if to charm Jisoo and I.

"Do you want menus?" He said.

I could see Jisoo in front of me, smiling as she shook her head, "Chocolate is fine." Then she looked at me. I blushed, although I don't know why, and just said, "Strawberry please."

The man nodded, flashing a charming smile at Jisoo. It seems that he was hitting on her, and I don't know whether Jisoo is acting dumb about it or not. She seems to not notice it.

"Thank you for this, unnie." I say. The least I could do was to be polite to my best friend's sister.

"Jisoo," I hear her mumble. I hummed, unable to respond.

"You can call me Jisoo." She said as she laid her back on the chair.

"Jisoo." I say, trying out her name under my tongue and it came out so natural.

"Yes?"

I blushed, shaking my head to signal that it was nothing. I can see her grinning.

"So how did you and Jennie meet? I hope she doesn't have to wrestle you to be friends with her."

I laughed at that. "We're actually partners on some geometry projects for a month. Then I told her that I could handle it by myself, but in the end, I couldn't as she was forcing herself to step in and help, which I'm glad of."

"And why is that?"

"I'm terrible at math," I admitted, sheepishly smiling."Never, ever good at it. Our project was involved with art, and math and art are not my forte that much, so let's just say it was a disastrous project, but we survived."

Jisoo shrugged. "I saw some of your other work. It wasn't awful. In fact, you're really good at art. However, there are some things that need to be tweaked and improved. Your hands are nice, I like them."

"Please don't tell me Jennie was the one who showed it."

"Oh she did, she did it, and bragged to me."

"Remind me to strangle her when we arrive at your house."

"It was not that bad, really, but sure." She grinned.

I blushed. Art was a hobby I don't visit that much anymore, but I do a lot of them. Most of them were just plain sketches that I did at Jennie's house and sometimes forgot to bring them to my house. Until now, I still think my art is not that important.