The Bet (Jensoo)

Chapter One: The Routine Life

Jisoo's POV:

My name is Kim Jisoo and I live a very routinary life. I live in an apartment in the City near where I work and I have a roommate named Park Chaeyoung but I call her Rosie. Rosie is not just my roommate, she's also my best friend since our High School days. Sometimes during the weekends I go home at my parents' house to spend some time with them, but not every weekend though, as my parents live outside the city of Seoul, it is kind of time consuming to take the commute so I seldom go home. My life is pretty much like this every day, wake up, take a shower, get dressed for work, stop by at a coffee house on the way to work for my daily morning cup of coffee then head straight to the office. It has been like this, every day for the past year, since I graduated College. Sure, I go out with my friends every now and then, since I have a lot of free time after work hours anyways, our apartment is only a 10-minute walk from the office so I often have a lot of free time to spend with my friends after working hours.

I come from an above middle class family (or at least that's what I normally tell people when they say I'm born rich – because I seriously don't consider myself as one) where my father handles our family business while my mom is a full time housewife. That said, I pretty much don't have any problems in life, financially speaking, which is why I could live my life to the fullest every day sometimes even spending way more than how much I earn. Why I live my life this way you ask? Well first of all, I believe in the notion that we don't really know when we will be doing things for the last time, so I make sure to enjoy every day as much as possible. Second, I feel like I'm masking all the sadness and loneliness that I feel deep inside. Sure, Rosie is the best roommate anyone could ask for, and I'm not really alone-alone, but I always feel like there's always something lacking, I feel empty, there's this void inside me that even me couldn't even figure out what exactly.

I was walking on my way home after work and when I got into the apartment, I saw Rosie cooking her dinner. "Wow, you're home early" Rosie said, checking her watch. It's only 8:00 in the evening.

"Yeah, I didn't over time today and I didn't go out with my other friends" I said.

"Well that's new, have you eaten dinner already? I have more than enough food for tonight, you can have some" Rosie offered.

"Nah it's fine, I ate some snacks at work before I head home" I said, I didn't totally lie, though to be honest, I'm not entirely full either, but I was too shy to eat Rosie's food, although I know that she wouldn't really mind because we're so close already we're like family.

"Please, I insist, have some of my food tonight, I experimented on the left over ingredients in the fridge and I wanna know if it turned out good besides I'll feel bad if I'm eating and you're not" Rosie said while grinning.

To be fair, Rosie is a great cook, she normally would just watch youtube videos on how to cook a certain dish and it would always turn out to be really nice. "Okay, I'll get some, let's taste your new experiment dish!" I said excitedly.

"Do you wanna watch something while eating? It's been a while since we bonded here in the apartment" I asked. We used to always watch "friends" together, but things got busy with work, and if I'm not busy, I would be out with my other friends, same goes for her.

"Yeah that would be nice" Rosie said smiling. And then we both find ourselves contended, right then and there, at that exact moment, when Rosie suddenly blurted out "Oh by the way, we have this new client at work, she's really gorgeous and beautiful, and she has this vibe that you would make you want to be friends with her and become her bitch" She said while laughing at the latter part of her statement.

"Really? You know I really envy your type of work, at least you get to meet new people every now and then, all I see is my computer screen, numbers, and deadlines" I said to her while pouting.

"Anyway, what's her name? Is she nice?" I asked. "I didn't really get to talk to her that much, she gives off this scary vibe though, and her name is Jennie." Rosie said, "I don't even know why I randomly shared my encounter with her today, but I guess I was just really amazed by her gorgeousness and fashion sense" Rosie continued. I shrugged then continued eating my food and gazing back at the T.V. screen.