9

Lisa and Jennie kissed for the first time in front of their friends a few days later.

Lisa had seen Kai out of the corner of her eye while they were eating lunch in the quad. She whispered into Jennie's ear.

"Kai's here."

Jennie nodded.

She reached up with her hand, her thumb brushing across Lisa's bottom lip.

"You have a little something." Jennie said to Lisa. She didn't of course, she was just trying to sell it and not at all enjoying the feel of Lisa's lip under her finger. Those so weren't tingles shooting down her thumb.

Lisa's heart skipped a beat. She grabbed Jennie's wrist, pulled it away from her face, and used it to pull Jennie into her before kissing Jennie full on the mouth.

They lost control again, for some reason. They were just supposed to brush lips and pull away but they quickly started making out again, completely missing the gagging sounds coming from across the table from Jisoo when she noticed them.

"Get a room." Jisoo said. "I'm trying to eat my chicken in peace."

Jennie and Lisa still ignored her.

Lisa was so into the kiss she didn't even realize she started pressing her body closer and closer to Jennie, so much so that they both slowly started to move. If they kept going Lisa would have ended up on top of Jennie with Jennie's back on the picnic bench.

They only stopped as they got about halfway down when they heard the hoots and hollers around them from the rest of the quad who had noticed how heatedly they were making out and Jisoo deadpanning "Fucking in public is totally illegal dude."

They hadn't realized until then that they had almost just given a free show. Yet again.

Lisa perked up quickly with Jennie following, both blushing as the quad still cheered them on urging them to keep going.

Lisa cleared her throat.

Jennie deflected by grabbing some kimbap, putting her hand under it and feeding Lisa.

Lisa eagerly accepted it.

"Disgusting." Jisoo said scowling. "I think I liked it better when they fought."

"No you didn't babe."

"You're right, they're just always insufferable together no matter what."

Jennie and Lisa ignored her comments.

_________

They made out again when Jennie's father came out of a building and Jennie pulled Lisa into her.

Jennie's back was to the railing and Lisa caged her in with her hands and she leaned in to kiss her. They got lost in it, yet again up until Jennie's dad pulled Lisa back from the back of her shirt angrily.

"You take my check and dare to defile my daughter in public? Did you think that came for free?"

"I didn't take your check."

"It's cashed in."

"Not by me." Lisa smirked. "You should have filled the name in correctly.

"Do you think I'm stupid? I wrote in Lisa, of course you filled in your last name and took it."

Lisa smirked.

"You should have done your research, sir. My legal name is Lalisa, so I couldn't have possibly cashed in your check. Somewhere out there there's a Lisa who just so happened to find your hefty check and took all of your money."

He bristled in anger. "You're lying."

"President Kim, you can check your student records yourself. You dug up my fellowship and grant applications but yet you couldn't even remember my name when you read through all of them?" Lisa said, barely retaining the mockery from her voice.

Jennie giggled. Enjoying the fact Lisa was taunting her father right now and the fact her chest was swelling in pride that Lisa had so much integrity and hadn't sold her out after all. She had doubted it a little bit. She had meant to talk to Lisa about it though, this was a great opportunity for her, Jennie was going to tell her to take the check if she still had it anyway.

Jennie's father didn't like the fact Jennie was laughing at his expense, that his daughter was still defying him.

"I'm giving you until tomorrow to break up with her before I cut you off."

Jennie lifted her chin up defiantly, Lisa somehow giving her courage.

"I don't need an inheritance. Auntie Kim made it without hers and she had way less saved up than me. I can do it too."

"Wait, Jennie, don't." Lisa said panicking. She didn't want Jennie losing everything just because of their fake relationship.

"I know what I'm doing Lisa."

"Your aunt married another rich man, though he was below her class, she wouldn't have made it without him. That's why you need Kai. He can support you."

"I'm my own rich man." Jennie said defiantly. "I can support myself. I don't need anyone."

"You're only rich because I helped you!"

"I paid you back, with double interest! Even when I didn't have to but I'm too proud to accept charity from you. I did it on my own. I would have either way even if you hadn't helped! I just couldn't borrow money back then because I was too young to qualify for a loan but don't for a second think that I didn't grow my own wealth because of my own decisions. You were a mere business choice. That's all. I used you to borrow money at sixteen because you were the only option then and you were paid handsomely, weren't you?"

"A business choice? I'm your father Jennie Kim!"

"No, you're the president of the university I happen to attend! That's all you've ever been. Your career comes first and your wife and I were only there to help you look good. You taught me that. You've done this all of your life. Do you think I really care that you're my biological father? Do you? Because you've never cared I'm your daughter. You've only ever cared about your reputation and moving up. I'm done with you too. Cut me off. I've used you enough. I don't need you anymore."

Jennie grabbed Lisa's wrist and marched away angrily leaving a dumbfounded President Kim behind.

Jennie stopped for a second.

"And stop meddling in my life! I'm not marrying Kai. I'm not going to your stupid events anymore. I'm cutting you off too. You no longer have a daughter, President Kim." Jennie said coldly.

Lisa finally managed to tug Jennie back enough to stop her from storming off when they were far enough away from anyone that could overhear them.

"Jennie? What did you just do?" Lisa asked worriedly.

Jennie was still reeling in anger. "What I should have done forever ago. I've just been too scared I would fail to go through with it."

"Come on baby brat, your inheritance, you'll really just give that up?" Lisa asked gently.

"I'd give everything up just to have my freedom Lisa. You don't know what it's like. It's suffocating." Jennie answered her. "I know, I know what you'll say. I know I'm just some spoiled rich kid in your eyes and I know you've suffered so much because you didn't have much money growing up and I've never really known what that's like either because I was born with a silver spoon. I know I sound selfish for wanting more but I do. I'm sorry if I sound like a brat and ungrateful and I should count my blessings but I can't do this anymore. I want a fucking life!"

Jennie stormed off from Lisa too and Lisa was at a loss for words.

"I don't think that." Lisa whispered as she watched her walk away. "Not anymore."

__________

Jisoo found Jennie crying in their apartment and immediately assumed Lisa and Jennie had broken up again.

"What did Lisa do?"

Jennie sniffled, hugged her pillow and shook her head.

"What happened Jendeuk?"

"I finally let my father cut me off."

Jisoo deflated.

"Shit, you lost your inheritance. I'm sorry Jennie."

"No, don't be. I really don't care. It's just that what if I can't do it? I shouldn't have moved in with you, what if I can't pay for this place? I have enough saved right now but I was going to use it for the charity thing and I won't have enough and the kids Jisoo, the kids! I can't pick between you and the kids."

"What do you mean?" Jisoo said in concern, completely confused. "What kids?"

"I didn't tell you, I haven't told anyone because I thought I would fail but I got so close."

"Close to what Jendeukie?"

"I started a nonprofit too." Jennie admitted.

"Since when? Why didn't you tell me?"

"Years ago, and because your mom is like the queen of that stuff and I wanted to do it on my own just like her and I know you guys would have just helped me and I already took so much from my dad and it just stung. He deserves to be used but you guys don't."

"Jennie, we would have loved to help though."

"I know. That's the problem."

"He really messed with your head Jendeuk. You can accept help sometimes. There's not always ulterior motives. People help other people, no strings attached sometimes."

"I couldn't Chu. I needed to make sure I could really get away from them. They have too many connections. Even if I did make enough money you know he could just derail everything I did with one call when he found out about it before I could even start."

Jisoo sighed, knowing she was right. "Okay well, lets figure it out. What's the nonprofit about? What kids?"

"I found some surgeons to do pro-bono surgeries on terminal patients. Most of them kids. I made enough with the investments I made after my father's loan so I could fly them in to where they need to meet the doctors and even pay my father back and all of that but I wanted to throw a Gala to raise money for their aftercare. It just doesn't end with the surgeries. We've already done a few but some of them are still struggling. I was going to use that money for the charity event but I have to pay rent and tuition now and I don't know if it'll be enough."

"Don't worry about rent Jendeukie."

"I have to, I can't leave you hanging."

"You won't. I already bought this place out."

"You what?!"

"It's a good investment. When we graduate if I decide to move I can rent it out. It's right next to the school so it's not like no one will want it."

"I still need to do my part."

"Why don't you talk to my mom?"

"No Jisoo, I cant do that."

"Not like that Jennie. I don't mean free charity. But maybe like a joint event, let her host it too? It's a win win."

"I don't know."

"It's good publicity Jennie. For her and for you."

Jennie reluctantly thought about it.

"I just. We're family, I don't want people thinking I used my connections to host my first event. It could ruin the integrity of it. My father already does that and everyone knows it. I don't want to be like him. I want to do it on my own."

Jisoo sighed, getting where Jennie was coming from but she still wanted Jennie to succeed.

"Just invite her then. Along with everyone else and figure out a good way to get everyone to donate. You can at least do that can't you?"

"Yeah, I guess so."

________

Lisa showed up at their doorstep on a Thursday, nervously shifting.

Jisoo answered the door.

"Hey."

"Hey."

"Is Jennie here? She hasn't answered her texts."

"Yeah, she's holed up in her room. I was going to text you actually to see if you can get her out of it. I'm worried. You know what happened with her father right?"

"Yeah, it was kind of my fault."

"It would have happened eventually. Jennie's planned it for years, I just didn't think it would happen so soon. Come in."

Lisa walked to Jennie's room, knocking tentatively.

"I'm not hungry Chu!" Jennie shouted.

"It's Lisa."

Lisa heard shuffling, the door opened a crack.

"Lisa, why are you here?"

"Can I come in?"

Jennie looked behind her at all the papers strewn everywhere on her bed. Bank statements and proposals and she probably looked a little disheveled herself.

"Um—can't you just tell me from there?"

Lisa looked pointedly back to where Jisoo was still in the living room and Jennie got the hint.

"Okay come in."

Lisa was a little shocked at the amount of papers all over Jennie's bed and desk. She'd never seen Jennie's room so unorganized.

"What's this." Lisa asked.

"Just a project I'm working on."

"Big project."

"Yeah, tell me about it."

"So, um, are you okay? Like, after everything."

"Yeah, just have to figure out some things."

"Is that what your big project is about?"

"You could say that."

"Wanna tell me about it?"

"Why are you here Lis?"

"Oh, right. Sorry. It's just you weren't answering my texts and I needed to figure out if you were still in with our deal or not because Suzy's engagement party is this weekend so I didn't know if you would still come with me. You know, now that there's no events for you to go to and stuff for you to need me. I know you have bigger things to worry about or whatever so if you want to cut it off it's okay and I won't—"

"I'll go." Jennie cut her off.

"You don't have to though." Lisa said honestly, still feeling bad about Jennie's inheritance. "I can figure it out now that there's nothing in it for you. I won't blackmail you or anything." Lisa pulled out the shredded contract so Jennie would believe her.

"There is still something in it for me. There's still events." Jennie said. Grabbing their shredded contract and throwing it in the trash.

"Oh? I thought you weren't going anymore."

"Not to his events." Jennie answered vaguely.

"I'm confused."

"I just need you for one more Lisa."

"Another stuffy party?"

"I hope I can make it not stuffy."

"You?"

"It'll be mine, I'm throwing it."

"Oh." Lisa said. "That's your big project?"

Jennie sighed, might as well be honest now.

"I've been planning it for a while. I don't know if I can pull it off but if I do will you escort me? I don't know why people even care that I have a date or not but this is really important to me and kid's lives are at stake and so is Jisoo. Well not her life but I don't want to take advantage of her kindness so I need everything to be perfect and that means taking a date and arranging everything and having a good host and making sure people donate and caterers and music and entertainment and alcohol and—"

"Hey, breathe." Lisa grabbed her shoulders. Jennie didn't realize she'd been ranting. "Slow down."

Jennie huffed.

"What do you need help with? I'll go. I promised to see this to the end remember, so don't worry about that." Lisa reassured her.

"Okay." It was one less thing to worry about at least, Jennie thought.

"Can I help with anything else? I've never seen you like this. You're always super composed and confident and you look super anxious right now."

"Not unless you can give me an idea of how to make this party less stuffy like you said and convince people to donate money for a good cause."

"What's the cause?"

"Free life saving surgeries for terminal patients that couldn't ever possibly afford it."

Lisa was a little surprised and a little impressed. "You organized that on your own?"

"It's not done." Jennie huffed. "I've got the surgeons and how to get the patients to them and their lodging for their families but we still need more money. They still need supervision afterwards and even then my charity will just break even and I'll have to drop it and I didn't start it just for that. I want to keep helping people."

"You don't think people will donate when you tell them that? Because I sure would. I mean I'm broke but like I would give as much as I could spare."

"Stupid rich people don't work like that. You've been right all along. They only do things when it makes them look good and gets them ahead in their career."

Lisa thought about it.

"So what if you don't do it for rich people?"

"What do you mean?"

"I don't know, like, what if you just throw a fun party and you have normal people come instead."

"I need to raise a lot though. That's why I need deep pockets."

"I'm just thinking like, if enough people came, even if they just donated a little bit it becomes a lot right? We did that for the SNU festival last year, my dance crew and stuff. I know that's small scale but we raised more than anyone else."

"How do I do that though? I'm boring. All I know is stupid galas and lame parties with old rich people."

"I have an idea," Lisa grinned.

"What?"

"What about like a themed thing?"

"A theme?"

"Yeah like, Vegas. You charge for admission, but not a lot so they'll come, and you give free alcohol and let people make bets and the house keeps the money when they lose but you'll let the people that win cash out. It's a win win."

"Like a casino?"

"Exactly like that."

"I've never even been to one though. Would people even go for that?"

"Maybe not your people, but my people would. Free alcohol alone would have college students flock in, and the prospect of winning big cash would make people bet, especially after getting tipsy. That's why they give free drinks in Vegas casinos."

"Okay, but how do I get them to come? I only know the rich annoying stuffy party people."

"You can leave that to me. Well, not really me but Chaengie. Everyone loves her and she has entirely too many friends because she gets along with everyone. One word from her and it'll spread like wildfire."

"I still don't even know what people do at casino's to set it all up Lisa."

"Our gaming addict Jisoo does though."

"Okay. You're right. So I just need to figure out food and drinks and staff."

"Don't go all fancy with the food, not if we're attracting college students."

"This is impossible." Jennie said.

"No it's not. I'll call Bambam. He knows all the food truck guys. I know you, you're a perfectionist so you probably already had the budget down to a T and I know they'll be cheaper than your fancy hors' d'oeuver's and lobster and steak people you were probably originally going to hire."

Jennie had to admit she was right. She did have it all down.

"I don't know about numbers or how much money things cost or venues or even how to throw a party anyway. I'm sure you do though. You're Jennie Kim. You made a fortune on your own. You can pull this off. You just need the right people beside you and I swear that's the part that I'm good at. Let me help recruit the people that can help you."

"You really think it could work?"

"I know it can." Lisa said confidently. "When did you wanna do it?"

"I have to do it by next week."

"Shit. Okay, we have a lot of work to do then don't we?"

"I mean I have a tentative budget and a place to host it and all the next round of trips and surgeries are set up I just needed to throw the party after they were all done. They're all scheduled every single day through the next week and I was planning on using that to get attention, if there was good news anyway."

"Okay, yeah, that's good. We can do that. Let me call Chaengie and you call Jisoo and we'll start."

"Right now?"

"Of course. It's kids. We gotta save the kids."

They spent the night planning. Jisoo figured out what casino games to set up and where to get them.

Chaeyoung found as much out about the surgeries and the kids as possible and started writing posts and texting everyone she new about the party. Being her sentimental self the marketing was already working in their favor because their cases had spurred her on to reach out to as many people as possible. She had a whole network going.

Jennie managed the budget and the surgeries and the big important stuff and Lisa tried to find who they could hire for the whole thing as the girls made their decisions on everything.

___________

It was the day of Suzy's engagement party and all four of them had been working nonstop for Jennie's nonprofit event all week. Especially Jennie so Lisa had stayed behind to wait for her to get ready as Jisoo and Chaeyoung went ahead because Jennie had been on non stop calls from different benefactors and her bank and the event hall and god knows what else, Lisa didn't know how she did it all because it made her head spin just thinking about it.

Even now, she could hear Jennie's stern voice talking to someone on the phone, she had it on speaker as she touched up her make up. Lisa had been laying on Jennie's bed while Jennie got ready in her bathroom.

"That's unacceptable. I need that done by tomorrow or we'll switch."

"Ma'am—"

"With all due respect Mister?"

"Jung."

"Mr. Jung. You said you'd have it ready a few days ago and you didn't. I gave you a chance and if you think I won't switch companies for this because the event less than a week away you're wrong. I have two other companies as back up that have guaranteed to set it up by tomorrow so the choice is yours."

"I—"

"Terminate the contract. I'm switching." Jennie said with a bite. "I'm hanging up now."

Lisa heard the whole thing. She listened to the way Jennie was all demanding and in charge and she might have found it a little hot, or a lot hot at how in control she was of the situation.

Lisa got up from the bed and went to the bathroom.

"Everything good?" Lisa asked.

Jennie huffed, finishing with her mascara and setting it down.

"It's fine. I've already sent the text. I wanted to give him a chance but they made false promises and the other guys are already on their way to deliver the game tables and they offered to provide some staff too for the right price. It was a better deal anyway."

"I don't know how you manage to do all of that."

"Do what?"

"I don't know, deal with multiple things at once. Have back up plan after back up plan. This is the fourth time this week I've heard something fall through and you fixed it effortlessly because you thought ahead."

Jennie shrugged. "It's the price of growing up how I grew up. Nobody ever keeps their promises."

Lisa somehow felt sad about that being the reason Jennie thought like that.

"Anyway, I'm ready. Sorry I took so long." Jennie said, putting on her heels.

"It's okay. We've still got time. Let's go."

____________

"Lisaaaa." Jennie whined.

Lisa stopped for the third time as they went up the steps.

"Yes Jennie?"

"My feet hurt."

"Why did you wear heels!"

"It's not my fault your airhead ex didn't tell us we would be practically hiking up a mountain for her stupid party!"

"It's just a little bit higher, come on." Lisa grabbed Jennie's hand to help her up.

They went up the steps for a few more minutes before Jennie whined again.

"Lisaaa."

Lisa turned around. "What now?"

"Can we take a break?"

"Sure."

They stopped for a second before moving on.

"Lis." Jennie pouted.

Lisa sighed. "You're tired again?"

"My feet hurt, it's too high."

"We have to go though, Chaengie already texted me that they haven't started anything because they're waiting on us."

"Serves the airhead right." Jennie mumbled. "She should wait for not letting us know we would be freaking climbing Mount Everest just to get there."

Jennie huffed and sat down on the steps.

"Come on." Lisa held her hand out again.

"No." Jennie pouted.

"We have to go."

"She can wait."

Lisa grabbed Jennie's wrist gently. "Come on, get up. You don't have to walk. Get on my back. I'll take you up. We're already super late."

Jennie smiled a gummy smile and got up so quickly, jumping on to Lisa's back that Lisa wondered if she had been faking it the whole time.

"Baby brat." Lisa mumbled. "You did this on purpose didn't you?" Lisa said as she started walking up the steps with Jennie on her back. "You're so spoiled."

"I don't know what you're talking about." Jennie said and Lisa could hear the smirk in her voice.

"You played me." Lisa answered back.

"Did not." Jennie said happily, resting her chin on Lisa's shoulder as she walked her up.

"Yes you did, your feet probably don't even hurt. I can't believe I fell for it. You're always wearing heels. I hardly see you in anything else."

"I'm tired."

Lisa could hear the pout in her voice now, she felt Jennie turn to look at her and her breath left goosebumps behind on Lisa's neck.

Lisa forced herself to focus and keep walking up the steps.

"You better not drop me." Jennie mumbled, tightening her arms around Lisa's neck.

"Please, you hardly weigh anything. You're just being a baby about these steps like you usually are."

"You try wearing five inch heels and walk up steep steps for a whole mile just to go to an airhead's engagement party at the top of a freaking mountain." Jennie said grumpily.

Lisa shook her head.

"Spoiled." Lisa said to her.

"Jerk." Jennie countered.

"Baby Brat."

"Whipped for your ex."

"Ice Queen."

"Idiot."

"Angry kitten."

"Stupid barbie face!"

"Fluffy Mandu!"

Jennie ran out of insults.

"Leave my cheeks alone!" Jennie said indignantly instead.

Lisa giggled.

"They're cute."

"Shut up. You're just making fun of me." Jennie pouted again.

Jennie didn't mean to but she ended up almost nuzzling into Lisa's neck as she carried her up. Laying her head sideways on her shoulder. They eventually found the entrance.

"You can put me down now." Jennie said as Lisa carried her in.

"Suddenly you have energy?" Lisa asked amused.

"No. I'm just making sure your stupid ex doesn't think you're whipped for everyone you date. I'm protecting your nonexistent reputation."

"I wasn't whipped for her."

"You're right, just overcompensating for the fact you couldn't commit."

Lisa turned her head but didn't set Jennie down, their faces were a little too close. Jennie's breath hitched.

"I can commit." Lisa bored into her eyes.

"Maybe one day I'll believe it." Jennie answered back.

They both felt like they might be talking about something else but neither of them broached the subject. They were broken from their intense staring contest by Moonbyul.

"Dude, no way. Suzy said you were coming but I didn't actually believe it. You're a brave soul."

Lisa finally set Jennie down.

"Byulie?" Lisa said excitedly. "You moved here?"

Lisa went in for their signature handshake.

"No, I was going to, then I got married." Moonbyul showed off her ring.

"You? You. You got married?" Lisa asked incredulously. Moonbyul was even worse than Lisa had been before she started dating Suzy in high school. Moonbyul had a less than wholesome reputation and was pretty much the resident womanizer.

"Had to. She threatened me and said she'd murder me if I didn't." Moonbyul joked.

Lisa rolled her eyes at her.

"I'm just surprised someone would actually marry you." Lisa quipped.

"Me too." She said honestly, "I'm more surprised that you can pull all these hot women though. Chae said you had a new girlfriend. Jennie right?"

Jennie nodded.

"Nice to meet you. Moonbyul. Run away while you still can."

Jennie giggled.

"I've tried. She won't let me." Jennie answered.

"Well, maybe she isn't so bad anymore. She's clearly already whipped considering she gave you a piggy back ride nearly the whole way up here."

"I'm not whipped!"

"Please, we all saw it. Chaeyoung already posted a video of it."

Lisa blushed. "She played me, she said her feet hurt."

"They did." Jennie said proudly, walking away quickly as if she was walking a runway and clearly showing that wasn't the case. She turned and sent them a smirk and a wink before going to find Jisoo and Chaeyoung.

"Sassy that one." Moonbyul noted.

"She's a brat."

"Just your type."

"Suzy wasn't a brat."

"Suzy wasn't your type."

Moonbyul started walking but Lisa grabbed her shoulder to pull her back.

"What do you mean she wasn't my type? We dated for over four years."

"Because you were idiots. You were attracted to each other yes, Suzy is beautiful and I guess you're all right."

"I'm hot."

"Sure, the hottest." Moonbyul said, rolling her eyes. "But she didn't challenge you. You're like me. We like feisty women. Suzy is too sweet for you and Suzy likes soft boys, clearly."

"Soft boys?"

"Wait till you meet her fiancé. He's sweet and nerdy and head over heels for her."

"I can be sweet."

"Yeah, at first you were. You were whipped over her and then lost interest and stopped being all cheesy and shit and you probably just stayed with each other for that long because you were safe for each other."

"Did not." Lisa said indignantly.

"Lis, I've never once seen you offer to do for Suzy what you just did for your new girlfriend. Sure you sent her flowers at first and took her on dates and shit but you guys grew apart quickly. We all saw it. You like women who make you work for it."

"Why didn't you tell me that's what you all thought?"

"Why would I? Even Chaeyoung tried and you didn't listen and she's your best friend. She's the only one that ever gets through to you so if she couldn't convince you how would we?"

"No she didn't."

"She did, in her own gentle way like she always does. You just didn't care to listen."

Lisa was left a little reeling. Was her whole relationship with Suzy really like that? She was wrapped up in her thoughts up until she got to the table and Jennie sent her a mischievous smile and she completely forgot about contemplating her old relationship with Suzy.

"Baby brat."

"Idiot." Jennie grinned harder. She pulled Lisa by the chin and gave her a peck on the lips.

They did that a lot now, in public. They had settled in to an almost comfortable banter where they half heartedly insulted each other but showed their affection by kissing each other or holding hands or hugging.

It was all part of the game.

They held hands through dinner as people made some toasts to the engaged couple. Lisa thought she would end up judging Suzy's fiancé the entire time, sizing him up and wondering what he had that Lisa didn't but she hardly even looked at him.

Jennie kept distracting her, occasionally feeding her and Lisa missed most of what happened during the rest of their dinner because they ended up giggling as they started yet another feeding war with each other.

"Okay, okay stop, no more." Jennie said through dumpling cheeks. "You win."

"Did the Mandu actually just give up?" Lisa said as she chewed her own food, trying to contain her laughter at the way Jennie looked like even more of a dumpling.

"If we keep going you'll have to carry me down the steps again because I won't be able to move from the food coma."

"You're going to make me do that anyway." Lisa pointed out.

"I wasn't but since you have your good girlfriend reputation to protect I'll take you up on your offer." Jennie smirked.

"Baby brat."

"Idiot."

They ended up playing a game towards the end of the night. Something for all the couples, a little tournament. Lisa wasn't going to sign up to play but Jennie wrote their names down.

"Why? We're so going to lose. I don't know anything about you." Lisa said.

"It'll be weird if we don't right? Even Chaeyoung and Jisoo signed up." Jennie whispered back. "You'd be the only bridesmaid that didn't participate."

So they played. They were paired up against a random couple the first time. They were supposed to play the newlywed game, where someone asked a question and you were supposed to answer how your significant other would answer to see how well you knew them.

The first round was easy enough.

Jennie ended up guessing and Lisa was the one to write her answers.

"What's your partner's favorite color."

"Yellow!" Jennie answered before the other team could.

Lisa grinned as she held up her answer on her chalkboard, confirming Jennie was right.

"Favorite thing in the world?"

"Her cats!" Jennie beat the other team again.

Lisa had written her cats' names on the chalkboard, the other couple tried to protest but they still won the points when Chaeyoung and Suzy both confirmed those were Lisa's cats names.

"Pet peeve."

Jennie answered again, "Entitled people." She shot Lisa a playful look because that's exactly what Lisa had thought of Jennie when they first met and for long after. It's how she got her baby brat title.

Lisa flipped her chalkboard and Jennie was right again. They won the round.

Chaeyoung and Jisoo went against another couple next and easily beat them too. Lisa and Jennie did another round a few turns later and won that as well.

After a few more rounds there were only four couples standing now.

Chaeyoung and Jisoo went against Moonbyul and her wife Solar on the second to last round before the championship and won that easily too because Moonbyul kept teasing her wife and answering sarcastically just to receive a smack on her arm from her and Moonbyul would just cackle at her in response and kiss her on the cheek.

Lisa and Jennie ended up having to go against Suzy and her fiancé Joohyuk. Whoever won this round would go against Chaeyoung and Jisoo since they had won their side of their bracket.

This time, Lisa had to guess for Jennie.

"Least favorite person in the world?"

Lisa almost answered, knowing what Jennie would say but Jennie froze, not writing on the chalkboard right away.

Lisa realized Jennie didn't really want to admit to a bunch of strangers that she hated her own father so the other team won the first point because Lisa refrained from answering.

"What kind of food is your partner craving right now?"

Lisa smirked before she answered after watching Jennie write furiously.

"She's going to say Thai food but call me a pervert because I'm Thai food." She said proudly.

Jennie rolled her eyes as she held up the chalkboard that said, Thai food, but not you, you pervert.

That earned them some giggles.

"Okay, tie breaker, what's your partners' favorite day of their lives?"

Lisa answered first again.

"She'll probably say it hasn't happened yet, or that it'll be the day she makes it into med school and makes it on her own."

Jennie looked to Lisa bewildered. Raising her chalkboard up.

Lisa had almost said everything verbatim.

They beat the future newlyweds.

Suzy gave them an appraising look. Lisa almost blushed under her gaze because it just hit her that if she had been playing with Suzy all of those rounds, despite having dated her for four years and knowing her for even longer, she wouldn't have guessed those questions right just like she did with Jennie.

It was a bloodbath when Chaeyoung and Jisoo played against Jennie and Lisa. They both kept answering at the same time and getting the answers right. They were neck and neck so they started making them alternate who would guess just so they could get a winner.

"What's their favorite movie?"

"Tangled!" Jennie and Jisoo shouted at the same time.

"Okay they're both right again. Let's switch. Favorite hobby?"

"Games and sleeping!" Chaeyoung answered.

"Shopping or sleeping!" Lisa answered at the same time as her best friend.

"Lifelong dream?"

"Anything where Chipmunk could sing while doing it."

"IPA or doing anything that has to do with dancing." Jennie shouted just as Jisoo did.

They kept going on and on and switching and eventually they just had to call it a tie because both couples had a perfect score. Especially after they answered the last question.

"Your partner's favorite phrase?"

"That's a pity." Chaeyoung answered proudly.

"Eheee." Jennie answered, rolling her eyes because Lisa did it all the fucking time just in order to annoy her.

"Okay switch, same question."

"I was planning on giving her.. a big...slap in her face." Lisa said grinning, remembering how Jennie had deadpanned to Jisoo and Chaeyoung about what she would get Lisa for her birthday last year.

"I love you guys to the mountains and back and to the far far hills and around Europe and Australia, back to the states and China and all the way back to Korea, I love you to the clouds and through the universe across mars all the way to the sun and back. I love you guys so much." Jisoo recited, receiving a cheek kiss from Chaeyoung because she had started reciting it almost in sync as Chaeyoung started writing.

They both got it right again. Lisa and Jisoo had both answered even before the timer was up and Jennie and Chaeyoung finished writing down their answers.

So they gave up trying to find a winner because it was clear they'd be there all night trying to figure it out.

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Lisa gave Jennie a piggy back ride again all the way down the stairs.

"You're still a baby brat."

"And you're still an idiot." Jennie countered as she squeezed Lisa's neck tighter.

"I'm a genius, I won for us."

"No you're just a stalker apparently. I thought you didn't know anything about me, liar."

"You got all the answers right too." Lisa pointed out.

"Because you're annoying and you never shut up and I'm smart so I remember stuff." Jennie said indignantly.

"Well you're spoiled and everyone talks about you so how couldn't I know the answers?" Lisa countered back.

"Nobody talks about me, liar."

"Everyone talks about you."

Jennie leaned her head to the side on Lisa's shoulder, looking at her profile as they walked down.

"They don't right?" She asked a little self-consciously now.

Lisa heard the fear in her voice and paused for a second, looking at her too, knowing what Jennie was really asking.

"They do, but they don't say what you're probably thinking in your head right now."

"And what is that?"

"That everybody hates you or is judging you."

Jennie chose not to respond, because that's exactly what she was thinking. She put her chin on Lisa's shoulder again.

"Drive." She demanded, pointing down the stairs.

Lisa rolled her eyes but started walking again. Carrying her all the way down.

"Baby brat." Lisa said almost fondly.

"Idiot." Jennie said, smiling happily. "Faster!"

Lisa started skipping down the stairs.

"Wait! No Lis I was kidding." Jennie shrieked.

Lisa giggled as she heard the panic in Jennie's voice. She slowed down anyway.

"You're mean." Jennie pouted.

"I'm carrying you down a mile of stairs but I'm mean?"

"You could have dropped me."

"I'll never drop you."

Jennie tried to still her heart a bit because it was racing for some reason. Probably from the scare of Lisa possibly dropping her.

"You better not." Jennie mumbled. She unconsciously tightened her arms around Lisa again, her face a mere inch from hers.

Lisa didn't know why she was grinning so hard.

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