Aino’s 8: Chapter Two–Hate, Love, and Other Cons

docholligay:

I forgot to post this last month because I’m not exactly with it right now, BUT, here is the next chapter of Aino’s 8, as sponsored by @yamadara87 !! I hope you enjoy! All chapters can be found here. 

Ami Mizuno hated Michiru Kaioh.

Michiru was affected, and cold, and manipulative. She had no concept of money, of consequences, of basic niceties. She genuinely seemed to think herself above every human she spoke to, and ordered people around with the grace and ease that only the cradle-rich can muster. Ami would have delighted in nothing more than to see her behind bars, as unlikely as that might be to happen.

Michiru Kaioh hated Ami Mizuno.

Ami thought she was the smartest one in the room and covered it with an oversold bashfulness that bordered on pantomime, had all the social grace one might expect a shut-in to have, and loved to play the victim. She ignored people in deference to her computer or a book, and had the audacity to complain about a lack of social invitations. Michiru would have delighted to see her forced to the bottom of a prison hierarchy.

Luckily, both worked in an occupation where hating the other was perfectly acceptable.

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