The Stripper (Jenlisa)

Chapter 9

"Losing Control"

J

ennie's POV

After that tiring day, I arrived home where Nayeon and Hyunji were. We talked during the entire dinner about the new guy from human resources that kept an eye on our small baby.
"C'mon, Nayeon, are you really gonna say that you didn't find Troy cute?" Hyunji spoke laughing.
"He's cute, Hyunji. But I don't have time to date." She said, dropping onto our couch.
"Look at this, Jen, Nayeon doesn't have time to date..."
"Leave her alone, Cheechee. Nayeon is fine like this."
"She's not, she just thinks she is. Sex is good for the human health, ya'know?"
"Jesus, Hyunji!" The girl exclaimed.
I laughed, seeing Nayeon cover her ears while Hyunji talked about the benefits of sex to the human health.
"Listen to me and stop being an idiot, Im Nayeon! Troy was really into you, that was obvious, tomorrow you could doll up a little more, to impress him."
"I don't want to impress anyone. He liked me like this, right Jen?"
"Exactly, he has to like her the way she is."
"I know, but she can do a little better for him, right? Nayeon, just look at Jennie, ever since Manoban started working at the company, she's always perfectly dressed up and smells nice."
I widened my eyes, throwing one of the pillows at Hyunji. "Lies! I've always dressed like this."
I walked to the kitchen to escape the subject.
"Now I have to agree with Hyunji, you have been much more dolled up, Jennie."
"You two are going crazy! I have not, and neither will I have anything with Lisa." I shouted from where I was.
"What about Ruby Janw?" Dinah asked.
"Ask her later, Cheechee. I don't know about her life."
"I honestly feel confused with that double identity thing. Is it a sin?" I heard Nayeon say, making me laugh.
I drank a little bit of water as I looked at our mail placed on top of the counter. I flipped through the papers that were basically bills and advertisement. One in particular caught my attention, and it had my name on it. I quickly opened the white envelope:

-- EXTRAJUDICIAL NOTIFICATION
To: Ms. Jennie Ruby Jane Kim
CC: Property Lease Renewal - Mixed Residential House - SW Street, 51st Ave, Nº 14
Through this notification, is the Ms. notified that there is no more interest on the part of the lessor in continuing the lease of the property above described, as a result of failure to pay the past due rent.
Therefore, in accordance with Law 8245/91, is the Ms. notified and aware that you should vacate the referred property imperatively, as well as pay off all existing debt up to this date, under penalty of appropriate civil action.
Nothing further. --

This couldn't be happening again. What the hell?!, I thought as I reread the small paper in my hands.
"Stop being an idiot, Nayeon. Learn some seduction techniques with Jen, she's experienced in that." Hyunji said laughing as she approached me. "What happened?" She asked as soon as she looked at me.
"It's the real estate. They sent a letter for my mother to vacate the house."
"What do you mean? You always send money to your family. What's happening?" Hyunji asked, confused.
Nayeon approached, realizing that the subject was serious.
"I don't know. The rents are overdue. They want to take them from there, Hyunji." I grumbled, throwing the letter on top of the counter.
Ever since my father left us, I was responsible for helping my family get out of the misery in which we found ourselves in. And thanks to CL and 'Imperium', I was able to put back together everything we lost because of Alejandro's gambling addiction. But for a few months now, the payment of the house where Rou and my little sister Ella lived in, was overdue. For some reason I hadn't yet discovered. I've been working for years to be able to maintain the life that they deserved, to now have the money simply vanish, without explanation.
"That's really weird, Jennie. You should go talk to your mother and find out what is going on." Nayeon said, sitting beside me and making a light caress on my arm.
"She doesn't want to see me, Nayeon. Or have you forgotten that she thinks I'm a prostitute?"
"But you aren't, and you have to go see her and find out what is happening. Your mother could be evicted, does she understand that?"
"I don't know why you keep financially supporting that woman after everything she did." I heard Hyunji' serious voice.
"She's still my mother, Cheechee..."
The day I returned home after having met CL at the coffee shop, my mother was immensely happy with the opportunity that I had gotten. A job was everything I needed at that moment. For a few months I was able to hide that I was a dancer at a striptease club, my mother believed that I worked as CL's personal assistant, so everything was perfectly fine. Until the day I returned to my dressing room and saw Rou there, sitting on one of the chairs; I had just danced sensually for half a dozen men that were celebrating a bachelor party.
"So that's what you do for a living? You're a whore?!"
I remember feeling all the blood in my body stop at the sight of her look of hatred towards me.