MY BODYGUARD /JENLISA

4)Shopping

Lisa opened her mouth to thank Jennie but just at that moment, her friends came looking for her.

"Lisa!"

Jennie had stepped back, putting respectable distance between them and Lisa turned to Jisoo who was first to get to her. "Hey."

Jisoo gave Jennie a polite smile before turning back to Lisa with questions in her eyes. "We were wondering where you went and Tzuyu got worried so we came out to look for you."

"Sorry, I came out to talk to her," Lisa replied, jerking her head at the bodyguard.

"Is she your friend?"

"Yeah, I'm her friend," Jennie answers quickly, moving forward to wave a hello to Lisa's friends.

At this point, Jennie's friend had come out looking for Jennie too and they were introduced. So, it became a group of six, Lisa, Jisoo, Rosé  and Tzuyu, with the addition of Jennie and Irene.

Jennie explained that she was from Seoul too when they asked about her and so was Irene who happened to be on a job assignment here in Singapore. Meanwhile, Lisa remained silent, privately unhappy about how things had turned out. If her friends noticed anything, they didn't mention it. Instead, they chatted and laughed merrily with them for the next hour till Jennie and Irene bade them goodbye.

Back in their hotel room, Tzuyu washed up and fell asleep as soon as she crawled under the sheets but Lisa stayed awake. It was a dilemma for her; a stalemate. Letting her friends know that Jennie was really the bodyguard hired by her father was not something she wished to do, but neither did she want her friends to tell Jennie too much, thinking the bodyguard was her friend. It wouldn't have been a problem she had to worry about if Jennie hadn't accepted Rosie's invitation to go out shopping with them the next afternoon. But it was a problem now and she had to decide what to do about it.

•••

Lisa woke up feeling a little less enthusiastic about the day ahead. She had decided to come clean with her friends. It was time to stop the lies. But the trouble with her decision was putting it into action. Admitting the truth was never easy.

Come to Room 3981. ASAP.

The pop up on her phone displayed the message from the bodyguard. There it was again. The cold instruction, ordering her about when she was the employer. Nevertheless, she wanted to tell the bodyguard about her decision, so she got out of bed and got ready to go out.

•••

Jennie opened the door and welcomed her. She entered, looking around the smaller room. There was no one else in it.

"There's no one else here. I came back alone," Jennie said in a tone with a mocking edge.

It riled Lisa. "It's none of my business who you spend the night with but you're in my father's employment and you're on duty."

Jennie cocked her head to the left. "You seem angry with me but I haven't done anything that warrants it."

Ludicrous. This bodyguard was ludicrous. "There's no reason for me to like you, much less welcome you."

"I agree. But you've been trying to get rid of me from the beginning. Maybe you don't like having a bodyguard around you, but don't you think you're taking it out on the wrong person?"

Lisa bristled. "I did not get out of bed and come all the way down here to get scolded by an arrogant bodyguard."

A hand grabbed her wrist and prevented her from leaving the room. "We need to talk about what we tell your friends about us."