Midnight Angel [Jenlisa FF]

~'~'~ Chapter 19 ~'~'~

The question caught Jennie completely by surprise. What's up with you and Lisa? She whipped her head around and stared at her friend. The redhead, for her part, was staring right back at Jennie, waiting for an answer. The problem, though, was that Jennie didn't have an answer or even a smidgen of an answer. Or even a clue as to why Jisoo would ask such a thing.

"What are you talking about?" Jennie asked warily.

Jisoo raised one slim, red eyebrow and leaned on the table. "I think it was a fairly straightforward question."

"But...I...but...," Jennie sputtered.

"Oh, come on, Jennie," Jisoo butted in. "I've seen the way you look at her, act around her, and she's the same way."

"You're imaging things," denied Jennie.

That was a flat-out lie, Jennie knew. There did seem to be something between her and Lisa. At least from her end. Lisa was the sweetest girl she'd ever met. she'd done so much for her for no reason other than she was nice. she believed in her when very few other people did. What was there not to like about her? And it didn't hurt that she was drop-dead gorgeous.

"I don't think I am," Jisoo chirped.

The attraction between the two was quite obvious to Jisoo. When Lisa had walked into the room moments earlier, Jennie had all but melted in her chair at the sight of her. Lisa, well, stared at Jennie as if she could have eaten her alive. Jennie could deny it all she wanted, but Jisoo knew there was something there.

What Jisoo didn't know was whether this attraction between them was a good thing or a bad thing. Jennie had been through so much in her life already. She didn't want to see her friend get hurt again. But Lisa wouldn't hurt her, would she? No, she didn't think so. At least not intentionally. Maybe getting involved with Lisa would be good for Jennie. It was something to think about. And maybe she'd talk to Jin about it, see what he thought.

"she's definitely a hottie," Jisoo stated mildly and easily saw the blush creep up Jennie's cheeks. Uh huh, and Jennie claimed there wasn't any interest. Whatever.

Thankfully for Jennie, Lisa's footsteps coming back down the stairs, kept Jisoo from pushing any further. "I better get some plates for the pizza," she said and practically jumped out of her chair.

Still, Jisoo watched the two of them. And when Lisa entered the room and smiled when she saw Jennie moving around the kitchen as if it were her own, she had even further proof that the interest went both ways. But for now, she would let it go.

The group soon settled in to eat the pizza Lisa had brought home with her. Conversation was casual, focusing on none of the trouble's that surrounded them. Jennie couldn't have found the event any more pleasant.

For a long four years, her life had been spent mostly alone. She'd done nothing and had nobody. Well, her father had been there, but the situation between them had been anything but normal. And even if it had been, having her father around was nothing like spending an evening with her friends.

She'd missed Jisoo terribly while her father had her secluded in the attic apartment of their house. After her family had been...killed...and her friends had vanished out of her life, she'd thought they wanted nothing more to do with her. Not that Jennie could have blamed them if that was the case. Her friendship with Jisoo, Jin, and Jackson had led to so much trouble for them. If the murders had been the last straw for them and they'd backed away, she would have had to accept it.

Now, though, Jennie knew the truth. They hadn't abandoned her. Because of a lie her father had perpetrated, they had believed her dead. The thought angered her, but she wasn't yet ready to face what she had done. What mattered was that she knew now why they hadn't been around for four years. And what was even more important, Jennie knew that they still believed in her, that they were still her friends. It made her grateful to have such special people in her life.