𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩

When the check arrives...

" What are you doing with that thing?" My roommate jennie asks walking by my room.

Im sitting on my bed with my hand wrapped around my knees staring at the envelope that came in the mail a few days ago. My name and address are handwritten in careful capital script and it doesn't have a return address.

I showed it to her when it first arrived and she made fun of me for actually wanting to deposit that ridiculous check. Her words not mine.

" i was thinking this person must've dropped it off in our mailbox directly because there's not even a stamp from the post office on this thing" I point out.

Jennie Shakes her head and walks out of my sight-line for a moment to change into her sweats. When I walk out into our living room I see her boots neatly put away right next to mine in the foyer. The rain droplets skid off her coat where they make a little puddle which she quickly cleans up.

I met jennie at Wellesley college but we didn't get really close until our second semester of senior year. She was a double major in biology and chemistry and we met in a required anthropology class that we both put off until we couldn't put it off anymore.

I don't know if it's the case with all biology majors but Jennie is a very neat and meticulous person who always cleans up after herself and often after me as well. Though I'm not much of a housekeeper I take out the garbage and kill the spiders to try to be a good roommate.

I pull out last night's Vietnamese take out from the fridge and warm it up on the stove. We each pile as much as we want onto the plates leaving the rest on the skillet before sitting down to eat together around the kitchen island.

"So...what are you going to do?" She asks tying up her silky brown hair in a loose bun while inhaling her food.

My eyes meander over the envelope lying flat in between our two plates. Jennie reaches over her food and pulls out the check.

" jisoo this is a joke okay? This isn't real" she says with a full mouth.

I stare at the numbers in the square box. They are written in the same block script as my address on the envelope.

$167,699

The amount is written right under my name and signed with an illegible signature. There is no identifying information anywhere else on the check to give me a glimpse into who it might be from.

" but what if it is?" I ask

" why would someone send you a check for this amount and not say who it is or why their giving you this money?" She asks

I shrug my shoulders. Of course I don't have an answer.

" the things is... I looked up the total amount of my student loans today at work" I say taking a sip of water.

" okay"  jennie nods

I put down my fork and turn my body towards her.

" what?" She rolls her eyes. " cmon the suspense is killing me"

I shake my head. " no never mind. It doesn't matter" I say getting up.

She pleads for me to go on and explain but I just take my plate to the sink and wash it. If she thinks this whole thing is a joke then I don't have to tell her a thing.

" jisoo Im sorry" jennie puts her hand on my shoulder.

" I don't mean to not be supportive. I just don't want you to get hurt. Or get in trouble"

I hold the check up to her face.

" you see this number?" I say pointing to the amount. She nods. " this is the exact amount I owe. Down to the penny"

The words surprise her. She exhales slowly and takes a step away from me.

" really?" She whispers under her breath taking the check and looking at it more closely. I nod.

" I had to make the payment today so I looked up the amount just for the hell of it. Just to make myself feel a little worse about everything" I joke

" but then the total amount looked familiar. I realized I had seen these numbers somewhere before. I just wasn't sure where. When I get home I saw the envelope on my desk and...there it was. The exact amount I owe in student loans"

Jennie sits back down stunned by my sudden revelation. I've had about an hour to process this but I'm not less astonished.

" the check arrived a few days ago. So after you make this payment you'll owe a little less right?

I nod not sure as to where she is going with this.

" most of it is going to invest but yeah I guess it will be a little less. But the check arrived before this payment was officially due. So when it came this is the exact amount of my debt"

We spend the evening talking about the possibilities about what I should do which basically boil down into two camps.

One I tear up the check and forget all about it.

Two I deposit the money or at least I try to   There is the very real possibility that the check is fake or some sort of fraud though whom it is defrauding I have no idea. Still depositing is definitely a risk.

" there's something else you should consider" jennie says. "What happens if you deposit the check and it is real?"

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I decided to make a namsoo ff because it is my favorite ship as of now tbh but if you don't like it please don't spread hate and just leave please. Besides that it doesn't really matter to me if anyone reads this story since I converted it for my own sake since there's not enough quality namsoo story's out there I can find. Not saying their not good I'm just saying most namsoo story's only have a few chapters or some just go way too fast so I decided to make this for me :). Now if you want to read it you are more than welcome to do so

- chikin-is-lifeu77