Within the magazine industry, three women stand at the head of the biggest fashion magazine company. Though their connections may be ominous, their hearts are true.

Nico walked through the glass doors of Promise Publications, heading to her first day at her new modeling job. The company had increased in size recently, gaining over 1,000 applicants for five modeling positions. The process was rigorous, and every single applicant had to be willing to model anything. Once Nico got in, she checked her email once more.

Miss Yazawa,

You have been assigned to the flower shoot.

Please report to set 3-A for this shoot.

Promise Publications

Arriving at set 3-A several minutes later, she was met with people buzzing about. A majority of them were fitting outfits onto models, only 8 models actually being on sight, including Nico.

A shoot was already going on, featuring a pair that had recently been taking the modeling world by storm: Rin Hoshizora and Hanayo Koizumi.

They were placed in a train-like setting, large fans on them to give a windblown look. Rin was wearing a red and cream shirt under overalls, but one side of the overalls had come off her shoulder, and she was trying to keep her brown fedora from flying off as she posed in a standing position, looking out to the cherry blossom background. Next to her, with a brown suitcase between them, was Hanayo. She posed with a camera, taking a picture of Rin, her brown, two layer skirt fluttering in the breeze, complementing her green shirt, which bore a pink floral print.

"Can you believe how beautiful they look?" A voice said, startling Nico. It was another model, a girl with purple hair put into low pigtails. She wore a flower crown on top of her head, a cream colored skirt contrasting with a purple shirt and a denim jacket, black thigh highs covering her legs. She extended a hand, "Nice to meet you, I'm Nozomi. Nozomi Tojo."

"Um... Nice to meet you too, I'm Nico Yazawa. So... uh... How'd they get a main shoot job so quickly? Weren't they modeling lingerie just a few months ago?"

"Hoshizora and Koizumi? They still model lingerie, you have to be willing to do anything to work here at Promise. One of the CEOs is a fan of them. Of course, each of the three have their favorites."

"Wait, there's three CEOs? I didn't think that was possible."

"Apparently they make it work out, no one knows how they do i-"

At that moment, Rin finally lost grip of her hat, and, in a panic to grab it, one of the photographers knocked over a bin of cherry blossom petals, causing them to go flying in the gust of the fans. A photo was taken.

"Finished! Beautiful!" hollered one of the photographers, "Mido! Miyashita! You're up next!"

"Set change!"

"You're Yazawa, right?" Nico turned to an ashen-haired girl carrying a bag. She wore a grey blazer over a pink maxi dress.

"Yeah, Nico Yazawa."

"Ah, okay~ My name is Kotori Minami! Here's your clothes!" She pushed the bag into Nico's hands and left. Nico looked around, there didn't seem to be any changing rooms around.

"Just change out in the open, everyone does it," Nozomi suggested, "Wait... is this your first modeling job?"

Nico nodded, "Yeah, right out of college..."

Nozomi looked at Nico hard, then grabbed Nico's arm, bringing her ear close to Nozomi's mouth, "Watch out, Nicocchi... they have their eyes on you..."

Nozomi walked a little farther away, talking to a hyper orange-haired girl. Nico changed as quickly as she could, dressing in a black pinstripe skirt, pink thigh highs, a red shirt, and a blue blazer. It seemed fashionable enough.

Waiting for her own shoot, Nico watched two other models pose against a pastel pink background, their matching dresses light yellow in color, adorned with small flowers. Like Rin and Hanayo, Yuri and Coco had an energy about them, they were a good pairing. Their shoot didn't take long, the photographers soon calling for the next set of models.

"Tojo, Minami, Kosaka, and... Yazawa!"

The four of them walked over to the next set, designed to look like a grassy knoll, then they were each given a flower. Nico recognized the orange-haired girl from earlier, who must've been Honoka Kosaka. Honoka was wearing a gray hoodie, a red plaid skirt, and a black fanny pack.

The photographers turned the bright lights on, blinding Nico for a moment. In the white-washed blur of vision, Nico swore she saw a blonde woman standing in the corner, looking on with blue eyes. By the time Nico's vision was clear again, the woman was gone.

"Aaaannnnddd... 1... 2... 3... Pose!"

The four started posing, taking small breaks in between long bouts of posing to compose themselves and pose with others. In their first break, Nozomi scooted closer, posing with Nico's head laying on her shoulder as they both held their flowers. Kotori and Honoka both posed together as well, but only when the photographers told them to.

When they were finally done, they all changed quickly. Nico checked her phone; a new email had arrived.

Miss Yazawa,

You have been assigned to the afternoon lingerie shoot.

Please report to set L-2.

Promise Publications

"Oh wow, we've been put in the same lingerie shoot," Nozomi said, startling Nico again.

"Will you stop that?"

Welcome to my new story! This one is not like Activities in Darkness or Pure Love. Promise has an actual plot and continuity, it is not just one shots. It will have smut related to the plot later on, as my username implies, but I am debating whether or not to put it in a story, if that makes sense. Basically, have a T rated Promise that has plot, take the smut out of it and put it in an M rated 'story'.

Anyway, thank you for reading!