Please remind me (who I really am)

Chapter 3

Lisa spent the rest of that Monday afternoon flitting around her house, before heading upstairs to do a very hard hour on the running machine to burn off some of the energy that had appeared out of nowhere. Lisa was definitely not planning on telling anyone about what had happened that afternoon; not that she thought anyone would believe her anyway. Hanbin was the only other person who had seen her, and nobody else had any idea of what had happened once Lisa had left the bookstore.

As bad as she felt about the Chanel dress Jennie had been wearing (please have let the stain come out), Lisa was pretty sure that she'd had one of the best afternoons of her life. Try as she might, she couldn't come up with another word for the afternoon other than surreal. It wasn't even that Jennie was an actress... it was more that she was wonderful company, and Lisa had enjoyed being around her. Once she'd got over the fact that there was someone who was someone to the world sitting on her sofa, it had been surprisingly easy to be near Jennie. She had joked about her favorite characters in the Walking Dead, made London sound like a dream come true, and looked more relaxed than Lisa had seen her in various interviews on YouTube.

Come to think of it...

Lisa switched off the running machine and stretched out her muscles, then headed back downstairs to the sofa, grabbing her laptop on the way. Loading it up, she typed Jennie's name into Google, feeling a little creepy. Shaking it off, she loaded up a few recent interview articles that Jennie had been a part of after her last film had been released.

Tucking her feet underneath the cushion beside her, Lisa settled in to read about the woman that had captivated her since the moment she'd walked into her bookstore.

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A couple of hours later, Lisa had learnt several things. Jennie had recently turned 26 years old two months ago. She'd been adopted by the Kims, but spent the next ten years in a boarding school in rural Ireland. Jennie had been certified a genius at a young age with an IQ of 159, started college very early, and completed multiple degrees in engineering, biology, a double major in chemistry and physics; if that wasn't enough, she'd then followed it up with a Master's degree in business.

During university, and once she graduated, she worked in the research and development arm of K Inc., dedicating herself to studying nanotechnology and the eradication of diseases, money being no object to the Kims. However, four years ago, just as she was coming close to a cure for cancer of all things, there had been an incident where her father had been indicted by the courts and jailed for 32 consecutive life sentences. It had been an international scandal, with the words bioterrorism and ecoterrorism thrown around in the news.

K Inc. had fallen from grace in the biggest possible way, and although it hadn't folded (due to the millions upon millions that the family held privately), there was so much suspicion associated with the Kim name now that there was nobody willing to do business with them. Jennie had only been 21, but nobody would hire her.

Lisa clicked onto a YouTube link in the article, which was an interview with Jennie at 23 years old, after she'd changed careers entirely. According to the blurb under the video image, this was the only time Jennie had talked about her career change; it had been off the table ever since, as if once she had discussed it, it didn't need to be mentioned again. She smiled when Jennie's face popped up on the screen and the Ellen asked her the question.

Ellen: so, why did you make the jump into acting? The leap from science lab to Hollywood is quite a big one!