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I said I wasn't posting this until I closed the other million open stories I have but I'm a liar apparently so I did it anyways. Oops.

My bro bad. @pseudonym_laurice

Also I will get to your comments on my stories eventually I swear I'll respond to all of em just give me a minute.

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Jennie and Lisa lowkey (high key) hated each other from the first day they met but they had to tolerate each other because Jennie's cousin Jisoo was dating Lisa's best friend Chaeyoung.

The day they met was a disaster. They went on a group dinner to introduce each other, Jisoo and Chaeyoung had already been dating a few months by then.

Lisa was just about to pull in to a parking spot when a flashy Audi R8–Lisa knew exactly what car it was because she liked cars—pulled in and cut her off, almost taking out Lisa's front bumper in the process. Lisa honked her horn in frustration and a girl walked out of the fancy car. She locked it, flipped her hair and didn't even bother to look at Lisa, marching away haughtily.

"Fucking rich kids." Lisa grumbled as she watched the pretty girl cross the parking lot. "Think they own the place."

She found another parking spot farther away, the parking lot was full so she had to park in the next restaurant over. She found her friends sitting at a corner table once she made it inside the restaurant.

"Hey guys, sorry I'm late. Some spoiled brat almost wrecked into me and stole my parking spot."

"That's okay Lis. Jennie went to the restroom so we haven't ordered yet." Rosie answered, sitting next to Jisoo in the booth.

Lisa sat down across from them.

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Jennie was annoyed, she had only gone to the restroom to calm herself down because she was almost late to her friends' dinner because her father decided to take it upon himself to invite her stupid boyfriend Kai over. Her dad had lectured her about being more attentive to him and that if they were to be married one day Jennie had to make him a priority over her friends.

Jennie rolled her eyes the entire time he spoke. She really only dated Kai to get her parents off her back. They were delusional if they actually thought she would actually marry him eventually. She was only playing along until she graduated university and could finally be financially stable to be on her own.

Kai loved her just as much as Jennie loved him. Not at all. Not even a little bit. He cheated on her all the time and Jennie didn't even care as long as no one found out about it. She needed to save face after all. She wished she could have an excuse to break up with him that was good enough to get her parents off her back, to get them to see their golden boy Kai was trash and not at all good enough for Jennie just because he was wealthy.

She kind of hated that her father was the president of the school she attended. It was a prestigious university, Jennie probably should have gone somewhere else so she wouldn't be in his clutches but Jennie needed as good of a pedigree as she could get if she was to ever escape her powerful, wealthy family.

She had driven to the restaurant in a daze, not really paying much attention to her surroundings. She was surprised when she found herself parking, not even realizing she had gotten there already.

Jennie touched up her mascara and lipstick, she hardly wore make up. Preferring a natural look, it was just force of habit. She tended to be self conscious. Years of being in the spotlight at dinner parties and charity events did that to a person.

She finally pulled herself together enough to go back to their table.

Jennie was about to greet Chaeyoung's best friend when she noticed who it was and whatever composure she had gained was lost immediately again. She narrowed her eyes at the girl. She already wasn't in the mood.

"You're the rude girl that honked at me in the parking lot." Jennie said, crossing her arms angrily.

"Oh, you must be the spoiled brat that cut me off and stole my parking spot." Lisa countered. "You almost took my bumper out with your awful driving."

"I did not!"

Lisa rolled her eyes.

"If you're going to be one of those rich assholes that show off their fancy cars by speeding into parking spaces the least you could do is admit it." Lisa mumbled.

"Did you just call me an asshole?" Jennie asked, raising her voice.

Chaeyoung and Jisoo had been looking between them as they argued. The blonde finally cleared her throat, deciding it was probably time she intervene.

"So, you guys met each other already?"

Jennie and Lisa both straightened up, eyes widening.

"That's Lisa?"

"This is Jennie?" Lisa pointed at Jennie who was still standing by the table.

"Sit down Jendeukie." Jisoo told her cousin, noticing their server approaching.

Jennie reluctantly sat down next to Lisa, making a disgusted face.

"What would you guys like to drink?"

"Banana Milk." Lisa answered at the same time Jennie did.

"Do you guys have banana milk?" Jennie asked.

Jennie looked to Lisa and they both rolled their eyes at each other. Chaeyoung looked on amused.

"Well you're both acting like children, makes sense that's what you would both order," Jisoo said under her breath, laughing at their choice of drinks.

Jennie and Lisa ignored each other for the most part, never speaking directly to each other throughout dinner. Which made it a very hard job for Jisoo to keep the conversation going once the food was served because her girlfriend stopped paying attention to the rest of them, too immersed in eating.

"How's my uncle Jendeuk?" Jisoo asked.

"As overbearing as ever." Jennie said grumpily. "He wants me to write a speech for that award he's getting. He thinks his daughter giving it to him makes him look good. As if we're even that close. I don't even know what he expects me to say."

"Did you start writing it?"

"Yeah, it goes like this. I present this award to my sperm donor, who I know nothing about except the fact he's a control freak who likes to summon me so he can look good in front of all of you and thinks he can control every aspect of my life because for some reason he feels like I owe it to him for giving birth to me. Thank you."

Jisoo snorted. "I would pay to see that."

"Just adopt me instead. I'm over it." Jennie said as she stabbed her steak with her fork a little too harshly.

Lisa focused on her food, trying to ignore the conversation.

"President Kim and his perfect family." Jisoo chuckled. "He would probably send me a check to send you back if I ever took you away. Actually, that's not a bad idea. We can steal his money that way." Jisoo finished jokingly.

Lisa's head shot up.

"President Kim? As in the university president?" Lisa asked, eyes wide.

Jennie shot Jisoo a glare. She hated people knowing her association with her father, especially at university. People made all sorts of shitty assumptions about her and she hated it.

Of course she often had to make appearances next to him, but it wasn't usually in public places around campus and even though there was always some sort of press, they weren't publications that normal college students would read so her identity was more or less on the down low on campus unless you were one of the kids that had to attend those events too or her professors. Her professors knowing about him was bad enough.

"If you so much as whisper to anyone that he's my father I'll get you kicked out of school." Jennie threatened, not really meaning it. It was an empty threat, Jennie couldn't really get anyone kicked out of college like that.

"You're a typical daddy's girl then. Here I thought I was wrong about you for a second there but I guess you're just how I thought you would be. Daddy probably cleans up after all of your messes."

Lisa had struggled entirely too much to get to where she was to be threatened by some rich girl about getting kicked out of school just because she could ask her president father to do it. She was too annoyed by her to even look at her now.

"Sorry Chaengie, Jisoo. I have to go." Lisa threw some bills on the table before looking to Jennie coldly. "Excuse me."

Jennie moved so Lisa could leave.

"The hell is wrong with her." Jennie mumbled, sitting back down.

Chaeyoung sighed before following Lisa.

"You can't just threaten people about getting them kicked out of school Jendeuk." Jisoo scolded her.

"It's not like I can actually do it." Jennie said, rolling her eyes and going back to her food.

"She doesn't know that."

"What kind of idiot wouldn't know that? It's not like I can snap my fingers and produce an expulsion letter. If I could I would have kicked Kai out already." Jennie added shaking her head in frustration. That girl was entirely too dramatic, why was she the one getting scolded right now?

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"Lis" Chaeyoung shouted. "Lisa! Slow down."

Lisa tried to shut the door to her car but Chaeyoung caught up to her just in time and stood between it, preventing her from doing so.

"Sorry Chaengie. I'll make it up to you guys." Lisa apologized.

"Lisa, I know what you must be thinking about Jennie but she's really not like that. Give her a chance."

"Whatever, all rich kids are the same. They're spoiled brats who think they have the right to do whatever they want just because they have money and power."

"Jisoo is super rich too and you don't think that about her." Chaeyoung pointed out.

"Yeah well that's just cus she's Jisoo. She's an exception to pretty much every human rule."

Chaeyoung giggled because Lisa was sort of right. Jisoo was unique, funny, and blunt and she gave zero fucks about what people thought of her, she was always true to herself so sometimes she was a little eccentric but that's what she loved about her.

"Please Lis? Just give her a chance."

"Look I'll tolerate her for yours and Jisoo's sake, but don't expect us to be friends."

"You never know Lis, you might get close."

"Doubtful."

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Two semesters flew by. Lisa and Jennie were often forced to sit with each other when they had lunch in the quad between classes because Jisoo and Chaeyoung forced them to. They were all super busy and hardly had time for each other anytime school started back up so it was their way of seeing their cousin and their best friend without taking time out of their own relationship.

Lisa and Jennie never failed to bicker over one thing or another. The other two were used to it by now so they just let them. They gave up a long time ago in trying to get the two to make peace with each other. They were just glad they at least tolerated each other enough to sit down and eat with them.

It was the start of the new semester and the group hadn't been able to meet up until two weeks in. Jennie and Jisoo had gotten a huge apartment off campus together, it was only a block away from the university and had been too busy with classes and moving in to see each other.

Jisoo had asked Chaeyoung to move in with them, the apartment had five bedrooms after all, they had way too much space but Chaeyoung hadn't wanted to leave Lisa behind so she opted to move in to the dorms with Lisa instead.

Jisoo had suggested Lisa move in with them too but Jennie and Lisa had both laughed so hard at the suggestion, both agreeing that they would probably kill each other in their sleep if they ever lived with each other that Jisoo didn't even mention it again. It was the first time Lisa and Jennie had agreed on anything in over a year and it was over killing each other. As much as Jisoo wanted to live with her girlfriend, she didn't want her cousin or Lisa killed over it.

They met up at the quad and Lisa immediately started teasing Jisoo about the amount of food she was carrying for Chaeyoung.

"You're so whipped."

"Please, like you're not whipped for your airhead girlfriend." Jennie said, sneaking up behind Lisa.

Lisa jumped a bit, not realizing she was there. Lisa hadn't told them she and Suzy had broken up over the summer and she was so not about to tell them in front of Jennie so she deflected.

"You have no right calling anyone an airhead when you're dating the campus idiot." Lisa countered, sitting down. "I don't even know how he got into this school. Probably daddy's money."

Jennie didn't argue with her. He was an idiot, and she wouldn't put it past them to have bribed their way into Kai's admission somehow. She did furrow her brows a bit at Lisa though because usually when Jennie insulted her girlfriend Lisa would go into over protective mode, telling Jennie how great Suzy was or how smart she was or how pretty she was.

The lack of retort didn't go unnoticed by Chaeyoung either.

"How is Suzy? She hasn't texted me back since the summer." Chaeyoung asked Lisa.

Lisa knew she was in trouble now. Chaeyoung was too perceptive. She abruptly got up from her seat.

"I forgot, I have to switch one of my classes before the cut off date. I'll see you guys later." Lisa said, leaving her food behind.

"How dense can you be." Jennie said shaking her head and watching Lisa's retreating back. "As if she didn't just make it obvious she's hiding something."

Jennie rolled her eyes and started picking at her food.

"Idiot." She mumbled.

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Lisa was annoyed with herself, she should have at least brought her food with her because now she was super hungry. She decided she had enough time to sprint to the small cafe on the corner of campus before her next class, maybe a muffin would do.

She ran past a couple that was making out in the alley between the cafe and the history building and Lisa smirked for a second, they weren't even two weeks in and people were already getting handsy with each other. Then she had to pause because she was sure she recognized that hair. She slowed down and backtracked, looking into the alleyway again. There was no mistaking it.

Kai was making out with some random girl in an alley in the middle of the day and she was trying to take his shirt off and he was letting her.

Lisa might hate Jennie but she didn't deserve this, no girl did. She was about to go pull him off and punch him for daring to cheat on her, in bright fucking daylight no less, when she heard a camera click and a flash in quick succession. Kai looked up and immediately hid his face.

The guy with the camera started running away right after that.

Lisa stood frozen for a second, debating, before shaking her head and facepalming. "Goddammit." She grumbled to herself as she made a decision. She sprinted after the guy with the camera and almost tackled him.

"Give me the camera." Lisa demanded.

"Hell no! Do you know who that is? That's the Dean of Student Affairs' kid. The President's daughter's boyfriend and he was half naked in the middle of an alley not kissing his girlfriend. This is gold. Do you even know how much money I could make off of selling this?"

"Delete the pictures before I smash your camera." Lisa said menacingly.

She couldn't believe she was currently helping Kai, who she hated, in order to save Jennie's reputation right now, who she also hated. What the hell was she thinking?

The kid tried to run again but Lisa tripped him and his camera went flying, rolling on the ground. Lisa picked it up, putting her knee to the kid's back so he couldn't get up while she proceeded to delete the photos.

Thankfully, she knew her way around cameras. He handed it back to him and walked away without another word.

"I'm suing you for this!" He shouted at her.

"Yeah yeah." Lisa said without turning around. "I'll just let them know you were planning to blackmail people for money."

Lisa didn't notice how the kid turned red.

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Chaeyoung cornered Lisa in their dorm room after classes and Lisa sighed, already knowing what she was going to ask so she just bit the bullet and told her.

"Suzy and I broke up a month ago."

"Oh no Lis, I'm sorry. Why didn't you say anything?" Chaeyoung said in worry, immediately reaching out to hug Lisa.

"Because you were on vacation with your girlfriend. I didn't want to ruin it. We hardly have time during the semester, you guys deserved some uninterrupted time together."

"I'm still your best friend Lisa. You're just as important."

"I know. That's why I didn't mention it. I knew you'd cut your vacation short for me and I didn't want that. You're too good of a friend."

"Still Lis. I don't like you going through stuff like this alone. You guys dated for so long. You must be heartbroken."

"You're here now."

"You're right." Chaeyoung said, nodding firmly. "Lets go to the convenience store and get banana milk and junk food and we can binge watch Disney movies like we should have done a month ago when it happened."

"Deal." Lisa smiled.

They spent the night doing that. Lisa might have cried in Chaeyoung's arms a bit. She still wasn't over it. Suzy had been her first love, they had a lot of history together. She had moved to the same town Lisa and Chaeyoung lived at during the start of Suzy's senior year. They had dated ever since then. They'd even made it work long distance barring a few hiccups when Suzy went off to college first.

It was just Lisa's luck that Suzy had transferred into the same university as them this past year because now she was faced with the prospect of seeing her on campus after they had broken up. At least it was Suzy's senior year.

"You think you'll get back together?" Chaeyoung asked.

"I don't know. I want to, but she seemed distant. I think I've lost her for good."

"There's other girls Lis. You never know. Maybe the right one has been right in front of you all along."

"Jisoo would kill me if I ever tried to date you Chaengie." Lisa tried to joke halfheartedly.

"Not me, dummy!" Chaeyoung said, punching her playfully. "You've never really given other people a chance since you've been with Suzy for so long. I'm just saying it doesn't hurt to see what's out there. Just don't lead anyone on if you're not serious about them." Chaeyoung warned.

"When have I ever done that!"

"You were a player in high school Lis. Before Suzy. Don't think I don't remember how my car got egged by the girls in the next high school over because they thought it was yours since I gave you rides all the time."

"Sorry." Lisa mumbled. "In my defense—"

"I don't want to hear it. It was your fault and you know it by not being clear that you were seeing other people and that you were just casually dating and not looking to settle down."

"You're right. I learned my lesson though." Lisa remembered something then. "Speaking of players. Not that I really care about her or anything—I just figured its the right thing to do. Anyway whatever, I have to tell you something."

"What?"

"It's about Jennie."

Chaeyoung raised an eyebrow in question, not expecting Lisa to bring up Jennie of all people.

"Don't ask me how I found out, but Kai is cheating on her. Maybe you should tell her. Even satan has the right to know she's getting cheated on."

Chaeyoung sighed.

"She knows already."

"She knows?!" Lisa asked incredulously, "and she's still dating him?"

"It's complicated."

"How complicated can it be? Why would you date someone who cheats on you?"

"I don't think they're really dating Lisa. It's more like an arranged relationship. At least that's how Jisoo put it. Jennie's parents want her to marry Kai eventually."

Lisa made a face again. "I told you she was just like the other rich kids. Marrying for money. That's ridiculous."

Chaeyoung sighed again, "I wish you would put yourself in her shoes sometimes Lisa. For such an open-minded person, you're really blind when it comes to Jennie."

Lisa shrugged. "Actions speak louder. She acts just like the rest of them, I don't know why I have to open my mind up to anything."

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Lisa got a text message from Suzy a few months later, out of the blue.

Jennie had happened to be sitting next to her when Lisa got the message. They were eating lunch with the girls in the quad as usual and Lisa's phone was sitting next to Jennie's tray of food so she had noticed the notification and the name of who sent it. Jennie rolled her eyes.

"Great, the airhead is about to bring whipped Lisa back." Jennie said under her breath. Lisa shot her a glare, hearing what she had said.

Lisa read the message and couldn't believe it.

"Let me guess, she wants to meet." Jennie said, smiling faux sweetly. "And whipped Lisa is going to come running."

"None of your business." Lisa answered sharply. She replied to Suzy quickly, hating that Jennie was right because she said yes.

She met Suzy that Friday and they caught up. It felt natural, almost like the old days. Lisa almost convinced herself that Suzy had asked her to meet because she wanted to get back together. Up until Suzy dropped a massive bomb on her.

"Lisa. I'm getting married."

Lisa dropped her chopsticks and almost spit her food out into Suzy's face. She cleared her throat, trying to keep her voice even before answering.

"You're engaged?"

"Yeah, I know it seems sudden, but it was almost as if it was love at first sight." Suzy answered.

Lisa tried to keep her face neutral.

"Look Lisa, I know it might be weird talking to you about this but I want you and Rosie to be in the wedding. You two were my best friends growing up. I get it if you don't want to come, that's why I haven't asked Rosie yet. I wanted to ask you first to see if it was okay out of respect to you but I'd really like you both to be there and if you can I'd want you both to be my bridesmaids."

Lisa was trying hard not to hyperventilate. She really didn't want to go but her pride was too big. It stung to know Suzy had already moved on and was even going to marry someone already and Lisa didn't want to feel like even more of a loser by letting Suzy know she couldn't bear going to her wedding let alone be in it so she found herself saying the complete opposite.

"Of course we'll go. It's the biggest day of your life." Lisa tried to force herself to smile. "We have to be there for our best friend."

Suzy beamed at her answer.

"You can bring whoever you want of course, I don't know if you're dating or not but if you have someone you can totally bring them." Suzy said excitedly, glad Lisa had said yes. She missed her and Rosie after all. They hadn't spoken since they broke up.

"I have a girlfriend." Lisa blurted out.

She almost facepalmed. As if she hadn't already dug herself into a hole by agreeing to be in the wedding, now she had to lie about having a girlfriend too. Lisa hadn't even dated since they had broken up.

"Really? That's great. I can't wait to meet her! I'm sure she's lovely. You have good taste after all." Suzy said teasingly.

Lisa could feel that Suzy was about to press and ask Lisa what her girlfriend's name was when Suzy's phone rang.

"Excuse me." Suzy said before answering. "Hey babe. Yeah, I'm here with Lisa. We're just about done. I'll meet you there."

Lisa's heart was in her throat. Suzy used to call her babe and now she was engaged to someone else. Lisa realized all at once that she still wasn't over it. She thought she was completely over Suzy by now, it had been almost six months but the way her heart hurt right now told her that she had just been fooling herself. The ache had probably only lessened because she hadn't seen Suzy in so long—out of sight, out of mind.

Suzy offered to pay since she invited Lisa and usually Lisa would have fought her but she was too shell shocked to even protest.

She decided to walk home to the dorms rather than take the bus. She needed the long walk to clear her head after that revelation.

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"Rosie I fucked up." Lisa said as soon as she went into their dorm.

"Did you fail another test?"

"No. Well yes, but that's not it."

"Is Jimin hogging the dance room again?" Chaeyoung asked.

"No. Well yes, but we worked out a schedule so now everyone hates the both of us but we don't hate each other anymore."

"Namjoon isn't taking the pictures you submitted?"

"Wow, I have a lot of issues don't I?" Lisa said, realizing everything the blonde was asking was true.

Lisa was a double major in dance and photography. Jimin was a dance major with her and they often fought over who got to rehearse in the room with the good speakers. Namjoon was the head of the school newspaper and he sometimes bought Lisa's pictures and published them in it. Sometimes it even gave her more work from businesses but he hadn't published any of her pictures in a while and Lisa was a little broke. She might need to get another job soon.

"It's worse than all of that."

Chaeyoung stopped what she was doing and sat at the edge of the bed, not liking Lisa's tone.

"Spill."

"Suzy's getting married."

Chaeyoung's jaw dropped.

"That's not even the worst of it. She wants us to be in the wedding."

"And you're okay with that?" Chaeyoung asked, bewildered.

"Of course not, but I said yes."

"Why!"

"Pride."

"Lisa just tell her you can't do it."

"That's still not the worst of it."

"How can it get any worse Lis?" Chaeyoung asked worriedly.

"I told her I have a girlfriend and that I'd bring her as my date."

"Lisa you idiot! Why would you do that?!"

"I don't know, it just came out. I felt like a loser."

"What are you going to do?"

"I have a plan, you can be my girlfriend for the wedding."

Chaeyoung snorted. "You're fucked." The blonde said.

"I know." Lisa answered.

Suzy would never believe that lie, they had been best friends in high school and although Suzy initially went to a different college than them and Chaeyoung and her didn't keep in as much contact as Lisa and Suzy did—Suzy still knew Chaeyoung and Lisa were like sisters. No amount of space from them would ever change Suzy's mind about them never being able to get close romantically like that. They were too much like family for that to ever happen and Suzy knew it.

Not to mention the fact Jisoo would murder Lisa in her sleep for even suggesting to borrow her girlfriend for a weekend and pretend they were dating.

"What do I do Chaengie?"

"Tell her the truth."

"Absolutely not. I'm embarrassed enough as it is."

"What are you going to do then?"

"Run away and move to Thailand."

Lisa got a pillow to the face. That was still a sore subject for them.

"Sorry." Lisa mumbled.

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Jennie was livid. Someone had posted pictures of Kai getting drunk with several girls and then of him taking one into his room on social media and it was clear as day what he was going to do with her.

The pictures were taken down but half the school had already seen it. Jennie could feel the stares as she walked across campus Monday morning, determined to find Kai.

She found him laughing with his friends and she at least felt a small victory when he finally spotted her and his eyes widened in fear at the look on her face.

"Babe, I can explain." Kai started.

"Please don't. We're done Kai." Jennie said, walking away.

Kai tried to grab her arm to turn her around.

"Don't be like that Jen. It was a misunderstanding."

"The only misunderstanding is you thinking that I would stay with you after this. You fucked up. We're done. Now you can freely go live up to your reputation as the campus whore." Jennie answered him, smiling sweetly.

She was pissed everyone knew she got cheated on. She felt embarrassed but there was some part of her that was relieved he was caught because now she could finally get rid of Kai.

"You need me Jennie! What would your father say?"

"Excuse me?" Jennie said laughing.

"You won't find someone better than me. Even your father knows it. That's why he wants us to get married."

"Kai, I don't even like you. I tolerated you. Now let go of me and get out of my face."

"You're really going to pretend you weren't clingy with me!" Kai raised his voice, trying to save face because they were drawing a crowd and it was obvious he was getting dumped.

Jennie rolled her eyes. Childish.

"Oh Please. No one will believe that. We were hardly ever even seen together and if we were it was always with our parents." Jennie answered him before whispering so only he could hear. "Thanks for finally getting caught cheating though. You did me a favor. Now I have a good excuse to get rid of you. Good luck when the dean finds out how you've been on your best behavior."

Kai paled a bit. "He won't find out."

"Sure Kai."

Kai's father being the Dean of Student Affairs meant Kai needed to have a squeaky clean image, considering that's what his father was in charge of at the university. He wasn't going to take lightly that Kai was drinking on campus and getting caught being promiscuous with several girls.

Jennie walked away with a smug smile on her face. She could hear Kai shouting for her.

"We're not done here Jennie!"

"Jennie."

"Get back here!"

"You're not even that hot!"

"I was going to dump you anyway!"

Jennie rolled her eyes again. Men and their fragile egos.

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If Jennie didn't think her day could get any worse, she got home and her father immediately cornered her.

"What's this I hear about you and Kai breaking up?" He said sternly.

"Exactly that," Jennie said sarcastically. "We broke up."

"Couples fight sometimes. Call him, I'm sure you can win him over if you just apologize."

"Absolutely not."

"Might I remind you he's the dean's son. There's no one better for you to marry into unless you change your mind about marrying the chaebol's son."

"Ew dad, he's like thirty seven. Have some standards."

"Then Kai is the next best choice."

"A man who cheats on his girlfriend constantly and can't keep it in his pants is the next best choice?"

Her dad was taken aback for a second.

"How do you know he cheated?"

"There's pictures."

"Are you sure it was him."

"It was him dad! I've only tolerated him to get you off my back."

"Jennie, sometimes men make mistakes. Look at your mother and I. We resolved our issues."

"Right, she decided not to divorce you for cheating with your secretary as soon as you handed over your shiny new black card. By the way dad, could you be more original at least? Really, your secretary?"

Jennie's dad blanched, he didn't know Jennie knew all about his indiscretions. He thought Jennie just knew they were having problems and had separated for a bit.

"I will not accept the way you're speaking to me Jennie."

"And I won't accept my father telling me to get back with a cheater just because he's a cheater himself. Why would I torture myself like that when I don't even like Kai. He's an idiot."

"Jennie," her father warned, about to launch into another speech. "He can take care of you—"

"No! No. I know my own fucking dad isn't telling me to tolerate this. I'm worth more than that. That's what you should be telling me right now, not that I should be getting back with him." Jennie said coldly. "I put up with this for long enough and I'm tired of it. If you want to cut me off then cut me off but me and Kai? We're through."

Jennie marched up the stairs to her old room, grabbing some things she had left before walking back to the front door.

"Where do you think you're going?" Her dad shouted. "We're having dinner."

"To my apartment. I'm not coming back to this house until you accept that my love life is off limits." Jennie shouted, feeling brave and slamming the front door.

She should have probably controlled her emotions a little more. Her dad working at the school was the only reason she got free tuition, and everything she owned he had bought, but she was tired of their meddling.

She had been smart with her finances ever since she started college. She knew if it wasn't for her dad she wouldn't have what she had saved up, despite her working to grow her wealth on her own. She had borrowed money from him and invested and now she was starting to get rich on her own. She wasn't there yet, but if it came down to him cutting her off and kicking her out of the family tree and her free tuition getting revoked, Jennie thought she still might be able to make it work and pay for it on her own.

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