in every universe (one shot-s) | JENLISA

almost (felt your lips on mine)

Times Jennie wants to kiss Lisa but chickens out (and the time it finally happens — 4+1.)
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It's not her fault. It should always be noted that it's not her fault, and that, since it wasn't her fault, she couldn't exactly be blamed for it. She just couldn't help it. How could anyone help it?

The need to kiss Lisa Manoban was a passive one, a consistent one, an unavoidable thing - she had enough boys following her around like lost puppies for that much to be evident (although, now Jennie had found herself as one of those lost puppies, so perhaps it was a little hypocritical to be so judgemental.)

She should have expected it really. It was rather inevitable. The first time she met Lisa she had spent far more time thinking about how pretty the nervous reporter was, than she did trying to work out a way to convince Clark Kent she wasn't like Lex, that she was her own person, that she wouldn't make the same mistakes that he did.

In her defence there was something oddly charming about the timid way she readjusted her glasses, and the way she fumbled over herself to explain her presence. There was also something more. A strange sort of understanding that passed through them both when Lisa said she understood what it was like to want to make a name for yourself outside of your family. Jennie had started to realise then that maybe Lisa Manoban wasn't just a pretty girl with a febrile demeanour and that realisation was dangerous.

The second time they met she had found herself confiding more than she usually would. Jennie found herself wanting to prove that she was different, not only to National City, but to Lisa, which was something that she realised was ridiculous seeing as she barely knew the girl, but then explosions started and suddenly ignoring the feelings blooming in her chest wasn't so hard.

The third time was when she realised she was screwed. The third time was when she realised that she wasn't going to be able to pull herself out of it as easily as she thought - as she'd hoped. She was hypnotised. Addicted. Stupid. She was telling Lisa that she hoped it wasn't the last time they talked (translation: I want to see you again) and then suddenly they were talking all the time. Lisa started bringing her lunch at work, and sending her cute texts throughout the day that were smothered with colourful emojis, and was somehow always the one sent to interview Jennie and she was all in.

She was all in before she even had a chance to try and stop it.

So Jennie had an almost ridiculous crush on Lisa Manoban (the kind of crush she hadn't had since her early boarding school days) and she wanted to kiss her. A lot. She also almost brought herself to kiss her. A lot.

She never does. Not because she has restraint, or willpower, or some other form of self control. No. Jennie Kim was the CEO of a major company; she made a man cry in the office the other day, and yet, whenever she gets close to actually kissing Lisa she freaks out, or runs, or freaks out and then runs.

Mostly the latter. It's absurd, and honestly, Jennie is getting ludicrously scared that Lisa might begin to work it out because she knows all her subtlety goes completely out the window when Lisa is around.

That's how she ended up here. Here being Lisa's apartment, preparing herself to watch a two hour long musical that she was undoubtedly going to hate, because the taller insisted she had to watch it before she died and she couldn't say no. In fact, she did not just say yes, she practically jumped at the chance to bore herself to death as long as Lisa was by her side. It was almost embarrassing (in truth, there was no almost about it, it was embarrassing).

"I can't believe you've honestly never seen Grease."

"I can't believe it either." She could believe it. She could definitely believe it because she had actively avoided watching it for years. What she actually couldn't believe was how many snacks Lisa had come back with. Usually when someone says 'oh I've got snacks' they mean they have a bowl of popcorn or some chips, not I've got two bowls of popcorn, three bags of chips and both the chocolate and peanut m&m's.