Minori was Mob's new friend….and she was….ok.

She was…a person in Mob's life who wanted to spend time with her. Minori had said that they were friends and that meant something. People didn't just go around saying that they were friends with other people. That wasn't how it worked or else everyone in the world would have been friends with everyone else in the world. It was hard to make friends, to decide who you wanted to be friends with, well at least Mob thought that it was. No kids had ever wanted to be friends with her before.

And being friends with Minori was ok.

She wasn't that good at playing dolls….but that was ok. Not everyone could be good at everything. She didn't seem to be having fun. She didn't make them fight like Sho did when she convinced him to play with her, she didn't dress them up and brush their hair like Shibata did when he played with her, and she didn't even make them live in a terrible dystopian future world where Elsa was a dictator and Anna led a resistance against her like Minegishi did. Even Shimazaki was better at playing dolls even though he mostly just felt their clothes and their hair and made them fall in love with each other when the only ones who liked girls were Merida and Mulan.

Still, though, Minori could still be her friend…she was just her friend that wasn't good a playing with dolls and that was ok.

"Do you want to be someone else? You can be one of the Elsas if you want. One of them is the evil twin but I can never remember which." Said Mob. Minori might have just not found the right doll yet. She had said, before, that she didn't like to play with dolls but then she called Mob today and asked her to come over to play with dolls and braid hair and smoke….so that was why Mob was here. Minori must have liked playing with dolls a little, even Minegishi liked playing with dolls and they were almost twenty eight now. Minori might just have not found the right doll yet. The right doll was everything. Like how Mob hardly ever played with those dolls that dad kept on getting her that looked like her but she could play for hours with her Disney dolls.

Maybe she should have brought more kinds of dolls, though.

She wished that Minori had some dolls in her room. She mostly just had teddy bears and stuff. Not even a dollhouse. If she had at least one doll then Mob would have been able to get a feel for how she played with dolls and then she could have brought some others from her collection. Minori might not have liked dolls…but then again if she didn't like dolls then why would she invite Mob over to play with dolls? She had specifically said to play with dolls…

Friendship could be very complicated sometimes.

"No, I'm fine. I'll be Anna or whatever. What were we doing again?" asked Minori as she held her doll as best she could. She hadn't expected her to actually want to play dolls for this long. Seriously. This was what she did with her time? God. Minori could feel herself dying of boredom. She hadn't played dolls since she had been at most seven and now here she was.

God, this friendship.

Suzuki was surprisingly boring for someone who hung out with adults and drank and did drugs. She played dolls and braided her hair and that was about it. So fun. Minori wondered how much longer she had to humor her for. That was the thing about making a new friend, you had to make them think that you liked them. That way they would want to hang out with you. She didn't hate Suzuki….she just would have ignored her if they had been in the same class. But they weren't in the same class and she had hidden depths or whatever.

Really hidden depths.

"Um….they were going to go to the movies but first they had to go to pick up Ariel. She was protesting the sushi restaurant because they served her subjects. It would have been ok if they had just been the condemned criminals but instead they went back to fishing and now she's protesting them and if they don't stop then she's going to go to war but then that's going to be a problem because the restaurant is in Arendelle and that would mean going up against Elsa but the whole things was thought up by Elsa's evil twin and….sorry. I gave the whole game away." said Mob. She was playing her and Minegishi's game, well a recap of it. The war was over and now Atlantica was subject to harsh sanctions and Ariel was losing power so her daughter Melody was staging a coup….that was why she was in a recap game. She and Minori could just have a divergent timeline. She knew that she was being bossy but Minori wasn't really doing a lot of world building.

Mob had never heard of someone being bad at playing dolls before but what she didn't know could fill a warehouse.

"….wow. When I was little I just had them go to the mall or whatever." Said Minori

"Oh…uh…we can have them do that too. We can built a mall…um…do you have any old shoe boxes? They could be the stores and I brought some extra clothes so we can set up some stores and then we can decide who works where and who's just visiting." Said Mob smiling. She made herself smile. Minori had said that her face was all frozen and creepy. That was true. She didn't smile a lot…she was used to people with auras and when you had an aura people could just tell how you were feeling…but normal people were different.

It was sort of hard having a normal person for a friend.

For her whole life she hadn't been allowed to be friends with normal people. Dad only wanted her to be friends with espers but now he changed his mind. He said that she could be friends with normal girls because there weren't really any girl espers. She could be friends with all the normal girls she wanted but not any boys because she could only marry an esper, he had said, even though Mob was talking about making friends with people, not marrying them….

But she wasn't going to argue with dad in case he decided to change his mind and tell her she couldn't have any friends at all.

"I don't have any shoeboxes, sorry." said Minori distractedly. She had been distracted by her phone vibrating on the rug next to her. She clicked it open…and then stopped herself from throwing it across the room. She could have thrown it and she should have thrown it but dad was being completely unfair. He was all 'you get one new phone a year' even though it wasn't her fault that they made these things so flimsy that they came apart whenever you threw them.

God, dad could be so unreasonable sometimes.

And so could everything else in life. This was not fair. She clicked her phone off and slammed it down onto her rug. She could feel Suzuki staring at her. She never blinked. God, she was so creepy sometimes. Maybe she had a disorder or something…but that was whatever. She was a weirdo and she acted like she was in the first grade but she wasn't a total time sink.

She was just sort of a fixer upper, that was all.

"Did you get bad news? I'm sorry if you did." Said Mob. She hoped that nothing bad had happened to Minori. She had slammed her phone down pretty hard. Thank God the rug was soft. Her phone was so nice it would have been a shame if anything happened to it. She didn't get why people did that, smashed their phones, but it wasn't Minori's fault. She just didn't have a big sister to teach her not to do that like she had taught Sho and she didn't have a mom either. Mob had no clue where her mom was but she wasn't going to ask.

That would not have been polite.

And you always had to be polite to your friends. Especially your new friends of only a few days. She wondered if maybe she shouldn't have asked if Minori had gotten bad news. Maybe it was none of her business…but of course her friend being happy was her business. It was her business and she had to be a good friend and she had to ask…but maybe she had been nosy there. Even Minegishi said that she could sometimes be nosy….

Friendship was very hard sometimes.

"Just this bitch transfer student from my class. She's posting these pictures of herself drinking some fruity drink on some island or something with this guy from the middle school our school feeds into…it's complicated. She's a total bitch, that's all you need to you." Said Minori. God. How was she supposed to top that? Dad's guards wouldn't let her off the grounds and even then where would she go? She was in the middle of nowhere and nature pictures were so stupid. She needed to go and be somewhere or do something or….something!

Because what was she supposed to post about? Playing with Frozen dolls with a super tall first grader?

"Ok." Said Mob as she tried to follow what Minori had told her. She learned something new about her new friend. She could talk really fast when she wanted to.

"I mean like who the hell would do something like that? Like….seriously. So tacky. We're in the same year and she's on a trip with her parents. Of course there's nothing but juice or whatever in that coconut." Said Minori

"There could be water….coconut water. That's inside of….coconuts." said Mob. Maybe she had said the wrong thing because Minori was giving her a really long look.

"Who's side are you on, Suzuki?" asked Minori

"Yours….um….if there are sides then I'm on yours. Not your friend's…and also you can call me Mob." said Mob. She hadn't been aware that there were sides….but she had never had any friends her own age besides Minori before. She seemed mad but Mob didn't know what she was mad about…but then again she had never done any of that internet stuff. Take pictures and post them. She was too shy to make YouTube videos, and also she had nothing to talk about. There was all of that other social stuff but she didn't have that since she lived with everyone she knew and was friends with. That wasn't normal though, was it? Well her life wasn't normal…and she herself wasn't normal….

"She's not my friend. Well she could have been if she hadn't been a total bitch but right now she's not my friend. Got it?" said Minori. God, Suzuki was socially impaired or something. Well better a socially impaired friend who liked dolls and shit than a backstabbing little bitch.

"Oh….I'm sorry that the other girl is being a b-word to you. That's not nice." Said Mob. Poor Minori. She knew what it was like when people were mean to you for no reason. That was the only reason why she was glad that she wasn't in school anymore. She didn't have to deal with people like that. She only had to talk to her friends, her family, and Awakened now. Only people who were nice to her….

But normal people did not have that luxury.

Minori had to deal with people all the time that she didn't want to. Even now when she was away from everyone she still had her phone….Mob wasn't sure why she kept on scrolling if this other girl had been mean to her…and that must have been so hard. She wished that there was something that she could do. She had wanted to ask Sho to make a law, when he ruled the world, that everyone had to be friends with everyone else but then Minegishi had told her that forced friendships would only make people resent each other so Mob was at a loss about how she was supposed to do.

Friendship could be very hard sometimes.

"Will you just say bitch? Oh my God you sound like a kid." Said Minori rolling her eyes. She kept on skimming through these pictures looking for…something. Something stupid. Some mistake. God…she was such a bitch. Well whatever. Anyone could take a trip. She was on a trip! She had to get this. she had this! She was Asagiri Minori!

"Sorry." said Mob

"It's whatever." Said Minori

"Oh…ok…and I really am sorry that she's being a…bi-bit-being a that word to you. She shouldn't. People should be nice to one another. They should be nice to you." Said Mob

"You're right. She should be. I mean I made her. She came into our class mid-year and she was all scared so I so graciously allowed her to sit next to me and my friends at lunch and then next thing I know she's got all my friends going to karaoke with her after school and they were all like 'Minori, we would have invited you too but we knew that your dad wouldn't let you' which was complete and utter bullshit. I mean if they knew I couldn't go then they shouldn't have gone without me. Right?" asked Minori as she got up and began to pace.

"Um…right." Said Mob. She didn't know if that was right or not. On the one hand it was wrong not to include people but on the other hand it was wrong to tell people what to do….so maybe they cancelled each other out? Mob didn't know. She just knew that sometimes you had to agree with people to keep the peace. Like how she had to nod and say ok, Minegishi had told her, when Shimazaki told them things that never happened because he was all on stuff that Mob wasn't allowed to have.

She understood this part of friendship.

"Exactly. Like, if everyone in the group can't do something then just don't do it. Well if everyone important can't do something then don't do it. It's not my fault Miki's parents made her take concert clarinet or whatever. What were we supposed to do? Not go to our nail appointment? God, I should have known that she would be the first to betray me…" said Minori. She was pacing back and forth now kicking anything and everything out of her way. Suzuki had been smart enough to clean up her dolls really fast. Good. She did not need someone else complaining that she had broken something of theirs. If they didn't want their stuff broken then they needed to get it away from where she was walking. There. Simple.

"It's not nice to betray people." Said Mob. She didn't know what she would ever do if she got betrayed….probably be upset. Maybe as upset as Minori was right now. Mob didn't know what to do. Sho sometimes pace around like this when he got mad. It was best to just let him pace when he got like this. That way you didn't end up accidentally making him madder.

"Exactly! God, there is no loyalty. She was the first to jump ship on me. Then it was Mari and Yoko and, like, who the hell just goes around stealing friends?" asked Minori. She turned around and pointed for emphasis. Even socially impaired Suzuki got it! Was there no more loyalty in the world!? What the fuck was the MATTER with people!? God, if even Suzuki got it….

"That was very mean of her." said Mob. She was so glad that she didn't have to deal with any more mean people in her life…well there was Fukuda but he couldn't help it. Sho said that he was getting old and old people were always upset because their youth was over and the world was different and scary from what they were used to. She would gladly have hung out with Fukuda at his grumpiest if it meant that she wouldn't have to deal with any mean people her own age. At least the worst Fukuda ever did to her was be way too polite.

"Yeah, no shit. She's such a bitch. Like, they even made plans without me. I was the one who decided what we did. My house, my actual house in Japan where we live, has a pool and a home theatre and I can to a few specific places but my dad is always so worried about me…but I still made the plans. But then one night I get added to this group chat and they're all talking about going to the arcade downtown, where they know I can't go, and it's like….who the hell does that?" asked Minori as she went back to pacing. She needed more friends, loyal friends, they kind that didn't betray you! Dad had told her about people like that. He had said that you had to be nice but also you had to make sure that you were on top all the time because your enemies were waiting like snakes in the grass for you to slip up and then they but you on the ankles…which for dad meant that people lost him money and for her meant that people took advantage of her and took her friends away. She needed those friends! She was going into the sixth grade. It was too late to start over with new friends and she needed to go to the middle school where most of the people she knew were going to or else she'd start off at the bottom…and an Asagiri was never on the bottom.

"Um…traitors? Because they betrayed you?" asked Mob. She wondered if she was meant to answer that question. She knew that answer, though, so she answered it. Traitors betrayed you. Dad talked about traitors a lot. He said that they were surrounded by traitors and when they were found they were shown no mercy. That meant that they got kicked out of Claw. She didn't know why anyone would betray her dad. He just wanted what was best for the world. He would make a world with people who could be together, normal people and espers, and then espers wouldn't have to hide their powers. She wouldn't have to hide her powers. She never used them in public…but it was weird not using them with her friend…but she knew not to use them around normal people even if they knew about powers…which she assumed that Minori did because she was the daughter of an important financial backer…but Mob didn't use her powers. She didn't want to freak her out or make her jealous. That was not the way to treat a friend at all.

"Yeah, traitors! Like you said! A bunch of fucking traitors. God…and now she's with this guy….I guess their parents are friends….and he's in middle school and he's so hot….and she just got him because she lets anyone up her shirt." Said Minori with the same disdainful sniff mom used to do. She had to be. Getting felt up was nice and all but nobody stole from her, first of all, and second of all since little miss transfer student let everyone feel her up now all the guys assumed that she would let them all feel her up too….which she would not! But then nobody wanted to go out with her….they were all a bunch of pigs. Guys were pigs in clothes….but they were also guys….God they sucked…

"Up her shirt?" asked Mob. She crossed her arms in front of her chest. She didn't know why anyone would let a boy do that. It just sounded…embarrassing. The most embarrassing. Boys…they were weird. She knew that they liked breasts but…why touch them? Those were for feeding babies, mom had said so, they weren't handles or whatever boys wanted with them. The thought of a boy wanting to do that to her…it was…embarrassing….embarrassing and also…some stuff she didn't want to think about right now.

"Yeah, she just lets anyone feel her up. You can't do that because then, like, everyone expects it and, yeah, it's fun and all but you can't just let anyone feel you up…and under her bra, too. Like, what the fuck is this? High school?" asked Minori. She would never do something like that…and the Christmas party didn't count because she had been drinking. Everyone knew that it didn't count if you'd be drinking.

"That's….bad?" asked Mob. She knew that people did…bed stuff…and she knew that you had to be naked to do that…but Minori was talking like it was bad. Minegishi had said that doing things like that with a person was an expression of love or commitment or to make a baby or just to have fun….they had never said anything about it being bad….but they only knew about these things in terms of the rules for adults. Mob was a kid. She had different rules to follow….rules that she had not even been aware of…but it was good that she had someone to teach her the rules for someone her age.

"See, even you get it. That's just for when a guy is your boyfriend and even then only if you're been going together for a while…and she hadn't even been going to our school for long enough to have been going with any of those guys for that long. Plus she stole, like, every guy. I liked some of those guys. I just hadn't decided which one I was going to go out with….and she just swooped in like a witch on her broomstick and stole all of them. God. She is such a witch-bitch." Said Minori. Even socially impaired Suzuki got it….God. Life sucked. She needed more of Suzuki. At least she got it even though she probably still thought that babies came from storks and only married people could mess around. Still, it was sort of nice having her around. At least she wasn't going to turn into a traitor anytime soon.

"Um….that girl sounds very mean and I'm sorry that all of those things happened to you. It isn't fair. People used to be mean to me when I went to school…so I know how it's like. Nobody stole the boy I liked…well he liked my best friend…but they didn't steal him." said Mob. She was so glad her best friend was such a nice person…and also that they hadn't liked Hatori. She wanted everyone to be happy but…well….she had a lot of feelings about Hatori, embarrassing ones, that she didn't understand and didn't want to think about right now and she knew that if Minegishi had fallen in love with Hatori then she would have had even more confusing feelings…and also Hatori might have eaten them and then she wouldn't have had a best friend anymore…and that would have been very sad.

"It's the same thing. If a guy likes you then you stole him from someone who liked him because you made him like you." Said Minori shaking her head. She had probably never even had a boyfriend before. Of course she didn't know. She was such a little kid…but at least she was a little kid who wouldn't stab her in the back.

"It works like that?" asked Mob. That didn't sound right at all…but she had only seen adult relationships, she had no idea how it worked with people her own age. Also she had never had a boyfriend before, either.

"Yeah, obviously." Said Minori. How did she not understand that most basic rule…maybe because she was homeschooled. Yeah, homeschool kids were always the weirdest. Poor Suzuki. It wasn't her fault that she was all socially impaired like this. She just never had anyone to help her. Well now she did.

"Oh…I hadn't realized it worked like that for people our age…well he's ten years older than me so it's different. I'm sorry that the girl you don't like stole the boy you did like. That was very mean of her and you seem very upset…um….do you want something to drink? Or smoke? When I get upset my friends give me things to drink and smoke." Said Mob. She reached over to her backpack and pulled out the tiny bottle of rum that Shimazaki had let her have because when he got it he had thought that it was vodka and he didn't like rum. Mob liked it ok. It went good with milk but she liked vodka and milk better. She put the bottle next to her and then pulled out the pencil case with pens and joints she had. Shimazaki had said that she could have anything from his desk besides the coke and the pills and the acid. He was very generous like that.

And she was generous too.

When your friend was upset then you made them feel better. That was just what it was to be a good friend. She had always considered herself to be a very good friend. She knew that she was only supposed to do this to control her powers, Minegishi had said, but Shimazaki had said that it was ok to do this for fun…and Minegishi had said that everything but acid and coke were ok in moderation…and even dad had said that it was ok for her to drink socially….

So this was ok.

"Suzuki…you are so lucky to have me for a friend….and I guess that I'm happy to know you too or whatever. You're socially impaired, you dress like a first grader, and you're sort of weird but you really come through when I need you to…so thanks." Said Minori. There. Hidden depths. Minori got up and shut the curtains. She was up on the second floor but she didn't want to risk any of dad's guards seeing what she was doing. Dad was suspicious of her since that first time she had smoked and then ate all the cookies in the house and fell asleep on her rug.

She could not afford to get caught.

Dad would never believe that this was Suzuki's idea. She had the sweet and innocent routine down…and it wasn't even a routine. She was just…like that. All sweet and innocent and weird. Well she wouldn't get in trouble but Minori would. It would be over. Dad would send her to the all girl's school where they wore hideous uniforms and couldn't even dye their hair or wear makeup. Why not just kill her and hide her body in the garden? No, she could not get caught…

But dad didn't know about her Instagram so she was fine.

"Um….thanks. I'm happy to have you as a friend too. So…what do you want to do? This is rum and you have to mix it with something or you'll get sick…and the joints are the stuff that give you energy….and the pens make you tired." Said Mob as she laid everything out in front of her. She expected Minori to come over and pick something but instead she went over to her closet. Mob watched as she pulled out some clothes, held them up, and then tossed them on the floor.

"You and me are about the same size, right?" asked Minori as she went through the secret part of her closet that dad didn't know about. She needed something that said 'this is Suzuki and she hasn't been repeating the first grade for the past million years'. She needed to show the world that she had friends and that the friends that she had were way cooler than her friends, the ones she'd had before. She was cool and she was fun to hang out with and she did fun stuff and she deserved to be on top. An Asagiri was always on top.

"Um…I think so? I'm a medium in most places." Said Mob as she watched Minori take her closet apart. She didn't want to say something wrong but it seemed sort of….not good…to put clean clothes on the floor like that. But she didn't say anything because those were not clothes which she was responsible for.

"Get over here and put this on and then get a pen or a joint or something." Said Minori as she pulled a crop top and some shorts out of her secret closet space. There. Now Suzuki would look like she could be seen with her. They needed to go shopping one of these days. It was just plain cruel to let Suzuki dress like that and also Minori could not be seen, even in a foreign country, with someone who dressed like Suzuki. Also the world could not be subjected to that. It was for humanity.

"Ok." Said Mob. She got up and did what she was told. She took a very short tank top and shorts from Minori…and just stared at them. She hated pants. They were just…uncomfortable. Also she couldn't wear tank tops anymore because they had no sleeves and she had to wear things with sleeves, even if they were just short, or people could see her armpits and stuff.

"Well? Come on, I'm not into girls if that's what you're so worried about." Said Minori. Well she was pretty sure that she wasn't….but Suzuki didn't need to know that. Even if she was like that she could do better than Suzuki.

"No, I'm not worried about that and that doesn't bother me at all….I just don't wear pants….and also this shirt has no sleeves…and I think that it would show my stomach too because it's so short. Well my undershirt, the part that covers my stomach." Said Mob

"Well we need to take pictures so, come on, get changed…and lose the undershirt too. You don't really need it and if you did…come on. You're almost eleven." Said Minori

"Um…can I maybe borrow a dress? With sleeves? I mean this is nice but…I don't dress like this. Sorry." said Mob. She could maybe wear the tiny shirt if she kept her arms at her side the whole time but she was not going to wear shorts. She hated them. They were terrible, all pants were, and the most she could tolerate were tights. Not even leggings. She had no idea how people could stand to have something rubbing up on them like that all the time. Plus it felt like your legs were tied together….it just…was not good for her. She'd been this way for her entire life. She didn't know why she was the way she was, just that she was that way.

"Seriously Suzuki? Come on, we have to look like we're partying and that means party clothes…or at least not kid clothes….but fine. Since you're the guest and you brought the stuff….but let your hair down. You look better like that." Said Minori before she went back into her closet. She pulled out a pink dress…with sleeves as requested. She had to be nice to Suzuki. She had brought the stuff, she could tell on Minori, and also she wasn't a classmate. She could just leave whenever she wanted. Sometimes you just had to be nice.

Like now.

"Um….sure Minori. I can unbraid my hair….I guess." said Mob. She let her hair down from her braids and shook it out so it got back to it's shape. Then she as handed a short pink dress…with short sleeves…and it looked like it would be tight but she turned around and put it on. Minori went over to her makeup table and got some things out. Mob changed quickly….and wished that she could chance back. This was short…and tight…and it felt like her arms were tied to her when she tried to lift them…but her friend wanted to play dress up so that was what they were going to do…

And also they were doing makeovers….apparently.

"Come over here and sit down." Said Minori. Suzuki didn't have a problem with this, thank God, and she sat still while Minori went to work. No foundation, concealer, or highlighter. She was too pale and nothing that Minori had worked with her skin tone. They were totally going shopping together, they had to. She needed makeup and clothes and also she needed a new hairstyle because the hime cut was just…weird. What was she trying to do? An anime look?

Maybe that might work for her.

Like she could be a cool cosplay friend…or something like a Harajuku girl. Yeah. Mob would work well as a Harajuku girl since she had this weird paleness and the long hair…because this look was not working for her. The pink eyeshadow and the blush and the lip gloss….none of this was working with her. Well Minori was not going to give up. An Asagiri never gave up.

Even when the odds looked impossible.

"You're really good at this, Minori. I don't even know what most of this stuff is for. I've never put on makeup before." Said Mob as she opened her eyes. She felt her face being tickled….something pink was being brushed onto her cheeks. She hadn't worn makeup since the time when she was really little and she put on mom's makeup. She was….she looked….she looked so…

She looked so pretty.

There was pink stuff on her eyes and her eye lashes were so long and Minori had outlined them with black stuff like mom used to…and now her eyes looked so big…and her lips were pink too like she'd been eating a cherry lollipop…and stuff. She looked so pretty…and she hadn't knowing that she could look so pretty…and now she did…and even this dress looked nice. This dress made her breasts look like she had some…sort of. She didn't know why she cared about that, when you had them people looked at them and said stuff about them like Fukuda had said about Minegishi, and she didn't want that….but she did want them…even though she didn't need them since she had gone her whole life without having them….but she did want them…and to be pretty…even though she had no idea who she was even trying to look pretty for. Herself? She liked the way she had looked before. Boys? She didn't know any boys she liked…well she sort of liked Hatori….or something. She didn't know…

She didn't if she would have minded all that much if Hatori looked at her.

"Of course I'm good at it. I've been doing this for a while now, since I was ten. I want to have a YouTube channel where I do this but dad said no. Dad says no to everything….he can suck sometimes….but it's whatever. We have to go shopping since most of what I have won't work for you…and we need to et you some new clothes too since you're going to be seen with me….and stop talking now. I have to set your makeup." Said Minori. Did you have to do the setting spray if you didn't do the foundation and stuff? Well she would do it anyway to be safe. She had to make this look good. She had made everything pink though, to match the dress, and that was good.

Like Suzuki said, she was good at this.

It was about time someone told her that. Really. Everyone was too proud or whatever to say that she was good at what she did. She could make even the ugliest of ducklings into the most beautiful of swans…or maybe just into a show duck. Swans were bitches. Back when they had them on the grounds when she had been a kid they would always get so angry when she tried to pet them and then they would get even angrier when she threw the rocks to punish them. Stupid fucking birds. Suzuki was more like a fancy show duck. All harmless or whatever.

Harmless was the word for her.

Even all dressed up she looked like a little kid in her big sister's clothes or whatever. They'd go shopping later. Right now she would work with what she had. They had to look like they were partying and having a great time. They had to look like she didn't need any of her friends. She could make friends wherever she went. Cool ones. Ones who knew how to smoke and drink and whatever.

Ones who she could dress up and take pictures with…sort of like playing dolls.

"Thank you so much…I didn't know that I could look so pretty." Said Mob. She felt like a doll….but in a good way. She got up and looked at herself in the full length mirror. She could see her legs, how fuzzy they were, and her dress was too tight…but she still looked pretty. This was….this was fun. Minori was fun. She could be a little hard to understand sometimes, and she was bad at playing dolls, but she was fun once you understood her idea of fun.

She liked to play dress up.

She liked to play dress up and take pictures…and that was fun. Especially when you smoked. That always made everything more fun. Hanging out with a friend her age….it wasn't so hard. Not when she figured out what to do, what she liked to do, and what they liked to do together….even if it wasn't playing dolls…

But she had lots of people to play dolls with.