Lisa's
"Hi babe!" My wife, Chaeyoung, said seconds after I answered her call. "How's your day? Did you already eat? It's almost time for dinner there."
"Ah yeah, I just finished eating. You? Are you done working?" I replied as I walked towards the veranda of the house.
"Not yet. I think I'm going to stay here until 10. By the way, I'm gonna send you the money first thing in the morning so you can buy some groceries and pay for the hospital and house expenses."
This is why I'm so eager to find a job. It's already been 6 months since I lose my job, and since then, I didn't stop going in different companies and even small businesses to apply, but I always fail. They always tell me that they will just call if I'm gonna get the job, but none of them actually called.
What Jisoo said about me being penniless isn't true. I have money, but it's Chaeng's, not mine. Whenever she's sending me money which is her salary for being the CEO's secretary in Australia, she's always telling me to buy anything I want after paying for the expenses in this house and the hospital bills. But honestly, it's not enough to cover everything, all I can pay is half of the expenses on the hospital, and the total amount of everything just keeps on increasing every single day.
And since I don't want to divide the money, I've decided 3 months ago to call the electricity distribution company to disconnect my electricity supply, as well as the water services provider. So it's been months since I'm living in the dark without my wife knowing. For me to have food and water, I'm helping the old couple who are living two blocks from my house in cleaning their house and garden. And I'm charging my phone at their house with their consent, of course. Sometimes, they're even giving me money which goes to the hospital bill as well.
I look like a homeless, but with a home. Does it make sense?
"Babe? You there?" Chaeng called out. I forgot that I'm actually talking to her.
"Sorry, I just....remembered something."
"Are you okay?"
"Of course, why I wouldn't be? I should be the one asking you that cause it seems like you're tiring yourself again by staying late at work." Chaeyoung is really a hard working type of woman, and a responsible one which I really love about her.
"I'm okay, this is just the first time this month that I'm going to do over time since there's really a lot of things to do here in the office. The company's anniversary party is going to happen next week so everyone is really busy here."
"That's good to hear. But please do take care of yourself, I'm not there to take care of you."
"Don't worry, I'm always well and healthy. I never skipped any meals."
"Knowing you, I wouldn't doubt that." I said and laughed hard. My wife loves food so much, but never actually gain weight.
"Yah! Are you making fun of me?" I bet she's pouting right now. How unlucky I am for not being able to see that.
"I miss you."
"And I miss you too. Did you go find a job today?" Okay, this is it..
"Actually someone contacted me this morning and we've talked personally after the call."
"Really? So how was it? Did you accept it?"
"The talk went well. And after 6 months of being jobless, I now have a job."
"Congrats babe! I'm so proud of you!" She said cheerfully. She's always like that, whenever I achieve something, she never fails to make me feel that she's with me, supporting me since day one. "What kind of job is that?"
"It's uh.... being a body guard," Sorry Chaeng. "of a kid. You know, an easy job."
"That's actually cool babe. When will you start?"
"She said I can start tomorrow."
"Then why you're still not sleeping? You should sleep early to prepare yourself for work."
"Yeah? Okay then, I'm gonna go to bed now. Aren't you just takin' a break? Continue working now and go home."
"I think I will just continue this tomorrow. I'm going to pack my things up now and head home."
"That's even better. You hang up the call now. Take care my wife. I love you."
"You too. I love you more. Bye babe."
I never wanted to lie. But there are things that I can't help but to hide from her. If she found out that I'm having a huge debt in the hospital, she will work harder in Australia, she might even look for another job and I don't want that to happen. She sacrificed enough and I know that it's been hard for her to leave me here alone. It should've been me, but an opportunity came for her and she immediately grabbed it without a second thought.
It's been a year and a half since we last saw each other, and three years of being married. Six years of being with her is like a dream, it's always been magical, ecstatic, full of happiness. But at the same time, scary.
I lived with doubts and questions that I've wanted to remain unanswered. Scared of knowing the truth? I think so. Or scared of losing her? Much better to say.
Chaeyoung is like a puzzle piece that I never imagined I needed in my life to make me feel complete.
She is someone I knew I can't have, but I still got. How's that sound?
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12:38am
I closed the folder containing some information of a certain person that we all already know who. One word to describe it, Interesting...
All I have to do now is to think of how I will approach her. But my mind is not with me right now. This is harder than I thought.
What I have in my hand is a freaking piece of paper attached inside a fucking folder that I didn't know what the purpose is. Like it's just one paper, why the hell they need to put it in a folder? I know what you're thinking, you think that it's for the paper to stay neat. Yeah, it makes sense.
No, actually it isn't. Because that freaking folder is placed inside a brief case. A brief case!! What the actual fuck? Is the information written on that paper is worth dying? Cause it seems like it. Now I'm really starting to believe that Jisoo Kim is crazy. Just imagine my face when I opened that case just to see a folder. I actually thought it has gold bars inside.
I'm just gonna think that the case is for the folder not to get dirty or something. Yeah, I'm just hoping that I'm not gonna go as crazy as Jisoo.
So based on that piece of paper, Jennie Kim is usually spending most of her time at work, if not, she's just at home. Don't have a lot of friends, not a fan of clubbing, never goes somewhere else incase if it's really needed, like buying some groceries or something.
Hell, I would have thought that Jisoo's ex girlfriend is an old old woman if she haven't written the age of this girl. I'm 27 now, she's 25. All I can say is that, her ex girlfriend's life's boring.
Jisoo didn't include the reason why they broke up. The detailed one I mean, cause what I only know is that the girl cheated on her. But it doesn't really matter, maybe she just don't want to talk about it right now.
After putting the folder on it's original place, I walked towards my bed, as I reached it, I lay down and close my eyes.
I can say that tomorrow is a new start. My life will definitely change. Now, I'm living a life with sadness and hope. Tomorrow, it's going to be
A life with lots of money, but full of lies.
