How Did We Get Here?

Chapter 2: What's Going On?

"Oh my g- l-, what the hell are you doing here?" It had been so long since I've seen her. We were ridiculously close on high school. And I mean, it was crazy. Every time she or I needed to use the bathroom, we would both go even if the teacher told us not to. We were inseparable. Well, until I turned into an introverted, bitter old woman.

"I'm eating." She took another mouth full of noodles and stood up, arms out stretched. My head fell on her shoulder and I hugged her so tight that I felt I might break her.

"I missed you so much." It felt so good to hug someone that knew me so well without even speaking for almost a year.

"Where you been girl? A lot has gone on since the last time we spoke."

"Like what?"

"Well, for one, Selena hates you."

"Oh shit..."

"Yeah, oh shit. It's one thing to dip off on me because I understand you and we have a strange bond and all that. But to do it to her is another thing. You know she needs you."

"I'm so sorry to her... I'll call her later, promise. But, what about you? Why are you here?"

"I'm eating."

"...why are you in Korea."

"Ah, that leads me to two, I ran into a lot of money recently."

"What? Did you hit the lottery or something?"

"For four hundred million."

"What?!" All she did was nod with a proud grin. "Figures, you always had insanely good luck. What are you gonna do with it?"

"I'll be spending it on traveling the world. I also gave some to charity because I thought, 'What would Allie do?'"

"Lies. You know I would blow it all on makeup, skincare, clothes and other bull shit that I don't need more of."

"You know what, that is very true. But you would end up giving more than half of it away anyway. You don't even know what to buy with forty dollars, let alone four hundred million. Like, remember when your parents would give you like twenty bucks every day for lunch? All you would buy was a pretzel and a Monster energy drink and you'd give me the rest of your money."

"I only did that because I thought that you'd pay me back..."

"Girl, I was broke." She laughed and stuffed her face with more ramyeon. Seeing her eat made me remember that I had food of my own. I stirred my noodles around a bit before clamping the between my chopsticks and bringing them to my lips. They were spicy and I loved it. I sniffed and cleared my throat a few times, earning a look from Sabiana. "You are so noisy." Obnoxiously, I bought my cup of noodles to my face and loudly slurped down the broth.

"Ah~" Sabiana rolled her eyes at me, remembering how childish I had always been. She loved it though.

"We spent all this time interrogating me, I never got to ask you why you're here."

"Work. A few weeks ago, I sent in my portfolio to a huge company here because they were hiring. Turns out that they love my style and they snatched me up as quick as they could."

"What company?"

"JYP Entertainment." She looked at my with bulged eyes and and cheeks stuffed with food.

"What?!"

"JY-"

"I know what you said, dummy. But I'm just surprised that you aren't freaking out."

"Why would I be?"

"Because everyone in the company is extremely good looking and you have a hard time with NOT being flirtatious with beautiful people."

"I know how to be professional."

"Yeah, but around them?" She pulled up a photo and showed me a group of seven boys decked out in NBA gear. I studied the photo and I realized that I had seen three of those seven boys just a little while ago.

"Mark?" I pointed to the face that I already knew well.

"Have you two met?"

"No, I just bumped into him a few times today."

"Oh my god, you say it like it was no big deal."

"Because it wasn't? At least not to me." She rolled her eyes and started to type on her phone. "What are you doing?"

"I'm calling Gean down here."

"Wait, she's here too?! Why?"

"Because I needed a travel companion that knows almost everything about everything."