Arcade Lover

Chapter 3

They attack for awhile, Jennie yelling when she gets mauled from behind, and Lisa just trying her very best to stay alive. After all, this was the first time the blonde's ever played anything at the arcade.

"Are you sure you haven't played this before? You're kind of good at it."

Lisa shakes her head in affirmation, bending down to get more tickets when the round ended. It was the last strip. Maybe this was kind of fun, Lisa thought.

She was definitely going to get more tickets for free and make deals with Jisoo again soon.

"I want to play super bikes over there, the one with the motorcycles." The brunette chirps, slipping the strip off Lisa's palm and getting out of the cabin.

The latter followed suit.

The tickets left were only enough for one game, so Lisa naturally stood by the side to watch while Jennie rode away like the rest of the ground beneath and behind her was crumbling.

The vehicle was swerving from side to side more dangerously than Jennie had anticipated. A few times she felt like her ass was tipping over and off the seat. She wonders what Lisa was doing. How can watching someone else play, be entertaining? Wouldn't it be more thrilling if she played herself?

Amidst it all, her ass was about to slip off once more when she decided to look back. Instead of catching a glimpse of Lisa's face, her eyes were rather distracted by the latter's hand. The blonde had her right arm raised to the level behind Jennie's waist, a gentlewoman distance between her abdomen and the girl's palm. Her fingers were slightly spread out, as if she were prepared to catch a falling object.

Prepared to catch Jennie if she falls.

Lisa's eyes however, were glued to the game monitor, intrigued with the way the bike swerved and unaware of the brunette's gaze. Jennie fails to keep a bashful smile away from her lips.

In the midst of it, her eyes flutters up and out of nowhere catches Lisa suddenly grinning fondly back at her.

So... who the hell exactly was falling for who first?

Jennie thought with a lightheaded mind, turning back swiftly to focus on the game. However, it was then and there that her unreliable, two-wheel automobile had rolled off the cliffs. She lost. She steps off the machine with wobbly thighs, knees failing to keep the whole of herself firm to the ground when her soles hit the hard floor.

"That was horrifying," Lisa started sarcastically, dropping the hand she had held up for quite some time now. It was starting to sore.

"You should try it!"

"No, no thank you." She lets out a cutting laugh, "I don't want to look as stiff and constipated as you did." and jokes.

She genuinely thought the brunette would laugh, but she was greeted with a glare instead.

Lisa chuckles to ease things up before Jennie could attempt to lay hands on her, but an abrupt thought interrupts her, "How often are you usually here?"

"Why'd you ask?" Jennie smiles cockily suddenly, "So you can come and see me?"

"Well I won't disagree with that," The blonde avoids eye contact however, "see the thing is, I've been coming everyday for the past week, and you weren't around, and I just got so un-entertained, I left. Jisoo doesn't know your schedule either, she says you just drop by as you please, but..."

Lisa trails off, drawing her gaze back in at a loss for words.

"But... what?" Jennie teases, putting the blonde in a spot, "You asked Jisoo about my schedule? You're curious?"

"I just don't want to waste my time coming here just to find out you aren't around, you know?" The blonde purposefully chuckles at that last part. So she's the type that loves to tease, Lisa thinks. Tease them back? Or give them a direct answer so they don't have anything left to tease about?

A smug smile appears at the corner of her lips, "And of course I'm curious. But I certainly don't think I'm the only one who's interested here else you wouldn't seem to be this defensive about my inquires of you."

Jennie could only feign a shrug nonchalantly. She couldn't disagree either, but she wasn't going to let the blonde know that nor give her any satisfaction about it.

"I believe you owe me something."

The brunette's smiling temptation immediately turns into an incomprehensible frown.

"Are you talking about last week?"

"Yes," Lisa's grin grows sweet, "very much."

Yet Jennie's frown contorts deeper.

"Who knew you were just a fraud?" Her voice grows softens with disappointment.

"Why? What do you mean?"

"I knew I should've listened when my mom told me not to trust good-looking scoundrels."

"Woah," Lisa heaves out, confused, "I don't know what you're thinking but I think you're getting the wrong idea here."

"I don't think I am," Jennie sighs, all dreamy fantasies of Lisa dropped, "Okay look, um, I don't have cash on me right now? But I'll be back tomorrow, same time. Just meet me here."

"What?" Lisa cackles in disbelief. Was the girl referring to the price tickets? Cause that was damn well not what Lisa was trying to relay.

"No, no. I was not talking about the ticket money."

Jennie lagged, "You weren't?"

"No, I was trying to say you owe me your name because I didn't get yours last week but you overheard mine so... it's only fair if I'm aware of yours as well." Lisa speaks classily, twiddling her fingers just behind her back.

"Oh!" Jennie exclaims, she felt silly in the moment. She realised she called Lisa a scoundrel. A good-looking scoundrel. That must've been so embarrassing.

"Wait, I thought you meant- oh, my bad. I shouldn't have called you a scoundrel, or good-looking, or a good-looking scoundr— crap, this is bad." She pursed her lips.

Lisa smiles with a hint of appeasement, eyes twinkling towards the brunette. She thinks I'm good looking. Sweet. She reiterated in her mind with glee.

"So... are you going to give me your name or no?"

"Jennie," Jennie disclosed.

"You're.. Jennie?" All of a sudden, Lisa fakes a glower.

"Yeah, what's wrong?" She gets a little terrified.

"Well I'm perplexed because when I was twelve I actually had a palmist read into my love life and it said somewhere along my existence I would date a girl named Jennie. I haven't seen that palmist since, but I'm shell-shocked... the fact that I actually did meet a Jennie."

The brunette gaped at a loss for words for the first time in a long time. When something was off about the way Jennie was trying to process her information, Lisa speaks up.

"Nah I was just playing with you..." Lisa trailed off, sensing Jennie still dazed, "just ignore it." then shows a smile like nothing happened.

"...But did you actually..?"

"No, no."

"Okay, right." Jennie wonders why her cheeks felt mellow warm, she still wonders how people developed crushes.

What Lisa said was probably one of the wildest most ludicrous thing she's ever heard in awhile.

But one thing for sure, she was definitely going to have a dream about the blonde in her sleep tonight.