❀ plotted with @cestmoilastar — claudine . ❀
IT WAS SO EARLY . supposed to be an all - day affair since it was the first day . managed through the initial script reading well enough && was now sitting on the sidelines , reading over her lines . her mother was off somewhere else — probably talking to the other adults on set . after all , kotoko was mostly trustworthy when left to her own devices . especially when she’d been on sets pretty much since she was a toddler .
still , when she heard footsteps approaching the small cluster of chairs she’d found her seat in , she expected it to be her mother — more often than not was . but this was one of the exceptions to that — instead found herself faced with an older blonde she recognized from the script reading . didn’t seem like an adult , but was definitely treated more maturely than kotoko was . ( a high schooler , maybe ? or maybe even had already graduated . either way , she definitely seemed younger than most of the others . )
as the other approached , the younger girl would offer a sweet ( totally cute ) smile — script loosely folded in half without thought , to be ignored for the time being , rising from her seat to properly introduce herself . “ AH , HI ! i’m kotoko utsugi . it’s nice to work with you ! ” a rehearsed line , but still backed with genuine enthusiasm . wasn’t that often she got to work with other people who were even this close to her age . or at least , not who really wanted to hang out with her . most seemed to either think she was lame because her mom was always there or jealous because everyone thought she was so adorable . ( just another thing that was beginning to wear on her . )
