The Tiger King (Chaelisa)

44| Mischief and Mayhem: Part 2

"Shame we couldn't go to the diner like usual and celebrate," Jisoo sighed. "Joy and Yeri were so excited."

"What is there to celebrate?" Jennie said bitterly. "Lisa got disqualified. And I should really call up that place's useless management and give them a piece of my mind. I'll do that right now before I get mad at you guys for being such lousy actors. If Irene wasn't so worried about Seulgi, she'll have called me out on the BS I was spouting and then we'd be busted."

"Oooh she maaaaad."

"Yes, I'm mad, Lisa. What do you expect?" Jennie snarled. "You weren't the one handling Jinyoung and doing damage control after the match finished cos' you conveniently conked out."

"Alliteration—"

"Not the time, Chu."

"Hey in my defence I thought I did pretty well, all things considered," Lisa defended, " what are you so worked up about? Yeah we lost the match and yeah we lost our one way ticket to earn more money but so did the Bear, I mean Seulgi. We both lost so fair's fair. I prefer both of us not making it through than only her making it through."

"Fancy the Bear being Irene's girlfriend all this time."

"I wouldn't go that far, I don't think she's her girlfr—"

"Yeah, I'm quite flummoxed, isn't she some school teacher too?" Lisa bulldozed over Jennie's protests. "Who would have thought? Guessing she kept her identity hush hush cos' they don't want boxers as schoolteachers huh? Violence and a bad influence and all that. And I wonder how she hid all the bruises? She must be a makeup extraordinaire. Maybe I should take some notes from her."

Lisa had taken the discovery of the Bear's identity in stride, probably softening her stance after realising that Seulgi was badly shaken by events that transpired and picking petty fights tonight was not the way to settle their rivalry. Jennie was thankful her sister was being sensitive for once but she also wished Lisa would go back to pretending she was asleep.

"Will you shut up for five minutes?" Jennie gritted. "Go back to sleep. You both suck at pretending by the way. And stop waving your arms around before you knock something over, I'll kill you if you break something."

"Where are you going?" Lisa asked, dropping her arms.

"I need to make some calls," Jennie said testily. "The whole security management at the Slammer seriously need some reforming because they suck. I don't care if the administration officials are asleep, I want answers and I'm gonna get them."

"Shouldn't you sleep, like Irene said?" Jisoo asked in concern. "Jendeuk, you've both been through quite the night..."

She trailed off as Jennie walked away into the kitchen, stabbing at the phone's keypad and muttering under her breath.

"Let her go," Lisa said softly, "she needs some space for now, she's still too pumped up to think of rest. Let her blow off some steam and then try talking to her again. She'll come around."

Jisoo sighed and absently reached out to adjust the ice packs on Lisa's face. "Do you think Irene would mind me charging my phone? I got my cable with me."

"Nah, don't think so, go ahead. It's just charging, she ain't gonna notice."

"Plug it in for me?"

"I would," Lisa said, "but I have really lousy hand-eye coordination right now, like Jennie said, and I'll miss the phone's pussy."

"The phone's what?"

"The hole thing that you charge from. The phone's pussy."

"Good one," Jisoo snorted. "That's the phone port. But okay, I'll get it myself."