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"I used to think that we were
forever ever ever..."
•••

"C-Can you please leave?"

Lisa's voice was so soft that Jungkook almost did not hear her. But since they were at close proximity with each other, he was able to get what she just said. Also, he heard a soft crack on her voice.

He did not know what to do in that very situation. But hearing the helplessness and fear in Lisa's voice made him want to stay.

"Lisa—"

"P-Please," the girl pleaded. He could see tears slowly trickling down her cheeks. "I... I need to be alone."

"No," he said firmly. "No you don't."

Though he's scared of the girl 90% of the time, he did not want to leave her in that state. She was shaken—terrified even, of the news that suddenly rattled the whole social media.

Jungkook found himself wrapping his arms around the girl who so happens to lose strength on her knees. He was able to support her and help her sit by the couch.

Dispatch. Those social piranhas just can't seem to mind their own business. They know nothing about the stress, pressure and sacrifices idols suffer just to reach their dreams so it's so each for them to ruin it for a quick buck.

But in this case it wasn't just for a quick buck.   Since it was two members from the Big 3, they're talking millions.

Lisa was crying. It wasn't the type where she's screaming or wailing but this was scarier. She was quiet and just staring at nothingness as her tears freely fall down her puffy cheeks.

"I..."

Jungkook couldn't seem to phrase out words. What does a guy say to a girl who's currently on the top trending list of almost all social media platforms here and abroad for a dating scandal? And top top it all off, it was with the same guy who just cheated on her.

Sucks, right?

"I know I'm the last person you want to be here with you right now..." He started. His voice was kinda shaky but he tried his best to make it stable. He even gently patted her on her back. Awkwardly. "But... You can't expect me to just leave you here in this state."

Lisa did not say anything and just continued to cry silently. His hand raised a bit to gently brush the girl's short dark hair. She smelled like strawberries with a hint of banana. Quite a weird mix but with her, it works.

Jungkook did not even realize that his warm embrace grew tighter.

"Everything's gonna be fine, Lali."

The girl was oblivious as she drifted off to sleep. 

•••

"Soo, stop taking pictures. You're disturbing them," a man's familiar soft voice was suddenly audible.

"This might not happen again so I'm taking photos as evidence, Joon," a girl's voice replied. That one was familiar too. "Aren't they cute together? I should've realized this sooner. I've been paring the wrong Bangtan member to our maknae!"

Jungkook's forehead creased. What was Jisoo noona and Namjoon hyung doing in his apartment?

Well, whatever. He needs a few more minutes.

"Five more minutes, hyung," he mumbled as he tried to roll to his side.

But he couldn't. It was like there was something heavy on top of arm. Actually, he can't even feel his hand. It felt numb.

"Aigoo this kid," he heard his hyung mutter in response to his dialogue—like he always does.

He really wanted to lay his face flat on his soft mattress. Also, shield his ears from the mother and father figure who seems to be waiting for him to wake up.

"Let's just wake Lisa up," he heard Namjoon suggested clearly giving up on getting him to open his eyes.

"Good luck with that," Jisoo replied with a chuckle. "That kid sleeps like a log. Wait a minute. Let me send this to the girls' chat room. This is gold!"

Wait what? Lisa?

His eyes bolted wide open and he immediately saw Jisoo and Namjoon hovering over them.

"Oh, look!" Jisoo noona pulled the side of Namjoon hyung's shirt's sleeve. "Jungkook's awake! Maybe he can answer why they're spooning here in the living room like they just did the nasty."

Huh?!

Jungkook suddenly sat up from the sofa taking Lisa with him. The girl almost rolled off the seat but it was a good thing he had good reflexes preventing the fall.

"W-What the fu—eonnie? Namjoon oppa?" Lisa muttered as she rubbed her eyes. "What are you—ow!"

Jisoo slapped the girl's hand off her eyes catching both him and Namjoon hyung off guard.

"I told you to stop rubbing your eyes! Dark circles are hard to hide!"

The younger girl ignored what her eonnie just said and continued to rub her eyes. She even yawned and stretched as though nothing had happened.

"Why are you here, eonnie?" Lisa asked. "The kids are not here yet. They're with Chaeng."

Kids?

"I'm not here for your cats, Lalisa," Jisoo answered. "I'm here for you."

Lisa's mouth formed an "o" as if she just remembered what happened. It was quite a lot to process in Jungkook's disoriented mind how this girl sitting beside him who was a crying mess just a while ago can suddenly forget that she was a crying mess... a while ago.

"I guess it wasn't a dream..." the girl replied softly before standing up to go towards the kitchen.

The older girl followed the younger one and he was left with his hyung.

"Thanks for staying with her, Kook," Namjoon said and lightly patted his shoulder. "Sleeping with Lisa. Huh. Never thought you'd do that. You're all grown up, Kook!"

"Hyung! You make it sound like something happened!" he pouted. "We just slept!"

"Yeah, you did," the older guy grinned. "You two slept together."

Jungkook wanted to cuss so badly at his hyung's teasing. But he can't. He can still hear Jin's loud nagging after hearing him say "fuck" when he was beaten by Tae in Tekken.

"Whatever. I'm leaving," he spat before heading towards the front door.

"Aww, come on Kook," the older guy said chuckling. "It was just a joke. You two looked adorable."

He rolled his eyes and then sighed.

I bet the other guys would know about it in a minute or two...

"Sajang-nim called..." he heard Jisoo say as Lisa was busy fixing herself some iced coffee by the kitchen. It was close to the door. "He said they've been contacting you but you wouldn't answer so I came as quickly as I could."

He heard Lisa heave a sigh. She was back at being blank again. It was as though she had nothing in her. No spirit, no soul. Nothing.

"They need your confirmation, Li," the other girl continued. "Neither of the companies denied nor confirmed anything. They say SM is waiting for your statement."

"Waiting for me? Why?"

"I guess that's what Sehun wanted."

He saw how the girl scoffed as soon as Jisoo mentioned her ex. Then she fell silent. She looked like she was thinking.

"I'll go to the company," Lisa then declared. She had this game-face on as if she was about to end someone. "Tell manager eonnie I'll meet with Sajangnim today."

Yup. He wasn't a coward for getting scared of this girl. It was normal to be terrified of what a Lalisa Manoban can do.

•••

[UPDATE:] YG Entertainment denies all rumors involving BLACKPINK's Lisa.

"Hello, this is YG Entertainment. After talking with BLACKPINK's Lisa regarding the dating rumors surrounding her and EXO's Oh Sehun, our artist laughed while stating that she had no idea how it was even possible for her to be dating said artist since they're not even close on the first place. She had also mentioned that she was too busy to even date and that the girl in the photos were not even her since she had her hair cut short for album promotions. Lisa is currently resting due to the accident that had just occurred a few weeks ago and hardly even goes out prior to that as she and her co-members were busy preparing for their comeback."

"Wow, Li. This is quite the statement," Chaeyoung commented as she read the published article on her phone. "I'm sure Sehun will be pissed when he hears about this."

"Look at this right here," Jennie pointed at one comment to the blonde. "They agree with what Lisa said. Her hair doesn't even match the girl's in the photo. The user even posted one photo Lisa uploaded in her IG story that day."

"But it was really you in the photo, right?" Chaeng confirmed. "You wear wigs when you two go out."

She immediately shook her head.

"Nope," popping the "p" with emphasis. "That's the fucking bitch he's been screwing. His stylist. I'm not dumb enough to go out on dates by the Han River where tons of people can see."

The two girls gasped at the bomb she just dropped.

"That bastard!" Both girls exclaimed shocking Jisoo who just walked in with a bowl of popcorn at hand. They're having a movie night at her place.

The girls knew that there will be an article published with YG's official statement regarding the rumor. But none of them—excluding Lisa of course, knew what the actual statement was.

"He thought he didn't have a girlfriend when he decided to sleep with that girl so why not tell the world that I didn't have a boyfriend too," she said with a shrug.

Jisoo sat next to her and handed the popcorn before grabbing the remote control.

"A way to bruise a man's his ego is by denying its existence," the eldest said smirking. "I taught you well, maknae."

"But of course, even if we deny the rumors, a lot of fans would still insist that it's true and that YG is just covering it up," Jennie commented. "Especially those kids who ship the two of you non-stop."

"Right! I saw a lot of hunlisa fans celebrating on twitter," Chaeng said as she scrolled through her phone. We all have private twitter accounts but it was only her who has this stan account. She's actually masking as a Chaelisa stan account. "They keep insisting it was just to feed the rabid EXO fan girls."

Jennie peaked a bit and her mouth formed an "o" while nodding.

"Wow. They're somewhat right but delusional at the same time," she muttered. "There's one saying that you two had been dating for years now."

Lisa rolled her eyes. She knew how fans ship her with majority of the male idol population. With one weird enough to ship her with Bangtan's Jin. If only they knew that that swings the other way.

She didn't really think much about it since fans can sometimes go overboard. Oftentimes she'd just laugh about it especially when she's shipped with either one of her co-members. But it was indeed awkward seeing manipulated photos of her kissing a guy that so happens to be close friends with her.

One time she accidentally saw a photo of her kissing Taehyung oppa and she couldn't even look at him for a whole week. Poor guy thought she was mad at him or something.

"I like teasing Jenlisa stans," Jennie eonnie commented. "They're so fun to watch."

"Not when Joohyun eonnie suddenly ignores you," Lisa clapped back.

"Well, I could just flirt with you again and her jealous ass would just march right here and we'd make out the whole night," the evil girl stated. "It's a win-win situation. I get to tease blinks and Joohyun at the same time."

The three girls all rolled their eyes together.

"Stop, eonnie. Your gay is showing," Chaeng joked while her mouth's full of popcorn.

"I am gay," the older rebutted grabbing the bowl from the former's hand. "Well I can be bi but no D is better than my Joohyun's—"

Jennie eonnie was suddenly shut by the sudden ringing of her phone. That must be her. Irene eonnie.

"Joojoo!" Lisa can't hold her chuckle at her eonnie's ageyo voice. The girl immediately stood up and grabbed a jacket. "You're already at the parking lot? I'll come get you!"

"She's just going to sneak a quick make out with Joohyun," Jisoo whispered to Lisa. She instantly agreed as they both know how Jennie is the clingy type when it comes to relationships. Also the horny one. "I saw them doing it in the dorm once. Can't say I didn't want to gouge my eyeballs out but I did find out why some girls try and experiment."

"I thought you already saw Jennie eonnie naked?" Chaeyoung asked curiously.

"I did but never in my wildest dreams did I see her naked and screaming 'yes, right there, yes!' while being eaten clean."

Lisa and Chaeyoung immediately grimaced. Well, it's not like being with a girl was bad but seeing someone close to you having sex is quite disturbing. Be it with a guy or a girl. Heaven knows she'd jump off a building if she see Chaeyoung having a run with Jaehyun.

It's not like they weren't comfortable with each other. They're actually quite open when it comes to their love and sex lives. Just not the details. The intricate and visual kind of details.

"You shouldn't be barging in on other people's rooms, eonnie," she suggested. "Try knocking next time."

"Yeah, maybe I should," the eldest said while nodding. "I did barge in on you sleeping with Jungkook the other day too. I sure hope I don't walk in on Chae getting down on Jaehyun any time soon."

"Eonnie!" Both Lisa and Chaeyoung screamed making Jisoo laugh out loud.

And then the blonde girl realized something.

"Wait a damn minute!" Then turned towards her. "You slept with Jungkook?! As in Jeon Jungkook of BTS?!"

"What? No!" She immediately denied. "Well, yes but not the 'slept' you're thinking."

"You made out?!"

"Heck no!" she blurted out. "We slept as in, just sleep. When I found out about the article, he was there and he stayed with me 'til I calmed down. We didn't realize we fell asleep on the sofa together 'til Jisoo eonnie and Namjoon oppa came by. It was strictly PG-13 and we had our clothes on."

"Bet you wished it wasn't," Jisoo teased her while wiggling her eyebrows.

"Jisoo eonnie!"

The eldest girl laughed again and was having a field day teasing her. Chaeyoung still looked confused and was clearly still processing it all in her mind.

"But what was Jungkook doing at your place?" the girl asked curiously. "Why was he there when you read the dating news?"

"Well, he helped me with my stuff since he lives just across the hall," Lisa answered truthfully. "It's quite weird, actually. Who would've thought that I'd ever be neighbors with that jerk—I guess his not a jerk anymore since he helped me thrice already."

"You call that fate," Jisoo interjected. "Come on. It's like straight out of a cheesy romcom. Two people hating each other since the beginning of time then it just so happens a tragedy occurs and they help each other out. Then they realize that what they thought about the other person was wrong and they start to fall for each other. Quite cliché, right?"

"Uh-huh..."

Chaeyoung fell silent the whole night.

This bothered Lisa but she wasn't able to ask since Jisoo went on and on about the possibilities that might happen since she and Jungkook were across-the-hall neighbors.

And then Jennie came back with Joohyun—an hour later.

•••
"...and I used to say
'never say never'..."
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05 - 14 - 21

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