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[detectflaws.livejournal.com]

A new roommate, boring barista job, two college exams and countless stakeouts later and the government decides to hire me to do something for them. Maybe I should've taken a photography class and gotten noticed sooner, but I guess it doesn't matter.

It makes me wonder if this is their way of making people go to this ball thing, though.

Comments

[becomingspecial.livejournal.com]

Are there even celebrities to take pictures of? It sounds very surreal.

[detectflaws.livejournal.com]

I think this is for a newsletter? I'm not 100 per cent, but that's what it sounded like.

[becomingspecial.livejournal.com]

Well, hopefully the pay is pretty good.

[detectflaws.livejournal.com]

It's generous for a few hours of work to be sure.

[becomingspecial.livejournal.com]

Then there's that at least. And you don't have to go through the stress of finding a date, I guess.

[detectflaws.livejournal.com]

Who needs a date? Going stag is so classy.

[becomingspecial.livejournal.com]

I'd bet you'd have no trouble finding a date. Except now they have you there as a working girl. ... not that kind of working girl, of course. You know what I mean, right?

[detectflaws.livejournal.com]

Yeah, no worries. You're going or what?

[becomingspecial.livejournal.com]

It doesn't look that way.

[detectflaws.livejournal.com]

No? Can I ask why?

[becomingspecial.livejournal.com]

Oh, a myriad of reasons. No date, no money to buy formal dress, and no experience with fancy formal affairs where teenagers grope each other on the dance floor. Things like that.

[detectflaws.livejournal.com]

You could have Ichihara matchmake you, you know. Also, I think there are rental places?

... not that I in any way want to make someone go to a formal event.

[becomingspecial.livejournal.com]

I'm not interested in a stranger. And keep this up and I'll start to think you just want to take photos of me!

[detectflaws.livejournal.com]

They'll only be a stranger until you get to know their name~

I might.

[becomingspecial.livejournal.com]

Please don't. I look ridiculous in a suit.

[detectflaws.livejournal.com]

Then wear a clown suit.

[becomingspecial.livejournal.com]

See, now you just want me to look weird.

[detectflaws.livejournal.com]

That might be a possibility.

[becomingspecial.livejournal.com]

It's not happening!

[detectflaws.livejournal.com]

And I can't bribe you in any way?

[becomingspecial.livejournal.com]

How so?

[detectflaws.livejournal.com]

I don't know, you'd have to give me some kind of idea of what you'd like to be bribed with.

[becomingspecial.livejournal.com]

Sorry, but I'm pretty sure you can't give me anything that would make me want to wear a clown suit to this.

[detectflaws.livejournal.com]

Damn.

Maybe just the nose?

[becomingspecial.livejournal.com]

It will cost you more than some good sleuthing skills, that's for sure.