“Hello, Mr. Jacob, nice to meet you,” Josie immediately greeted him with a smile.
“Oh, hello.”
The other party was actively greeting him and seemed very warm, so Jacob politely responded.
“Layla, why don’t you go ahead and be busy? I’ll go practice in the equipment area for a while.”
Jacob thought Layla was giving Josie a lesson and felt it was inappropriate for him to be there, so he spoke up.
Layla quickly waved her hand: “I’m not busy; Josie is a friend. I’m just giving her some simple guidance. Mr. Jacob, let’s go to the aerobics room we were in yesterday.”
“Okay,” Jacob nodded and followed Layla into the aerobics room.
Although it was still aerobics, today’s intensity was a bit higher than yesterday’s. After half an hour of fat-burning exercises, Jacob was already drenched in sweat.
“Mr. Jacob, let’s take a break and then go to the equipment area,” Layla said while handing him a towel.
“Okay.”
Jacob wiped his sweat and walked out of the aerobics room, sitting down on a sofa in the rest area.
“Layla, Mr. Jacob, have some water.”
Not long after Jacob and Layla sat down, Josie came over with two bottles of soda water.
“Uh, thank you.”
The soda water Josie handed over was from Coca-Cola, retailing for about ten dollars a bottle, which wasn’t cheap. Jacob felt that this unfamiliar woman was being overly polite, but then he thought that she might just be doing it for Layla’s sake.
After all, the two were sitting together, and it might seem inappropriate if she only handed water to Layla.
“Mr. Jacob, I heard from Layla that you’re trying to lose weight, right?”
After handing out the water, Josie naturally sat down on the sofa next to Jacob and casually struck up a conversation.
“Yes, I’m getting older, so I need to pay attention to body management.” Jacob nodded lightly.
“I have a very useful meal plan here; how about I send it to you, Mr. Jacob?”
This was Josie’s premeditated way to ask for his WhatsApp. As long as they added each other, their relationship would take an important first step.
“Sure, let’s add each other on WhatsApp.”
Losing weight was Jacob’s current top priority, and even if he didn’t use the meal plan, he could refer to it. He immediately opened WhatsApp and clicked on his QR code.
Josie was overjoyed; she hadn’t expected everything to progress so smoothly. She quickly opened the WhatsApp scan function.
With a beep, the QR code was successfully recognized.
Josie was just about to click to send a friend request when she suddenly froze.
Because after scanning the QR code, her WhatsApp page popped up with “Send Message” and “Voice/Video Call.”
This meant that they were already WhatsApp friends! She looked again at Jacob’s WhatsApp nickname and avatar, and her whole demeanor changed. “Miss Josie, what’s wrong with you?”
Just a second ago, Josie had been all smiles, but now she looked as if she had lost her soul. Jacob found it very strange; this woman changed her expression so quickly.
Layla also sensed her friend’s unusual emotions. She leaned in for a look and asked suspiciously, “Oh, do you have WhatsApp friends?”
Hearing this, Jacob also leaned over to check Josie’s scan result, and then he saw his own nickname in her WhatsApp: [Divorced with Kids, Mercedes-Benz].
“Uh…”
Jacob was taken aback and then recalled the straightforward WhatsApp blind date from last night. He opened the chat window with Nova and sent a handshake emoji, and sure enough, Josie’s phone rang.
“Um, I need to go to the bathroom!”
This situation was something Josie had never expected. At a loss for how to respond, she chose to make a hasty exit.
“Mr. Jacob, I’ll go take a look.”
Layla called out and quickly chased after her.
Watching the two leave, Jacob shook his head lightly. He didn’t have many thoughts on it; he just felt it was too coincidental.
Moreover, Josie seemed much more enthusiastic in person than in WhatsApp.
In the women’s restroom.
Layla looked at her friend with a puzzled expression: “Josie, what’s wrong?”
“Layla, I’m in big trouble!”
“Do you remember the blind date guy I complained about?”
“Uh, which one?”
Josie had complained about too many blind date guys, so Layla didn’t know which one she was referring to.
“The one from last night, introduced by my second aunt.”
Josie said as she opened her chat window with Jacob: “Look at this.”
Layla leaned in to take a look and was a bit dazed: “That guy from last night is actually Mr. Jacob!”
“Yes!”
Josie said with great distress: “This guy spent over eighty thousand during the day and at night pretended to be poor with me on WhatsApp. The worst part is that I believed him!”
