Date Originally Posted: September 16, 2009
Title: Defeat
Series: Skip Beat!
Rating: G
Characters: Koenji Erika, mentions of others.
Pairing: None.
Spoilers: If you're caught up with the volume releases in English, you're good.
Word Count: 255
DISCLAIMER: Skip Beat! belongs to Yoshiko Nakamura.
BETA: None. Ya wanna be my Skip Beat! BETA?
SUMMARY: To be Kotonami Kanae's rival, Erika has lowered herself.
NOTE: Cindersarahhad asked about Erika. And like Reino, this one came easily. Although, perhaps a little more easily than Reino.

Defeat

Have you even see the light of hope flicker and die in someone's eyes?

To see their very determination be extinguished?

Erika had.

And she loved it.

She loved knowing that she was the reason for someone's dreams being crushed.

That someone being Kotonami Kanae.

But then that commoner dared to fight back.

Dared to send a challenge.

The gauntlet had been thrown.

So of course Erika had picked it up, metaphorically speaking. After all, she was a rich young lady and had people to pick things up for her.

Audition followed audition.

Though it was tempting, Erika didn't use her usual tactics.

And yet she still won audition after audition.

Until, that one.

She wanted a specific role in a remake of an old drama. The character was a young woman who basically served her aunt, uncle, and cousins. While that was distasteful in the eyes of Erika, she wanted that role. After all, her love interest was to be portrayed by none other that Tsuruga Ren.

Then the harsh casting director had the nerve to tell Erika that she wasn't innocent looking enough to portray the character. That she didn't give off a humble and loving aura.

Erika was seconds away from calling for her reinforcements when she heard the Curara commercial playing on someone's phone. Her eye twitched in irritation. She swallowed her rage and left the audition.

Later, she found out who won the role.

Koenji Erika had found a new rival in Momose Itsumi.

And she would not let her dreams be extinguished.

She refused to give anyone that satisfaction.

She would just try harder next time.

A/N: Okay, I admit. I'm not exactly happy with the end. I kept adding line after line and then I was like, Oh hell. That's it!

***Please note that you can suggest a character but that doesn't necessarily mean I will write it. It all depends on whether I find inspiration or am motivated to write about that character. ***