1 Dress fitting

It’s Katy’s wedding in a week’s time. She’s supper excited about it and couldn’t wait to show up at the designer’s store for her dress fitting. Katy and Mia hop out of the Bentley 2016 model and rushed into the big store. They both gasp at the size of the store and at all the dresses. They giggled at each other like high school girls. The store manager Joyce walked to them with a huge smile on her face followed by the store attendant Grace

“Welcome ladies, my name is Joyce, I'm the manager of All Woman fashion store. And this is Grace.” she said still smiling at them.

“Hi Joyce, nice to meet you. I’m Katy and this is my best friend Mia”

Both Mia and Joyce smiled at each other.

“Oh! I’m the bride and I have an appointment today for my dress fitting” Katy says with all amount of excitement written all over her.

“Yes Miss Katy we’ve been expecting you and you’re right on time. Grace here will help you with the dress fitting. This way please”. she gestured to the pathway before them.

Katy and Mia both exchange yet another excited look and nod at each other. They followed the attendant into the wedding gown section and she pointed to the dresses which Katy had already picked online.

“Well, these are the dresses you showed interest in and you are still free to go ahead and pick other dresses you found interesting. And of course your maid of honor here…”,

she said pointing to Mia who smiled back at her.

“…can also try on her own dresses right after yours. You ready?” Joyce asked with a strong positive energy.

“Yes” both answer at the same time.

Katy goes into the changing room and tried on her first dress which was quite impressive but Mia seem not to be mine blown by the dress and the expression on her face made Katy very disappointed and she head in to try on the next dress.

Katy is super excited to be getting married to Tom. They’ve been on the weeding plan for months and she looks forward to having the wedding of her dream, the one she has dreamt of since she was a little girl. She and Tom has been dating for 8 months and Tom has been so madly in love with her, not wanting to waste much time, he popped out the big question and she said a big yes to him. And since then, they’ve both been planning the big day. And both families’ have been very supportive.

Katy works as a skin care therapist and owns her own cosmetic store, while Tom works in his family’s law firm. Tom being from a wealthier family has been on the more supportive side of the event and Katy seem to be happy that Tom’s family are giving their full support to the wedding.

After trying on the fifth dress, she walked out of the dressing room looking at Mia with an expectant look on her face. Mia and Joyce both gasped at the sight of the dress, speechless and motionless, they both exchanged an acknowledgment look to each other. Katy looks at them awaiting a comment about the dress. Mia walks up to her with a tear in her eyes and tried so hard not to cry.

“Katy, you look so amazing on this dress”.

She held her by her shoulders and turned her facing the mirror. Katy looked at herself in the mirror and covered her mouth with her hands and looked back at her friend and gave her a tight hug and before they knew it, they both started crying.

“You know I can’t cry like this just because I’m trying out my wedding dress. I’ll need to cry too on my wedding day” they both laughed at her joke

“You know Tom is going to love you in that dress”

“I know right?”

They both smiled at each other and Katy took one last look at herself in the mirror. Then she turned to Joyce who is still standing watching the two of them with kin interest.

“What do you think Joyce?” Mia asked still grinning to herself.

“Its perfect. This is just the perfect dress”. She walked up to her and helped her take off the veil.

Then they both turned to Mia; she looked at them not understanding the look then suddenly she burst out laughing finally understanding why they’re looking at her.

“ok ok I know, my turn”.

By the time they were through at the dress store, the driver was already waiting for them outside. They hopped into the car still feeling excited about the whole fun they had trying out different dresses. Katy felt her phone vibrates and reached into her pocket to retrieve it. Its Tom calling, she grins with so much excitement.

“Hey Tom!” she looks at her friend who is smiling at her but then her expression shifts.

“Is everything ok?” she looks worried and her friend can tell there’s something wrong.

“Ok, I’m on my way” she looked at her friend with fear in her eyes.

"It's a distress call. Driver? Blue Nile please.

The driver divert into a tunnel path and hit on the acceleration.

The driver drove them to Fashion Island and stopped just in front the of Blue Nile. Katy stepped out of the car and shot the door and bend in to talk to her friend.

“Are you sure you will be fine” Mia speaks softly sounding concerned about her friend’s wellbeing.

“I’ll be fine. I’ll call you once I’ve sorted this out” she said forcing out a smile.

“sure?” Mia finally ask with a worrisome look on her eyes.

“sure”. Katy answered assuringly.

And with that the driver drover Mia away and Katy waited till the car was out of sight. She let out a deep breathe shutting her eyes. She’s scared of what might have caused Tom to put a distress call across to her. If there’s anything she’s scared of, it’s something unplanned for happening just few days to her wedding. She waved the negative thought off of her mind. Sure its nothing serious. She opened her eyes and just when she’s about to turn towards the store behind her, she’s startled by the sight of Tom.