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CHAPTER FOUR

Kise plopped onto the photoshoot studio's comfy sofa, grabbing his bottle and gulping some water down. Modelling was kinda fun but also very tiring - especially when his fangirls decide to storm the studio and make a huge fuss out of who's going to be the side role... Thinking of that, he remembered that there will be a new model today who he was going to watch and decide if he wanted to work together.

"Hey, what's the name of the new model I'll be watching today?" Kise asked to nobody in particular.

"Ah, I don't know... Was it Shizuka or something?" His manager scratched his head. "Oh, here she comes."

He tilted his head to look at this new girl, but he only got a glimpse of her back. She had nicely curled hair- the same colour as Suzu-cchi's - and was wearing a purple dress with a puffy skirt. There was a large straw hat on her head too, and black, fingerless gloves made of leather. Kise immediately approved of her outfit - it was very professional (but then again the wardrobe people probably chose it for her). Now, he just needs to see if her face is right for the job...

A loud, wheezy gasp came out of his mouth as soon as the girl turned around. It was... SUZU-CCHI'S TWIN! She had aquamarine blue eyes just like Suzume (but no black glasses), and light makeup on her flawless face. What ruined the whole effect was the grimace and the narrowed eyes.

Kise opened and closed his mouth like a fish and then bounded excitedly towards the new girl.

"HI I'M KISE RYOTA DO YOU KNOW SUZUME-CCHI?" He shouted.

She sighed. "I am Suzume."

In that moment of shock, time stood still as he just gaped at her. This wasn't happening. No, Suzu-cchi would never want to be a model... But, this girl did look exactly like her... She never told him... That's so mean...

"Look." She said, "I can prove it." The girl peeled back the left leather glove, and on the side of her, near the bone that sticks out, was a burn scar, still red and angry.

"S-Suzu..me-cchi..." Kise stuttered.

The blonde watched as his classmate that he'd been bugging for the last weeks posed again for the camera. This time his manager told her to have one hand behind her back and one holding the rim of the black straw hat.

Suzume looked amazing.

He didn't even know she could look like that... The way her hair was curled perfectly showed off her face and her eyes stood out without the thick black frames hiding them.

~Time Skip~A Week Later~

"Hey, don't you think this girl from 'Modelling Weekly' looks familiar...?" A boy in his second year exclaimed.

His friend nodded vigorously. "Yeah, wasn't it that girl who the Kise guy hangs around all the time? Year 1B, I think."

Coincidentally, said girl walked by, with Kise whining (again) about something or another.

The group of upperclassmen rushed over.

"Hey! Aren't you from this magazine?"

"Can I take a photo with you?

"You are actually very pretty!"

Suzume decided that these weird people weren't talking to her and kept on walking to her Home Economics class, still trying shake off the blonde (which that proved to be very difficult indeed). He shot a glare at her admirers and they were immediately subdued by the rare serious expression that was on his face.

"I hate those fanboys who just think you're pretty and popular." Kise grumbled, jogging to keep up with the hazel-haired girl.

She muttered a "Mmm." before saying, "But isn't it the same with your fangirls?"

He pondered this for quite a while, seeming to have never thought of this before, then nodded slowly. "That's right... Bu-but..." And he tried to change the subject, apparently uncomfortable with talking about this. "And also, Suzu-cchi, I just thought, I've never properly introduced myself to you before!"

"Er, what?"

"I'm Kise Ryota, and I do karaoke and my hobby is basketball, wait no it's the other way around! I come from Teiko Middle School, being part of the Generation of Miracles. I also do modelling, so I'm very busy most of the time! Nice to meet you!" He randomly bounced on his toes, making weird gestures and trying to walk alongside me at the same time.

"I must say, I'm weirded out by your tackiness."

He made the usual puppy-dog eyes, going, "Whaaaaaa?" and attracting heaps of attention from the girls (as usual). But it was weird this morning, because everyone seemed to be staring at her too... Meh, it's nothing.

Suzume looked at him blankly as she got to her class. He looked back too, and then finally realised that it wasn't his class.

"You can go away now." She said flatly.

Kise whimpered, then scrambled away, or else he'd be late.

She stirred the mixing bowl thoroughly, (densely) not noticing her male partner trying too hard to help her and generally looking over-excited.

"E-erm, Suzume-san?"

She kept stirring. "What?"

He fidgeted nervously. "Well, w-were you on Modelling Weekly this month?"

"What's that?"

"So it wasn't y-you?"

"Huh?"

The conversation kept going, Suzume having no idea what-so-ever about what he was talking about.

In the end the cupcakes were baked nicely, and the icing was put on very artistically, but the guy was absolutely depressed, not able to get a confirmed answer out of her.

After Home Economics, she left the room only to find Kise waiting for her like an over-excited dog.

"Stalker."

"NO-SSU!" He protested vigorously. "I-I'm just... being a good fr- classmate!"

She nodded. "Okay, but I don't really need a... 'good classmate' or whatever."

He looked like he just got slapped in the face. "O-oh, r-really...?" Kise kept silent for the rest of the way to he-didn't-know-where, shuffling his feet and occasionally glancing at Suzume with a pitiful expression on his face.

Suzume arrived at school the next morning to loud choruses of wolf whistles and yells of, "It's her!"

As soon as she stepped into the school gates, fanboys crowded her, shoving bits of paper, arms, and permanent markers at her for her to sign. The poor girl was overwhelmed, not even knowing what this was all about.

"Sign my arm please!"

"Can you do my back?"

"H-huh...? W-what?" Suzume stood there, very confused, until a very angry blonde model came and ushered her away...

On their way to Roll Call, he was still muttering under his breath. "Outrageous, those filthy boys all crowding around Suzu-cchi... How dare they..."

All through the subjects, still he muttered, and she remembered dimly wondering whether he had that much breath to mutter through like five million classes. Finally it was lunch, and he stopped muttering for once.

But Suzume seemed to have got her lunch all planned out by someone else.

"Hey Ryo-kun!" Hitomi giggled, making her way to where Kise was waiting for the hazel-haired girl. "Could I just borrow Suzu-chan this lunch?"

His eyes lit up at the thought of Suzume having actual friends. "Sure, sure! Go ahead!"

"I don't wa-" She protested, but was dragged away by the still giggling Hitomi.

As soon as they were out of sight, the look on her 'kidnapper's' face changed. Her expression was menacing, and rather nasty.

"Now you ignorant brat, listen up." She hissed. "You stay away from MY Ryo-kun. You don't deserve his attention, and he'll lose interest in you soon enough, so just drop it, okay?"

"Look, I have no interest in Kise whatsoever, he's just randomly following me aroun-" She was interrupted yet again by a girly slap to the right side of her face.

"He wouldn't follow the likes of you around, sweetie." Hitomi said in a sickly honey-coated voice. "That is such an insult to me." Then she smartly turned on her heels and marched off, apparently satisfied for the time being.