❀ plotted with @difficultself . ❀
SHE DIDN’T WANT TO BE THERE even more than she normally didn’t want to be there . it was her day off from school && with the bright sunshine && warming weather , she wanted to be playing outside . to go to a park or even just somewhere pretty && quiet . or somewhere with her FRIENDS . would even rather be with jataro than here .
if there was even one bright side to today’s photoshoot , it was that she didn’t recognize anyone there from any of her previous jobs . really , the only person on set she knew was , of course , her mother , who was off speaking to some adults somewhere — having left kotoko to her own devices now that hair && makeup had finished with her , cute , pink dress complimented the color of her hair && eyes . CUTE . just like always .
the thought sent a shiver down her spine .
her mother always told her she needed to be nice to the other models , though , && she’d seemed so excited that kotoko would be working with this one model in particular . a girl named ami — a high school student . && very beautiful , of course . but that was to be expected .
she recognized her from the pictures she’d been shown . the long , glossy dark hair && pretty lavender eyes . she was tall , && in kotoko’s eyes she looked like an adult , but nowhere near as intimidating as the photographers or the crew or the directors or sometimes her own MOTHER . she looked annoyed , but that didn’t deter kotoko — eager to do something good for once && take initiative . so , on light feet , she’d approach the other model , a bright , fake smile spread across her lips . “ HEY ! i’m kotoko utsugi — it’s nice to meet you . ”
