You're Beautiful: Chapter 7
OKINAWA
“Okay that brown one is mine....”
“The blue one is mine!!”
“Don’t drop mine...”
“Thanks Ken.!”
Karin frowned as the rest of the boys moved into the cabin smiling heartily. She staggered after them under the weight of everyone’s luggage. Having to carry their load wasn’t easy. But the price to fitting in was expensive, and here she was paying it off.
She had promised herself she would do everything she could to fit in for her brother’s sake, even if it meant facing all these silent cold glances, or extra chores. She just hoped everyone would get warmer to her soon.
Unfortunately for her, things had become complicated before she had even settled in. The moment she had seated herself in that meeting room, the manager woman had started talking about their list of projects they had lined up, starting with the first project. Karin was simply nodding politely at everything until she had heard the term... ‘beach shorts....’
“EHHHHH??” she let out a loud girly squeal but silenced immediately at the suspiciously shocked faces staring at her.
“I...I mean...why beach shorts?.....” She asked again, trying to make her voice as ‘manly’ as possible. The corner of her eye caught Suzuki-san smack his forehead in the corner of the room.
“Well Ken...it’s a beach...you can’t actually wear full attire at the beach...”
“Well...then why aren’t we wearing those Hawaiian shirts.....or something....”
“Oh please...I’d rather wear a bikini...” Daiki muttered, and everyone laughed. Karin flushed with embarrassment.
“Inoue kun...why are you worried?”
“Yea....I mean...don’t we have that other thing you mentioned? The formal shots or something...I mean we might get too tan....”
Surprisingly everyone in the room went silent and stared at Reiko san who looked both dumbfounded....yet impressed.
“You’re...oh dear. We should have scheduled this last...I mean it’s a whole day photo shoot...You’re bound to get tanned...I mean...its Okinawa...ahh shit....”
The boys laughed again.
“Ken’s right here, won’t be a good idea to wear such open clothing...we should try on some of those Hawaian tops... ooh wait! Isn't that other company we have a deal with promoting some sort of new summer attire? We’ll just help them out and use it in this photo shoot! That’s like two in one go!” Yabu suggested excitedly.
“Yeah! Great Idea Yabu!” Hikaru grinned.
“Awesome...!” the others smiled at him.
“Alright, well we can take their attire...now go and get rest! In two days it’s Okinawa!”
So here they were. Despite the courtesy everybody had shown her on their first day, she had been forced to ride the train with some excess luggage. And she didn’t refuse because they had asked so nicely, and now here she was, a stack of bags with a pair of stick like legs.
The man at the door of the beach house smiled happily as they approached. “Hisahiburi ne!! You haven’t been here for so long boys!!”
“Domo!” Yabu smiled as the man handed him the keys.
“Alright hey Hikaru!! Inoo!! Whoah you Daiki and Yamada you guys grew!! Ok ok I was joking.....Yuri! And.... ..”
The man became speechless as he stared at a stack of bags approached him with two legs sticking out at the end.
“Ahh that's Ken..!” Keito helped him in.
Karin smiled widely wiping the sweat from her face as she finally ditched the bags in the corner of the cabin.
“Domo...Inoue dess...”
“Ahh the newbie! I heard its cause of you the boys managed to pull this shoot off, otherwise my company wasn’t happy..” he smiled.
Karin’s lips smiled back, but her heart felt as uneasy as ever. She could have sworn that his smile was fake, and he was perhaps the unhappiest on having her here.
As the boys settled in their luxurious beach house, Karin dragged herself to a big sofa-bed in the corner, and dropped dead.
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“Okay! Come on smile! Ken give us a nice big smile!!!”
There were so many people bustling here and there on the set, Karin awkwardly positioned herself amongst the boys. Thankfully the company attire they had chosen was friendly to her ‘gender faking’ situation.
They all sported cotton typed bright shirts and knee length shorts, the shot was simple. Just strolling by the beach...that wasn’t too bad thought Karin. That was until....
“Okay! Now I want you all to do this big hug! Ken! You’re pretty tall, you’re in front of Yuto. Chinen, Yamada in the middle you go. Quickly people! Sunset’s coming! Give me a nice tight hug now!!”
Karin flushed brightly. Hugging?...
She staggered awkwardly as she was pushed against Yamada’s back, and Yuto clasped his long arms around both of them.
“Alrighty...” Yuto smiled, as Yamada and Chinen hugged each other, being the ones in the middle.
Karin blinked, feeling hot in her face.
“Okay one tw....AHH ken! You’re supposed to hug Ryosuke! Somebody please position the boy’s arms!! HAYAKU!!!”
People bustled over and forced her hands round Yamada’s waist, how she begged to herself that moment the camera would mistake her flaming red face as just a tan. She looked up feeling Yuto’s breath on her neck.
“Hurrryyyy...” her heart begged.
“Alright! Big smiles everyone!!!”
"Big Smiles my ass in this heat..." she heard Yuto whisper as the photographer started clicking away furiously.
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Author's Note: Hey guys, hope you're enjoying the story so far! If yes than please keep on supporting this and other sakura_koi fics! And thanks a lot for coming this far with the fic!! ARIGATOU!! Chuu <3
PS: Im imagining Karin to be feeling like that
on the Inside during that photo-shoot!!
Doki-doki much! =P
What do you think? Hope you get it ;) love ya!