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Aya just realised she didn't ask where the photo studio was.

"Oh damn. Where the hell is photo studio?! I can't waste my time today."
Aya muttered while looking around the whole building.

"Can I help you?"
Someone called Aya from behind.

"Yea, I just need to get to photo studi- oh my god. A, Aiba-san?! I, I saw you in the ma-magazine!"
As Aya turned back, she saw what she always see in the magazine. Aiba Masaki.

"Um, yeah. I'm in the magazine. Haha. Photo studio right?"
Masaki laughed at Aya's reaction. He was one of the main guys always appearing in monthly magazine.

"Yes. Yes, yes. I'm a new assistant here and I'm quite lost.."

"I'm going there now so you can follow me. I'm Aiba Masaki, well you know that but nice to meet you."
While walking, Masaki introduced himself.

"I'm Ueto Aya! Nice to meet you too."

"Ueto..?"
Masaki thought for a moment and shook his head. Aya had question mark on her face.

"Nothing. We're nearly there."
Smiled Masaki.

"Aiba-san! Where were you? It's your turn soon. Come on, chop chop."
One step in the photo studio, the camera man took Masaki away.

"Aya-chan!"
Mao came skipping towards Aya.

"Oh, hey. You're done?"

"Not yet!"
But there was a big smile on Mao's face.

Aya looked over where Mao was looking and saw a man posing in the camera.

"Who's that?"

"Aya-chan! How can you not know him! He's the number one popular guy in our magazine!"
Mao showed her his pictures from her phone.

"Oh yeah. No wonder he's face was familiar."
Aya just wondered why on earth Mao has his pictures on her phone.

"Anyway, I need to measure your sizes. Order from Nagasawa-san to measure every model size by today."
Aya took her measuring tape and took down the sizes.

"Gosh, again? You know there's hundreds of model here."
Mao stayed still eventhough she was mad while Aya was taking down her size.

"I know, I know. Thats why I need to do it fast."
Aya finished recording it down and stood up.

"That means you're taking Matsumoto-san's sizes?! Kyaaaa!"
Mao got excited herself and was in her own little imagination world.

"Errm. I got to go now, no time! I'll see you later, Mao-chan."

Aya had to measure every model size, including the non-famous ones and of course, the famous ones.

Few hours had past but still Aya was busy measuring sizes and the photo shoot had not yet ended.

"Hey Sho! Are you done?"
Mao went over to a guy sitting down reading book.

"Oh, hi Mao. Yeah, I'm done."
Sho looked up and closed his book.

Mao and Sho were childhood friends since young and Sho was the one who adviced Mao to be in this agency.

"How can you be so nerdy to read a book at a time like this?!"
Mao, who was the one who hate to study opened his book and starred at him.

"I'm just bored."
Sho took the book away from Mao and started to read again.

"Did Aya-chan come to you to measure your sizes?"
Mao looked away and saw Aya still measuring other models.

"Who's Aya-chan? Well, no one came up to me except you."
Sho replied. Since he was reading a book, no one wanted to disturb him except Mao.

"She's my bestfriend that just got a job here. Go to her and make her life easier than she comes to you, alright?"
Mao pulled Sho from the chair and pushed him. She pointed at Aya.

"That's her. She need to measure all the models' sizes. Now, go!"

Sho put down his book and walked towards the girl Mao pointed.

When Aya was done with one girl, Sho patted her back.

"Hi. I'm Sakurai Sho. I need to get my size measured?"

Aya turned back and at first, she was surprised to see one of the famous model coming up to her. But soon she had a smile on her face. She was happy that she didn't need to search for him.

"Right. Okay, this will only take a few sec.."
Aya pulled out her measuring tape and started to measure his size.

"How did you know I was suppose to measure people's sizes?"
Aya asked while dropping down his sizes on her sheet.

"Mao told me. She's my childhood friend."

"What!? Really? Oh my god. That's so cool! Oh, by the way I'm Ueto Aya. Nice to meet you."
Aya stood up, finishing what she had to write.

"Yeah, nice to meet you too."

"Okay, its all done! Thanks. I need to rush so bye!"
Aya waved and started to measure others.

While Aya was busy measuring, Mao was still starring at the guy.

"You're starring at Jun again?"
Sho came up to her after he left Aya.

"GOD! You scared me. Why are you calling him Jun when I call him Matsumoto-kun."

"Because he is my friend?"

"WHAT. Why did you never tell me this earlier?!"
Mao punched Sho's stomach but she was happy at the same time.

"Ouch. Hey, your friend Aya-chan is quite cute. I think she has the look to become a model."
Sho looked over to Aya and he saw someone else was looking at her from the other direction.

"I'll help you if you help me with... Hey, are you listening to me?"
Mao waved infront of Sho but Sho kept on looking at a guy that was looking at Aya.

"Aiba-kun..?"
Mao looked where Sho was looking and she went over to him.

"Hey! What are you looking at?"

"Ah! Inoue-san. Nothing."
Masaki jumped up to see Mao.

"You were looking at Aya-chan right? Hehe, you don't have to hide."
Mao nudged Masaki.

"Really, its nothing."
Masaki smiled and went away.

"Um. Aiba-san? Can I take your measurement?"
Aya asked Masaki when he was walking away from Mao.

"Yeah, sure."
Masaki opened his leg wide and put up his arms.

"Ueto-san? Can I ask you something?"
Aya just nodded, she was holding a pencil with .

"Why are you suddenly working in here?"

"Because my mom died recently and I needed a job urgently."
Aya stood up and recorded the size. She had no emotion in her face.

"I'm sorry. But is it an accident?"
Masaki stood there, looking at Aya recording down.

"Yeah, it was. I think it was a car accident.."
Aya tried to recall her memory. She wasn't with her mom when the accident happened. The only thing she clearly remembered was the time when her mom was dying at the hospital room and the doctor reading the time of the death.

Tears started to drop from her eyes when she imagined about her mom. She told herself not to cry and be strong in her heart but the tears just kept on falling from her eyes.

"I'm really sorry.."
Masaki just left the scene with apologies.

When Aya was calming herself and wiping her tears, a handkerchief came in her vision.

"Are you okay? Masaki is always like that. Don't mind him."

As Aya looked up, the guy that Mao was talking about was there.

"Here, take it. You need it."
Jun forced it towards Aya. Jun was Masaki's friend.

"Thank you."
Aya took the handkerchief and wiped her tears. Jun just smiled and went away.

Back to reality, she remembered that she still had a job to do.

"Matsumoto-san! Right? I need to take down your sizes."
Aya shouted.

"I'm a new assistant here. This is order from Nagasawa-san."

Jun stopped walking and went back to Aya.

"Right. Then take my size."
Jun stood infront of Aya.

"The five top models please come to take the group picture immediately!"
The camera man shouted.

"Hurry, I got to go."
Jun rushed Aya.

"Okay, one sec. Who are the top five models?"
Aya finished measuring and asked Jun.

"Me, Sho, Masaki, Inoue-san and Toda-san. Just go there and look for yourself."
Jun rushed to the camera man and Aya saw Mao rushing as well.

Aya looked at the list of names and she was done. She decided to see the five top model shoot.

"Oh, that girl. Toda Erika-san. She was very pretty.."
Aya remembered taking her sizes few hours ago.

"Hey, Aya. You're done?"
Satoshi came next to her after he was done cleaning the dressing floor.

"Oh, hey! Yeah, I'm just looking at them posing."

The five top models were posing infront of the camera and they all looked professional. In every second, they posed differently and Aya was amazed at how they could come up with those poses every second.

"Wow.."
Satoshi's eyes were only on Mao. He never looked at Mao posing in the camera for a long time.

"That is just so coooool.."
Aya said it to herself.

"What is so coooool?"

Aya turned back and saw Masami standing with her arms crossed.

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