ᖇOOᗰᗰᗩTᗴՏ ᗯITᕼ ᕼIᗰ 《C.TZ × J.JK》

Chapter 7: A Nice Way to Start off the Day

Before she could fully open the door, Lisa barged in, pushing it so hard that Tzuyu almost fell flat on her butt. But so pissed she was that Lisa didn't even take any notice of her. "Oppa, I got your text, is everything alright? You said you needed me!" she whined, madly swinging her head left and right as if she was searching for her lost love in a deep, dark forest, not a dorm. Her heels clicked on the wooden floor like bullets.

Oppa? was the first thought that came to Tzuyu before she could react to anything else. A profound feeling of cringe went up inside of her and she shuddered with pure pleasure she was about to get. She's never called him that. She's, like, seven months older than him, isn't she?

Jungkook, who had been silently watching Tzuyu get Lisa in trouble, came out of his room, his expression unreadable. He didn't know whether to express his amusement at that feat or something that was more suitable for the situation. A sweatshirt enveloped his brawny torso this time.

Lisa ran up to him and grabbed his arm, digging her nails so hard into his flesh that it hurt more than the hot chocolate attack. "Jungkook, what happened?"

"She happened," Jungkook said, pointing over her shoulder at Tzuyu.

Lisa turned around with such rapidness that it was almost surprising that she didn't snap her neck and saw Tzuyu, who was quietly watching the cringe-worthy drama with a sly smile on her face, for the first time. Her mouth opened in disbelief. Turned out, whatever Jungkook had told her in the text, Tzuyu, her arch nemesis, wasn't mentioned in the plot. "What are you doing here? You know he's not single! "

Tzuyu scrunched up her nose and her insides churned in disgust. "So typical of you to assume that every girl in a mile's proximity of your boyfriend is trying to hit up on him," she grumbled. "But if you still require some assurance, I'll be more than happy to tell you that I deserve someone way better than that piece of dog crap. And, oh! Hi, Lisa."

"Shut up!" Lisa screeched. "I asked what are you doing here in his dorm?"

Her shrill voice rang like nails being scratched on a chock board in Tzuyu's ears and Tzuyu did squint her eyes because it was just plain embarrassing that Lisa seemed so worked up about something so trivial and something that couldn't be helped. It was either that the couple accepted the situation as it was or that Jungkook moved out. "What do you think?" She took off the hood of her onesie to appear more imposing.

"I'm not here to play, Tzuyu. You better answer before I make you regret it."

Tzuyu couldn't think of any clever way to retort her as it was still unclear why her presence was needed at this time of the morning or how she even knew. "I had to move to a dorm and this was the only one left," she explained as straightforwardly as she could so she could save her breath on this insignificant topic, "so they had no choice but  to put me with him. So, um, I'm his roommate for . . . the . . . year." Saying the words out loud again like that felt like a poison refreshed. 

"What? Roommates? You two?" Jealousy and anger decorated every inch of Lisa's face. Her skin flared up with an angry red. "What did you do to him, you witch?"

"Um, what?"

"Oh, stop playing innocent. You think you could go around making his life a hell all you want now that you get to live with him and yet you still have the nerve to deny it?"

Tzuyu had no idea what she was talking about because she did do a lot of things to him and so did he, and also because she wasn't aware of Jungkook ratting her out like that since she never thought he'd call his girl friend to back him up. What happened between them almost always stayed between them. Their renewed hate for each other and fresh anger was all anybody needed to know that something had happened again. And the only times Lisa got involved was when she was present during their quarrels. So it didn't occur to Tzuyu that he had it in him to finally cross the line and make things even worse for her than they already were. After all, her life was like a game for him. Nothing else. He only played around. "Why don't you ask him yourself? His tongue was still spewing crap the last time I checked."