Personal Paparazzo (ft. Les Twins)

The Fued

~2~

"Welcome! I am Akeno Tinubu. My crew and I are so pleased you could make it." I hear Akeno greet from the office.

Yeah, we're sooo happy. She could have at least told me what time they were coming.

I walk out of the office and my eyes immediately end up on... them.
As they talked to my sister, I observed them. They both had on basic white graphic tees and white backwards jeans.

"Interesting." I mumble unamused.

The talking ceases as my existence is made known.

"They have to be amateur, at best." I say to my sister but the twins obviously heard me.

The twins' faces fluster as they are confused. One of the twins looks ready for a fight as he steps in front of the other.  I lift my eyebrow, humorously, and roll my eyes with a smirk.

"I--" I interrupt one of them. "Am Sumiko Tinubu. I will be your photographer today." The twins look at each other with widened eyes and then back to me. "Just call me Sumiko, please." I say with a smile. Not genuine of course.

I hear my sister face palm herself. I turn around and send a thumbs up her way. Of course, she returns it with a glare. Today is not the day to make friends. I just need to do what I do best, and send them on their way.

"So sorry about her." Akeno says in a hushed tone, her arms crossed and avoiding eye contact with the twins. "Dressing rooms and bathrooms are on our left. Come out whenever you're ready."

Or never.

I walk back into the office to get my camera. I hear heavy footsteps following close behind me and the door slams behind me. I sigh.

"What.. IS WRONG WITH YOU? DID YOU NOT HEAR A WORD I SAID?" Akeno yells at me.

"Keep your voice down. You don't want to scare them away." I reply with a smirk.

"Don't screw anything up, Sumiko." Akeno warns her hand pointing at me.

I walk to the door and before I close it I reply over my shoulder, "We can always find better clients."

I hear Akeno scream exasperatedly through the closed door. I laugh knowing she'll get over it. This hasn't happened too many times and she always gets over it. No bad energy or Karma has ever been returned, so I know I'm doing something right.

I place my beloved camera on the stand and make sure it's positioned perfectly. I turn around and bump into someone.

"I'm so sor-- oh." I turn around and see one of the twins glaring down at me.

"I see we've changed...nothing about our appearance but we're here so, are we ready to get this over with?" I ask with a fake smile.

The twin squints his eyes and steps closer to me. I frown standing my ground.

"Non, Sumiko. We non ready. Why you treat us like this? You non know us?" He says anger and annoyance spilling from his pores.

"Oh my, how many times am I gonna say this today?" I sigh placing my hands on my hips. "I know enough about you to know you're not the easiest to work with." I say about to walk away. The twin pulls me back and locks his hand on my wrist.

I just noticed how fast my heart is racing. Weird considering nothing intimidates me easily.

"You... you so fake."The twin says his nostrils flaring as his anger suffocates me. "I bet you get that from a web--"

"Oh, please Mr.--" I start to mock but I'm interrupted.

"Laurent!" The other twin runs to my captor and yanks him away from me.

As the calmer twin tried to comfort his raging brother, I look down at my wrist to see there's no mark. As I remember, he wasn't even holding on that tight.

Akeno rushes to me and attempts to pinch my arm.

"Ouch." I say dully totally fazed by her very, very painful attempt to scold me.

"Stop fucking around, Sue. Get your childish ass over there and apologize to him." Akeno say seriously.

"You're kidding he's the one who--"

Akeno's look says it all. She will beat my ass if I don't. She has before and probably won't hesitate now.

I walk over to Laurent, who is glaring at me, that's how I can tell its him, and I stand in front of him. His height has no effect on me as I look up at him and sigh.

"I'm sorry. I'm not being very professional. You just get on my nerves." I say rolling my eyes.

"Whatever, hater." Laurent says angrily and gently nudges me out of his way.

"Je l'aime, mon frêre. I like her, my brother." Larry says patting Laurent's back.

Laurent looks me up and down and walks away not saying another word.

Larry laughs at Laurent and walks away to the camera.

I don't know what the hell was just said and it bothers me.

"Let's get started, shall we?"

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Bisou, Bisou 😘