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author:anonymous

Tiffany settled down her stroller and sighed as she stood in front of her new university. Unfortunately, her father was transferred to Korea and she was now forced to go to this school. She would’ve stayed in California if she could, but she was offered a scholarship as well as free housing. It was pretty much an offer she couldn’t refuse.

She walked around the school corridors and found it surprisingly big and grand. No pieces of garbage anywhere and the people greeted her cordially. She went around the other parts of the campus and arrived in front of the Economics building. As she started walking away to the dorms, she heard a voice of a troubled girl, not far from where she was.

“Uhh, stop. Please.” The girl beggingly said.

“I can’t let a naughty girl go unpunished.” Another girl said.

Being suspicious, she tried to look for the source of the voice and she saw three people in the scene. An orange haired girl was glued to the wall with her wrists held by a girl with long black hair, and a short girl, looking at highlighted notes while leaning her back against the wall.

The orange-haired girl was struggling while the black haired girl’s smile just grew wider. The other girl looked unfazed and busy with her notes that she was not paying attention to what was happening in front of her. Tiffany took her stroller and approached the three of them.

“Yah! Let her go!” She said to the black haired girl.

“Who are you?” The black haired girl said to her.

“Just let her go!” She screamed then diverted her gaze to the shorter girl who was looking at her intently. “And you! You must be the one behind all this because you’re not even doing anything! erted boss!”

“What?” The shorter girl calmly asked her, as if confused with the last phrase she just said. “erted…boss?”

“Ne—nevermind! Just let her go or else, I’m going to report you to the Dean!”

The long haired girl looked at the girl she was cornering and then she did as what Tiffany told her. She then left with Taeyeon while leaving Tiffany with the girl.

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“What the hell was that?” Taeyeon felt somewhat confused and annoyed at what the girl claimed her to be as she walked with Yuri. “erted boss? Really?”

“I know. But whatever, there’s always another time. Hey, your new roommate’s coming today right? What if it turns out to be that girl?” Yuri grinned at her.

“Then I’m killing myself.” Taeyeon said as she ruffled through her notes. She had a test today and she was skimming through her notes to prepare for it. Eventually, as they arrived in front of the classroom building, she knew she had to bid goodbye to Yuri and utilize her time. “Hey, I’ll see you later okay? My exam’s in 20 minutes.”

“Sure. Just give me a call if you wanna hang out or something.”

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“Okay please pass all the papers.” Taeyeon’s professor announced to the entire class. Taeyeon sighed as she took her belongings. She was beyond exhausted and she was glad that everything was over and done with.

She headed for the door and went back to her dorm.

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Taeyeon went into her dorm and plopped herself onto her bed. She saw the new pair of shoes in front of her door and she knew it was her new roommate’s. Her old roommate backed out because of financial problems and she was somewhat glad to have a new person as someone to share her company with. Although they wouldn’t be sharing the same rooms, she was glad that there would be someone she would be able to talk to if she wanted.

She took a nap for an hour and eventually, she went to the living room where she heard the T.V. make noises.

She was still tired from her nap but all the drowsiness went away as she saw who was sitting on the couch. On the same damn couch she expected her new roommate to be sitting on.

“You!”

Taeyeon felt annoyed at the Resident Assistant who matched her with this new girl named Tiffany. It turned out that Tiffany was the same girl who called her “erted Boss” and even threatened to report her to the Dean where all she did was read her notes. It was not her fault that her best friend Yuri was a sadist and that girl, Jessica was pretty much asking for it.

“Oh my Gawd.” She sarcastically said to herself as she looked at her math homework. It was just 9 in the morning and she was beyond pissed off. She hated the fact that Tiffany was her roommate as she felt scared of how unpredictable the girl may be. She was glad that they didn’t have one big room to share since that would just mean that she may be able to express her feelings out in the open, which was close to strangling the girl.

She put her head down as she couldn’t get Tiffany off of her head. It was not love but instead she found herself irritated as nobody really called her a ert since grade school when she accidentally slapped her teacher’s behind. She remembered crying for a week because of her classmates teasing her which probably became traumatic to her. She probably just hated the memory so much that she couldn’t help but to associate the word as something despicable.

It was ten in the morning and she still couldn’t get over the fact that Tiffany was her roommate but eventually she tried to suppressed it. She went to class and she found out that she got a 70 on the test along with everyone else. One person however, got a 95 which made the professor not curve the grade and made her day worse than it was going so far. She was so annoyed that she stopped caring at all the misfortunes that was happening to her. Some stupid klutz bumped into her causing her to drop her books, then she realized that she forgot her wallet for lunch, and on top of that, she found out that Tiffany is now in her Tae-kwon-do team. The same damn team that she was a goddamn captain on. She was beyond pissed that not even all the curse words in the world would be able to satisfy her annoyance right now.

She approached her coach and with her surprisingly great luck for the day, she was asked to stay late to brief Tiffany on how they did things. She took a deep breath and although she had a heavy heart, she still didn’t hesitate to do what she was told.

She did everything she could and she was surprised that Tiffany wasn’t as bad as she thought she’d be. Tiffany was very attentive to what Taeyeon was saying, despite of what happened the day before. She was surprisingly respectful to her and her teammates though there were also times that Taeyeon had to repeat things to her. Eventually, Taeyeon’s feeling of annoyance with her somewhat died down and she was now calm and most of all exhausted from what they’ve been doing.

Tiffany on the other hand felt bad for what she accused her new roommate the day before. She could already sense that Taeyeon did not take her remark quite well and it was seen by how she was treated by Taeyeon. She didn’t say goodbye to her when she was leaving to her class earlier that day and practically ignored her for the past three times that she bumped into her earlier that day. As she found out that Taeyeon was actually the captain of the Tae-Kwon-Do club that she joined in, she felt that she was given new hope in being friends with her so she did her best to listen and respect Taeyeon as much as she could.

They did a few sparring matches and finally called it a day. Then headed to the locker room where they both changed. Just when Taeyeon tried to add some eye drops to her contact lenses, she dropped the small bottle while she was still trying to blink. She then tried to lean on the bench where she suspected it to be, while Tiffany was on the other side of the bench, changing to her casual clothes. Taeyeon tried to look for the bottle but unfortunately she grabbed something else. She felt something soft and she knew it was definitely not her eye drops.

“Oh my God!” Tiffany said in english and gasped as she turned around. She slapped Taeyeon hard before walking to the door. Luckily she already finished dressing that she only had to close her locker and leave for the door.

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“Wow, what happened to your face?” Yuri asked Taeyeon while sitting next to her in the big lecture hall. Taeyeon had her elbow propping up, her face bearing a red mark in a form of a palm. She wore such a disgruntled expression that she didn’t even bother looking to Yuri’s side. She felt annoyed at herself for doing such a thing to Tiffany the day before, regardless of the fact that it was an honest mistake. She was now pretty much branded as ert in Tiffany’s mind, perhaps now on a much grander scale. Who knows, maybe she was close to the ual offender status.

In a matter of minutes, someone announced that class was cancelled which made Taeyeon feel a bit relieved from her misfortune. She took her bag and stood up while Yuri was busy punching in numbers on her phone.

“I’m gonna go find Jessica. You wanna come?” Yuri asked her while waiting for the other person to pick up the phone. Hearing no response, Yuri put her phone back to her pocket and waited for Taeyeon’s reply.

“No, I’m kinda tired.” Taeyeon said before going out the door. She waved goodbye to Yuri before heading out.

“Okay and by the way! Put some ointment on that palm mark of yours! We don’t want that popstar face to be bruised now don’t we?” Yuri jokingly screamed onto her direction.

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“Can you believe that? I was changing then she just grabbed my out of the blue!” Tiffany angrily pouted to Jessica who kept on lazily nodding to whatever she was saying. “I swear! Taeyeon’s such a ert and oh my God, if she pulls any moves on you, don’t be scared to let me know! Especially that Yuri!”

“Okay…” Jessica yawned before answering. She was wobbling while walking on the corridor. She was never a morning person and she wished she could take afternoon classes instead. But unfortunately, her class that was available for the semester was only offered in the mornings.

She tried staying awake as she listened to Tiffany’s rants about Taeyeon. Although she wanted to pay attention and really give an opinion, her mind didn’t want to cooperate.

They walked to the corridor until they stopped in front Yuri who had a big grin on her face.

“Hi Tiffany, Jessica.” Yuri smiled at both of them.

“Yah! What do you want.” Tiffany asked her as she put Jessica behind her. She knew of Yuri’s intentions as she first saw Yuri pin Jessica on the wall when they first met. When Yuri cornered Jessica and Taeyeon grabbing her the next day, she was convinced that it was not just Taeyeon that was lecherous but also Yuri.

“Can I borrow Jessica for a bit?” Yuri kindly asked Tiffany with a big grin on her face and then looked at Jessica’s direction. Jessica looked down with a blush on her face.

“No.” Tiffany firmly said while folding her hands onto her chest.

“Please?” Yuri begged with a puppy-dog look on her face. Unfortunately, Tiffany was unmoved by it.

“Nope.”

“Just for a little bit?”

“No.”

After several minutes, Yuri finally sighed and gave up. She stood up from her kneeling position and then purposely knocked off Tiffany’s book to the ground. Tiffany bended down to take the book from the floor and Yuri swiftly moved in closer to Jessica, then lifting her chin and softly kissing her on the cheek. The orange haired girl felt her cheeks burn and she held her face with both hands, feeling her cheeks’ temperature rise.

Yuri gave one last charming smile at her and she winked before flashing her teeth.

“See you later, princess.” She said before moving away.

Seeing what Yuri had done, Tiffany screamed at Yuri. Ignoring the people around them.

“Yah! Get back here!”

But unfortunately, she was already too late as Yuri already disappeared from their sight.

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Tiffany settled down her belongings in her room and changed into more comfortable clothes. She was finally done with her school day and it was already 5:00 P.M. which was just perfect for dinner. She went to the kitchen pantry only to find canned food. She then opened the refrigerator and the only saw pieces of meat and vegetables, nothing pre-made or pre-cooked which she could eat within minutes of heating. Unfortunately, she didn’t know how to cook but that still didn’t stop her from trying. She took out her laptop and searched for a recipe and then took out the necessary ingredients. Eventually she started to sauté her food but unfortunately, she turned the heat too high that it already smelled burnt.

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Taeyeon was in her room lying down while reading her manhwa. She leisurely spent her day lying down because of her cancelled class. She then suddenly smelled something burning that she decided to check what Tiffany was doing. Although she didn’t want to see the girl at all, she was still concerned with her because regardless of the fact that they’ve had misunderstandings, they still lived in the same roof.

She went out to the kitchen and saw the girl struggling with the skillet that was already producing smoke from it. She went to the sink and took out a glass of water, then she turned down the heat and grabbed the handle that Tiffany was holding, not giving a damn if she was going to be accused of being a ert again for holding her hand. Tiffany finally took notice of her and she let go of the handle, giving Taeyeon full control of the cooking process.

“Just go. I’ll call you when this is done.” Taeyeon nonchalantly said to he