Beijing, China

                                                                                                           September, 2017

Yu Yan's POV.

 

„Yan, will you be able to survive without me?" Chuckled Jiagi, my friend for almost 3 years now.

„Are you kidding? I'm just gonna live in another house, it's you who wanted to live with your boyfriend Xu Jiagi." I argued, feeling happy for her, because she finally found her other half.

Giving me a little smile, she took my head into her hands and asked „Are you really okay with living with someone you don't know in their apartment? What if you won't be getting along? What if they are stinky or weird?"

Putting my hands over hers, I let out a sigh as I straightened my back slowly as I wanted to make her feel better about my decision.

"Then I will move out. I just picked the place with the best price and the closest distance from our university... and it's not that I will be living there my entire life... plus you are weird too!"

"What! How could you say it! It's hurting my feelings so much I could die!"

"Stop it you drama queen..."

When I started going to the college, I met Jiagi. She was a very shy and a pretty girl that knew how pretty she is. We ended up being roommates and after some time even very good friends. We were very different from each other. She was a bad student and smiled all the time and then I was the girl who was wearing a poker face, had good grades and was appearing like a bad person.

So after a few weeks living together, with this pretty smiley girl, we got to know ourselves pretty good. I tutored her and she introduced me to her friends who are my friends now too.

Then she got a boyfriend and now they want to live together, which I fully support.

And now, back to the original story...

As I went to my motorbike, telling the movers my new address and putting my helmed on, I felt quite nervous, but brave at the same time, „I'm leaving then, see you at school!"

„See you Yu Yan! And don't forget to call me about your new apartment and most importantly the new housemate of yours." Shouted Jiagi, waving her hand as she stood in the doorway, before I rode off.

All I knew about the apartment were the photos I saw on the internet and the address. I knew I was being stupid about it and should go there at least once to have a look, but I wanted to have the surprise feeling in a good way or in a bad way.

When I arrived after few minutes, the movers weren't there yet, so I parked my motorbike in front of the building and went to the front door. Running my fingers through my hair and combing it slightly, telling myself to greet the owner in a friendlier way than the usual and knocked on the door.

„KNOCK" „KNOCK"

Standing there, I waited for someone to open the door, but no one was answering.

„What the ..." I cursed internally and in the corner of my eye spotted the mover's truck.

I told them to just leave my stuff here and that they could go.

When they left, I waited for someone to come home and open this ing door.

Time was passing so slowly it was almost irritating. I just hope that this would apologize to me and explain this behavior of theirs.

Sitting on a nearly bench, I searched my pockets for my cigarettes and a lighter so I could have a smoke in the meantime.

Almost an hour later I saw a car was approaching me and tried to park in the driveway.

I blew up the last drag of smoke and stood up, waiting for the person to get off the car.

Surprisingly, the person was a very beautiful girl, tall and skinny with a very long legs, brown long hair and a cat like shaped lips.

"Hello, I'm very sorry, but something urgent came up! I hope you didn't wait too long... My name is Zeng Keni by the way and you should be Yu Yan right? The new tenant of my apartment?"

The girl was looking at me intently, holding her hand out for me to shake it. I smiled and shook her hand, "Yeah, that's me. I didn't expect that the owner would be this beautiful and no, I didn't wait long."

Taken aback, Keni smiled cutely and fished the door keys in her pocket." Here, these are yours. Can I help you with your stuff? I will show you your room and the rest of the apartment. I hope we can get along well."

I took the keys from her and nodded, "Okay, but you should unlock the door first."

As she was unlocking the door, I grabbed my luggage and a backpack, following her inside.

The apartment was very clean and cozy, pretty big kitchen connected to the living room, dining table for four people and medium sized TV in front of a couch. "This is the kitchen and living room and this," she said opening a door "this is our bathroom. I hope you don't mind sharing it."

"No, It's okay, don't worry." I told her, scanning the shower before following her again. Keni led me to another door and opened it for me to see her own room and then finally, showed me my room. "I will help you move in your stuff as I said and then I will cook some dinner if it's okay with you. I don't know if you wanna cook for yourself or if you don't mind my cooking at least for tonight. I just warn you, I'm not the best cook." Laughed Keni at her last sentence and left.

I put my luggage in my room, feeling pretty glad about this apartment and the owner. Suddenly I realized how angry I was at her and now it's gone. It's the personality that swayed me and maybe even the body of hers.

After moving in all of my stuff with Keni's help, I started unpacking everything. My room had a king-sized bed, a very big wardrobe, some shelfs and a desk with a chair. The whole place was painted in light grey color which suited the apartment well. I looked out from my window and saw a near park with blooming trees, adding the perfection to the view.

I took a shower and went to the kitchen to look for Keni. She was trying to cook something, which was similar to hotpot.

"Do you need help with that?" I asked her and she jumped, nearly burning her hand on the stove. ", you startled me."

I laughed at her silliness as I stepped closer and waited for her to give me her wooden spoon. "Then I suppose you are not used to live with someone else... Am I your first?"

Looking at me from the side, she handed me her cooking weapon and stepped farther from the stove. "Honestly, yes. I had this apartment for almost two years and one room was still empty because I didn't know what use it could have. But then I got an idea about renting it. So I bought some furniture and placed the ad online."

"You are pretty lucky I was the first who saw it, cause it could be some fat man who would be lazy and smelly," I stated jokingly. "But you have me, the pretty girl who can cook, is clean and smells nice."

Keni started to laugh loudly, nearly dropping two bowls she was preparing for us to eat in, "When I think about it though, you are right. I am pretty lucky. Miss pretty girl who can cook, is clean and smells nice."

I served the meal and while eating it, we talked about each other. Keni told me about herself, her age, her dreams, her school years, about her hobbies and about her favorite job as a dancer choreographer.

We washed the dishes together while showing me where all of the cooking equipment's is. "Oh! I almost forgot. Yu Yan, you smoke right?" She asked me, while drying a bowl and waiting for me to answer.

"Yeah, is that a problem?"

"Of course not, come with me." She put the bowl in its place, took my hand and led me in front of a large curtain in the living room. "If you want to, you can smoke in here or do anything you want, like a drink a coffee I mean."

Keni opened the curtain, revealing a big door made of glass and opened it.

"Wow! You even have a terrace in here! That's awesome." I proclaimed in awe, stepping onto the cold wooden floor and noticing the city lights with some of the stars showing in the dark sky.

Keni smiled sweetly, leaning back against the railing. She looked at the sky, following my gaze as she said, "It's yours terrace now too, you know."

Showing her my trapezoidic smile I nodded, and after a while of terrace chilling we went back inside the apartment.

This was my first time meeting Zeng Keni...