QUITS

Chapter 18

(a/n): quick double update.

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It's been couple of weeks since that faithful day of the confrontation and three things have been very constant on a day to day basis.

One, Lisa continuously and deliberately ignores and avoids Jennie and her friends, either in school or if they'd accidentally meet somewhere.

Two, Jennie has been constantly going to the café, asking — more like begging — Lisa to talk to her. It's been hard and Jennie gets nothing but cold shoulders. She goes in an hour before Lisa's shift ends having high hopes of finally fixing everything but goes out a minute before the café closes with a crashed heart, another day, another rejection.

Three, Jongin, BamBam and Mina take turns of whoever will be sending Jennie out of the café and apologizing on behalf of Lisa's part. Jongin had gotten over his irritation towards Jennie and her friends after seeing her crying few blocks from the café when he was on his way home. He saw regret, longing and pain there. Genuinely.

People may think it's petty and unnecessary for Lisa to do all of this but Jongin understands where it is coming from. Either she came clean or not, playing someone's feelings and heart shouldn't exist in the first place.

But that doesn't mean Jongin is not getting irritated to all of it.

"It's been almost a month and you're still doing this."

Lisa looks up from her book, she doesn't understand what she's reading anyway. "Huh?"

They're in the café's employee lounge area, waiting for their shift. "You heard me." He takes a sit on the recliner across Lisa's chair.

"I am not doing anything."

Jongin frowns. "Oh yeah? You've been avoiding all of them."

"You know why I am doing it."

"I thought I do but now I don't know."

Lisa's eyebrow arches up. "Excuse me? Did you forget what she and they all did to me?"

"How could I forget?"

"Then that should be your answer."

"And you exactly also know you've not given them a single chance to explain, have you?"

"There's no need for that! For Christ's sake! They toyed me point blank period!"

"Relax."

Lisa closes the book harshly. "How can I relax?! You, of all people, know everything they did and you expect me to let them explain? Come on!"

"At least listen to them."

"And then what? Listen to their lies?! Fuck that."

Jongin had enough. "You know what? You've been so unfair to them and to Jennie. Jisoo, Chaeyoung, Seulgi and Joohyun all have been trying so hard to talk to you every chance they get despite getting absolutely nothing."

He frowns, he's not letting Lisa speak unless he's done. "Don't act like you owe nothing to Jennie because you fucking do. Whatever the fuck you are trying to say and reason out to justify your actions, you lied right in front of her face. Both of you did."