Please Believe That I Truly Love You (Jenlisa) (Complete)

Chapter Ten:

"How is your day?" Aunty Sandara greets Jennie as she enters the house. "Your father also called from L.A. asking if how are you?"

She kissed her on the cheek. "I've talked to Appa. I'm fine, Aunty. I've filed the results of my evaluation and they've allowed me to leave for two weeks. Then, I'm leaving for Singapore for my next assignment."

"Oh, that's good. At least you can rest." She followed her. "Have you eaten?"

She smiled. "Later, Aunty. I will just go to the poolside."

"Okay, but bring a jacket with you. It's getting a little cold outside." There was concern in her Aunt's voice.

Jennie opened the sliding door of the penthouse apartment to the pool and mini-garden. The cold enveloped her. Autumn is coming to an end and winter is coming, so the air is cold but she doesn't notice it. She felt numb. She still has a sense of unreality in everything that happened. Until now, she had to pinch herself just to make sure she was still alive and not a spirit floating in space.

Holding Jennie's address in one hand that Rosé gave, Lisa got out of the taxi. After checking into a hotel, she went straight there. As it was, two days after Jennie left, she got an available flight to New York. In fact, she was only given it after she threatened that all her companies would boycott that airline if a way was not made for her to fly immediately.

She rang the doorbell at the apartment which according to Rosé also belongs to her friend's Aunty Sandara. She said that the woman used to live there whenever she was in New York.

The owner of the house opened it. Lisa was shocked at how much Jennie resembled her Aunt. They met briefly when she returned to Korea for their wedding. Sge looked at her from head to toe before speaking.

"What are you doing here?"

"I came here for Jennie." She simply said.

Jennie's Aunt opened the door wide to let her in. She did not offer her a place to sit or information on where the woman was.

"I'm sorry but I need to talk to Jennie."

"You made my niece wait for nine years, maybe it's not bad if I wait for you for a while just so I can tell you what I want to say."

Lisa was silent, just following Jennie's Aunt as she walked to the sofa.

The woman sat down and lit a cigarette. "My niece cried a lot of tears because of you. Who told you that you have the right to come here and expect to be received generously?"

She remained speechless. She accepted what the woman was saying because she knew it was true.

"Jennie keeps saying that you are innocent. She takes the blame for everything that happened to the both of you, when you met, when you parted, everything. Maybe some of it was true. You were good and decent towards her. She was too young, too naive, too impulsive. But how can I absolve you of what happened? How can I not be angry with you when I was the one who held that girl when she's crying because of you?"

The woman puffed on a cigarette and stared up at the smoke before continuing. "You should have seen her when you came out of your room that morning of your wedding. If it was deadly to not stop crying, I would have buried my niece a long time ago. But that's nothing compared to when you didn't come to Waldorf. She told you that she gave it a week. But she didn't just wait for you for one week, but two. I still have to pick her up and try to bring her home." It brings tears to the memory when her niece came to that fancy room of one of the most elegant hotels in the world. She was still dressed as if she was waiting for a visitor but her eyes were puffy from lack of sleep and crying.