A girl next door is the girl you see everyday; she's messy, loud to the point of being annoying, dresses like a guy and is basically your closest bud. She is seen as one of the dudes and is often disregarded as a female. No one has an idea of what she feels like as an ignored girl for she would have liked to be seen as a girl worthy of a date and worth being someone's girlfriend. However, she is stuck being the girl who sits in a corner and doodles quietly. She is the girl who listens to rock  n roll and dances like a maniac in her room. She is the girl who hangs out with the guys, playing soccer and basketball. She is the girl who wears baggy shirts and boy jeans and doesn't have a hint of makeup on her face. She is the socially awkward one when stuck with girls who wear dresses and twist their faces in digust at her lack of lady-mannerism. But she is the best friend every guy goes to for girl advice. Have a girl who is playing hard to get but definitely likes you? Danah is the person to go to. Like a girl but are too shy to ask her out? Danah the Love Guru will help you out. Don't know what event to prepare for your girlfriend? Go call Danah. Every guy has her number on speed dial and needless to say, Danah's kind heart never fails to say no. She always gives advice, cheesy or not, unique or ordinary, she's taken it upon herself to help others find love. But even the helper needs love...

Danah was born into a middle class family who migrated to the States before she was even born. Average lifestyle, average income and average Asian family living in New York, it was bound to get hard at some point. At the age of twelve, her father got fired from his job for apparent stealing from the company and ever since, it has been hard on the family. So all that was left was the very less income of her mother that was enough to keep food on their table. Gradually paying the rent became difficult and soon enough, staying in school was becoming very hard. By the time Danah entered high school, she was already dreaming of escape but she knew she had to face reality. Studying hard to stay in school, she earned herself a scholarship which made life all the more easier on her mother. She got herself into hobbies; she picked up photography and soccer on the way and with pocket money she saved from endless starving lunches, she was able to buy her first camera which she cherishes the most. Due to her love for taking pictures, she has been able to post them on her blog. Soccer though has helped her bond with friends, albeit guy friends. But who cares? Guys and girls; they are more or less the same. By the time she was 17, everything was going well. Her father got a job and money was slowly starting to accumulate. She had friends and was back to happy. She got into college, relying in the full-paid scholarship she earned. But whoever says nothing in life lasts long was right. Happiness comes and goes in a flash. And that happiness flew right of the window during her second year of college.

Danah soon found a small part-time job at the little coffee shop a few blocks away from her apartment in New York. Almost 18, she had figured she should start saving up in order to help her father run the house. It takes her around 20 minutes to walk to the coffee shop (a.n: I'm gonna name it kaffeine okay?!) and to make her life easier, she usually takes the alley that cuts through the park and into the main street. Usually, that path would have been refreshing; somewhat fresher than the polluted air of the city, but Danah never saw the place the same way again.

Her father had his arms slung around another woman, a blonde, blue eyed, big ed sugar-mama who kissed him fully on the mouth. Confrontations later, Danah learned that it was because of that certain woman that there was a sudden downpour of money in their bank accounts. It is what triggered the downfall of their once happy family. You see, Danah's father's relationship with her was scarred, but her mother was oblivious. At first, it were simple thoughts of 'Poor husband! He's working so hard!' but one night of not coming home turned to countless days of being absent. Weeks became months and the ever-present excuse was that 'Honey, I have to go abroad for a few weeks for business meetings.' What lies! Danaha knew the truth but stayed quiet for the sake of her mother's happiness. She knew her mother would not believe it and would nevertheless accept her husband due to the traditional belief of a wife shouldn't leave her husband's side. That kind of belief for Danah was pretentious. She believed in being happy and the world laughs with you if you laugh and if you cry, you cry alone. Danah's mother was confronted in the face by divorce papers that stated the husband wanted to be with someone else. Just like that, neither did Danah nor her mother had a place in her father's life anymore. The divorce papers were signed and Danah moved out of the place she grew up in and along with her mother moved to Seoul after asking her college to help her transfer to a university in Korea. She was recommended to Seoul Arts, also based on a scholarship. So she moved to Seoul where she used the money she earned from her jobs to rent out a small appartment in Hongdae.

Soon enough, Danah and her mother were working on being independent without a man. Who says you need a man to be happy? Her mother found a small job as a secretary in an office; it didn't pay much, but it was better than nothing. Danah too found part time jobs, one at a coffee shop and one as a photographer for the local magazine. Balancing college life, two works and duties of a daughter surely aren't easy, especially if you live in a country that is nonetheless your homeland but also an expensive place. Spending money on school projects and food didn't help at all so the income was very less due to that fact that almost 80% of the money they earned went into college, food, rent and minor expenditures needed to live. Frustration got the best of Danah and she found herself working late night to earn money as an over-timer. Didn't work. The coffee shop she worked in closed, moving to an area that was much too far for Danah to travel. Now all relied on was her job as a photographer. She liked her job since photography was a passion, but demands of clients and pressure of the boss was seriously not easy to live under. She was the girl that was more interested in candid pictures and landscapes so as she walked home everyday from work and school, she took pictures of everything she saw. And those pictures were posted on her blog (here: confinedfreedom.tumblr.com). What was more beneficial was the project her photo-journalism teacher had assigned. She was to work with 3 other students and together they were to create a journal based on beliefs, norms and values of everyday people. One was to be a photographer, one was to be the interviewer, one was to be the editor and the other was to be the one who puts it all together. Danah was the photographer so she and the editor spent a lot of time staying up late in the small space they called an office, cramped in between boxes and stacks of papers. The girl was a sweet one, but talked a lot. She oftened talked for hours without getting tired and Danah had the habit of tuning out her words, her voice only a buzz in the background. But one night, the girl talked about this advetisement she saw on the internet. The company was called 'Girlfriend Corporation' and apparently, whoever applied was meant to be the girlfriend of some guy who would pay a large sum of money. The last part was what got Danah's attention. Large sum of money? No matter how much it was, it was surely much more than a million dollars right? So it was basically an 's job? Whether it came with or not, Danah didn's care. She needed that money! She would do it for ehr mother! Hell, she didn't even care if the guy was a 60 year old man! She'd do it for her mother. She had too.

And the next thing she knew was that she was applying for the job... 

Jay Park was born as Park Jaebum into the forever high class family of the Parks whose business of interational enterprises have taken the business world by storm. While attending school in L.A, he has adopted the pen name of Jay Park which he also uses as a signature. He is the man who takes everything seriously. Well, atleast business. Everything is a joke. Afterall, money comes first right? His father has always taught him to never mix personal emotions with business. Wait no. His exact words were 'Never let your mind stray from business deals. One tiny moment of emotion can cost you millions.' And little Jay didn't want to dissapoint his daddy. As he grew up, Jay started developing his own beliefs and values, and that was to never feel. He allowed himself to feel lust, desire and even hate, but never love. Love didn't exist in his dictionary so that's why he had no clue what it felt like to be in love. Naturally, he has dated. And his dating standards are pretty high. High as in Cara De Levigne high. He's dated countless of supermodels, that's if you count bed activities as dates... Girls always thought that they could change him or atleast make him feel something other than lust or desire, but sadly, in the end, it was their hearts that was broken. He ain't the chaebol playboy for nothing!

Jay has always grown up being the son that makes his father proud. He started using his intelligence at a very young age, helping his father secure deals and also started his own company of real estates. Needless to say, he became very successful, with little help from his father. His real estate empire extended from all over Korea to even abroad in cities like Dubai and even L.A. When he merged his company with his father's enterprises, he quickly escalated to being in the top 10 richest people on Earth. Deftly labelled as the most elligible bachelor, Jay Park grew up loving the lifestyle of a party goer. As hard and cold he is in conferences, he is also someone who socially drinks and smokes. Well, it doesn't matter to his father; as long as Mr. Park's son stayed out of jail, he was fine with everything. This led to countless affairs and scandals with several celebrities and Mr. Park knew he could not do anything to stop his son. So that's why he was so bent on getting his son to settle down.

His father really wouldn't stop setting him on blind dates with daughters of affluential people! As much as Jay loved women, he found the rich and famous all too pretentious, so when his friend mentioned a certain company that apparently 'sold' girlfriends, he couldn't resist. He knew his father would throw a fit when he found out Jay got married secretly. That was the plan afterall; marry a commoner, pretent to love her and then divorce her within 3 months and make it seem he was heartbroken and would never get married again. And the next thing he knew, he had his lawyers create the contract and was on his way to find the perfect commoner to play his lover.

(The rest is up to you author-nim!)