Affection | Jenlisa

Quarrel

"Hey Jen, are you okay?" Rosé slowly inches to the other side of her seat.

"Just fine, why do you ask?" I respond calmly, approaching my desk and sitting down.

She looks me up and down. "Well, for one thing, everyone on our floor heard you kick Lisa out of your room last night. And for another thing," she points at my left hand, "You're doing that."

She's referring to me clenching and relaxing my hand gripper. "Just need a little morning warm up," I shrug. "And a stress ball isn't doing it for me this morning."

The girl next to me shrinks back a little. "Whatever you say."

Jisoo and Lisa walk in. At the sight of the blonde haired girl, I quicken the tempo of my grips and clench my teeth together. She takes her seat near the front of the room and Jisoo rounds over to us. "What's up guys?" she chirps, baring her teeth in a grin before spotting my hand. "I guess you guys really are having a fight."

I scoff. "There's no fight, I don't know what you're talking about."

Jisoo and Rosé exchange glances. "Okay," she brushes it off, not wanting to press the issue. "Are you excited for the exam results to come out?"

I lean back in my seat. "Pretty sure I did well, I'm not too worried. As long as I got an upper-middle score."

"I might've actually bombed," Rosé whines, throwing her body on the desk with her arms spread out. "Even after Wendy's help."

"You did fine, I'm sure of it!" Jisoo gives her an assuring thumbs up. "And even if you didn't do that well, you just have to try harder next time!"

"Easy for you guys to say."

I shrug, "Just pray you're not dead last like Joy was the first term."

Both of them laugh at my quip. I can feel Lisa's glare boring into the back of my head, but I don't bother turning around. I'm not in any mood to deal with her right now.

The teacher finally slinks into the classroom wrapped in his yellow sleeping bag to start lessons for the day and I catch Lisa's eye by accident. When I do, she smirks at me before turning around properly in her seat.

Did that bastard just- I'm about to stand up and give her a piece of my mind when Jisoo restrains me. "Easy, easy, you can take care of her later," she whispers so the teacher won't notice.

I growl low in my throat before relaxing and letting Jisoo go back to her seat.

"You should really try controlling your anger, Jennie, you're no better than her if you keep that up," she reprimands me, but I still see her shaking in fear.

I want to chuckle. Sometimes, I question who our friends might be more scared of, me or her.

-

At lunch, we're all sitting at our table. I made a point to sit in the middle surrounded by everyone else to keep all the spaces around me locked from Lisa.

Before the blonde-haired girl sat down at our table, Seulgi (stupidly) asks, "So what are you and Lisa even fighting about? You looked like you were really gonna thrash her yesterday-"

Irene quickly tapes her mouth shut and continues eating like nothing happened.

"Guys it's fine, really. I'm totally over it, it's not a big deal," I wave them off.

They all stare at each other then back at me blankly. "Jennie, I don't know how to say this, but it looks like you're about to snap that thing in half," Jisoo gathers the courage to respond.