Prompt
· English
Amateur phone photo of real people. High angle rear view from above and behind her, close, looking down over her shoulder at her face turned to the side, medium close shot, the frame cut at her waist, her face sharp. Three people in the picture, one woman, and two men around her, she alone in the middle of them, the men are her boyfriend's best friend and her brother's friend: the woman, a 23-year-old woman, of Melanesian descent with very deep brown skin with cool undertones, jet-black hair, dark brown eyes, sharply angled eyebrows and a face wider at the jaw than at the temples, tall, with broad shoulders and a solid frame, rides the escalator with her arms draped loosely around the neck of her brother's friend, her back, shoulders, head, hips and free hand frozen in that motion; her face shows amused disbelief with eyes on the eyes of her brother's friend with one brow cocked, a lopsided grin, a short laugh through her nose, her cheeks bunched up with laughter, her shoulders lifted with the laugh, wearing evening makeup with sharp black winged eyeliner stretching her eyes long, thick dark lashes, a soft brown shadow in the crease of her lids, glossy red lips, dressed in a sheer red mesh long-sleeved crop top worn on her bare skin and a red latex micro skirt, revealing her bare back showing through the mesh top as she turns her head over her shoulder, the side of her small perky breast with its nipple showing through the mesh top, adorned with a long thin gold chain necklace lying between her breasts, her hair loose and tousled over her shoulders; she turns a little toward her boyfriend's best friend so he sees her better. The man who is her boyfriend's best friend, a stocky young man in his twenties with a buzz cut, wears a leather jacket over a t-shirt, stands on the same step at her right side, turned toward her, turning his head to look her up and down with a face caught looking, a sheepish crooked grin. The man who is her brother's friend, a tall lean man in his thirties with short dark hair, wears a grey hoodie and track pants, stands on the same step at her left side, turned toward her, staring at her openly with a face caught looking, a sheepish crooked grin. More shoppers on the steps behind are blurred. A crowded escalator in a shopping mall has glass balustrades and shop fronts on the floors around, lit by bright even mall light, captured as a raw unedited phone picture with natural uneven skin with pores and fine vellus hair, true-to-life colours, mild sensor noise, IMG_4471.HEIC. A cheeky, laughing tension fills the scene.