Sun light wakes Tiffany up from her sleep. The first thought in her mind was, I hate mornings. and the second was, I need to buy some curtains. A lost hand reaches for the bedside table, searching for her phone. When she looks at the time, she groans when she sees that her alarm is two minutes away from going off. She sighs and pulls herself off her new bed. She looks around her empty room and sighs again. She doesn't have any stuff to fill the room with since she left everything when she moved out of her ex's place and there is noway she's ever going back there. The bastard is probably still using them as if they're his.

First thing first, get up and get ready for work. Although Tiffany does have her dream job of being an editor for her favorite fashion magazine, it still is hard to get up in the morning when she doesn't get a good night's sleep. Mainly because it's a new bed and a new room. Still more comfy than YulSic's couch though.

With yet another sigh, Tiffany pulls herself off her new bed. She opens the windows and looks at the view of the back garden, the pool, and a fence separating them from their neighbors. The house itself is awfully quite as if she's the only one living here. Well, of course it's quite. Taeyeon is probably still asleep.

Of course she's still asleep. She doesn't have to wake up early, she's a NEET. Just thinking about it makes Tiffany's blood boil. How could someone like this exist? A weird ass personality. Absolutely no social skills. However, she's still managed to find good friends like Yuri and Jessica. Also...she's not that bad to look at. The only excuse Tiffany could think of for being like this is if her housemate had a bad childhood. Well, doesn't most people?

Last night, while she was bringing her stuff inside the house, Taeyeon who was playing video games suddenly disappeared. According to Jessica, the girl's sleep schedule is a wreck. One day she would wake up in the morning and sleep at night like a healthy human being should. Sometimes she would sleep early morning and wake up late afternoon. Sometimes she would sleep at noon and wake up at night. That's why the young couple rarely ever hang out with their short friend. They never catch her awake in the right time.

Although she knew that Jessica and Yuri have a friend called Taeyeon since high school, but the two rarely could catch Taeyeon awake, nonetheless get the two of them to meet, but now...now she knows who Taeyeon is, and honestly...she doesn't like it that much. Taeyeon's lack of social skills and incredible laziness just...turned her off.

Thoughts of her house mate filling her mind. Not a good sign. Tiffany tries to shake it off by going into the shower and getting ready for work. When she goes down to the living room/kitchen, to her surprise, she finds her housemate awake. Sitting on the couch, controller in hand, head phones on, and all her focus is on the TV. She's playing video games. Again.

With a sigh, Tiffany goes down the steps, approaching her housemate. Since they're living together now, she might as well try to get along with her. She can't be a bad person since they have mutual friends. And so. Tiffany puts her signature smile on her face and taps Taeyeon's shoulder to grab her attention.

Taeyeon pauses the game, lowers the head phones to her neck, and finally looks back at Tiffany with her big eyes in which make Tiffany's heart squeeze a little. Taeyeon's face looked just like a baby's.

"Good morning!" Tiffany greets with a big smile.

Taeyeon jumps a little in her place, as if finally realizing that Tiffany is standing right behind her, "Uh...g- good morning."

Well, at least she knows how to return a greeting. - Tiffany thinks to herself, "When did you wake up?" she asks. A bit curios about Taeyeon's current sleeping schedule.

"Sunrise."

"I see. I'm going to work in a few minutes. What are you doing today?" Tiffany asks with a smile. Throwing a little shade in there.

Taeyeon looks down, thinking to herself, "Play games..." she says.

"Hmm." Tiffany nods with a smile still plastered on her face. It's just as she thought, "Since we have a pretty big TV here, why don't we watch a movie together tonight or something? You know, get to know each other and stuff."

"Huh?" Taeyeon is obviously taken aback. She looks down, clearly worried about something, "O-...kay...I guess."

"Great!" Tiffany flashes her eye smile, "I'm going to be late for work, so bye!"

"W- Wait!"

Just as Tiffany turns around to leave, Taeyeon stands on her knees on the couch and quickly holds Tiffany's wrist before she got too far to reach. Surprised by Taeyeon's sudden action, Tiffany looks back at her housemate, startled. As their eyes meet, Taeyeon immediately lets go of Tiffany's wrist and sits down.

"Sorry." She looks down and blushes. Embarrassed by her over dramatic action.

Tiffany smiles. Taeyeon really has such an adorable face. What a waste, "It's all right. What did you want?"

"Ahh...well..." Taeyeon immediately gets up and runs to the kitchen. Tiffany watches in amusement as Taeyeon comes back within two seconds. An iced star bucks cup in hand. "Sica told me that you like to get coffee in the morning before you go to work, so...uhm...I got you the one that you like..."

Tiffany's eyes widen as Taeyeon extends her hands to her with her favorite coffee in between. She doesn't know if she should feel touched or overwhelmed. "Wow...Taeyeon...thanks. Why did you do that though?" She asks as she accepts the tall cup.

"Um..." Taeyeon looks down and scratches the back of her neck awkwardly, "I'm sorry...I'm not good at ah...social interaction."

"Yeah, I've noticed." Tiffany nods.

"Ah...well," Taeyeon blushes, embarrassed with herself for being like this, "Since we're living together now...I don't want this to be awkward so...I will...I will try my best to...put in effort to get along..."

"Oh wow. Taeyeon, you don't know how assuring this is to hear for me." Tiffany exhales. She might have judged Taeyeon too quickly.

"O- Okay...but...if I do something that bothers you...please tell it to my face...I'm not good at catching hints...no matter how obvious they are." Taeyeon looks away, a traumatized look on her face.

Tiffany laughs a little, "Okay, I get it. Let's get along. Okay, Tae?"

Taeyeon is immediately stunned, her feet are glued to the floor and her shoulders immediately go stiff when her new housemate leans in and kisses her cheek softly before walking to the front door.

"I will see you later!"

When Taeyeon finally comes back to her senses, she walks back to the couch and sits down quietly. A few minutes pass. At this point, Taeyeon's whole body had turned into mush as she collapses face first on a cushion. She doesn't know how much time it will take for her to cool down, but she needs to soon, or else she might as well just melt.

On the other side, Tiffany is driving to work, humming while sipping her coffee that Taeyeon had conveniently gotten for her.

Maybe Taeyeon really isn't that bad.

...

Tiffany stood in front of the couch in silence. Her right eye twitching because of the sight in front of her. Her housemate as known as Kim Taeyeon is currently laying on the couch. Head phones on plugged to a controller. Eyes closed and mouth open, muttering a bunch of gibberish that Tiffany couldn't make out anything of. Also, her hoodie had ridden up and her navel is showing.

To say that Tiffany was disappointed is an understatement. Just 30 minutes ago she was so excited to be home and spend time with her new roomie, but after seeing her like this again, Tiffany is once again reminded that this girl is a NEET who sleeps and plays video games all day. Just, the worst kind of person in Tiffany's opinion.

With a sigh, she kneels in front of Taeyeon, takes off her head phones and the controller out of her hand gently and starts shakes her, "Taeyeon, wake up."

Taeyeon doesn't respond.

"Taeyeon, we agreed to watch a movie together. Get up."

Still no response from Taeyeon.

"At least go sleep in your bed. It's cold out here."

Nope.

With another sigh, Tiffany straightens up and ponders on what to do. Looking at Taeyeon, shaking her and asking her to wake up gently won't do. She could just scream in her ear but that's not a very nice thing to do especially since Taeyeon went through the trouble to buy her coffee that morning.

"I guess I've got no choice. I will bring your blanket. Forgive me for going into your room without permission." Tiffany says more to herself than Taeyeon and makes her way upstairs. She stands in front of Taeyeon's room and whispered another apology as she turns the doorknob as quietly as possible. Not like Taeyeon would hear it or anything.

As soon as she takes a step inside, she is immediately hit with a familiar smell. The room was dark so she couldn't see anything, but Tiffany knew this smell very well, after all, she did spend her high school days inhaling this smell. Once the light switch was found, Tiffany's eyes widen when she gets a good look at Taeyeon's bedroom.

More than a bedroom, it was as Tiffany thought, it's more like a library, and the familiar smell was old book paper. She stood there and stared in awe. The first thing in front of her is a shelf with only little space to go through on the side. Tiffany's original goal was to get Taeyeon's blanket but now after sorting out her priorities, Tiffany found that exploring Taeyeon's room came to be #1.

Without hesitation, Tiffany closes the door behind her and walks up to the shelf and to her surprise, most of the titles her eyes managed to catch a glimpse of were in English. She didn't want to take any books out since they were pressed against each other hard, such a shame she thought. She would just have to ask permission to see them from Taeyeon later.

On the far right to the shelf blocking her way was a small opening enough for one person to pass if they squeezed through. Tiffany made it a quest for herself to get through without touching the shelf at the front nor the one covering the right wall. So she did, although it grazed her shoulder just a little bit. Much to her disappointment.

To Tiffany's surprise, she found Taeyeon's bed...and a chair...and a big ass PC...surrounded by four walls made of book shelves and single tall shelf which is apparently filled with clothes. Taeyeon sleeps here every night. Taeyeon doesn't just sleep here in the middle of this fort like room every night but she also stays in this room for days and nights, with the smell of wood, dust, old books, and no window to be seen. Probably blocked by one of the shelves.

At this point, Tiffany was concerned about Taeyeon. This is very unhealthy. But right now Tiffany was concerned about something else. She was concerned about Taeyeon sleeping on the couch with her navel exposed in the middle of winter. That she would definitely get sick of right away. And so with her original goal in mind, Tiffany retrieves Taeyeon's blanket from her bed. It was a Minions blanket which made Tiffany try to recall if her housemate told her her age or not.

The sound of Taeyeon sneezing downstairs cut Tiffany's trail of thoughts short. She was immediately reminded that she was trespassing and ran out the room as fast as she could not forgetting to turn off the lights and close the door as silently as possible. She looked over the railing and saw that Taeyeon was still asleep but changed positions. Her heart was beating so fast because of the thought of getting caught trespassing but then again, Taeyeon would find out anyway when she wakes up and sees her blanket over her.

As Tiffany walked over to her shorter housemate, she saw that Taeyeon's hoodie had ridden up even more reveling a sight that broke Tiffany's heart a little. Taeyeon was so thin to the point that her ribs were visibly sticking out. It wasn't a sight of horror but it said a lot about Taeyeon's eating habits. Tiffany hesitated but ended up with a finger on Taeyeon's pale skin, feeling her ribs. The girl is so pale, not to the sickly point. It suited Taeyeon's features but she definitely needed to go out in the sun more.

Shaking her head, Tiffany gently lowered Taeyeon's hoodie and covered her with her own blanket in which Taeyeon immediately snuggled to. Tiffany stood there, staring at her sleeping housemate, not knowing what to do next. Her mind was so busy thinking of why someone could be like this. She have met introverted people in her life, hell Jessica is introverted, but Taeyeon takes the price.

A shut in, socially awkward NEET with an unhealthy lifestyle.

This is Tiffany's housemate.

This won't do.

None of this will do for Tiffany who's a workaholic and cares about her diet and body fitness more than anything else.

Taeyeon must be fixed.

With a better life in mind, Tiffany is gladly taking the quest of fixing her.

...

Tiffany slowly opens her eyes, adjusting to the slight sun light that is entering her room through the thin curtains. Her curtains are pink which makes her whole room pink when the sun is up. It's a nice sight to wake up to for Tiffany. First thing she does is retrieve her phone from the bedside table.

It's 7:34 at a Saturday morning. It's Tiffany's day off. It's been a week since she moved in with Taeyeon and she's got to say, it's very comfortable. Every morning she wakes up, the house is quite. She goes to work and comes back and the house is still quite. She eats. She watches TV. She goes to sleep and it's very quite. Although it shouldn't since there is someone else living in the same house as her but she's living as if she's alone.

All signs of someone living with her are the disappearing instant cup ramyun from one of the cupboards in which she later in the same day finds it empty in the trash can and a single fork in the dishwasher. It's as if she's living with a ghost, that's what Tiffany feels like. The last time she saw Taeyeon was five days ago when she saw her sleeping on the couch when she came back from work.

With the memory of Taeyeon's ribs sticking out, Tiffany immediately got energized and pulled herself off of bed. She opens her curtains, her windows, and takes a deep breath. The air is fairly chilly since the seasons are changing between winter and spring, the sun doesn't burn and in Tiffany's opinion, it's the perfect day to go out for a run and try to fall back into the routine she abandoned when she moved in with Jessica and Yuri.

Today however, she plans on having a companion.

With a bright smile, Tiffany freshens up, pulls her hair up and throws on her favorite pink workout clothes. After preparing to go out, she makes her way to Taeyeon's room, with the smile still plastered on her face, she knocks.

No answer.

She knocks again.

No answer.

A minute passes and she knocks for the third time.

Still no answer.

Hoping that Taeyeon won't mind, Tiffany twists the door knob slowly and careful not to make any noise. She is once again faced with a large book shelf that is blocking the view of everything behind it. Tiffany takes a deep breath and the smell of old books and paper takes her back on a journey to her high school days. She loves that smell.

With Taeyeon's well-being in mind, Tiffany tiptoes to the small opening on the right, the only way to access Taeyeon's room any further and she sticks her head slowly to see what Taeyeon is doing, hopefully without alerting her.

To her surprise, Taeyeon was not asleep. In fact, she's wide awake, sitting in front of her large screen with big headphones on that Tiffany could faintly hear music from. She's tapping away on her keyboard with a microsoft word page open. Tiffany wonders what Taeyeon is writing, but that's not what she's concerned about right now.

"Taeyeon?" She calls. softly.

Taeyeon pauses whatever she's doing but to Tiffany's distaste, she continues typing away as if she hadn't heard anything. Tiffany figured she should call her name louder since she has headphones on.

"Taeyeon!" Tiffany calls again. Louder this time. Still, Taeyeon doesn't even pause this time and continues typing away which frustrates Tiffany, and so, she steps fully inside the room, her shoulder slightly grazing the shelf on her right and she has to walk side ways in between the shelf and the end of Taeyeon's bed, "Taeyeon." She calls one more time as she knocks on the table.

Alerted by the sudden hand on the table, Taeyeon lets out a yelp and jumps in her seat. She looks at Tiffany with wide eyes and a hand on her chest as she tries to calm down her raging heart by taking quick breathes in and out, "What..." she lowers her headphones to her neck and backs away with her chair, "What...are you...doing here?"

Tiffany smiles, satisfied to have finally gotten Taeyeon's attention, "Hi." she greets.

"H- Hi..." Taeyeon greets back.

"Good morning."

"Uhm...good morning." Taeyeon looks down shyly and and greets Tiffany back awkwardly.

"Taeyeon?"

"Yes?"

"Would you like to go on a run with me?"

Taeyeon's head snaps up, "A-...a run?"

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO- "

"SHUT UP AND KEEP UP YOU WEAKLING!"

At this point, Taeyeon is on the verge of crying. Her clothes are sticking to her body because of the excessive sweating. Her windpipe is burning because of the lack of oxygen, her face is bright red, her hair is sticking to the side of her face, and her legs feel like they're going to fall off, "T- Tiffany...I...*pant* *pant*...I don't think I can go on any longer." she says.

"Oh my god! Taeyeon, it's been only three minutes!"

It really actually had been only three minutes since Tiffany managed to convince Taeyeon to go out to their backyard and run with her and Taeyeon already looks like she ran a whole marathon. This might be Taeyeon's greatest regret. Why did she agree to this is beyond her - Tiffany was smiling at her and she looked really pretty. She finally stops and sits down on the swing hanging on the big tree. Completely giving up.

On the other side, Tiffany is feeling disappointed with Taeyeon, yet again. Is this what a parent feel like when they see their child give up? Tiffany wouldn't know but she knew that she sure didn't want to be a parent if her child turns out to be like Taeyeon. That's the whole reason why she's trying to...fix the girl up? but apparently, Taeyeon is refusing to be fixed with her whole body and Tiffany isn't liking it one bit.

"Taeyeon...get up. At least make it to 15 minutes and you can stop." Tiffany says as she comes to a stop in front of Taeyeon.

Taeyeon coughs as she struggles with air, "Tiffany...*pant* *pant* thank you for inviting me to run with you...but, I don't think this is my forte..."

"Don't give up so easily, Taeyeon! You're just weak because you probably hadn't made any effort with your body in a long time." Tiffany crouches and smiles up at Taeyeon, trying to cheer her up.

Taeyeon clenches her eyes shut and shakes her head, "I hadn't...*pant*...ran...*cough*...in years."

"Oh gosh..." Tiffany face palms, "Why?"

Upon hearing the disappointed tone in Tiffany's voice, Taeyeon opens her eyes, "I'm just...not physically built well enough for this kind of activity."

"Yeah, I can see that." Tiffany shakes her head, "Are you perhaps ill in anyway?"

"What? No!" Taeyeon shakes her head furiously.

"Then there is nothing stopping you from trying to do this kind of activity. Even the strongest of muscle men weren't born with their muscles. It takes time and effort to build them."

"But I don't want to build muscles."

"I'm not saying that you should build muscles. I'm saying that it takes time and effort to do something and you don't even want to continue trying to do something as simple as running for a mere 15 minutes."

"And what will I achieve exactly from running for 15 minutes everyday?!"

"A healthy body! That's what you will achieve!"

"My body doesn't bother me!"

"Well, it bothers me!"

"Why?!"

"Because your ribs are sticking out and it's disturbing!"

It wasn't until the words came out of her mouth did Tiffany realize that she just stepped over a line by the look on Taeyeon's face. She watched as Taeyeon was taking aback by what she said, surprise and hurt visible on her face.

"T-...Taeyeon, I'm sorry I didn't mean to- "

Tiffany couldn't continue her sentence because the moment she opened her mouth again, Taeyeon glared at her and stood up.

"Well, sorry that my body isn't up to your standers, but guess what? It's none of your god damn business."

With that, Taeyeon leaves. Tiffany stands up and watches her housemate go back inside. It really is none of her business.

Tiffany sighs to herself.

She might have fucked up.