Fujishiro never lies.
But hides her true feelings. She's extremely uncomfortable with the feeling that someone dares to be more beautiful than her with much less effort.
It's not even true that she hides her feelings, at least as far as Kurokawa goes--once they separate, Fujishiro suddenly realizes the implications of Kurokawa's makeover on the ride home and freaks out, but only temporarily. By the next chapter she's back to doing whatever she can to make Kurokawa look and feel cuter, with no suggestion of competitiveness or that she's still upset.
Everything Fujishiro is doing is with Kurokawa's explicit permission--one of the most important scenes in the story is when Fujishiro says, "If deep down inside, you really think I'm annoying, I'll promise to never bother you again." Kurokawa replies, "I want to be your friend too . . ."
And Fujishiro isn't just trying to make Kurokawa be like her; she's done a lot to make herself more like Kurokawa--she's toned down her look and is trying to find common ground with Kurokawa by reading manga, etc.
Obviously, Fujishiro can be bossy and impulsive (among other things), but you clearly hate the character to a degree that's simply not supported by the text.
And it's only going to get worse, because this is very, very obviously a story about two basically decent people who each have their own individual flaws coming to be better people together because of the positive influence they have on one another.
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