POV: Irene

"This means.. Whatever you want it to mean."

"This means you're not mad at me?"

"If that's what you want."

"Are you sure you're not mad at me?" I asked her. I was needy for some reason. I can feel shame deep down but I'm ignoring it cause it feels better to ignore it.

She stopped to look at me.

"No. I'm not angry with you anymore." She said. I tried to keep myself from looking as relieved as I felt.

She started to walk again. I smiled and tried to keep that fact to myself.

"There's just one thing about you that irritates me." She said. My heart dropped when she said that. I don't wanna irritate her.

I mean.. I do kind of. But not like that. Not in a disappointing way. In a playful kinda way that means I have her attention.

"Really?"

"Yeah.. For one thing I've always felt like you were hiding something from me.. Now I know what it is."

"What is it?" I asked her while feeling nervous about what she would say.

"Do you realize you're acting different? Like right now?"

"What?'

"You're different from how you were like a couple minutes... Do you realize that?" She asked me. I looked at her confused before rolling my eyes.

"What are you talking about?"

"You're acting different from you usually do. Usually you're a smartass but now... you're different." She told me.

"O-oh." I said awkwardly while looking at the ground.

"I like it." She reassured me while smirking. I looked at her skeptically.

"You like it?"

"Yeah."

"What is this different exactly?"

"You're acting all cute."

"Cute?!" I said shocked. Me? Cute. That's funny.

"I am not cute. Jennie! You got me all wrong!" I told her. She raised an eyebrow at me and cross her arms.

"Oh really?"

"Yeah!" I said. She didn't say anything and just continued to look at me. It seemed like she waned me to say something.

"I uh. I am not cute! I am really not cute! I don't like to be cute anyways. Matter of fact I hate all things cute. Cute is childish and-and.. I-it's stupid. Plus I can't be cute. I don't dress cute. I don't do cute thing and.. Yeah. Th-that's it. I'm not cute.. You get it." I ranted hoping that I was doing a good job at convincing her even though it really didn't seem like I was.

"Fine I guess you're not cute." She said shrugging. I let out a sigh of relief.

"Thank you."

"You're absolutely adorable." She said.

"N-no I am not cute." I said in protest of her inaccurate word to describe me.

"I already told you-"

"Irene"

"huh?" I said as she stepped forward closer to me. I eyed her nervously.

I don't know why I'm so nervous right now. I am usually never nervous. Especially not of other people.

"You wanna come with me or not?"

"W-what? W-why?" I asked her as my cheeks began to turn red.

"I just wanna talk." She told me.

"You wanna yell at me some more."

"No. I wanna talk to you."

"What for?"

"Just to clear some things up." She said before putting her hand out for me to grab again.

I grabbed her hand and she started to drag me away.

"Where are we going?"

"To my car."

"Why?"

"Just trust me okay? You trust me? Can you do that?" She asked me.

After she said that I felt much less nervous. Holding her hand made me feel much better.

"O-okay.. I trust you." I told her. She smiled and me and it made me feel like I said that right thing.

Next thing I know we're in her car going somewhere.

"Let's go to a cafe. Get something warm." She said as I sat awkwardly.

"Wahh I'm freezing." She complained while pulling out of her parking space.

"No need to be so awkward" She said.

For some reason I felt excited and nervous to be here. Even though I've been in her car before.

To be honest those different feelings are starting to come.

Before.. She said I was different.. I didn't know what she was talking about. Now though.

I'm feeling the different now.

"Alright. We're here.. Be good." She said while getting out the car.

I did the same.

"You want coffee or something?"

"Yeah.. If it's good.. I don't know."

"you've NevEr Had CofFe?" She asked me surprised.

I shrugged and shook my head.

"Nope never have I ever. I heard it makes you short and I'm already way too short." I explained to her.

"You're the perfect height to me." She said smiled at me.

I smiled at her brightly.

"That means a bunch."

"Really? Why?"

"I really want to be taller... Cuz if I was taller then I would scare people so they wouldn't bother me." I explained to her while pouting.

If I had one wish it would be to be about 5'8.

Boy sized.

"You already scare people."

"Yeah but if I was taller it would save me the trouble of actually fighting."

"I thought you liked fighting."

"Only sometimes." I said as I walked up in the line.

"Why? What do you like about it?"

"Well it's something I good at. And it makes me feel powerful. I like feeling powerful."

"Why only sometimes?"

"Well other times people always come up to me wanting to fight. Sometimes I just wanna walk. But it's kinda what I'm famous for. But I think some people really do it for stupid reasons." I said walking up to the counter.

I looked through the glass at all the sugary deliciousness on the other side.

"Aww Jennie! I want~ Pwease- Oops I mean. Please!" I whinnied at her.

She laughed a bit.

"You know usually there's a fight where the person says 'oh you don't have to pay for me I don't need that' stuff like that" She said while looking with me.

"I do not have money for that. That's for damn sure. I guess you don't have to if you really don't want to." I told her.

When I looked at her she was already starring at me. I looked to my left and right awkwardly before giving her an awkward smile.

She laughed while looking away.

"Yep you have definitely changed since how you were yesterday." She told me.

I didn't know what to say to that so I just said nothing.

"Go wait for me over there and we'll talk some more. Kay?" She asked me.

I nodded before going to sit down.

I waited impatiently.

Normal people usually have thoughts to distract them. I don't have shit.

I usually just do and think nothing.

Quite literally. It's like a useless super power.

So that means that when I'm alone I am bored out of my mind.

"Alright I'm back."

"Yeah and it only took you like a billion million years." I said complaining as I helped her carry things.

"A million billion? Is that what we say now?"

"That's what I said~" I said in a sing song voice as I sat down with my coffee and something else that looked sweet and delicious.

"So you got in big trouble then"

"Can we not talk about that? I was just happy."

"I'm not going to yell at you... I'm seriously done yelling."

"Good.." I said before eating my snack.

I really don't like getting yelled at by Jennie. Which is odd. I usually don't care if anybody yells at me. I theorize that it's because Jennie really isn't the type to yell at people. But I feel like she's always yelling at me. Not to mention I think she is someone who actually get's mad at me out of worry more than anything. So it just get's me panicky.

"It's just.. I want to understand what happened because I want you to know that I am truly on your side I just.. I'm still not going to blindly follow you no matter what. I don't do that for anybody." She said looking at me intensely.

I didn't say anything I just took a sip of my coffee.

"Coffee taste good." I said in an monotone voice.

"Irene is there something you want to say? Cause if there is just say it."

"I want you to blindly follow me."

"Well too bad that's stupid and I got a brain of my own."

"Yeah but it's just that.. Never mind" I said before going back to eating.

"Irene I'm not stubborn if you say something that makes sense to me then I might change my mind" She told me.

I thought for a while. I just wanted to say it in a way that didn't make me feel stupid. I feel stupid whenever the thing that come out of my mouth aren't threats or comebacks.

"It's just sometimes you make me feel stupid... And I already feel stupid all the time."

"How do I make you feel stupid?" She asked me.

I looked at the ground.

"Well you never believe me. And You don't trust me. I just don't wanna have to feel like everything I do... Everything I do is just.. I don't know how to explain it." I said getting fustrated with myself.

"Well slow down and explain it. You'll be able to think better." She told me.

"It feels like I've already made myself a reputation. So I'm not allowed to get angry or anything like that because then they either wanna make it worse or the get scarred a me. And I don't like either of those." I said in a mumbled.

"But what about the people who don't do anything to you. Did you ever think about how they feel?" She asked me.

I didn't say anything.

"I don't have an explanation.. It just feels good." I admitted.

"It feels good to make others upset?"

"no... well.. Yeah kinda.. I can't explain it. It's just how I am" I said.

"Well I don't like you like that." She said.

I looked at her with puppy dog eyes.

"I know... I TRIED not to but.. That guy was really bothering me."

"Guy? What guy?"

"It was this guy I was working with he kept calling me names and stuff."

"Names like what?" She asked me.

I thought for a while.

"I don't remember. But it made me really angry. And he kept saying it. And I think it's really unfair that I got in so much trouble when he hit me too." I said.

"He what?!"

"Huh?"

"He hit you too?! What type of Nancy hits a girl."

"In his defense. I act like a dude sometimes."

"No defense about it."

"Jennie~ I can handle myself. Boys don't scare me."

"I'm still pissed." She said shaking her head angrily.

"Jennie." I called

"What?" She said without even looking at me.

"Jennie~" I called in a singing voice.

"What?!" She said annoyed while looking at me.

"My muscles have muscles." I joked at her while shaking my head and giving her a thumbs up.

She laughed.

"There's something wrong with you." She said jokingly while shaking your head and smiling. I felt proud of myself for getting her to smile.

It was pretty much just a fifty percent chance that'd actually work. It wasn't that funny so I had my fingers crossed.

"How in the world are you so strong anyways?" She asked me.

"Well Jennie it started when I was a kid and I realized that I really really.. hated people." I said joking.

"Then I figured out that what I really wanted to do was hurt them. So that's when I discovered the punch. Been using it ever since." I said joking. Jennie laughed and it made me feel accomplished.

I think I want my occupation to be making Jennie laugh. I don't see how I'd make money but I sure would be all types of happy.

"Yes three was a wild year for me. Remember those day like they were yesterday... taking candy froma baby was likeas taking candy from a baby."

From there me and Jennie must have talked for like.. ever.

but it was.. fun.

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