Nibble, crunch, slurp, slurp, slurp...

The shikshin is munching so loudly, that Jisoo could feel her eardrums about to burst.

"There is a poll..." Chaeyoung says as she was reading some teen mag, before she crunch on those chips once more...

"Pole? Ask Wendy she's good with poles..."

Wendy quickly looks away from her mirror and gives Lisa a serious stink eye.

"What is that supposed to mean?"

"You know you're good with poles... north pole, south pole, fishing pole, stripper pole..."

Pffft...

Chaeyoung almost spit out all her lunch as she LOL (but it would be such a waste).

"Well anyways..." Chaeyoung finally spoke again after the joke has died down. "There is this poll in the magazine... Since Valentines is coming up... They ask here, what's the most romantic place to spend it with your love one... or in your case Chu, your girlfriend..."

"Hush..." Jisoo growls softly before chewing her salad carefully.

"My most romantic place..." Lisa answers first "Is anywhere as long as my guy..."

"Awwww..." Chaeyoung wipes a lone tear that fell to her cheek. It was a touching moment to know that Lalisa has a heart.

"I wasn't done yet..." Lisa stops before Chaeyoung gets too melodramatic. "My most romantic place is anywhere as long as my guy is PAYING..."

Wendy let out a condescending snort. Did they really expect Lisa to say anything romantic?

"Of course... why am I not even surprise? Anyways... the most romantic place on Valentines is being in a cruise ship..."

"Hey... that could work..." For once Lisa agrees with Wendy "If you get annoyed with your date you just push him off to the ocean..."

Sometimes they couldn't figure out if Lisa is serious or just plain mental.

"How about you Chu?"

Jisoo taps her fork in an almost melodic rhythm. The sound of the tapping unconsciously helps her think faster. But truth was, she never gave it too much thought, until now. With how busy she is organizing the school Valentines party, she has no time or the strength to think of anything else.

"I haven't really thought about it."

"So, you and Jennie haven't decided what to do on Valentines?"

Jisoo let out a growl. There is nothing she wants to do now but smack those smug smirks off her friends faces.

"Can I have everyone's attention please?"

Everyone in the cafeteria looks at the two hotties up on the table. Seulgi was holding an IPOD dock while Joy has her hand on a mic.

"Me and my BFF here..." Joy gives Seulgi a light squeeze on the shoulders. "Would like to wish everyone happy romantic day..."

The whole room starts to cheer...

"And to add some more romance in the air. We would like to sing a song dedicated to our school's ice princess."

Wendy let out a dramatic gasps. Is this it? The end of her nightmarish ordeal as a failed cupid? Will Seulgi finally have the guts to step up and ask Irene out for the Valentines dance?

"Hope this song could melt your heart... and take me as your date?"

"Oh moh" Wendy shakes her head, this has gotten more complicated now that Joy is added to the mix.

She turns over to Irene who just blinks casually. As if nothing mattered to her...

Joy starts singing and Irene starts to look a little loopy, like she was seconds away from dropping dead or falling asleep in the cafeteria... Seconds later, she was snoring on the cafeteria table.

Joy tries to dismiss it, maybe her voice so melodious that it lullaby Irene to sleep. But then, it was Seulgi's part and Irene seems to rise up from the dead. She looks more awake than people have ever seen her.

"Hey... hey..." Chaeyoung starts to nudge Jisoo "Maybe you should serenade Jennie too..."

"And why would I do that?"

"You know... Valentines..." Chaeyoung chews thoughtfully "It's the most romantic time of the year."

"I have a lot of things to worry about rather than thinking about Valentines..."

Speaking of Valentines, Jisoo stood up and excuses herself from her friends. Unlike them, she has stuff to take care of.

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Jisoo slouches frustratingly at the amount of Rilakkuma stuff on the web. She have been browsing nonstop for weeks, trying to find a good Valentines gift for the kid but she's not even sure what to give her.

It feels like Jennie have every rilakkuma thing in the world, that it wouldn't surprise Jisoo if Jennie is even wearing Kkuma undies.

"Hmmm... Maybe that's what I should give her... Some underwear..."

Jisoo then straightens up on her seat when it dawn on her how perverted she sounded. Sure it was rillakkuma but an underwear? Geez... She needs help with this gift giving thing.

"Guess who?"

Jisoo was glad that she was facing her laptop rather than the younger girl, or else her wide smile would be too obvious.

"I don't know... ummm Yerim? Is that you?"

The teasing smile in Jisoo's lips grew even wider as she heard the frustrated groan...

"Nope... guess again."

"Hmmm... You got big bear paws...Chaeng?"

She bites her lip to keep herself from laughing when the kid starts stomping angrily...

"Noooo... it's me... Your Jen..."

"My Jen?"

Jisoo says teasingly, taking away Jennie's hands from her eyes.

Jennie quickly gives Jisoo a backhug. It was her way of saying how much she misses her especially since Jisoo is always so busy nowadays.

Jisoo just stayed like that, it was her way of saying I miss you too...

"Hey..." Jennie frowns before holding Jisoo again...

The raven haired girl could only look at Jennie in surprise. The cat eyed baby has a look of deep thought in her face, before deciding to just hug Jisoo again.

"What's wrong with you?" Jisoo finally asks

"You gotten skinny..." Jennie frowns "You haven't been eating, aren't you?"

Jisoo couldn't help but be at awe at how someone can determine someone's size just by hugging. But she should have known Jennie have always worked in a different wavelength from everyone else.

"I been.... I just have been busy with the valentine's dance that's all..."

"That's not right... You should enjoy the valentine's dance, especially since it's our first valentine's day as a couple."

Jennie was smiling so happily. But then she saw how quiet Jisoo was after hearing the word couple, and it made her smile disappear slowly.

"Anyways... you shouldn't be all stressed about it." Jennie shakes her head, trying to shake the thing that bothers her off. "Can I stay here?"

Jisoo wonders why Jennie even bother to ask. She looks perfectly at home in the school council office, spinning around in her swivel chair.

"Do I have a choice?"

"Nope..." Jennie replied continuing to spin faster and faster like she was in a ride in an amusement park. But suddenly she stops and starts to clench her mouth.

"What's wrong?"

"I'm getting dizzy..."

This time Jisoo didn't even bother to hide her laughter at how cute the other girl was.

"You need to slow yourself down..." Jisoo reprimanded, but this time she didn't sound so cold, instead she was loving and caring...

Jennie sees Jisoo's gentle nature as a sign to get closer. She starts to scoot beside the girl before nuzzling herself on Jisoo's neck.

"Hey... hey..." Jisoo gently shoves the other girl away... "You're so touchy..."

Jennie sat up straight for a little bit, before she decided to go back and nuzzle on Jisoo's neck some more.

"Sometimes I can't believe that were together... that's why I have to touch you to make sure I'm not dreaming..."

A shy smile spread on Jisoo's lips before she ends up playfully smacking Jennie on the forehead.

"So cheesy..."

"But you like it..." Jennie frowns, rubbing her sore forehead.

Jisoo clicks her tongue teasingly before answering... "Maybe..."

She returns her attention back in front of her laptop. It seems like Jennie isn't the only one who got a dizzying spell. Jisoo took a heavy sigh as she sees her half of her checklist is still not done. It's supposed to be the most romantic time of the year, but here she is too stressed to even enjoy it.

But then she smiles again, when out of nowhere she feels somebody giving her a good shoulder rub.

"You feel better?" Jennie whispers cutely and Jisoo nods her head thankfully...

Her heart finally convinced her mind that being with Jennie never fails to make her feel better. Maybe this time it was her who needs to do something to sweep this girl off her feet.

Jennie's phone starts blaring out loudly...

"Yes unnnniiiee..."

"Where are you?"

"I'm here with Jisoo in the student council office..."

From the other line, Seulgi couldn't help but scrunch her almost non existent brow... Before she has to drag her sister out of bed to go to school, now the girl is staying longer than she's supposed to.

"You're not staying there anymore..."

"WHY NOT?!" Jennie couldn't help but whine like a little child.

"It's a school night, and your grades are not really pretty... You think Jisoo would like a dumb girlfriend?"

"Ummm no..." Jennie mutters embarrassingly, hoping Jisoo wouldn't hear.

"Then, come home now and start studying... Don't you have a quiz tomorrow?"

"I doooo..." Jennie continues to whine... "I'll just study for it tomorrow..."

"Tomorrow is the quiz... that's not how it works..."

"ARGH fine..."

Jennie wanted to have slammed her phone, but since she doesn't want to break her IPHONE she just ends up pressing the end button over and over again.

"I guess you have to go home?" Jisoo asks, hoping the sound of disappointment wasn't too obvious in her voice.

"Ummm... yeah... Can you believe my history teacher? It's valentines and she wants to give us a quiz?

"Well... if you like I could tutor you for it..."

Jennie's pout turns into the happiest grin... Of course she would like it, she would like it very much...

"Do I get a prize if I get a correct answer?"

"Yes..."

Oh how those cat eyes just sparkle brightly at the thoughts of her prize...

"Yes... the satisfaction of knowing that you're ready for your exam..."

And how quickly the sparkle poof away...

"That'snotagoodprize..." She mumbles softly, but loud enough that Jisoo could hear.

"Why? What would you like?"

"A million kisses from you..."

"Then you would need to answer million questions..."

Jisoo expected Jennie to back away, but instead she surprised her when she opens her book and starts reading.

"Bring it on..." Jennie says with a determine frown on her face. She was ready to answer the million questions to have her million kisses... "Jennie Fighting..." She preps herself up...

She just red a couple of sentences and couldn't help but groan.

"This is torture... All these pages in one chapter! The writer of this book is sadistic! Sad! Is! tic!!!"

"Stop with your excuses and start studying... Start highlighting the important things."

Jennie scratches her head in confusion. The font was ridiculously squished together and there were blocks and blocks of paragraphs.

There was no way she is going to read all of it. So, to make sure she doesn't miss anything important the genius decided to highlight every word.

"Jennie!"

Jisoo couldn't help but shriek as she saw what Jennie is doing with the highlighter.

"You're supposed to highlight the important parts... You're missing the point!"

"Well..." Jennie scratches her head and almost got temporarily blinded by her highlighted book. "I'm not sure which one is important so I highlight everything to make sure I don't miss anything..."

"No... be serious..."

"Fine... I'm serious... Serious for my kiss..."

"No... serious for your grade..."

Jisoo points to Jennie's book, and the cat eyed girl just let out a sigh before she reads again. But one paragraph later and Jennie's head was lolling all around and her eyes were starting to droop.

"Hey..."

Jennie abruptly sits up at the sound of Jisoo's husky voice... The sexiness of Jisoo's voice definitely woke her up.

"Heeeeyyyy..." Jennie tries to match Jisoo's sexy voice with her own imitation...

It was a fail, but at least she sounded cute saying it... Jennie sneakily scoots closer, slowly laying her head on Jisoo's shoulder. But Jisoo was quick to move away, leaving poor Jennie pouting...

"You're not done... keep on it..."

"You should be a teacher..."

"Maybe... I want to be something else..."

Actually Jisoo wants to be a lot of things. She wants to be an artist, a writer, a politician, a leader, be whatever she's destined to be. She wants to push herself and see what fits her the most.

"Like what?"

"I want to be a lot of things..."

"I'm sure you can do it..."

No matter how many plans Jisoo have for her future, she was never really comfortable talking about it with somebody else. It's like she feared that her future plans were like wishes. That once you heard them out loud, that there is a huge possibility that it might not come true.

But Jennie gazes at her with such admiration and love that it somehow magically made the fear in Jisoo disappear.

"How about you? What would you like to be?"

"Be your wife..."

Jennie didn't even wait for a millisecond to answer.

"No... be serious..."

"Be your wife..." Jennie answers again... "Or your seobang?"

"Really?" Jisoo raised her brow... "I mean is that what you see yourself in the future..."

"Uh-huh... uh-huh" Jennie nods so hard, Jisoo was scared Jennie's head would pop out.

"Well... I want you to do something for you... Like a career for yourself..."

"Ahhh... well... I haven't thought of that..."

Jisoo didn't know how many times she facepalm herself... But she seems to do that every time she's talking to the cat eyed kid.

"You need to be serious... or should I say... you need to be focus..."

"I' am focus..."

"Not focus enough... You know Jennie if you pay attention to class, you might learn that there is quite some interesting things that they can teach you..."

"I don't think so..." Jennie shakes her head.

"You're doing it without even giving it a chance..."

Jennie paused for a little bit. She wasn't really into classes and learning but if Jisoo says it's something interesting then maybe she needs to give it a try.

"Okay... I'm going to start focusing..."

"And what else?"

"I'm going to start learning?"

"You don't know how much your potential is, if you don't try... You could be a dean's lister... won't that be cool?"

"If you think it's cool. Then it's cool..."

"I think it's cool..."

Jennie pulls out her kkuma notebook and starts to jot down with her kkuma pen.

"I always see you write in that... What do you write there?"

"Ummm stuff?"

Jisoo cranes her neck to get a better angle but Jennie scoot away before she could even see anything.

"No.. you can't look..."

"Why not?"

"Because... all my secrets are here..."

As soon as Jennie stuff her notebook back in her kkuma backpack, Jisoo jumps to get a hold of it.

"Heyyyy!!!" Jennie whines trying to get it back. She realize that all the time Jisoo goes to the gym must paid off because she's like the hulk. (not in looks, but in how strong she is)

"Give it back..."

It was Jennie this time who tries to jump and reach over at it, but Jisoo has amazing reflex as she turns away.

"GIVE IT BACK!"

Jisoo stops giggling the second she saw how red Jennie's face was. Those poor cat eyes look like they were about to start crying any second now.

"Wow... you really are serious about it... Here..."

Jennie yanks the notebook away and hurriedly stuffing it back to her bag.

"I'mgoinghome..." Jennie mumbles angrily as she starts fixing her stuff.

Jennie puts her backpack on her shoulders before getting up.

Jisoo couldn't understand what the hell just happened. She was just playing around, she didn't know that Jennie would be serious about it.

"Jennie... it's just a joke..."

"I said okay..." Jennie replies but didn't even bother to look at Jisoo. "I'm leaving..."

"I don't understand why you're so upset... it's just some stupid bear notebook..."

Jennie halted and finally turns to Jisoo... It might look like just a stupid notebook for Jisoo, but it meant the world to Jennie. It was the notebook she bought when she realizes she likes Jisoo and it's the only thing in the world who knows everything that she feels about Jisoo. And to hear that Jisoo just think it's stupid, for once in her life it upset her.

"Fine... it's stupid for you... good night..."

Jisoo wasn't used to begging and she wasn't going to start now. Jennie was just being her childish self just like always. She's not going to coo and baby her to make the younger girl feel better.

"You are so immature..."

Jisoo just thought she said it to herself, unfortunately Jennie heard every word of it. She turns to Jisoo and Jisoo doesn't even look bothered, her whole focus was on the laptop again...

Jennie for once didn't try to sneak in a kiss or a hug or steal a touch. For once she just walks to the door and left...

The second Jennie closes the door, Jisoo turns to it. She was counting down in her head before Jennie would come knocking like crazy and beg for everything to be okay. But she didn't.

And it's weird how seeing Jennie leave gave Jisoo this pained feeling. But unlike the rest, this kind of pain is something feels much worse. Because it wasn't her muscles or her brain that was feeling the hurt, it was something else.

And when Jisoo felt her heart just starting to ache, she realized why she never wanted to be in a relationship or try to be close to anybody. Because that heartache is something Jisoo could never handle.

But Jennie will be back right? She would be... Yes... she will...

*****

"She's not here..."

Those were the first words Jisoo thought out loud as she walks out her home that morning and found no bouncy, skipping choding waiting out for her.

It felt strange for Jisoo. She was missing the girl she has been trying to avoid almost the entire year. That day, on the day of the valentines dance, just when she thought she would spend it with someone, turns out she would be alone again, just like always.

*****

"Oh noooo..." Jennie mutters softly as she watches Jisoo being surrounded by her usual crowd of admirers.

They almost look like a group of zombies and Jisoo was the only human flesh around to devour... (that was really unromantic) Jennie thought...

She was gazing at her sexy bear from behind the lockers. Jennie knew that she look like crap today, especially since she didn't get any sleep from last night. The moment she got up, she quickly ran to the store and got an I'm sorry teddy bear and I'm sorry bouquet for Jisoo...

She knew she overreact, but she felt like Jisoo push her berserk button after calling her notebook stupid. And to hear that Jisoo just thinks she's nothing more but an immature kid...

Would Jisoo still want to be her valentine?

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