Summary: Karin celebrates the date of her high school anniversary by drinking a couple of bottles of wine. However, Kasumi is there to end Karin's drunk-texting-reign-of-terror.
God this summary is so bad, agree? Anyway, thanks to the usual suspects for reading: @hidekins, @myonmukyuu, @noelclover. This pairing is my livelihood by the way. Here you go.
Please read it on AO3... for some reason tumblr is not letting me copy and paste this whole thing. But, I'll post the first section here.
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Karin wasn’t one to get drunk often. No, because of her modeling job, Karin had to be completely in control of her body and attitude, and a hangover would ruin both of those. Drinking alcohol was also conducive to weight gain, so she avoided drinking excessively.
But there were certain occasions where Karin would drink. When she attended work parties or dinners, she’d have a glass. When it was her birthday, she’d get buzzed off a few drinks.
Then there was that one night each year when she’d cancel all plans, grab a couple bottles of wine, and drink them. The day of her high school graduation was a strange anniversary to keep, but Karin observed it with the same traditions almost every year after she became an adult.
After all, it was the day she decided to throw away all of her feelings.
Her feelings for being an idol... and her feelings for Kasumi.
Thinking about it, Karin sped up her uncorking of the first bottle of wine. After she finished, she poured a full glass, then gulped it down and poured another.
It was for the best, Karin thought. After all, if she tried to devote her time between being an idol and being a model, she’d be mediocre at both. And, if she pursued Kasumi, Karin would just end up hurting her.
Karin was too busy with her own career. She didn’t have a lot of free time to spend with Kasumi, especially after she moved. Sure, the commute from Shinjuku to Odaiba and back would only take around an hour, but her schedule was arranged in such a way that she had at most an hour for her breaks. Maybe they could spend nights together, if Karin wasn’t burnt out after photo shoots or television appearances. Kasumi deserved someone who could actually be there.
Besides, Kasumi was out of high school now, working at a bakery while taking classes at a culinary school. She had her own future to pursue. Neither of them had time for thoughts of romance. It would complicate their schedules and distract them.
This was all assuming that Kasumi even felt the same way.
The second glass came and went, as did the third, and soon Karin felt the familiar lightheadedness that came with consuming alcohol. Deciding she was feeling sufficiently buzzed, Karin turned on her laptop and opened up Netflix. She headed to the romance category and picked a popular American flick, a film about two people pursuing their dreams while juggling a bittersweet romance in Hollywood. Karin had seen it before. A year ago, in fact.
She watched as the characters met and eventually fell in love. Then, when the characters had their first kiss, she watched them with a smile.
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Read the rest on AO3, Idk why tumblr isn't letting me post the rest here... is there a character limit or smth that i'm unaware of???? Stupid toombl
