Meeting you | LisRene AU [BOOK 1]

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"You should at least give yourself some self-love," Kai stated insistently, and Junmyeon snorted with laughter as Irene's face flushed dark red. "Maybe then you wouldn't get all worked up at the mention of sex."

"You guys are assholes," Irene muttered, sipping her beer again dejectedly.

Seulgi patted her on the shoulder, stifling her laughs. "It's okay, Irene, we understand. Maybe take a night off and go back to your apartment..."

"Run a warm shower..."

"You guys are going to make her explode," Junmyeon said, and they all laughed as Irene rolled her eyes, aware that her face must be very bright red. She took practically chugged down the last of her beer, and then stood up.

"You know," she said thoughtfully, only slightly sarcastic, tossing the bottle into the trashcan Junmyeon had sat by the door, "I think might actually do that. See you guys tomorrow."

She heard Kai whistle as she exited the room, and she smirked and shook her head as she headed back to her own room. Her friends were ridiculous.

But maybe they were right.

****

"I'm already tired of this," Lisa huffed out in annoyance, glancing at her best friend as they entered their high school. The school wasn't bad by any means, and it actually offered quite a few advanced courses and a lot of opportunities to take classes at YG University. However, since Lisa's mother worked at the university, she'd more than once turned down the opportunity to do so. Instead, she was ending her high school career by taking almost every advanced course available to her, and she could already tell that she was going to breeze through it.

"It's only the second day of school, Lisa," Rosé reminded her, scoffing. "You used to like school."

"I don't mind the classes. I just mind the time it takes up, and the fact that I'm going to breeze through it at the pace they're going to be going."

"Yeah yeah, we get it, Manoban. You're a genius."

Lisa rolled her eyes. "Your GPA is higher than mine, you weirdo. You're the one who's going to finish as valedictorian."

"Yeah, and not by seeing school as just a waste of time and assuming that I'm going to be amazing at all of my new classes this year," Rosé snapped, looking pointedly at Lisa. "You need a reality check."

"No, I don't," Lisa argued, furrowing her eyebrows. "I'll see you later."

"Hope so."

Lisa split off from her friend's path and started toward her first period, a frown stuck on her face. She felt ready to be out of high school – ready for college. Weren't colleges just judging her off of what her previous schooling had been like, anyway? She wanted to relax this year – especially now, considering where her thoughts had been for all of the previous day and where they would be for all of today.

She couldn't stop thinking about Saturday night. About the college-aged brunette who kept causing Lisa's insides to twist and turn through different emotions. On one hand, Lisa found herself somewhat intimidated by her, but also entranced. She was also intensely aware of the gravity of her feelings – it was confirming thing that had once or twice popped up into her thoughts. She was definitely having feelings for Irene, and she was nearly sure by now that she wasn't straight. She'd first considered that possibility after she lost her virginity when she realized how not into it she'd been. Never before, however, had she met someone who actually made her feel like she could be interested in girls that way instead.