𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐁𝐓𝐄𝐃 | 𝘺𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴

IX - through the lens

The very same night after having worked your first shift at the hostess club, you received a sudden message.

[Kaito]

Hey

You have classes tomorrow, right?

When you're free, I'd like to get started on the project

Take a few shots and figure out what I'm going for

Well, then. He was clearly eager to get started, since you'd literally only just met him earlier today and he was already asking to meet with you again. Though you supposed you couldn't really be mad at him. He'd agreed to pay you, after all. If both parties were walking away with this with something gained, then you could consider it to be nothing more than a business transaction.

No need for complications, no reason to try and get close to one another. Besides, with the way your life was going right now, it was probably best to keep him from getting caught up in all your shit.

[Name]

sure, that works

i'll msg you when i'm done for the day tmr

[Kaito]

Sweet, looking forward to it

[Name]

i'm looking forward to getting paid

[Kaito]

Lol

Fair enough

You set your phone down and frowned. You'd never been the subject of someone's artistic project before. Were you really so special-looking that he was interested in photographing you? He probably meant it as a compliment, but you still couldn't help but feel a little weird about the whole thing.

Did I ever tell him my class schedule? How'd he even know I was going to be on campus tomorrow?

The door slid open before you had a chance to give it a proper thought, and revealed none other than Ryu, staring down at you with those cold eyes of his.

He folded his hands overtop of one another, into the loose sleeves of his yukata. "So?" he frowned. "You're not even going to tell me how your day at work went?"

Of course the first thing he did was look for any opportunity to bitch you out. You'd barely gotten home five minutes ago. You were still fitted in your tight dress, for crying out loud. And did he really think you were going to go out of your way to seek him out? You couldn't stand the guy. No chance in hell were you going to talk to him of your own volition.

"It went well," you said, deciding to omit the fact that one of the customers had gotten mad at you. There was no chance Ekaterina would have ratted you out, and based on the way Kosuke had acted, you doubted he'd done so either. A little white lie wouldn't hurt anyone.

Ryu rolled his eyes. "That's a rather vague answer. What exactly did you do?"

"Um, just, y'know... talked to the customers and stuff. Took some orders, handed out drinks. Made sure everyone was enjoying themselves..."

You brought your knees to your chest and peered up at him. What did he want you to say exactly? You were certain he knew how a hostess club worked, considering he owned the damn thing. He was probably just fucking with you. Like always.