Poor diet ☾ Jiyeon + Seth
It didn’t happen often, but when it did, it was never pleasant. He could count on his fingers the amount of times it had happened in his six years as a model. It was usually caused by the same terrible mix of pushing himself to his limits, overworking himself and forgetting to eat properly, the feeling of hunger pushed to the back of his mind, ignored until it couldn’t be ignored anymore, until everything turned black around him.
And when he’d come back to his senses, he would be surrounded by his manager, and anyone else who happened to be near him at the time, and they’d be giving him orange juice and fruits to snack on before shipping him to the nearest hospital even though he always insisted that he could finish the job, not wanting to cause a delay because it would look bad on his resume. It could take job opportunities away from him and he doesn’t want to risk that.
But every single time, it seems like everyone is more concerned about his health than they are about finishing the shoot and he supposes he should be grateful, that they care enough to not hold it against him, to book him again later. But he worries that one day, they’re going to send him away and they’re not going to call him back.
So today, when he ends up passing out toward the end of a shoot after too many hours spent awake with not enough food to keep him going, he wakes up in the hospital with a tube in his arm. He groans and pushes himself up into a sitting position. He looks around the room and notices that someone left some crackers and fruits on his bedside table, so he reaches for them and proceeds to eat them slowly. He’s just bitten into a piece of orange when the door opens and in walks a tall woman who looks like a model.