Start from Scratch (JenLisa Adaptation)

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'Downfall'

Lisa's POV

I couldn't believe what I had just seen on TV. Lee Soo-man, the man who singlehandedly crushed my hopes of being a pop star, was now under indictment.

When Jennie told me of her rather obsessive quest to get back at him, I initially thought that she was trying to do the impossible. That it was a waste of time and possible a dangerous one. But I think I had forgotten how dangerous she once was. Though I did find her obsessive nature of it to be a bit disturbing.

She had laid out the details of what she found and how she found it. I had to admit she had certainly dug up dirt on the man. She even gave the evidence to Choi Jeong-Woo herself, who obviously got back at Soo-man by turning himself into authorities and revealing his crimes.

I felt a bit fainting as the sheer enormity of it all, sunk in. So I sat down in one of the plush leather chairs in the empty conference room I happened to be in.

My God, Jennie didn't just knock him down a few pegs, she knocked him down to the bottom one.

It took me about 5 minutes to recover my senses and quickly returned to the mail-room. I was in a daze the rest of the work day, which fortunately was less than an hour.

I hadn't texted Jennie back from earlier, but I knew I would see her as soon as I got home.

Upon walking in the apartment, I saw something I hadn't seen in a long time. It was the grin on Jennie's face.

"So, did I do good Manoban?"

"Jennie, he was indicted and that Minho, the rapper, he was pissed." I said with an astonished look.

"You need to remember some of the biggest names in the music industry, were people he managed. I'll bet most of them are pissed. He's in serious shit. I did it for you."

I then started to choke up with emotions. He had ruined me and now Jennie had ruined him, for me no less. "I... I... don't know what to say."

Jennie shrugged, "How about fuck him, let's make dinner, I'm hungry." Jennie said as she turned and walked into the kitchen.

After changing, cleaning up and recomposing myself, I joined Jennie who was already starting to make the salad for tonight's dinner.

During the making of dinner, we chatted about Jennie's therapy and how she was coming alone. In retrospect, I should have changed the subject. In our talk, Jennie admitted, one of the hardest things to wrestle with, was simply the fact that she had been so completely fooled and essentially conditioned to accept him.

"I thought I was so strong, so independent and loving him simply required certain sacrifices. I truly believed he loved me and that deep down he was a good person. I actually thought that, I was nothing more than a marionette dancing on stage."

I paused and turned to her. "But you cut your strings."

"No, I didn't." bellowed Jennie as she unexpectedly exploded. "I had run into that casting agent and afterwards having Dr. Daesung explain it all to me and even then I didn't want to believe I had been a brainless fool. Part of me still clung on to the image of Kai still being a loving person. Lisa I had to be beaten and savagely raped for nearly 3 hours for me to get it through my thick skull he..."

Then as soon as it appeared, Jennie's rage vanished. As Jennie abruptly broke down in tears.

"He... was a monster..."

I know Jennie was still very weary of being touched, but her suddenly breaking down into a mass of tears, made me do the only thing I could think of to comfort her.