The Girl Next Door - Jenlisa

Chapter 1

The lithe bodied vixen stood in front of her balcony. Her pale skin was a contrast to the soft dim lights from her living room and vast darkness with scattered city lights outside; her long black tresses teased the curve of her backless short black dress. One of her stilettos was tapping softly.

"It's beautiful," Park Soo-Young remarked approvingly. She surveyed the area faintly before she clucked her tongue. "Your parents made a wise choice."

Lisa Manoban chuckled. The ash-blonde young Thai walked towards her friend and stopped just beside her, height to height, two tall unmoving giants in front of the dark city. Lisa folded her arms as she surveyed the tall buildings and the view of the river snaking through the city from the wide glass door panels. Nothing she hasn't seen before, but to be fair the novelty hasn't quite worn off yet.

"I love the casualness of how you pointed out that this had nothing to do with my decisions."

Her friend shrugged. "We both know you've never quite cared for anything in your life. Why start pretending now?"

It wasn't untrue. The massive 1-bedroom apartment facing the Han River was a new addition to the Manoban family's list of properties; the second condominium they bought for Lisa that they acquired just a month ago. It's a beautiful high-ceilinged spacious corner loft that boasted a great view from the balcony with unfortunately none of the personality. Then again, it's still new, but just like her other condominium it's probably going to stay bare. She never quite got into designing her space.

She liked everything transient.

"I quite like this. It's like a free view to your neighbours," Soo-Young pointed at the glass panelled wall just beside the balcony.

The condominiums were designed to let as much light as possible and had floor to ceiling glass panel doors for the whole of the balcony and at least a foot wide of similar glass panels on the sides, before merging into concrete walls. The design is supposed to give an illusion of hanging transparent boxes that are separated by at least a 10 meter room space in between, alternating between floors. It's like a jenga tower with some parts jutting out and full of glass panels, if you will.

Lisa looked through her neighbour's own balcony. Of course, some would maybe decide on long ceiling-to-floor drapes for additional privacy just like her next-door neighbour. She frowned at her own empty windows.

"I'll probably put in drapes. Or roller blinds."

"Or just walk around naked and surprise them."

Of course Soo-Young would suggest something like that.

"And get a memo from the building admin on my first week of moving in?" Lisa shrugged, grinning. "Sure, why not."

Soo-Young eyed her, gaze playful. "You moved in three days ago, right?"

 "A little obvious with the lack of better furniture, isn't it?"

"Wanna do a little housewarming, then?"

Lisa assessed her, a faint tug at the corner of her lips.

"What do you have in mind?"

Soo-Young pulled Lisa and teasingly slammed her onto the locked glass doors of the balcony. Lisa shook her head as she chuckled, her tongue wetting her lips in anticipation as she watched her friend tug on the button of her jeans and yank her zipper open. The girl's hands remained gripped on the edges of her jeans as her face moved closer to Lisa's body; the intensity of her clench revealing her mischievousness.