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Schlepping after her mother through the local supermarket is not an activity that particularly bothers Rin, although today, a bright day, she's a little more annoyed by it because she's been suspended from school, again, and her mom is making a big deal about it. All she did was slap away the hand of a lustful teacher.
“Mom, can I have a coke?”
The tall, sturdy, and obviously foreign woman bustling along ahead of her shakes her dark head just as she turns a corner. “No.”
Well, that's that then. Rin could use her pocket money, but she's never been one to use her own resources when she can use someone else's. Not for free, of course, she always offers tremendous value for money. Mother and daughter, who both individually and together attract attention due to their looks, continue to weave around the shop, the one very irritated with the other. Being under a state of siege is so normal for Rin that she only subconsciously realises that she lives in a warzone whenever a stranger appears on the scene. Today that stranger takes the form of an acquaintance of her mother's.
A man such as Rin has never seen in the wild, never seen outside the pages of a book or beyond a film, turns the corner of a shelving unit at the same moment as her mother does, a real life pimp in a fedora almost colliding with her.
“Ah, sorry.”
“Sorry, sorry, so…Sojiro?” Rin's mother speaks idiosyncratic Japanese, but so does the man she hails.
“Long time no see, Shea-san. You're looking as gorgeous as ever.” The man's smile is lopsided and charming in the extreme, if more than a little disreputable.
Mixed feelings assail Rin, and those increase when he looks up from her mother's face to sweep his stormy gaze over her. Much like her, he's clearly Japanese at first sight, and also ever so slightly exotic at the second. The realisation of otherness warms her up to him. That is, until the red glow of intense desire fills his features, exuding forth from the soul hidden within. Rin's resting bitch face greatly increases in intensity, but since it was present when he fell in lust with her, it does nothing to defend its owner. She makes a note never to be alone in a room, elevator, or other enclosed, private location with him.